Author's Notes:Hey, minna!Well, that's it for Wanting Just You. Here's the epilogue you all so yearned for... And it discovers whom Seiya ended up with, just like promised! I was SO INCREDIBLY flattered with your reviews, you wouldn't believe. I didn't even imagine you'd all like it so much! Thank you all SO much! And thanks for all the kind people who put me as one of their favorite authors! Thank you SO much! I love you all!
Well, school is nearing its end (THANK YOU GODDESS) and I'm thinking of some more chaptered stories, just so I wouldn't be bored over the summer. And I guess I'll have MUCH more time to write chapters than I had through the last few months. Just to let you know.
Okay, that would be it, read the epilogue and, of course, review! Thank you very much!
Enjoy!
Title: Wanting Just You - Epilogue
Rating: K+
Author: Sabreen
WantingJust You - Epilogue
Seiya sighed. The weather fit his mood perfectly, with the rain pouring hard and the grey clouds slowly moving, mixing with each other. He walked the lonely streets of Tokyo for a while, 'to clear his thoughts,' as he said to his brothers. He wore a hooded jacket, which was his only protection from the millions of freezing drops. His bangs and some hair around his face were totally wet, clinging to his cheeks and forehead. The tears on his face mixed with rain glided easily down his face, to fall from his chin and land on the ground below...
'This is stupid,' he thought. 'It's stupid to cry. I can't change her decision, never could. I just have to face it...'
"But it's not that easy," he whimpered painfully. "It's not easy to confront this pain whenever I picture them together! Oh, Odango, what are you doing to me..."
But, the main thing he wondered was, how come he was so enchanted by her? How come her eyes were doing things to him? He wanted to stop feeling like this, to go on with his life...
Why her? Couldn't it be some of his oh-so-in-love-with-him fans that adored him so much? He just hated that the girl who makes his knees start losing their reliability the second he saw her, and that she was in love with someone else. Someone who had no idea just how hard it is to stand and watch someone else kiss your loved one passionately, to touch her in ways so intimate that only lovers are allowed to do that? He could just stand and watch Mamoru snaking his arms around her slender waist, tracing the side of her face, tipping her chin and kissing her, playing with her tongue... And finally, breaking the kiss and slowly nibble on her neck...
That was usually the part he thought he would go nuts with pain. He just wondered... why does he have to look at it? Why couldn't he just be the one enjoying the cute little games...? He wanted to be the one who was playing those little games of love, declaring his love in the most beautiful ways ever... Not to be the one looking at it from aside.
As he was walking along, he saw a tall figure under an umbrella, holding a petite form to him, both laughing and soaking wet. They squeezed under a small umbrella, but not being successful in avoiding the rain. As they were slowly progressing, they were just getting more and more soaked. He didn't have to guess who that might be. The dark-haired man holding a petite odangoed girl around her waist, tightly. He smiled sarcastically to himself. Well he could expect it, it's not like they wouldn't rub it on his nose: that he is an unhappy popstar while they are an oh-so-in-love couple who couldn't be happier.
He just turned around and ran towards the studio.
The door creaked open, and the dark room was soon bathed in light Seiya switched on. He sat on the couch, the same couch he was sitting on when he had met Usagi... How ironic.
Soon, his brothers entered the room, somehow knowing that he'd be there.
"Hey there. How are you keeping up?" Yaten asked in the silent, sad tone of voice.
"Yeah, are you okay? I know it seems terrible now, but you'll get over her in no time, you'll see! I have a premonition that you'll meet someone special soon!" Taiki winked, hoping he could make him feel a bit better. Seiya just smiled at his attempts.
"Thank you, guys. I appreciate it... But I just don't know how to cope with it." He leaned his head against the back of the couch. "It seems like it's harder every minute... And it wouldn't matter if she isn't so special... If she wouldn't make me lose my head the second she'd look at me with those heavenly blue eyes of hers... I think I might even have fallen in love with her. I can have any girl I want and yet I fall in love with the one who loves my best friend."
Seiya -
Suddenly, the door handle shook. The door creaked open. I gasped... No... It couldn't be.. Please, you can't do this to me...
The door opened fully, and revealed the goddess of innocence, of pure beauty and love. It revealed my pain, the thing I die for...
Behind her, holding her hand to reassure her, stood Mamoru, with an unreadable face expression. I stood up immediately, biting my lip harshly. I sighed and looked down at my feet.
Everything seemed to freeze. Taiki and Yaten stood, Taiki at my left, Yaten at my right. Mamoru's eyes talked, encompassed with so many emotions and feelings he didn't know how to say. He stood there, behind the girl he loved, looking at me with sorrow and love and apology and everything else.
"What are you doing here?" I whispered quietly. Even the whisper could be heard like I yelled it, that was the silence like.
"Seiya... " Usagi let go of Mamoru's hand and went a couple of steps ahead, putting both of her hands on her chest. She knew how much I loved her. I didn't know how she found out, but frankly, I didn't even want to. She wanted to tell me so many things, I could see her lips move in trying to speak, but every trying was for nothing. Suddenly, determination shone from her eyes and she went one step ahead.
"Seiya... I know how much you care for me. I do, and I'm flattered and I care for you much. You know I love you and that I'd die just so you wouldn't be unhappy... I'd do anything, just so you could be happy again. It tears my heart to see such sadness on your face..." She cupped the left side of my face with her hand.
"It's terrible to see such a handsome face so sad. You should have your cocky smile on you, making girls collapse..." I smiled for a split second, before returning my worried frown.
"I want you to know that you'll meet a girl who will care for you with all of her heart, who will love you no matter what. You'll meet her soon and you'll forget about me soon, you'll see. But... I'm not that girl. In spite of all of my love for you, I'm not that girl. But, don't think I will forget about you so soon!" Her other hand was on the other side of my face. Realizing that I might not have this opportunity again, to feel her this close, I put my arms around her waist, pulling her close.
"You are an important part of my life, Seiya. Nobody will ever change my love for you, and there will always be this big room in my heart for you that is going to be locked for anybody else except you. Only you will have the key to enter it, and you can come to it whenever you'd like..." Her eyes went so soft with caring. I was gasping at her words the whole time...
"I love you, Seiya." With those words, she tightened the grip on my face just a bit, closing her eyes, pulling my face down.
And kissed me.
On the lips.
Fully.
I heard Mamoru inhale sharply, but steady himself quickly. That was all before I closed my eyes and went with the flow. Her lips caressed mine gently, softly, innocently. She laid those soft little kisses on my lips, before capturing my lips again... But she didn't let tongues in. As much as her lips were gentle, she keptthem closed tightly. I gripped her waist, but she broke the kiss and started backing away.
"Remember me sometimes, ne?" She winked and left the room.
Everything was spinning. I could barely make it to the stream, almost getting hit by speedy cars. I didn't know where I am, I didn't know how old I am, where do I live what do I do for living, I was just so confused and felt so weird... Confused and dumbfounded, happy and content, sad and desperate...
"What's wrong with me?" I whispered.
I was standing on a little bridge across the stream, which was cutting the park in two. It was so slow, that you could see your reflection clearly whenever you wouldlook at yourself from the bridge. I was looking at my reflection in the stream, barely noticing that the lost boy in the stream was me...
I leaned on the woodenrail, with my arms folded on it. I looked utterly desperate, with my moth slightly agape and my eyesface frownedin a great confusion and no comprehension of he world around me. Even my greatest fans wouldn't be able to recognize me, without my cocky self and my confidence, crumbled in worthless pieces of emotional breakdown.
When I actually remembered what had happened amere half an hour ago, Imy eyes went wide... She... she kissed me? Actually kissed me? I couldremember my lips being caressed with warmth and heaven softness. I could remember her hands on both sides of my face... The kiss ended before I could completely understand what's happening.
But that kiss was not what I was so worried about. It was... it was the void I felt with it. She kissed me, something I've been dreaming about since we met, and I didn't feel a thing. Of course, physically I did feel her lips, but my love for her didn't flame, wasn't encouraged by it. But why the helldo I feel so weird, for God's sakes! If I didn't feel anything, which istrue, how come that I am feeling all these strange emotions flow through my body?
Maybe it's because of that. Maybe it's because I expected that the feeling of her lips would be something that would make me go crazy, and it wasn't. I really hoped that it was...
"Hello!" A small voice beside me interrupted me in my thoughts. I turned and saw a girl of about sixteen looking at the sky. She hadlong red hair in two ponytails, coming to her knees.
"Um, hi." I didn't want to sound rude, so I just kept my mouth shut, though I was very interested in why the heck is she talking to me!
"Thought you looked lonely, so I joined you." She sounded calm and honest. But, hey, what girls haven't invented yet to meet famous people, right? But, there was something different...
"Kou Seiya, ne?" I nodded. "C'mon, let's go for a walk!" She turnedfrom me and grabbed my hand, heading to the east side of the park.
"Hey! What's wrong with you? I don't want to go for a walk with you! Back off! I..." I gasped. Her eyes, when she turned from me... Warm, brown eyes... Her hair, her figure, I've seen it somewhere! I have!
Her eyes softened somehow. She smiled warmly at me, and whispered quietly, "You are troubled, aren't you? Talking helps, you know. And I have a strange feeling that I now you from somewhere... Don't you?" Though I hated to admit it, I did.
Sighing, I nodded. Isomehow knew that I should have joined her for a walk along time ago, like we've done it a million times... Shaking my head, I went forward.
The now clear sky let the suddenly strong sun shine its full light on us, and the green meadows of thepark was filled with children, laughter and teasing.
I barely noticed it, because the girl beside me had completely occupied my attention... God, she was beautiful. Clinging at my arm, she talked about her life. I couldn't believe I met her an hour and a half ago!
Hoshino Kakyuu. That was her name. She was sixteen, a few months younger than me, but what energy and joy for life she had! I fell in love with her the second I saw her.
...which was actually weird. How come that a couple of hours ago I was crying mercilessly over a certain Odango, weeping that I will never have her, and now I'm AGAIN in love with ANOTHER girl I met half an hour before the object of my utter and immense sorrow KISSED me nontheless!
I was purely going crazy.
"Anyway," she chattered on, "I'm not sad that I have no family. The friends I have are precious to me, and I dream that I have a boyfriend once..." she giggled. Usually, I hated that gross girlish giggle, but she somehow made it sound... cute. He, hee... Cute. And innocent...
"Actually," she blushed, "A friend that I met yesterday told me that I'm going to meet the one I'm looking for my whole life very soon! And Rei-chan works in Hikawa shrine, she's a priestess. "I remembered what Usagi and Taiki told me earlier that day, well, actually, the same thing!
"Really?" I smiled. "And what did she tell you?" I was very interested in what she was said..
"Well, umm," she stared at the sky, "That I'm going to meet the one who's been looking for me for a long time. Well, enough chattering about me, tell me something about yourself! Umm..." She lowered her gaze to the path we were walking on, blushing. "I don't want to be nosy, but why were you so sad?" Her worried gaze traveled to my eyes, filled with sadness for me.
I just smiled weakly. "The girl I was in love with loves another guy. Earlier this afternoon, she said thatshe'll always love me, but only like a friend, and then... she kissed me. But... I didn't feel anything, anything at all. I'm so confused! I thought I loved hermore than anything!" I closed my eyes and sighed.
"I know it's stupid, but I still love her. But if she'd kiss me passionately, numerous times, I still wouldn't feel a thing..." She clung to my arm more tightly.
"Maybe you don't love her like a lover would. Maybe you just consider her as a combination of a best friend and a sister you never had."
I gasped and looked at her in shock.
"How... how do you know this much about me?" I whispered slowly, my eyes wide. She just frowned in confusion and stopped walking.
"I... I don't know. I just feel like I know you so well," she said, looking at me, scared.
I felt something strange right then. Something familiar, dying to surface. Hey, if I... it would give me some answers...
I put my hands on her waist and leaned my face down, capturing her lips in a kiss. I could feel that she didn't complain one bit,snaking her arms around my neck,like this has happened countless times, like we already knew the routine. As our tongues played together, I gripped her tightly, pulling her body against mine. God, I missed this feeling of her petite body in mine...
Wait a minute...
Missed?
As we kissed, memories came flooding back. I broke the kiss, to observe her face carefully.
"Princess? Kakyuu-chan?" I remembered every curve perfectly, every eyelash was appearing in my memory.
"Fighter... Seiya!" With a cry, she flung herself into my embrace. I smelled the divine scent of her hair, after who-knows-how-much time...
She wasPrincess Kakyuu, the young heir to the throne of the planet attacked by Galaxia. Taiki, Yaten and I were protecting her, but we had to separate when Galaxiaattacked. Kakyuu and I fell in love with each other, and we promised that we'll meet again one day. And so we have.
I realized that I fell in love with Usagi's light and care, not with her. Though I love her the same I realized it was the love for a true friend, not for a lover. She understood that, and she had her emotions cleared right away, but now I realize that I've misunderstood my feelings for her. I love her like a sister and a friend, but my real love belongs to my one and only, Kakyuu.
As Kakyuu and I talked about our lives on Earth, I saw Usagi and Mamoru in front of an ice cream parlor, licking the same ice cream and giggling hapilly. I smiled at them. For the first time I was truly and honestly happy they found each other.
The End -
So, how'd you like it? Review! Thank you all who had kept up with the story the whole time, I appreciate it very much! And, it's exactly two months since I posted the prologue! Heh, whaddya know! Okay, I posted it on March 29th and now is May 28th, but hey, we're not gonna split hairs, now are we?
Okay, thanks for reading the story, and take care!
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Sabreen