Part 2
The night seemed to have come and gone in a heartbeat. Ranru, stupidly, fell asleep on the ground. However, she felt a certain…comfort. Her eyes fluttered open, as she looked up. She was in the arms of Mikoto Nakadai! His grip too strong on her, and her just feeling too comfortable in his arms, she just laid there. She took another look up at the doctor, and smiled. He seemed…peaceful in his sleep, something she would never see him as. Mikoto slowly opened his eyes, and looked down at Ranru, who had some ideas for a morning greeting.
"Hello, doctor." Ranru greeted, nuzzling Mikoto's shoulder gently, but playfully. Never feeling actions like this before, he quickly let her go, and stood up quickly.
"Umm…I-I don't know how that happened." Mikoto stammered, crossing his arms, turning his head away.
"Ooh, you like me!" Ranru teased sitting up, giving him a flirtatious look.
"I do not! That's crazy!" The doctor argued, a blush creeping up on his face. "I would never-"
Ranru cut him off by giving a giggle, then standing up. "Oh, so the serious doctor can be a flirt!" she teased again.
"I am not a…" Mikoto started, and then sighed. "Why won't you just get off my case?"
"I thought it was sort of nice." Ranru said, looking down at her feet with a frown. "I mean…I was in an all-male team, besides myself. Ryouga had Mai to look after, and didn't have any time for a girlfriend. Yukito was, dare I say, a jerk at times. Asuka had married Mahoro…You, I thought, could never join us…But you did, after deciding to fight the Evorian…"
"Then why didn't you tell me your feelings when that happened?" Mikoto asked, finally looking her in the face.
"Well…you were just so quiet…" Ranru answered. "And I didn't know if you were ready…"
"Oh, I was ready enough." The doctor scoffed. "But living with the burden of the old Dino Minder…it was just too stressful, yet it was exciting. I just couldn't do it."
"But now you can…We both can." Ranru said softly, walking up to him. She gently touched his hand, and looked up at his face. Mikoto found these feelings to be confusing as he pulled away.
"I just can't do it!" Mikoto exclaimed. With a call on his morpher, his mecha, Top Galer, came down, and swooped down at them, which Mikoto reacted, and jumped on its back, leaving Ranru to sit down on the hill again, practically in tears.
