So Close, So Far
A collection of Pyron/Jun vignettes by JSF
Quotable quotes: Ryu: I was just getting to know Ms. Jun and now we have already separated. It tears me up inside. Really too bad.
Pyron: What's too bad?
Ryu: Geh! Pyron!
Yoh: He just came to wish us farewell.
Jun: Pyron, you really shouldn't scare him like that. – From (I think it's French, but I'm not sure.) a French translation of the Shaman King manga.
JSF: ^_^ Isn't that cute? Pyron was jealous.
Pyron: What the-?! I was not!
JSF: ^_^ Yes you were!
Pyron: No I wasn't!
JSF: Yes you were!
Pyron: (blushes bright red) NO I WASN'T!!
JSF: YES you WERE!!
(Pyron and JSF begin bitching at each other.)
Jun: BE QUIET!! We have a chapter to start.
(Both immediately shut up.)
JSF: Anyway, today's vignette deals with jealousy. Read and enjoy.
Vignette #9: Green
Plip, plip, plip…
Multiple raindrops pelted against the glass window of the Tao siblings' fancy hotel suite in Tokyo on a gray, dismal evening. Ren was sitting on a couch drinking his milk and reading a magazine. His sister Jun was leaning against the window gazing outside with worried eyes and talking to him about something that had been on her mind for about a month: Yoh Asakura. He wasn't really listening to every word, though. He wasn't concerned about that nobody insect of a shaman.
However, Jun hadn't stopped talking about the boy in what seemed like an eternity. It bugged her brother, but whom it really bugged was her kyonshi, Lee Pyron. The dead man had also been leaning on the window and standing a few feet away from his mistress. He'd been looking at his reflection in the glass and the rain falling outside but had been listening to his dao-shi about that stupid boy for thirty minutes.
It was driving him bonkers.
What's so wonderful about Yoh Asakura anyway? he fumed to himself. Why is a beautiful woman like you so fascinated with him? He's too young for you and your personalities clash! Besides, you'll probably never see him again! What…what does he have that I don't?
The poor zombie was lovesick over the girl next to him and she probably was lovesick over that boy she'd just fought. Deep down Pyron knew his feelings were fated to be one-sided. He was just a walking corpse now. Jun would only think of him as a brother…if he would be that lucky to get that close to her. Why, oh why, oh why, oh why did he have to fall in love?!
"He's got a certain feeling of peace about him. It's a certain philosophy that anyone, even a hardheaded idiot, can't help but listen to. Ren…his strength is unusual. I don't know where he gets it but I can tell he's going to be a tough rival," Jun said. She was still rambling on about Yoh.
CLUNK! Ren set his milk bottle on the table beside him and spoke up, "He was just lucky. I am the one who is destined to become Shaman King. I am stronger than before. You don't need to worry, so quit talking about him."
"You are strong," she replied slowly, "but don't underestimate him. I'm only saying what's true."
"You're starting to sound like our father! 'Don't underestimate so-and-so! Listen to my every word! Blah, blah, blah!' That Asakura bastard is nothing special," Ren snapped.
"I have to agree with your brother!" Pyron blurted out, "I can't see anything special about him. He's really a speck of dust."
Jun whirled around angrily, faced Pyron, and gave him a glare that could have made Genghis Khan whimper.
"You…have…some…nerve," she hissed. "Aren't you grateful? That boy freed you!"
"Y-Y-Yes! I'm grateful for that…but…" he stammered.
"But what?! Speak up!!" she demanded. The kyonshi just stared at her helplessly. What could he possibly say? 'I'm horribly jealous of him because I'm in love with you and have been for weeks.' Yeah…right.
"Um…" was all that came out of Pyron's mouth.
"I thought so. Well since neither one of you will listen to me; I'm going into the kitchen to make some tea-by myself," she added as an afterthought. Pyron started to walk after her when Ren stopped him.
"You heard her. Don't worry; Neesan isn't one to get mad often and when she does she cools off quickly," the young shaman told him. Pyron sadly turned towards the window again and looked at his purplish-gray skin being reflected at him.
Heh, I shouldn't be gray, he thought bitterly, I should be green…because I'm green with envy.
JSF: Wow, I can't believe I've finished the second to last chapter! ^_^ I'm so proud of myself!
Jun: I'm surprised you actually stuck with updating a story so faithfully.
JSF: ^^' Well, the chapters are really short and easy to write.
Jun: You should be working on finishing your other stories, you know.
JSF: I will, I swear! I just won't do it now.
Jun: Then when will you do it?
JSF: After I finish this (which should be in about three days at the most).
Jun: Sure…
JSF: Shaddup and let the people review…