a/n: I don't really know what this story is supposed to be...I mainly just wanted to write an AU with Van/Hitomi fluff. Soo*rolls eyes*...enjoy this critter!*grins*
For this fic, Hitomi is American(meaning born and raised in America with Japanese ancestry) and she will be teaching English and the literature that goes along with it. Van will be teaching high school level math.(he seems like the type to be good at math, no?) Where did this weird idea come from? Thinking about being an English teacher overseas in another country and thinking about all the weird quirks the teachers at my school have..LOL
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Jesse: Prepare to be sued!
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(mind you, i don't own Pokemon either, but i do own that little rhyme!)
Hitomi took a deep breath in as she got off the plane. She feared that this was going to be way harder than what she expected. "It's Japan, alright..." she said looking around metropolitan Tokyo. "Oh my goodness, what have I done?" she said with a slight smile as she awaited her luggage. She listened to the people surrounding her. She spoke Japanese pretty fluently, but she couldn't catch on the the dialect or the speed with wich everyone spoke. No matter, she had her trusty pocket translator dictionary with her. She'd be ok...eventually.
Hitomi let out a sigh of relief as she saw her luggage coming down the rack. "Ok, so it's off to find my apartment..." Hitomi mumbled looking at the Japanese characters. She didn't know Japanese characters as well as she did romanji. She muttered to herself as she walked stumbling through everyone in the crowds. BUMP.
"Oh, oh! I'm sor-I mean...Gomen Ne, gomen ne!" she said bending to pick up her luggage she had just dropped. The man stooped down to help her pick everything up. Her eyes met his and he was probaly the most handsome man she'd ever laid eyes on. He had messy, raven noir(-FRENCH!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEE) hair and the most beautiful crimson marron(-MORE FRENCH!!!) eyes. Hitomi's mouth just dropped. He was drop dead gorgeous...and she couldn't even talk to him.
But the moment was fleeting, it passed her by all too quickly. He muttered something which she could only roughly translate something about "being late" and he ran off again as quickly as he'd run into her. "Ja ne..." she said to herself with a dreamy smile wishing by some odd fate, they'd meet again.
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Hitomi had finally found her apartment with the help of an English speaking Japanese girl named Yukari. "Domo arigatou, Yukari," Hitomi said with a slight bow. "NO PROBLEM!" Yukari said with a smile. "You know, you should come to my house for supper tonight; I could introduce you to my husband, Amano, and he works at the same school that you'll be working." "I-I-don't know..." Hitomi said feeling sheepish. "Oh, nonsense, you're coming, it's a free meal, no?" Yukari said with a smile. "I'll probaly be late; I get lost rather easily..." Hitomi said blushing and clenching her hands together in a v-shape. "Voila! (FRENCH, yet again....)" Yukari says producing a piece of paper that has a small map drawn on it. "Now, you can't get lost!" she says with a smile. "Now go get washed up, change, and I'll see you at my place at 7 p.m." says Yukari with a wink and leaves.
Hitomi gets out her key and sighs again. She enters into her new home. "Wow...this is alot more than the New York apartment!" she says with a widening grin. Hitomi quickly unpacks her suitcase and picks out beautiful nude colored v-neck lace dress. She lays it on the bed and hops in the shower.
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Van ran along the sidewalk until he had finally reached his destination. "Oh god no..." he said as he saw the bank closing. He mumbled some curses as he trodded back home. "Another night I have to bum supper off of someone..." he said while kicking a rock. "I really have to quit NOT carrying cash with me...but then it just gets stolen when I do carry it...and if I carry a little it spends very quickly..." Van lets out a sigh and kicks another rock. He walks back to an aparment complex. He enters the building and walks up about two flights of stairs. He stops at Hitomi's door and listens to her singing in the shower. "She's singing in English," Van thinks to himself with a grin. "Maybe I should say hi...nah," he says laughing at the song she's singing. "It's a quirky little English song...I'm glad I learned English," he thought with a giggle. He went into his apartment and shut the door.
Next door, Hitomi came out tugging at her beige v-neck dress that hit about four inches about her knees. "I think it shrunk" she said with great concern trying to pull it down to an acceptable length. She put her small, black purse on her shoulder, slipped on her black stillettos, locked the door to her apartment and started downstairs, with Yukari's map in hand.
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Van picked up his telephone and dialed Amano and Yukari's number. "Konni!" he said with a chipper voice. "Van, you don't have any money to buy takeout again, do you?" says Yukari sarcastically. "Nope," Van says with a smile on his end. "Well, I guess you want to eat some of my food don't you?" Yukari says with a raised eyebrow. "Yup," Van says. "Okay, okay, you convinced me...get your butt over here right now though, NO EXCUSES!"
Amano looked at Yukari. "Van," he said while raising an eyebrow. "Yup..." she said. "Hehe, it looks like we have the whole faculty coming to dinner!" Amano says as the doorbell rings. Yukari goes to answer it. "Konnichwa, Schezar-san! And you brought Millerna!"
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Van takes off the suit he'd been wearing and lays down on his bed. "Man, I'm tired..." he says as he untucks his starchy shirt. "I hate clothes like this...they don't move...you could hurt someone with sleeves like this..." he says as he flicks a finger on it and the shirt doesn't move. He then looks up at the ceiling. "*sigh* How old are you now Van? Twenty-one and still no one hanging on your arm? You suck, you know that..." he says smiling to himself. He folds his arms under his head and closes his eyes. "What's missing from my story? A great girl..." he says turning his glance towards a stack of papers and a computer. "All of it's based on people I know...except the prince doesn't have a love life becuase I don't have one..." His gaze drifts back toward the ceiling. "That girl I bumped into was really pretty...I wonder who she was..." He starts to drift off into a deep sleep.
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Knock. Knock. Van is startled awake. He rubs his eyes and hair, then rolls out of bed to answer the door. It's Dryden.
"You look like you just woke up," he says with a grin.
"Hello to you too.." Van says leaning one arm against his door.
"So, were you ever planning on going to Yukari's?"
Van places his hands on top his head while he mumbles something to himself. Dryden lets out a big belly laugh at him. "What time is it?" Van said turning around quickly. "About 7:45..." "Oh man, I called her a little before 7!!!...She's gonna yell at me again! She might not have even saved me food!!!" Van says while pulling his blazer back on. Dryden just laughed; he still looked like a mess. His hair was dishuffled, his white collar shirt was halfway unbuttoned and half-way tucked in. "What?" Van said with a curious look motioning Dryden out the door. "You're a math teacher and look how irresponsible you look," he said laughing even more. "I don't care; I'm a writter first and foremost and then I'm a math teacher..." I said with an indignant look. "Right, and you're brother isn't famous..." Dryden said rolling his eyes and pushing Van along the way. "WAIT! Check to see if I locked the door and I'll check and see if I have my keys..." "Yea, you locked the door," Dryden called back. "Yea..." Van began frantically searching for his keys. "Oh no..." he said worriedly. He let out a sigh. "I did it again..."
"AGAIN?!" Dryden said slapping his forehead. "Yea, I'll just use the newgirl's balcony though..." Van said shrugging his shoulders wanting to go get his food. "You are hopeless, Van completely hopeless..." Dryden said with a smile following after him.
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*Ding-dong.* "Wow, she has an awfully pretty house..." Hitomi thought to herself blushing when Amano came to the door. "Ah," he said with an illuminating smile, "you must be Hitomi, come in please! I'm Amano," he said. He was a very nice looking man; too bad for her that he was already taken...at least he was eye candy!
He escorted her into the house where she saw many people gathered in the den. Yukari came out of another room to greet her. "Hey girl!" she said in English. She then cut her eyes around to everyone else and said something in Japanese which, bluntly put, turned out to be "talk slow around her; her naitive tounge is English." "Oh great," Hitomi thought, "now everyone is just gonna treat me like I'm stupid..."
Yukari turned to her and whispered, "don't worry, they speak English ok, but not as well as I do!" She winked and introduced Hitomi to everyone...in English.
"On the couch, there is Millerna Aston, she teaches A & P, Pre-Med..." she said pointing to a beautiful wavy headed blonde.
Hitomi made a short bow and stuck out her hand to shake hers, which wasn't returned with much warmth. Hitomi stepped back next to Yukari and looked at her. She proceeded with the next person.
"Next to her, is our princpal, Allen Schezar-san," she said showing Hitomi a gorgeous long blonde headed man. He had big, cerulean eyes and a dashing smile. He got up and Hitomi met him halfway to shake his hand, but instead, he knelt on one knee and kissed the top of her hand! She blushed while covering her mouth with her other hand. "So, chivilary isn't dead..." Hitomi said with a smile. She noticed Millerna glaring at me. "They must be a couple..." Hitomi thought to myself. "Konnichiwa, boku no tomadachi, Hitomi," he said, flashing her that priceless smile. He was definately a catch all right!
Yukari then pointed to a pink haired girl with her arms folded sitting in a corner by herself. She wore painted glasses and her top and dress were eccentrically matched. "This is Merlu, our art and drama teacher.." she said. "Very pleased to meet you Merlu," Hitomi said feeling a little tense karma emitting from her. "Hi," she simply replied not wanting to shake her hand. Hitomi's expression drooped as she thought how rude it was of Merlu to treat her like that. Hitomi didn't know which girl was worse; At least I knew Merlu was upfront about her disliking her...Millerna was just being 'nice.'
The next person Yukari introduced Hitomi to was Issac; he taught the rest of the sciences Millerna didn't teach. He looked like he could be 100 years old! Hitomi went over and shook his hand; he looked like it would kill him to move!
Sitting in the floor in front of Schezar-san, was a younger man who had a nice auroa about him. Yukari said his name was Gaddes and he was Schezar-san's second in command. "Very nice to meet you, Vice Principal..." Hitomi said bowing slightly. "Nice to meet you too, Kanzaki...you gotta give me some English lessons though...my English is pretty rough!" he said with a hearty laugh. "Good," Hitomi thinks, "at least he likes me."
"Over here we have Edward, " Yukari says pulling a man around to see Hitomi. He's short and has a funny face with circular glasses. "But we all call him, 'the mole man.'" Yukari says with a smile. "Hello, pretty lady" he says in a dry raspy voice sticking out his hand. "Hi, very nice to meet you!" Hitomi says smiling. He's weird, but he has decent manners. Hitomi likes him. "He teaches what would be our equvilant of woodshop," Yukari says with a smile.
Yukari then looks at a sliver headed, very effiminante boy staring directly into the flame of a candle. "This..." Yukari says while rolling her eyes, "is Dilandau, he's our equivilant of a welding teacher...which explains why he's too glued to the candle flame to talk to you..." she says sarcastically shruggin it off. "I heard that woman!" he says still staring at the candle. "BURN, BABY BURN!!!" he yells.
"Ano...ano...konnichiwa..." Hitomi says and he replies, "yea, what'sup...now, watch the flame..." Yukari simply puts her forehead in her hand for a moment and then says, "and last, but not least, we have Amano, my husband, who is the shcool counselor."
*Ring.Ring.* "I'll get that," Amano said running towards the kitchen. "Well," Yukari said with a sigh, "now that we all know everyone...let's eat!" Amano came back in and announced, "well that was Dryden; he's gone to go get Vannie-boy, as usual..."
"OOOOh...so that's where he went..." Millerna said. "I knew I saw him earlier, but then he just wasn't here anymore..." she continued until Allen shot her a look. "Geez, these people throw daggers every five seconds!" Hitomi thought feeling a knot in my stomach.
"Well, how could you expect Van to be responsible...I mean his brother is famous and all...he grew up a rich, spoiled little boy!" Gaddes said with another laugh.
"Famous?" Hitomi thought to myself.
"Don't speak that way about VAN!" said Merlu. "Wow...I think that's the first thing she's said tonight..." Hitomi thinks to herself as she watches Merlu relentlessly attack Gaddes. Her tiny hits barely affect the stout guy, but then she bites him!
"Eugh..." Hitomi thinks feeling her face turn a deep shade of red. "She's always like that..." Allen says from behind Hitomi. "It's a pretty crazy staff we got here...Van is our irresponsible, young, very young, math teacher...Dryden is an aristcratic businessman that likes history just a bit much..."
"Huh?" Hitomi says trying to figure out what he just said. He spoke in such elegance and Hitomi was so dazzeled by his good looks, she didn't think to pay attention to the Japanese words coming out of his mouth. Without thinking, Hitomi couldn't translate. "Ugh...I'm such a dork!" Hitomi thought to herself as Allen tried to explain to her again. "Van... is... our... math... teacher...and Dryden... is our... business/accounting... and History... teacher," he said very slowly in Japanese. He was really only trying to be nice, but Hitomi felt like he was downgrading her a nocth in her Japanese translating skills. "Hmph..." she said folding her arms.
Amano went back into the kitchen and Yukari started to serve everyone. Amano reappeared with two bottles of wine. "Just the occasion!" he said with a smile. He opened one bottle and Dilandau finally stirred. "ALCOHOL?!?!?" he said.
"I bet he's not a drinker..." Hitomi thought to herself scrunching back into a corner. "You're going to waste all that good firepower by drinking it?!?!?!" Dilandau cried out grabbing the bottle from Amano. "He should've been the lab teacher..." muttered Allen as Dillandau shook up the wine bottle with a thumb covering the opening. Allen shoved Hitomi and Millerna back some with a sigh. He knew what was coming. The rest of the crew just sat there, wondering what he was going to do.(1)
"Hey ya'll! Watch this!" Dilly said as he unplugged the wine and it shot out in a stream across the candle's flame. Thus, causing a huge flame to be spit out and he started slinging it in every direction around the room. "OH MY GOSH!!! AMANO, MAKE HIM STOP!!!!" Yukari screamed.
"You people deserve it for talking about Van like you do!" Merlu yelled with a balled up fist from across the room. "HEY MERLU!" Gaddes yelled. "GET A GRIP! The boy could burn the house down!"
Dilly replugged the bottle with his thumb and then guzzeled the rest of the wine. "Thanks..." he said handing the empty wine bottle to Allen. "You know...Your hair would burn really, really well..." he said fiddling with a lock of it in his hands. Allen jerked his hair from him. "No thanks..." he said with a glare. "GET YOUR PRYO HANDS OFF MY MAN!" Millerna said.
"Oh," Hitomi thought to herself, "...so he is taken..."
"You two are official now?" Amano said raising an eyebrow at the comment. Allen looked at Hitomi who then looked the other way. She tried to avoid his stare, but it seemed he was looking at her. "Well...we're more than friends...but not official..." he said with a small hint of nervousness in his voice. "WHAT?!?!" Millerna screamed. "I'm going home! I'm sorry Yukari!!!" Millerna said almost in tears. As she left, she threw me a death glare. "What did I do?" I thought to myself.
"Uhhh...I might outta go after her..." Allen said grabbing his jacket and leaving.
"Dilly!" Yukari screamed still fuming over how her house had almost been burned to the ground. "NOW!" she said pointing to the door. "No prob, sweetcakes...that's all I needed..." he said with a maniacal laugh.
"Wow..." Amano said looking around the room. "That took care of a lot of our guests..."
"Let's just eat..." Yukari said with a sigh.
"Shouldn't we wait on Dryden and Van?" Gaddes asked.
"No, they'll be forever and a day..." Yukari said going to sit down at the table.
"THAT'S IT!!! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I WON'T SIT HERE AND LISTEN TO YOU BERATE VAN LIKE THAT!" screamed Merlu while pushing her glasses back up on her nose. "I'm leaving!" Then, she stormed out the door, slamming it so hard that the house shook.
Hitomi had a look of sheer fear on her face. "What have I gotten myself into?" she thought.
"C'mon little lady, you can escort me to the table!" said the Mole Man. Hitomi looked back over her shoulder to see Issac still sitting in his chair. He was asleep. Gaddes came back in to the living room and looked at him too. "This has probably been enough excitement for him in one night...I should take him back to his house..." he said wheeling him out of the house. "Tell Yuki I'm sorry!" he called back to Hitomi as he shut the door.
"Ano...ano...Gaddes..." Hitomi stuttered looking around for the Mole Man. "Gaddes left to take Issac home; we heard his big mouth!" Amano said pulling out a chair for Hitomi. "Oh man, what a night!" Yukari said finally getting to eat some of her supper. "And it's only 8 p.m.! Imagine that!" Amano added. Hitomi just silently ate her supper. Yukari was a rather good cook.
But the moment was lost when someone from underneath the table hit Hitomi's dress. She looked underneath the table to find the Mole Man looking up her skirt! "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" she squeeled and jumped up in her chair, her faced gushed with redness. The Mole Man hit his head on the underside of the table and then said, "I meant no harm little lady, I just wanted to see if that was your skin or not underneath the dress. I couldn't tell with it being beige and all..."
Hitomi had an indignant look on her face and then stuttered, "y-y-you could'a just a-a-asked!" Her face was still flushed and Yukari could tell she wouldn't feel comfortable any more tonight. "You just want me to fix you a to go plate?" she said with a smile helping Hitomi off the chair. "H-h-hai...a-arigatou..." she said watching the Mole Man's every move. So at about 8:10 Hitomi left Yukari's. About five minuets later, Van and Dryden strolled in.
"Van! You look like a mess! And WHY are you late?!?!" Yukari started yelling at him. Dryden just helped himself to a plate of food sitting out by Amano. "Awww...c'mon Yuki, it wouldn't be interestin' if I was late or nothing..." Van said with a smile putting his arm around her shoulders. "Van-I've had enough excitement for one night!" Yukari said in a stern tone. "SERIOUSLY?!?! WHAT'D I MISS???" Van said as his eyes lit up.
"One of Dilly's light shows," Amano said shoving another piece of food in his mouth. "LIGHT SHOWS?!?!? LIGHT SHOWS?!?! IT WAS A PRYO'S ENJOYMENT OF ALMOST BURNING MY HOUSE DOWN!!!" Yukari screamed. "Really? Dude, I can't believe I missed it!" Van said wanting to know more. Yukari shot him a look that told him to shut up if he wanted any food. "*ahem* I mean...uhh...that's horrible...he's so irresponsible," Van said in the most professional tone he could muster out of himself. Amano and Dryden just laughed where as Yukari only got more irratated. "You know you love me, Yuki!" he said giving her a hug. She shoved him a plate of food. "Poor Hitomi," she said after sitting down. "Yeah, I feel bad for her too," commented Amano. "Who's Hitomi?" Dryden said coming up from inhaling ramen. "She's the new English teacher," Amano said. "Is she hot?" Van said with a smile. "You won't have any girl until you learn to be a little more resposible!" Yukari shouted. Van looked at Amano. "My wife is sitting right in front of me, do you think I'm that stupid?" he said grinning. "Ok, so she is hot," Van said with a sly grin. "So," he said tossing his chopsticks back into his dish, "I'm done and it was wonderful as usual!" he said giving Yukari a small kiss on the cheek. "Van Fanel, you'd better love me!" she said as he left out the door. "I do Yuki! I do! Like the sis I've never had!" he called before shutting the door. "I promise, I'll never do this again!" Yukari said with Dryden and Amano both laughing till they almost cried.
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Hitomi unlocked her door and took her shoes off and set them by the entrance. "Ohhh..." she groaned half from being tired from jetlag and half from embarassment. "Who did he think he was anyway?" she thought to herself. She slung her purse on her bed and went to her mini-fridge. "Oh, right...I haven't been shopping yet...maybe there is a vending machine around...I really am thirsty and I still have Yukari's supper to eat..." she said leaving the door to her apartment unlocked.
Just after Hitomi went down the stairs, Van came up. They had just missed each other. He then proceeded to break into her apartment, but found it already unlocked! "WOW," he thought with a devilish girn, "my lucky day!" He went in and noticed her black stilletos laying by the door and her little black purse slung on the bed. He became a little intrigued after he remebered her singing English songs in the shower. He started rambling through her things. "I bet she's hot...she's got hot chick clothes..." he muttered. He then heard the door opening and quickly slipped into her closet. "I can't believe the vending machine is in the lobby..." she said putting her shoes back on to go find the machine across the yard. She left just as quickly as she had come in.
Van let out a sigh of relief and stepped from out of the closet. Then the door opened again; he slide in the closet again and this time, Hitomi flung the closet doors open. Van tightened and held his breath. "It's become frightfully cold...I want a jacket," she said grabbing one right in front of Van. He quickly moved to the other side of the closet and then heard the door shut. Another sigh of relief came from his lips and Hitomi left again.
Van got out and just as he was going to make a dash for the balcony, Hitomi reappeared. "This jacket isn't warm enough," she mumbled taking out a chunk of clothes from the closest and letting a scream escape her mouth. Van was startled and he let out a scream too. He then took her by the shoulders saying," I swear,I'm not going to hurt you!" Hitomi grabbed one of her shoes off of her foot and hit him with it. "WHO ARE YOU?!?!" she screamed panting in fear. He finally calmed her down out of her hysteria and then said, "you know, you look naked in that dress..." Hitomi took offense to this comment and hit him with the shoe again. "Owww..." he said rubbing his black, thick hair. "Who are you?" she repeated again. "Who are you?" he recountered her question. "Fine," Hitomi said folding her arms and still keeping the shoe in hand. "I'm Kanzaki, Kanzaki Hitomi and who are you and why were you in my closet?" she said finally realizing he wasn't going to hurt her. "I'm the guy next door and I locked myself out..." he said with a sheepish, cheesy grin upon realizing to whom he was speaking. "She's the new English teacher,she's hot, and she thinks you're stalking her!!! Smooth move Van!!!"
"You locked yourself out?" Hitomi said raising an eyebrow. "Yea, and I'll be going now!" Van said making a mad dash for the balcony from all the embarassment. "WAIT!" Hitomi said running after him with her black stilleto shoe still in hand. "Did you run into me earlier today?" Hitomi said remembering the guy from earlier. "Yea, but you ran into me," Van said turning around. "I did not! You ran into me!" Hitomi screamed. "Well, I think I would know," Van said definatly, "because I'm not the one dressed like I'm naked..." he said with a snicker. "That's mean..." Hitomi said pouting. "Yea, well hitting someone on the head with a stilletto is mean too," Van said folding his arms across his chest. "I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO KILL ME!" Hitomi yelled out of frustration. "Yea, look at this logically...shrimpy guy-yea I admit it- hiding in your closet that screams when you scream at him...yea, like I was really going to do anything..." Van says with a laugh. Hitomi just gets more annoyed and pushes him out on the balcony. "Here ya' go!" she said then patting her foot waiting for him to get what he needed. Instead, to Hitomi's surprise, he jumped the railing to his railing. "Oh my gosh!" she yelled finally dropping the stilletto. Van climbed over his railing and went to unlock his door.
He then went back into Hitomi's apartment and whispered in her ear, "to answer your question, yes..." "DAHHH!" Hitomi jumped and turned around to see Van yet again. "QUIT DOING THAT!!! I didn't have my shoe!" she said meaning it in all seriousness, but they both had a good laugh over it. "I heard you singing in the shower; where are ya' from?" Van said flashing her his best smile. Hitomi just seemed to melt around him and that was good. That's exactly what he wanted to happen. He wanted her to forget that he had snuk into her room and forget to ask his name. "America," Hitomi said rubbing her arm nervously. She pushed a lock of her chesnut brown hair behind her ears and looked back up at Van. "He's so gorgeous...I mean he's got model potential..." she said blushing as she noticed his unkempt appearance. His white collar shirt was unbuttoned just enough to see that he was a nice tan and toned. He was smaller than most guys like he said, but muscles and size weren't everything to Hitomi. He had a very kind and gentle sense about him and Hitomi liked him. She liked him a lot.
"Well, wow..." he said putting his arms behind his head. "That's a long way away...I bet your tired..." Van said inching his way back towards the door. "Yea, I really am..." Hitomi said very quietly. "Well, I tell you what..." Van said, "I'll go get that drink you wanted...Coke ok?"
"Oh yea, that'd be great...thanks!" said Hitomi.
Van ran out the door and quickly returned with her Coke. When he came back, he found her in a pair of low slung yoga pants and a speghetti strap top. Van blushed and nearly dropped the Coke. She looked even more pretty than before. "Uhhhh..." he muttered while she took the Coke from him. "Thanks, again!" she said with a chipper tone.
"No prob..." he said leaving to go to his apartment. "Hey!" Hitomi called, "a name?"
Van let out a sigh and walked back to Hitomi's threshold. "You might as well know now..." he said sticking a hand in his pocket and the other rubbing his hair. "Van..." he said quite ly. "You mean irresponsible Van that knows Merlu?"
"WHAT?!?!" he yelled. "Who told you that? I bet it was dumb ol' Barbie-San..." Van started muttering more things, but Hitomi couldn't make them out. "Barbie-san?" she said. "Yea, Allen," Van said rolling his eyes. "Well, what's wrong with Allen?" Hitomi asked. "Nothing...I just don't like him at all..." he said leaving again.
"Ok, well good nite!...Van..." Hitomi said feeling just a little confused about where she stood on how well she liked Van. He was kind of arrogant when it came to being right, but otherwise, he was a pretty laid back guy. "Nite, Hitomi..." he called back flashing her a smile one last time.
So, like or no like? Continue or not? Funny or not? Don't care if you love it or hate it, just let me know if it's worth making the next chapter! It'll get fluffier later... *hugs* jj
P.s. sorry for any person changes (i.e. 1rst person to 3rd) i wrote this really late at night ^_^; Also, if you review, let me know what you think a good tittle would be!
For this fic, Hitomi is American(meaning born and raised in America with Japanese ancestry) and she will be teaching English and the literature that goes along with it. Van will be teaching high school level math.(he seems like the type to be good at math, no?) Where did this weird idea come from? Thinking about being an English teacher overseas in another country and thinking about all the weird quirks the teachers at my school have..LOL
Disclaimer: Jesse and James from Pokemon are here to do it today! (they enter in matching suits and ties!)
Jesse: Prepare to be sued!
James: If you don't give due!
Jesse: To capture all bootleggers in the nation!
James: To protect poor writers from devistation!
Jesse:To denounce the evils of copying and plagerizing!
James: To make original work look mezmorizing!
Jesse: Japanimejo doesn't own the rights!
James: So, sit back, enjoy, let the story take flight!
(mind you, i don't own Pokemon either, but i do own that little rhyme!)
Hitomi took a deep breath in as she got off the plane. She feared that this was going to be way harder than what she expected. "It's Japan, alright..." she said looking around metropolitan Tokyo. "Oh my goodness, what have I done?" she said with a slight smile as she awaited her luggage. She listened to the people surrounding her. She spoke Japanese pretty fluently, but she couldn't catch on the the dialect or the speed with wich everyone spoke. No matter, she had her trusty pocket translator dictionary with her. She'd be ok...eventually.
Hitomi let out a sigh of relief as she saw her luggage coming down the rack. "Ok, so it's off to find my apartment..." Hitomi mumbled looking at the Japanese characters. She didn't know Japanese characters as well as she did romanji. She muttered to herself as she walked stumbling through everyone in the crowds. BUMP.
"Oh, oh! I'm sor-I mean...Gomen Ne, gomen ne!" she said bending to pick up her luggage she had just dropped. The man stooped down to help her pick everything up. Her eyes met his and he was probaly the most handsome man she'd ever laid eyes on. He had messy, raven noir(-FRENCH!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEE) hair and the most beautiful crimson marron(-MORE FRENCH!!!) eyes. Hitomi's mouth just dropped. He was drop dead gorgeous...and she couldn't even talk to him.
But the moment was fleeting, it passed her by all too quickly. He muttered something which she could only roughly translate something about "being late" and he ran off again as quickly as he'd run into her. "Ja ne..." she said to herself with a dreamy smile wishing by some odd fate, they'd meet again.
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Hitomi had finally found her apartment with the help of an English speaking Japanese girl named Yukari. "Domo arigatou, Yukari," Hitomi said with a slight bow. "NO PROBLEM!" Yukari said with a smile. "You know, you should come to my house for supper tonight; I could introduce you to my husband, Amano, and he works at the same school that you'll be working." "I-I-don't know..." Hitomi said feeling sheepish. "Oh, nonsense, you're coming, it's a free meal, no?" Yukari said with a smile. "I'll probaly be late; I get lost rather easily..." Hitomi said blushing and clenching her hands together in a v-shape. "Voila! (FRENCH, yet again....)" Yukari says producing a piece of paper that has a small map drawn on it. "Now, you can't get lost!" she says with a smile. "Now go get washed up, change, and I'll see you at my place at 7 p.m." says Yukari with a wink and leaves.
Hitomi gets out her key and sighs again. She enters into her new home. "Wow...this is alot more than the New York apartment!" she says with a widening grin. Hitomi quickly unpacks her suitcase and picks out beautiful nude colored v-neck lace dress. She lays it on the bed and hops in the shower.
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Van ran along the sidewalk until he had finally reached his destination. "Oh god no..." he said as he saw the bank closing. He mumbled some curses as he trodded back home. "Another night I have to bum supper off of someone..." he said while kicking a rock. "I really have to quit NOT carrying cash with me...but then it just gets stolen when I do carry it...and if I carry a little it spends very quickly..." Van lets out a sigh and kicks another rock. He walks back to an aparment complex. He enters the building and walks up about two flights of stairs. He stops at Hitomi's door and listens to her singing in the shower. "She's singing in English," Van thinks to himself with a grin. "Maybe I should say hi...nah," he says laughing at the song she's singing. "It's a quirky little English song...I'm glad I learned English," he thought with a giggle. He went into his apartment and shut the door.
Next door, Hitomi came out tugging at her beige v-neck dress that hit about four inches about her knees. "I think it shrunk" she said with great concern trying to pull it down to an acceptable length. She put her small, black purse on her shoulder, slipped on her black stillettos, locked the door to her apartment and started downstairs, with Yukari's map in hand.
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Van picked up his telephone and dialed Amano and Yukari's number. "Konni!" he said with a chipper voice. "Van, you don't have any money to buy takeout again, do you?" says Yukari sarcastically. "Nope," Van says with a smile on his end. "Well, I guess you want to eat some of my food don't you?" Yukari says with a raised eyebrow. "Yup," Van says. "Okay, okay, you convinced me...get your butt over here right now though, NO EXCUSES!"
Amano looked at Yukari. "Van," he said while raising an eyebrow. "Yup..." she said. "Hehe, it looks like we have the whole faculty coming to dinner!" Amano says as the doorbell rings. Yukari goes to answer it. "Konnichwa, Schezar-san! And you brought Millerna!"
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Van takes off the suit he'd been wearing and lays down on his bed. "Man, I'm tired..." he says as he untucks his starchy shirt. "I hate clothes like this...they don't move...you could hurt someone with sleeves like this..." he says as he flicks a finger on it and the shirt doesn't move. He then looks up at the ceiling. "*sigh* How old are you now Van? Twenty-one and still no one hanging on your arm? You suck, you know that..." he says smiling to himself. He folds his arms under his head and closes his eyes. "What's missing from my story? A great girl..." he says turning his glance towards a stack of papers and a computer. "All of it's based on people I know...except the prince doesn't have a love life becuase I don't have one..." His gaze drifts back toward the ceiling. "That girl I bumped into was really pretty...I wonder who she was..." He starts to drift off into a deep sleep.
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Knock. Knock. Van is startled awake. He rubs his eyes and hair, then rolls out of bed to answer the door. It's Dryden.
"You look like you just woke up," he says with a grin.
"Hello to you too.." Van says leaning one arm against his door.
"So, were you ever planning on going to Yukari's?"
Van places his hands on top his head while he mumbles something to himself. Dryden lets out a big belly laugh at him. "What time is it?" Van said turning around quickly. "About 7:45..." "Oh man, I called her a little before 7!!!...She's gonna yell at me again! She might not have even saved me food!!!" Van says while pulling his blazer back on. Dryden just laughed; he still looked like a mess. His hair was dishuffled, his white collar shirt was halfway unbuttoned and half-way tucked in. "What?" Van said with a curious look motioning Dryden out the door. "You're a math teacher and look how irresponsible you look," he said laughing even more. "I don't care; I'm a writter first and foremost and then I'm a math teacher..." I said with an indignant look. "Right, and you're brother isn't famous..." Dryden said rolling his eyes and pushing Van along the way. "WAIT! Check to see if I locked the door and I'll check and see if I have my keys..." "Yea, you locked the door," Dryden called back. "Yea..." Van began frantically searching for his keys. "Oh no..." he said worriedly. He let out a sigh. "I did it again..."
"AGAIN?!" Dryden said slapping his forehead. "Yea, I'll just use the newgirl's balcony though..." Van said shrugging his shoulders wanting to go get his food. "You are hopeless, Van completely hopeless..." Dryden said with a smile following after him.
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*Ding-dong.* "Wow, she has an awfully pretty house..." Hitomi thought to herself blushing when Amano came to the door. "Ah," he said with an illuminating smile, "you must be Hitomi, come in please! I'm Amano," he said. He was a very nice looking man; too bad for her that he was already taken...at least he was eye candy!
He escorted her into the house where she saw many people gathered in the den. Yukari came out of another room to greet her. "Hey girl!" she said in English. She then cut her eyes around to everyone else and said something in Japanese which, bluntly put, turned out to be "talk slow around her; her naitive tounge is English." "Oh great," Hitomi thought, "now everyone is just gonna treat me like I'm stupid..."
Yukari turned to her and whispered, "don't worry, they speak English ok, but not as well as I do!" She winked and introduced Hitomi to everyone...in English.
"On the couch, there is Millerna Aston, she teaches A & P, Pre-Med..." she said pointing to a beautiful wavy headed blonde.
Hitomi made a short bow and stuck out her hand to shake hers, which wasn't returned with much warmth. Hitomi stepped back next to Yukari and looked at her. She proceeded with the next person.
"Next to her, is our princpal, Allen Schezar-san," she said showing Hitomi a gorgeous long blonde headed man. He had big, cerulean eyes and a dashing smile. He got up and Hitomi met him halfway to shake his hand, but instead, he knelt on one knee and kissed the top of her hand! She blushed while covering her mouth with her other hand. "So, chivilary isn't dead..." Hitomi said with a smile. She noticed Millerna glaring at me. "They must be a couple..." Hitomi thought to myself. "Konnichiwa, boku no tomadachi, Hitomi," he said, flashing her that priceless smile. He was definately a catch all right!
Yukari then pointed to a pink haired girl with her arms folded sitting in a corner by herself. She wore painted glasses and her top and dress were eccentrically matched. "This is Merlu, our art and drama teacher.." she said. "Very pleased to meet you Merlu," Hitomi said feeling a little tense karma emitting from her. "Hi," she simply replied not wanting to shake her hand. Hitomi's expression drooped as she thought how rude it was of Merlu to treat her like that. Hitomi didn't know which girl was worse; At least I knew Merlu was upfront about her disliking her...Millerna was just being 'nice.'
The next person Yukari introduced Hitomi to was Issac; he taught the rest of the sciences Millerna didn't teach. He looked like he could be 100 years old! Hitomi went over and shook his hand; he looked like it would kill him to move!
Sitting in the floor in front of Schezar-san, was a younger man who had a nice auroa about him. Yukari said his name was Gaddes and he was Schezar-san's second in command. "Very nice to meet you, Vice Principal..." Hitomi said bowing slightly. "Nice to meet you too, Kanzaki...you gotta give me some English lessons though...my English is pretty rough!" he said with a hearty laugh. "Good," Hitomi thinks, "at least he likes me."
"Over here we have Edward, " Yukari says pulling a man around to see Hitomi. He's short and has a funny face with circular glasses. "But we all call him, 'the mole man.'" Yukari says with a smile. "Hello, pretty lady" he says in a dry raspy voice sticking out his hand. "Hi, very nice to meet you!" Hitomi says smiling. He's weird, but he has decent manners. Hitomi likes him. "He teaches what would be our equvilant of woodshop," Yukari says with a smile.
Yukari then looks at a sliver headed, very effiminante boy staring directly into the flame of a candle. "This..." Yukari says while rolling her eyes, "is Dilandau, he's our equivilant of a welding teacher...which explains why he's too glued to the candle flame to talk to you..." she says sarcastically shruggin it off. "I heard that woman!" he says still staring at the candle. "BURN, BABY BURN!!!" he yells.
"Ano...ano...konnichiwa..." Hitomi says and he replies, "yea, what'sup...now, watch the flame..." Yukari simply puts her forehead in her hand for a moment and then says, "and last, but not least, we have Amano, my husband, who is the shcool counselor."
*Ring.Ring.* "I'll get that," Amano said running towards the kitchen. "Well," Yukari said with a sigh, "now that we all know everyone...let's eat!" Amano came back in and announced, "well that was Dryden; he's gone to go get Vannie-boy, as usual..."
"OOOOh...so that's where he went..." Millerna said. "I knew I saw him earlier, but then he just wasn't here anymore..." she continued until Allen shot her a look. "Geez, these people throw daggers every five seconds!" Hitomi thought feeling a knot in my stomach.
"Well, how could you expect Van to be responsible...I mean his brother is famous and all...he grew up a rich, spoiled little boy!" Gaddes said with another laugh.
"Famous?" Hitomi thought to myself.
"Don't speak that way about VAN!" said Merlu. "Wow...I think that's the first thing she's said tonight..." Hitomi thinks to herself as she watches Merlu relentlessly attack Gaddes. Her tiny hits barely affect the stout guy, but then she bites him!
"Eugh..." Hitomi thinks feeling her face turn a deep shade of red. "She's always like that..." Allen says from behind Hitomi. "It's a pretty crazy staff we got here...Van is our irresponsible, young, very young, math teacher...Dryden is an aristcratic businessman that likes history just a bit much..."
"Huh?" Hitomi says trying to figure out what he just said. He spoke in such elegance and Hitomi was so dazzeled by his good looks, she didn't think to pay attention to the Japanese words coming out of his mouth. Without thinking, Hitomi couldn't translate. "Ugh...I'm such a dork!" Hitomi thought to herself as Allen tried to explain to her again. "Van... is... our... math... teacher...and Dryden... is our... business/accounting... and History... teacher," he said very slowly in Japanese. He was really only trying to be nice, but Hitomi felt like he was downgrading her a nocth in her Japanese translating skills. "Hmph..." she said folding her arms.
Amano went back into the kitchen and Yukari started to serve everyone. Amano reappeared with two bottles of wine. "Just the occasion!" he said with a smile. He opened one bottle and Dilandau finally stirred. "ALCOHOL?!?!?" he said.
"I bet he's not a drinker..." Hitomi thought to herself scrunching back into a corner. "You're going to waste all that good firepower by drinking it?!?!?!" Dilandau cried out grabbing the bottle from Amano. "He should've been the lab teacher..." muttered Allen as Dillandau shook up the wine bottle with a thumb covering the opening. Allen shoved Hitomi and Millerna back some with a sigh. He knew what was coming. The rest of the crew just sat there, wondering what he was going to do.(1)
"Hey ya'll! Watch this!" Dilly said as he unplugged the wine and it shot out in a stream across the candle's flame. Thus, causing a huge flame to be spit out and he started slinging it in every direction around the room. "OH MY GOSH!!! AMANO, MAKE HIM STOP!!!!" Yukari screamed.
"You people deserve it for talking about Van like you do!" Merlu yelled with a balled up fist from across the room. "HEY MERLU!" Gaddes yelled. "GET A GRIP! The boy could burn the house down!"
Dilly replugged the bottle with his thumb and then guzzeled the rest of the wine. "Thanks..." he said handing the empty wine bottle to Allen. "You know...Your hair would burn really, really well..." he said fiddling with a lock of it in his hands. Allen jerked his hair from him. "No thanks..." he said with a glare. "GET YOUR PRYO HANDS OFF MY MAN!" Millerna said.
"Oh," Hitomi thought to herself, "...so he is taken..."
"You two are official now?" Amano said raising an eyebrow at the comment. Allen looked at Hitomi who then looked the other way. She tried to avoid his stare, but it seemed he was looking at her. "Well...we're more than friends...but not official..." he said with a small hint of nervousness in his voice. "WHAT?!?!" Millerna screamed. "I'm going home! I'm sorry Yukari!!!" Millerna said almost in tears. As she left, she threw me a death glare. "What did I do?" I thought to myself.
"Uhhh...I might outta go after her..." Allen said grabbing his jacket and leaving.
"Dilly!" Yukari screamed still fuming over how her house had almost been burned to the ground. "NOW!" she said pointing to the door. "No prob, sweetcakes...that's all I needed..." he said with a maniacal laugh.
"Wow..." Amano said looking around the room. "That took care of a lot of our guests..."
"Let's just eat..." Yukari said with a sigh.
"Shouldn't we wait on Dryden and Van?" Gaddes asked.
"No, they'll be forever and a day..." Yukari said going to sit down at the table.
"THAT'S IT!!! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I WON'T SIT HERE AND LISTEN TO YOU BERATE VAN LIKE THAT!" screamed Merlu while pushing her glasses back up on her nose. "I'm leaving!" Then, she stormed out the door, slamming it so hard that the house shook.
Hitomi had a look of sheer fear on her face. "What have I gotten myself into?" she thought.
"C'mon little lady, you can escort me to the table!" said the Mole Man. Hitomi looked back over her shoulder to see Issac still sitting in his chair. He was asleep. Gaddes came back in to the living room and looked at him too. "This has probably been enough excitement for him in one night...I should take him back to his house..." he said wheeling him out of the house. "Tell Yuki I'm sorry!" he called back to Hitomi as he shut the door.
"Ano...ano...Gaddes..." Hitomi stuttered looking around for the Mole Man. "Gaddes left to take Issac home; we heard his big mouth!" Amano said pulling out a chair for Hitomi. "Oh man, what a night!" Yukari said finally getting to eat some of her supper. "And it's only 8 p.m.! Imagine that!" Amano added. Hitomi just silently ate her supper. Yukari was a rather good cook.
But the moment was lost when someone from underneath the table hit Hitomi's dress. She looked underneath the table to find the Mole Man looking up her skirt! "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" she squeeled and jumped up in her chair, her faced gushed with redness. The Mole Man hit his head on the underside of the table and then said, "I meant no harm little lady, I just wanted to see if that was your skin or not underneath the dress. I couldn't tell with it being beige and all..."
Hitomi had an indignant look on her face and then stuttered, "y-y-you could'a just a-a-asked!" Her face was still flushed and Yukari could tell she wouldn't feel comfortable any more tonight. "You just want me to fix you a to go plate?" she said with a smile helping Hitomi off the chair. "H-h-hai...a-arigatou..." she said watching the Mole Man's every move. So at about 8:10 Hitomi left Yukari's. About five minuets later, Van and Dryden strolled in.
"Van! You look like a mess! And WHY are you late?!?!" Yukari started yelling at him. Dryden just helped himself to a plate of food sitting out by Amano. "Awww...c'mon Yuki, it wouldn't be interestin' if I was late or nothing..." Van said with a smile putting his arm around her shoulders. "Van-I've had enough excitement for one night!" Yukari said in a stern tone. "SERIOUSLY?!?! WHAT'D I MISS???" Van said as his eyes lit up.
"One of Dilly's light shows," Amano said shoving another piece of food in his mouth. "LIGHT SHOWS?!?!? LIGHT SHOWS?!?! IT WAS A PRYO'S ENJOYMENT OF ALMOST BURNING MY HOUSE DOWN!!!" Yukari screamed. "Really? Dude, I can't believe I missed it!" Van said wanting to know more. Yukari shot him a look that told him to shut up if he wanted any food. "*ahem* I mean...uhh...that's horrible...he's so irresponsible," Van said in the most professional tone he could muster out of himself. Amano and Dryden just laughed where as Yukari only got more irratated. "You know you love me, Yuki!" he said giving her a hug. She shoved him a plate of food. "Poor Hitomi," she said after sitting down. "Yeah, I feel bad for her too," commented Amano. "Who's Hitomi?" Dryden said coming up from inhaling ramen. "She's the new English teacher," Amano said. "Is she hot?" Van said with a smile. "You won't have any girl until you learn to be a little more resposible!" Yukari shouted. Van looked at Amano. "My wife is sitting right in front of me, do you think I'm that stupid?" he said grinning. "Ok, so she is hot," Van said with a sly grin. "So," he said tossing his chopsticks back into his dish, "I'm done and it was wonderful as usual!" he said giving Yukari a small kiss on the cheek. "Van Fanel, you'd better love me!" she said as he left out the door. "I do Yuki! I do! Like the sis I've never had!" he called before shutting the door. "I promise, I'll never do this again!" Yukari said with Dryden and Amano both laughing till they almost cried.
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Hitomi unlocked her door and took her shoes off and set them by the entrance. "Ohhh..." she groaned half from being tired from jetlag and half from embarassment. "Who did he think he was anyway?" she thought to herself. She slung her purse on her bed and went to her mini-fridge. "Oh, right...I haven't been shopping yet...maybe there is a vending machine around...I really am thirsty and I still have Yukari's supper to eat..." she said leaving the door to her apartment unlocked.
Just after Hitomi went down the stairs, Van came up. They had just missed each other. He then proceeded to break into her apartment, but found it already unlocked! "WOW," he thought with a devilish girn, "my lucky day!" He went in and noticed her black stilletos laying by the door and her little black purse slung on the bed. He became a little intrigued after he remebered her singing English songs in the shower. He started rambling through her things. "I bet she's hot...she's got hot chick clothes..." he muttered. He then heard the door opening and quickly slipped into her closet. "I can't believe the vending machine is in the lobby..." she said putting her shoes back on to go find the machine across the yard. She left just as quickly as she had come in.
Van let out a sigh of relief and stepped from out of the closet. Then the door opened again; he slide in the closet again and this time, Hitomi flung the closet doors open. Van tightened and held his breath. "It's become frightfully cold...I want a jacket," she said grabbing one right in front of Van. He quickly moved to the other side of the closet and then heard the door shut. Another sigh of relief came from his lips and Hitomi left again.
Van got out and just as he was going to make a dash for the balcony, Hitomi reappeared. "This jacket isn't warm enough," she mumbled taking out a chunk of clothes from the closest and letting a scream escape her mouth. Van was startled and he let out a scream too. He then took her by the shoulders saying," I swear,I'm not going to hurt you!" Hitomi grabbed one of her shoes off of her foot and hit him with it. "WHO ARE YOU?!?!" she screamed panting in fear. He finally calmed her down out of her hysteria and then said, "you know, you look naked in that dress..." Hitomi took offense to this comment and hit him with the shoe again. "Owww..." he said rubbing his black, thick hair. "Who are you?" she repeated again. "Who are you?" he recountered her question. "Fine," Hitomi said folding her arms and still keeping the shoe in hand. "I'm Kanzaki, Kanzaki Hitomi and who are you and why were you in my closet?" she said finally realizing he wasn't going to hurt her. "I'm the guy next door and I locked myself out..." he said with a sheepish, cheesy grin upon realizing to whom he was speaking. "She's the new English teacher,she's hot, and she thinks you're stalking her!!! Smooth move Van!!!"
"You locked yourself out?" Hitomi said raising an eyebrow. "Yea, and I'll be going now!" Van said making a mad dash for the balcony from all the embarassment. "WAIT!" Hitomi said running after him with her black stilleto shoe still in hand. "Did you run into me earlier today?" Hitomi said remembering the guy from earlier. "Yea, but you ran into me," Van said turning around. "I did not! You ran into me!" Hitomi screamed. "Well, I think I would know," Van said definatly, "because I'm not the one dressed like I'm naked..." he said with a snicker. "That's mean..." Hitomi said pouting. "Yea, well hitting someone on the head with a stilletto is mean too," Van said folding his arms across his chest. "I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO KILL ME!" Hitomi yelled out of frustration. "Yea, look at this logically...shrimpy guy-yea I admit it- hiding in your closet that screams when you scream at him...yea, like I was really going to do anything..." Van says with a laugh. Hitomi just gets more annoyed and pushes him out on the balcony. "Here ya' go!" she said then patting her foot waiting for him to get what he needed. Instead, to Hitomi's surprise, he jumped the railing to his railing. "Oh my gosh!" she yelled finally dropping the stilletto. Van climbed over his railing and went to unlock his door.
He then went back into Hitomi's apartment and whispered in her ear, "to answer your question, yes..." "DAHHH!" Hitomi jumped and turned around to see Van yet again. "QUIT DOING THAT!!! I didn't have my shoe!" she said meaning it in all seriousness, but they both had a good laugh over it. "I heard you singing in the shower; where are ya' from?" Van said flashing her his best smile. Hitomi just seemed to melt around him and that was good. That's exactly what he wanted to happen. He wanted her to forget that he had snuk into her room and forget to ask his name. "America," Hitomi said rubbing her arm nervously. She pushed a lock of her chesnut brown hair behind her ears and looked back up at Van. "He's so gorgeous...I mean he's got model potential..." she said blushing as she noticed his unkempt appearance. His white collar shirt was unbuttoned just enough to see that he was a nice tan and toned. He was smaller than most guys like he said, but muscles and size weren't everything to Hitomi. He had a very kind and gentle sense about him and Hitomi liked him. She liked him a lot.
"Well, wow..." he said putting his arms behind his head. "That's a long way away...I bet your tired..." Van said inching his way back towards the door. "Yea, I really am..." Hitomi said very quietly. "Well, I tell you what..." Van said, "I'll go get that drink you wanted...Coke ok?"
"Oh yea, that'd be great...thanks!" said Hitomi.
Van ran out the door and quickly returned with her Coke. When he came back, he found her in a pair of low slung yoga pants and a speghetti strap top. Van blushed and nearly dropped the Coke. She looked even more pretty than before. "Uhhhh..." he muttered while she took the Coke from him. "Thanks, again!" she said with a chipper tone.
"No prob..." he said leaving to go to his apartment. "Hey!" Hitomi called, "a name?"
Van let out a sigh and walked back to Hitomi's threshold. "You might as well know now..." he said sticking a hand in his pocket and the other rubbing his hair. "Van..." he said quite ly. "You mean irresponsible Van that knows Merlu?"
"WHAT?!?!" he yelled. "Who told you that? I bet it was dumb ol' Barbie-San..." Van started muttering more things, but Hitomi couldn't make them out. "Barbie-san?" she said. "Yea, Allen," Van said rolling his eyes. "Well, what's wrong with Allen?" Hitomi asked. "Nothing...I just don't like him at all..." he said leaving again.
"Ok, well good nite!...Van..." Hitomi said feeling just a little confused about where she stood on how well she liked Van. He was kind of arrogant when it came to being right, but otherwise, he was a pretty laid back guy. "Nite, Hitomi..." he called back flashing her a smile one last time.
So, like or no like? Continue or not? Funny or not? Don't care if you love it or hate it, just let me know if it's worth making the next chapter! It'll get fluffier later... *hugs* jj
P.s. sorry for any person changes (i.e. 1rst person to 3rd) i wrote this really late at night ^_^; Also, if you review, let me know what you think a good tittle would be!