Well, here it is part 2. It's been insane to find time to write this
last few weeks. Gomen ne. But I have been working on it. Hopefully I'll make
it to my site with this installment before my computer eats it. :p (Yes, I'm
still bitter about what happened with part one.)
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First Love
PG
2/?
Japanese TRANSLATIONS in END NOTES
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Chibiusa felt beautiful. Her under kimono was light pink, her silk
outer kimono was was dark pink at the top and then faded into white at the
bottom. Her obi sash was white and red, and there was intricate red designs
stichted all over the kimono, around the delicate pink and white butterflies
that were scattered all evenly all over the outer layer kimono. She wore
traditional black and red geta sandles and her hair was brushed back and
pinned up with an expensive looking gold pin that Usagi had given her. It
was the day of the senior carnival and she was at fair ground helping to put
the finishing touches on a booth with Momo and Nami. She hadn't seen Takeshi
all day, or Elios either,
for that matter. She put both boys from her mind and concentrated on helping
Nami secure a string of small white lighs to the lower branches of a tall tree.
A pinecone suddenly fell and narrowly missed hitting Nami's head. She
looked up and shouted at the boys higher in the branches.
"Watch what you're doing, you bakas*!"
A blond head appeared as Elios hung, from his knees, on a lower branch.
"Gomen ne, Nami-san.*"
Chibiusa smiled at the way he looked to be almost standing up, upside
down. She shook her head, that thought made no sense. Elios looked very handsome
that night, dressed in black pants a white shirt and a jean jacket. His atire
wasn't fancy but it suited him somehow. He noticed her smile and waved at her.
Chibiusa blushed hard and turned her back to him. Fumbling with a particularly
difficult branch she suddenly lost her balence and tumbled backwards.....
Elios saw Chibiusa start to fall but didn't get to to the ground in time.
Takeshi was standing nearby, and she obviously didn't see him. Seconds later she
crashed into him and ended up in his lap.
"Ah!" Chibiusa cried as she crashed into someone and then, discovering that
she was sitting in someone's lap, blushed like a fire engine.
"Gomen nasai!!" She quickly hurried to get up, but felt the boys arms come
around her waist, and herself pulled back against a strong chest. A voice whispered
in her ear,
"I always knew that you'd fall at my feet one day, Tsukino."
Without turning around, she knew that the boy behind her was Takeshi.
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Elios saw Takeshi put his arms around Chibousa and then whisper in her ear.
He turned away. Takeshi obviously liked Chibiusa, and since she wasn't moving from his
embrace, not that she was able to, but he didn't know that, it appeared as if she
liked him too. He walked quickly away from the pair, toward the other end of the fair.
He didn't understand why Chibiusa liked him. He found Takeshi to be possesive,
easily angered, and a trouble maker.
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"Let me go, Osoroshii." Chibiusa said quietly, looking around for her friends,
but they all appeared to have gone off somewhere, all the lights having been hung,
except for her string and the area was deserted. The sun was setting and casting eri
shadows on the ground. The wind blew
she felt goosw bumps rise on her skin.
"Come now Tsukino, you've been behaving the last week....not hanging around
that freak....I just want to talk with you." Takeshi said, letting her go. "You know,
you look very nice tonight.....how about you let me take you to the fair tonight?" He
said, leaning close to her, his eyes intense.
Chibiusa jumped to her feet and glared at him. "What are you jabbering about,
Osoroshii? I didn't avoid Elios because you told me not too....and I don't want to go
to the fair with you."
When Takeshi's gaze became uncomfortable, Chibiusa swallowed hard, then looked
him straight in the eye.
"You don't scare me." She said, taking a step back when he moved closer to her.
She found herself with her back against the back wall of the booth. No one could see
them from there.
Takeshi laughed. "Sure I don't, Tsukino." he moved forward again, and before
Chibiusa could react, he had her pinned to the wall, with his arms on either side of
her shoulders.
Chibiusa shivered in the darkening evening. If there was one thing she didn't
like, it was being in the dark, alone, with her worst enemy. Suddenly Takeshi leaned
forward. Chibiusa gasped, and tried to turn away, but the next thing she knew he was
kissing her!! She struggled and his hands tightened on her arms. Finally he broke the
rough kiss and allowed her to breath.
Shaking, with tears in her eyes for a reason more then what Takeshi thought
--being the fact that his kiss had startled and frightened her, being his reason for
doing it in the first place--, she jerked away from him and cried,
"Hitori ni shite yo!*" with that, she slapped him.
Hard.
In the face.
His face changed from smirking, to shock, to anger. He grabbed her arm and
pulled her back toward him. Chibiusa cried out in pain and fear.
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Elios felt something was amiss. He looked around for Chibiusa, she was
supposed to be on stage in 40 minutes and when he asked her friends about her, they
said that they hadn't seen her for the last 1/2 hour! He started walking back toward
the end of the long line of booths, glancing around for a sign of the cotten candy
haired girl who intriged him so.
Each night he had a dreamless sleep, always awaking feeling like he had
been somewhere, other then his room, for the night. As he neared the last booth he
heard her.
"Hitori ni shite yo!"
Then angry shouting and the sounds of a struggle. When he rounded the corner,
he found Takeshi and Chibiusa. The older boy was digging his fingers into her arm and
trying to pull her back into the shadows behind the booth, and Chibiusa looked terrified.
She cried out again when he tugged on her arm, and Elios noticed her eyes shimmering
with tears.
Burning with a blind rage, Elios ran toward them. Chibiusa cried out again, and
they both still hadn't seen him coming.
"Yamette!*" Chibiusa cried, "Takeshi, onegai!*" She tried to pull away again,
but Takeshi would have none of it. Finally, irritated at her refusal to come to him,
he hit her.
"Ahh--" Chibiusa gasped as the back of Takeshi's fist conected with the right
side of he face. Pain exploded in her vision and she fell to the ground, tears running
down her cheeks.
With a loud cry, Elios lept onto Takeshi, sending them both crashing to the
ground. He hit Takeshi several times before the slightly bigger boy managed to roll
them over and pin Elios under him instead. Chibiusa watched Takeshi hit Elios hard.
She was sure that he would have a black eye later. Elios rolled them again, and then
Takeshi broke free and jumped to his feet. Elios was quick after him and the boys paced
around, fists out, each silently daring the other to take the first swing.
Scared for his life, Chibiusa cried out from her spot on the gound, "Please,
Elios, you don't have to fight him! He's not worth it!"
Takeshi glared at her and Elios gave her a sad look, wondering himself why
he
had been so suddenly overcome with blind anger at Takeshi's treatment of her.
It wasn't just that he had been hurting her, it was someting deeper. If it had
been any other girl, in Chibiusa's present postion, he would have done the same
thing to help her, but the fact alone that it was Chibiusa that was in trouble
had caused him to get so angry is scared him.
Elios shook his head at Chibiusa and she could see the unspoken message in
his eyes,
'I have to do this. Don't try and stop me.'
It confused her. Why would he, of all people, be so concerned for her? He
was friendly to her on a polite aquaintence level, but had never appeared to care
for her deeper then that.
In the distance someone called Elios's name, and then there was the sound
of people coming nearer. Takeshi glance at the tell-tale shadows that preceed their
owners in the lantern light, and took a step back. Staring Elios straight in the eye,
he said in a dangerously low voice,
"Don't think this is finished, freak...." and with that, he faded back into
the darkness.
When the others came, all they saw were Chibiusa sitting on the ground and
Elios standing near by.
One of Elios's friends called to him that the stage show was to start in 15
minutes and he was needed at the sound booth. Elios waved at him and called out that
he would be there in a few moments. The boys nodded and left.
Chibiusa watched them go, and then watached as Elios walked up and knelt
down beside her. She sniffed and tried to stop crying. Elios looked pained as he
gently touched her face, tracing the rising bruise with his fingertips. Fire
burned in his eyes.
"Daijoubu?*" He asked quietly.
Chibiusa looked up into his eyes and nodded slowly. Just having him near
brought relief and comfort.
"What happened?" Elios asked, pulling his hand back, his eyes searching her
own.
Chibiusa shuddered and looked at her lap. A moment later warmth flodded her.
She looked up to find Elios drapping his jean jacket over her shoulders.
"Arigatou.*" She said softly, and gave him a watery smile. She blinked back
tears, and figited with her hands a moment, before speaking.
"What happened?" Elios asked, pulling his hand back, his eyes
searching her own.
Chibiusa blinked back tears, and figited with her hands a moment,
before speaking.
"H-he...*sniff*...hazukashii yo*..." She murmered, looking from
Elios's face back then back to her lap as she remembered the kiss that
Takeshi had forced on her. The kiss that she could never take back.
Elios was patient, and waited until she was ready to talk again.
"I was hanging lights, and then I fell...when I looked up again,
everyone had left! I was all alone, with...him." She said the last word
bitterly, and took a shakey breath.
Elios remembered how he had assumed that the two had wanted to be
left alone, and so, like everyone else, he had let them be so.
"We exchanged the usual insults, but then he suddenly changed,
into what I suppose he considers charming, and said that I looked pretty
and that he wanted to take me to the fair!"
Elios watched her as she spoke to her knees, refusing to look at
him, but didn't push her to speak to his face.
"When I refused, he apparently thought that he could change my
mind by--" She cut the sentence off there.
When she didn't speak again for several minutes, Elios gently
placed a hand on her arm,
"What did he do, Chibiusa-san?"
Looking into his eyes, really looking; for the first time, Chibiusa
saw a tenderness that she had never seen before. He really seemed to care
what had happened to her.
"He kissed me." she said softly, looking back at her lap.
Elios' hand tightened for a fraction of a second, before he could
control himself, and he pulled it away quickly.
Tears started to fall again, and Chibiusa pulled away and turned
her back on Elios, wrapping her arms around herself. Elios could see her
small shoulders shaking.
"I d-didn't want to...I didn't...he stole it...I can't ever
have it back!" she cried to herself, her voice so soft that that Elios
could barely hear and he gathered that he wasn't really supposed to hear
what she said. The words were very personal, straight from the heart.
Of what he did hear, he understood that when Takeshi had kissed
Chibiusa, she had not been a willing particapent, and the kiss that he
had taken the liberty of stealing had obviously been her first. The poor
girl was so innocent, Elios burned with renewed anger at this realization.
He would make Takeshi pay.
"Why did he hit you?" was the next question that Elios forced
himself to ask. He didn't want to make Chibiusa think about that experience
again, but he had to know.
"He was trying to make me go back in the shadows again, so we
wouldn't be seen. I don'tknow what he wanted to do...I'd rather not
think about it...I dind't want to go, but he was too much stronger then
me...I was trying to pull us back out into the light, and I guess he got
annoyed with me or something..." She reached up and subconciously touched her
cheek.
"Look at me Chibiusa."
At the sound of Elios's deep voice, so kind and caring, Chibiusa
turned around to face him. He make-up had run because of her tears, and
her eyes were still shining.
Elios knelt in front of her again, pain evident in his eyes.
"I'm sorry that I was late...Chibiusa-san."
Chibiusa's eyes widened at that statement. It sounded so familiar!
Where had she heard it before?
"I saw you with Takeshi before, and I left you with him. I shouldn't
have, I knew better,but I did. Then, when I didn't see you for over half an
hour, I started to wonder if it had beengood judgement to leave you alone with
him...I asked your friends where you were, but no one had seen you. I came back
to look for you and I saw..." he paused and his voice changed from regret to
anger, "him hit you. I should have been there! I didn't try hard enough.
Gomen nasai."
Chibiusa wondered why Elios was taking the blame for the situation
that had happened between her and Takeshi. He seemed to be taking the
experience un-naturally hard. She reached out and placed a small pale hand
over his clenched fist.
"Elios-kun, please, it's not your fault." she said gently.
Elios looked into the younger girl's eyes. He felt his heart warm
to her.
'Yes it was..I'm supposed to protect you...!!'
The thought came fast and unbidden. Shocked, at the how natural the thought
sounded to him, he quickly pulled back and got to his feet.
"You're supposed to be on stage in, " he checked his watch, "15 minutes."
Chibiusa gasped and quickly got to her feet. She brushed the dust off
her kimono, thankful that there seemed to be no stains, and picked up her
matching silk, pink, drawstring bag. She took out a small compact and quickly
patted her face with it. She pulled out a few other tubes and dabbed some
cosmetics on her face. When she turned back to Elios his heart nearly stopped.
The bruise was completely hidden and her face sparkled with shimmery make-up.
She looked breath-taking.
"Thanks for listening Elios, and for helping me out...before..." She
said, with a smile that he could tell was fake. "Well, we'd better get to the
stage, ne?"
Elios fell into step beside her, he would talk more with her late.
They walked quickly toward the brightly lit stage at the other end of the
fair ground. Just before she disappeared behind the curtain, Chibiusa turned
and glanced shyly at Elios as he was turning to walk away.
"Elios?"
He turned back.
"Will you be watching?" she said with a faint blush, that only
made her look more beautiful.
He grinned, "Of course. Front row, center!".
Chibiusa smiled, "Good." and with that, she was gone behind the
red velvet curtains.
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That's it for now! STay tuned for Chapter 3, coming to a
web-site near you soon! I'll send this into ASMR soon, promise!
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TRANSLATIONS
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Baka - Idiot
Gomen ne - Sorry
San - Formal (polite) ending for anyone's name (male or female)
Hitori ni shite yo! - Leave me alone!
Yamette! - Stop (it)
Onegai! - Please (begging)
Daijoubu - Are you ok?
Arigatou - Thank-you
last few weeks. Gomen ne. But I have been working on it. Hopefully I'll make
it to my site with this installment before my computer eats it. :p (Yes, I'm
still bitter about what happened with part one.)
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First Love
PG
2/?
Japanese TRANSLATIONS in END NOTES
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Chibiusa felt beautiful. Her under kimono was light pink, her silk
outer kimono was was dark pink at the top and then faded into white at the
bottom. Her obi sash was white and red, and there was intricate red designs
stichted all over the kimono, around the delicate pink and white butterflies
that were scattered all evenly all over the outer layer kimono. She wore
traditional black and red geta sandles and her hair was brushed back and
pinned up with an expensive looking gold pin that Usagi had given her. It
was the day of the senior carnival and she was at fair ground helping to put
the finishing touches on a booth with Momo and Nami. She hadn't seen Takeshi
all day, or Elios either,
for that matter. She put both boys from her mind and concentrated on helping
Nami secure a string of small white lighs to the lower branches of a tall tree.
A pinecone suddenly fell and narrowly missed hitting Nami's head. She
looked up and shouted at the boys higher in the branches.
"Watch what you're doing, you bakas*!"
A blond head appeared as Elios hung, from his knees, on a lower branch.
"Gomen ne, Nami-san.*"
Chibiusa smiled at the way he looked to be almost standing up, upside
down. She shook her head, that thought made no sense. Elios looked very handsome
that night, dressed in black pants a white shirt and a jean jacket. His atire
wasn't fancy but it suited him somehow. He noticed her smile and waved at her.
Chibiusa blushed hard and turned her back to him. Fumbling with a particularly
difficult branch she suddenly lost her balence and tumbled backwards.....
Elios saw Chibiusa start to fall but didn't get to to the ground in time.
Takeshi was standing nearby, and she obviously didn't see him. Seconds later she
crashed into him and ended up in his lap.
"Ah!" Chibiusa cried as she crashed into someone and then, discovering that
she was sitting in someone's lap, blushed like a fire engine.
"Gomen nasai!!" She quickly hurried to get up, but felt the boys arms come
around her waist, and herself pulled back against a strong chest. A voice whispered
in her ear,
"I always knew that you'd fall at my feet one day, Tsukino."
Without turning around, she knew that the boy behind her was Takeshi.
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Elios saw Takeshi put his arms around Chibousa and then whisper in her ear.
He turned away. Takeshi obviously liked Chibiusa, and since she wasn't moving from his
embrace, not that she was able to, but he didn't know that, it appeared as if she
liked him too. He walked quickly away from the pair, toward the other end of the fair.
He didn't understand why Chibiusa liked him. He found Takeshi to be possesive,
easily angered, and a trouble maker.
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"Let me go, Osoroshii." Chibiusa said quietly, looking around for her friends,
but they all appeared to have gone off somewhere, all the lights having been hung,
except for her string and the area was deserted. The sun was setting and casting eri
shadows on the ground. The wind blew
she felt goosw bumps rise on her skin.
"Come now Tsukino, you've been behaving the last week....not hanging around
that freak....I just want to talk with you." Takeshi said, letting her go. "You know,
you look very nice tonight.....how about you let me take you to the fair tonight?" He
said, leaning close to her, his eyes intense.
Chibiusa jumped to her feet and glared at him. "What are you jabbering about,
Osoroshii? I didn't avoid Elios because you told me not too....and I don't want to go
to the fair with you."
When Takeshi's gaze became uncomfortable, Chibiusa swallowed hard, then looked
him straight in the eye.
"You don't scare me." She said, taking a step back when he moved closer to her.
She found herself with her back against the back wall of the booth. No one could see
them from there.
Takeshi laughed. "Sure I don't, Tsukino." he moved forward again, and before
Chibiusa could react, he had her pinned to the wall, with his arms on either side of
her shoulders.
Chibiusa shivered in the darkening evening. If there was one thing she didn't
like, it was being in the dark, alone, with her worst enemy. Suddenly Takeshi leaned
forward. Chibiusa gasped, and tried to turn away, but the next thing she knew he was
kissing her!! She struggled and his hands tightened on her arms. Finally he broke the
rough kiss and allowed her to breath.
Shaking, with tears in her eyes for a reason more then what Takeshi thought
--being the fact that his kiss had startled and frightened her, being his reason for
doing it in the first place--, she jerked away from him and cried,
"Hitori ni shite yo!*" with that, she slapped him.
Hard.
In the face.
His face changed from smirking, to shock, to anger. He grabbed her arm and
pulled her back toward him. Chibiusa cried out in pain and fear.
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Elios felt something was amiss. He looked around for Chibiusa, she was
supposed to be on stage in 40 minutes and when he asked her friends about her, they
said that they hadn't seen her for the last 1/2 hour! He started walking back toward
the end of the long line of booths, glancing around for a sign of the cotten candy
haired girl who intriged him so.
Each night he had a dreamless sleep, always awaking feeling like he had
been somewhere, other then his room, for the night. As he neared the last booth he
heard her.
"Hitori ni shite yo!"
Then angry shouting and the sounds of a struggle. When he rounded the corner,
he found Takeshi and Chibiusa. The older boy was digging his fingers into her arm and
trying to pull her back into the shadows behind the booth, and Chibiusa looked terrified.
She cried out again when he tugged on her arm, and Elios noticed her eyes shimmering
with tears.
Burning with a blind rage, Elios ran toward them. Chibiusa cried out again, and
they both still hadn't seen him coming.
"Yamette!*" Chibiusa cried, "Takeshi, onegai!*" She tried to pull away again,
but Takeshi would have none of it. Finally, irritated at her refusal to come to him,
he hit her.
"Ahh--" Chibiusa gasped as the back of Takeshi's fist conected with the right
side of he face. Pain exploded in her vision and she fell to the ground, tears running
down her cheeks.
With a loud cry, Elios lept onto Takeshi, sending them both crashing to the
ground. He hit Takeshi several times before the slightly bigger boy managed to roll
them over and pin Elios under him instead. Chibiusa watched Takeshi hit Elios hard.
She was sure that he would have a black eye later. Elios rolled them again, and then
Takeshi broke free and jumped to his feet. Elios was quick after him and the boys paced
around, fists out, each silently daring the other to take the first swing.
Scared for his life, Chibiusa cried out from her spot on the gound, "Please,
Elios, you don't have to fight him! He's not worth it!"
Takeshi glared at her and Elios gave her a sad look, wondering himself why
he
had been so suddenly overcome with blind anger at Takeshi's treatment of her.
It wasn't just that he had been hurting her, it was someting deeper. If it had
been any other girl, in Chibiusa's present postion, he would have done the same
thing to help her, but the fact alone that it was Chibiusa that was in trouble
had caused him to get so angry is scared him.
Elios shook his head at Chibiusa and she could see the unspoken message in
his eyes,
'I have to do this. Don't try and stop me.'
It confused her. Why would he, of all people, be so concerned for her? He
was friendly to her on a polite aquaintence level, but had never appeared to care
for her deeper then that.
In the distance someone called Elios's name, and then there was the sound
of people coming nearer. Takeshi glance at the tell-tale shadows that preceed their
owners in the lantern light, and took a step back. Staring Elios straight in the eye,
he said in a dangerously low voice,
"Don't think this is finished, freak...." and with that, he faded back into
the darkness.
When the others came, all they saw were Chibiusa sitting on the ground and
Elios standing near by.
One of Elios's friends called to him that the stage show was to start in 15
minutes and he was needed at the sound booth. Elios waved at him and called out that
he would be there in a few moments. The boys nodded and left.
Chibiusa watched them go, and then watached as Elios walked up and knelt
down beside her. She sniffed and tried to stop crying. Elios looked pained as he
gently touched her face, tracing the rising bruise with his fingertips. Fire
burned in his eyes.
"Daijoubu?*" He asked quietly.
Chibiusa looked up into his eyes and nodded slowly. Just having him near
brought relief and comfort.
"What happened?" Elios asked, pulling his hand back, his eyes searching her
own.
Chibiusa shuddered and looked at her lap. A moment later warmth flodded her.
She looked up to find Elios drapping his jean jacket over her shoulders.
"Arigatou.*" She said softly, and gave him a watery smile. She blinked back
tears, and figited with her hands a moment, before speaking.
"What happened?" Elios asked, pulling his hand back, his eyes
searching her own.
Chibiusa blinked back tears, and figited with her hands a moment,
before speaking.
"H-he...*sniff*...hazukashii yo*..." She murmered, looking from
Elios's face back then back to her lap as she remembered the kiss that
Takeshi had forced on her. The kiss that she could never take back.
Elios was patient, and waited until she was ready to talk again.
"I was hanging lights, and then I fell...when I looked up again,
everyone had left! I was all alone, with...him." She said the last word
bitterly, and took a shakey breath.
Elios remembered how he had assumed that the two had wanted to be
left alone, and so, like everyone else, he had let them be so.
"We exchanged the usual insults, but then he suddenly changed,
into what I suppose he considers charming, and said that I looked pretty
and that he wanted to take me to the fair!"
Elios watched her as she spoke to her knees, refusing to look at
him, but didn't push her to speak to his face.
"When I refused, he apparently thought that he could change my
mind by--" She cut the sentence off there.
When she didn't speak again for several minutes, Elios gently
placed a hand on her arm,
"What did he do, Chibiusa-san?"
Looking into his eyes, really looking; for the first time, Chibiusa
saw a tenderness that she had never seen before. He really seemed to care
what had happened to her.
"He kissed me." she said softly, looking back at her lap.
Elios' hand tightened for a fraction of a second, before he could
control himself, and he pulled it away quickly.
Tears started to fall again, and Chibiusa pulled away and turned
her back on Elios, wrapping her arms around herself. Elios could see her
small shoulders shaking.
"I d-didn't want to...I didn't...he stole it...I can't ever
have it back!" she cried to herself, her voice so soft that that Elios
could barely hear and he gathered that he wasn't really supposed to hear
what she said. The words were very personal, straight from the heart.
Of what he did hear, he understood that when Takeshi had kissed
Chibiusa, she had not been a willing particapent, and the kiss that he
had taken the liberty of stealing had obviously been her first. The poor
girl was so innocent, Elios burned with renewed anger at this realization.
He would make Takeshi pay.
"Why did he hit you?" was the next question that Elios forced
himself to ask. He didn't want to make Chibiusa think about that experience
again, but he had to know.
"He was trying to make me go back in the shadows again, so we
wouldn't be seen. I don'tknow what he wanted to do...I'd rather not
think about it...I dind't want to go, but he was too much stronger then
me...I was trying to pull us back out into the light, and I guess he got
annoyed with me or something..." She reached up and subconciously touched her
cheek.
"Look at me Chibiusa."
At the sound of Elios's deep voice, so kind and caring, Chibiusa
turned around to face him. He make-up had run because of her tears, and
her eyes were still shining.
Elios knelt in front of her again, pain evident in his eyes.
"I'm sorry that I was late...Chibiusa-san."
Chibiusa's eyes widened at that statement. It sounded so familiar!
Where had she heard it before?
"I saw you with Takeshi before, and I left you with him. I shouldn't
have, I knew better,but I did. Then, when I didn't see you for over half an
hour, I started to wonder if it had beengood judgement to leave you alone with
him...I asked your friends where you were, but no one had seen you. I came back
to look for you and I saw..." he paused and his voice changed from regret to
anger, "him hit you. I should have been there! I didn't try hard enough.
Gomen nasai."
Chibiusa wondered why Elios was taking the blame for the situation
that had happened between her and Takeshi. He seemed to be taking the
experience un-naturally hard. She reached out and placed a small pale hand
over his clenched fist.
"Elios-kun, please, it's not your fault." she said gently.
Elios looked into the younger girl's eyes. He felt his heart warm
to her.
'Yes it was..I'm supposed to protect you...!!'
The thought came fast and unbidden. Shocked, at the how natural the thought
sounded to him, he quickly pulled back and got to his feet.
"You're supposed to be on stage in, " he checked his watch, "15 minutes."
Chibiusa gasped and quickly got to her feet. She brushed the dust off
her kimono, thankful that there seemed to be no stains, and picked up her
matching silk, pink, drawstring bag. She took out a small compact and quickly
patted her face with it. She pulled out a few other tubes and dabbed some
cosmetics on her face. When she turned back to Elios his heart nearly stopped.
The bruise was completely hidden and her face sparkled with shimmery make-up.
She looked breath-taking.
"Thanks for listening Elios, and for helping me out...before..." She
said, with a smile that he could tell was fake. "Well, we'd better get to the
stage, ne?"
Elios fell into step beside her, he would talk more with her late.
They walked quickly toward the brightly lit stage at the other end of the
fair ground. Just before she disappeared behind the curtain, Chibiusa turned
and glanced shyly at Elios as he was turning to walk away.
"Elios?"
He turned back.
"Will you be watching?" she said with a faint blush, that only
made her look more beautiful.
He grinned, "Of course. Front row, center!".
Chibiusa smiled, "Good." and with that, she was gone behind the
red velvet curtains.
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That's it for now! STay tuned for Chapter 3, coming to a
web-site near you soon! I'll send this into ASMR soon, promise!
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TRANSLATIONS
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Baka - Idiot
Gomen ne - Sorry
San - Formal (polite) ending for anyone's name (male or female)
Hitori ni shite yo! - Leave me alone!
Yamette! - Stop (it)
Onegai! - Please (begging)
Daijoubu - Are you ok?
Arigatou - Thank-you