Title: Loving You
Author: Seraph_Kirin
Pairing/s: HanaFujii, brief mentions of YasuHaru, RuHana???, SenHana???
Rating: PG
Status: On-Going
Genre: Multi-Chaptered
Chapter: 4/?
Email: seraph_kirin@hotmail.com
Disclaimers: All disclaimers apply.
Archive: None. It'll be posted on fanfiction.net and fandomination.net
though so if you want it, you can take it for your site. Just tell me first
okay? (although I seriously doubt that anyone would take this anyway...)
Author's Notes: This is in answer to Wowie's fic request. Please note that this story contains a great deal of sugar... and angst, now that I think about it... People who are strongly allergic to sugar and bitterness contrasting so "dramatically" are advised to keep away from this fic.
Short synopsis: Hanamichi says 'Yes' to Fujii.
Therefore, so, ladies and gentlemen, on with the fic!
Legend... If you have read the previous chapters, you should remember... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- Act 1, Scene 4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------
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"Have you ever wondered which one hurts more: saying (doing) something and wishing you had not, or saying (doing) nothing and wishing you had?" -Unknown
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One week later...
Sakuragi lay on his back at the grassy area behind his classroom with Youhei.
"So... you agreed to go out with her?"
"Uh huh." Sakuragi stared up at the sky, pondering... god knows what.
"..." Youhei sighed and turned on his side to look at his friend. "You could sound just a LITTLE more enthusiastic, y'know?"
"Hm."
"..." Youhei gave up. Hanamichi, for some reason, was not reactive to his probing.
Truth to tell, he WAS a little curious about why Hanamichi changed his mind in such a short period of time but knowing his friend's character...
Youhei snuck a look at the oblivious redhead and sighed once more.
...It definitely wasn't going to be easy dragging that tale outta him.
Footsteps sounded on the concrete pathway to the area where Sakuragi and his Gundam usually hung out. The steps went silent somewhere near them, as if the person was looking for some one, then it started again and soon closed in on the corner and rounded the corner to reveal...
... Fujii.
"Sakuragi-kun?" Fujii was still shy of Sakuragi's Gundam even though she now knew that they were not as fearsome as the rumours proclaimed them to be.
"Hai?" Sakuragi sat up. "Fujii-san?"
"Sakuragi-kun, I..." She flushed a deep red.
Youhei noted the colour briefly and knew that Fujii was going to take off soon if no action was taken, on Sakuragi's part that is.
"Fujii-san, is something the matter?" Sakuragi smiled at her, willing her NOT to bolt like a frightened child.
Then he noted that she appeared very unwillingly to bring her hands forward, as if she was holding something that she was debating inwardly to give him or not. "What have you got there?"
"..." Fujii went a deeper red than what was possible on most humans. She brought out the thing that she had kept hidden up till now most reluctantly and held it out. "I... I... I made a bento box for you this morning and... and..."
Flushing even redder (if that was probable, given the shade her face already was), she pushed the bento box into Sakuragi's hands and ran off, obviously assuming in some part of her mind that werewolves (or the like) were after her. Running round the corner, she bumped into the rest of the Sakuragi Gundam.
"Isn't this Fujii-san?" Takamiya caught her, preventing her fall. "Daijobu?"
"Don't you want to eat with us?" Ookusu invited.
Fujii waved their well-meaning concerns off. "Arigatou... but I really have to go. Ja!"
The three Gundam members watched her run off, looked at each other and shook their heads simultaneously. Then they turned and continued on their merry way to the spot, carrying their precious loads of food.
The first thing they saw when they turned the corner was a certain Hanamichi fingering a bento box. They looked at each other, at Hanamichi and back again and they... grinned.
"Sakuragi..." Anozumi said, still grinning.
"What have we here?" Ookusu stared at the bento box in Sakuragi's hands.
"Let's celebrate!" Takamiya took out the dust-covered party things and threw a few to the other two who were already starting to dance inanely.
"Guys... GUYS!" Youhei cast a worried look at Sakuragi, for fear that the redhead might flare up and bestow upon them his infamous head butts. His fears were unfounded, as the red head was studying the bento box as if it were the most fascinating thing on Earth.
"... Hanamichi?"
Aware that they were in no mortal danger, the three jokers of the Gundam started towards the red head with grins that revealed their ill intentions...
...Only to be stopped by Youhei, who shook his head, warning them off the unpredictable re head.
Realising that they were not wanted here, and seeing that Youhei wanted to speak to Hanamichi privately, the Gundam hesitated, looked at each other, and decided to retreat, for the moment. They disappeared around the corner of the building in a thrice.
Youhei walked to that same corner and peeked around it, his experience with the Gundam having taught him that double-checking whether those three were gone COMPLETELY absolutely did not hurt in the least.
And right he was in doing so, because once he rounded the corner, he found the three stooges hiding themselves *just* behind it.
"Ehehehe..." Three sheepish faces looked up at Youhei's glowering face. "You caught us..."
"The way back to the classroom is that-a-way." Youhei pointed down the said path.
The three stooges got up, stumbling over each other to get away. "Ehehehe... see you two in class, ne?"
"GOODBYE." Youhei waited for the sounds of their retreating footfalls to fade completely before heading back to where Sakuragi was.
"...Hanamichi? Youhei sat down beside the redhead.
"..." Sakuragi continued fingering the bento box, slowly running his fingertips over the smooth edges of the said box.
Youhei's patience was at an end.
He was just about to grab the redhead's collar to shake what was bothering him so much out of him when the red head finally spoke up.
"Did you see her hands?"
"Her hands?" Youhei stopped in mid-grab. Sakuragi's words had caught him off guard.
"Yes, her HANDS." Sakuragi emphasized the last word.
Youhei sank back down onto the grass and thought back to the hesitation filled scene a mere 5 minutes ago. "...No, why? Is anything wrong with them?"
Hanamichi looked up, meeting the eyes of his bemused friend for the first time that day. "... They were bandaged."
Youhei started. "Oh."
He watched Hanamichi lower his head once more. "Oh."
Sakuragi set the bento down, his agitation showing. "I shouldn't be doing this to her. I should walk right up to her now and just-"
"Hanamichi." Youhei laid a calming hand on his friend's arm. "Calm down."
"Calm down?!" Sakuragi barked a short, sarcastic laugh. "Ha! I AM calm. There's no other person in the world that is calmer than I am right now. Hell, I can even-"
"Hanamichi." This time, Youhei's voice was laced with a subtle force, deliberately pressing for the red head's attention.
Sakuragi looked at Youhei. Although he had forced himself to calm down, his inward panic could still be seen.
Hail the person who said the eyes were the windows to one's soul.
Youhei met Sakuragi's eyes unflinchingly. "You CANNOT just do that to her. You're already in this too deep."
Sakuragi shook his head in frustration, lacing his fingers through his hair. "I KNOW! You think I don't? Every time she does something nice for me- " He glared at the bento box lying innocuously on the grass. "-Like THAT for an instance, I just can't help but-"
"You chose this path the moment you said 'Yes' to her." Youhei interrupted ruthlessly.
He wasn't here to listen to Hanamichi bitch to him about his feelings.
Hell, Hanamichi might be intimidating but in the end, the world doesn't just revolve around him.
Hanamichi has had many home truths waiting in line for him for a VERY long time... and now was a good time as any to finally speak to him about it.
"Hanamichi, you're just being selfish." Youhei rushed on, heedless of the red head who chose to freeze at that moment. "At the end of the day, you're just being a hypocrite. You say that you would never 'go out' with Fujii - look where you are now. You say you don't want to hurt her - Hell, from the moment you told her 'Yes', you'd already started the process to getting her hurt by you just so you can salvage your own pride and ego. You have a lot of consideration for her feelings, that I admit, but that isn't enough. It would never be enough. You, of all people, should know that."
Youhei, finally finishing what he had wanted to say, stopped to take a deep breath. "And you-"
"Enough."
Youhei stopped in mid-sentence, his mouth gaping open at the sudden close to his one-sided conversation.
"Enough..."
Youhei sighed, and patted the back of his forlorn friend, who now had buried his face on his knees like a child.
Silence reigned between the two friends.
"... Youhei."
"Ah?"
"If it were you... what would you do?"
"..."
"TELL me."
"...Hanamichi." Youhei forced the redhead's head up. "Look at me."
"..."
"LOOK AT ME, DAMN IT!"
Sakuragi looked up, defiance etched clearly in his eyes.
Youhei looked at his friend with something akin to sympathy. "Hanamichi, I Am Not You. I cannot make your decisions for you. You've gotta learn to live with your decisions, whether they are the right choices to choose or not. And no, "Youhei added, frowning at the said red head. "Puppy eyes don't work either. You should know that I was never a sucker for puppy eyes."
Sakuragi pushed away Youhei's hands, resigned. "I know." Inhale. Exhale. "I know." He fiddled with his thumbs. "Sendoh told me almost the exact same thing."
Youhei's ears pricked up. "Sendoh?"
Sakuragi nodded. "Sendoh. As in Sendoh Akira of Ryonan High."
"I knew it." Youhei muttered. "I just KNEW that SOMETHING must've happened to make you change your mind so quickly about Fujii."
"I happened to bump into him near the old park near my house, after we parted ways."
"When did this happen?"
Sakuragi shrugged. "On the day Fujii confessed to me?"
"So what's he got to do with Fujii?"
"I talked to him about it." Pause. "He was VERY HELPFUL."
Sakuragi's sarcasm did not go unnoticed. Youhei raised an eyebrow, indicating his disbelief. "And that talk... totally changed your mind about Fujii?"
"Shaddup." Sakuragi was not in the best of moods.
"Seriously, if you didn't want this to happen in the first place, why DID you choose to make it happen?"
Hanamichi could not bring himself to answer that seemingly simple question. His reasons had been too despicable for himself to speak of even now. How he wished that the ground would just open and swallow him up, leaving no trace of him upon this earth and thereby, solving all his problems for him.
"Nothing to say, eh?" Youhei arched an eyebrow.
"..."
"Lemme guess then..." Youhei assumed the "Thinking Man" pose. "... Because... you wanted to get Haruko jealous over you and Fujii?"
Bingo!
Youhei was undoubtedly the person who knew Hanamichi best.
Hanamichi growled and threw a punch in Youhei's direction.
Youhei, having anticipated the move, deflected the blow easily and, in the blink of an eye, scooted as far away as he could get from the red head.
Hanamichi would've continued in pursuing Youhei... if the bell signalling the end of lunch break had not chosen to go at that moment.
"Come on..." Youhei smiled slightly. "We gotta go back to class."
"Ah."
"Y'know something?"
"What?"
"You sound more like Rukawa day by day."
"NANDA?!"
" 'S true. You've even gotten your own one-liners now!"
"Youhei! Take that back!"
"You just didn't realize, did' ya? How many times you've used one-liners during our little chat?"
"I said TAKE THAT BACK!"
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And so the squabbling voices of the two boys faded away as they left for their classrooms.
However, I regret to say that we cannot follow them, at least not at the moment.
For as careful as Youhei was... for as discreet as Youhei was... he was not perfect. Moreover, being the imperfect human that he was, he left out something that was intensely important.
Someone else now knew of Hanamichi's secret.
That someone had been rudely awoken from his sleep, at one of his favorite spots in school for sleeping, by one of his most 'hated' enemies.
Now that someone peers through the bushes that enclosed the spot where Hanamichi and Youhei had sat just a few minutes ago. He sighs at the loss of his 'beauty' sleep, gets up and brushes off the stray pieces of leaves and freshly cut grass.
"Do'aho."
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Author's Notes: This is Seraph here. I have finally reclaimed my fic... and added Rukawa to the picture too! It looks like we will have a little yaoi in this story after all...
I apologise for the trouble that Devil caused the last time she wrote for me... Believe me, NEVER AGAIN. Remind me of that if I EVER have the urge to ask her to write another fic for me.
Also, I apologise for the badly written fic. I seriously am considering a permanent career at the SDBC as an editor, after I finish all the series that I haven't gotten around to finishing... I feel that my editing skills are more sophisticated than my story-writing skills... _
In any case, it does seem as though I am received with gladness... given that Devil has tortured the characters of this fic at least once... I was besieged by three chibis the moment I entered my 'home sweet home' once more...
Hana-chan, Sen-chan, You-chan: Seraph! You're back! YOU'RE FINALLY BACK! *glomp* Seraph: ^_^;;; Why are y'all so glad to see me? The last I heard of you guys was Hana trying to voodoo me or something... Sen-chan: That was THEN- Hana-chan: Now is NOW- You-chan: And BOY, are we GLAD to see you back. Seraph: @_@ Why? I thought you'd be glad to be rid of me... Hana-chan, Sen-chan, You-chan: *DEATH glare at Seraph* Promise us you'll never leave your fic in Devil's hands again... EVER! Seraph: ^_^;; Why not? What'd she do? Hana-chan: *melodramatically* Don't ask! It's too painful to tell. Sen-chan: She made Hana hit me on the head, see? *shows bump gotten from fic in previous chapter* You-chan: She didn't let me appear in the last chappie... Hana-chan: *wails* She made me look stupid... Sen-chan: *starts wailing as well* She wants us to participate in a lemon... Seraph: 0_o Are you sure? Sen-chan: Ask You-chan! He heard her snickering about it! You-chan: She did too! And she said she was going to make it a 3some too! *shudders* Seraph: _* DEVIL~! JUST WAIT TIL YOU GET HOME!
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Author's Notes: This is in answer to Wowie's fic request. Please note that this story contains a great deal of sugar... and angst, now that I think about it... People who are strongly allergic to sugar and bitterness contrasting so "dramatically" are advised to keep away from this fic.
Short synopsis: Hanamichi says 'Yes' to Fujii.
Therefore, so, ladies and gentlemen, on with the fic!
Legend... If you have read the previous chapters, you should remember... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- Act 1, Scene 4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------
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"Have you ever wondered which one hurts more: saying (doing) something and wishing you had not, or saying (doing) nothing and wishing you had?" -Unknown
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One week later...
Sakuragi lay on his back at the grassy area behind his classroom with Youhei.
"So... you agreed to go out with her?"
"Uh huh." Sakuragi stared up at the sky, pondering... god knows what.
"..." Youhei sighed and turned on his side to look at his friend. "You could sound just a LITTLE more enthusiastic, y'know?"
"Hm."
"..." Youhei gave up. Hanamichi, for some reason, was not reactive to his probing.
Truth to tell, he WAS a little curious about why Hanamichi changed his mind in such a short period of time but knowing his friend's character...
Youhei snuck a look at the oblivious redhead and sighed once more.
...It definitely wasn't going to be easy dragging that tale outta him.
Footsteps sounded on the concrete pathway to the area where Sakuragi and his Gundam usually hung out. The steps went silent somewhere near them, as if the person was looking for some one, then it started again and soon closed in on the corner and rounded the corner to reveal...
... Fujii.
"Sakuragi-kun?" Fujii was still shy of Sakuragi's Gundam even though she now knew that they were not as fearsome as the rumours proclaimed them to be.
"Hai?" Sakuragi sat up. "Fujii-san?"
"Sakuragi-kun, I..." She flushed a deep red.
Youhei noted the colour briefly and knew that Fujii was going to take off soon if no action was taken, on Sakuragi's part that is.
"Fujii-san, is something the matter?" Sakuragi smiled at her, willing her NOT to bolt like a frightened child.
Then he noted that she appeared very unwillingly to bring her hands forward, as if she was holding something that she was debating inwardly to give him or not. "What have you got there?"
"..." Fujii went a deeper red than what was possible on most humans. She brought out the thing that she had kept hidden up till now most reluctantly and held it out. "I... I... I made a bento box for you this morning and... and..."
Flushing even redder (if that was probable, given the shade her face already was), she pushed the bento box into Sakuragi's hands and ran off, obviously assuming in some part of her mind that werewolves (or the like) were after her. Running round the corner, she bumped into the rest of the Sakuragi Gundam.
"Isn't this Fujii-san?" Takamiya caught her, preventing her fall. "Daijobu?"
"Don't you want to eat with us?" Ookusu invited.
Fujii waved their well-meaning concerns off. "Arigatou... but I really have to go. Ja!"
The three Gundam members watched her run off, looked at each other and shook their heads simultaneously. Then they turned and continued on their merry way to the spot, carrying their precious loads of food.
The first thing they saw when they turned the corner was a certain Hanamichi fingering a bento box. They looked at each other, at Hanamichi and back again and they... grinned.
"Sakuragi..." Anozumi said, still grinning.
"What have we here?" Ookusu stared at the bento box in Sakuragi's hands.
"Let's celebrate!" Takamiya took out the dust-covered party things and threw a few to the other two who were already starting to dance inanely.
"Guys... GUYS!" Youhei cast a worried look at Sakuragi, for fear that the redhead might flare up and bestow upon them his infamous head butts. His fears were unfounded, as the red head was studying the bento box as if it were the most fascinating thing on Earth.
"... Hanamichi?"
Aware that they were in no mortal danger, the three jokers of the Gundam started towards the red head with grins that revealed their ill intentions...
...Only to be stopped by Youhei, who shook his head, warning them off the unpredictable re head.
Realising that they were not wanted here, and seeing that Youhei wanted to speak to Hanamichi privately, the Gundam hesitated, looked at each other, and decided to retreat, for the moment. They disappeared around the corner of the building in a thrice.
Youhei walked to that same corner and peeked around it, his experience with the Gundam having taught him that double-checking whether those three were gone COMPLETELY absolutely did not hurt in the least.
And right he was in doing so, because once he rounded the corner, he found the three stooges hiding themselves *just* behind it.
"Ehehehe..." Three sheepish faces looked up at Youhei's glowering face. "You caught us..."
"The way back to the classroom is that-a-way." Youhei pointed down the said path.
The three stooges got up, stumbling over each other to get away. "Ehehehe... see you two in class, ne?"
"GOODBYE." Youhei waited for the sounds of their retreating footfalls to fade completely before heading back to where Sakuragi was.
"...Hanamichi? Youhei sat down beside the redhead.
"..." Sakuragi continued fingering the bento box, slowly running his fingertips over the smooth edges of the said box.
Youhei's patience was at an end.
He was just about to grab the redhead's collar to shake what was bothering him so much out of him when the red head finally spoke up.
"Did you see her hands?"
"Her hands?" Youhei stopped in mid-grab. Sakuragi's words had caught him off guard.
"Yes, her HANDS." Sakuragi emphasized the last word.
Youhei sank back down onto the grass and thought back to the hesitation filled scene a mere 5 minutes ago. "...No, why? Is anything wrong with them?"
Hanamichi looked up, meeting the eyes of his bemused friend for the first time that day. "... They were bandaged."
Youhei started. "Oh."
He watched Hanamichi lower his head once more. "Oh."
Sakuragi set the bento down, his agitation showing. "I shouldn't be doing this to her. I should walk right up to her now and just-"
"Hanamichi." Youhei laid a calming hand on his friend's arm. "Calm down."
"Calm down?!" Sakuragi barked a short, sarcastic laugh. "Ha! I AM calm. There's no other person in the world that is calmer than I am right now. Hell, I can even-"
"Hanamichi." This time, Youhei's voice was laced with a subtle force, deliberately pressing for the red head's attention.
Sakuragi looked at Youhei. Although he had forced himself to calm down, his inward panic could still be seen.
Hail the person who said the eyes were the windows to one's soul.
Youhei met Sakuragi's eyes unflinchingly. "You CANNOT just do that to her. You're already in this too deep."
Sakuragi shook his head in frustration, lacing his fingers through his hair. "I KNOW! You think I don't? Every time she does something nice for me- " He glared at the bento box lying innocuously on the grass. "-Like THAT for an instance, I just can't help but-"
"You chose this path the moment you said 'Yes' to her." Youhei interrupted ruthlessly.
He wasn't here to listen to Hanamichi bitch to him about his feelings.
Hell, Hanamichi might be intimidating but in the end, the world doesn't just revolve around him.
Hanamichi has had many home truths waiting in line for him for a VERY long time... and now was a good time as any to finally speak to him about it.
"Hanamichi, you're just being selfish." Youhei rushed on, heedless of the red head who chose to freeze at that moment. "At the end of the day, you're just being a hypocrite. You say that you would never 'go out' with Fujii - look where you are now. You say you don't want to hurt her - Hell, from the moment you told her 'Yes', you'd already started the process to getting her hurt by you just so you can salvage your own pride and ego. You have a lot of consideration for her feelings, that I admit, but that isn't enough. It would never be enough. You, of all people, should know that."
Youhei, finally finishing what he had wanted to say, stopped to take a deep breath. "And you-"
"Enough."
Youhei stopped in mid-sentence, his mouth gaping open at the sudden close to his one-sided conversation.
"Enough..."
Youhei sighed, and patted the back of his forlorn friend, who now had buried his face on his knees like a child.
Silence reigned between the two friends.
"... Youhei."
"Ah?"
"If it were you... what would you do?"
"..."
"TELL me."
"...Hanamichi." Youhei forced the redhead's head up. "Look at me."
"..."
"LOOK AT ME, DAMN IT!"
Sakuragi looked up, defiance etched clearly in his eyes.
Youhei looked at his friend with something akin to sympathy. "Hanamichi, I Am Not You. I cannot make your decisions for you. You've gotta learn to live with your decisions, whether they are the right choices to choose or not. And no, "Youhei added, frowning at the said red head. "Puppy eyes don't work either. You should know that I was never a sucker for puppy eyes."
Sakuragi pushed away Youhei's hands, resigned. "I know." Inhale. Exhale. "I know." He fiddled with his thumbs. "Sendoh told me almost the exact same thing."
Youhei's ears pricked up. "Sendoh?"
Sakuragi nodded. "Sendoh. As in Sendoh Akira of Ryonan High."
"I knew it." Youhei muttered. "I just KNEW that SOMETHING must've happened to make you change your mind so quickly about Fujii."
"I happened to bump into him near the old park near my house, after we parted ways."
"When did this happen?"
Sakuragi shrugged. "On the day Fujii confessed to me?"
"So what's he got to do with Fujii?"
"I talked to him about it." Pause. "He was VERY HELPFUL."
Sakuragi's sarcasm did not go unnoticed. Youhei raised an eyebrow, indicating his disbelief. "And that talk... totally changed your mind about Fujii?"
"Shaddup." Sakuragi was not in the best of moods.
"Seriously, if you didn't want this to happen in the first place, why DID you choose to make it happen?"
Hanamichi could not bring himself to answer that seemingly simple question. His reasons had been too despicable for himself to speak of even now. How he wished that the ground would just open and swallow him up, leaving no trace of him upon this earth and thereby, solving all his problems for him.
"Nothing to say, eh?" Youhei arched an eyebrow.
"..."
"Lemme guess then..." Youhei assumed the "Thinking Man" pose. "... Because... you wanted to get Haruko jealous over you and Fujii?"
Bingo!
Youhei was undoubtedly the person who knew Hanamichi best.
Hanamichi growled and threw a punch in Youhei's direction.
Youhei, having anticipated the move, deflected the blow easily and, in the blink of an eye, scooted as far away as he could get from the red head.
Hanamichi would've continued in pursuing Youhei... if the bell signalling the end of lunch break had not chosen to go at that moment.
"Come on..." Youhei smiled slightly. "We gotta go back to class."
"Ah."
"Y'know something?"
"What?"
"You sound more like Rukawa day by day."
"NANDA?!"
" 'S true. You've even gotten your own one-liners now!"
"Youhei! Take that back!"
"You just didn't realize, did' ya? How many times you've used one-liners during our little chat?"
"I said TAKE THAT BACK!"
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And so the squabbling voices of the two boys faded away as they left for their classrooms.
However, I regret to say that we cannot follow them, at least not at the moment.
For as careful as Youhei was... for as discreet as Youhei was... he was not perfect. Moreover, being the imperfect human that he was, he left out something that was intensely important.
Someone else now knew of Hanamichi's secret.
That someone had been rudely awoken from his sleep, at one of his favorite spots in school for sleeping, by one of his most 'hated' enemies.
Now that someone peers through the bushes that enclosed the spot where Hanamichi and Youhei had sat just a few minutes ago. He sighs at the loss of his 'beauty' sleep, gets up and brushes off the stray pieces of leaves and freshly cut grass.
"Do'aho."
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Author's Notes: This is Seraph here. I have finally reclaimed my fic... and added Rukawa to the picture too! It looks like we will have a little yaoi in this story after all...
I apologise for the trouble that Devil caused the last time she wrote for me... Believe me, NEVER AGAIN. Remind me of that if I EVER have the urge to ask her to write another fic for me.
Also, I apologise for the badly written fic. I seriously am considering a permanent career at the SDBC as an editor, after I finish all the series that I haven't gotten around to finishing... I feel that my editing skills are more sophisticated than my story-writing skills... _
In any case, it does seem as though I am received with gladness... given that Devil has tortured the characters of this fic at least once... I was besieged by three chibis the moment I entered my 'home sweet home' once more...
Hana-chan, Sen-chan, You-chan: Seraph! You're back! YOU'RE FINALLY BACK! *glomp* Seraph: ^_^;;; Why are y'all so glad to see me? The last I heard of you guys was Hana trying to voodoo me or something... Sen-chan: That was THEN- Hana-chan: Now is NOW- You-chan: And BOY, are we GLAD to see you back. Seraph: @_@ Why? I thought you'd be glad to be rid of me... Hana-chan, Sen-chan, You-chan: *DEATH glare at Seraph* Promise us you'll never leave your fic in Devil's hands again... EVER! Seraph: ^_^;; Why not? What'd she do? Hana-chan: *melodramatically* Don't ask! It's too painful to tell. Sen-chan: She made Hana hit me on the head, see? *shows bump gotten from fic in previous chapter* You-chan: She didn't let me appear in the last chappie... Hana-chan: *wails* She made me look stupid... Sen-chan: *starts wailing as well* She wants us to participate in a lemon... Seraph: 0_o Are you sure? Sen-chan: Ask You-chan! He heard her snickering about it! You-chan: She did too! And she said she was going to make it a 3some too! *shudders* Seraph: _* DEVIL~! JUST WAIT TIL YOU GET HOME!
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