*Blink Blink*
I slowly open my eyes, there is someone standing there, who is
she, she seems important. I try to move, but my body doesn't
respond. Why can't I move, what happened, where am I? I hesitantly
look around and there are machines everywhere. I look up and there
is a pristine white ceiling, I can't see anything else. I feel a
chill go through me and once again I try to move, but to no avail.
I look up and a lady says something and she touches my forehead,
I cringe. Who are you, I try to say but there is something over my
mouth, I can't speak. I try to get away from her; she looks hurt.
She's saying something, I can see her lops moving, but I can't hear
anything. Someone in a white jacket comes up and looks at the
machines then stands over me, his lips are moving, I hear a blur
of sound that I can't make out. What is this place? I want to
leave, Why am I here? The mad in the jacket has something sharp in
his hand, a flash of fear goes through me as he holds my arm, I
feel faint, he examines it for a moment and then I feel a stinging
pain and everything goes black.
**********
She looks so delicate, so fragile. I don't know what I'm doing
here. I look around, all the senshi are here, I see Odango, she's
trying not to cry, she's curled up in HIS arms. I look around and
see that all the senshi have tears in their eyes, over her? I see
Michiru-san standing over her prone body, I walk up to her and put
my hand on her shoulder, I should try to comfort her right? I tell
her that she should go and get some rest, we will wake her up if
anything changes. She slowly nods and I lead her to the other bed
in the hospital room. I walk back and look at the figure in the
bed, she looks so peaceful, her eyes are closed and I can hear her
breathe. I wonder what happened, no one has told me and I'm afraid
to ask. What could have done this to her? Her head moves a little
and her eyes flitter open to look at me.
**********
My eyes open and this time I don't feel frightened I look up and
there is a beautiful stranger standing they're looking at me. He
looks at me for a moment then says something, it's completely
incoherent to me. What's wrong with me? I close my eyes for a
second and a strange darkness envelop me. Through the darkness I
can hear a voice. " Stay away from her," It tells me. A figure
appears in front of me. It's a beautiful woman with aqua hair. I
know I've seen her before somewhere. "She hurt you." The
mysterious voice tells me. " she will do it again if you aren't
careful. she will lie to you, to your friends, she will pretend
she is family. She will pretend to care about you, it's a game to
her, she used you, she hurt you, she tried to change you. Once she
tricked you, she destroyed the life you made for yourself, exiled
you from your friends. She condemned you to loneliness, you must
not let her do it again." The figure and the voice disappeared.
I opened my eyes again and I took a deep breath, my eyes burned,
my whole body burned. I gasped for breath. Something was over my
mouth and it supplied me with cool fresh air. I tried to move my
stiff body, I flexed my fingers, and a sharp pain soared up my
arm. I felt a pounding in my head. The pain blinded my senses. It
was agonizing. I opened my eyes again and moved my head slightly
to the side. That's when I saw her. I felt a cold fear encompass
my body. A voice echoed in my head: " She hurt you, she will do it
again..." I see her smile at me, she places a tentative hand on my
forehead, I pull back, I want her to go away, and I feel a sense
of dread. She smiles down at me again. I glare at her and pull
away. My body screams at me in pain, but I don't want her to look
at me, or to touch me. She looks concerned, I pull my aching body
farther away, she looks hurt. " she will pretend she cares about
you.." a voice echoed in my head. I have to hurt her, to protect
myself, it's better this way.
**********
What is Haruka doing? I watch as she glares up at her lover, what
is wrong with her? HE goes over to comfort Michiru as she nearly
breaks down in tears. I seethe, he shouldn't comfort her, his life
is just perfect, and he doesn't know pain. I glare at his back. I
look at Haruka, she seems genuinely frightened. Of what? She seems
so... vulnerable, I turn away. She isn't supposed to be like this,
she's supposed to be pissing me off, not making me feel sorry for
her. A doctor walks up to her and starts talking, she looks
confused. What's going on?
**********
" Ten'ou-san?"
Another person, with a white coat walks up to my bed. He seems to
be talking to me. Am I supposed to know what that means? The man
seems important, he says something I can't quite make out. " How
are you feeling?" I cough trying to say something. He removes the
plastic cup around my mouth. I cough again. " I...don't know." I
hear myself say, my voice sounds strange. He asks me some
questions, What my name is, where I am, How old I am; I can't
answer any of them. He asks me if I know what happened, I don't,
he says I've been in and out of consciousness for twelve days, my
eyes widen, I've been out of it for twelve days?
***** A week later *****
I walk into the coffee shop down the street from my apartment.
Usagi and Mamoru are walking out. " Hey Seiya." She smiles at me,
I reply smiling. How can she just stand there with HIM. I glare at
him as I walk by. I sit in an empty booth and order something, I
don't even know what it is. I stare out the window, I feel empty.
We came back to earth for a break from 'royal life' what a great
vacation this has turned out to be. No one knows who we are, all
the senshi are depressed and Odango is with HIM, this is great. I
like it here more then Kinmokusei though, there we're thrust into
stupid politics. The princess doesn't understand me at all, she
thinks that if I marry everything will be fine. She's sending
every prince she meets my way, me with man? She thinks that will
make ME happy, she doesn't know me at all. I've been a guy, after
that I would never want to be *with* a guy. So now what do I do, I
pretend to be happy. My life is a complete hoax. Taiki and Yaten
think I'm happy here on earth surrounded by a bunch of depressed
sailor senshi crying over Haruka. They're crazy, all of them.
They told me she had a nervous breakdown while driving her race
car, she's the craziest of them all. Why would she do that to
herself? She has everything, she has a love that won't abandon
her, she has a family, she has a career, how can she not be happy?
I saw her two hours before her 'accident' she was with Michiru,
she was smiling that arrogant smile, teasing Minako-chan, and then
she's in the hospital unconscious. If anyone should drive
herself into a wall it should be me. I live in hell. Where the
hell is my coffee?
I look out the window and I see Michiru walking by, she sees me
and then walks into the coffee shop. She sits down in front of me.
" Michiru-san, Can I...help you?" I ask her hesitantly. " Well, I
have some of Haruka's things that she probably wants and some
lunch for her, but the doctor has asked me not to visit her
because she seems uncomfortable around me. I can't reach the
others and I was wondering if you could just deliver them for me?
I know you aren't the best of friends, but Haruka is probably
bored out of her mind by now, I just thought that maybe..." How
can I say no to her, she seems so sad. I have nothing better to
do anyway. " Sure Michiru-san, no problem." She smiles at me
softly. Maybe I can go and knock some sense into Haruka-San. My
coffee hasn't arrived yet so I just get up and leave with her.
***** At the Hospital *****
" Hi Haruka-San" I say as I stroll into her room. She smiles at
me, what am I supposed to do, this is Ten'ou Haruka my arch rival
she's acting so...weird. " I brought you some food, and some
magazines and stuff..."
" Thanks." She smiles again.. would she stop doing that. I give
her the bag and then turn to leave. " You're leaving already?"
She pouts, I arch my eyebrow, what the hell is she doing.
" Why don't you stay with me for a while?" She looks up
at me and she looks... dare I say it... cute.
" I can stay for a little while." Why can't I just say no.
" So how do you feel?" I ask casually sitting own in the
chair beside her bed.
" Fine... um... did I know you before, well obviously but, um
... what's your name?" She blushes, *Haruka* blushes, she
must've hit her head really hard. She's acting so flustered
" I'm Seiya." I say, she smiles again.
" I'm Haruka, but I guess you already knew that." She blushes
again.
" Here's your lunch." I unpack it for her... this is what
Michiru-san got for her...a salad... oh dear god. " I
think I grabbed the wrong bag, but um here, I could
probably get you something else." I handed it to her
" No, it's ok." She smiles hesitantly, and then
munches away at the salad. I came all this way to give
her a salad? I think even hospital food is better than
that. " So what else did you bring me." She asks
between bites.
" Let me see, a racing magazine, a music magazine,
cosmopolitan... I don't think that's suppose don't be in
here. That's about it." Haruka groans.
" More of them, everyone brings me dumb magazines,
especially that green haired chick." She looks away
nervously.
" You mean Michiru-san?" She nods hesitantly, her mood
has definitely changed since a few minutes ago. " She
gave them to me, she couldn't stop by, she seemed ...
busy." I knew I was lying but what could I do,
Haruka-San would probably be upset that her lover wasn't
allowed to visit her and that's just what I need, HER
pissed off.
" Good, I'm glad that she's not here, I wish she'd stop
coming to see me." Haruka looked agitated, and her eyes
darted around the room.
" Why don't you want her to see you?"
" I have a feeling she's the reason I'm here. I just don't
like her being around me." She definitely has gone insane.
" How would she cause this when you drove *yourself* into
a cement wall." I was starting to get a little, pissed off,
I mean she did this to herself and she's blaming her
lover, at least she has someone, they're perfect for
each other, I can imagine Michiru-san going crazy because
of Haruka-San, but the other way around? Haruka-San
should be praising god to have someone with her attitude.
" I drove myself into a wall, that's more than anyone else
has told me." Haruka rolls her eyes, " Well that's just
great, maybe I did it because of her or something."
" Why would you do that she's your lover."
" She ... is?" Haruka-San seemed absolutely shocked.
" You didn't know that?" I asked cautiously.
" No, I didn't, they don't tell me much, well seeing as I
almost killed myself I can imagine why." I watched her,
she seemed extremely perturbed and kept looking towards
the window. " Why do you think I did it?"
" I have no idea why." I said thinking of some way to
leave. " I wouldn't know"
" We weren't friends?" She asked, her big green eyes
looking at me, I looked away, Why is she doing this to
me? She probably doesn't have amnesia, she's just trying
to embarrass me.
" No were definitely not." I turned away.
" Oh" she said quietly, she seemed crestfallen." Why not?"
" Umm... we had a .... slight difference of opinion."
" About what." she asked
" About someone, it's complicated..."
" If it's about that green haired chick you can have her."
" Someone else, and not like that."
" Oh, well I'm not going anywhere why don't you tell me."
" How about no."
" Why are you being so mean to me."
" I'm not being mean!"
" Yes you are, you're being an asshole."
" Hey, at least I didn't go crazy and drive into a wall."
" At least I'm not a jerk."
" Yes you are!."
" And you obviously know me so well."
" I know you're a cross-dressing suicidal lesbian with
violent tendencies."
" I've been sitting here for the past little while and
I have NO idea if you're a guy or girl."
" It's not that hard to tell."
" You act like a girl, but there's nothing on your chest,
trust me I've looked"
" Are you calling me flat, I've definitely got more than
you do."
" I wouldn't be to sure of that honey *wink*"
" You know what you're a pervert."
" You're cute when your riled up Seiya-chan. *wink*" I felt
my face go hot. " Real cute." she licked her lips.
" Pervert!"
" *wink* don't pretend you don't like it."
" AHH I'm, leaving."
" No wait stay with me." She pouted and batted her eyes.
" No I'm leaving!"
" Please.." More cute faces.
" I can stay a little longer" She smiled
" See we can be friends."
" You're crazy" She laughed, I couldn't help but smile. I
heard the door open, Michiru-san walked in. Haruka-San
stopped laughing immediately.
" I accidentally left my magazine with you, Seiya-kun."
Michiru said smiling, " Hi Haruka." She looked away,
while Michiru sat down. So this is why she wanted me to
deliver those things to Haruka. " I see you got the
salad I made for you." Haruka pushed it away from her not
so inconspicuously. " How do you feel today?"
" Fine." Haruka said shortly, her voice was cold.
" The doctor said that you would be ready to come
home in a couple days. So I'll bring some clothes for you
to wear home. The press may be there so you have to
make sure you look normal. Just in case a reporter gets
brave and comes up here I think you should wear something
a little more concealing of your figure. I got some clothes
for you they're in my car." Haruka-San didn't seem to be
paying much attention to her but still responded.
" Why would I have to do that?"
" I already told you, everyone thinks you're a boy. You've
got company, this is a private matter we can discuss later
when there isn't anyone else here, you're being terribly
rude."
" You brought it up." Haruka glared up at Michiru. What
the hell was going on? Why was Michiru bringing this up
now?
" I'm sorry, I'll leave you two alone." I said getting up
to leave.
" No," Haruka said, " You leave." She glared at Michiru-san.
" Haruka!" Michiru said sternly
" I asked you to leave, I was having a conversation before
you came in and I want you to leave."
" Haruka don't get..."
" Now!" Haruka said glaring. Michiru got up and smiled.
" I'll see you tomorrow morning, maybe you'll feel more
rational then, I'll leave your clothes with you tomorrow,
Bye Seiya-kun, Bye Haruka." Michiru left.
**********
The doctor walked in with Michiru behind him. 'Don't let me
go with her please.' I thought desperately, I tried to open
my mouth to say something to the doctor but nothing came
out. My body just stopped responding the second she walked
into the room.
" Michiru-san is here to take you home, she'll take care of
you there." The doctor smiled at me, I felt sick.
" Here Haruka, I have your clothes. There is some press
outside so we have to make sure you look like a guy." Is this
all she cares about? It's all she ever talks about, What if
someone finds out I'm really a girl, what's wrong with that?
I opened my mouth to say something back to her, but I couldn't
instead I went and took the clothing out of her arm and went
to change. When I finished I looked in the mirror, I definitely
don't look like a guy in this I fill it out a little too much.
I stepped out of the bathroom and Michiru shook her head and
then threw me a rolled up piece of cloth. Oh god she can't be
serious can she? I felt sick to my stomach, I went back and
changed again, when I came out Michiru smiled in approval,
God I hate her. Michiru went out the door and I followed.
I just wanted to go and crawl up in my nice warm bed and hide.
I followed her, although my head was screaming at me, my body
was moving automatically, I had no control over it. Michiru
pushed me out the front door and a barrage of lights attacked
me, I heard my name being called out along with a vast array
of questions, Michiru pushed me through the crowd whispering
for me to smile. No way Bitch I'm not doing anything you ask
me to, but while I thought that I felt myself smile.
" Here's our car." I slipped into the passenger seat, I felt
exhausted. I leaned my head against the seat and soon dozed
off.
***********
I woke up in a strange bed and looked around, it was dark and
raining out. My body ached from my previous exertion. In the
room I saw several pictures of Michiru and I together. I was
smiling but I somehow knew that I wasn't as happy as I seemed.
I looked down at myself, I was still wearing that suit Michiru
had given me, I looked around to see if there was anything else
I could wear, all I found was another dress shirt it didn't
look as uncomfortable as what I was now wearing so I went and
changed. When I came out I saw a balcony door leading outside.
I knew I had to leave, I grabbed some money lying on the table
and slipped out the door, my head was pounding. I started
running I didn't even look back, I couldn't face Michiru, I
had to leave. My body was sore but I had to go on. I soon found
the driveway and followed it to the road. I had no idea where
I was going but I just kept on running as fast as I could. I
saw a taxi driving towards me I hailed it and got in. I sat
inside and said an address I didn't know where it came from,
I just hoped it would get me away from here.
The cab stopped and I gave the driver some money. I stepped outside.
I had no idea where I was, and I was dripping wet, my body hurt,
and I thought I was going to pass out. I walked to the door of
the apartment building. There was a list of names, my eyes were
blurry but I made one out at the bottom of the list: Seiya Kou.
A woman was entering the apartment and didn't notice my foot
stopping the door from closing. I took the elevator to the
top floor and found the door number it had said beside the
name. I knocked hoping someone would open it.
**********
Someone was knocking on the door, it's past midnight this
is crazy. I got up to go yell at whoever dared disturb my
sleep. I opened it and gasped.
" Can I come in?" Haruka stood at the door. She was wearing
a drenched suit and water was dripping off of her. I was about
to say something when she just blacked out in front of me. I
managed to catch her before she fell and I pulled her toward
the couch kicking the door closed behind me. I called for
Taiki and Yaten and after a few minutes of grumbling they were
beside me.
" What are we supposed to do?" I asked them.
" We should probably get her warmed up a bit, she looks
like she's freezing." Taiki replied.
" Well go ahead." I said stepping back away from her.
" Me? I'm not touching her, you do it." Taiki said aghast.
" I'm not doing it." Yaten squeaked from behind me. I leaned
over the unconscious Haruka and hesitantly unbuttoned her
soaked shirt. She groaned and her eyes flitted open. She
looked dazed and shivered.
" Seiya-chan? Where am I?" She murmured quietly.
"Uh.. Haruka-San... hi." I stuttered and pulled back away
from her, I felt my face go red, " You're at my house,
I have no idea how you got here you just showed up."
" I didn't want to stay with Michiru." She murmured.
" How do you know where we live?" Yaten asked glaring at
Haruka who just shrugged.
" Here are some dry clothes." Taiki said while thwaping
Yaten upside the head. Taiki handed Haruka a pair of my
sweatpants and one of my T-shirts. Why my clothes,
Taiki's will fit her just fine, besides mine will be too small.
" Can I use your bathroom?" Haruka asked quietly. She got
up slowly wincing, I helped her to the bathroom.
" What the hell are we supposed to do? She just shows up here,
she's supposed to be with Michiru-san." Yaten rambled looking
back and forth between Taiki and I.
" Well we know she's gone psycho what are we supposed to do
just leave her out on the street?" Taiki asked the frazzled
platinum-haired girl.
" She'd do the same for us."
" NO, she wouldn't, why did she come to us anyway? she hates us,
well Seiya mostly, but why didn't she go to Usagi-chan or something?"
Yaten argued.
" She's not full in the head Yaten."
"She's never been 'full in the head', and why the hell are
you so quiet." Yaten looked at me , I just sat on a chair
listening to them.
" I'm, just thinking, leave me alone." I replied, " Shouldn't
we call Michiru-san or something? She's probably worried."
" Since when have you been so.. sensible." Yaten looked
at me like I was crazy," Well anyway you call her." Yaten looked
through the phonebook and found what she was looking for," Here
Call." I hesitantly reached for the phone and called the number
Yaten dictated.
" Hello uh.. Michiru-san.. It's Seiya." I was a little nervous
about how she would react after I told her that her lover
was with me.
" Seiya-kun what a surprise, I didn't expect you to call,
I'm a little busy." Michiru seemed pleasant, but a little
anxious, I could hear someone's voice faintly in the back
before Michiru told them to be quiet.
" Umm I just wanted to tell you that Haruka showed up at my
apartment about half an hour ago. I just wanted to call
you and tell you that she's fine."
" Seiya-kun, you have to be mistaken, Haruka's upstairs
asleep. How would she get to your house anyway?" How could
she not know I thought Michiru would at least go check on
her. They live quite far away she must've been gone for like
two hours. " We'll take care of her tonight and then call you
in the morning ok."
" Yeah Ok bye." She seemed really detached. and then hung up.
" I'm done." Haruka said from the bathroom door, leaning
slightly against the frame; I looked at her in my clothes,
she made them look so... good. She smiled slightly.
" Uh here, sit down." Taiki said shuffling off the armchair,
she slowly sat down. I felt extremely awkward with her here.
" Um are you hungry?" I asked slowly not knowing what to say.
She nodded. " What do you want." She shrugged.
I went to the kitchen to get her something, it was really
quiet in the living room. When I came back Haruka was asleep
in the chair.
" She's asleep." Yaten said.
" Yeah I've noticed where should we put her?"
" She's not staying with me." Yaten replied adamantly. I
looked to Taiki.
" You're the one who let her in" Taiki said walking toward
her bedroom door.
" The couch?" I asked hopefully.
" It's soaked she'll get pneumonia, we're supposed to take
care of her not get her even more sick." They both look at me.
" What!" I ask flabbergasted
" Maybe when she wakes up beside you it'll knock some sense
into her and she'll be relatively normal again." Yaten said
snickering.
" Yeah and then she'll take out her nice sharp sword and
kill me, is that what you want?" I said defensively.
"I'm ok with that." Yaten joked, well I hope.
" Yaten!." Taiki chastised the girl.
" Fine then my death is on your head."
" I'm ok with that too." Yaten disappeared into her room"
This'll be interesting."
" Well I'm going to sleep, have fun." Taiki walked away
giggling. I slowly picked Haruka up and carried her to my
bedroom. I kicked the door open and deposited Haruka onto
my bed on one side, I then climbed onto the other side as
far away from her as possible; I was almost falling off
my bed. I closed my eyes and slowly I fell asleep.
I wake up to a clicking noise and I open my eyes.
I see Yaten standing there with her stupid camera. Taiki
is giggling from behind. I feel a weight around me. I turn
my head and almost scream. Haruka was snuggled up to me,
half laying on top of me. I felt like an over grown teddy
bear. I tried to move but to no avail. She was holding me
absolutely still in her 'embrace.'
" Haruka-san?" I said nudging her slightly with my shoulder,
she murmured and then gripped me even tighter. " Uh guys
can you get her off?"
" Nope this is most definitely a Kodak moment and I haven't
taken quite enough pictures." Yaten smirked.
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Ok please don't hit me, that was the result of too many mush
fics, I needed to get that off my back. @_@
As always disclaimers apply. Buhbyees
*.*
Gumby and Friends
I slowly open my eyes, there is someone standing there, who is
she, she seems important. I try to move, but my body doesn't
respond. Why can't I move, what happened, where am I? I hesitantly
look around and there are machines everywhere. I look up and there
is a pristine white ceiling, I can't see anything else. I feel a
chill go through me and once again I try to move, but to no avail.
I look up and a lady says something and she touches my forehead,
I cringe. Who are you, I try to say but there is something over my
mouth, I can't speak. I try to get away from her; she looks hurt.
She's saying something, I can see her lops moving, but I can't hear
anything. Someone in a white jacket comes up and looks at the
machines then stands over me, his lips are moving, I hear a blur
of sound that I can't make out. What is this place? I want to
leave, Why am I here? The mad in the jacket has something sharp in
his hand, a flash of fear goes through me as he holds my arm, I
feel faint, he examines it for a moment and then I feel a stinging
pain and everything goes black.
**********
She looks so delicate, so fragile. I don't know what I'm doing
here. I look around, all the senshi are here, I see Odango, she's
trying not to cry, she's curled up in HIS arms. I look around and
see that all the senshi have tears in their eyes, over her? I see
Michiru-san standing over her prone body, I walk up to her and put
my hand on her shoulder, I should try to comfort her right? I tell
her that she should go and get some rest, we will wake her up if
anything changes. She slowly nods and I lead her to the other bed
in the hospital room. I walk back and look at the figure in the
bed, she looks so peaceful, her eyes are closed and I can hear her
breathe. I wonder what happened, no one has told me and I'm afraid
to ask. What could have done this to her? Her head moves a little
and her eyes flitter open to look at me.
**********
My eyes open and this time I don't feel frightened I look up and
there is a beautiful stranger standing they're looking at me. He
looks at me for a moment then says something, it's completely
incoherent to me. What's wrong with me? I close my eyes for a
second and a strange darkness envelop me. Through the darkness I
can hear a voice. " Stay away from her," It tells me. A figure
appears in front of me. It's a beautiful woman with aqua hair. I
know I've seen her before somewhere. "She hurt you." The
mysterious voice tells me. " she will do it again if you aren't
careful. she will lie to you, to your friends, she will pretend
she is family. She will pretend to care about you, it's a game to
her, she used you, she hurt you, she tried to change you. Once she
tricked you, she destroyed the life you made for yourself, exiled
you from your friends. She condemned you to loneliness, you must
not let her do it again." The figure and the voice disappeared.
I opened my eyes again and I took a deep breath, my eyes burned,
my whole body burned. I gasped for breath. Something was over my
mouth and it supplied me with cool fresh air. I tried to move my
stiff body, I flexed my fingers, and a sharp pain soared up my
arm. I felt a pounding in my head. The pain blinded my senses. It
was agonizing. I opened my eyes again and moved my head slightly
to the side. That's when I saw her. I felt a cold fear encompass
my body. A voice echoed in my head: " She hurt you, she will do it
again..." I see her smile at me, she places a tentative hand on my
forehead, I pull back, I want her to go away, and I feel a sense
of dread. She smiles down at me again. I glare at her and pull
away. My body screams at me in pain, but I don't want her to look
at me, or to touch me. She looks concerned, I pull my aching body
farther away, she looks hurt. " she will pretend she cares about
you.." a voice echoed in my head. I have to hurt her, to protect
myself, it's better this way.
**********
What is Haruka doing? I watch as she glares up at her lover, what
is wrong with her? HE goes over to comfort Michiru as she nearly
breaks down in tears. I seethe, he shouldn't comfort her, his life
is just perfect, and he doesn't know pain. I glare at his back. I
look at Haruka, she seems genuinely frightened. Of what? She seems
so... vulnerable, I turn away. She isn't supposed to be like this,
she's supposed to be pissing me off, not making me feel sorry for
her. A doctor walks up to her and starts talking, she looks
confused. What's going on?
**********
" Ten'ou-san?"
Another person, with a white coat walks up to my bed. He seems to
be talking to me. Am I supposed to know what that means? The man
seems important, he says something I can't quite make out. " How
are you feeling?" I cough trying to say something. He removes the
plastic cup around my mouth. I cough again. " I...don't know." I
hear myself say, my voice sounds strange. He asks me some
questions, What my name is, where I am, How old I am; I can't
answer any of them. He asks me if I know what happened, I don't,
he says I've been in and out of consciousness for twelve days, my
eyes widen, I've been out of it for twelve days?
***** A week later *****
I walk into the coffee shop down the street from my apartment.
Usagi and Mamoru are walking out. " Hey Seiya." She smiles at me,
I reply smiling. How can she just stand there with HIM. I glare at
him as I walk by. I sit in an empty booth and order something, I
don't even know what it is. I stare out the window, I feel empty.
We came back to earth for a break from 'royal life' what a great
vacation this has turned out to be. No one knows who we are, all
the senshi are depressed and Odango is with HIM, this is great. I
like it here more then Kinmokusei though, there we're thrust into
stupid politics. The princess doesn't understand me at all, she
thinks that if I marry everything will be fine. She's sending
every prince she meets my way, me with man? She thinks that will
make ME happy, she doesn't know me at all. I've been a guy, after
that I would never want to be *with* a guy. So now what do I do, I
pretend to be happy. My life is a complete hoax. Taiki and Yaten
think I'm happy here on earth surrounded by a bunch of depressed
sailor senshi crying over Haruka. They're crazy, all of them.
They told me she had a nervous breakdown while driving her race
car, she's the craziest of them all. Why would she do that to
herself? She has everything, she has a love that won't abandon
her, she has a family, she has a career, how can she not be happy?
I saw her two hours before her 'accident' she was with Michiru,
she was smiling that arrogant smile, teasing Minako-chan, and then
she's in the hospital unconscious. If anyone should drive
herself into a wall it should be me. I live in hell. Where the
hell is my coffee?
I look out the window and I see Michiru walking by, she sees me
and then walks into the coffee shop. She sits down in front of me.
" Michiru-san, Can I...help you?" I ask her hesitantly. " Well, I
have some of Haruka's things that she probably wants and some
lunch for her, but the doctor has asked me not to visit her
because she seems uncomfortable around me. I can't reach the
others and I was wondering if you could just deliver them for me?
I know you aren't the best of friends, but Haruka is probably
bored out of her mind by now, I just thought that maybe..." How
can I say no to her, she seems so sad. I have nothing better to
do anyway. " Sure Michiru-san, no problem." She smiles at me
softly. Maybe I can go and knock some sense into Haruka-San. My
coffee hasn't arrived yet so I just get up and leave with her.
***** At the Hospital *****
" Hi Haruka-San" I say as I stroll into her room. She smiles at
me, what am I supposed to do, this is Ten'ou Haruka my arch rival
she's acting so...weird. " I brought you some food, and some
magazines and stuff..."
" Thanks." She smiles again.. would she stop doing that. I give
her the bag and then turn to leave. " You're leaving already?"
She pouts, I arch my eyebrow, what the hell is she doing.
" Why don't you stay with me for a while?" She looks up
at me and she looks... dare I say it... cute.
" I can stay for a little while." Why can't I just say no.
" So how do you feel?" I ask casually sitting own in the
chair beside her bed.
" Fine... um... did I know you before, well obviously but, um
... what's your name?" She blushes, *Haruka* blushes, she
must've hit her head really hard. She's acting so flustered
" I'm Seiya." I say, she smiles again.
" I'm Haruka, but I guess you already knew that." She blushes
again.
" Here's your lunch." I unpack it for her... this is what
Michiru-san got for her...a salad... oh dear god. " I
think I grabbed the wrong bag, but um here, I could
probably get you something else." I handed it to her
" No, it's ok." She smiles hesitantly, and then
munches away at the salad. I came all this way to give
her a salad? I think even hospital food is better than
that. " So what else did you bring me." She asks
between bites.
" Let me see, a racing magazine, a music magazine,
cosmopolitan... I don't think that's suppose don't be in
here. That's about it." Haruka groans.
" More of them, everyone brings me dumb magazines,
especially that green haired chick." She looks away
nervously.
" You mean Michiru-san?" She nods hesitantly, her mood
has definitely changed since a few minutes ago. " She
gave them to me, she couldn't stop by, she seemed ...
busy." I knew I was lying but what could I do,
Haruka-San would probably be upset that her lover wasn't
allowed to visit her and that's just what I need, HER
pissed off.
" Good, I'm glad that she's not here, I wish she'd stop
coming to see me." Haruka looked agitated, and her eyes
darted around the room.
" Why don't you want her to see you?"
" I have a feeling she's the reason I'm here. I just don't
like her being around me." She definitely has gone insane.
" How would she cause this when you drove *yourself* into
a cement wall." I was starting to get a little, pissed off,
I mean she did this to herself and she's blaming her
lover, at least she has someone, they're perfect for
each other, I can imagine Michiru-san going crazy because
of Haruka-San, but the other way around? Haruka-San
should be praising god to have someone with her attitude.
" I drove myself into a wall, that's more than anyone else
has told me." Haruka rolls her eyes, " Well that's just
great, maybe I did it because of her or something."
" Why would you do that she's your lover."
" She ... is?" Haruka-San seemed absolutely shocked.
" You didn't know that?" I asked cautiously.
" No, I didn't, they don't tell me much, well seeing as I
almost killed myself I can imagine why." I watched her,
she seemed extremely perturbed and kept looking towards
the window. " Why do you think I did it?"
" I have no idea why." I said thinking of some way to
leave. " I wouldn't know"
" We weren't friends?" She asked, her big green eyes
looking at me, I looked away, Why is she doing this to
me? She probably doesn't have amnesia, she's just trying
to embarrass me.
" No were definitely not." I turned away.
" Oh" she said quietly, she seemed crestfallen." Why not?"
" Umm... we had a .... slight difference of opinion."
" About what." she asked
" About someone, it's complicated..."
" If it's about that green haired chick you can have her."
" Someone else, and not like that."
" Oh, well I'm not going anywhere why don't you tell me."
" How about no."
" Why are you being so mean to me."
" I'm not being mean!"
" Yes you are, you're being an asshole."
" Hey, at least I didn't go crazy and drive into a wall."
" At least I'm not a jerk."
" Yes you are!."
" And you obviously know me so well."
" I know you're a cross-dressing suicidal lesbian with
violent tendencies."
" I've been sitting here for the past little while and
I have NO idea if you're a guy or girl."
" It's not that hard to tell."
" You act like a girl, but there's nothing on your chest,
trust me I've looked"
" Are you calling me flat, I've definitely got more than
you do."
" I wouldn't be to sure of that honey *wink*"
" You know what you're a pervert."
" You're cute when your riled up Seiya-chan. *wink*" I felt
my face go hot. " Real cute." she licked her lips.
" Pervert!"
" *wink* don't pretend you don't like it."
" AHH I'm, leaving."
" No wait stay with me." She pouted and batted her eyes.
" No I'm leaving!"
" Please.." More cute faces.
" I can stay a little longer" She smiled
" See we can be friends."
" You're crazy" She laughed, I couldn't help but smile. I
heard the door open, Michiru-san walked in. Haruka-San
stopped laughing immediately.
" I accidentally left my magazine with you, Seiya-kun."
Michiru said smiling, " Hi Haruka." She looked away,
while Michiru sat down. So this is why she wanted me to
deliver those things to Haruka. " I see you got the
salad I made for you." Haruka pushed it away from her not
so inconspicuously. " How do you feel today?"
" Fine." Haruka said shortly, her voice was cold.
" The doctor said that you would be ready to come
home in a couple days. So I'll bring some clothes for you
to wear home. The press may be there so you have to
make sure you look normal. Just in case a reporter gets
brave and comes up here I think you should wear something
a little more concealing of your figure. I got some clothes
for you they're in my car." Haruka-San didn't seem to be
paying much attention to her but still responded.
" Why would I have to do that?"
" I already told you, everyone thinks you're a boy. You've
got company, this is a private matter we can discuss later
when there isn't anyone else here, you're being terribly
rude."
" You brought it up." Haruka glared up at Michiru. What
the hell was going on? Why was Michiru bringing this up
now?
" I'm sorry, I'll leave you two alone." I said getting up
to leave.
" No," Haruka said, " You leave." She glared at Michiru-san.
" Haruka!" Michiru said sternly
" I asked you to leave, I was having a conversation before
you came in and I want you to leave."
" Haruka don't get..."
" Now!" Haruka said glaring. Michiru got up and smiled.
" I'll see you tomorrow morning, maybe you'll feel more
rational then, I'll leave your clothes with you tomorrow,
Bye Seiya-kun, Bye Haruka." Michiru left.
**********
The doctor walked in with Michiru behind him. 'Don't let me
go with her please.' I thought desperately, I tried to open
my mouth to say something to the doctor but nothing came
out. My body just stopped responding the second she walked
into the room.
" Michiru-san is here to take you home, she'll take care of
you there." The doctor smiled at me, I felt sick.
" Here Haruka, I have your clothes. There is some press
outside so we have to make sure you look like a guy." Is this
all she cares about? It's all she ever talks about, What if
someone finds out I'm really a girl, what's wrong with that?
I opened my mouth to say something back to her, but I couldn't
instead I went and took the clothing out of her arm and went
to change. When I finished I looked in the mirror, I definitely
don't look like a guy in this I fill it out a little too much.
I stepped out of the bathroom and Michiru shook her head and
then threw me a rolled up piece of cloth. Oh god she can't be
serious can she? I felt sick to my stomach, I went back and
changed again, when I came out Michiru smiled in approval,
God I hate her. Michiru went out the door and I followed.
I just wanted to go and crawl up in my nice warm bed and hide.
I followed her, although my head was screaming at me, my body
was moving automatically, I had no control over it. Michiru
pushed me out the front door and a barrage of lights attacked
me, I heard my name being called out along with a vast array
of questions, Michiru pushed me through the crowd whispering
for me to smile. No way Bitch I'm not doing anything you ask
me to, but while I thought that I felt myself smile.
" Here's our car." I slipped into the passenger seat, I felt
exhausted. I leaned my head against the seat and soon dozed
off.
***********
I woke up in a strange bed and looked around, it was dark and
raining out. My body ached from my previous exertion. In the
room I saw several pictures of Michiru and I together. I was
smiling but I somehow knew that I wasn't as happy as I seemed.
I looked down at myself, I was still wearing that suit Michiru
had given me, I looked around to see if there was anything else
I could wear, all I found was another dress shirt it didn't
look as uncomfortable as what I was now wearing so I went and
changed. When I came out I saw a balcony door leading outside.
I knew I had to leave, I grabbed some money lying on the table
and slipped out the door, my head was pounding. I started
running I didn't even look back, I couldn't face Michiru, I
had to leave. My body was sore but I had to go on. I soon found
the driveway and followed it to the road. I had no idea where
I was going but I just kept on running as fast as I could. I
saw a taxi driving towards me I hailed it and got in. I sat
inside and said an address I didn't know where it came from,
I just hoped it would get me away from here.
The cab stopped and I gave the driver some money. I stepped outside.
I had no idea where I was, and I was dripping wet, my body hurt,
and I thought I was going to pass out. I walked to the door of
the apartment building. There was a list of names, my eyes were
blurry but I made one out at the bottom of the list: Seiya Kou.
A woman was entering the apartment and didn't notice my foot
stopping the door from closing. I took the elevator to the
top floor and found the door number it had said beside the
name. I knocked hoping someone would open it.
**********
Someone was knocking on the door, it's past midnight this
is crazy. I got up to go yell at whoever dared disturb my
sleep. I opened it and gasped.
" Can I come in?" Haruka stood at the door. She was wearing
a drenched suit and water was dripping off of her. I was about
to say something when she just blacked out in front of me. I
managed to catch her before she fell and I pulled her toward
the couch kicking the door closed behind me. I called for
Taiki and Yaten and after a few minutes of grumbling they were
beside me.
" What are we supposed to do?" I asked them.
" We should probably get her warmed up a bit, she looks
like she's freezing." Taiki replied.
" Well go ahead." I said stepping back away from her.
" Me? I'm not touching her, you do it." Taiki said aghast.
" I'm not doing it." Yaten squeaked from behind me. I leaned
over the unconscious Haruka and hesitantly unbuttoned her
soaked shirt. She groaned and her eyes flitted open. She
looked dazed and shivered.
" Seiya-chan? Where am I?" She murmured quietly.
"Uh.. Haruka-San... hi." I stuttered and pulled back away
from her, I felt my face go red, " You're at my house,
I have no idea how you got here you just showed up."
" I didn't want to stay with Michiru." She murmured.
" How do you know where we live?" Yaten asked glaring at
Haruka who just shrugged.
" Here are some dry clothes." Taiki said while thwaping
Yaten upside the head. Taiki handed Haruka a pair of my
sweatpants and one of my T-shirts. Why my clothes,
Taiki's will fit her just fine, besides mine will be too small.
" Can I use your bathroom?" Haruka asked quietly. She got
up slowly wincing, I helped her to the bathroom.
" What the hell are we supposed to do? She just shows up here,
she's supposed to be with Michiru-san." Yaten rambled looking
back and forth between Taiki and I.
" Well we know she's gone psycho what are we supposed to do
just leave her out on the street?" Taiki asked the frazzled
platinum-haired girl.
" She'd do the same for us."
" NO, she wouldn't, why did she come to us anyway? she hates us,
well Seiya mostly, but why didn't she go to Usagi-chan or something?"
Yaten argued.
" She's not full in the head Yaten."
"She's never been 'full in the head', and why the hell are
you so quiet." Yaten looked at me , I just sat on a chair
listening to them.
" I'm, just thinking, leave me alone." I replied, " Shouldn't
we call Michiru-san or something? She's probably worried."
" Since when have you been so.. sensible." Yaten looked
at me like I was crazy," Well anyway you call her." Yaten looked
through the phonebook and found what she was looking for," Here
Call." I hesitantly reached for the phone and called the number
Yaten dictated.
" Hello uh.. Michiru-san.. It's Seiya." I was a little nervous
about how she would react after I told her that her lover
was with me.
" Seiya-kun what a surprise, I didn't expect you to call,
I'm a little busy." Michiru seemed pleasant, but a little
anxious, I could hear someone's voice faintly in the back
before Michiru told them to be quiet.
" Umm I just wanted to tell you that Haruka showed up at my
apartment about half an hour ago. I just wanted to call
you and tell you that she's fine."
" Seiya-kun, you have to be mistaken, Haruka's upstairs
asleep. How would she get to your house anyway?" How could
she not know I thought Michiru would at least go check on
her. They live quite far away she must've been gone for like
two hours. " We'll take care of her tonight and then call you
in the morning ok."
" Yeah Ok bye." She seemed really detached. and then hung up.
" I'm done." Haruka said from the bathroom door, leaning
slightly against the frame; I looked at her in my clothes,
she made them look so... good. She smiled slightly.
" Uh here, sit down." Taiki said shuffling off the armchair,
she slowly sat down. I felt extremely awkward with her here.
" Um are you hungry?" I asked slowly not knowing what to say.
She nodded. " What do you want." She shrugged.
I went to the kitchen to get her something, it was really
quiet in the living room. When I came back Haruka was asleep
in the chair.
" She's asleep." Yaten said.
" Yeah I've noticed where should we put her?"
" She's not staying with me." Yaten replied adamantly. I
looked to Taiki.
" You're the one who let her in" Taiki said walking toward
her bedroom door.
" The couch?" I asked hopefully.
" It's soaked she'll get pneumonia, we're supposed to take
care of her not get her even more sick." They both look at me.
" What!" I ask flabbergasted
" Maybe when she wakes up beside you it'll knock some sense
into her and she'll be relatively normal again." Yaten said
snickering.
" Yeah and then she'll take out her nice sharp sword and
kill me, is that what you want?" I said defensively.
"I'm ok with that." Yaten joked, well I hope.
" Yaten!." Taiki chastised the girl.
" Fine then my death is on your head."
" I'm ok with that too." Yaten disappeared into her room"
This'll be interesting."
" Well I'm going to sleep, have fun." Taiki walked away
giggling. I slowly picked Haruka up and carried her to my
bedroom. I kicked the door open and deposited Haruka onto
my bed on one side, I then climbed onto the other side as
far away from her as possible; I was almost falling off
my bed. I closed my eyes and slowly I fell asleep.
I wake up to a clicking noise and I open my eyes.
I see Yaten standing there with her stupid camera. Taiki
is giggling from behind. I feel a weight around me. I turn
my head and almost scream. Haruka was snuggled up to me,
half laying on top of me. I felt like an over grown teddy
bear. I tried to move but to no avail. She was holding me
absolutely still in her 'embrace.'
" Haruka-san?" I said nudging her slightly with my shoulder,
she murmured and then gripped me even tighter. " Uh guys
can you get her off?"
" Nope this is most definitely a Kodak moment and I haven't
taken quite enough pictures." Yaten smirked.
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Ok please don't hit me, that was the result of too many mush
fics, I needed to get that off my back. @_@
As always disclaimers apply. Buhbyees
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