The Bishonen of February
Chapter 16
He inched up slowly then fell down again but Kina didn't know why he just didn't give up. She knew he could never make it all the way up the leaf. The fuzzy green caterpillar sluggishly inched up the stem then fell down again. As it prepared to make its trip up for the hundredth time Kina looked around, she had been walking for hours it seem, no more like days. She turned back to the caterpillar and it was on the leaf! It had done it!
"All that persistence paid off, didn't it?" She smiled.
The sun was beginning to melt into the trees casting majestic shades of oranges, pinks, yellows and purples over the trees and the sky. The sky appeared as a set of paints that where melting into each other to form a heavenly mixture of purples and blues.
"I guess I should set up camp." She threw her backpack onto the ground and sighed softly to herself, "Jeez, I've been thinking about stuff for the last three hours and I still haven't figured out a thing. I guess if this works, IF it does, I'll consider letting Yue stay with Nuriko, Hotohori and I. But either way it'll still be the three of us. Yue oh Yue." Kina attempted to sort out all of the feelings and thoughts going on in her heart and her head. Carefully, she pulled out her sleeping bag and proceeded to set up a small tent, start a fire and bring out some cans of soup. After she finished eating up she snuggled deep down into her sleeping bag and looked up at the stars as a cricket chirped off in some bushes. Kina smiled securely as she pulled her stuffed animal bunny and nuzzled with it. Kina's mother had given her the stuffed animal and it had barely ever left her side since she was little. It meant so much to her, it was as if she was not only carrying a stuffed animal, but more like part of her childhood with her family.
"See Bunny, that's Orion." Kina's finger pointed up to the sky and traced the shape of the famous hero, "And there's the Big Dipper." Her finger wandered to the next constellation, "Do you think mom and dad are up there?" She asked the small stuffed animal that just gave her a stare in reply, "Yeah, I think they are too." Her eyes looked over at the pearl-like moon.
~*~
Yue's eyes wandered over the stars, they where so wondrous, "How could I never have noticed them before?" He questioned himself as he scrabbled into his sleeping bag.
"Nuriko, get out of my sleeping bag!" Hotohori glared at Nuriko who only grinned larger in response.
"This is MY sleeping bag!" Nuriko argued back.
"No, don't tell me you didn't pack MY sleeping bag?!" Hotohori groaned as he climbed onto the dirty, cold Earth.
"You where too busy reassuring 'table' that you where going on a trip and would be back soon." Nuriko laughed smugly.
"Oh now you bring table into this? The nerve!!!!" he glared at the purple haired boy who promptly giggled and unzipped the sleeping bag so they both could fit.
Yue's gaze strayed to the glowing moon, the two star-crossed lovers where miles away yet linked together at the same time, both looking up at the same moon at the same time; Yue was only a one-day hike from reaching the North Mountain Gym where Kodachi lived.
"I bet she's looking at the moon right now thinking about you." Hotohori attempted to comfort the bishonen.
"Yeah. Maybe." He replied before a bright string of light caught his gaze as it shot across the sky then disappeared almost as quickly as it had appeared.
"Make a wish!"
Yue closed his eyes and muttered a wish to himself.
Meanwhile, miles ahead of the three...
Kina's attention was drawn to the shooting star as she swiftly closed her eyes and made a wish. She gleefully brought out her handy-dandy list of things she wanted to do. Taking out her pen, she crossed off #5 "See a shooting star and make a wish." Then she crossed off #4, "Go on a long trip." And next #3 "Make a difference in the world, or at least in someone's life." And lastly, #2, "Fall in love and receive first kiss." All that remained was number one! Kina put it away and casually drifted off to sleep.
~*~
"Kina!!! KINA!!!" Yue ran briskly into the North Mountain Gym.
"Excuse me, how may I help you?" Kodachi walked into the entrance of her gym after hearing all the commotion.
"Is Kina still here?!?!" Yue ran up to Kodachi and grabbed her shoulder while Nuriko and Hotohori just stood in the background.
"No, she left about two days ago." Kodachi blinked innocently and gazed at all three of them, "Why your Yue, Nuriko and Hotohori! Kina mentioned y'all!" She smiled warmly.
"CRAP! She's ahead of us! Where is she going?!" The white haired boy glanced around the room and his face seemed to sadden.
"Like I told you before, she is going to the Ankoku Touki Dojo." Nuriko tapped Yue to remind him, "But can you tell us why?" He then turned towards Kodachi.
"Why, she is going to try to control her bishonen power and she might attempt to heal herself. That gym specializes in god/goddess type bishonen. I believe the procedure is known as the Celestial Star Wave.
"The Celestial Star Wave?! Isn't that a very risky procedure?" Hotohori cast a worried glance at the floor then looked back up at Kodachi.
"Yes, I warned her, that I did. She seemed somewhat distracted though, as if her heart was hurting, not from her disease but from an emotional pain like a broken heart."
"It's my fault, I hurt her by not trusting my own heart and doing what is right." Yue's blue and gray eyes studied the floor just as Hotohori had done.
"I see. So you are the one she loves. You can stay for the night and then I'll give y'all food and such for your trip to the Ankoku Touki Dojo." Kodachi nodded as Joe walked in to lead them to the bathtubs; she smiled as Yue's face brightened when she said about Kina loving him.
~*~
"Yipeee!!" Kina squealed happily as the town came into view, "The Dojo should be a mile from that town!" She announced out loud. As Kina walked towards the town she attempted to sort some of her feelings out and soon she was talking out loud, "Everything was fine while I was on my own or just with Nuri and Hori. I was in my own little happy cocoon. Then he came along and messed everything up; well I guess it's my own fault because it was actually my fault he ended up with me. But I was never suppose to start liking him, or even love him. Oh zip it Kina! You have no idea what love is, you've never loved a boy before so how do you know what it is now? What if it's just friendship? Either way, I know it's more than friendship or else I wouldn't have gotten so upset with him. I know it was a mistake so I forgive him, I just don't know how I can face him after this. How can I love him though? I could care less if he was human or bishonen but how can I love him while I have this disease? If he loves me too and we end up together, it'll be terrible for him when my time comes to go. And I don't want to cut him short from having a happy, full life. What if we had a kid? I might end up dying before it'll even know me. It's not worth the heartbreak. I know what it's like to lose parents and I would never want a child to go through it like I had too. I'll have to face him sometime or another so I can't just pretend it'll never happen. When I see him I'll tell him sorry about slapping him and see where we go from there. It's no use crying over spilt milk. I don't even know if he feels the same about me so why worry about it? Since all of this has happened I now realize there is an ugliness in my that wants all of Yue just for myself, could he ever love me despite that?"
After a few more hours of dragging her tired feet along the ground she noticed someone familiar walking about in the town market place.
"SHIIIIVVVVAAAA!!!!" Kina jumped up and sprinted towards a girl that had brown hair to her waist and was wearing glasses while buying some fresh fruit from a stand. She tackled the girl who screaming, not knowing what in the world was going on.
"Kina?! Is that really you???" Shiva's eyes widened as she recognized her childhood friend, "It's been so long!"
"I've missed you!!!!!!!" Kina smiled at her friend as they chatted.
"So what brings you here?"
"Oh I'm looking for the Ankoku Touki Dojo."
"Wow, how weird! I'm currently working there!" Shiva's eyes brightened, "I'm buying fruit for dinner tonight. Let me just pay for these strawberries then we can go to the Dojo together and I can show you around!"
"Ok, thanks girl!"
"No problem!"
~*~
"Thank you Kodachi!" The three boys bowed gratefully and picked up their new provisions.
"Did you get a new sleeping bag?" Hotohori asked Nuriko.
"Yeah."
"Good, I was getting tired of you snoring and hogging all of the warm, fuzzy covers!"
"Oh be quiet!"
As the two argued, Kodachi leaned towards Yue and whispered to him, "Go get her."
"I will." He beamed and nodded appreciatively. Nuriko, Hotohori and Yue all began the hike to the Ankoku Touki Dojo after thanking Kodachi again.
Chapter 16
He inched up slowly then fell down again but Kina didn't know why he just didn't give up. She knew he could never make it all the way up the leaf. The fuzzy green caterpillar sluggishly inched up the stem then fell down again. As it prepared to make its trip up for the hundredth time Kina looked around, she had been walking for hours it seem, no more like days. She turned back to the caterpillar and it was on the leaf! It had done it!
"All that persistence paid off, didn't it?" She smiled.
The sun was beginning to melt into the trees casting majestic shades of oranges, pinks, yellows and purples over the trees and the sky. The sky appeared as a set of paints that where melting into each other to form a heavenly mixture of purples and blues.
"I guess I should set up camp." She threw her backpack onto the ground and sighed softly to herself, "Jeez, I've been thinking about stuff for the last three hours and I still haven't figured out a thing. I guess if this works, IF it does, I'll consider letting Yue stay with Nuriko, Hotohori and I. But either way it'll still be the three of us. Yue oh Yue." Kina attempted to sort out all of the feelings and thoughts going on in her heart and her head. Carefully, she pulled out her sleeping bag and proceeded to set up a small tent, start a fire and bring out some cans of soup. After she finished eating up she snuggled deep down into her sleeping bag and looked up at the stars as a cricket chirped off in some bushes. Kina smiled securely as she pulled her stuffed animal bunny and nuzzled with it. Kina's mother had given her the stuffed animal and it had barely ever left her side since she was little. It meant so much to her, it was as if she was not only carrying a stuffed animal, but more like part of her childhood with her family.
"See Bunny, that's Orion." Kina's finger pointed up to the sky and traced the shape of the famous hero, "And there's the Big Dipper." Her finger wandered to the next constellation, "Do you think mom and dad are up there?" She asked the small stuffed animal that just gave her a stare in reply, "Yeah, I think they are too." Her eyes looked over at the pearl-like moon.
~*~
Yue's eyes wandered over the stars, they where so wondrous, "How could I never have noticed them before?" He questioned himself as he scrabbled into his sleeping bag.
"Nuriko, get out of my sleeping bag!" Hotohori glared at Nuriko who only grinned larger in response.
"This is MY sleeping bag!" Nuriko argued back.
"No, don't tell me you didn't pack MY sleeping bag?!" Hotohori groaned as he climbed onto the dirty, cold Earth.
"You where too busy reassuring 'table' that you where going on a trip and would be back soon." Nuriko laughed smugly.
"Oh now you bring table into this? The nerve!!!!" he glared at the purple haired boy who promptly giggled and unzipped the sleeping bag so they both could fit.
Yue's gaze strayed to the glowing moon, the two star-crossed lovers where miles away yet linked together at the same time, both looking up at the same moon at the same time; Yue was only a one-day hike from reaching the North Mountain Gym where Kodachi lived.
"I bet she's looking at the moon right now thinking about you." Hotohori attempted to comfort the bishonen.
"Yeah. Maybe." He replied before a bright string of light caught his gaze as it shot across the sky then disappeared almost as quickly as it had appeared.
"Make a wish!"
Yue closed his eyes and muttered a wish to himself.
Meanwhile, miles ahead of the three...
Kina's attention was drawn to the shooting star as she swiftly closed her eyes and made a wish. She gleefully brought out her handy-dandy list of things she wanted to do. Taking out her pen, she crossed off #5 "See a shooting star and make a wish." Then she crossed off #4, "Go on a long trip." And next #3 "Make a difference in the world, or at least in someone's life." And lastly, #2, "Fall in love and receive first kiss." All that remained was number one! Kina put it away and casually drifted off to sleep.
~*~
"Kina!!! KINA!!!" Yue ran briskly into the North Mountain Gym.
"Excuse me, how may I help you?" Kodachi walked into the entrance of her gym after hearing all the commotion.
"Is Kina still here?!?!" Yue ran up to Kodachi and grabbed her shoulder while Nuriko and Hotohori just stood in the background.
"No, she left about two days ago." Kodachi blinked innocently and gazed at all three of them, "Why your Yue, Nuriko and Hotohori! Kina mentioned y'all!" She smiled warmly.
"CRAP! She's ahead of us! Where is she going?!" The white haired boy glanced around the room and his face seemed to sadden.
"Like I told you before, she is going to the Ankoku Touki Dojo." Nuriko tapped Yue to remind him, "But can you tell us why?" He then turned towards Kodachi.
"Why, she is going to try to control her bishonen power and she might attempt to heal herself. That gym specializes in god/goddess type bishonen. I believe the procedure is known as the Celestial Star Wave.
"The Celestial Star Wave?! Isn't that a very risky procedure?" Hotohori cast a worried glance at the floor then looked back up at Kodachi.
"Yes, I warned her, that I did. She seemed somewhat distracted though, as if her heart was hurting, not from her disease but from an emotional pain like a broken heart."
"It's my fault, I hurt her by not trusting my own heart and doing what is right." Yue's blue and gray eyes studied the floor just as Hotohori had done.
"I see. So you are the one she loves. You can stay for the night and then I'll give y'all food and such for your trip to the Ankoku Touki Dojo." Kodachi nodded as Joe walked in to lead them to the bathtubs; she smiled as Yue's face brightened when she said about Kina loving him.
~*~
"Yipeee!!" Kina squealed happily as the town came into view, "The Dojo should be a mile from that town!" She announced out loud. As Kina walked towards the town she attempted to sort some of her feelings out and soon she was talking out loud, "Everything was fine while I was on my own or just with Nuri and Hori. I was in my own little happy cocoon. Then he came along and messed everything up; well I guess it's my own fault because it was actually my fault he ended up with me. But I was never suppose to start liking him, or even love him. Oh zip it Kina! You have no idea what love is, you've never loved a boy before so how do you know what it is now? What if it's just friendship? Either way, I know it's more than friendship or else I wouldn't have gotten so upset with him. I know it was a mistake so I forgive him, I just don't know how I can face him after this. How can I love him though? I could care less if he was human or bishonen but how can I love him while I have this disease? If he loves me too and we end up together, it'll be terrible for him when my time comes to go. And I don't want to cut him short from having a happy, full life. What if we had a kid? I might end up dying before it'll even know me. It's not worth the heartbreak. I know what it's like to lose parents and I would never want a child to go through it like I had too. I'll have to face him sometime or another so I can't just pretend it'll never happen. When I see him I'll tell him sorry about slapping him and see where we go from there. It's no use crying over spilt milk. I don't even know if he feels the same about me so why worry about it? Since all of this has happened I now realize there is an ugliness in my that wants all of Yue just for myself, could he ever love me despite that?"
After a few more hours of dragging her tired feet along the ground she noticed someone familiar walking about in the town market place.
"SHIIIIVVVVAAAA!!!!" Kina jumped up and sprinted towards a girl that had brown hair to her waist and was wearing glasses while buying some fresh fruit from a stand. She tackled the girl who screaming, not knowing what in the world was going on.
"Kina?! Is that really you???" Shiva's eyes widened as she recognized her childhood friend, "It's been so long!"
"I've missed you!!!!!!!" Kina smiled at her friend as they chatted.
"So what brings you here?"
"Oh I'm looking for the Ankoku Touki Dojo."
"Wow, how weird! I'm currently working there!" Shiva's eyes brightened, "I'm buying fruit for dinner tonight. Let me just pay for these strawberries then we can go to the Dojo together and I can show you around!"
"Ok, thanks girl!"
"No problem!"
~*~
"Thank you Kodachi!" The three boys bowed gratefully and picked up their new provisions.
"Did you get a new sleeping bag?" Hotohori asked Nuriko.
"Yeah."
"Good, I was getting tired of you snoring and hogging all of the warm, fuzzy covers!"
"Oh be quiet!"
As the two argued, Kodachi leaned towards Yue and whispered to him, "Go get her."
"I will." He beamed and nodded appreciatively. Nuriko, Hotohori and Yue all began the hike to the Ankoku Touki Dojo after thanking Kodachi again.