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¤ By: Telpelindewen ¤
¤ Chapter Three ¤
It was the night of the ball. Eros had picked up all the girls at Momiji's apartment. She had sent Kusanagi and the other guys away from them so that they could all get ready together.
Eros borrowed Kusanagi's camera and took several photo's of the finished touch. Momiji wore a green dress to bring out the color of Kusanagi's hair and her eyes. It did touch the ground, but it also made he look like a Spanish queen. Koume wore a white piece that didn't cover her shoulders but it covered everything to the knees. Sakura wore (no surprise) a black skimpy dress with her hair up, and dangling earrings down to her shoulders. Ryoko was the most stunning. She had pulled all of her hair back so that her whole face showed. She wore a silver dress that shimmered. It was a dress with a white piece then covered by something like light chain mail. The four of them looked like goddesses. Eros smiled when he snapped the shots.
"Come now. Your men are waiting." He drove them to the ball where a mansion was lit from top to bottom with streams of light. There was a bar, food, drinks, and dancing.
Tons of dancing.
Ryoko gasped at the chandeliers. They went over to hang up their coats. Ryoko had worn the coat that her silver rider had never taken back. He had forgotten to ask for it and each night since she had slept with it as her pillow.
Kusanagi and Yaegashi were waiting for Koume and Momiji and their eyes all but popped out of their heads when they saw their women walking down. Kusanagi's chin dropped only for Eros to tell him to put it back. He straightened up and kissed Momiji on the mouth and gave her a red rose which she snapped and then placed it in the slit in his suit so that he had a rose to wear. The two couples went off to dance while Ryoko, Koume and Eros stood watching. He acknowledged for them to get a drink but Ryoko refused and he looked at her.
"She's looking for her prince." Ryoko blushed and Eros nodded happily at Sakura's explanation.
He walked over to Ryoko and whispered in her ear, "Don't be surprised. Don't forget that you love him no matter what." He walked off with Sakura chatting.
She frowned at the matchmaker's words and headed towards the parking lot. She walked outside. Everything was pretty dim and she sat on a bench to see if anything would happen. The music could be heard from inside and she hummed along to the sound. She looked around and gasped at the sight of the silver motorcycle.
She jumped up and yelled at herself for not noticing it before. She walked over and sat on the seat wondering where its owner could be. She decided to walk back inside when she saw the Silver Belle helmet hanging on the rack next to the jacket that she had been lent. She walked over to it and snuck a hand inside her dress pulling out the blue rose that she had planned to give him tonight. It was very rare and beautiful. She stuck it inside the helmet.
She knew the he knew she was there and she walked back into the ball room. The lights had dimmed and she leaned against the wall watching all the dancers. There were single men looking at her form a distance asking with their eyes for a dance from her but she didn't look back. She wanted badly to see her silver rider. She looked at them all wondering if they could be him.
"Hey beautiful want to dance?" A man with disappointing blue eyes asked her. She agreed not seeing the point in waiting and walked out onto the dance floor with him.
She had been dancing for almost an hour with different partners when someone new butted in for a slow song.
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He placed the helmet in Momiji's hands and she smiled at him, "Sugishita this is the right thing to do. You can't have her guessing forever." He just nodded and headed inside. Holding the blue rose he found inside it, he placed it in the slit of his lapel.
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Ryoko was watching Sakura and Eros dancing and how Sakura was trying everything to get him to pay attention only to her. She sighed and then someone placed hands over her eyes. She smiled and turned around. To her disappointment it was Momiji. She noticed her frown.
"Expecting someone else?" Momiji laughed at her.
"Yeah." Ryoko said and looked at her friend.
"Well look who's here!" Momiji glanced towards Sugishita who was watching them from a far corner on the corner around the room. He was leaning against the pillar with one shoulder hidden. He nodded towards the two of them and Momiji waved.
Ryoko stared at his handsome form, "Hey he looks good." She said and Momiji laughed.
"I think that he likes you Ryoko." She said and Ryoko looked at her with wide eyes.
"Momiji the man likes anything with boobs and two legs." She said and looked away from him.
"Why don't you ask him to dance?" She said and bumped Ryoko.
"No thanks." She said but was dragged with her anyway across the floor past Kusanagi and an older couple. Kusanagi rolled his eyes at Momiji's matchmaking ways.
Momiji took them towards to where Sugishita was standing. Ryoko groaned and followed unwillingly.
"Hey Sugishita…" But he wasn't there. Momiji stood with her hands on her hips and looked around.
"Oh well then I guess I'll just go…" Ryoko started but she pushed her into a handsome man walking by.
"Oh hey excuse me… hey pretty lady would you like to dance?" Ryoko found herself stuck and she glared at Momiji but accepted the offer and walked out on the floor with the man.
"Smooth baby smooth." Kusanagi laughed from behind and Momiji smiled and stuck out her tongue. He walked towards her and got close.
"Do that again." He said and she did. To her surprise he captured her chin in his hand and kissed her exchanging tongues.
"Lets go dance."
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Momiji was dancing with Kusanagi when Sugishita tapped his shoulder. They switched dancing partners.
"Hey there!" She smiled.
"Did you tell her?!" He asked her and looked around. They didn't know it but Kusanagi was listening.
"I… I don't know how to tell her Momiji." He said guiltily.
"You'll think of something. The night's not even half over yet! Just have fun!" She said and they switched again.
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The music switched to a slow beat and Ryoko found herself face to face again with another dance partner. She sighed and looked at him hoping to find green eyes… but these were brown.
"Um… I'm sorry but I think I'll sit this one out." She said to the man but he frowned.
"Oh common another one won't hurt." He said and reached for her arm but someone stepped in between him and her.
"She's already promised this one to me." He said quietly and the other man glared angrily at Sugishita who was staring back without blinking.
"Thank you." She started but when she turned around she smiled, "Hey. I thought that you weren't going to come tonight. I though you had better things to do?" She laughed when he rolled his eyes. He held out his white gloved hand.
"Can I have this dance?" He asked and she looked warily at his hand.
"Oh common I don't bite… hard." He winked and she walked towards him to dance. It was the least she could do even though he was supposed to have saved her from dancing again.
To her surprise it felt rather familiar to be in his arms and she moved closer with her head bowed to his chest so that she looked at his right shoulder. She sighed.
"Hey Ryoko what's wrong? You seem…down?" He asked her.
"Nothing… well… have you ever been in love with someone that you didn't even know?" She asked him not looking up.
"Not with a stranger." He said and wrapped his arms slowly around her waist when she moved closer.
"It's just that you seem to be so… I don't know. It's just seems right to dance right now." She mumbled out the last few words before she got carried away and giggled to herself. She laid her head back down on his chest looking down at his feet dancing with hers.
"Stop that you'll make me loose my balance if I can't see my feet!" They laughed and Ryoko looked to the couple on her right.
She gasped.
There was a blue rose poking out of his lapel in his suit. It was freshly picked… by her hands.
"Oh my god." She let go and looked up at him while backing away and he tried to grab her but she slipped away, but not before she looked in his eyes and saw that they were green.
The same green eyes.
The same voice.
She recalled Eros' words…
Don't be surprised. Don't forget that you love him no matter what.
Don't be surprised. Don't forget that you love him no matter what.
Don't be surprised. Don't forget that you love him no matter what.
Don't be surprised. Don't forget that you love him no matter what.
"Ryoko wait… what's wrong?"
"Oh my god." She backed away and ran out the door to the parking lot.
He started to run after her but the crowd around him was closing in again and he lost sight of her. Then he noticed the blue rose and cursed himself.
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Sugishita cursed himself again. He had ruined it. He listened to Momiji and ruined the moment and the rest of his life. He saw her run and clenched his hands into fists. He had forgotten about the rose and took it now in his hands out of his suit.
He started to run towards one of the doors when he felt a hand on his shoulder.
It was the god.
"Cupid."
"Sugishita." He turned towards him.
"You knew." He stated to the god, the one person who would have the answer and he nodded.
"Everything happens for a reason Sugishita."
"It's ruined. Everything I have is gone now. She's gone."
"No, she's just scared." Sugishita glared at him.
"This ball… it was because of us wasn't it?"
"I don't think I need to answer that one Sugishita.
"I love her." He whispered.
"Then find her and show her, you're still her silver rider."
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After she had spent time with the Silver Belle she started to realized that this would be the first place someone would see her. Ryoko gasped and panted towards the beach she sank down to her knees into the sand. The moon showed brightly and the water was light up. She felt the shock in her heart. Her silver rider was in fact the one man that she had had so much trouble with in the past. But even though she had wished for the silver rider she knew that she loved Sugishita just as much.
It was a few minutes later when she smiled to herself and pressed her fingers to her lips. "Cookie dough." She whispered and headed back towards the mansion.
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Sugishita ran through the ballroom past a concerned Kusanagi and Momiji. He wandered outside and looked around. The motorcycle was still parked but it seemed to glow in the moonlight. He looked up at the moon and wondered where she could be. He knew he had torn her heart. Her dreams shattered. But he loved her so much.
He walked past the cars and turned down the road. He couldn't see her anywhere but knew that he had to find her. He grabbed his hair, "God damnit!" And then closed his eyes. He sank to the ground and laid his head in his arms. He was breathing hard but he heard something else.
"It sounds like crashing… waves." He looked to the right and saw the sand a few yards away and stumbled towards it.
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She wondered back into the ball room through a different entrance. She smiled at the thought of all the fighting that Sugishita and herself had done over the past two years. She wondered how she couldn't have noticed it. The silky hair, green eyes, and then the gloves. She continued to look for him in the crowd.
Sughishita couldn't find her anywhere. She wasn't in the water or on the sand, or in the parking lot. He sighed and knew that she must have returned home.
"Sughishita! Where are you going?" Momiji yelled at him as he mounted his bike and drove away. She sighed and then headed back inside to find Ryoko.
"Hey Momiji have you seen Sughishita?" Ryoko asked her almost despretly.
"Actually I just saw him leave moments ago." She said and Ryoko looked heart broken.
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Kusanagi slowed down to the apartment complex and let Ryoko off telling her where Sugishita's apartment was. Ryoko waved goodbye and she walked up to his door still in her ball gown and hair mussed from the wind and beach. She took a deep breath and knocked on his door. It took him a few minutes but he opened the door with his shirt off and biker pants still on.
"You jerk." She said bluntly.
"What…" he was definitely shocked to see her there.
"Why didn't you just tell me!"
"But I ah…" He stumbled as she pushed him backwards into the apartment. "Ryoko listen I'm sorry. I know that you were looking forward to some prince charming and it breaks me to see you like this I know that you wanted something more but I can't give you anything more because it's me… I am the silver rider and I'm sorry to break and rip your dreams apart and now I'm not sure what to do…"
He was stopped by her. She placed her finger on his lips and pressed down slightly. She looked into his eyes. "You are my prince charming." And he was shocked as she leaned towards him and kissed him as they had done not three nights before.
Ryoko smiled at his familiar taste and sweet smell. He pulled her more closely towards him and she strained to be even closer. She wrapped her arms around him to have him do the same. She started to tear when she realized that she had wanted this all along, that she did know in her heart that it was Sugishita who she loved.
He broke the kiss to kiss away her tears.
"Don't cry." He whispered in his voice.
"Sugishita you should have told me. I wouldn't have cared." He kissed her again and looked down at the goddess in his arms.
"But you ran away."
"I didn't know what else to do." She laid her head on his chest and he laid his chin on top.
"You look so beautiful tonight Ryoko." He whispered to her.
"I wore it for you." She blushed at her reply at he chuckled.
"Ryoko…" He sat up with her and noticed the flower still in his hand. She looked down and saw it too. He placed it behind her ear.
"Ryoko I have to tell you that I know…" But she silenced him again and this time with her lips. When she was finished she laughed at his swooning expression.
"Sugishita… I don't care who or what you are. You are the one that I fell in love with." She said and he looked into her eyes.
"I don't deserve you." He said to her and she laughed.
"But I deserve you." She said.
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Ryoko had fallen asleep on Sugishita on the couch. He smiled and then snuggled into sleep himself.
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Ryoko woke up with a start and looked around, "Where the hell am I?" She whispered aloud and then her mind flooded with memories of the day before. She smiled to herself when she realized that she was in his apartment. The sun was starting to come up and the curtains were open. She was in the dress slip from the night before and looked around to see her dress hanging on the closet door.
She walked over to it and traced the silver lines of it and then looked around the apartment. He was neat. He had a desk with a computer and a large bed. There was a large skylight above the bed and a mirror behind it. She fixed her hair and smoothened out her wrinkled slip. He had a couple shelves filled with different things like books and then awards, and then he also had a shelf full of picture frames. He seemed to be tidy and she walked over to the double sized closet. It was only half full of clothes and they were all firmly pressed.
She traced one of his clothes and then walked into the other room hoping to find him awake. She saw a small kitchen and another room where she thought she would find another bedroom but it was filled with tools and dirty towels and grease. A beautiful silver motorcycle was being worked on. It still looked like it needed a few parts but she thought it was great and wondered who it was for since he already had Belle.
He wasn't awake but asleep on the couch. He had untied his bowtie, and his suit jacket was hanging on a post near the door. He still had one of the gloves on. His white shirt was unbuttoned halfway and his shoes were off but everything else was on, well his pants were unbuttoned and she laughed to herself. It looked like he had tumbled on the couch.
The shoes were on the floor with one other pair of socks and she saw the biker jacket hanging next to his suit jacket. She went towards the open side of the couch and bent down on her knees next to him.
He was snoring softly and had one arm thrown behind his head and the other across his stomach. She leaned over and blew a soft breeze of breath across his bangs. He stirred and brushed them away and she almost laughed aloud with mirth.
He heard someone giggling and opened an eye. He saw her leaning over and laughing to herself and she didn't see him. He smiled and grabbed her waist making her land on him with a thud. She arranged herself so that she was face to face with him.
"Hullo my lovely." She said to him and he brought his hand up to her face. She frowned at the glove and grasped his hand in hers. He tried to get loose from her grip but she held him firmly.
"Sugis stay still!" She laughed and nibbled his fingertips to remove the glove. She succeeded and she bit the pad of his thumb. He watched her as she was fascinated with his hand. She turned it over and he heard her gasp.
"Oh my… this looks painful." She said and acknowledged the bruise over his knuckles, "This is my fault." She pouted towards him and he brushed his knuckles against her cheek.
"No it's not. I can't feel it anymore anyway." He said and then winced when she pressed her teeth against it.
"Uh huh… can't feel it… right." She laughed at him and got up and headed towards his packed kitchen. She got a bag and some ice and walked back where he was sitting on the couch.
She sat next to him and held the ice on his hand.
"Sugishita why didn't you sleep in the bed?" She asked him and he blushed.
"Well I uh…" She laughed.
"You do that quite often these days." She said at his hesitations.
He smiled, "Well then I guess you'll have to fix that." She moved now so that she was facing him while he sat. She straddled him in between her legs and the ice was forgotten.
"Hmm… I guess I will." It was long before they noticed the ice had melted.
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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!!!!