Title: Hotaru's Love
Chapter: 10
Author: Ice1taru
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon.
AN: Yeah! Chapter TEN! Woo hoo! I think this story will be like 20 chapters long, either that or I'll have to make the chapters longer.. I know in the beginning I said it might be like only 10 chapters, but yeah, the plot is just developing now... so.. yeah, enjoy.
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Hotaru's Love by Ice1taru
"Hotaru. Hotaru, are you okay?" Lina asked cautiously.
They had been in the bathroom for the past half hour. Hotaru looked paler than ever and wouldn't stop throwing up.
"Ugh, Lina-chan. I feel.. I feel so bad right now," Hotaru said in a timid voice, bending over one of the toilets in the huge hospital restroom.
"I know, I know," Lina responded, holding back Hotaru's hair and gently rubbing her on the back.
Hotaru got up and headed over to one of the sinks. She filled her mouth with warm water and spit it out again. This she did several times, trying to get the nasty taste of vomit out of her mouth.
Lina watched in attentive silence.
Hotaru pulled out a napkin from one of the napkin dispensers and wiped her mouth dry, "I really need a shower right now, I feel so dirty."
"Hey, maybe we can go home and get some fresh air," Lina suggested.
"Don't you need to stay here with you boyfriend?" Hotaru sneered.
Lina glared at her, "What's wrong with you? Are you pissed at me or what?"
Hotaru sighed, "Not pissed. Okay, wait maybe I am. I feel.. Abandoned. I dunno. I just feel frustrated and there's nothing I can do to help Shino. I- I feel so USELESS."
Hotaru burst into tears.
This time, Lina sighed and hugged Hotaru, "Look. It's not your job to make sure he's okay. You're not a damn doctor or whatever. Mamoru's doing the best he can."
Hotaru kept crying.
"Look, look. Just calm down, okay? Come one, let's go home. Maybe a shower WILL help you," Lina said after a few moments of silence.
Hotaru splashed cool water onto her face and stared at herself in the mirror. She looked like a complete mess. Lina handed her some paper towels, which Hotaru used to wipe her face dry. They went to the waiting room and told Satoshi they'd be back in a couple of hours.
Hotaru managed to sneak into ICU and quickly glance at Shino's sleeping form throw the window in the door. He looked terrible. The bandages that had once covered his face were now gone and some of the bandages from his stomach were gone, too. He didn't look any healthier than before. If anything, he looked worse. Hotaru tried not to cry and ran outside to the car, where Lina was patiently waiting for her.
~~~
As soon as they got to her house, Hotaru rushed to the bathroom in her room and stood under the shower for almost an hour, letting the hot water run over her body. She hoped this would make her feel better, but it didn't and she came out feeling rejected.
"Well, you look.. Uh, chipper!" Lina exclaimed from where she sat on Hotaru's bed, reading a magazine.
"Thanks," Hotaru mumbled, and sat down next to her on the bed, still in her bathrobe.
"Well, if you don't mind, I think I'm going to go take a shower now," Lina said, getting up off the bed and handing the magazine to Hotaru, "Look, there's an article in there called '100 Wild Things to do with Chocolate'. Once Shino is better, it should come in handy."
Hotaru groaned and lay back on her bed, "Do you think about anything besides sex?"
Lina shrugged, "Just trying to lighten the mood."
"Eh," Hotaru said and closed her eyes, not in the mood for talking anymore.
Lina took the hint and entered the bathroom. She came back out half an hour later, looking more refreshed and awake than she had looked in the past 12 hours.
"You're still not dressed yet?"
"Umm."
"What are you thinking about Hotaru?"
"Shino."
Lina rolled her eyes, "Figures. Look, he's going to be fine. Mamoru said so."
"No he's not," Hotaru said, getting up and walking over to her closet to decide what to wear. She was still in her bathrobe.
Lina sighed, "Now, why do you say that?"
"Coz I saw him and he looked so bad, he looked worse Lina-chan. I have this feeling that I can do something, that-that I SHOULD do something. There's something tugging at my heart and my hands feel warm," Hotaru explained.
"Your hands feel warm?" Lina raised an eyebrow. She grabbed one of Hotaru's hands and immediately let it go.
"See?" Hotaru exclaimed.
"Hey.. What do you think it means?" Lina asked softly.
"I don't know," Hotaru said, frustrated, "I just know that somehow, I'm supposed to help Shino."
"Do we have to go over this again?" Lina questioned.
Hotaru sighed and opened her closet, trying to figure out what to wear.
~~~
Half an hour later, Hotaru still hadn't decided what to wear.
"Dammit, I've been in my bathrobe for the past fucking hour and I can't decide what to wear. UGH, WHAT is wrong with me?!" Hotaru said at last.
Lina gasped and looked taken aback, "Wow, you're certainly very bitchy today."
"Lina, I've never said 'fuck' before."
"I know this," Lina picked out an outfit for Hotaru. The red lace shirt that she had bought the previous night and a black skirt that went four inches above her knee.
"No need to thank me," Lina said brightly and went downstairs so Hotaru could change.
Not in the mood to argue, Hotaru changed into the clothes that Lina had picked out for her and headed downstairs.
Hotaru looked at Lina, "Where'd you get that outfit? It looks familiar."
Lina grinned, "The back of your closet. How come you never wear it? It's sweet."
"It's tight," Hotaru said.
"Well, yeah, that too. But.. Heh, It was calling out to me and it matched with my pants," Lina said. And it did. Her sandblasted black jeans went in perfect coordination with the dark purple sweater.
~~~
Shino woke up abruptly from a nightmare. His whole body was sweating and his clothes and the sheets were sticking to his body. He gasped as the salty sweat touched his wounds. He couldn't quite remember what he had dreamt about but he knew it was terrible. His whole was shaking and he looked around quickly. At least it wasn't dark or he would have freaked out even more.
~~~
Hotaru and Lina walked into the waiting room holding flowers, candy and 'get well' cards. And Hotaru was carrying a soft red teddy bear with a big heart in the middle of it's stomach. She wanted to give to Shino as an early Valentine's day gift. Lina had almost talked her out of buying it, proclaiming that boys were suppose to get girls presents, not the other way around. Hotaru had almost listened to her, but then, she remembered when Lina had told her a couple of days ago to be independent. And buying the teddy bear WAS being independent, technically.
Lina immediately gave everything she was holding to Hotaru and ran into Satoshi's arms, "I missed you."
"I missed you, too," Satoshi said and they embraced. Hotaru rolled her eyes and carefully walked over to the ICU doors. This time, the nurse didn't say anything, she had seen Hotaru sneak in earlier and was all for teenage love.
Hotaru walked down the halls nervously. She wondered what Shino looked like now. Every time she saw him, he looked a little bit different. But the one thing that remained the same about him was his slow descent to recovery, he looked worse and worse each time she saw him, his skin was probably paper white by now.
When Hotaru walked in through his door, a bunch of nurses were surrounding him. She gasped and placed everything on the side table. Hotaru watched the nurses' backs in silence. After a few moments, they were all done and left the room. Hotaru breathed a sigh of relief. They had only been taking off some more bandages. Now, half of Shino's chest was bare.
"Hey," Shino said, putting on a white t-shirt.
"Hey," Hotaru smiled and gave him a peck on the cheek, "how are you holding up?"
"Mm, I'm okay," Shino smiled, "What about you? You look.. Pale."
Hotaru sweat dropped. In the past 3 hours, almost everyone had told her she looked pale or paler than usual or something similar. It was becoming a cliché to her now.
"I'm fine," Hotaru replied slowly, "I was just.. Worried about you. That's all."
Shino grabbed Hotaru's hand and she down on the edge of the bed as he moved over to make room for her.
"Don't worry about me, I'm doing great. That Mamoru guy is really.. Uh, something," Shino said, laughing.
"Oh, haha. He's sort of like my uncle. He's really sweet."
Shino grinned, "he's weird."
"Yeah, you could say that," Hotaru giggled, "Anyways, you must be bored in here."
"Heh, not really. I've been sleeping most of the time. Did you miss school today?"
"Umm, yeah," Hotaru began, "It was really weird, I didn't realize that we were out of school until like a few hours ago."
"Hey, at least you get out of school," Shino said, feeling terrible that he had made them miss school.
"yeah, that's what Lina said," Hotaru laughed.
Shino rolled his eyes. He didn't like her very much.
After a few moments of comfortable silence, Hotaru reached over to the bedside table and handed the red teddy bear to Shino, "This is for you."
"Aw," Shino said, and leaned over and put his arms around Hotaru and buried his face in her soft hair, "that's really sweet."
"Yeah, uh," Hotaru said, surprised that he was hugging her, "Uhh, it's a-a uh Valentine's Day gift. Coz uh, you know. Umm, it's coming up soon.."
Hotaru trailed off as Shino lifted his face and looked into her eyes.
~~~
"Mmm, we should really go check on Shino," Satoshi said, his head on Lina's shoulder. She was sitting on his lap, her back to him. He had his arms wrapped around her.
"Hmm, you think we should? I mean, what if he's sleeping or something?" Lina asked, not wanting to get up from her comfortable position.
Satoshi laughed softly, "He can't be sleeping, Hotaru's been in there for a while."
"yeah, well, I hope she's not watching him sleep or something. Ugh, corny," Lina mumbled, imagining her friend in such a pathetic situation, "we have to go in there right now!"
Satoshi rolled his eyes, "Stop jumping to conclusions, I mean, what if like.. They're like, uhh..," trying to imagine Hotaru and Shino kissing. They didn't seem to fit together so well. Shino was way too fierce and Hotaru way too timid. Sure, he had only known Hotaru for a little while, but she seemed delicate.
Lina laughed, "If I know Hotaru, which I do, even though she has been acting weird lately, I don't think they're really doing anything."
Satoshi shrugged, "Whatever, let's go."
~~~
Hotaru sighed contentedly. Their lips almost touched before Lina and Satoshi walked in through the door, talking animatedly about something. They didn't notice as Shino and Hotaru pulled away from each other, looking extremely uncomfortable.
Hotar jumped off the bed and excused herself to "uh, go get some water, that's it, water!"
Lina and Satoshi stopped talking long enough to watch Hotaru race out of the room. They looked at Shino, looking hopeless and dazed as he held on to the teddy bear.
"What? Stop fucking staring at me," He mumbled.
Lina and Satoshi both rolled their eyes.
"How ya feelin'," Satoshi asked brightly as he and Lina walked over to Shino's bed.
"I was feeling great till you both came in here and rained on my fucking parade," Shino said, pissed that he didn't get to kiss Hotaru.
"Damn, did we like.. Walk in on something?" Satoshi asked, looking over at Lina, who shrugged and went outside in search of Hotaru.
"Yeah, you uh, kinda did, man," Shino sighed and ran a hand through his hair, 'Damn medication. Getting me all worked up over nothing.'
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AN: Heh, it was kinda short, I think. My new goal is to now make the chapters LONGER, yeah! Keep hope alive!
*~Ice1taru~*
Chapter: 10
Author: Ice1taru
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon.
AN: Yeah! Chapter TEN! Woo hoo! I think this story will be like 20 chapters long, either that or I'll have to make the chapters longer.. I know in the beginning I said it might be like only 10 chapters, but yeah, the plot is just developing now... so.. yeah, enjoy.
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Hotaru's Love by Ice1taru
"Hotaru. Hotaru, are you okay?" Lina asked cautiously.
They had been in the bathroom for the past half hour. Hotaru looked paler than ever and wouldn't stop throwing up.
"Ugh, Lina-chan. I feel.. I feel so bad right now," Hotaru said in a timid voice, bending over one of the toilets in the huge hospital restroom.
"I know, I know," Lina responded, holding back Hotaru's hair and gently rubbing her on the back.
Hotaru got up and headed over to one of the sinks. She filled her mouth with warm water and spit it out again. This she did several times, trying to get the nasty taste of vomit out of her mouth.
Lina watched in attentive silence.
Hotaru pulled out a napkin from one of the napkin dispensers and wiped her mouth dry, "I really need a shower right now, I feel so dirty."
"Hey, maybe we can go home and get some fresh air," Lina suggested.
"Don't you need to stay here with you boyfriend?" Hotaru sneered.
Lina glared at her, "What's wrong with you? Are you pissed at me or what?"
Hotaru sighed, "Not pissed. Okay, wait maybe I am. I feel.. Abandoned. I dunno. I just feel frustrated and there's nothing I can do to help Shino. I- I feel so USELESS."
Hotaru burst into tears.
This time, Lina sighed and hugged Hotaru, "Look. It's not your job to make sure he's okay. You're not a damn doctor or whatever. Mamoru's doing the best he can."
Hotaru kept crying.
"Look, look. Just calm down, okay? Come one, let's go home. Maybe a shower WILL help you," Lina said after a few moments of silence.
Hotaru splashed cool water onto her face and stared at herself in the mirror. She looked like a complete mess. Lina handed her some paper towels, which Hotaru used to wipe her face dry. They went to the waiting room and told Satoshi they'd be back in a couple of hours.
Hotaru managed to sneak into ICU and quickly glance at Shino's sleeping form throw the window in the door. He looked terrible. The bandages that had once covered his face were now gone and some of the bandages from his stomach were gone, too. He didn't look any healthier than before. If anything, he looked worse. Hotaru tried not to cry and ran outside to the car, where Lina was patiently waiting for her.
~~~
As soon as they got to her house, Hotaru rushed to the bathroom in her room and stood under the shower for almost an hour, letting the hot water run over her body. She hoped this would make her feel better, but it didn't and she came out feeling rejected.
"Well, you look.. Uh, chipper!" Lina exclaimed from where she sat on Hotaru's bed, reading a magazine.
"Thanks," Hotaru mumbled, and sat down next to her on the bed, still in her bathrobe.
"Well, if you don't mind, I think I'm going to go take a shower now," Lina said, getting up off the bed and handing the magazine to Hotaru, "Look, there's an article in there called '100 Wild Things to do with Chocolate'. Once Shino is better, it should come in handy."
Hotaru groaned and lay back on her bed, "Do you think about anything besides sex?"
Lina shrugged, "Just trying to lighten the mood."
"Eh," Hotaru said and closed her eyes, not in the mood for talking anymore.
Lina took the hint and entered the bathroom. She came back out half an hour later, looking more refreshed and awake than she had looked in the past 12 hours.
"You're still not dressed yet?"
"Umm."
"What are you thinking about Hotaru?"
"Shino."
Lina rolled her eyes, "Figures. Look, he's going to be fine. Mamoru said so."
"No he's not," Hotaru said, getting up and walking over to her closet to decide what to wear. She was still in her bathrobe.
Lina sighed, "Now, why do you say that?"
"Coz I saw him and he looked so bad, he looked worse Lina-chan. I have this feeling that I can do something, that-that I SHOULD do something. There's something tugging at my heart and my hands feel warm," Hotaru explained.
"Your hands feel warm?" Lina raised an eyebrow. She grabbed one of Hotaru's hands and immediately let it go.
"See?" Hotaru exclaimed.
"Hey.. What do you think it means?" Lina asked softly.
"I don't know," Hotaru said, frustrated, "I just know that somehow, I'm supposed to help Shino."
"Do we have to go over this again?" Lina questioned.
Hotaru sighed and opened her closet, trying to figure out what to wear.
~~~
Half an hour later, Hotaru still hadn't decided what to wear.
"Dammit, I've been in my bathrobe for the past fucking hour and I can't decide what to wear. UGH, WHAT is wrong with me?!" Hotaru said at last.
Lina gasped and looked taken aback, "Wow, you're certainly very bitchy today."
"Lina, I've never said 'fuck' before."
"I know this," Lina picked out an outfit for Hotaru. The red lace shirt that she had bought the previous night and a black skirt that went four inches above her knee.
"No need to thank me," Lina said brightly and went downstairs so Hotaru could change.
Not in the mood to argue, Hotaru changed into the clothes that Lina had picked out for her and headed downstairs.
Hotaru looked at Lina, "Where'd you get that outfit? It looks familiar."
Lina grinned, "The back of your closet. How come you never wear it? It's sweet."
"It's tight," Hotaru said.
"Well, yeah, that too. But.. Heh, It was calling out to me and it matched with my pants," Lina said. And it did. Her sandblasted black jeans went in perfect coordination with the dark purple sweater.
~~~
Shino woke up abruptly from a nightmare. His whole body was sweating and his clothes and the sheets were sticking to his body. He gasped as the salty sweat touched his wounds. He couldn't quite remember what he had dreamt about but he knew it was terrible. His whole was shaking and he looked around quickly. At least it wasn't dark or he would have freaked out even more.
~~~
Hotaru and Lina walked into the waiting room holding flowers, candy and 'get well' cards. And Hotaru was carrying a soft red teddy bear with a big heart in the middle of it's stomach. She wanted to give to Shino as an early Valentine's day gift. Lina had almost talked her out of buying it, proclaiming that boys were suppose to get girls presents, not the other way around. Hotaru had almost listened to her, but then, she remembered when Lina had told her a couple of days ago to be independent. And buying the teddy bear WAS being independent, technically.
Lina immediately gave everything she was holding to Hotaru and ran into Satoshi's arms, "I missed you."
"I missed you, too," Satoshi said and they embraced. Hotaru rolled her eyes and carefully walked over to the ICU doors. This time, the nurse didn't say anything, she had seen Hotaru sneak in earlier and was all for teenage love.
Hotaru walked down the halls nervously. She wondered what Shino looked like now. Every time she saw him, he looked a little bit different. But the one thing that remained the same about him was his slow descent to recovery, he looked worse and worse each time she saw him, his skin was probably paper white by now.
When Hotaru walked in through his door, a bunch of nurses were surrounding him. She gasped and placed everything on the side table. Hotaru watched the nurses' backs in silence. After a few moments, they were all done and left the room. Hotaru breathed a sigh of relief. They had only been taking off some more bandages. Now, half of Shino's chest was bare.
"Hey," Shino said, putting on a white t-shirt.
"Hey," Hotaru smiled and gave him a peck on the cheek, "how are you holding up?"
"Mm, I'm okay," Shino smiled, "What about you? You look.. Pale."
Hotaru sweat dropped. In the past 3 hours, almost everyone had told her she looked pale or paler than usual or something similar. It was becoming a cliché to her now.
"I'm fine," Hotaru replied slowly, "I was just.. Worried about you. That's all."
Shino grabbed Hotaru's hand and she down on the edge of the bed as he moved over to make room for her.
"Don't worry about me, I'm doing great. That Mamoru guy is really.. Uh, something," Shino said, laughing.
"Oh, haha. He's sort of like my uncle. He's really sweet."
Shino grinned, "he's weird."
"Yeah, you could say that," Hotaru giggled, "Anyways, you must be bored in here."
"Heh, not really. I've been sleeping most of the time. Did you miss school today?"
"Umm, yeah," Hotaru began, "It was really weird, I didn't realize that we were out of school until like a few hours ago."
"Hey, at least you get out of school," Shino said, feeling terrible that he had made them miss school.
"yeah, that's what Lina said," Hotaru laughed.
Shino rolled his eyes. He didn't like her very much.
After a few moments of comfortable silence, Hotaru reached over to the bedside table and handed the red teddy bear to Shino, "This is for you."
"Aw," Shino said, and leaned over and put his arms around Hotaru and buried his face in her soft hair, "that's really sweet."
"Yeah, uh," Hotaru said, surprised that he was hugging her, "Uhh, it's a-a uh Valentine's Day gift. Coz uh, you know. Umm, it's coming up soon.."
Hotaru trailed off as Shino lifted his face and looked into her eyes.
~~~
"Mmm, we should really go check on Shino," Satoshi said, his head on Lina's shoulder. She was sitting on his lap, her back to him. He had his arms wrapped around her.
"Hmm, you think we should? I mean, what if he's sleeping or something?" Lina asked, not wanting to get up from her comfortable position.
Satoshi laughed softly, "He can't be sleeping, Hotaru's been in there for a while."
"yeah, well, I hope she's not watching him sleep or something. Ugh, corny," Lina mumbled, imagining her friend in such a pathetic situation, "we have to go in there right now!"
Satoshi rolled his eyes, "Stop jumping to conclusions, I mean, what if like.. They're like, uhh..," trying to imagine Hotaru and Shino kissing. They didn't seem to fit together so well. Shino was way too fierce and Hotaru way too timid. Sure, he had only known Hotaru for a little while, but she seemed delicate.
Lina laughed, "If I know Hotaru, which I do, even though she has been acting weird lately, I don't think they're really doing anything."
Satoshi shrugged, "Whatever, let's go."
~~~
Hotaru sighed contentedly. Their lips almost touched before Lina and Satoshi walked in through the door, talking animatedly about something. They didn't notice as Shino and Hotaru pulled away from each other, looking extremely uncomfortable.
Hotar jumped off the bed and excused herself to "uh, go get some water, that's it, water!"
Lina and Satoshi stopped talking long enough to watch Hotaru race out of the room. They looked at Shino, looking hopeless and dazed as he held on to the teddy bear.
"What? Stop fucking staring at me," He mumbled.
Lina and Satoshi both rolled their eyes.
"How ya feelin'," Satoshi asked brightly as he and Lina walked over to Shino's bed.
"I was feeling great till you both came in here and rained on my fucking parade," Shino said, pissed that he didn't get to kiss Hotaru.
"Damn, did we like.. Walk in on something?" Satoshi asked, looking over at Lina, who shrugged and went outside in search of Hotaru.
"Yeah, you uh, kinda did, man," Shino sighed and ran a hand through his hair, 'Damn medication. Getting me all worked up over nothing.'
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AN: Heh, it was kinda short, I think. My new goal is to now make the chapters LONGER, yeah! Keep hope alive!
*~Ice1taru~*