KG: Chapter four!! Sorry that I didn't post this chapter sooner! I just got loaded with homework this week! I might not finish before Christmas, but I want to put in a one-shot Christmas fic if I have time. Hope you enjoy this chapter! ^__^
I don't own digimon frontier, or any other anime
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Do You Love Me, or Not?—Promise
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Did he just say that? How could Kouji ask that?! Okay, I mean we had done it once before.... but that was before we were in love and he knew it.
"No, Kouji!" I told him while shaking my head. No way! That would not be right! Kissing, hugging, that was okay, but now this?
"Kouichi, we'll just help clean each other up! I mean we are still brothers, right?" and now he uses that against me...
"Of course we are still brothers but we love each other now Kouji, it's different now!
"Kouichi...." He gave me a look with his face that I had not seen before...
"....." Great, he was trying to convince me now by making a begging sort of face!! I couldn't believe it... why was he so desperate anyways?
I had and gave no intention of giving in and crossed my arms across my chest to make my point, "No."
That's when Kouji came over to me and pecked me on the cheek causing me to blush. No, anything but that...
"Just this once... we're not gonna do anything..." he now had this absolutely cute pleading look on his face that made me want to just melt to the floor. Oh geez... I could never keep up a good stand, especially against Kouji... and I was the older brother here!
I smacked my hand to my face in defeat, "Ooohh... fine but only this once!!"
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Why had I let him convince me? We had gone to my room and chosen clothes to change into were now currently in the bathroom. The tub had already been filled with warm water. I felt extremely uncomfortable now. Kouji was facing the wall opposite to me and was now beginning to take off his dirty yellow shirt. I immediately turned around and all while blushing furiously, began to do the same thing. I quickly took off the rest of my clothes and got into the tub before Kouji was even half done.
I moved over to one side of the tub and reached for the shampoo. I squeezed some out and began to wash my hair, making sure to face away from Kouji's direction. I wanted to finish as quickly as possible so that I could get out of here. I felt the water rise as I was about to rinse my hair and I knew that Kouji had gotten into the bathtub. I felt a hand rest upon my shoulder. I turned around and found my face in such close proximity with his.
"Hey Kouichi, could you pass me the shampoo?" he asked while pointing to the bottle. He had untied his hair and it flowed over his shoulders and down his back gracefully like a black river, something I had not noticed before. All in all, I thought that he looked good like that, and then I became aware of the fact that I had been staring at him for the past few minutes and felt my face turn an indescribable shade of dark red as I quickly grabbed the bottle of shampoo and passed it to him turning my gaze away from him again. I had finished rinsing out my hair when I felt Kouji put his hand on my shoulder yet again.
"What is it, Kouji?"
"Would you wash my hair? I can't see the back of it too well and I don't want to leave egg in it."
".... Fine." Kouji handed me the shampoo and turned around so that his back was to me. I squeezed some of the shampoo into my palm and began to work it into Kouji's hair. His hair felt so soft and silky and the highlights cased by the bathroom lights only made it look even more silky and smooth. I worked quickly before I could begin doing something without thinking. I rinsed his hair out and made sure to get all the egg out.
Then Kouji turned around and faced me, "Now I'll wash out your hair." Was he kidding?! I had already washed mine!!
"Kouji, I already washed my hair out!"
"Oh yeah? I can still see some egg white in there, Kouichi. Just turn around and I'll get it out." There was never any way to argue against him, was there? I reluctantly turned around and handed Kouji the shampoo. I soon felt his hands on my scalp and felt quite flustered.
Sheesh... maybe I was just exaggerating my feelings about the whole thing. Kouji's hands soon began to gently move in small circular movements along my scalp and I had t admit... the feeling of that was rather pleasant, it made me feel relaxed and calm. After Kouji had finished, I rinsed out my hair and proceeded with washing out the rest of myself. Kouji and I soon got out of the tub and changed into clean clothes.
"Kouichi, I had to go buy groceries for my mom today, could you come with me please?" Kouji asked when we had finished cleaning up the rest of my house.
"Sure Kouji, we could go to the store just down the street. So what does your mom need?" Kouji reached into the pockets of his egg-covered pants, which were folded on my bed and pulled out a small list.
"Let's see... milk, carrots, cheese, some soap and also some... eggs." We both laughed as he read off the last item, I could still picture the way we looked covered in eggs.
"Okay then", I grabbed my sweater, "let's go".
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"That'll be 1600 yen, please," Kouji pulled out the money from his wallet handed it to the blonde lady. "Sankyuu and have a nice day! Here's your receipt."
"Sankyuu," I replied as I picked up the grocery bags. Kouji followed me and once we were out of the store, put his arm around mine.
I was glad that the streets were kind of empty, I mean I love Kouji and all, but I still was uncomfortable thinking about how people would react to us being together as a couple. In fact, I was wondering on how I could ever explain this to Kouji's parents, or my mom. Well, I was more focused on talking to Kouji's parents since my mom was still going to be away for two weeks while his were going to come back that evening.
Kouji unlocked the door to his house and we went inside. I settled the bags on the kitchen table and helped him put them away. After we had finished I looked at the clock, it read 6:00 now. "Kouji, when are your parents coming home?"
"Well, dad said he would get back at around 7 o' clock and mom was gonna get back at about 8, why?"
I wondered how Kouji would react to my wanting to tell his parents about our new relationship...
"I wanted to try and talk to your parents about us," I watched as Kouji wore a face of pure shock. "Kouji, I'm sorry. I-I just wouldn't feel right having to hide..."
"Kouichi, are you crazy?! There's no way they'll accept this.... they won't listen to how we feel, all they'll care about is how we're related. They'll probably make it so that we don't see each other anymore! I don't want that Kouichi!! I've been so alone during my life, I don't want that again!" Kouji practically flung himself at my waist and began sobbing into my chest. I had not meant for him to take it that way.
I rubbed his back until he stopped sobbing, then he raised his tear-streaked face towards mine. "K-Kouichi, don't leave me..."
"Kouji, I'll never leave you, trust me, I won't let your parents or anyone else break us apart. I promise."
"Kouichi, I-I love you s-s much.." Kouji then leaned his face towards mine. I closed my eyes and began to do the same. The door burst open and caught Kouji and me off-guard as our lips touched.
"Kouji, I'm back and- what on earth?! Kouji... what are you two doing!?"
Well... it looks like I was going to have to explain after all...
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Sorry about that... I'm probably gonna take longer on updating now... oh yeah I'm also gonna register at Fictionpress.com now, My penname's still gonna be the same though, please tell me what you think of my first story! I'm gonna put it up on Saturday. Please read and review!