Hello again. Bit of a short chapter today, sorry.

A note to some people, concerning lemon-related material: Nope. Sorry, it isn't gonna happen in this story. DarkFeenix speaks the truth; I'm a sucker for a good lemon, as long as it's done correctly. It takes a good author to do a proper lemon; a lot of them suck nowadays. I have never been interested in doing one. Writing them just isn't my bag. Not sure, it's kind of like how I love chocolate, but don't like chocolate ice cream or chocolate cake.

Anyway, I have a super-secret idea for a new story, and if you really wanna hear it, I might just tell people about it. (That's right, I just placed a huge piece of bait on that line...) But I probably won't until I get another story or two under my belt. That way, when I tell everyone, and they all lynch me for my unconventional thinking, I'll still be more respectable among the author community.
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What's New with You, Kaolla Su?

Chapter 5

Eventually, most of the Hinata House residents found out about Kaolla's hopeless love of Keitaro in one way or another. Kitsune's prophesy eerily coming true. The only two who hadn't were Naru, because Su had made sure not to do anything out of the ordinary around her, and Keitaro, who was too dense to see any of it unfolding under his nose.

So, the Hinata Crew, minus Su, Naru, and Keitaro decided to hold a super-secret meeting, late one night in the attic.

"I saw it that night, at the fireworks festival," Kitsune had told them.

"She was whispering it in her sleep one night," Motoko said, sternly.

"Tama-chan told me," Mutsumi said, brightly. She seemed to be the only one in a cheery mood, however, Mutsumi was never really sad ever, so it wasn't exactly out of the ordinary.

"It doesn't matter how we found out," Shinobu said, "We need to think of something to do. There is no way this can reach Keitaro and Naru."

"We are fairly certain they don't know, right?" Kanako asked.

"Pretty sure," Kitsune replied. "So...what do we do? Do we confront Su about it? Or...try and get her to not love him anymore?"

"I'm not sure," Motoko thought aloud, "but I think it's safe to say we should not confront Kaolla about this."

"Confront me about what?" Su said, poking her head up into the attic. This caused a tremendous uproar in the group as they ran about trying to hide. Then, realizing that Su had already seen them in the first place, they settled down and looked around uneasily.

"Oh...nothing. We just um..." Kitsune stuttered, trying to think of something to say. "We wanted to confront you about your...erm, eating habits. Yeah, we don't think you're getting the proper nutrition."

"That's silly! I have it all covered," Su said happily. "For grains I have Banana Bread, for dairy I have coconut milk, and I eat all sorts of fruits and veggies! And sometimes Shinobu cooks roast, and I eat that for my meats!"

Everyone exhaled heavily; that was close...

"Oh..." Kitsune said, breathing more slowly, "that's good. I can't believe I was worried."

"Okies!" Su said and dropped out of the attic.

What a silly thing to be worried about, she thought, as she headed back to her room.

But as she passed the door heading to the backyard, she saw Keitaro lying on his back on the grass. She could barely see him, as it was pretty dark, and he was lying back on the hill, but there he was, looking up at the stars.

She walked outside, and lay down next to him, looking up at the huge inky void, where, almost everywhere, small bright lights sat there looking down on them.

"Beautiful isn't it," Keitaro said quietly.

Su looked over at Keitaro, "Yeah," she replied.

Keitaro started pointed at all the different constellations, explaining what they were, and all the stories related to them. He knew quite a lot about the stars.

"When I was out on an archaeological trip, a family living close by let me stay at their house. They loved to watch stars, and told me everything about them. It was really interesting," Keitaro explained to Su.

She nodded, and looked over at the moon. There was one big moon tonight, she thought. Keitaro had similar thoughts.

"Wow! Look at that moon. That's just crazy, isn't it?"

"Yeah, this time of the year, the moon is always really nice. Of course, in my opinion, it's nice all year round," Su said.

Keitaro looked over at Su, who was smiling contentedly at the moon. She has such a pretty smile, he thought. The moon seemed to enhance her blonde, practically white hair, making it look magically silvery. It was kind of funny, Keitaro thought, that when he thought of white hair, he thought of little old ladies and grumpy old men. Kaolla's hair was completely different.

"What's wrong, Su?" Keitaro said after a bit.

"Hmm?" Su looked over at him, to see his face awfully close to hers. Maybe she had sat next to him too close.

"You've been acting strange lately, I can tell. I'm not that thick," Keitaro replied.

"Hah! You? Not that thick?"

"Hey! That hurts!

They laughed together, the scene leaving Su blushing.

"I don't know," Su said.

"Yes you do," Keitaro told her. "You always have an answer to everything."

She sighed and looked up at the moon again. "My story is much too sad to be told," she started singing softly to Keitaro. "But practically everything leaves me totally cold."

She sighed, and continued. "The only exception I know is the case, when I'm out on a quiet spree...fighting vainly, the old annui, and I suddenly turn and see..."

She turned to Keitaro who answered, singing back with a smile, "Your fabulous face."

"You know the song, hmm?" Su said happily.

(A/N: It's called "I Get A Kick Out of You" if you want to know what this sounds like.)

"Yep, I know a bit about music," Keitaro said.

"Well, lets just say it perfectly sums up what's wrong," Su said, and got up. "I'm tired, goodnight Keitaro..."

"Goodnight Su," Keitaro replied, watching her quietly walk back to the house. She's very graceful, he thought, she must get a lot of guys after her.

That's when two things hit Keitaro. One was the reason Su was acting so strange. He mentally kicked himself for not seeing it before. She was in love. Who was she in love with, though? That thought was quickly driven from his mind by the second thing that hit Keitaro. That was a very large white van, out of which emerged three people. One Sarah, followed by one Haruka, proceeded lastly, by one Seta who was bleeding from the head, from the injury he had received, crashing his head into the steering wheel after he had chosen to hop on a ramp and fly over a wall onto Hinata House property.

"See the problem with Seta," Haruka began, pulling out a cigarette immediately, "is that whenever he crashes, he realizes that he is a horrible driver. Unfortunately he kills so many brain cells in the crash, he completely forgets. Or, at least, that's my theory."

Everyone came piling out of Hinata House within seconds.

"Haruka?" Naru asked, sleepily.

"Seta," Motoko said, seriously.

"Sarah!" Su said, loudly.

Their reunion was interrupted by a hack and a sputter as Keitaro climbed out from under the car, before collapsing on the ground next to everyone.
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That's it for now! It's a bit short; I know...it just seemed like a good place to end. I suppose a new contest is in order, but what? Since we were on a constellation theme today, why don't we say...15 cool points to whoever can first tell me (in their review) what type of creature the constellation "Cygnus" is supposed to be.

To those of you who have never heard the song "I Get A Kick Out of You," I'm sorry. I was listening to the song as I was making this, and I couldn't resist, as I felt it sort of summed up how Su felt at the time.

As always, Reviews are greatly appreciated. Flaming is not allowed, but I'm definitely open to some 'constructive criticism' as they say. Compliments are, of course, appreciated.