Here's chapter 4 of A Second Chance! (whoa, we're that far already?!)
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A Second Chance
Chapter 4. Just a dream?
"Ohayou!" rang a cheerful voice early next morning.
Miaka drowsily opened one eye. "Eh? Yui-chan?" A second later, after no one responded, she closed her eye and fell back asleep.
"MIAKA!"
"Wha-wha what??!!" she sat upright her blankets flying off her body. Her eyes flew open in the process and saw four big blurs. "Oh, four unknown people in my room at 6:00 in the morning," she mumbled. "How pleasant." As her vision cleared, she saw Rin, Sei, Tai, and Chi standing above her.
"Rin-chan?" she exclaimed, fully awake now. "How did you get in?"
Rin shrugged. "The door wasn't locked for some reason. Does anybody else live here?"
Miaka stared. "That's strange I was certain I locked it. No, no one else lives here." She paused. "Except for..... Yui, and Tamahome...... Who have the key."
Sei blinked. "Yui and Tamahome?" he asked. He thought for a moment. 'Now where did I hear those names before?' A flash of blue crossed his mind. 'Huh?' He closed his eyes holding in the fierce battle inside his mind. Something was coming back to him, yet another thing was stopping the memories trying to rush into his soul. It hurt too much to think. He placed his sweating hand onto his forehead and backed up.
"Daijobu, Sei-chan?" interrupted Miaka's voice.
"Huh?"
All of a sudden the pain stopped and he found himself back in Miaka's bedroom, all eyes on him. "What?" came his blank response.
Everybody besides Sei sweatdropped. "Ah, just forget about that, Sei," said Chi. "But, you're sure you're all right?"
"Hai, hai," Sei responded. "Miaka? Hurry up and get dressed we're planning on going out to eat for breakfast."
"All right!" Miaka cheered jumping up and heading to the washroom. Once again, the four idols sweatdropped.
"Ah, there's nothing like fresh air for a fresh start on a fresh morning. Fresh, ne?" Miaka asked, looking up to the blue sky ten minutes later.
Rin nodded. "Yes, it's a beautiful day. Why don't you join us on a stroll in the park after breakfast?"
"Whoa," Tai whispered to Chi. "She's finally acting like a normal 20-year- old teen!" (a/n: You can just imagine the, 0.o, on their faces! Lol)
And boy was he surprised when he found himself hurtling towards the sun as Rin smiled and walked on as indignant as ever.
A few hours later, Miaka walked out of the restaurant bloated along with, Rin looking ever-so cheerful reason being a new record at how many heads she turned, Chi shockingly surprised at how much Miaka ate, Tai who hardly ate anything possibly because of the fact that Miaka kept taking his food, and Sei feeling a tad-bit pissed at the crowd of the opposite gender smothering him the whole meal. So all in all, if you knew the group well, you could say that it was again, another casual, carefree wonderful day.
Or so it looked.
The five-some were walking peacefully along in the park..... That is, until Rin decided to hook up some guys playing soccer nearby, forgetting the fact that they were with their girlfriends. And of course, being the Rin that she was, dragged her unwilling new friend, Miaka along with her.
Now that the guys were free of the women, they lay out the blanket they brought and plopped down, Tai watching all the women in the park, Chi reading, and Sei looking up towards the sky waiting for sleep to take over.
'Hmm, how peaceful,' he thought. 'I feel like I just want to give up the world and sleep forever.' Somewhere deep down a voice said, 'And give up your only love?'
'What?'
"Hotohori-sama!" came a familiar voice.
Sei kept on staring at the extraodinary sky. How can anything be that beautiful?
"Hotohori-sama!!" rang the urgent voice again. Turning his head wondering who the voice was calling he saw a breath-taking girl. Her hazel eyes were captivating, sparkling as if she had just won the world, her cherry red lips turned up into a grand smile.
'It's an angel,' came his first thought. 'Shining brighter than the sky.'
Surprised he was, when the angel plopped down beside him. "Hotohori-sama," she said again. "Why're you here?"
Sei would like to know that himself. Without knowing it, he began to speak, though his voice was less playful more serious and deep. It was his voice, he recognized, just used in a different way. "Ah, nothing Miaka. I thought it'd be nice to just sit here and watch the scenery. It's not everyday a locked-up emperor like me can be sitting here in a nice field just watching the clouds go by."
'Emperor?! Who am I kidding?' Sei thought. 'And this girl's name is Miaka?! The Miaka I know is not half as pretty.'
"Hai, it's beautiful, ne?" the girl called Miaka said, pleasantly.
Sei found himself nodding and spoke to the girl in the same masculine voice. He didn't understand anything he said himself! Lonely childhood life? True, he couldn't remember anything in his past, but if what he was saying was true then he was certain he could remember the pain this other side spoke.
This Hotohori guy was suddenly wrapping his arms around Miaka, when something hit him in the head.
"Itai!" Sei shouted as he felt the woman in his arm disappear. But of course he was too angry to notice. Once again, he found himself looking up to the vast sky and suddenly Miaka's face popped up.
"Aaaaah!!!" he shrieked, very un-Sei like.
"Gomen, Sei," Miaka said with a friendly smile. She picked up the soccer ball which hit him on the head and hurried off to Rin, and a bunch of strangers of the male species.
"Eh?" Sei whispered quietly to himself. He was back on the blanket, with Tai to his right ogling at women playing volleyball, and Chi to his left reading a romance novel. He looked back towards the sky. 'It was all a dream,' he thought to himself. 'Just a dream.....' The sky he noted hadn't changed in any way in his dream or out.
He stood up. "I'm going to go on a walk," he said. Tai and Chi nodded not really paying attention.
"Hmm..... Emperor Hotohori, huh," he pondered aloud to himself. "Must've been in the old times when there were emperors."
Suddenly, without watching where he was going, he bumped into someone.
"Oof!" came the other person's reaction. They both fell down.
"Ah, gomen," the other man said. He stood up and offered a hand to Sei. Sei looked up.
'Blue.....' came his first thought. He took the man's hand and stood up. "Sorry for that," he said aloud.
The man was staring at him strangely. ".....Hotohori-sama?" he whispered.
"What?!" Sei shouted. "Who is Hotohori??!!" He stopped. He was acting very unlike himself and wondered what was going on.
The man looked startled. "Gomen!!" he exclaimed bowing his head. "I was mistaken. Anyways, my name is Taka Sukunami."
Sei smiled feeling uneasy. 'Wasn't this the guy in the picture on Miaka's fridge?' he recalled. 'Nah can't be. The guy in the picture looked much better than him. Taka looks like he just woke up.' "I'm Hiroku Tsurino."
Taka grinned at him. "May I join you on your walk?"
"Sure."
"So, where ya from?"
"I'm from China."
"Honto? What are you doing here?" Taka asked deeply surprised.
Sei didn't feel like telling him about his part in Four Stars. "Just thought I'd visit some old friends." he shrugged. "You can meet them if you want. They're here in the park."
"That would be nice," Taka said.
Sei lead him back to the open field where his friends were having a good time. He noticed that Taka seemed to be very uncertain about something.
"What's wrong?" he asked him.
"O-oh it's nothing....."
"Oy, guys, come over here," he shouted loudly. His friends turned to him and with a confused expression quickly walked over.
"I thought you said we can play as long as we want," whined Rin. Miaka was walking unusually slow compared to her usual cheerful fast pace.
"Of course, but I just want to introduce you to a new friend I met today," Sei said and gestured to Taka.
"His name is Sukunami Taka."
Sei was interrupted by a sharp gasp from Miaka. He quickly turned to her. "What's wrong?" he asked. 'No way, is this really Miaka's boyfriend? Oh man, why did I bring him??!!' He mentally slapped himself in the forehead.
Miaka was feeling totally lost and unsure of herself. 'What is this feeling inside of me? Face him, Miaka, I know you can do it. He is now just another person, a friend even perhaps.' "I'm fine," she said. "I know, Taka, though I call him Tamahome. He's actually my ex-boyfriend." She stopped. 'There! That didn't hurt in the least bit!'
Sei looked relieved in her casual voice. He turned to his other friends. "Well, stop staring and introduce yourselves!"
Rin, Chi, and Tai fumbled for words. "Ah-Right-Yes-Rin-Chi-Tai," came their responses all mixed in one.
"Why don't we all go out for lunch today?" Miaka asked. "Including Tamahome, that is."
Tamahome shook his head. "That's awfully nice of you..... Miaka..... But I don't have the time, thanks anyways." He turned and left.
Tamahome didn't bother swishing back his long blue bangs which practically covered all of his eyes. 'He's actually my ex-boyfriend,' rang Miaka's carefree voice. 'Didn't she care anymore? What about my feelings? It hurts so badly' he thought closing his eyes. He's been around this park since the day he and Miaka broke up. 'The Suzaku Seven..... They worked this hard for me to just break up with Miaka? Why did Suzaku let this be? Why am I in this shitty world?' That's when he remembered. 'It's not me.....'
After Tamahome left, our gang (Miaka, Rin, Sei, Tai, and Chi) started getting ready to leave the park. Miaka bent down to fold up the blanket right at the same time Sei chose to. She blushed as their hands brushed each other. 'Uh oh,' she thought to herself as she folded the rest up. 'I've had this feeling too many times before. This feeling of attraction. This feeling of love.'
Well, she wasn't surprised at herself. After all, she did notice the tension between Tamahome, Yui, and Miaka a few weeks back. She should've known that they've been doing something she didn't hear of. That's why a few days after the suspicion she started recalling her earlier days with Hotohori. She's been thinking of that one man ever since. 'So I should be guilty too,' Miaka thought. 'I've been mentally cheating on Tamahome.'
"Well, Miaka, we'll see you again tomorrow!" Chi called to her. They were departing at the coffee shop going their separate ways.
She waved farewell and walked the rest of the way home. On the way she bumped into someone causing both of them to fall. (a/n: I make my characters fall too much. Geez.....) It was Yui.
"Miaka!" Yui shouted.
"Yes?"
Yui hesitated. "I-I'm sorry for..... for doing what I did. Forgive me?" She looked at Miaka with her sincere forest green eyes.
Miaka smiled. "Of course, Yui-chan, I forgive you. I can't keep a grudge against my best friend for that long now can I?"
Yui looked plain shocked.
'This girl, who I thought betrayed me but was too blind to see she was helping me, has accepted me as her best friend once again even after I cheated behind her back with her financée,' Yui thought. "Oh..... Ok, then, you want to maybe hang out sometime?" she asked hoping that Miaka would say yes.
Miaka shrugged nonchalantly. "When?"
Yui noticed that she seemed to have lost her enthusiasm. "I heard the Four Stars are in town. Their concert is tomorrow you want to come? We could go get the tickets now, they're almost sold out."
"Sure I'll come, but leave the tickets to me," Miaka replied. "I've gotta get going now, later." She walked away.
'Ah well, at least she's my best friend again,' Yui thought walking away as well. 'I'll get the real Miaka back in no time. Like she said, she can't hold a grudge against me for long.'
***
That's it for chapter four. I tried to make it long. At least 2000 words or so. Anyways, do you guys want me to play a mean trick on Yui? I planned to put 'Little did she know, she was way off.' but I didn't really want Miaka to be that cruel you know. So anyways, if you want me to please leave a review and tell me my mistakes and all and say what you think! I'm not afraid of flames! Thanks for reading and review!
imalidodevil: Thank you, I'm not that interested in Taka and Yui either. Thanks so much for reading and reviewing and remember to review this one too!
tensai-yuki: Thanks! I'm so sorry for making it so short!! . I'll try best as I can to make the others longer. And you read my mind because yes they will meet. You're right it is supposed to be Taka but I totally forgot about that! Gomen! Demo, I don't intend to change it in case readers might get confused. Sorry!
anonymous: Thanks so much!
Moon Dreamer: I luv H/M too! (well i guess you can tell...) Thanks for reviewing. ^^;;
vanessa-chan: So sorry for making it short. But you can be sure that the rest of the chapters would be at least longer than my first two. Thanks for reviewing.
HoshiHikari4ever: Thank you.
A Second Chance
Chapter 4. Just a dream?
"Ohayou!" rang a cheerful voice early next morning.
Miaka drowsily opened one eye. "Eh? Yui-chan?" A second later, after no one responded, she closed her eye and fell back asleep.
"MIAKA!"
"Wha-wha what??!!" she sat upright her blankets flying off her body. Her eyes flew open in the process and saw four big blurs. "Oh, four unknown people in my room at 6:00 in the morning," she mumbled. "How pleasant." As her vision cleared, she saw Rin, Sei, Tai, and Chi standing above her.
"Rin-chan?" she exclaimed, fully awake now. "How did you get in?"
Rin shrugged. "The door wasn't locked for some reason. Does anybody else live here?"
Miaka stared. "That's strange I was certain I locked it. No, no one else lives here." She paused. "Except for..... Yui, and Tamahome...... Who have the key."
Sei blinked. "Yui and Tamahome?" he asked. He thought for a moment. 'Now where did I hear those names before?' A flash of blue crossed his mind. 'Huh?' He closed his eyes holding in the fierce battle inside his mind. Something was coming back to him, yet another thing was stopping the memories trying to rush into his soul. It hurt too much to think. He placed his sweating hand onto his forehead and backed up.
"Daijobu, Sei-chan?" interrupted Miaka's voice.
"Huh?"
All of a sudden the pain stopped and he found himself back in Miaka's bedroom, all eyes on him. "What?" came his blank response.
Everybody besides Sei sweatdropped. "Ah, just forget about that, Sei," said Chi. "But, you're sure you're all right?"
"Hai, hai," Sei responded. "Miaka? Hurry up and get dressed we're planning on going out to eat for breakfast."
"All right!" Miaka cheered jumping up and heading to the washroom. Once again, the four idols sweatdropped.
"Ah, there's nothing like fresh air for a fresh start on a fresh morning. Fresh, ne?" Miaka asked, looking up to the blue sky ten minutes later.
Rin nodded. "Yes, it's a beautiful day. Why don't you join us on a stroll in the park after breakfast?"
"Whoa," Tai whispered to Chi. "She's finally acting like a normal 20-year- old teen!" (a/n: You can just imagine the, 0.o, on their faces! Lol)
And boy was he surprised when he found himself hurtling towards the sun as Rin smiled and walked on as indignant as ever.
A few hours later, Miaka walked out of the restaurant bloated along with, Rin looking ever-so cheerful reason being a new record at how many heads she turned, Chi shockingly surprised at how much Miaka ate, Tai who hardly ate anything possibly because of the fact that Miaka kept taking his food, and Sei feeling a tad-bit pissed at the crowd of the opposite gender smothering him the whole meal. So all in all, if you knew the group well, you could say that it was again, another casual, carefree wonderful day.
Or so it looked.
The five-some were walking peacefully along in the park..... That is, until Rin decided to hook up some guys playing soccer nearby, forgetting the fact that they were with their girlfriends. And of course, being the Rin that she was, dragged her unwilling new friend, Miaka along with her.
Now that the guys were free of the women, they lay out the blanket they brought and plopped down, Tai watching all the women in the park, Chi reading, and Sei looking up towards the sky waiting for sleep to take over.
'Hmm, how peaceful,' he thought. 'I feel like I just want to give up the world and sleep forever.' Somewhere deep down a voice said, 'And give up your only love?'
'What?'
"Hotohori-sama!" came a familiar voice.
Sei kept on staring at the extraodinary sky. How can anything be that beautiful?
"Hotohori-sama!!" rang the urgent voice again. Turning his head wondering who the voice was calling he saw a breath-taking girl. Her hazel eyes were captivating, sparkling as if she had just won the world, her cherry red lips turned up into a grand smile.
'It's an angel,' came his first thought. 'Shining brighter than the sky.'
Surprised he was, when the angel plopped down beside him. "Hotohori-sama," she said again. "Why're you here?"
Sei would like to know that himself. Without knowing it, he began to speak, though his voice was less playful more serious and deep. It was his voice, he recognized, just used in a different way. "Ah, nothing Miaka. I thought it'd be nice to just sit here and watch the scenery. It's not everyday a locked-up emperor like me can be sitting here in a nice field just watching the clouds go by."
'Emperor?! Who am I kidding?' Sei thought. 'And this girl's name is Miaka?! The Miaka I know is not half as pretty.'
"Hai, it's beautiful, ne?" the girl called Miaka said, pleasantly.
Sei found himself nodding and spoke to the girl in the same masculine voice. He didn't understand anything he said himself! Lonely childhood life? True, he couldn't remember anything in his past, but if what he was saying was true then he was certain he could remember the pain this other side spoke.
This Hotohori guy was suddenly wrapping his arms around Miaka, when something hit him in the head.
"Itai!" Sei shouted as he felt the woman in his arm disappear. But of course he was too angry to notice. Once again, he found himself looking up to the vast sky and suddenly Miaka's face popped up.
"Aaaaah!!!" he shrieked, very un-Sei like.
"Gomen, Sei," Miaka said with a friendly smile. She picked up the soccer ball which hit him on the head and hurried off to Rin, and a bunch of strangers of the male species.
"Eh?" Sei whispered quietly to himself. He was back on the blanket, with Tai to his right ogling at women playing volleyball, and Chi to his left reading a romance novel. He looked back towards the sky. 'It was all a dream,' he thought to himself. 'Just a dream.....' The sky he noted hadn't changed in any way in his dream or out.
He stood up. "I'm going to go on a walk," he said. Tai and Chi nodded not really paying attention.
"Hmm..... Emperor Hotohori, huh," he pondered aloud to himself. "Must've been in the old times when there were emperors."
Suddenly, without watching where he was going, he bumped into someone.
"Oof!" came the other person's reaction. They both fell down.
"Ah, gomen," the other man said. He stood up and offered a hand to Sei. Sei looked up.
'Blue.....' came his first thought. He took the man's hand and stood up. "Sorry for that," he said aloud.
The man was staring at him strangely. ".....Hotohori-sama?" he whispered.
"What?!" Sei shouted. "Who is Hotohori??!!" He stopped. He was acting very unlike himself and wondered what was going on.
The man looked startled. "Gomen!!" he exclaimed bowing his head. "I was mistaken. Anyways, my name is Taka Sukunami."
Sei smiled feeling uneasy. 'Wasn't this the guy in the picture on Miaka's fridge?' he recalled. 'Nah can't be. The guy in the picture looked much better than him. Taka looks like he just woke up.' "I'm Hiroku Tsurino."
Taka grinned at him. "May I join you on your walk?"
"Sure."
"So, where ya from?"
"I'm from China."
"Honto? What are you doing here?" Taka asked deeply surprised.
Sei didn't feel like telling him about his part in Four Stars. "Just thought I'd visit some old friends." he shrugged. "You can meet them if you want. They're here in the park."
"That would be nice," Taka said.
Sei lead him back to the open field where his friends were having a good time. He noticed that Taka seemed to be very uncertain about something.
"What's wrong?" he asked him.
"O-oh it's nothing....."
"Oy, guys, come over here," he shouted loudly. His friends turned to him and with a confused expression quickly walked over.
"I thought you said we can play as long as we want," whined Rin. Miaka was walking unusually slow compared to her usual cheerful fast pace.
"Of course, but I just want to introduce you to a new friend I met today," Sei said and gestured to Taka.
"His name is Sukunami Taka."
Sei was interrupted by a sharp gasp from Miaka. He quickly turned to her. "What's wrong?" he asked. 'No way, is this really Miaka's boyfriend? Oh man, why did I bring him??!!' He mentally slapped himself in the forehead.
Miaka was feeling totally lost and unsure of herself. 'What is this feeling inside of me? Face him, Miaka, I know you can do it. He is now just another person, a friend even perhaps.' "I'm fine," she said. "I know, Taka, though I call him Tamahome. He's actually my ex-boyfriend." She stopped. 'There! That didn't hurt in the least bit!'
Sei looked relieved in her casual voice. He turned to his other friends. "Well, stop staring and introduce yourselves!"
Rin, Chi, and Tai fumbled for words. "Ah-Right-Yes-Rin-Chi-Tai," came their responses all mixed in one.
"Why don't we all go out for lunch today?" Miaka asked. "Including Tamahome, that is."
Tamahome shook his head. "That's awfully nice of you..... Miaka..... But I don't have the time, thanks anyways." He turned and left.
Tamahome didn't bother swishing back his long blue bangs which practically covered all of his eyes. 'He's actually my ex-boyfriend,' rang Miaka's carefree voice. 'Didn't she care anymore? What about my feelings? It hurts so badly' he thought closing his eyes. He's been around this park since the day he and Miaka broke up. 'The Suzaku Seven..... They worked this hard for me to just break up with Miaka? Why did Suzaku let this be? Why am I in this shitty world?' That's when he remembered. 'It's not me.....'
After Tamahome left, our gang (Miaka, Rin, Sei, Tai, and Chi) started getting ready to leave the park. Miaka bent down to fold up the blanket right at the same time Sei chose to. She blushed as their hands brushed each other. 'Uh oh,' she thought to herself as she folded the rest up. 'I've had this feeling too many times before. This feeling of attraction. This feeling of love.'
Well, she wasn't surprised at herself. After all, she did notice the tension between Tamahome, Yui, and Miaka a few weeks back. She should've known that they've been doing something she didn't hear of. That's why a few days after the suspicion she started recalling her earlier days with Hotohori. She's been thinking of that one man ever since. 'So I should be guilty too,' Miaka thought. 'I've been mentally cheating on Tamahome.'
"Well, Miaka, we'll see you again tomorrow!" Chi called to her. They were departing at the coffee shop going their separate ways.
She waved farewell and walked the rest of the way home. On the way she bumped into someone causing both of them to fall. (a/n: I make my characters fall too much. Geez.....) It was Yui.
"Miaka!" Yui shouted.
"Yes?"
Yui hesitated. "I-I'm sorry for..... for doing what I did. Forgive me?" She looked at Miaka with her sincere forest green eyes.
Miaka smiled. "Of course, Yui-chan, I forgive you. I can't keep a grudge against my best friend for that long now can I?"
Yui looked plain shocked.
'This girl, who I thought betrayed me but was too blind to see she was helping me, has accepted me as her best friend once again even after I cheated behind her back with her financée,' Yui thought. "Oh..... Ok, then, you want to maybe hang out sometime?" she asked hoping that Miaka would say yes.
Miaka shrugged nonchalantly. "When?"
Yui noticed that she seemed to have lost her enthusiasm. "I heard the Four Stars are in town. Their concert is tomorrow you want to come? We could go get the tickets now, they're almost sold out."
"Sure I'll come, but leave the tickets to me," Miaka replied. "I've gotta get going now, later." She walked away.
'Ah well, at least she's my best friend again,' Yui thought walking away as well. 'I'll get the real Miaka back in no time. Like she said, she can't hold a grudge against me for long.'
***
That's it for chapter four. I tried to make it long. At least 2000 words or so. Anyways, do you guys want me to play a mean trick on Yui? I planned to put 'Little did she know, she was way off.' but I didn't really want Miaka to be that cruel you know. So anyways, if you want me to please leave a review and tell me my mistakes and all and say what you think! I'm not afraid of flames! Thanks for reading and review!