Sano just smiled his trademark goofy smile. He sat there thinking about the task at hand 'Ok so is it a boy or girl? Um I don't know well what name should it have if it's a girl? I got nothing um what name should it have if it's a boy? Still nothing oh no Misao is going to be so mad I cant think' he thought. Eventually he fell asleep. The baby started to cry but he didn't get up.
In the bathroom Misao heard the baby and knew how much this grade meant to Sano screamed "Sano can you get that" when she got no response she had to go investigate but she forgot that she was only in a towel and dripping wet. She walked out to see sano sleeping on her bed. She walked past him slapping him on her way over to the baby doll.
"What, what were I. Oh yea why did you have to slap me so hard!" he said rubbing his face. Then he realized Misao was standing there in a towel, dripping wet cradling their project trying to make it shut-up.
'What is sano looking at?' Misao thought. She looked down and realized she was only in a towel. "Oh sano im sorry well here take the kid and um I'm going to change into something," She said as red as a tomato. She slipped into the bathroom and got dressed in a little pink tank top with strawberry shortcake on the front and a little belly ring with pink crystals in it and her pants were pink with strawberries on them she wore her hair down for once she had to let it dry and she wanted to make sure the kid was under control so she was in a hurry. She stepped out to find Sano playing with the doll trying to make it tired so it would sleep all night. She looked at the clock it was 7:23.'Hmm… im making pretty good time I think I can get 30 min. of training in maybe I can spar with sano he looks like he could use the training^_^' Misao thought. "Oh sano do you think I could train a little tonight?" she said trying to avoid making eye contact with sano seeing as he saw a heck of a lot of her skin. 'Really what was I thinking walking out into my room in a towel' she thought.
" Yeah sure go ahead," he said. "Oh no I don't trust you in my room all alone I was hoping you would spare with me for about half an hour that's all I need" she said.
"Do I have to? But wait some one has to watch the kid" he said. "Okon will watch HIM. Since you won't figure out a gender it will be a boy but you have do decide on his name" she said.
' What's his name going to be oh man I don't know' sano thought.
"Come on sano let's go," she said dragging sano out of the room in hand and the baby in the other she dropped the baby on Okons lap as she walked out. "Okon will you take care of the kid its easy if he cries cradle him or feed him this (she threw him a bottle) it will only be for a half an hour please me and my husband have to bond and work some things out ok?" she said half way out the door. She dragged sano into the training hall. "Ok are you comfortable fighting in those clothes? (Nod from sano) ok good and do you have any weapons? ("No"sano replied) ok then I wont use mine ok so I cant hit you below the waist and you cant hit me below the waist or on the chest you understand right? (Another nod from sano) ok good. And those punches of yours ya know the ones that could break my bones if you use that ill use my weapons got it good. Lets begin," she said. She ran towards him she kicked his legs and he fell flat on his face. He quickly got up and punched her in the stomach. She held her stomach and coughed.
"You hit hard" she ran as fast as she could and hit him over the head and then kicked him in the stomach. He retaliated by kicking at her ankles and made her drop to the floor.
"How do you like being on the floor" he said. "Well you look better on the ground." She ran after him punching and kicking he also ran after her punching and kicking. All the sudden she backed up and pulled out a headband and tied it on her head. Sano fell over and sweat dropped.
"What?" he asked,
"Now im getting serious come on bring It.," she said.
"Just now you're getting serious?" he asked almost out of breath.
"Yup now come on I told you I was the top assassin, " she said.
"Ok im coming" he said running toward her. They started throwing punches at each other blocking some and throwing some and then came the kicks. Kick kick punch punches strangle hold break free kick punch kick kick punch punch punch. Then Misao did something unsuspected. She crouched down and did a low kick she knew sano was only going to stumble because she only kicked one leg so she punched him in the stomach so he would defiantly fall. So there he was lying on the floor she took off her headband and started to walk around sano to put it away then that's when she felt it. There on her ankle she felt a hand 'no way' she thought. He pulled her down but a split second before she hit the ground she looked at were she was going to land little did sano or her know she was going to land right on top of him. There they were Misao on top of sano on the floor all alone at 7:56 p.m. 'his face is only inches away from mine' Misao thought.
'She's so close I can smell her hair' he thought. And one second their faces were 3 inches away from each other then the gap started to close now they were 2 inches away then 1 inch away then half an inch away. Misao closed her eyes. 'Why am I closing my eyes, (she is sort of talking to her self the comas separate the voices) because you want to kiss him, no, no? No, really then explain why you closed your eyes, well I want to open them to this never happening, oh really well we'll just watch and find out who's right and who's wrong' she thought (she thought all this I like a fraction of a second). Then their lips touched. She backed a way a bit but leaned forward more they made contact.
'Huston we've made contact, no we haven't what am I doing' sano thought.
She deepened the kiss then she thought of the look Aoshi would give her if he were here then she stopped but never removed her lips from his. 'I don't feel all that much oh wait a second yes I do' she thought as he slipped his tongue in her mouth.
'No this isn't right' they thought. 'Or is it' they thought.
'Ok I'm going to get into so much trouble I have to stop' she thought scolding her self. She pulled away and slowly opened her eyes hoping that she would wake up and this would all be a bad dream. Nope she was still in the dojo on top of sano staring right into his deep brown eyes. She started to get lost in his eyes when she finally realized that she was on sano she knew she was on him but yet she didn't. She rolled off of him and stood up turning a light pink.
'Hmm… first kiss: Sano Sagara Were: Dojo floor me on top of him better log that away' she thought.
'That was nice' he thought (I know they don't exactly like each other that will be explained but in the series I think, like all of sanos relationships except kenshin, it's a love-hate reletionship.so in other words deal with it)
"Well it's um. Probably around 8:00 so we should get in and see how our son is doing don't you think?" she asked trying to avoid the subject of him and her.
"Yea" was all he could say. She walked into the house right to Okon and took the baby.
"So was he good?" she asked.
"Yes he was what's his name by the way?" he asked.
"Yeah sano what's his name?" Misao asked looking at sano.
"Um im not sure."(I couldn't think of one im going to make his name be hiko ok the real hiko isn't in this ok? ok)
"Fine ill make up his name he'll be named hiko ok any problems ok good we can cross off problem 1 and 2" Misao said. They walked upstairs to her room. She walked in and made a little bed on the floor for her baby and tucked him in.' he should be asleep until we decide to go to bed' she thought laughing to her self.
"Sano are you sleeping in your clothes or would you like to sleep in some thing of mine?" she asked.
"Do you have anything big enough?" he asked.
"Well I only have boxers that I think would fit you (future-istic clothes) but all my shirts are either big pink shirts or shirts that are tight on me" she said.
"Well ill sleep in the boxers then my shirt is already always half open so why not?" he said.
"Because of our little experience in the dojo" she whispered to herself.
"What?" he asked
"Nothing, nothing" she said. " Ok so lets look at our situations, " she said looking at the list for the first time. "Ok we live in a house about this size including the dojo that's pretty big um our son gets the flu oh no he'll be up all night when he gets it so that means one of us will be up all night to also we have to get a baby-sitter and have a "sleep-over" crap um also you get fired on Wednesday (its Monday they have class Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday) at least we have tomorrow off also you sprain your ankle so we have doctor bills and we'll have to buy toys for our kid and buy a crib and stuff also we have bills and blah, blah, blah" she said crossing decide gender of child and name child off the list. "This will be easy, I hope," she said.
"We have our own problems and now we have to have more problems like having a kid this wont be easy not only do we have all these problems but who are we going to get to baby-sit hiko while we're at school?" he asked.
"We don't have school tomorrow so we don't have to worry about tomorrow but I don't know what were going to do after that." she said.
"What problems do you have?" she asked.
"Well for one I have to figure out why the hell I just kissed you on the dojo floor and why I haven't asked about it" he said.
"Yea I guess I deserve that," she said blushing again.
"Also my kid sister I have to watch over her take care of the house I live in make sure my step-mom isn't to drunk when she comes home now I have this project and since you're my make-shift wife I have to deal with your problems to" he said.
"Hey no you don't you don't have to help me with my meaningless problems my problems are short term, I hope, but yours aren't deal with your life not mine but I appreciate it" she said. ' He, he was going to help me with my problems he's so sweet, no he's not you didn't want to kiss him you don't like him, yes I do! Gasp no I don't I like him as a friend, are you sure that's it, yes I love Aoshi not sano, NOT SANO!' she mentally fought with herself.
" No I have to help you I'm not going to let some one get beat up buy the Oniwabann group especially if I know the person I will help you cant hurt Aoshi but I wont let you go up against your boss all by your self " he said.
She glared at him. "Fine if you have to help me I have to help you, my make-shift husband, I wont let your family go down the drain im coming over to your house tomorrow and things will shape up!" she said triumphantly.
"Oh no you don't my family is fine your problem is serious its between life and death" he said. "And yours isn't your mom could die from drinking too much or she could come home and beat you and your sister to death that's life or death for ya" she said.
" And im not giving up even if I have to come over when the project is over I will help you" she said.
"Fine" he said. "Sano… about that kiss" she started.
"Oh yea" he said.
"Well um who kissed who did I kiss you or did you kiss me?" she asked.
"Um im not sure I think we both just leaned forward" he said.
"And we caught each other with our lips yea that's it" she said.
"Then how exactly do you explained the French kiss?" he asked.
"Um well either A. we were caught up in the moment or B. it slipped or C. I thought you were some one else," she said. C. Was just a joke "So you felt nothing, no I didn't, but then why didn't you erm I mean we break away sooner, I don't know, but you should know, ok one at a time, you go first" they both said at the same time."
"I'll go" Misao said.
"Ok" he said. "Well I was caught up in the moment and one thing lead to another and I didn't feel that much I think it meant we're just friends" she said.
"Yea I agree I felt the same way I felt something but I think it meant we're just friends" he agreed. She leaned in and kissed him.
"Im sorry I just had to make sure I remembered what I felt" she said.
He kissed her "me to" they both burst out laughing. (This is one of those things you laugh at when your like 90 or one of those things you do to cheer some one up like if Misao was upset sano might kiss her and say just wanted to remember what it felt like get it got it good)
" hee hee" they heard they looked at each other and they weren't laughing any more.
"Oh it's the baby," Misao said picking up the baby and giving him a bottle. "Ok now are you full yet?" she asked him." Yes ok now go back to sleep. Oh my gosh we talked so much I forgot about dinner did you eat already I didn't im starving no I don't care I wont take no for an answer ok come on well find something to eat" she said half way out the door he got up and followed. They got some junk food and some healthy but yummy food. They ate until they were full. She looked at the clock and guesses what time it was. "11:00 hm.. I thought I would fall asleep at like 10:00 especially since I was training today. What time are we going to sleep?" she asked.
"What time do you want to go to sleep?" he asked.
"Oh do you want to change into your pajamas and we can watch a scary movie till we fall asleep," she suggested.
"Sure wares the boxers? And were am I sleeping?" he asked.
"I'll show you were they are and um well it depends either you sleep on the floor or you sleep in my big futon. Now remember its big but im in there with ya so sleep on the floor by yourself or in my big comfy futon with me" she said.
"I think ill take the futon thanks," he said.
"Is that your final answer?" she said jokingly.
"Yes Regis" he said.
" Ok wait here ill get you the boxers," she said. She went upstairs. She soon came down with some tweedy bird boxers. "Sorry it's either this or you sleep in the nude and I don't want that," she said.
" Ok I guess it will do," he said going into the bathroom. He soon came out with the boxers on and that's about it. He came out to the aroma of popcorn. He saw a bunch of tapes on the couch that was now moved in front of the T.V. Misao soon came out of the kitchen with a big bowl of popcorn and a remote. She set the popcorn and picked up the tapes.
"Ok sano your choice um either the ring, or this one it has vampires in it and they are doing something scary, or this one the 13 ghosts." She said holding out his choices.
"Ok ill take the ring," he said.
"Lovely I like that one its super scary but I don't like the part with the horses" she said getting the chills.
"Im going to go get some blankets make yourself comfy on the couch" she said running upstairs for the millionth time. She came back down with a blanket wrapped around her and 2 others. "Here do you want one?" she asked while throwing it on sano.
"Sure I guess I have no choice." Sano said. She walked over and popped the tape in and pressed play.
"This movie is scary I talk to the characters like ya know don't go in there and stuff and if I hold on to you for dear life I think it will make the movie less scary so if I hug you or something its not 'cus im attracted to you (she laughed but he knew she was just kidding) ok so enjoy the show" she said. She grabbed a big pillow and hugged it in her lap like a teddy bear. The movie carried on and she got even more scared she was hugging the life out of that pillow. "No, no don't watch it you stupid kid. Ouch that looks like it hurt" she commented. Then a scary part came she gasped and threw her pillow by accident. Sano just laughed.
"You're a wussy ya know that?" he asked her
" Yes I do I get scared easily" she said. The part with the horses came and she almost screamed but remembered she'd not only wake Okon up but she'd wake hiko up to so she just hugged sano as tight as she could.
*Yawn*"oh man im tired um I think ill go to bed we've both seen this movie before so I'm going to bed" she said.
"You just don't like the horses" he said. "But I guess im tired to so come on lets go to bed" he said. He practically had to pick her up. She dragged herself into bed. She fell asleep almost as soon as her head hit the pillow. They only slept about an hour when she woke up from hiko. "Go to bed" she said. She got up and picked him up and cradled him he just had a bad dream that's all so she sung to him." Hush little baby don't say a word momma's going to buy you a mocking bid and if that mocking bird don't sing momma's going to buy you a diamond ring if that diamond ring turns brass momma's going to buy you a. Ok good he's asleep" she set him down and went back to bed.
"Nice singing" sano said half asleep.
"Thanks" she said then fell asleep. The rest of the night went by with out interruptions.
"Gasp Misao you said nothing would happen!" Okon said in a joking voice.
"What, what are you talking about?" Misao said with her eyes half open. She looked down what ever she was laying on it was warm and moving. Wait moving. 'Sano?' she was laying on sano and he wasn't wearing a shirt. She jumped up then tripped over herself and fell back on top of him. Yea that woke him up.
"Ah Misao get off!" he said as she got up as fast as she could.
"Sorry obviously im not a morning person" she said. "Okon get out!" she yelled. Okon got out as fast as he could. Misao slowly walked into her closet she picked out a pink tee shirt and blue pants. Lots of bracelets and necklaces. She stepped out of the closet and put her hair up in a braid. "Get dressed ill dress the baby," she said reaching for the now awake and giggling child. " Hi. Good morning." She told the baby. She dressed him and set him down.' What am I going to do at sanos im not that bad of a cook I guess I can cook something for him and how old is his little sister and what am I going to do about his step-mother' Misao, for the first time, thought about what she was going to do with sanos problem.
"Thanks for waking me up " he said sarcastically.
"Huh? Oh yeah your welcome" she said half asleep on her bed.
"Ok so now what are we going to do we have this kid who takes up like our whole day" he said.
"Um well I don't know we should go over to your house so I can help you with your problems like I said last night. Oh my god last night I got my assignment and I have to kill err.. Assassinate him by Friday. Sano what am I going to do? Wait no ill think about my problems later right now I have to watch hiko to make sure I know when he gets sick " she said holding the baby.
"You'd be a great mother well if you weren't the black fox and all" he said.
"Gee thanks Sano ok let me get my skateboard and my shades and we can go," she said. She started to walk out of the room grabbing a black baseball cap and a pair of sunglasses on the way out. She put the cap on backwards and put on the shades.
"Hey why do you need sunglasses and a hat are you ashamed of me or something?" he asked grabbing his skateboard.
"Um well no im ashamed of being a skater at the skate park I was lucky enough to know you that's why they let me skate there but none of them know me with out my shades and people look at me funny. Besides I don't think any one besides my friends and family has ever seen my real eye color," she said grabbing her board to. They walked out side set their skateboards down and began to skate slowly so Misao wouldn't accidentally fall and hurt their doll err child.
" So Misao why don't you let people see your eyes?" he asked.
"Because I think your eyes are what give you away my eyes are seafoamy-greeny blue that's not necessarily a common color. But I wear colored contacts if I cant find my shades" she said.
"Oh well what color do you wear?" he asked.
"Not like it matters but I were green but the pupils are only slits like a cat or a fox that's were I got my name the only man that got away from the black fox saw my eyes but luckily I had my contacts in so he spread the word that my eyes were like, like a fox because I was so sly and black came from the back shadows that I "magically appeared and disappeared" in" she said.
"Oh I get it we'll who was the man that got away?" he asked. That brought tears to her eyes remembering how badly she got punished for letting him slip through her fingers. "Well I didn't tell you this but I was like 11 when Aoshi was 13. Like I said before Aoshi left the Oniwabann when he was 13 right? (Nod from sano) yes well they sent me to look for him I didn't know him then they only called him the ice cube then so I didn't know him they sent me of all people to get him back we fought and when I was on the floor he could have killed me but didn't he just asked me to remove my shades and he would spare my life I did and he couldn't believe my eyes he knew they were false and was going to ask me to remove my contacts but reinforcements were coming so he had to flee I didn't ever see his face just he blood thirsty icy blue eyes of his" she said with misty eyes.