A/N: now, on with the next chap, I promised you guys with a rapid update and I hope you're satisfied. Notes, Misao, Kaoru and Megumi are housemates. Ok, go on.
CHAPTER FIVE ~ EYES"Tell me, what was he like?" Kaoru urged her when they finished dinner three nights ago, the night she walked home with a guy so handsome her heart might break.
"C'mon, tell us. It's kinda weird to have a man walk you home without doing something bad to you first." Megumi came up with a reasonable excuse. "Well, not that you're really desirable…"
"Whatever that you said, you sly fox???!!!!" Misao held out her hand, aiming to throw her mug and break Megumi's little cocky-head. "I DO have female's attributes, you know!!."
"Then it's a surprise that guy didn't even try to see your 'female attributes'!," Megumi answered with a sly grin. "Why is that, do you think?"
"You…." She nearly threw her mug at Megumi when Kaoru asked one of her questions, "Ne, Misao-chan…I myself feel a lil' bit suspicious too. How does he look like?, did he look like a gangster, drug addict or something?"
"Well….if he looked like a gangster, I wouldn't think twice to run away." Misao rolled her mug in her hands, and then shifted to sit on the floor, her side on own of the throw pillows. Her eyes rolled upward, her mind reeling, trying to replay the scene in the alley, "He was tall…6 feet, I think.."
"Was he handsome?" Megumi interrupted before Misao could finish her sentence.
"Can you at least let me finish?…are you getting hungry, fox?"
"Hmmphh."
"Okay, it was dark, then so I couldn't see his face."
"Hmmmppphhhh…….", Kaoru and Megumi both sighed.
"But when we were getting at the end of the alley, I could see his face. Clearly".
Kaoru and Megumi eyed her with new force.
"He has dark hair, with dark thick brows. And his eyes…were the most beautiful feature on his face. They were blue. Ice-blue eyes. The most enigmatic eyes you've ever beheld. Just perfect. I think I've dropped my heart somewhere in the alley that night. Aahhh..the way he looked at me..so intense…. Definitely, I did drop my heart there. Must go to the alley again and retrieve my heart." Nobody can manage to look as dreamy as Misao then. Her eyes have rolled down, her lids half-closed, her body was now sprawled on the throw pillows.
Kaoru and Megumi exchanged looks and shook their heads.
"And he had a very kind smile. Altogether I can say that he was…… pretty handsome." Misao finished her description of a man she hardly knew with a heart-warming smile of her own. Suddenly, she stood up.
"No, that was a major understatement!!!. He's not pretty handsome….he's…he's..he's deadly handsome…."
Kaoru and Megumi eyed her with dreamy eyes.
"I wish I can meet him." There went Kaoru.
"I wish I can date him." There went Megumi.
" Hey, where will you throw those two dudes? In the closet?" Misao reminded them both of their lovers. Correction: Megumi's lover and Kaoru's dear boy. "Megumi, try not to steal him away, ok?. You have enough to deal with Sano tailing your butt."
" Oh..Yes. I know, Sano will be too busy with his job. He won't know whatever I do.." she said with a smirk on her flawless face. " He kept talking about the company which the company he is working for is selling away. Mm…Ma..What Ma? Ahah! It's Makototech. He told me about the profits that are not profits actually, and the economic review of the country recently, bla..blaa. I'm a doctor, I have no use for that economic stuff." Megumi sighed heavily before continuing. "Next, he will tell me about his financial research and all those money-making stuff!!. Hmmphh…that rooster-head!!!. The only good thing about his mouth is his kissing!!"
Kaoru broke the silence that exploded afterwards. "Maybe he was tired at that time, or he needed someone to hear him."
"Oh, well….Maybe. He told me he was just back from his boss's house. The boss wanted to take a leave. For two years or so. That's why Sano got busier these days." Megumi explained with pouty lips. "Screw his boss."
"That's a pretty long leave." Misao said, slightly shocked.
"Ya, he said that he does need a rest. He was working so very hard during
the past ten years."
"That's why Oniwaban is such a powerful company now." Kaoru added with a shrug. "No wonder they rule the industry." Her face turned a little sour. "I wonder what possessed me to have an eye for a common teacher like Kenshin."
"Hey, he will always have time for you. Go shopping with you, playing bowling..Or even a light stroll in the park.." Misao began dreaming.
Megumi was a little bit more blunt. "But he still hasn't gotten the nerve to tell you how much he loves you. I guess he can't help it. Him, being so sweet and all.."
"Yes, he's so kind too. I notice that he likes kids." Misao told her with a sweet smile.
"Perhaps that attracted me. He's so kind and so sweet."
"That's a right choice, a perfect choice in fact." Misao patted Kaoru's shoulder.
"Yeah, sweet like honey, baby!!." Megumi put in smoothly. Kaoru eyed her, eyes full of meaning and mischief. "What are you suggesting, fox?"
" That you seduce him and test his sweetness, tanuki…" her eyes glinted as fox ears began to pop on her head. "Ohohohoho!!!!...but I know you can't do it, tanuki. You're much too childish!!!."
"Whatever you say, fox!!!." Fumes escaped her ears. " But stay away from Kenshin!!!. He's mine!!" Kaoru growled.
Megumi put her index finger on her lips, acting to consider the condition. "Well, Sano is quite busy right now. Besides, Ken is one hot guy. Mmm."
"Don't call him that, you slimy fox!!!"
"Hey, guys!!!...Now that you all have your Mr. Right, will you leave that particular guy to me?" Misao grinned.
"Huh?!," Kaoru and Megumi stopped pulling each other's hair and looked up. "What guy?!!" Megumi and Kaoru both asked. Both wore a look that was a perfect impression of blankness.
* * *
Misao would have enjoyed killing them. After so many quarrels, they actually have forgotten the whole scene, including the man who caused them. The man with two breathtaking ice-blue eyes. The man..she didn't even know his name. But why couldn't she seem to forget him? Was it because she had lost the only man she loved? Or because she remembered the memory of Enishi? Nonsense!!! She had blotted out every single thing she remembered about him. Why, he just liked being with her, he didn't love her!
" I love you, Misao. Always." He had told her.
" I love you too, Enishi. Forever." And how stupid she had been. Taking the love he had never offered. And offering a love he never even took. Misao could almost gag on the silly memory of her confessing her love to Enishi. How stupid was she, to cry even when she knew he dumped her for another woman. She was not the same stupid girl then. She was eighteen when she met Enishi, and now she's twenty-three, she thought with a little confidence she seemed to gain from nowhere. But the whole situation has brought her to a whole new one- she would never ever love again. The pain of betrayal, and rejection..were too much for her to bear. Each time a man tried to come closer, she would vanish. She wasn't angry with Enishi, she was angry with herself. At her own stupidity, at her own naïveté.
Dammit she wasn't angry with Enishi!!. She was furious with him!!!. She had every right to. She did everything she could to make him happy. She laughed with him, played bowling with him, watched movies with him, she had done everything with him, except sleeping with him.
No, that's one line that she'd never cross. Not for Enishi, not for anybody.
But then, for the first time in her adult life, she couldn't shove away the image of the guy with the blue eyes. His heart-warming smile..and his eyes. Those piercing blue orbs can melt a glacier, she thought while her mind was replaying the scene in the alley for the hundredth time since last week.
And now that she was nearing the alley, she had some insane idea of seeing him materialize from the darkness the way he had not long ago. She hated being left alone, but both Kaoru and Megumi were out, invading the city. So, she went out, following her feet, and now she was at the alley again.
Soft breeze were flowing her long jacket, the way it had when she was here the last time. She wore a long flowery dress, a light fabric that felt soft against her skin, and on the outside, she draped a long jacket, because the wind was blowing and the night was chilly. She stepped farther, unconsciously hoping she would meet the guy that haunted her dreams once again.
True love lives…
