Disclaimer: I don't own em. I don't own em. I don't own em.... Hey get off me Shun! Wait, what are you doing with those scissors? Now you stay away from me. I don't like that look you got on your face. (Backs away nervously desperately looking towards the door) Aww forget this.......aggghhhh! Help! Shun and scissors do not make a good combination! Sigh It's always the quiet ones....
Author Note: Yay! I'm done with school for the summer then back to having over a full load of units to drive me completely mad. But in the meantime, I now have some time to update my stories which I've been neglecting... I was beginning to think this depression would never end, but I can still feel it lurking in the back of my mind. I'm hoping that writing my stories will help to give me some peace of mind. Thanks to all who reviewed, I really enjoyed and appreciated the feedback.
Anything But That (Part Two):
By Rekkanotara
After about twenty minutes of mindless reading, everyone in the room stood or sat completely still wherever they were. Seiya and Saori were exchanging similar nervous glances; each one sporting a pair of scarlet cheeks.
Hyoga couldn't help it, but as he read, his mouth dropped open and stayed open only closing to prevent the ever embarrassing drool puddle from forming. He had just finished reading a story in which he and Ikki were an item of sorts. How in the world do they think we could ever get in that position? Oh my ggooo..... ewwe.... ouch..... awww, that's just sick. Thinking to himself, Hyoga absently tossed half his pile next to where he was sitting. He had to take a minute to absorb what he had just read. Catching a quick peak over at the other main character featured in the stories with him, Hyoga couldn't help but stare at Ikki for a little and thinking what if before shaking his head in order to rid himself of the images that would surely stay with him for a while.
Ikki seemed to be having better luck with his stack of stories because he had the weirdest grin on his face, but then again, any grin on Ikki's face was weird.
Ikki couldn't help but smile. He had caught Hyoga staring at him a minute ago and felt a small laugh threaten to come out. Speaking directly towards Hyoga, he asked, "Hey Hyoga, I never knew you were the surfer type... "
Hyoga looked up confused. Unconsciously, he began to blush at his friend's comment and mentally kicked himself for doing so. Damn it! Keep it together Hyoga. Remember, it was just a story and nothing more....Wait.... did he say surfer??? "What do you mean surfer type?" he asked immediately placing the rest of his stack on the table. Luckily, he had been interrupted from the story he was just on which featured him and Shun as a couple before he could get to any of the detailed parts.
Hyoga walked over to Ikki's spot on the corner of the desk, absently grabbing the story which Ikki was flapping up in the air for him to see.
Coming out of their stupors as well, the rest of the saints looked on at the two amused, especially since each of them had read a story in which Hyoga ended up talking like a surfer and knew exactly what the Ikki was talking about.
Thinking aloud as he read along, Hyoga couldn't believe what he was reading, "Now has anyone ever heard of a Russian surfer?!? How would one even talk, I mean geez! Just because I have long blonde hair, people associate me with all sorts of things." Wrinkling his brow and biting his bottom lip as he finished up the short little story, Hyoga just slapped the story on the desk face down and partly out of reading the phrase so much and partly to see what it sounded like, he sighed as he tried to pronounce the word 'dude' as best he could.
This earned him a room full of laughter as Ikki and Seiya were now on the floor rolling around in fits of laughter.
Shiryu watched on and was trying to keep a straight face but Saori could see small tears threatening to come.
Saori couldn't keep her composure either and ended up laughing into her arms on the desk and pounding her hand on the desk.
Shiryu finally broke as Saori's outburst next to him caused him to lose what self control he had left.
Tatsumi all the while just stood there staring at everyone and thinking, adolescent fools and this is who the people want to read about?...argh, grumble, argh....
Shun was the first to stop laughing as he had a couple of questions on his mind and the scowl Hyoga was giving all of them spoke of lots of unpleasantness to come later on.
Still chuckling a little Seiya seemed to follow Shun's lead, but before Shun could get a word out, Seiya blurted out, "Now what I don't get is why everyone thinks that Shaina and I would make such a great couple.... I mean she's pretty and all, but she hates my guts....."
"Oh yeah! Try being compared to a girl." Shiryu countered. "I'm sorry, but just because I have long flowing hair does not mean that I look like a girl, I mean Aphrodite looks more like a girl than I do and if I'm not mistaken, he even puts make up on as well."
"Relax you guys, they're just stories. They aren't really what the people think of us." Ikki replied.
Everyone seemed to take this into account but Ikki was silently hoping that he was right, because all of the things he had read about himself were a bit demented and a little graphic...
Finally, sensing a good a time as any to voice his questions, Shun spoke up, "Hey guys... umm, what does yaoi mean??? I mean there are a lot of stories here with Hyoga and myself and I really didn't get a chance to read them yet, because I wanted to know it meant, seeing as how it's mentioned quite a bit.
"Well, you see Shun... Yaoi is........." Seiya began but was just a quickly silenced by Shiryu who had yelled out Seiya's name at the same time as Ikki and planted his hand firmly over Seiya's mouth, leaving the rest of Seiya's sentence a mumbled mystery.
Saori turned to the young saint sitting besides her and tried to grab the papers from Shun's hands without him noticing. All the while she was spouting off nonsense at him, "Umm, well, Shun, dear... it means really good friends." Silently, she let out a breath as she had managed to swipe all the stories from Shun's innocent hands.
Shun seemed to be ok with that explanation and was grinning wildly.
That is until Tatsumi spoke up after having enough Shun babying, "That's not what it means twerp; what it really means is that you and Hyoga................"
Ikki had cut the taller man off before jumping on him and yelling, "Tatsumi!!!"
The next thing anybody knew, Tatsumi and Ikki were on the floor. Tatsumi was struggling to get free of Ikki's headlock and the endless noogies as Ikki mercilessly pounded into the head of the older man while holding his mouth shut with his other hand. He'd be damned if he was going to let anyone taint his little brother's naive personality before he was ready for it.
Suddenly, Ikki heard his brother's voice ringing in his head; "But Ikki, I wanna know what he was going to say......" Shun spoke crossing his arms and pouting an adorable pout.
Hyoga came up to him in a slight daze and put a comforting arm around the younger green-haired saint. Reassuringly, Hyoga spoke into Shun's ear, "Don't worry about it Shun, you know how much Tatsumi likes to lie about things and mess with your head."
Seiya picked up another story after dusting himself off and standing up to clear the way for the struggling duo that was Ikki and Tatsumi. Thinking nothing of Tatsumi getting the living daylights pummeled out of him, Seiya began to read. After reading the first few lines, he blurted out in a frustrated tone, "I'm telling you guys, what's with everyone thinking about me and Sha...ai...na..... !? oh.... The last part coming a little slower as Seiya was expecting to be reading another story coupling him and Shaina, but instead found the other person to be....Saori.
Saori quickly tried to grasp the papers out of Seiya's hands as she didn't want to feel anymore embarrassed than she already was. However, when she made a mad dash for the papers, Seiya moved out of the was as if to sit on one of the chairs in the room, clearly intrigued by the story in his hands; she ended up face down in dust bunnies.
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Well there you have it. Another small chapter for those of you who wanted it I really can't think of anything to write though right now. I was thinking about putting the gold saints into this story somehow, but I really don't know enough about their own relationships/stories/backgrounds myself. If you think I should (even though my writer's block is preventing me from seeing it) put them into the story somehow, feel free to review or email me for any background information of the gold saints would be well appreciated. Or if you want to tell me how horrible my story is, I still await your reviews. Thanks all!