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Fate Isn't Written in Stone
Chapter 4: Yaten's Apparition
"Why did you want to talk so early Seiya-kun?" Usagi asked as they sat down in the nearly empty restaurant.
"I wanted to talk to you about my dream," he replied.
Usagi looked at Seiya. He was pale, from fear. "You're really hung up." She whispered. "Tell me about it."
Seiya described everything that happened in his dream. The game they played, how they almost kissed, Mamoru dropping Usagi, the abyss, the roses, and how he died falling in the abyss holding Usagi's hand.
Usagi was quiet then she spoke up. "Mamo-chan said the same thing in both our dreams. In my dream he tried to keep us apart and succeeded. In your dream, he didn't-well not really. We both ended up dying. I wonder what it all means.?"
"Has.Has Mamoru been any different lately?" Seiya asked cautiously.
Usagi sighed. "He's kept more to himself.and when I see him he seems a bit cold.But-like you said-he's probably just under a lot of stress."
Seiya stared at Usagi quietly. "Do you want to go for a walk Odango?"
She nodded and they silently walked out of the restaurant.
They walked to the park. Seiya looked at Usagi. He noticed her hands were quivering and took one in his own.
"It was just a dream Odango." he whispered.
Usagi looked up at him tears leaking out of her eyes. "I can't help but think they mean something Seiya-kun. King Endymion of the future sent Mamoru and I dreams that meant something. Maybe they want us to stay away from each other."
"But why is Mamoru-san the villain in them?"
Usagi's whole body started to shake. "I don't know," she wept. "But I have a feeling that if we're together something bad will happen."
"What could possibly happen? The earth isn't going to blow up if we talk to each other."
"But what if something does happen?"
"But if they're telling us we're supposed to be together? And that Mamoru- san is just jealous?"
Usagi was quiet for a moment. "I don't know what's right and what's wrong anymore Seiya-kun." she whispered wrapping her arms around him. She looked up at him.
"Seiya stroked her cheek affectionately. "You don't?"
Usagi glanced down. "Not lately."
Seiya smiled. "So whatever you do you can't tell if it's right or wrong?"
"With decisions.yes."
"Good," he whispered. He leaned down and kissed her gently.
At first Usagi looked shocked but then she kissed Seiya back only it was a longer, more emotion filled kiss. (You can bet Seiya enjoyed it!)
Seiya smiled as she drew back. "Usako."
Usagi suddenly looked horrified. She unroped her arms from him and started hyperventilating. "Oh my god!" She gasped. "I kissed you."
Seiya nodded slowly. "Yeah."
"But Mamo-chan! Do you know what could happen just from me kissing you?!" She didn't want for him to reply. "I could have put Chibi-Usa-chan's entire life in jeopardy! Oh god," she whimpered. She looked up at Seiya. "I'm sorry Seiya0kun.for leading you on like that. I.I love Mamoru!"
With that she turned and ran from him.
"Odango wait."
'I'm sorry Seiya,' she thought weeping as she ran. 'I lied. I love you and Mamo-chan both, but I couldn't live without Chibi-Usa-chan.'
Usagi found herself outside the park running down the sidewalk.
"Kitten?"
Usagi stopped. Haruka sat parked in her car. "I thought I might find you here." She noticed Usagi was crying and she jumped out of her car, ran to Usagi and held her as sobs racked her body.
"Kitten what's wrong? Did he hurt you? What happened?"
Usagi shook her head. "He didn't hurt me. It wasn't his fault.it was mine."
Haruka sighed and gently pulled her to her car. "Tell me. Then I need to talk to you."
As Usagi got in the car she told Haruka how they had come to the park leaving out all the talk about their dreams- how he had gently kissed her and how she had kissed him without thinking.
".And now I'm afraid something might happen to Chibi-Usa."
"I don't think anything did."
"Why not?" Usagi whispered.
"Because Setsuna-chan would have felt it and she would have contacted me."
They drove in silence for a few minutes as Usagi stopped crying.
"What did you want to talk to me about Haruka-san?" she asked quietly.
Haruka was thoughtful for a moment not sure if she wanted to tell Usagi the truth. She decided it would be best to do so.
".So tomorrow we're going back to the past," she concluded.
"Let me get this straight. We're going back to the past because you think I love Seiya instead of Mamo-chan and Rei-chan saw an evil Mamo-chan in the fire?"
Haruka nodded. "And from what Taiki told me on the phone today."
"What do you mean?"
"Taiki met Mamoru-san today and he said he wasn't exactly.pleasant to talk to."
"Do I have to go with you too?"
Haruka nodded. "You should come."
"But what if Queen Serenity was telling us the truth and Mamo-chan is just stressed?"
"How would that explain Mamoru-san in the fire?"
"I don't know."
Again they rode in silence for a while.
"Do you want to be dropped off at home Kitten?" Haruka asked.
Usagi shook her head. "Could you drop me off at Rei-chans Haruka-sama?"
Haruka nodded. "Hold on!" she cried and stepped heavily on the gas.
"HARUKA-BAKAAAAA!" Usagi shrieked. "SLOW DOWN!!"
As they came to a stop at the bottom of Rei-chan's temple/house Usagi looked at Haruka. "I may partially believe what you said about Mamo-chan but that doesn't stop me from asking you this: just what have you and Rei- chan been smokin'?"
Haruka smirked. "Nothing. At least, not today." She joked as Usagi ran out of the car and up the steps.
"I can't believe Seiya isn't back yet," Yaten whined. "He said he's only be an hour or 2. It's been three."
"Stop complaining," Taiki returned without looking up from a keyboard. "I'm trying to get this melody right."
"Why are you doing that?" Yaten drawled. "We aren't singing anymore so you can stop. And if we got all our money out of the bank we'd be swimming in it-literally."
Taiki smiled slightly. "Yeah I know. But it's a habit, like my poetry writing. Remember the one Princess Kakyuu recited to me?"
"Oh yes. How could I forget? You were only walked around muttering it under your breath-for two and a half weeks."
"Such a short time." Taiki sighed not paying attention what-so-ever to Yaten. "Thou's starlight is pure," he recited. "Tis the light from thy golden joy that lights thy sky in the depths of the light. Thy life holds no meaning without thou's golden joyous light and the light of thou's friends. Thou's friends carry crimson and blue lights. But thou's pure golden starlight carry's a special joy into thy life."
"Don't act like you're her one and only," Yaten spoke up. "She gave as all special poems different from each others'."
"Let me pretend." Taiki pleaded.
"Pretend all you want. I'm going for a walk," he said and walked out the door.
He sighed as he walked down the sidewalk. "Time travel," he murmured. "Yuck. Why am I even bothering to go?" he asked himself as he passed a large group of girls.
"Yaten?"
Yaten stopped and turned around, then froze staring into the heart shaped eyes of at least a dozen drooling girls.
"Oh no," he muttered taking a step backwards. "They can't possibly remember me can they?"
One girl took a step forward. "Yaten." she murmured.
Yaten looked VERY scared. He turned around and bolted down the sidewalk the girls shrieking and running after him, a cloud rising up from behind them.
"Holy.crap!" he gasped as he ran. "I didn't.know.this would.happen!.This.hasn't.happened.to Seiya yet!.And he's.been out in.public.more than me!"
He felt his foot wedge into a crack in the sidewalk and the next minute he was on the ground.
"This is not cool." he moaned as he saw the screaming cloud of girls draw closer. 'Face it.' He thought. 'This is the end.'
"Hold it!" a feminine voice yelled and someone stepped over him her shadow falling across his face.
The girls screeched to a halt and were silent, until one yelled. "She's hogging him!"
"I have a right to hog him!" the voice yelled back. "After all I AM his new girlfriend."
Yaten looked up and saw a familiar red bow in long blonde hair. "Minako- chan."
"So on behalf of pop-sensation idles everywhere-I demand you keep your hands off him!"
Yaten smiled as the girls stomped away. "Thanks Mina-chan," he said looking up towards her.
She turned around and smiled. "Don't mention it Yaten-kun!" -She held out her hand- "Let me help you up."
She pulled him up and began dusting him off with her hands. "I'm just a bit mad at you though," she confessed. "I wish you would have talked to us in the last two days."
"We uh.have had to do a lot in the last couple of days."
"Well you could have at least called. We missed you guys a lot," she said brushing his shoulder.
Yaten grabbed her hand (nicely) and looked into her bright blue eyes. "You did?" he whispered.
Minako blushed. "Yeah," she whispered. Then she looked embarrassed. "Oh that stuff I said about being your girlfriend-I said that to keep those girls from trampling you. Uh.I was kidding about it."
Yaten smiled and lowered her hand but still held it. "Well I'm not," he whispered.
Minako's eyes widened and she blushed again. "Yaten."
He leaned forward and kissed her gently on her cheek.
Her eyes quivered as he drew back and she was pink. But she still managed to whisper, "Is that the best you can do?"
Yaten smiled and shook his head, chuckling. Mina chuckled too. That was when he held her face in a hand and kissed her lips.
Mina placed a few fingers on her lips and blushed.
"You're special Mina-chan," Yaten said quietly. "Don't ever forget that."
Minako nodded as they walked down the sidewalk hand in hand.
"How do you feel about messing with time?" he asked.
Minako shrugged. "We've already visited the future which kinda sucks. Cause then you can't screw anything up in our present."
Yaten nodded. "I don't want to see my future.
"We didn't have a choice. We had to go so we could save the future."
"I wonder what the past will be like," Yaten wondered.
"If Queen Serenity lied to us, it won't be pretty."
"What if she was telling the truth?"
"It still won't be pretty."
"What does everyone die?"
"Yes."
"Even you?"
"Yes. It was my past life though."
"What's it like to die?"
Minako shrugged. "I can't really remember. I was killed in a fight against Queen Beryl."
"Beryl..." Yaten whispered. Images flashed before his eyes-each for a split second-of a horrific battle. He saw Mercury get blasted against a pillar, Jupiter into a stonewall, Mars into a balcony rail, and Venus shatter on the ground.
"Yaten?" Minako asked. "Are you alright?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm alright," he answered nervously. "You, uh, want to go for some ice cream?"
Minako eyed him a moment then smiled ^^. "Sure! Why not? I don't have to pay!"
Yaten smiled, but his smile soon disappeared. 'What I saw." he thought. 'Was it real? Was that the battle with Beryl on the Moon Kingdom? I guess I'll find out soon.'
Mamoru sat upon a throne of black carved stone, gazing into a small smooth pool. The pool seemed to be a window a window to whatever Mamoru wanted to see. It showed a wavy picture of Yaten and Minako sharing a large fudge sunday.
He (Mamo) looked like he was in some kind of pain. He was grasping the armrests of his throne with death grip, his legs were trembling, and his eyes were squeezed shut. When he opened them, they were glowing and were shifting from caring to evil. The rose in his front pocket was changing too; from red to black to red to black. He seemed to fighting whatever was trying to control him.
"Odango," he rasped gasping for air. "I don't think I can."
His eyes turned evil and stayed and his rose turned to black and stayed.
"I'm sorry." he whispered then closed his eyes and became limp.
His body began to glow red and he was lifted to his feet. A flash of light spread from his feet to his head and he was transformed into Prince Endymion.
Endymion opened his evil blue eyes and silently took his sword from its sheath, then looked at the window pool. It shimmered for a moment then replaced the picture of Yaten and Minako with a picture of Seiya in his apartment sitting sadly on a couch.
Endymion slashed at the picture with his sword, splashing water all over, then straightened.
"My pyramid of plans will not tumble and fall because of my challenger. Seiya Kou will die. I shall wait though. Let him know the truth before he dies," he hissed emotionlessly. Then he chuckled softly.
"Girls are so strange Taiki-chan," Seiya mumbled on the couch.
Taiki-still at the keyboard-half-smiled. "Funny you should say so since you ARE a girl," he replied sarcastically.
"You need to stop hanging out with Yaten," Seiya advised. "His personality is rubbing off onto you."
"I'd stop hanging around with him if someone wasn't always with a certain blonde girl that has two odangoes on her head! I get cravings for others' company you know!" he exclaimed tapping a few keys on the keyboard.
"Just go see Ami-chan."
Taiki froze then turned rigidly around. "A-Ami-chan?" ^_^;
"Oh come on Taiki-chan!" Seiya cried. "Stop pretending!"
"Pretend.ing?"
"You know what I mean!"
"Uh."
Seiya sighed. "Taiki-chan.Ami-chan really does like you, Usako said she talked about you quite a bit while we were gone."
"She-she did?"
"Yeah."
"WAHOOOO! Ami likes me! Who does she like? ME! That's who! I'll go visit her right now I think. Yeah, right now would be a perfect time to see my blue haired angel of wisdom-"
"Huh?" ^_^;
"-I can't wait to see her!" he yelled, jumped away from the keyboard and bolted towards the door.
"Seiya grabbed him by the collar (Taiki is being strangled) "On second thought, stay here and keep me company."
Taiki crashed to the floor and groaned.
Seiya shook his head at Taiki's twitching foot. "We're doing the time thing tomorrow so it's not like it's an eternity to wait."
Taiki sat up. "But I wanna see her NOW!" he whined.
Seiya raised an eyebrow. "If I can handle Usagi running away from me sobbing you can handle not seeing Ami-chan for 22 hours."
"I wanna see her!" he sobbed.
"Taiki, shut up."
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon doesn't belong to me. The characters used in the story also do not belong to me. All credits go to Vela-chan.
Fate Isn't Written in Stone
Chapter 4: Yaten's Apparition
"Why did you want to talk so early Seiya-kun?" Usagi asked as they sat down in the nearly empty restaurant.
"I wanted to talk to you about my dream," he replied.
Usagi looked at Seiya. He was pale, from fear. "You're really hung up." She whispered. "Tell me about it."
Seiya described everything that happened in his dream. The game they played, how they almost kissed, Mamoru dropping Usagi, the abyss, the roses, and how he died falling in the abyss holding Usagi's hand.
Usagi was quiet then she spoke up. "Mamo-chan said the same thing in both our dreams. In my dream he tried to keep us apart and succeeded. In your dream, he didn't-well not really. We both ended up dying. I wonder what it all means.?"
"Has.Has Mamoru been any different lately?" Seiya asked cautiously.
Usagi sighed. "He's kept more to himself.and when I see him he seems a bit cold.But-like you said-he's probably just under a lot of stress."
Seiya stared at Usagi quietly. "Do you want to go for a walk Odango?"
She nodded and they silently walked out of the restaurant.
They walked to the park. Seiya looked at Usagi. He noticed her hands were quivering and took one in his own.
"It was just a dream Odango." he whispered.
Usagi looked up at him tears leaking out of her eyes. "I can't help but think they mean something Seiya-kun. King Endymion of the future sent Mamoru and I dreams that meant something. Maybe they want us to stay away from each other."
"But why is Mamoru-san the villain in them?"
Usagi's whole body started to shake. "I don't know," she wept. "But I have a feeling that if we're together something bad will happen."
"What could possibly happen? The earth isn't going to blow up if we talk to each other."
"But what if something does happen?"
"But if they're telling us we're supposed to be together? And that Mamoru- san is just jealous?"
Usagi was quiet for a moment. "I don't know what's right and what's wrong anymore Seiya-kun." she whispered wrapping her arms around him. She looked up at him.
"Seiya stroked her cheek affectionately. "You don't?"
Usagi glanced down. "Not lately."
Seiya smiled. "So whatever you do you can't tell if it's right or wrong?"
"With decisions.yes."
"Good," he whispered. He leaned down and kissed her gently.
At first Usagi looked shocked but then she kissed Seiya back only it was a longer, more emotion filled kiss. (You can bet Seiya enjoyed it!)
Seiya smiled as she drew back. "Usako."
Usagi suddenly looked horrified. She unroped her arms from him and started hyperventilating. "Oh my god!" She gasped. "I kissed you."
Seiya nodded slowly. "Yeah."
"But Mamo-chan! Do you know what could happen just from me kissing you?!" She didn't want for him to reply. "I could have put Chibi-Usa-chan's entire life in jeopardy! Oh god," she whimpered. She looked up at Seiya. "I'm sorry Seiya0kun.for leading you on like that. I.I love Mamoru!"
With that she turned and ran from him.
"Odango wait."
'I'm sorry Seiya,' she thought weeping as she ran. 'I lied. I love you and Mamo-chan both, but I couldn't live without Chibi-Usa-chan.'
Usagi found herself outside the park running down the sidewalk.
"Kitten?"
Usagi stopped. Haruka sat parked in her car. "I thought I might find you here." She noticed Usagi was crying and she jumped out of her car, ran to Usagi and held her as sobs racked her body.
"Kitten what's wrong? Did he hurt you? What happened?"
Usagi shook her head. "He didn't hurt me. It wasn't his fault.it was mine."
Haruka sighed and gently pulled her to her car. "Tell me. Then I need to talk to you."
As Usagi got in the car she told Haruka how they had come to the park leaving out all the talk about their dreams- how he had gently kissed her and how she had kissed him without thinking.
".And now I'm afraid something might happen to Chibi-Usa."
"I don't think anything did."
"Why not?" Usagi whispered.
"Because Setsuna-chan would have felt it and she would have contacted me."
They drove in silence for a few minutes as Usagi stopped crying.
"What did you want to talk to me about Haruka-san?" she asked quietly.
Haruka was thoughtful for a moment not sure if she wanted to tell Usagi the truth. She decided it would be best to do so.
".So tomorrow we're going back to the past," she concluded.
"Let me get this straight. We're going back to the past because you think I love Seiya instead of Mamo-chan and Rei-chan saw an evil Mamo-chan in the fire?"
Haruka nodded. "And from what Taiki told me on the phone today."
"What do you mean?"
"Taiki met Mamoru-san today and he said he wasn't exactly.pleasant to talk to."
"Do I have to go with you too?"
Haruka nodded. "You should come."
"But what if Queen Serenity was telling us the truth and Mamo-chan is just stressed?"
"How would that explain Mamoru-san in the fire?"
"I don't know."
Again they rode in silence for a while.
"Do you want to be dropped off at home Kitten?" Haruka asked.
Usagi shook her head. "Could you drop me off at Rei-chans Haruka-sama?"
Haruka nodded. "Hold on!" she cried and stepped heavily on the gas.
"HARUKA-BAKAAAAA!" Usagi shrieked. "SLOW DOWN!!"
As they came to a stop at the bottom of Rei-chan's temple/house Usagi looked at Haruka. "I may partially believe what you said about Mamo-chan but that doesn't stop me from asking you this: just what have you and Rei- chan been smokin'?"
Haruka smirked. "Nothing. At least, not today." She joked as Usagi ran out of the car and up the steps.
"I can't believe Seiya isn't back yet," Yaten whined. "He said he's only be an hour or 2. It's been three."
"Stop complaining," Taiki returned without looking up from a keyboard. "I'm trying to get this melody right."
"Why are you doing that?" Yaten drawled. "We aren't singing anymore so you can stop. And if we got all our money out of the bank we'd be swimming in it-literally."
Taiki smiled slightly. "Yeah I know. But it's a habit, like my poetry writing. Remember the one Princess Kakyuu recited to me?"
"Oh yes. How could I forget? You were only walked around muttering it under your breath-for two and a half weeks."
"Such a short time." Taiki sighed not paying attention what-so-ever to Yaten. "Thou's starlight is pure," he recited. "Tis the light from thy golden joy that lights thy sky in the depths of the light. Thy life holds no meaning without thou's golden joyous light and the light of thou's friends. Thou's friends carry crimson and blue lights. But thou's pure golden starlight carry's a special joy into thy life."
"Don't act like you're her one and only," Yaten spoke up. "She gave as all special poems different from each others'."
"Let me pretend." Taiki pleaded.
"Pretend all you want. I'm going for a walk," he said and walked out the door.
He sighed as he walked down the sidewalk. "Time travel," he murmured. "Yuck. Why am I even bothering to go?" he asked himself as he passed a large group of girls.
"Yaten?"
Yaten stopped and turned around, then froze staring into the heart shaped eyes of at least a dozen drooling girls.
"Oh no," he muttered taking a step backwards. "They can't possibly remember me can they?"
One girl took a step forward. "Yaten." she murmured.
Yaten looked VERY scared. He turned around and bolted down the sidewalk the girls shrieking and running after him, a cloud rising up from behind them.
"Holy.crap!" he gasped as he ran. "I didn't.know.this would.happen!.This.hasn't.happened.to Seiya yet!.And he's.been out in.public.more than me!"
He felt his foot wedge into a crack in the sidewalk and the next minute he was on the ground.
"This is not cool." he moaned as he saw the screaming cloud of girls draw closer. 'Face it.' He thought. 'This is the end.'
"Hold it!" a feminine voice yelled and someone stepped over him her shadow falling across his face.
The girls screeched to a halt and were silent, until one yelled. "She's hogging him!"
"I have a right to hog him!" the voice yelled back. "After all I AM his new girlfriend."
Yaten looked up and saw a familiar red bow in long blonde hair. "Minako- chan."
"So on behalf of pop-sensation idles everywhere-I demand you keep your hands off him!"
Yaten smiled as the girls stomped away. "Thanks Mina-chan," he said looking up towards her.
She turned around and smiled. "Don't mention it Yaten-kun!" -She held out her hand- "Let me help you up."
She pulled him up and began dusting him off with her hands. "I'm just a bit mad at you though," she confessed. "I wish you would have talked to us in the last two days."
"We uh.have had to do a lot in the last couple of days."
"Well you could have at least called. We missed you guys a lot," she said brushing his shoulder.
Yaten grabbed her hand (nicely) and looked into her bright blue eyes. "You did?" he whispered.
Minako blushed. "Yeah," she whispered. Then she looked embarrassed. "Oh that stuff I said about being your girlfriend-I said that to keep those girls from trampling you. Uh.I was kidding about it."
Yaten smiled and lowered her hand but still held it. "Well I'm not," he whispered.
Minako's eyes widened and she blushed again. "Yaten."
He leaned forward and kissed her gently on her cheek.
Her eyes quivered as he drew back and she was pink. But she still managed to whisper, "Is that the best you can do?"
Yaten smiled and shook his head, chuckling. Mina chuckled too. That was when he held her face in a hand and kissed her lips.
Mina placed a few fingers on her lips and blushed.
"You're special Mina-chan," Yaten said quietly. "Don't ever forget that."
Minako nodded as they walked down the sidewalk hand in hand.
"How do you feel about messing with time?" he asked.
Minako shrugged. "We've already visited the future which kinda sucks. Cause then you can't screw anything up in our present."
Yaten nodded. "I don't want to see my future.
"We didn't have a choice. We had to go so we could save the future."
"I wonder what the past will be like," Yaten wondered.
"If Queen Serenity lied to us, it won't be pretty."
"What if she was telling the truth?"
"It still won't be pretty."
"What does everyone die?"
"Yes."
"Even you?"
"Yes. It was my past life though."
"What's it like to die?"
Minako shrugged. "I can't really remember. I was killed in a fight against Queen Beryl."
"Beryl..." Yaten whispered. Images flashed before his eyes-each for a split second-of a horrific battle. He saw Mercury get blasted against a pillar, Jupiter into a stonewall, Mars into a balcony rail, and Venus shatter on the ground.
"Yaten?" Minako asked. "Are you alright?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm alright," he answered nervously. "You, uh, want to go for some ice cream?"
Minako eyed him a moment then smiled ^^. "Sure! Why not? I don't have to pay!"
Yaten smiled, but his smile soon disappeared. 'What I saw." he thought. 'Was it real? Was that the battle with Beryl on the Moon Kingdom? I guess I'll find out soon.'
Mamoru sat upon a throne of black carved stone, gazing into a small smooth pool. The pool seemed to be a window a window to whatever Mamoru wanted to see. It showed a wavy picture of Yaten and Minako sharing a large fudge sunday.
He (Mamo) looked like he was in some kind of pain. He was grasping the armrests of his throne with death grip, his legs were trembling, and his eyes were squeezed shut. When he opened them, they were glowing and were shifting from caring to evil. The rose in his front pocket was changing too; from red to black to red to black. He seemed to fighting whatever was trying to control him.
"Odango," he rasped gasping for air. "I don't think I can."
His eyes turned evil and stayed and his rose turned to black and stayed.
"I'm sorry." he whispered then closed his eyes and became limp.
His body began to glow red and he was lifted to his feet. A flash of light spread from his feet to his head and he was transformed into Prince Endymion.
Endymion opened his evil blue eyes and silently took his sword from its sheath, then looked at the window pool. It shimmered for a moment then replaced the picture of Yaten and Minako with a picture of Seiya in his apartment sitting sadly on a couch.
Endymion slashed at the picture with his sword, splashing water all over, then straightened.
"My pyramid of plans will not tumble and fall because of my challenger. Seiya Kou will die. I shall wait though. Let him know the truth before he dies," he hissed emotionlessly. Then he chuckled softly.
"Girls are so strange Taiki-chan," Seiya mumbled on the couch.
Taiki-still at the keyboard-half-smiled. "Funny you should say so since you ARE a girl," he replied sarcastically.
"You need to stop hanging out with Yaten," Seiya advised. "His personality is rubbing off onto you."
"I'd stop hanging around with him if someone wasn't always with a certain blonde girl that has two odangoes on her head! I get cravings for others' company you know!" he exclaimed tapping a few keys on the keyboard.
"Just go see Ami-chan."
Taiki froze then turned rigidly around. "A-Ami-chan?" ^_^;
"Oh come on Taiki-chan!" Seiya cried. "Stop pretending!"
"Pretend.ing?"
"You know what I mean!"
"Uh."
Seiya sighed. "Taiki-chan.Ami-chan really does like you, Usako said she talked about you quite a bit while we were gone."
"She-she did?"
"Yeah."
"WAHOOOO! Ami likes me! Who does she like? ME! That's who! I'll go visit her right now I think. Yeah, right now would be a perfect time to see my blue haired angel of wisdom-"
"Huh?" ^_^;
"-I can't wait to see her!" he yelled, jumped away from the keyboard and bolted towards the door.
"Seiya grabbed him by the collar (Taiki is being strangled) "On second thought, stay here and keep me company."
Taiki crashed to the floor and groaned.
Seiya shook his head at Taiki's twitching foot. "We're doing the time thing tomorrow so it's not like it's an eternity to wait."
Taiki sat up. "But I wanna see her NOW!" he whined.
Seiya raised an eyebrow. "If I can handle Usagi running away from me sobbing you can handle not seeing Ami-chan for 22 hours."
"I wanna see her!" he sobbed.
"Taiki, shut up."