It's My Life

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CHAPTER SEVEN

Some time later……

Sanosuke hummed to himself softly as he hung the clothes onto the washing line. Household chores applied to anyone who wanted to stay at Megumi's house.

Yahiko, hiding in a nearby bush, stifled laughter.

Striding into clear sight of Sano, he grinned as he thought of the plans he had in mind for him.

"Very happy today, Sano?" he asked, feeling slightly weird saying it.

Sano looked up. Yahiko was acting very weird lately. "Yeah?"

"Does it have anything to do with Shin's departure?" Yahiko asked, "Maybe you're happy because Megumi is single again?"

"What does that have to do with me?" Sano said, scowling.

"When we love someone, our judgment is blurred to all those close to the one we love.We might even….. even…." Quoted Yahiko, vainly trying to remember the lines he had slaved away at the night before.

Sano looked confused.

"In short, meaning you dislike Shin because you like-" Yahiko explained, only to be cut short by Sano.

"Well, of course I don't like him! He is a jerk!" said Sano valiantly.

"You didn't hear the end of my sentence." Said Yahiko, pouting. "I said, you dislike Shin because you like Megumi."

There was a short silence as Sano went back to hanging clothes. Then his voice answered sounding unnaturally like a two-year-old's.

"I do not."

"Prove it. You gawp at her all the time, you stare at her when she turns around, do her chores without complaining, trail her everywhere she goes-"

A laundry basket full of dripping wet clothes collided with his head and he fell down. "What the hell did you do that for?!"

"It got you to shut up, didn't it?" Sano asked smugly.

Crawling to his feet, Yahiko didn't notice someone appear through the front door. However, Sano did, and shrank back as the figure stormed towards him.

"I spend hours washing those clothes and you have to throw them back onto the floor! To think I trusted you when you said you'd do them!" fumed Megumi.

Sano cowered as Megumi clobbered him, and Yahiko artfully scurried back into the safety of the house, 'cause if looks could kill, the one Sano was giving him would have made him die a thousand times or more.

xxxxxxx

Yahiko took a deep breath before walking up to the front door where Megumi was sweeping the floor. Yesterday's plan had not been as smoothly as he had hoped, and he wanted this time to be a success.

"Megumi?" he called.

"Yeah, Yahiko?"

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure. Is anything wrong?" she asked.

"Umm, what do you think about Sano?" Yahiko asked, his fingers crossed for luck.

"What kind of question is that?" Megumi asked, putting her broom down.

"Well, you know, when that friend of yours came, he was quite- jealous…… I think he likes you, Megumi." Yahiko said nervously.

Megumi sat down beside Yahiko. This was a different Yahiko, unlike the playful and naughty Yahiko she knew so well.

"Yahiko, that might just be a little schoolboy crush or something. Sanosuke isn't exactly what you can call mature." She said.

"I know, but, I was hoping, maybe, the only reason you liked Shin was because he looks like, well- Kenshin." Yahiko said quickly.

"Yahiko. I'll tell you a secret. The one reason I liked Kenshin, was because he looked like Shin. Can you understand that?" she asked softly.

"Yeah, but Sano……" Yahiko felt downhearted. Where was Megumi and Sano's happy ending?

"You're a nice guy, Yahiko." Megumi said, leaning forward to kiss him on the cheek. "If you were ten years older, I'd definitely go out with you."

Yahiko turned a bright shade of pink. Blushing furiously, he went back into the house.

What could you do if you wanted to set a guy up with a girl, and ended up get kissed yourself?

xxxxxx

Someone knocked on the door. Sano got up and opened it. Tsubame was standing there, holding a file in her arms.

"Konnichiwa, Sanosuke."

"Konnichiwa. Yahiko is upstairs."

She bowed and headed up the stairs, Sano staring after her. Tsubame sure was coming around a lot lately.

Love is in the air…… he thought, smirking.

xxxxxxx

"Yahiko-kun."

Yahiko sprang up from the floor, where a notebook lay. He clutched a pencil in his hand.

"Did you bring it?" he asked eagerly.

"Hai. It's here." Tsubame handed him the file, which he took and immediately flipped open.

"Did the last one work, Yahiko-kun?"

"Not really. But it's sure to work sometime sooner or later. Right?" he asked.

Tsubame sat down next to him and picked up the notebook.

"You didn't remember your lines." She said accusingly. She underlined the bit of Shakespeare she had copied out for him.

"I tried! But it's so looooong." He grumbled.

"I've thought of a new plan." She took the file from Yahiko and opened it somewhere at the middle.

"It says here, that if you leave a couple alone together for an hour or so, something called L-O-V-E will blossom." She said.

Yahiko blinked. "Leave them alone? Sanosuke will just find some excuse to run off or something."

Tsubame's eyes sparkled.

"Maybe that won't work, but have you heard of the word 'lock'?" she asked smiling.

"I like the way you think." grinned Yahiko.

xxxxxxx

"Did you do it?" Yahiko asked.

Tsubame nodded and giggled. "But I still feel bad about it." She admitted.

Yahiko shrugged. "We're just helping to put those two together. There's nothing wrong about matchmaking."

Tsubame nodded.

"Come!" said Yahiko, sprinting towards the door. "I want to watch."

Tsubame scrambled to her feet and hurried after the boy.

xxxxxx

Sano turned back to look at Megumi.

"I could always break through the door, but I don't think you-" he began.

"You are NOT breaking through my door." Megumi said firmly.

"Ah well, it was worth a try." Sano shrugged and sat back down.

"Sanosuke, did you realize how weird Yahiko has been acting lately?" Megumi asked. "I mean, he turns all serious like, and then locks the both of us in here….."

"Yeah, and I'm going to knock the stuffing out of him once I get out of-"

"Sanosuke." Megumi interrupted him again. "The reason why he locked us in here was because he wanted us to talk. So that's just what we'll do. Talk."

Sano had no comment.

"Do you know he asked me one day if I had feelings for you?" pressed Megumi.

Sano gaped and opened and shut his mouth like a goldfish. Megumi sighed and took it as a no.

"He also said you liked me." Megumi said without a trace of embarrassment

"He-is-wrong." Sano managed to say.

"Yahiko also said that you refused to admit your love because of Shin." Said Megumi. Well, Yahiko didn't really say that. But Megumi wanted to do a little data checking.

"I said I didn't love you, didn't I?" Sano said angrily. "Yahiko is so dead."

"Sano, would you say that if Shin didn't exist?" Megumi asked. "Or maybe, you might say something else?"

She winked at him.

Sano didn't answer for awhile, deep in thought. Man, what is that brat driving at? Megumi and I can't belong together, and he should know that.

"Sano, if Shin didn't exist, and we were sitting here together, what would you say?" Megumi asked, trying to feign puppy dog eyes.

Shouldn't I just get it out with? Damn…… What should I do? Get it over with…… so I can go on with my life?

"Well…… I would say……" Sano looked into her eyes, and for a moment was thoroughly convinced that there was hope.

Then he shook his head.

"I would say that I don't love you as well." Sano said, looking away.

Megumi sighed. Maybe Yahiko was wrong after all……

Just then, they both heard a muffled voice in the distance.

"Sano, you idiot!" they heard Yahiko hiss.

"Yahiko, be quiet!" they heard Tsubame whisper.

Suddenly the door ripped apart and both Yahiko and Tsubame tumbled into the room.

"Uh-oh." Said Yahiko.

Maybe this relationship isn't as good as you think it should be going, 'cuz I'm not really good at love scenes. Anyway, I promise that Sano will get Megumi in the end, okay?

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