Chapter 8 – Answer

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*^*^ Misao's dream

            Here am I as usual in my dream every night, but the strange thing was that it doesn't feel the same way like it did. It had a kind of feeling. It was warm and gentle, the way I used to feel whether my parents were still around to tuck me in every night. Somehow, I felt this strange feeling tonight.

            I look around in the dream, it scenario was different. Normally I would be in some broken down city in a middle of a desert, there would be no one of course then I would be sitting down on one of tallest building, crying out for someone to love me and hug me. I was simply drowning in sorrow. This time it was different, no more broken debris or building surrounding or sandy deserts.

            Instead of the usual gray mountains, this time it was real blue-green mountains. I was standing in front of a huge lake, with a forest behind me. I heard rustling of leaves and grasses but wasn't worried of any predator; there wouldn't be anyone to hurt me. Appearing in front of me was a white glorious beast – the Unicorn. It slowly makes it way toward me, what caught my attention most was its eyes. It was sea green, filled with calm and sincerity, exactly like someone I knew – Shinomori Aoshi.

            Suddenly the whole picture started to swirl and twist and I was soon back in my unhappy and gray world. The unicorn however, was still by my side; it was looking down into the darkness, at something. I try to see what it was looking at but can't seem to see. I walk closer to see what unicorn had seen and saw a boy of 10, kneeling on the sandy desert ground. I kneeled beside him and asked him what's wrong. He look up to see me, I was surprised to see that the boy was the younger version of Aoshi and that he was crying away! I slowly embraced him and the crying soon decreased to constant sniffing. "Misao, please tell me the answer!" With that I throw backward into reality without understanding the meaning of the dream.

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            Misao slowly start to feel warm touches of the sun on her cheek, slowly she opened one eye to see the bamboo leaves instead of the usual green ceiling of her room. She scans through her brain, trying to remember how she had ended up here. She remembered that Aoshi had brought her out for supper, the fight over the last piece of the beef. The fight – it brought a stronger reaction to her cheek and her heart. After that, she can't remember anything else.

            Slowly she got up from the Hammock, to see a body on the couch.

            "Aoshi" She leaned over the body to wake him up. Somehow the ice prince was a deep sleeper and gave no reaction. An evil thought came to Misao, she grin evilly, slowly she push the couch (it had wheels) closer toward the pond. With deep breath, she pushed the body into the pond and let out an evil laughter. However she stopped short when Aoshi floated face down in the pond.

            "Oh banana! What have I done?!" She kneeled closer to pond, in order to pull Aoshi out of the water. However her plan backfired on her when Aoshi's hand reached out and grabbed her sleeve, pulling her into the water with him.

            "Wahaha!! Cold!!" she screamed out, the moment her head hit the surface. She glared angrily at Aoshi who was laughing his head off. "Moron." She sneered at him. Aoshi stopped laughing and went into his 'ice-prince mode' "That's wasn't a nice wake up call, Makimachi Misao." Misao stared at him fearfully, never did realize that her act would have her receiving the 'ice-prince treatment'. Suddenly Aoshi's mask cracked and he burst out laughing. "Man, I wished I had a camera!" Soon he was tackled back into the water by Misao.

            Misao was straddling Aoshi, she was grinning away at her victory over him, slowly she lean forward and kiss him on the lip. Aoshi was a little surprise by her approach but kiss her back, he was starting to enjoy all his kisses when he felt something wriggling under his back. He slowly pushed Misao back and at the same time pulling from her. He got up to see a flatten Koi at the bottom of the pond.

            "Shit! You killed Jiya's prized Koi!" Groaned Misao as she poked at the flatten fish before giving Aoshi an evil eye.

            "What my fault?! You are the one who tackled me into the pool!"

" Oh great, so how am I going to explain this to Jiya? Should I tell him that 'Oh, we were so busy kissing that we didn't realized that we sat on your fish.' Or ' the fish swam at the wrong moment."

"Haha! Very funny…so lame… Let's just give a funeral to the fish then we think up an excuse."

"Funeral? For a fish?"

"Yeah…we can't have the spirit to take revenge on us. Come on, before the both of them wake up. " With that, Aoshi hold the fish by the tail while Misao quickly went to the corner of the balcony and dig a hole with a spade which was lying nearby. Aoshi then put the fish into the hole, cover it with sand, finally saying a pray for it. Misao just simply follow in suit.

After the 'funeral' was over, Aoshi stared at Misao in the eyes and said, "Er…I guess I have to head back home now that the project is done." He saw the disappointment in Misao's eyes but said nothing.

"What? But I thought you still have two more days?" said Misao, unable to hide the disappointment in her voice.

"Well, it no use of me staying here any longer since I didn't get the long awaited answer from someone. I make a move first. Tell Enishi; I wash his clothes for him. Bye-B! " Aoshi slowly walk past Misao who had sudden guilty feeling and suddenly remember what her dream meant.

"Wait!" Aoshi turned around in time to catch a crying Misao in an embrace. "Please don't go! Aoshi, I love you too! My answer to your question is a big gigantic Yes!"  with that she just crying onto his shoulder. Aoshi patted her head and gave her a kiss on her forehead.

"Don't cry anymore, Misao. I love you too!"

Misao stopped her crying and look up at Aoshi who gave a warm smile. With that she tip-toe and both lips met in passionate kiss. From somewhere behind the shoji to garden, both pairs of spiky heads smiled at each other. Glad that Misao finally found happiness.

The end? Or TBC?  (you decide)

A/n – I was high on peppermint green tea and listening to W-inds 'Baby Maybe' while writing this fic. So I think you know the rest. Try listening to the song, it is so romantic and sweet!! Anyway you think I should continue with this story or come up with another fic?? Me have no idea!! Anyway thanks a lot for all the support and everything!! *Bow respectfully to all the readers*