Ronin Warriors
The Ugly Duckling ~ Chapter 7: The Truth…Finally
By .:‡:. Kakeumei Tenshi .:‡:.
Heyas all! By now, you probably all know that I've changed my darned name…heh, Angel was way too general so I figured to change it to "Kakeumei Tenshi" which stands for "Revolutionary Angel". I guess the correct form with be "Tenshi no Kakeumei" but I figured I should go by "Kakeumei Tenshi" for now. I still go by "Angel" because I've gotten use to that name after all the years that I've been writing fanfic so you can still call me Angel. ^_^ Anyways, I figured I should start working on my fanfics and my website again…I should probably go before I write more pre-hand notes instead of the fanfic itself! Ja ne minna!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Ronin Warriors, they belong to CN and their associates.
"Tale…as old as time…
Song as old as rhyme…
Beauty and the Beast…"
"Oh my goodness, I loved that!" Mia exclaimed happily as she all but skipped out of the theater with Sai trailing not far behind.
Sai chuckled. "How many times have you watched this movie? Five…maybe six-hundred times?" He teased lightly as he offered his arm to Mia.
Mia waved her hand around and then rested it in the crook of his arm. "Pheesh…What an exaggeration. I've watched this movie just a couple of times. Besides, the one we just saw was a new one--,"
"Not too new, didn't it just have a couple of scenes?" Sai interjected playfully.
Mia wrinkled her nose up. "Okay, you're right, there was just new scenes added to it, but it was still wonderful wasn't it?"
Sai nodded. "It was a good movie, I needed a rest from studying for mid-terms anyways."
Mia breathed in the crisp, fresh air and after exhaling, she turned her face to Sai, "Don't let it stress you out too much, you'll do fine, you always do,"
Sai laughed as they strolled down the pathway of the park. "That's easy for you to say, I need to worry about this sort of stuff…mom has high expectations for us all,"
"Yeah…," Mia replied softly looking into the distance.
Sai turned his head to look at his cousin. Oh man…
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Kento inched closer to the tree so that his bulky form would be obscured from view. His gray eyes followed the familiar couple as both red heads walked slowly down the park. "If Rowan isn't going to tell me anything, then I might as well find out on my own." He muttered to himself as he tiptoed on the grass quickly scurrying to hide behind whatever available covering he could find. I am the tree…I am the bush…I am the rock…I am the grass—okay wait, that doesn't work. I am the—
"Kento, what are you doing?" A familiar voice questioned from behind him.
"Gah!" Kento yelped as he spun around his hand on his chest. "Baka! You scared the crap out of me!"
Kayura rolled her eyes as she pushed her glasses back up the bridge of her nose. "Stupid? I'm not the one hiding behind a tree three times smaller then me."
Kento's eyes contradicted to dots. "That was mean…"
"It wasn't meant to be mean," She replied as she glanced around his large frame. Looking suspiciously up at him, she asked, "Just whom are you spying on anyways?"
Kento laughed awkwardly as he stuck a hand behind his head, scratching it. "Heheh…Nobody in particular. Who said I was spying anyways?"
Kayura arched an eye, which made her glasses slide down her nose again. Agitated, she pushed them back up. "I see…"
Kento sighed. "Good."
Kayura rolled her eyes again.
"You know, if you keep on doing that, they'll roll straight out of your sockets," Kento began.
Kayura clenched her teeth her complexion turning a slightly pinkish color. "You know, a person loses brain cells talking to you!"
"IF the person has brain cells to begin with!" Kento countered.
"As if YOU would know you…you…you…" Kayura stuttered.
"What is that you're trying to say??" Kento mocked cupping his ear with his hand.
"You DENDROPHILIAC!" Kayura shouted, her face turning a bright red.
Suddenly, all eyes seemed to be on her and Kento.
Kayura's complexion slowly turned back to its natural porcelain white while Kento's merely arched an eye. "Have a good day Mr. Faun." She concluded turning around to walk away.
Kento grew agitated as the people around him snickered softly but loud enough so that when combined, it was clearly heard. "YEAH WELL AT LEAST I'M NOT AS SMART AS YOU!" He blurted before even thinking about what he was saying. Afterwards, he proceeded to slam his head against the palm of his hand cursing to himself.
"You're right, you aren't," Kayura laughed as she walked away.
After she was out of eye's range, Kento hurried home, forgetting about Sai and Mia, quickly logging onto his home computer, typing in 'dendrophiliac', and reading what the search documents said.
"Eeeewwww!"
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Kayura sighed as the familiar large figure walked towards her with a hostile face. She pushed her glasses up her nose. I should really get a new prescription.
"You know, that dendrophiliac stuff really didn't make sense yesterday!" Kento all but yelled.
Kayura wiped her nose and pushed her glasses up her nose again only for them to fall down. "Think about it…Trees? You?"
"That's really nasty! You know, if I am a dendrophiliac, then you're a hemophiliac! HA! Take that!"
Kayura snorted. "Kento, hemophilia is a type of disease in which your blood vessels don't clot up when they're cut!"
"Doh!"
"Two for me, zero for you," Kayura tallied as she walked around Kento.
"One of these days…I'll be ready for you!" Kento shouted across the hall with vengeance.
"Can't wait!" Kayura waved without even a backward glance her voice lacking everything but sarcasm.
Kento did the only thing he thought of at the moment…and that was sticking his tongue out as far as it would let him.
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"Argh!" Kento growled as he slammed his books down on the table with as much force as he could.
Rowan quickly hurried to steady his tall stack of already-wobbling books. "Kento!" He exclaimed.
Sai took half of Rowan's books and set it down to begin a second pile. "You okay buddy? You seem a bit agitated,"
"Agitated is a bit mild, you seem like you outright wanna kill someone, anyone in particular?" Ryo asked as he sat down next to Kento, pulling out a brown paper bag, which held the contents of his lunch.
"I would love to throttle Kayura Shindo's [AN: I don't know what Kayura's actual last name is so please go with the "Shindo" for now. ^_^;;] little neck!" His large hands circling Ryo's coke bottle and he squeezed it, displaying his plan.
"Kayura Shindo? The shy girl, right?" Rowan said as he closed the notebook before him, his hunger having succeeded.
"Don't you mean nerdy and annoying?" Kento muttered.
"That's not very nice Kento," Sai frowned.
"She called me a dendrophiliac! That was mean! It was also sick once I found out what it meant!" Kento raged, his color growing.
Rowan arched his eyebrow as the corners of his mouth twitched.
"And what in blazes does that mean?" Ryo said, his sandwich halfway on the path to his mouth.
Kento put his head on his arms. "I forgot,"
Sai set his drink down. "Well now I'm curious, share,"
"It means that Kento is aroused by trees." Rowan said, helpfully as he chomped down on his sub.
The table suddenly got quite as both Sai and Ryo stared at Rowan.
"Oh damn!"
"That's disgusting!"
"I told you it was sick!" Kento said moving his hand towards Ryo's lunch to grab the cookie.
"Don't touch me man," Ryo said snatching the cookie away.
Rowan and Sai laughed as Kento and Ryo fought.
After Kento received his cookie, he happily chewed on the soft morsel.
"So what reason did she have, to call you a dendrophiliac?" Questioned Sai.
Kento shrugged and refused to blush. "Dunno,"
"Weird,"
Kento wiped his hands off on his shirt and turned towards Sai. Swallowing quickly, he started to say, "Okay Sai, I think I've waited long enough. Now, you know I'm not a man of patience and I certainly didn't think that you, of all people would keep a secret from your best friends! So spill it, how come you haven't told us about this girlfriend of yours? I want the details! EVERYTHING! Juicy or not, if you have it, I want it!"
Rowan's face suddenly turned pale as Ryo looked at Sai.
"Yeah, me too!" He chimed in. [AN: Yes…That's Ryo 'chiming' in. Back to the story.]
"Girlfriend? What girlfriend?" Sai's eyebrows narrowed in confusion.
Rowan blushed. "Okay guys, look, it's Sai's business, if he doesn't want to tell us, he doesn't have to tell us,"
"Tell you what?" Sage asked coming up towards the table.
"Wait…back up a moment here, girlfriend? What girlfriend?" Sai asked even more confused.
Sage's eyes flashed as he turned to Sai.
"Oh stop playing! We know you have a girlfriend…it's that red hair chick remember?" Kento asked gesturing with his hands.
"Kento, what are you talking about? What red haired chick?" Sai asked.
"Kento, it's better if you drop it," Sage advised.
"Yeah," Rowan nodded in agreement.
Kento sighed. "Fine…if you want to play it that way. You know, that girl MIA also known as Meiala! Why haven't you told us you were going out with her? Come on buddy! Give me the details!"
Sai's face turned bright red in less then half a second. "WHAT?!!!!!! MIA???"
"Yes, Mia, which other Mia would I be talking about?"
Sai shook his head. "Whoa…you lost me Kento. Are we talking about the same Meiala Koji here?"
"If that's her last name, sure!"
Sai turned even redder to the point where he was almost purple. "Kento! That's just sick!"
Kento snorted. "Well that's not a nice way to talk about your girlfriend…"
"Drop it Kento," Rowan and Sage warned.
"Girlfriend?! Mia, my girlfriend?!" Sai shouted, breathing heavily.
"Oh geez Sai, don't get so overworked about it!" Ryo said as he opened his mutilated bottle. "It was just a question about your girlfriend."
"Girlfriend?!" Sai closed his eyes in frustration, his face still bright red. "What are you bloody talking about?! Mia isn't my girlfriend!"
Kento's and Ryo's eyes popped out whilst Rowan's and Sage's eyes showed surprised. "She isn't?" The four chorused.
"NO!! She's my damn cousin!" Sai snarled. "And for your information Kento…I don't DATE chickens!"
"Of course not, that'd be illegal," Kento replied laughing awkwardly as a sweatdrop rolled down his face.
Rowan and Sage sat down and let out deep breaths.
"What's up with you two?" Ryo asked.
"So who is Mia anyways?" Kento asked, his motive undaunted.
"She's my cousin for goodness sake!" Sai snapped sitting down.
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"Oh geez…Someone bought the last one huh?" Kayura murmured wistfully as she stared at the books before her.
"Yup, but I will be getting a new shipment of books in tomorrow. Will that work?" Mr. Tsubasa softly spoke.
"Of course! I'll come over tomorrow then!" Kayura said happily as she walked towards the door. "Thanks Mr. Tsubasa!"
"Anytime," He called out after her. Five minutes later, the bells jingled as the door opened, again.
"Oh dear, I almost collided with a person…I wonder if she's alright," Mia muttered loud enough for Mr. Tsubasa to hear.
"Hello Miss Koji, hey did you know that someone else loves those romance books as much as you do? She was disappointed when I didn't have Miss Lacey's Last Fling in stock however, I told her that the new shipment would be coming in tomorrow. Anyways, I've gone off topic, how may I help you?"
Mia chuckled softly. "That's great that someone else likes those books…Maybe I've started a trend! But anyways, I was just coming to ask when your next orders were going to arrive and now that I know that, I'll be going…By the way Mr. Tsubasa, grandfather was wondering if you wanted to have dinner with us?"
"Of course!" Mr. Tsubasa accepted breaking out into a wonderful smile that made Mia's face light up with one also.
"That's great! Come over tomorrow night at 6:30pm…we're making sushi, fish, rice and some garlic chicken," Mia licked her lips hungrily. "I can almost taste the chicken…yum!"
Mr. Tsubasa laughed. "Go on child and tell your grandfather I'll be there tomorrow,"
"Okay, ja Mr. Tsubasa!" Mia grinned as she ran out of the store.
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"Oh my, grandfather's going to worry if I don't hurry home soon--," Mia stopped talking as soon as she ran into someone and toppled, almost falling straight on her rear if it wasn't for the strong arm that clutched her arm in a gentle but firm grip. "Gomen,"
"Hi," The deep voice greeted.
"Oh, hello," Mia blushed as she stared up into the blue eyes. Quickly balancing herself, she murmured a clear "thank you" to Rowan.
"It's no problem, are you alright?" He asked as he let go of her arm and started walking side-by-side with her.
"Thanks to you," She chuckled. "I've been a bit clumsy lately…First, I managed to knock this one guy down and twist my ankle, which is all right for now," She quickly said when he looked at her, worried.
"I'm glad," He said.
"Heh…" She blushed.
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Sage rounded the corner and felt his breath caught on his lips as he stared at two familiar people walking side-by-side, closer then he would have liked. The girl had a nice tint of pink on her cheeks and the weather was actually a nice one so it had to mean that she was blushing. "Oh…" Mia and Rowan…What are they doing together? Are they going out? No…That's not possible…is it?
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Next time, on Ronin Warriors…
Ryo: The truth has come out, mid-terms are near, and trouble is brewing in school as Kayura finds herself in a few situations she wish she wasn't in.
Rowan: Sage has been avoiding me too…I wonder what's wrong. He knows he can come talk to me whenever he wants to right?
Kento: I still can't believe she's Sai's cousin…It was fun spying on them two though!
Sai: You were spying on me?!!
Kento: I'm sorry…::sweatdrops::
Sai: ::sigh:: S'alright…
Sage: You know…I'm worried, I know Kayura isn't the most popular girls in school but do they have to treat her like that?
Mia: Next time, on Ronin Warriors: The Ugly Duckling~ Chapter 8: A Friend At Last.
Kayura: JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!
Some notes…the chicken comment is a referral to when Kento called Mia a chick. Um…I didn't proofread this so yes, this chapter probably sucks…no, it does suck and none of you can persuade me otherwise. Also, you don't have to review if you don't want to, I don't really care either way…well, I do, it's fun to read them but the way I see it is that you're here to read the story, not leave a review so if really, it won't matter much if you leave one or not…^_^ But thank you in advance if you do.
I'm sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out…oh man, I am so tired from school these days. I've been working extra hard because I haven't been on the high honor roll in my school for two quarters and I'm rather mad. It was the first time since they had high honor roll, that I haven't been on it. After all that hard work for it to go down the drain like that…I'm mad as heck…But that doesn't keep me from writing. You must all be wincing though…^_^;;
Anyways, I'm done talking heh…^_^ I hope you had fun reading. Not sure when the next chapter is going to be out but I'll try to get it done…ja!
~Kakeumei Tenshi aka Angel~
