"But"
"SILENCE! I DON"T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE!" Alice picked up another chair and hurled it at him like it was made of paper. Yuri managed to dodge it, but this one was closer than the last.
"Weren't you the one who told me to be happy?" Yuri asked, hoping that that would solve the problem.
Alice stood there for a moment, face down and covered by her hair. "Yes... I wanted you to be happy... But"
"But what"
"But i don't understand... this anger, this rage"
Yuri smiled, even some souls could feel emotions.
"Alice.." He walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her.
"I-i'm sorry, yuri." Alice sobbed into his shirt.
"That's alright. That was just jealousy. Everyone feels that now and then"Yuri sighed a relief, the worse was over now. He hoped.
Karin placed her cup down. The warm liquid still traveling down her system. She never liked coffee, so she drank tea instead. She nodded at the man sitting at the table across. His eyes seem to shift between her and his empty plate. He drummed his fingers twice on the table. After about fifteen minutes, the man got up and left. Karin sighed a relief.
"What's wrong?" Kurando asked, sipping down on his own tea.
"Nothing, nothing at all." Karin smiled, drinking more of her tea.
'Soon... very soon.' Karin stared into her warm tea.
'...Too soon. For my soul'
"This tea... what is it called?" Karin woke up from her thoughts at kurando's question.
"Er... it's called 'earl-grey"
"Really? Its really good"
"You like it? But i suggest that you don't drink too much"
"Yes, i think i already know that"
Karin's face redden in embressement.
"I-i sorry"
"Hmm? For what"
"For... oh nevermind"
Kurando smiled.
"You're so beautiful"
Karin coughed and choked on her tea.
"Excuse me"
Kurando sighed, sitting back in his seat.
"I mean, you're everything... beautiful, fun, loving, caring, intelligent. No wonder Yuri likes you. Sigh, i envy him"
Karin blushed really fiercely at this comment. No one had ever told her that before. And what about Yuri? He likes her? Is that how he really feels? With this thought alone, karin felt her entire body excited, the kind of adrenalin rush feeling but without the excessive energy.
Kurando studied karin closely as she was lost in her own little world. Her hair flowed freely down. Her face, though red and in some deep happy thought, smooth and fair. One question nagged him, why did she want to come here? Was it for the uniform? Part of him figured it was the uniform but just could not figure out why.
Yuri got off the floor of the lavatory. Something told him that he was out for quite some time. He dusted his pants and waddled out of the toilet, hoping no one noticed his long absence. One thing immediately caught his attention. They had landed. Yuri ran into the cockpit, only to find roger sitting down and flipping through some dirty old magazine.
"Crazy old man! Why have we landed?" Yuri demanded into roger's ear, seding him flying out of his seat.
"Don't you have any manners for the old? We landed in paris for karin to grab something. We have until four till we take off again. That leads us to... twenty more minutes. Mind going out and find karin? I fear she's taking too long." Yuri immediately left, not even thanking roger, in search for karin.
'Yuri... there is something i found out about karin.' Alice's words echoed throughout his head as he ran through the streets.
"Karin... "
'She's planning something... for you'
"Damn it"
'Her soul'
"Karin"
'Is the cost for yours'
"Karin!"
Karin felt her head feeling dizzy.
'Someone's calling for me...' She could hear her name being called. Someone... familiar. The calls were getting louder, clearer. Her vision was darkening, blurring. Karin got up from her chair, her head feeling light and heavy at the same time.
"Karin? Are you alright?" Kurando got up, noticing karin swaying a little. The sounds were louder, clearer... someone was crying out for her. Someone sad.
"Huh? Sounds like someone's calling for you... That sounds like"
"Yuri-" Thud.
"What the? Karin? Hey! Karin!" Kurando turned around to see karin fall to the ground.
"Karin!" Yuri burst into the cafe, sweat dripping, breathing heavily. His eyes met karin's fallen form on the floor.
"no... Karin!" He ran over, pushing kurando aside. Kurando could do nothing. What could he do, anyway? All he could do was watch his cousin cry over karin, trying hard to get her to wake.
"Yuri... lets get out of here, before someone thinks wrongly." Kurando placed his hand on yuri's shoulder. Yes, this was as much as he can do right now. Yuri nodded and carried karin into his arms as the two made their way back to the ship. Luckily, no one noticed them as they made their way out of the town and back into the ship.
Yuri and Kurando got back onto the ship without much difficulties. They made their way into the ship's only cabin. The cabin was small but servicable. It had a single bed, a table and chair with a small bathroom. Yuri had always wondered where that old man slept inside his house since there wasn't any bed the last time he was there.
"You stay with her in the cabin. I'll calling the others back." Kurando said, walking out of the cabin and closing the cabin door behind him. Yuri sighed, laying karin onto the bed.
"Got to comfort her the best i can." He muttered, noticing her new uniform.
"Is this why she wanted to stop here?" He inspected her uniform closely, it looked tight, really tight. Sighing, he decided that he had to loosen her clothing. The only problem was how.
"Don't be stupid, its only loosening her clothing, its not like you're going to strip her or something." Yuri muttered to himself, then he wished he never thought about it in the first place. Hands trembling, he slowly undid her coat. The very frabic hugged so tightly to her that he felt that he was touching her bare skin more than a simple piece of cloth. Yuri's face immediately exploded into bright shades of red, but it quickly settled down once the coat was off. Yuri placed her coat on a chair and helped her take off her hair band, allowing her red hair to flow freely down. For the first time, yuri saw karin without most restrictions. He saw her for who she was. He gently covered her with a blanket, before busying himself a basin of water a cold towel. He still remembered the way his mother nursed him back to health. He never thought that remembering about the past could help him now. He moved her bangs away, staring at her peaceful, sleeping face. No matter what happens, he had always felt calmed, at peace whenever she was around. It never sickened him to see her beautiful face every single day. It would be ironic, to describe something that you're sick of beautiful. In karin's case, yuri can never be sick of her. Never. She was like his torch in the dark, the only flower growing in his garden. She was his ray of hope, his only hope. He would have never made it here, now without her help. He never blamed her for the curse. Never. He could never blame the woman... of his heart.
"Karin... What have you done?" Yuri wispered into her ear. Uncontrollable tears falling.
"... idiot... What have you done..." He knelt there, slowly carressing her cheek. Such beauty... such pureness... he would do anything to protect it.
"...Yu-...ri"
Yuri almost jumped out of his own skin. Karin shifted a little.
"yu-..ri"
"I'm here. I'm here..." Yuri held her hand, pulling it close his heart. Karin's eyes opened.
"...i.. heard my name..." She smiled.
"heh, its a wake up call"
"I guess it is..." Karin tried to sit up, wincing at the pain.
"Hey! You just got up, you should take it easy"
Karin laughed weakly.
"That's for me to say."
"Hm... yeah, i guess it is." The ship gave a sudden jerk, signaling its take off once more.
"I guess we're on th-" Yuri silenced her with a sudden kiss. Karin first was taken by surpirse, but slowly flowed with him. Yuri broke the kiss but pulled her close to him.
"I don't want to lose you... Never"
"Yuri"
"I don't know what you're trying to do, but please... i want you safe"Yuri moved her bangs away, kissing her forehead.
"Promise me? Promise that you won't do anything stupid for my sake"
"... then... will you"
Yuri smiled.
"You know i can't promise that"
"Then i can't either." Karin retorted back, still wrapped in his arms.
The two stayed silent for a long time. Karin snuggled warmly in his arms. Yuri pressing his nose into her hair.
"Will... you spend the night with me?" Karin asked in a low half wisper, her face turning a number of shades. Unfortunately, yuri has quite sharp hearing.
"Hmm... if its alright with you, i guess." He smiled. Karin's face light up both in expression and in colour.
"You know, we have not said those words yet"
"What? Oh... what, should i say them now"
"Don't be such a jerk"
"Fine, fine... Did i ever tell you how much i love you"
Karin giggled at his sentence.
"That sounded all wrong"
"Well, you should not have asked in the first place. If you could just let it flow, i bet it would be better"
"Well, i guess so." Karin tilted her head and kissed him lightly.
"... i love you..."
