The Bride
Author: Silhouette
Email: silhouette_panther@msn.com
Genre: Romance, Alternate Universe
Pairing: Rukawa X OC (Shinya Hiiragashi)
Disclaimer: Slam Dunk does not…. blah (I mean, everybody knows it, right?)
Chapter 4
But he did not love me. She tensed at this thought.
Rukawa felt it and opened his eyes.
Shinya gasped, feeling his arm pull her yet closer, "Morning." He greeted, with the same blank, bored look. "Eh, eh, Morning." she replied flustered, "If you don't mind, I … I er, I shall change into my morning clothes and… and go for breakfast."
She stammered and nearly kicked herself. What are you doing, stammering? You are not one to be petrified of this stupid iceberg man! Rukawa could feel her uneasiness and smiled inwardly, she's simply adorable and he knew that he would enjoy teasing her. Shinya tried to get off the bed but found that she was still bound to him. "Er, Rukawa, your hands…" She squirmed a little when he moved his hands in a massaging motion on her waist, "T…that tickles. Eh, I need to go…" Shinya flushed.
"First name." Rukawa looked on amused at the little lady who was now beet red. Hmm…she smelt of sweet jasmine flowers.
"Huh?"
"Call me Kaede." It wasn't like an introduction, but more like a command.
"Ka…Kaede." She squeaked in an undertone, still trying to wriggle away from his hold, "If y…you don't mind I need to go."
What? I thought this man's supposed to be aloof and cold? And who is the person who said that he was emotionless? Just looking at his moves I would reckon he's a kin to Sendoh-san. What is he doing, mocking me?
An unknown rage rose up in her and she started pushing at the man who was still holding onto her like a Koala-bear. "You oaf! Let me go! I'm not going to stay here for another minute with you!" Rukawa merely closed his eyes like a cat and snuggled up to her, seeming to enjoy the struggling little thing in his embrace. Shinya bit her lips in frustration, he sure annoys the hell out of me, she promised herself. With one swift motion she –
Rukawa felt an acute pain in his shins, shit, the woman kneed me? He cursed silently, and loosening his hold onto her.
Grabbing this chance, Shinya rolled off the bed and ran off into the changing room. Rukawa sat up in bed, massaging his injury, while grinning away (A/N: ???!!! Oh no I'm getting carried away again. This is too OOC to be true.), before resuming his cool façade again. This little woman sure has the guts. Interesting. Very interesting.
* * *
Shinya stared stupidly at the two old couples at the table. Mr. Rukawa (Kaede's father) spoke up first, "So… how was your night?" She turned crimson and turned to stare at her husband, her eyes wide. Kaede raised an eyebrow suggestively and replied, "Well, it was… pleasant." Instantly the rest of the table broke out into loud guffaws as Rukawa's siblings started laughing and cheering (A/N: Well you don't think Rukawa stays with only his parents and grandparents in that huge mansion do you?). Shinya could have dug a hole in the ground and stay there permanently. Kaede made it sound so…so…intimate, but the fact was that they did nothing at all. She started, "Actually, we…" "Had a great time." Kaede popped in, earning peals of more laughter and giggles from his family. The elders smiled at each other, comforted. It was rather rare that Kaede gets into good moods like this, he even sound jovial. So hence proved, he must have one hell of a good time with his little wife last night. (A/N: God, I sound like a Hentai.)
* * *
"Oh my goodness, Kaede, I can't believe you told them t..that." She half-shrieked at the man coolly sipping on his coffee in the garden, reading the papers calmly. The family had wisely left them alone and all of a sudden all of them had something on and they had to leave the house, much to Shinya's irritation. Kaede cocked an eyebrow at the flustered woman, "Tell what?"
"T…that we had a 'pleasant' time!" She screamed, turning red again. Boy, it embarrassed her even to talk about it, "But we did nothing at all!"
"Why, you sound unhappy about that," He bore a tiny smile, and Shinya thought that looked perfectly devilish, "Do you really want it that much?" He leaned closer to her, examining her expression closely. To his satisfaction she blushed redder than she already was as she jumped up, "W…who wants it! I'm not speaking to you any more." It was a flurry of black hair as she turned and ran into the house. Kaede thought he smelt the aroma of jasmines.
* * *
"Fire! Fire!" A shrill voice screamed, piercing the serenity of the air. Shinya ran to the source of the scream and saw that the kitchen was on fire. "Oh my god!" She gasped, and turned …to bump into a brick wall. Ok, it was Kaede. "Kaede! Get the boys here!" She shoved him aside and wrenched a fire extinguisher from the wall savagely. She dashed right into the scene of fire and started to put out the flames herself. "Shinya!" Rukawa actually felt worried, what if she gets hurt? "Now Kaede get the boys here right now unless you want to burn down the house!" She shrieked, still putting out the fire. "They are here." Did she think nobody hear that high-pitched wailings of the maid? "What are you oafs sticking around for?"
After another 15 minutes, the fire was put out. Shinya wiped the soot from her face and smiled in relieve. Despite the black markings over her face, Kaede felt she never looked more desirable, but his tongue defied his thought, "Next time you want to kill yourself, tell me."
"All right, so the next time an emergency happens, I shall sit aside and watch your house crumble into bits." She shot back at him sarcastically. Kaede felt the corner of his lips twitching, this woman is so… Before he could say anything in retortion she had started to manipulate the things destroyed in the fire. "Let's see…the pots are black, throw 'em out. Get another set of cutlery. Now the fridge is the cause of everything, sack it. Change the wires, no, get a couple of electricians to change the wirings…"
Kaede never felt luckier in his life.
* * *
"You mean, she just jumped into the fire herself and start to put it out like that?" Sendoh asked, amazed. Rukawa nodded simply.
Maki: "You are one hell of a lucky bastard, Rukawa."
Sendoh: "That's my line."
Kogure: "She's one courageous lady, Shinya is."
Mitsui: "My sister would have screamed and ran to the furthest corner of the garden."
Kaede felt pride bubbling in his stomach but he kept a straight face, "She was calculating the losses right after the fire." He shook his head in exasperation.
Kiyota: "She's the mistress of the house and she was bothering about stuff like that?"
Uozumi: "You are one hell of a lucky bastard, Rukawa."
* * *
There is no way I am going to let him touch me the way he did last night. Shinya thought, coming out of the bath. Rukawa was not in the room yet, she could see, "Kaede can hug the pillows tonight."
Someone grabbed her from the back and she screamed.
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