--Yay! People like my stuff! x And, you know what I realized? I forgot the disclaimer! Yipes! Well, no one kill me for it!
Disclaimer: (I'll only say it once cuz my memory slips alot, so here you go) Anything that may possibly even have a copyright thinger attached to it is clearly not mine! Hokiday? Hokiday.
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Through out the course of two hours, they showed the two angels the small town and where all the main places were. By request of Sano's growling stomach, they finally stopped at a burger joint that Sano and Kaoru both insisted had the best hamburgers they'd ever taste.
"Four please." Kaoru told the waitress that greeted them at the door. Smiling happily, she let them to a table in the corner, laying out menus on the wooden table. Kaoru squealed happily. "This is the best place to sit! Yay!" Kaoru slid in first followed by Sano then Kenshin and Tomoe last. Picking up their menus, they examined all the choices that were new to them. Carefully, Kenshin pulled his card out of his pocket and looked at it behind the menu to prevent suspicion. So far, they'd gotten all the information right. They were going to the same high school, they were indeed supposed to be seventeen, and they found the street that the place they were staying at was on.
"So, are you guys boy and girlfriend?" Sano asked, startling both of them slightly. Kaoru slapped him lightly on the arm in punishment as if he were an infant.
"Uh, no. We're just friends. That's all." Kenshin said, stuffing his card into his pocket again.
"That was a rude question Sano." Kaoru scolded. Sanosuke just grinned.
"Well, they didn't seem to mind."
"Would you like anything to drink?" The waitress asked, returning with coasters and silver wear.
"I'll have a Pepsi please." Kaoru said, folding the menu.
"Pepsi too." Sano said from somewhere behind the menu. Kaoru rolled her eyes.
"I'll have the same." Kenshin smiled pleasantly, determined not to show his uncertainty, trying to figure out what this 'Pepsi' stuff was.
"Um…I'll have…"Tomoe hesitated, and Kenshin nudged her with his foot. Taking that as a sign, she pulled herself together. "Ditto." The ever-smiling waitress jotted down their order then walked off.
"So, what do you think of our cute little town?" Kaoru asked.
"Um, it's a very nice place indeed. Thank you for showing us around." Kenshin grinned.
"We told you we're going to school with you two right?" Tomoe questioned, not wanting to miss any detail. Kaoru nodded.
"Yeah. We'll show you around when you get there. Meet us by the big oak tree out in front."
"Akira'll be there too. So you can meet him too." Sano smirked.
"Alright." Tomoe said just as the waitress walked up holding a tray with four cups of a dark liquid.
"Four Pepsis." She said, setting one in front of each of them. "Would you like to order now?" the waitress asked, looking pointedly at Tomoe.
"Um, Can I have the 'Garden Burger' please?" she said and the waitress scribbled the order down, looking next at Kenshin.
"The…'Banzai Burger please."
"Double Bacon Cheeseburger." Was Sano's order.
"Just a traditional burger please." With that, the waitress moved away. Kenshin and Tomoe turned their attention to the Pepsis. Kaoru and Sano were already drinking theirs –Well, Kaoru drinking and Sano chugging-. The two angels took an experimental sip.
"Yum! This is really good!" Tomoe said happily, then realized her mistake.
"Well, what'd you think you were going to get?" Kaoru giggled.
"Um, well… it's…just…. that, s-sometimes the drinks are so watered down, they are flavorless." Tomoe recovered shakily. Kaoru looked questioningly at them, then, much to their relief, shrugged it off.
The rest of the evening proceeded in much the same fashion. Someone slipping then having to scramble and find a reasonable excuse to cover it. When the meal that seemed to last an eternity was over, Kenshin and Tomoe found the house they were suppose to be staying at, with the aid of the cards (which were their Holy Grail). They explored the charming one-story, and found it already furnished, stocked with food, and an envelope of money for them sitting on the counter.
"It must have taken a HUGE amount of magic to pull this off!" Kenshin exclaimed, walking into what he had claimed as his room.
"Oh yeah! An amount beyond anything I've ever seen!" Tomoe's voice came from somewhere in the hall. Kenshin flopped down on the bed, laying on his stomach.
"I'm surprised I lived through the day." He said as Tomoe entered the room. "A couple times I thought we were done for."
"Well, we were definitely lucky." Tomoe said, walking to the bedside. Because Kenshin was turned away from Tomoe, he didn't see her mischievous smirk as she hopped on the bed, sitting on his lower back with her legs hanging off either side of the twin bed.
"Tomoe…? What're you doing?" he asked curiously.
"Tell me Kenshin, are you still ticklish here?" she teased while running a finger experimentally over his shoulder blades. Tomoe was rewarded with a startled cry from Kenshin.
And so, as they ad done for seventeen years now, Tomoe and Kenshin laughed together…for different reasons of course. Tomoe was laughing at Kenshin's useless efforts to get up and away, and Kenshin was the helpless tickle victim. About twenty seconds later, there was a great rush of wind that neither expected as two large soft gray wings popped from Kenshin's back, and Tomoe, startled, backed up as her white wings made their appearance to shield her instinctively. Kenshin sat up, looking at her first, then at his wings that had reappeared.
"My wings…" he said, feeling them to be sure he wasn't imagining things. "They're back." Kenshin gave a small smile, which soon spread into an infectious grin. Kenshin looked at Tomoe who was feeling her wings in a similar fashion.
"But how? Why now?" she asked looking at him questioningly. Silence fell between the two angels briefly before Kenshin spoke.
"I wonder if it has to do with the face that we…our instincts took over kinda thing, you know."
"Yes," Tomoe said quietly, nodding. "That makes sense because I was startled and defenseless, and you wanted to get away."
"And I wanted you to stop," He mumbled quietly "So, I guess as long as we don't do anything to trigger and adrenaline rush of any kind, we can prevent anyone from finding us out. Cool."
"Why do I have a feeling it's a whole lot more complicated than that?" Tomoe asked no one in particular.
"…I don't know, but I hope it's not true. Other wise, there could be some sticky situations coming up."
"Yeah." Tomoe closed her eyes, took a deep breath and her wings withdrew into her back.
"Too bad we can't fly. I really want to." Kenshin sighed and pulled his wings back in too.
"I know. I do too…maybe we can find an open field in the middle of no where and fly there."
"That's a good idea." Kenshin perked up a bit. "I'll ask Kaoru sometime if she knows anywhere good."
"Oh, speaking of them, our schedules are here too. I found yours." She handed Kenshin a piece of paper with a list of five periods.
"What's yours look like?" Tomoe pulled hers out and they held them side by side.
"I've got… first with you...fitness. Nice. I always love that." Tomoe groaned sarcastically.
"Well, I guess we should get some sleep then. The school's suppose to start tomorrow." Kenshin grinned. Tomoe smiled too, and walked to the door.
"Night Kenshin." She said just before she walked down the hall to her room.
"See ya Tomoe!" Kenshin called after her, jumping into the bed. He turned off the light on the nightstand by the bed and laid there. After a moment he smirked and sat up. Kenshin concentrated, eyes closed and his wings sprouted from his back again. He stretched them to their full length (which was about fifteen feet), and they almost touched both sides of the small room. Kenshin sighed. Reluctantly, he pulled his wings back inside and took off his shirt. The moonlight filtering through the window revealed two large rips at the back. Kenshin tossed the ripped shirt in the general direction of his dresser, and plopped flat back on the bed. He was silent for a minute, contemplating all the events of the day, and what was coming up at them. "Perhaps things are a lot more complicated than I first thought."
--We-e-ell, there's chapter two! Yay! I hope y'all like it!
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