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¤ By: Telpelindewen ¤
¤ Chapter Two ¤
Ryoko walked into the team building the next morning refreshed and frustrated. She was extremely happy with meeting the stranger and then again she was mad that she didn't discover his true identity. She walked in with papers in her arms and noticed Kusanagi sitting on the couch talking with Matsudaira. Yaegashi was talking with Momiji about the ball and Daitetsu with Koume. She didn't see Sugishita or Sakura anywhere near.
"Hey guys." She said and then was brushed by Sakura.
"Well you look mighty happy!" Sakura pondered out loud. Momiji and Kusanagi looked at each other. Momiji had refused to tell Kusanagi who the bike rider was and he was trying to figure it out on his own.
"Well she should be. She had a ride home with a motorcycle man last night." Kusanagi told them all. Ryoko blushed.
Sakura looked at her with a smiled, "Oh la la. So who is he?" She asked and watched as Ryoko shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know. He never took off his helmet." She said and Momiji smiled to herself.
"Well didn't you ask his name?!" Sakura asked and Koume too.
"Well I did…" Sugishita walked into the room and yawned. He was wearing jeans and a nice white crisp shirt.
"Go on." Koume prompted.
"What's going on?" He asked them all.
"Ryoko had stranger take her home last night." Sakura blurted excitingly.
"Not that it's any of his business." Ryoko said.
"Hey don't worry. It's not like I care." He turned to walk away and Kusanagi rolled his eyes sensing another brawl between the two coming around. "Besides he was probably some fucked up drug addict." He went and got himself coffee instead of tea.
"Why do you have to trash everything. It's as if nothing is good enough for you. He was not! He was nice and sweet and a pure gentleman! Unlike you" She stood up for her mystery man.
He didn't show it but the comment stung. He turned towards her with a grin, "Oh and I suppose he was romantic as well?" He said rolling his eyes.
Ryoko glared, "He was."
"So you learned all of this in the one car ride home?" He asked leaning arrogantly against the door frame.
"It wasn't a car… it was a motorcycle. Besides…" but she was interrupted.
"Right and you have no idea who or what he was like. So don't stick up for him." He turned towards Daitetsu ready to work but she wasn't finished.
"Don't tell me what to do or say Sugishita. This man was a gentleman! He was much more of a man then you'll ever be. And guess what! I learned that all in the one hour that I knew him." She stormed out and into the parking lot where she could get some fresh air.
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"Jesus Sugis. You really know how to bring out the worst in her." Kusanagi said from the couch.
"Yeah I know." He walked slowly towards the parking lot and headed out in the other direction from where Ryoko stood leaning against the company car. He walked towards the beach and flopped down on the sand. He heard someone come up behind him. He turned to see Momiji walking down with something in her hand.
"Hey Sugis." She smiled. He frowned hoping to be alone.
"What do you have there Momiji?" He asked picking up a stick and playing in the sand.
"Sugishita. I know that it was you."
He looked up suddenly and she nodded.
"How. I keep her so well hidden." He whispered.
"I know. But I saw you once. I was driving along and was stopped at a red light and you pulled up next to my car and took off your helmet to wipe your face. But don't worry I won't tell anyone." He looked at her waiting for more.
"I know you have something up your sleeve Momiji."
She nodded, "There is a condition to your secret." She told him and he frowned, "You have to go." And she held out the invitation.
"No."
"Sugishita…don't go as yourself. Go in as your biker stuff. Ryoko will be there. I mean you don't even have to walk inside. Just show up and be outside or something. I think that she's in love with you." Momiji sat on the ground next to him.
He turned his face away, "She's in love with the silver rider, not me. If she knew that it was me she would freak out. Trust me." He said with dread.
"Well I won't tell. But I think that you eventually should." She left the invitation and walked back to the building where Kusanagi waited.
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Koume was with Ryoko and Momiji. They had finished shopping for their dresses at the local mall and had arranged for Yaegashi to rent a suit for the ball. They were talking about the whales that Momiji and Kusanagi had saw at the beach.
"So Ryoko are you in love or what?" Koume blurted at her daze.
"I won't lie to you Koume. I am madly and truly in love." She whispered.
"But you don't even know him!" Momiji said to her.
"But I do. I really do." She said and sipped her soda.
After a few minutes had passed a motorcycle passed by and they all turned to see a red motorcycle gang. Fat old farts.
"Do you think that he'll be there?" Ryoko sighed.
Momiji nodded, "He'll be there."
"Well I think that if he is… he'll die for you in that dress." Koume said teasingly.
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It had been a week since Ryoko had gotten a ride from her mystery man. She started to wear sneakers everyday so that she could walk home. Hoping for a glimpse of him along the way. But he never came.
She was about to except a ride from Koume but decided against it and walked home instead. She wanted to enjoy the breeze. She realized that she wasn't ever going to see him again. She wiped the tear away and walked down the streets.
When Ryoko was about halfway there she heard a noise like a motorcycle and looked back to see four of them coming her way. She knew that it wasn't the Silver Belle when she heard them for the Belle had a softer sound. Almost muffed.
She prayed that the bikers where just old nice men and that they would leave her alone. She sighed when they passed her but then perked when they stopped. She continued walking and they turned back, only two this time.
"Hey there pretty lady. Want to come take a ride?" He asked patting his lap.
"No thank you." She smiled and continued to walk but then stopped to ask them.
"Hey I was wondering. Do you know a man who rides a motorcycle called the Silver Belle?" The men looked confused and stopped their engines.
"Why no, but maybe I can be of service." Ryoko stared as the man reached for his zipper in his pants.
"No thank you." She walked away faster this time only to be chased by the two men. She ran from them and in between two buildings as they came after on their bikes. She could hear the other two cycles coming back in the distance.
She ran into a wall which had her trapped in some dark ally by a recycling factory near the beach. She looked for an escape when the two men came towards her.
She reached in her purse for her gun and took it out with shaking hands. She held it towards them and they froze. "Don't move. I'll shoot you!" She said afraid.
"Common lady we just want a fuck. Don't you want to give a pity fuck?" He asked. He was huge, he leaned at least a foot taller then her. She pointed the gun to the ground and shot out near his foot and the gun clicked. She had forgotten to refuel it with bullets and she gulped as the two men pumped forward with laughter.
"Someone help!" She screamed as they grabbed her wrists and threw her purse to the ground. "Take my money and go!" She yelled at them.
"I already told you lady I need to spend myself, not green paper." He grinned and straddled her in between his legs. She fought to think and she let her weight sink to the ground. He wasn't able to hold her up and had to loosen his grip. This was a mistake.
He grimaced in pain as she hit him square in the groin and hit the other man with her fist and ran for it. She was almost to the road when she hit the ground and had the breath knocked out of her. She was crying with the tears streaming down her face. The man pulled on her hair.
"You little bitch!" He took out a small knife and held it to her throat. "Now hold still while I fuck you. You little cunt. Stay still." He pressed it into her neck.
She froze when she felt the cold of the blade. She wanted to die. She had tears steaming down her face wishing that she had carried bullets with her and that she had never decided to walk home.
She felt the man pull at her clothes. He had he jacket off and ripped her shirt. She tried to scream, but his dirty hand covered her mouth. She heard more motorcycles coming closer, and she dreaded the thought that they would all take their share of her. She was about to give up when the man got off her and she curled into a little ball. She didn't know why he had stopped but she was glad and stood up.
She heard the oofs and gasps of raged breath. She looked up from her bruised ribs and saw in the shadows the silver motorcycle and two men at her feet with bloodied faces. She looked up and saw her mystery man standing with his usual outfit and open arms to her.
She ran to him crying and he removed a glove to hold her head in his hand and to soothe her. He walked her back towards his cycle and placed her on top of it so that they could leave before the other two men woke up.
They had driven only a few minutes and onto the beach where he lifted her up and sat her down on the sand and in the total darkness.
She wanted to see his face but there wasn't any light. She felt him sit beside her and he reached out to hold her once again to stop her from crying.
"It's alright." He had removed his helmet and she could hear his voice. But it seemed as if he had disguised it somehow. She grabbed his shirt front as he leaned her head on his chest.
"I'm sorry." She said to him and looked up in the darkness hoping to see him but she couldn't. Not even the moon was out.
"It's alright. I'm just sorry I didn't stop sooner. Those bastards." She reached for his hand and felt him grip tightly. After a few minutes Ryoko removed both his gloves and held his hands. It had been a horrible night… but it seemed to be changing for the better.
"You shouldn't have been walking home alone." He said to her and winced when she touched his bruised knuckles.
"I wanted to see you again." She whispered the truth to the dark.
He didn't say anything for a while but then he pressed his lips to the tip of her head and then told her, "Don't walk alone at night anymore. I will see you again. But I don't take that road home." He said to her.
She traced her hand from his hand up to his arm and then to his neck where she felt his hair. It was silky and blowed quietly in the wind. She wanted to see him badly. She knew that she would not tonight though.
"Tell me." And she felt him shake his head.
"It wouldn't be wise." He whispered to her and went to stand.
"Please don't leave yet." She said and felt him shift back down to his sitting position.
She placed her hand on his shoulder and found the other hand wondering over his face. She traced his head to the length of his hair, to his eyes, his nose, and then she brushed her finger tips along his lips and she felt them soft to the touch. She sighed and leaned closer. She was so close that she could feel his breath and she wondered if he wanted to kiss her. If he even knew that she wanted it.
She was inches from his lips and he drifted closer. She bit her lip in the dark and summed up all her courage. She surged forward and had her lips connected with his. She waited for the rejection but it never came. She found him kissing her back.
Ryoko had kissed not a ton but some men in her life and some of them were good kissers. God, he's good. She thought to herself. She knew that he was the best man that she had ever kissed.
He thought she was just as sweet. She wrapped her arms around his neck in the dark barley breathing through out the whole experience. Somehow she knew that she would treasure this moment forever and that she would soon enough see her knight in silver amour.
He broke it and felt Ryoko sigh with deep satisfaction.
"You taste good." She said dreamily.
"Really, like what?" He was lucky that he remembered to hide his voice.
"Like cookie dough." She said.
"Well I'm… flattered." He laughed. He smiled in the dark knowing that he was falling madly in love with her. More than he was already. They kissed again. This time he felt her slide her tongue in uncertain he wanted her to. He loved her shyness and kissed her deeply back.
He barely broke the kiss to wrap his own arms around her waist and slide his hand down to cup her breast through her shirt to find that her shirt was shredded and almost not there at all.
"Damn those assholes." He gasped at her cold skin where her bra was not seen but felt clearly through her shredded shirt.
"Huh?" She asked dazed and then when he told her that they had killed her shirt she covered her chest with her arms. But see didn't worry for it was too dark to see anything at all. She could see a slight dim outline of him, but just barely. He slipped his heavy jacket on her and kissed her bare shoulder and then her lips once more. He reached for his helmet and placed it on his head. He pressed the button on his keys to the cycle and the rear lights went on. She held her hand in front of her eyes from the bright light and looked up at him. He was wearing a black shirt with a tie and different jeans then before. To her dismay his helmet was already on and she held his hand as they walked towards the bike.
On the ride home Ryoko went over the night in her head as she wrapped her arms around him from behind and almost fell asleep on him. He remembered her address and drove more silent then before to her apartment. She got off the bike and stood wit him in front of her door. She peered into the closed visor to see a bare sight of eyes. She bit her lip and took his gloved hand in hers rubbing it along her cheek.
"I'm so glad that I found you." She whispered to him.
"Ryoko, close your eyes." She knew that it wasn't time for her to see him just yet and she nodded. She closed her eyes and with her hands she helped him take off his helmet.
He grabbed her suddenly and they kissed passionately on her apartment doorstep. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he lifted her off the ground. She squealed and kept her eyes shut for yet another kiss.
He had a hard time leaving her. But he knew that he had too. He placed her down and kissed her hand.
"I will see you."
"When?"
He felt his pocket to where the ball invitation lay, "Soon."
With that he walked away kissing her eye lids.
She didn't open her eyes until she heard the bike roar away from the complex and then sighed.
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"Oh my god. So he saved you!" Ryoko nodded at Momiji's quip. Koume and Sakura where all sitting with her on the couches at TAC two days later talking about the ball and Ryoko's savor.
"Did you kiss him?" Sakura asked bluntly.
Ryoko blushed and no more needed to be said, "REALLY?" Koume asked and Momiji smiled softly.
"I am in love. I'm telling you I don't care who he is I love him!" Ryoko was practically shouting when Kusanagi and Sugishita walked in at the same time.
Today they were both wearing gloves and staring strangely at Ryoko who had been yelling and laughing with the other girls.
"What the hell is going on here?" Kusanagi wondered over and Sugishita walked over towards the girls where Ryoko and him exchanged glares.
"Ryoko was telling us about her… amazing adventure about two nights ago." Momiji said looking at Sugishita's reaction as he perked.
"Whatever." They both said.
"Oh you two! You aren't any fun." Koume said.
"Hey Sugis, what's with the gloves?" Sakura asked noticing the gloves that he wore.
He placed his hands behind his back, and she prodded further, "Well?"
"I'm just cold alright, Jesus, mind your own business." He walked away and into the other room.
"What's got his pants in a twist?" Koume said looking after him.
"Who the hell cares. He's a brat." Ryoko said under her breath.
Kusanagi sat down next to Momiji and the girls started to get up when they saw the romantic looks in their eyes.
Ryoko headed to where Yaegashi worked on the computers filing different similarities between all the Aragami monsters that they had been attacked by. She saw Sugishita standing by the window. He was dazed and holding his hand as if he had been hurt.
"Oh hey Ryoko." Yaegashi smiled from the computer.
"Hey." She walked over towards the window, "Is it winter or something?" She asked Sugishita.
"No." He didn't turn around.
"That was supposed to earn a rude comment in return. What's wrong with you? You haven't fought with me in a week or so." She said to him.
He turned around and his lips were taught, "Maybe I've grown up then." He said.
She glared at him, "What's that supposed to mean? That I haven't?!" She started to get angry when he shook his head.
"No. I'm sorry if it sounded like that. I mean to say that I don't have anything against you so why can't we be friends?" He asked and looked up at her.
She stared at his green eyes. She thought that they were beautiful and then shook her thoughts when she realized that she was thinking of her silver rider again. She shook his gloved hand and laughed, "Sure! Why not." Yaegashi stared at the two people who hated each other the most shaking hands on a truce.
"What is this world coming to?"
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DISCLAIMER
All the characters appearing in Blue Seed are copyright of someone else. No infringement of these copyrights is intended, and is not authorized by the copyright holder. All original characters in The Silver Shine Series - Blue Seed are the creations and the property of Telpelindewen. Even if they are out of character.
BLAH!!!!