Disclaimer: I do not have millions of dollars in my bank account considering that I do not own Gravitation.
Author's notes: I really sorry about the late update. Well I've been kinda busy with Hari Raya and all. Anyway, this chappie is dedicated to the nice reviewers who reviewed this fic. Thanks!! Just in case you guys forget, "..." = dialogue, '...' = thoughts and italics = flashbacks. Enjoy
Blind Date Part I
After drinking nearly the whole pot of coffee, Mika got ready for a new day. Interesting, maybe but definitely new. Right after freshening up, shutting up the jealous alter-ego, dressing into a proper attire, shutting up the jealous alter-ego, cleaning up the mess she made in the kitchen and shutting up her jealous alter-ego, Mika took the keys to her red Ferarri and drove off to run some errands. But of course, not after her daily early afternoon trip to the cafe.
Mika promptly parked her car in haste and headed towards her usual table. Breathing a sigh of relief as it was vacant, she flagged down a waiter and ordered a cup of a double shot espresso. 'It's pretty full today, isn't it? Business must be good' Mika thought absentmindedly. While she waited for her drink, Mika mentally arranged the errands she had to run according to its priority.
However, as a stranger approached Mika's table, her thoughts went fluttering away to oblivion. 'Who's that? He's cute.' Mika's alter-ego spoke. The man approached Mika while smiling all the way. As he made his way towards her table, heads turned and voices buzzed about the new-comer. Mika couldn't help but stare at the man and check him out. 'Stop acting like a love-struck school girl!' Mika mentally scolded herself. 'But he's cute! Everyone's green with envy. Just look at the glares you're receiving from the female population of this cafe!'. Mika glanced around and concluded that her alter-ego's voice held some truth in them.
"Excuse me, miss. I'm sorry to be a bother but may I sit here?" the man said. "Eh??" 'Wow! A very intelligent thing to say.' Mika's alter-ego spoke sarcastically. Mika checked him out yet again. From the straight brown hair which was streaked blonde, to the cute boyish features, the broad shoulders and the well-toned muscles peeking beneath the sleeves of his shirt, he could well be passed of as a male model. 'Probably is one' the annoying voice spoke. "Shut up" Mika murmured.
"Excuse me?" the man enquired. "Sorry about that, I must have spaced out for a momnet there. Could you please repeat the question again?" Mika asked. "May I sit here? The cafe is quite full and I can't find any other seat." the man asked, this time a bit louder. A considerable amount of women moved to the edge of their seats to make some room for the handsome stranger. Mika smirked at their actions and nodded firmly. The buzzing voices of women broke the near silence that engulfed the cafe a moment ago.
"I'm Akira. Nice to meet you." the man bowed slightly to show respect. "I'm Mika Uesugi. Nice to meet you too, Akira-san." "Please, it's only proper that you just call me Akira. I'm really grateful for the seat." Akira smiled. Mika's heart did a sudden flip and started beating faster.
Akira took a seat and began chatting about everything under the sun. After reaching to the topic of espresso versus mocha, which Akira conviniently ordered, they landed on the subject of music that led to "This may sound like a pick-up line but, you seem vaguely familiar. Have I seen you somewhere?" Akira nodded and answered, "I think you may have seen me on t.v. I'm one of the members of a pop band that's popular recently." 'Go figure.....' the alter-ego retorted. "Oh.... maybe that's it. It's just that you remind me of someone I can't exactly put my finger on." Akira just chuckled slightly and replied, "Well, maybe fate has arranged us to meet earlier but we simply didn't...... until now."
Mika's heart did flips of all sort and could have won the gold medal for gymnastics if there were such things. Mika just brushed the topic aside and began talking about other stuff. And suddenly, she remembered her first blind date.
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"Mika-chan!! I'm begging you!! PLEASE!!" wailed a girl on bended knees.
"Miyame, you're making a scene....." Mika spoke through gritted teeth. And of course true enough, they were making a scene. If the owner of the cafe didn't know them well, they'd probably be kicked out onto the streets by now.
"And I'll continue making a scene unless you say yes!!!!!" Miyame shrieked once again
Having enough of a headache from cleaning up after her siblings food fight and lecturing them about it for one whole hour, Mika just sighed and said an heaving "Yes...."
Miyame's eyes widened with the reply and began jumping while punching her fist in the air with truimph. "Mika-chan, I'll never forget this!! Thank you so much!!"
'I cant believe I actually agreed to this double-slash-blind date crap.....' Mika felt her headache emerged yet again and asked, "Can I at least bring Eiri or even Tatsuha along? At least he'll keep me company while you run off somewhere and the guy I'm suppose to date turns out to be some deformed freak"
"But Mika-chan..." Miyame whined. "I don't want some kids ruining my first date with my soon-to-be steady boyfriend..." "And you want me to go, why?" Mika asked with forced patience. "To safeguard my virtue of course." Miyame said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Besides, he said he was suppose to meet his friend tomorrow and couldn't cancel last minute. Plus, they're not from around here so I thought a formal tour of Kyoto and of course Kyoto girls would do them some good before they returned to Tokyo." Miyame spoke the last statement with excitement.
Mika rolled her eyes at the respond. "Aww... come-on Mika-chan. Don't you feel at least turned on by the fact that were actually going out with cute Tokyo guys?" Miyame asked in response of the eye-rolling thing Mika did.
Mika sighed and exited the cafe. "Mika-chan!! Remember!! We'll meet you at the entrance of the theatre at seven!" Miyame Yuko called out before Mika was out of earshot.
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Tohma glanced up at the numbers making up Eiri's apartment number. Tohma sighed and thought, 'Ironic isn't it? Married to the sister but loving the brother instead...'. Tohma rang the bell although he didn't have to. 'Maybe I should just use my set of keys..'. Impatient footsteps were heard from the other side. Tohma straightened up from his hunched posture just in time to see Eiri slam the door in his face.
Tohma's eyes widened and stepped back from the door. A great safe distance back. Even from there, he could hear Shuichi whining, "Yuki!~ You shouldn't slam the door at visitors!!" "It's a door-to-door salesman" Yuki spoke with his deadpan voice. "But still......" Shuichi said as his voice got nearer to the door.
The door clicked open to reveal a really messed up and pouting Shuichi. Shuchi's eyes were almost dangling by the nerves, arteries, veins and what ever that might be holding them together as his eyes almost flew out of it's sockets.
A millisecond later, Shuichi was bowing as low as he can go. After admiring the extraordinary feat of Shuichi nearly toppling over, Tohma just brushed Shuichi aside and went inside the apartment.
Click. The door was shut again. Yuki was glaring as usual although his messed up hair reveal him to be busy before Tohma entered and Shuichi was just plain ol' shocked to see his boss in the aparment. "Mika told me to check on you." Tohma broke the silence. Yuki rolled his eyes in annoyance and grunted. 'That eye-rolling thing must run in the family' Tohma thought silently, remembering Mika. "Would you like some tea Seguchi-san?" Another thing broken, tension. "That's fine, Shindou-san. I'm leaving in quite a bit."
"That's far longer then needed...." Yuki drawled. "I'll leave then..." The nanosecond he finished the sentence, Tohma was shoved out of the apartment and the door slammed in his face, yet again. "Yuki~" Shuichi whined from the other side of the door. "You shouldn't treat...." Before that could be finished too, Tohma heard a soft 'thud' on the door followed by a moan whom Tohma guessed was Shuichi.
Being in and out of love with Yuki as it is, Shuichi sounded really happy from the other side of the door. And I mean REALLY happy. 'Imagine yourself in Shindou-san's position...' Tohma thought as he mingled at the front of the door.
Instantly, Yuki's face loomed on top of him, smiling. As he edged nearer.......'POOF'.. thoughts all gone. Sigh. 'I guess I've lost my overactive imagination already... Hmm.. I wonder... Maybe I should buy myself a pink bunny, call it 'Kumagorou', carry it around wherever I go and actually have a man-to-stuffed toy conversation with it to keep my imagination in practice.' Tohma mused silently as he slowly floated down the stairwell. 'People would probably think I'm an insane overworked producer-slash-famous popstar keyboardist even before the results show. But then again.....'
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Author's notes: Sorry again for the late update. I know that this chapter isn't much but hey, I tried. Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed it as much as the other chapters too. And last but not least, PLEASE REVIEW. Sorry if I'm a review addict but it encourages me to write more.
