A/N: Wow...my fic is attracting more and more crazy people! (Yay! My own
kind likes the story!^_^) So...I was thinking...once I finish this fic, I
might just invite everyone on the review list to an asylum party (you know,
kind of a Cuckoo's Nest thing? I dunno...) Anyway, specific thanks are at
the bottom. Yet again, Little Shop's not mine and neither is Weiss. Get
over it. I did...sort of *sobs*. Anyway, enjoy chapter 4!
Little Shop of Hor- Hey! They're Not Too Bad Looking! What Is This? OR Little Shop of Bishonen By Sora Saotome Chapter Four
Omi took his new plant to a commercial nursery, and bought cucumber seeds...receiving many bizarre looks along the way. They kept looking at the plant, then looking at him like he must have been smoking leaves FROM the plant, or something.
On the way back to the shop, he look a good look at the plant, and realized that it had layers...At first, it looked vicious, and cruel. But once you looked at the neon green pod with baby blue veins and puce and dark yellow leaves; it was beautiful, in it's own special way (maybe he was smoking the leaves...).
He eventually arrived back at the still deserted flower shop, and ran downstairs to his room to put the plant away. Once he set it gently on his desk, next to his computer, he returned upstairs with the cucumber seeds.
"You get the seeds?" Ken asked, having not bothered to when the fifteen- year-old had run downstairs a moment ago.
"Yep, but..." Omi paused and looked around to make sure Aya wasn't around. It turned out to be just him and Ken, so he whispered, "don't you think this plan is kind of lame? I mean...a pickle?"
Ken shrugged and sighed, "It's his funeral, ne?" Omi nodded slowly, as Yohji entered.
"Any customers yet Ken?" he asked as he approached the cashier counter. Ken shook his head sadly.
"Six o' clock, and we haven't sold as much as a fern." Omi sighed sadly too, and walked into a back room over to a gigantic plastic box they often used for growing purposes. He opened the package of seeds (luckily he had seen that there's a difference between pickling cucumber and regular to cucumber), looking at the instructions on the back. He was in shocked momentarily, to find that growing vegetables was not like growing flowers. He sowed the seeds an inch deep, and put the box in the sun. While he was getting out a watering can, Aya came into the back room and looked over his shoulder.
"How many days till harvest?" he asked in his usual monotone, which startled Omi.
"Umm...52," Omi said calmly. Aya raised an eyebrow, and his voice at the same time,
"It'll take that long?"
"It's not a flower...or house plant you know..."
Aya sighed and went back into the main room of the shop, with Omi in tow. Yohji was inspecting the dust in the cash register, and Ken was outside, trying to wave people down. Aya took a quick look at the empty cash register as the owner walked in with her little cat.
"Boys, don't bother coming into work tomorrow. You young ones deserve to have fun, not be miserable in a deserted shop," she sighed, and smiled her sweet old lady smile. Omi smiled back sadly, but Ken couldn't stand it.
"No, we can't give up yet! We'll stay here until the bank shuts us down!"
"But we need money Ken-kun..."Omi mumbled.
"Maybe it's time I took that part-time job coaching children's soccer..." Ken trailed off in reply.
"And, damn, maybe it's time I *have* to start tricking-"
"Yohji...no..."Aya glared frustratedly.
"But..."
"We don't need the part-time jobs yet...and even if we did...Omi would get one first,"Aya sighed.
"ME?! But why me?!"
"Because you're the cutest...you'd bring in the most tips!" Ken laughed, "I'm thinking ice cream shop waiter...or-"
"He could come to work with me!"Yohji threw in, smiling mischievously until Omi upper-cut him. Aya and Ken sweatdropped.
***
Later that night, Omi went online, praying that Nagi would be...but sadly, "Naoe" was not alight with signed in amazement. He must have been on a stupid mission for stupid Schwarz [Saotome-sensei:I love Schwarz! Omi's just POed^_^]. Omi sighed sadly, at his particularly strange and bad day, and began researching his new plant.
He soon found that this fly-trap...thing...wasn't anywhere in his database. He raised a thin eyebrow and searched the Internet frantically for ANYTHING about the plant. Nothing. Nothing at all. He searched ever search engine in existence...till five AM, and then gave up and moved to the couch, exhausted.
"Well," he started, whispering, " if it's an unknown plant...I might as well name it myself," He thought for a moment, until he was reminded of his thoughts earlier in the day. Cruel...but beautiful... He stood up triumphantly and announced to absolutely no one: "I'll call it... a Nagi II!"
***
The next day... the Nagi II wasn't looking as good. It was starting to wilt, and although he had proudly shown the plant to Ken that morning...he was starting to get angry at it by late afternoon.
He climbed the stairs to see if his comrades needed any help with the afternoon rush (*snickers*), only to find the same conversation from the day before taking place. This time was different though...
"And, Damn, I guess I *have* to-"
"Wait!" Ken interrupted, "Omi, go get your 'strange' and 'interesting' plant!"
Omi blinked and nodded, running downstairs.
"I have a plan," Ken smirked while they waited for Omi to return. Once he did, Ken pointed at it and spoke, "Now, isn't that bizarre?" Aya and Yohji nodded as Ken grabbed it and put it in the window. Yohji raised an eyebrow.
"Now what?" he asked.
"We wait for people to notice it and come in!"
"Ken, do you have any idea how stupid you sound? Just because you put a 'strange' and 'interesting' plant in the window, people don't just-" Aya was cut off by someone walking into the shop. Ken smiled to himself as the person said something about the "'strange' and 'interesting' plant", asked Omi where they got it, and ended up buying a huge amount of violets on their way out. Aya tried not to make eye contact...
***
Later that night...
Omi was trying to nurse his Nagi II back to health, instead of being online (*gasp!*), and failing. He had tried nearly everything, but it seemed this strange and interesting plant was very different...Omi was reminded of Nagi, and decided to take a break and go online. Luckily, Nagi was on tonight. Naoe says: Omi-kun! Where were you? I've been waiting for hours...
Omi says: Sorry...work stuff...
Naoe says: For Weiss, or the shop?
Omi says: The shop...where were you last night?
Naoe says: Mission.
Omi says: Aa...I got a cool plant the other day...I named it after you
Naoe says: Really?
Omi says: yep
Nagi smiled subtly to himself in his room. The others were asleep (thank goodness), and he was getting rather lightheaded from being up late so often, and not ever eating.
Omi says: actually...I better get back to nursing the plant back to health...
Naoe says: What's wrong?
Omi says: ...it's wilting...
Nagi sighed sadly, knowing somehow, Omi was referring to him as well.
Omi sighed and look around his desk for a note he had written to remind himself...of...something. His hand fumbled around until he found the extra sharp letter opener, and sliced his finger open.
Omi says: Itai! I've been wounded! T.T
Naoe says: You okay, Omi-kun?
Omi bit his lip as some dark crimson began staining his keyboard. He ran back to the table the plant was on, looking for a band-aid...only to see the plant's mouth opening and closing hungrily. He raised both thin eyebrows this time and the plant continued motioning to be fed.
"So now you want to eat..."Omi mumbled, grabbing some plant food. Strangely, the plant closed up when he brought the food over. Omi glared at it, as Nagi continued freaking out, thinking Omi had passed out from lack of blood and was dying in a pool of it...
Omi put the food away again, only to notice the plant opening up again...when his bleeding finger came close to it...He stared at his finger for a minute, then held it over the plant, which hungrily opened again. Rather shocked, he watched a drop of the dark red fall into the mouth, which enjoyed it's food immensely. Omi cringed.
"That's nasty!" he whispered. But the plant was still hungry, so he let another drop fall in. After that, it was content, but Omi was feeling sick...he wrapped up his finger and went back to the computer...Nagi was apparently in a fit of sobs by this time [Saotome-sensei: Scary thought o.o...*hugs Nagikins*], thinking his Koibito was dead, and he couldn't do anything to help.
Omi says: Nagi-kun...I'm fine...calm down
Naoe says: Omi-kun! You're alive! I was so worried!
Omi says: yeah...I'm alive...but this plant is really starting to freak me out...
A/N: That was my longest chapter so far in this fic!^_^ Yes...I know Nagi was a little OOC...but...how else could I have done it? Anyway...I'll continue to take suggestions too for later chapters...but until then...matta ne!^_^ Thanks to:
Jen- I'm glad you liked it^_^ It's fun to write! I'll tell you when I update this fic, or the other one further. I hope you enjoyed this last chapter too!
Kimiki- I hope your shift button is better now...and thanks for the review. It was a little strange (not that being strange is a bad thing^_^), but I LOVE long reviews anyway they come! Thanks so much, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter too!
Sita-chan- you're so nice to update your reviews with the chapters! It makes me feel so loved^_^ Thanks so much! I'll keep thinking about that Dr Farfie thing^_^....I hope you liked this chapter!
Little Shop of Hor- Hey! They're Not Too Bad Looking! What Is This? OR Little Shop of Bishonen By Sora Saotome Chapter Four
Omi took his new plant to a commercial nursery, and bought cucumber seeds...receiving many bizarre looks along the way. They kept looking at the plant, then looking at him like he must have been smoking leaves FROM the plant, or something.
On the way back to the shop, he look a good look at the plant, and realized that it had layers...At first, it looked vicious, and cruel. But once you looked at the neon green pod with baby blue veins and puce and dark yellow leaves; it was beautiful, in it's own special way (maybe he was smoking the leaves...).
He eventually arrived back at the still deserted flower shop, and ran downstairs to his room to put the plant away. Once he set it gently on his desk, next to his computer, he returned upstairs with the cucumber seeds.
"You get the seeds?" Ken asked, having not bothered to when the fifteen- year-old had run downstairs a moment ago.
"Yep, but..." Omi paused and looked around to make sure Aya wasn't around. It turned out to be just him and Ken, so he whispered, "don't you think this plan is kind of lame? I mean...a pickle?"
Ken shrugged and sighed, "It's his funeral, ne?" Omi nodded slowly, as Yohji entered.
"Any customers yet Ken?" he asked as he approached the cashier counter. Ken shook his head sadly.
"Six o' clock, and we haven't sold as much as a fern." Omi sighed sadly too, and walked into a back room over to a gigantic plastic box they often used for growing purposes. He opened the package of seeds (luckily he had seen that there's a difference between pickling cucumber and regular to cucumber), looking at the instructions on the back. He was in shocked momentarily, to find that growing vegetables was not like growing flowers. He sowed the seeds an inch deep, and put the box in the sun. While he was getting out a watering can, Aya came into the back room and looked over his shoulder.
"How many days till harvest?" he asked in his usual monotone, which startled Omi.
"Umm...52," Omi said calmly. Aya raised an eyebrow, and his voice at the same time,
"It'll take that long?"
"It's not a flower...or house plant you know..."
Aya sighed and went back into the main room of the shop, with Omi in tow. Yohji was inspecting the dust in the cash register, and Ken was outside, trying to wave people down. Aya took a quick look at the empty cash register as the owner walked in with her little cat.
"Boys, don't bother coming into work tomorrow. You young ones deserve to have fun, not be miserable in a deserted shop," she sighed, and smiled her sweet old lady smile. Omi smiled back sadly, but Ken couldn't stand it.
"No, we can't give up yet! We'll stay here until the bank shuts us down!"
"But we need money Ken-kun..."Omi mumbled.
"Maybe it's time I took that part-time job coaching children's soccer..." Ken trailed off in reply.
"And, damn, maybe it's time I *have* to start tricking-"
"Yohji...no..."Aya glared frustratedly.
"But..."
"We don't need the part-time jobs yet...and even if we did...Omi would get one first,"Aya sighed.
"ME?! But why me?!"
"Because you're the cutest...you'd bring in the most tips!" Ken laughed, "I'm thinking ice cream shop waiter...or-"
"He could come to work with me!"Yohji threw in, smiling mischievously until Omi upper-cut him. Aya and Ken sweatdropped.
***
Later that night, Omi went online, praying that Nagi would be...but sadly, "Naoe" was not alight with signed in amazement. He must have been on a stupid mission for stupid Schwarz [Saotome-sensei:I love Schwarz! Omi's just POed^_^]. Omi sighed sadly, at his particularly strange and bad day, and began researching his new plant.
He soon found that this fly-trap...thing...wasn't anywhere in his database. He raised a thin eyebrow and searched the Internet frantically for ANYTHING about the plant. Nothing. Nothing at all. He searched ever search engine in existence...till five AM, and then gave up and moved to the couch, exhausted.
"Well," he started, whispering, " if it's an unknown plant...I might as well name it myself," He thought for a moment, until he was reminded of his thoughts earlier in the day. Cruel...but beautiful... He stood up triumphantly and announced to absolutely no one: "I'll call it... a Nagi II!"
***
The next day... the Nagi II wasn't looking as good. It was starting to wilt, and although he had proudly shown the plant to Ken that morning...he was starting to get angry at it by late afternoon.
He climbed the stairs to see if his comrades needed any help with the afternoon rush (*snickers*), only to find the same conversation from the day before taking place. This time was different though...
"And, Damn, I guess I *have* to-"
"Wait!" Ken interrupted, "Omi, go get your 'strange' and 'interesting' plant!"
Omi blinked and nodded, running downstairs.
"I have a plan," Ken smirked while they waited for Omi to return. Once he did, Ken pointed at it and spoke, "Now, isn't that bizarre?" Aya and Yohji nodded as Ken grabbed it and put it in the window. Yohji raised an eyebrow.
"Now what?" he asked.
"We wait for people to notice it and come in!"
"Ken, do you have any idea how stupid you sound? Just because you put a 'strange' and 'interesting' plant in the window, people don't just-" Aya was cut off by someone walking into the shop. Ken smiled to himself as the person said something about the "'strange' and 'interesting' plant", asked Omi where they got it, and ended up buying a huge amount of violets on their way out. Aya tried not to make eye contact...
***
Later that night...
Omi was trying to nurse his Nagi II back to health, instead of being online (*gasp!*), and failing. He had tried nearly everything, but it seemed this strange and interesting plant was very different...Omi was reminded of Nagi, and decided to take a break and go online. Luckily, Nagi was on tonight. Naoe says: Omi-kun! Where were you? I've been waiting for hours...
Omi says: Sorry...work stuff...
Naoe says: For Weiss, or the shop?
Omi says: The shop...where were you last night?
Naoe says: Mission.
Omi says: Aa...I got a cool plant the other day...I named it after you
Naoe says: Really?
Omi says: yep
Nagi smiled subtly to himself in his room. The others were asleep (thank goodness), and he was getting rather lightheaded from being up late so often, and not ever eating.
Omi says: actually...I better get back to nursing the plant back to health...
Naoe says: What's wrong?
Omi says: ...it's wilting...
Nagi sighed sadly, knowing somehow, Omi was referring to him as well.
Omi sighed and look around his desk for a note he had written to remind himself...of...something. His hand fumbled around until he found the extra sharp letter opener, and sliced his finger open.
Omi says: Itai! I've been wounded! T.T
Naoe says: You okay, Omi-kun?
Omi bit his lip as some dark crimson began staining his keyboard. He ran back to the table the plant was on, looking for a band-aid...only to see the plant's mouth opening and closing hungrily. He raised both thin eyebrows this time and the plant continued motioning to be fed.
"So now you want to eat..."Omi mumbled, grabbing some plant food. Strangely, the plant closed up when he brought the food over. Omi glared at it, as Nagi continued freaking out, thinking Omi had passed out from lack of blood and was dying in a pool of it...
Omi put the food away again, only to notice the plant opening up again...when his bleeding finger came close to it...He stared at his finger for a minute, then held it over the plant, which hungrily opened again. Rather shocked, he watched a drop of the dark red fall into the mouth, which enjoyed it's food immensely. Omi cringed.
"That's nasty!" he whispered. But the plant was still hungry, so he let another drop fall in. After that, it was content, but Omi was feeling sick...he wrapped up his finger and went back to the computer...Nagi was apparently in a fit of sobs by this time [Saotome-sensei: Scary thought o.o...*hugs Nagikins*], thinking his Koibito was dead, and he couldn't do anything to help.
Omi says: Nagi-kun...I'm fine...calm down
Naoe says: Omi-kun! You're alive! I was so worried!
Omi says: yeah...I'm alive...but this plant is really starting to freak me out...
A/N: That was my longest chapter so far in this fic!^_^ Yes...I know Nagi was a little OOC...but...how else could I have done it? Anyway...I'll continue to take suggestions too for later chapters...but until then...matta ne!^_^ Thanks to:
Jen- I'm glad you liked it^_^ It's fun to write! I'll tell you when I update this fic, or the other one further. I hope you enjoyed this last chapter too!
Kimiki- I hope your shift button is better now...and thanks for the review. It was a little strange (not that being strange is a bad thing^_^), but I LOVE long reviews anyway they come! Thanks so much, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter too!
Sita-chan- you're so nice to update your reviews with the chapters! It makes me feel so loved^_^ Thanks so much! I'll keep thinking about that Dr Farfie thing^_^....I hope you liked this chapter!
