Yawn! Saturday morning. Is there a better moment to continue with my fanfic?
TK: I dunno.
Author: TK! You're already here.
TK: Actually, I stayed in here for the night. I had to come here today, so I stayed, and saved myself the trip.
Author: You're so intelligent! Anyway, shall we begin with chapter 3? It's gonna be funny, for a change.
TK: Really!? Then, anytime you want…*crowd cheers*
CHAPTER 3
Beautiful Tomb-Raider, Rebirth of Hope
TK's apartment…again. Kari realized she had spent more time at TK's place than any other place during the last 72 hours. But she also admitted that TK had a pretty nice balcony. However, she was tired of watching the night sky. But, there was something different this night. Usually, the city light wouldn't allow any star to bright in the sky. Today, a lonely star showed its timid light to her. She felt like…if that were TK's last gift to her. Tai, Matt and Sora walked next to her and looked at the lone star.
"It's beautiful." Sora said.
"It's the main show for tonight, I say." Tai commented.
"It's his last gift to us." Kari said.
"Actually, it's not."
"What do you mean, Matt?" Kari asked.
"Come with me." The blonde replied. "Just you" he emphasized, as Tai and Sora were following them. Kari followed him to TK's room and he closed the door.
"He made promise I wouldn't tell anyone, especially you." Matt said, as he looked for something between TK's stuff.
"What are you talking about?" she said
"Bingo! I found it! I had completely forgotten about it, but this afternoon, I remembered. Maybe, he wanted me to give it to you." Matt said as he gave Kari a small box. "This is it. TK's last gift for you. Open it! I want to see what's inside."
"Ok, but I don't want to spend any more time alone with you." Kari said as she opened the door.
"Hey! Who do you think I am!? You spent a lot of time alone with him and nobody ever complained…well, maybe Davis…and Tai." Matt shouted. Kari laughed. Tai and Davis, who, in fact, were peeking (TK: Why doesn't that surprise me anymore?) (N/A: Shut up! I'm typing!), were surprised by the fact that Kari was laughing. Matt came out of the room, and Tai was the first to talk.
"What did you tell her?"
"Hmmm, nothing." Matt said, and laughed.
"I'll open it, Matt, and you won't see it."
"No! I've got to see!" said Matt, laughing. "I wonder if it's an engagement ring."
"Say what!?" Davis shouted. "No way!"
"He's joking, Davis." Said Sora, who just returned from the kitchen, with drinks for everyone (N/A: that is, Tai, Matt, Davis, Kari, herself, and Ken, who I guess is in the bathroom, because he hasn't said a word.) "Where's Ken?"
"In the bathroom." Davis answered. (N/A: I knew it!) (TK: Man, you're a psychic *sarcasm*)
"Anyway, what are we talking about?" Tai asked. This time Matt answered.
"That's Kari's birthday present from TK."
"But Kari's birthday is in a month."
"But TK's dead."
"Good point."
"Shut up, you two! I have enough with thinking about it, and now you have to remind me that he's…" Kari shouted.
"Calm down, sweetheart." Sora said softly. "They are men. Men are idiots." Everyone in the room stared at her, including Kari. "Ok, anyone but TK." Now Kari smiled, but the others kept staring at her.
"Ok, I'll open it." Kari said as she started tearing apart the paper.
"Did you have to do that?" Davis asked. "You could have saved it to…"
"SHUT UP, DAVIS!" everybody shouted.
"Okay." Davis said, almost in a whisper. Kari finished with the paper destruction, and everybody could a very small jewel box. But, the thing was, there seemed to be something in it.
"Now I'm really starting to think it is an engagement ring." Matt said.
"SHUT UP, MATT!!!" Tai, Davis and Sora shouted. Kari slowly opened it, and there was… something.
"Well, it doesn't look like a ring to me." Davis said. "What is that?"
"It's a brooch, you moron!" Sora said. "What does it say?"
"Nothing." Kari said as she hugged herself, covering the brooch. Because in the second she saw it, she saw the crest of Light, and the crest of Hope, together.
"Light and Hope… are always together."
The woman was sweating as she kept digging and digging. She stopped for a minute and wiped out the sweat with a tissue.
"There's no time! I must keep working." And she was right. She had half an hour before the guard began his night patrol, and if he found her, he would probably think that she was one of those tomb-raiders that dug out bodies and sold them to universities and doctors. And she had a much more important mission to accomplish. So, she had to keep digging. She continued, until she hit something hard with her shovel. The coffin. Immediately, she removed the soil off the coffin, and she could hear a banging from inside the tomb.
"So the potion has lost its effect. How long has he been awake? Five minutes……three hours? I don't know, the effect was supposed to last 72 hours." She opened the coffin and…Takaishi Takeru came out, inhaling all the air his lungs could handle.
"Waaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!" the girl screamed. Then, TK realized there was someone next to him.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
"Shut up!!!" the woman shouted. "The guard will hear us."
"Don't tell me what to do! I was buried alive! You get it!? ALIVE! Now that's scary, for God's damn sake!"
"Shhhhhhh! Quiet!" the girl whispered, as she looked at TK. He was sweating and his blonde hair was all messed up. "He looks rather…cute." She thought. "Now, let's fill this tomb again. Everybody must think you're dead."
"Hell no! I'm going back home."
"Sure thing, and when you get there, the cops, the media, your family and friends will make tons of questions you won't be able to answer. In the end, they'll all think it was a really bad joke and everybody will hate you. Accept it, Takaishi. I'm your only way out."
"How… how do you know my name?" TK looked at the hooded woman. However, with that outfit, the only thing he could see were her eyes. Beautiful, lapis lazuli eyes.
"How do you think I chose you if I didn't even know your name?" said the girl as she took off her hood, revealing her gorgeous body. She had long hair, black like the darkest night. Perfect lips, perfect body. She looked like any man's dream. An eighteen year old dream.
"Hello…now who do we have here?"
"Snap out of it, Casanova. Let's move." She said as she started spreading sand over the coffin, again.
"But, anyway, who are you?" TK asked. She answered with the sexiest smile he had ever seen.
"Your new best friend."
"Nice…"
"Man, I'm hungry." Those were the first words TK said when he arrived to his new house.
"Of course you are. You've been unconscious for…" the girl checked the wall clock. "72 hours exactly." TK checked the clock. "3:00 AM" he said. "That's the exact time the potion made its work."
"Potion? Ok, now I'm confused. Could you please explain what the hell is happening?"
"Of course. But now let's go to the kitchen. I'll cook something for you."
"That's very nice of you."
"I have to be nice with my new roommate." She said, with that sexy voice TK was starting to like. A lot.
"Roommate? Does that mean?"
"Yes. From now on this is your house. But, let me explain you this part by part."
The girl guided Takeru to the kitchen, and showed him a seat. She was looking for something in the refrigerator. She started speaking.
"My name is Mina."
"That's a good start. Last name?"
"Kirahashi."
"Great. I know you already know, but I'm Takaishi Takeru."
"Can I call you TK?"
"Sure."
"Alright, Taki."
"Hey!"
"Anyway. This is my house; and your house from now on."
"Do you live alone?"
"Not anymore." She said, looking at him with a smile. TK smiled back.
"Could you please tell what was I doing in that coffin?"
"Everybody thought you had died." Mina said as she put something in the microwave.
"But…how?"
"I prepared a fake scene for you ´death´. The most important thing was the potion. It kept you unconscious for 72 hours…or at least that was the plan. It seems like I didn't use enough clover leaves. You woke up pretty early."
"Hmmm, very Romeo and Juliet, huh?"
"Heh, yeah…" Mina smiled again. "The important thing is that my plan worked. You're here, and everybody thinks you're dead."
"Question. How and when did you give me the potion?"
"During your brother's birthday, in your coke."
"Brilliant." TK said with a big smile. "He looks very cute when he smiles…" Mina thought. "But tell me, Mina. How could you put the potion in the coke if you weren't in the party?"
"That's easy. Remember when you brother went to the liquor store?" TK nodded. "Well, I found him, hypnotized him, and told him to do exactly as I said. The rest, well you can imagine it."
"Hypnotism, huh? That explains a lot of things…" TK said, with the image of Matt's dancing in his mind. "That means you're some sort of… witch, right?"
"I prefer the word sorceress. Aren't surprised?"
"Actually, I'm not. I've seen all kinds of weird things, you know?" TK said proudly. "Amazing." Mina thought. "Now I'm sure I chose the right one. He'll understand the ways of magic. I know." "Pizza is ready." She said as she served TK a piece.
"Thanks. May I have something to drink?"
"Sure." Mina said as she opened the refrigerator once again, this time looking for a coke.
"So." TK said after swallowing a piece of pizza. "If you're a witch…"
"Sorceress…"
"Whatever. If you're a sorceress, that means…, you're not really a super sexy girl, right?" TK said with a puzzled face.
"I have used so many different forms; I don't even remember the real one. I try to think as if each form were the real one."
"Great…"
"Please, don't tell me you're falling in love with me…I'm seven hundred years old. Got the idea?"
"Don't worry, Mina. You're just not my kind of girl."
"Oh, and which is your kind of girl? No, no, let me guess…" she said with an evil face. "She is older, but shorter than you. Dark, short hair. Let me think… she must laugh with your jokes, and she has the sweetest voice. She loves animals, in fact, she has a cat. She likes good music, sunsets, and taking pictures. Am I right?"
"Oh, dear God…"
"I told you. I know everything about your life."
"That's just great…but it's not a cat, it's Gatomon."
"Whatever…she looks like a cat, doesn't she?"
"Let me eat." TK said. Mina started laughing. "We'll have a great time together, now I'm sure." She said.
"Well, you told me how I got here, now I ask you, why am I here?"
"We'll talk tomorrow. A delicate flower like me shouldn't stay up at these hours. I'll show you your new bedroom." She said as she started walking. TK followed her slowly, as he still hadn't finished.
"And you expect me to sleep!? I've sleeping since… who knows how many days ago!?"
"Alright, alright, just…don't bother me while I sleep." She stopped. "This is your room." TK entered and looked at it.
"Well, let's see. Closet, big bed, big desk, little library…and I guess that's the bathroom." TK said, while pointing at a door inside the bedroom. Mina nodded. "Next door, that's my bedroom. And don't you dare entering my room while I sleep! And when I'm in the shower!"
"It's a really attractive idea, but I'm a decent person so, don't worry."
"Thanks for the compliment. I guess I can trust in you. Do you really think I look attractive?" Mina asked, and she posed for TK.
"You look perfect."
"Thanks. You have a way with words, when it comes to flirting women."
"Heh, that leads me to my last question tonight."
"Sure, what is it?"
"Why did you choose that form with me?"
"I chose a nice body, to have a nice friendship with you."
"Well, that body gives a whole new definition to the word ´nice´."
"Thanks. Good night, Taki."
"Good night, Mina" TK looked at his new friend walking to her room. Before closing the door, she looked at him and smiled, then, she closed the door. As she entered her room, she leaned on the door and sighed.
"This is the first day of the rest of my life. The thing is, I'm not alone anymore. Now I have TK. I'll protect him and love him, because he is the most valuable human being I've ever met. I'll protect him, until the moment he gets ready to protect me…"
That's all for chapter 3! TK has a new friend, but we still don't know a thing about the plot of this fanfic.
TK: That means, this will be a veeeeeeeery long fanfic.
Author: It seems like so.
TK: So, what's up with chapter 4?
Author: Chapter 4. Well, you'll an idea of what the hell this fic is about…oh! And you'll have a close encounter!
TK: Let me guess… of the Kari type?
Author: You're good. Well, let's see how I get you out of that one. And remember, any reviews or comments will be gladly accepted! See ya!
