Disclaimer: WHAT? You want me to say this AGAIN? Well, i'm not saying it. -crosses arms- hmph! -hears the police breaking down her door- WAAAGH! Okay, Okay, I DON'T OWN CHRNO CRUSADE! PLEASE DON'T HURT ME! -squeezes eyes shut. door remains standing, banging noises stop.- hmm? -opens her eyes- Ehh .. heh.
A/N: YES! YOU LIKE IT, YOU LOVE IT, THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH :D I've only got five (5) (V) (cinco) (go) (Okay, i'm stopping with all the different words and crap to describe 'five') reviews so far, but they are .. my inspiration! Thank you to all three of you! And now, a few comments here and there;
DoveofLight: You are the first reviewer! Congrats! You win .. the satisfaction of knowing you are the first reviewer:D Thank you so much for reviewing, I am so glad you liked it! hehe, I have a thing with tickle-flirting. Joshua takes after his sister, I guess :P
Jazzy Uchiha: Thank you! I hope the fic becomes even greater!
Katrina-chan: OMG! ANOTHER -CHAN NAME :D Lol. You know something? I was once in the saaaaaaaame situation you were in before you read this .. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for an Azzy/Joshi fic to come out of the shadows .. I kept peeking into all the shadows I could find, calling out to it .. "Hello ... Azzy .. Joshi .. where are yooooooou? You two have to get together, you know ..." And that's when it hit me! "I'm an authoress! I'll make one of my own!" :D And this is the result. Although things are about to get veeeeeery humorous .. hehehe .. Chrno and Rosette know .. hehe .. o.o; yeah! So, keep reading, keep reviewing, keep writing, and if you get any ideas of your own for an Azzy/Joshi fic .. don't be afraid to write it out! I would like to read it :D Thank you for reviewing, I am soooo happy that people like it :P
Kisho Myst: (1) Yes, it's very fluffy. I live for fluff-ness:D (2) Updating now! n.n (3) Thanks for your review! You have made me a very happy Rika-chan! (Or Akiana-chan, whichever you prefer!)
FalleenangelJulian: Okay, okay! I'm updating! As for your question of Rosette's virginity .. i'll leave that to your dirty mind, hehehe .. xD Thanks!
Now that we have that over with .. On with Chapter II!
Someone Like Me
By: Rika (Akiana-chan)
Chapter II : Operation - Matchmakers!
Rosette Christopher smirked to herself as she watched her younger brother eat his lunch. He was eating everything hungrily as if he had been starving for weeks; He was gulping down his drink as if he were severely dehydrated; and he never looked up once. Rosette had to admit, it was really funny to see Joshua acting this way, but she didn't dare laugh. This was very abnormal behavior for her younger brother. Coincidence? No, Rosette knew her brother too well, especially when he acted weird like this. Something was up.
The way he never looked up, not even for one small half of a millisecond, told her only one thing: He was trying to avoid something. 'Or could it be someone rather than something?' Rosette thought to herself with a sly grin. She looked over to Azmaria, who was sitting across from Joshua. She was doing the same thing, only much calmer, and much slower. She was eating and drinking normally enough, she just never looked up. 'Aha .. I see now!' Rosette's grin grew wider as she came to a conclusion as to what was going on; She had had a hunch about this, but now she was all too sure that Joshua and Azmaria were in love. 'Let's see .. judging by the way the two of them are acting, I would say it's quite possible that they have both realized it .. they just haven't told each other.' Rosette looked to Joshua again. Sighing before finally speaking.
"Soooo .. Azmaria, Joshua .. what were you two doing in the forest together today?" Rosette's eyes said it all; she was teasing them. Joshua and Azmaria finally looked up from their plates, a blush becoming apparant on both of their faces as they remembered the events of earlier that day.
"W-we were .. uhm .. we .. were .. " Joshua stuttered, the blush on his face getting darker with each word.
"Taking a walk!" Azmaria finished with a cheerful tone in her voice, though the blush remained on her cheeks.
"Really .. did you two find anything interesting?" Rosette asked. Joshua was blushing too hard to answer that, so he just let Azmaria do the talking. She seemed to be doing a better job of it, anyway.
"Well .. there's this really nice lake in the middle of the forest, it's really beautiful there, plus it helps cool you down when you're hot, and .."
"Is it romantic, Az?" Rosette seemed interested.
"Uhh .. Y-yeah, I guess you could put it that way, Rosette .. " Azmaria tried to remain calm throughout saying that entire thing. There was no doubt about it that the place was beautiful, but romantic? She thought back to what had happened earlier once more, and blushed harder, averting her gaze to the table. 'Yes, it most definately is romantic, Rosette.'
"Great!" Rosette exclaimed excitedly. "How about we all go there tomorrow? You, Joshua, Chrno, and I?" Joshua looked to his older sister and raised a questioning brow, sensing that she was up to something. Rosette caught this and frowned at Joshua.
"What's that supposed to mean, Joshua?" Rosette asked, almost evily. Joshua gulped.
"N-nothing .. " Rosette smiled brightly once again.
"So, how about it Az?" Azmaria smiled cheerfully, though she was nervous about this whole idea of Rosette's.
"Sure! Why not?" Rosette clapped her hands together a few times in her excitement, standing up from her seat that instant.
"All right! Excuse me, I have to go tell Chrno!" Rosette chirped, then ran out of the cafeteria, leaving only Joshua and Azmaria in the room, staring in the direction that Rosette had left in.
"What was that about .. ?" Joshua asked.
"No clue .." Azmaria answered, then looked to Joshua, smiling brightly. "Excuse me," She said, standing from her chair.
"Where are you going?" Joshua asked innocently.
"To choir practice." Joshua smiled as well, standing up too.
"Excuse me, then. May I walk you to the choir room?" Azmaria blushed a little more, than smiled and nodded.
"Yes, you may," She responded, walking to the door and waiting for Joshua to catch up. Once he did, they both left, walking beside each other. Their destination: The choir room.
Chrno sat on the side of the fountain found in the courtyard of the Magdalan order, a calm and peaceful look resting upon his facial features. Anyone who happened to pass by him at the moment would think nothing of it; they had seen the devil sitting there more than once, and it was almost like a normal everyday routine for him. There were occasionally a few friendly greetings, but other than that they left Chrno to his thoughts. Nobody dared to break Chrno from his pensive state of mind; Nobody but Rosette, that is.
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Rosette skipped happily out into the courtyard, knowing that her darling fiancee would be out here, most likely deep in thought. It wasn't long after she had taken her first step into the area that she spotted Chrno sitting on the edge of the fountain, her suspicions proving to be correct. Rosette smiled. She always could seem to tell when Chrno was thinking about something .. and oh, how she loved breaking those thoughts with her presence, which Chrno adored every second of. Rosette smirked her usual mischevious smirk, which told everyone around her that she was planning something. The poor souls just didn't know how big her plan really was.
"Chrno!" Rosette squealed cheerfully as she sat herself on Chrno's lap and flung her arms around his neck. Chrno broke out of his thoughts, smiling at his fiancee and bringing his face closer to hers so that they were touching foreheads, staring into each other's eyes.
"Hello love," Chrno said quietly so that only she could hear him and placed a quick kiss upon her lips. Rosette wore a silly schoolgirl grin at that moment and hugged Chrno closer to her before pulling away with the same mischevious smirk as before. She stared at Chrno, who's expression become that of surprise, then horror.
"Rosette! What are you planning this time?" Rosette laughed loudly at his reaction.
"Relax! You're probably going to help me with it anyway!" Chrno sighed heavily.
"It depends on what it is, Rosette." Rosette frowned for a moment, then grinned again.
"You're definately going to want to help, Chrno. It's for my brother .. and our friend." Chrno rose a brow at this statement.
"Do I really want to know what's going on?" Chrno said questioningly. Rosette and Chrno then heard laughter coming from somewhere to the side of where they were sitting, and both heads turned to see who was coming nearer. Joshua grinned boyishly, while Azmaria tried hard to supress her laughter. Apparantly, Joshua had said something funny to make Azmaria laugh like that. They both stopped outside of a room, which Rosette quickly recognized as the choir room, seeing as Azmaria went to choir practice almost every day, and Rosette was the one to show her to the room on the first day. Joshua smiled and asked something, to which Azmaria nodded. Rosette figured he was asking if he would see her later, which she knew that Joshua often did, not just to Azmaria, but to his other friends. Joshua then waved and walked off, while Azmaria waved as well and dissapeared into the room they had stopped at. Rosette sighed dreamily.
"What are you thinking, Rosette?" Chrno asked innocently. Rosette looked to Chrno, surprised.
"Chrno .. you mean you haven't noticed anything?" Rosette asked.
"What is there to notice?" Chrno asked, all the more innocent. Rosette frowned. 'He's more dense than I thought .. '
"You're saying you haven't noticed anything between Joshua and Azmaria."
"No?"
"Chrno .."
"Yes?"
"It's staring you in the face, and you haven't noticed it. Damn, you're slow .. " Chrno looked a bit hurt.
"That was harsh, Rosette."
"I know, but .. you haven't noticed that they are in love?" Chrno's eyes widened.
"Joshua is in love?"
"With Azmaria," Rosette finished.
"And she loves him too?"
"It would seem so!" Rosette said with a grin.
"How do you know?"
"If you would have been at lunch today, you would have seen that the two of them were blushing madly, and they wouldn't look up from their plates at all until I said something." Chrno knew what Rosette was planning right then, and he smiled.
"So, what are we going to do about it, love?" Rosette squealed and hugged Chrno tightly.
"I knew you would help me!" Rosette exlaimed excitedly.
"Usually I wouldn't, but knowing those two, they're going to need a little help," Chrno said and hugged Rosette just as tightly. Rosette pulled away and grinned.
"Joshua and Azmaria were in the forest behind the order together today. I get the feeling that it was an accidental meeting, and something must have happened, judging by the way those two were acting at lunch," Rosette recalled the memory of what was going on at lunch with an almost-evil grin.
"So, where in the forest were they?" Chrno asked.
"They found a lake somewhere in the forest. I never knew where it was, because I was always too busy to go exploring back there. But anyway, i've arranged it so that you, Azmaria, Joshua and I will be taking a visit there tomorrow, to take a break from everything," Rosette said slyly. "Besides, Az told me it was romantic." Chrno thought it over for a moment, then nodded.
"Good idea. How are we going to get them together, though?" Rosette looked around suspiciously, looking for anyone who might have been listening at the time before leaning closer to Chrno and beginning to whisper her plans to him quickly. Chrno listened for a moment, then he smiled.
"You've been planning this since lunch, haven't you?"
"Yup."
"Sounds good. If I think of anything more, i'll tell you," Chrno whispered to her quietly, then shot her a handsome-yet-playful smile and stood up from his sitting position, catching Rosette in his arms as she was falling off of his lap. He carried her bridal style over to the front door of the order, before setting her down on her feet once more. Rosette, who was blushing a bit because of what Chrno had just done, looked to Chrno with the usual laughter in her bright blue eyes.
"Was that practice for our wedding day, Chrno?" She asked playfully. Chrno's face leaned down and captured Rosette's lips with his own, locking them in a deep kiss. They pulled away from each other a minute later, and a smiling Chrno answered her question.
"Yes .. and because I wanted to surprise you." Rosette took Chrno's hand and walked into the building.
"We haven't really planned anything for the wedding yet, you know .." Rosette said matter-of-factly.
"Is that what we're going to do now?" Chrno asked.
"Well, we have to start sometime!" Rosette exlaimed excitedly. Chrno chuckled.
"All right then."
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A/N: WAIIIII! Finished with Chapter II! I am sooooooo happy with this chapter, it was really fun to write :D Anywaaaaaaay .. I was planning on telling you about another CC fanfiction that i'm planning on writing when I finish with this one, and the other one will definately be a one-shot, dedicated to my old boss .. but I always get really bad luck whenever I tell people about my upcoming stories. I just never end up finishing them. So, i'm going to see if I can finish this one before I can say anything for sure. Let me tell you, though .. you will DEFINATELY be seeing me again after this fanfiction is finished. I love this series too much, and writing fanfiction about it is just oo fun! So, I guess things'll happen if they happen. For now though, do be so kind and review for me, please? Oh yeah! and if anyone has an idea that they would like to see happen in this fanfiction, just leave it in a review, and i'll see if I can fit it in, okay? I run out of ideas really easily, as you can see by my unfinished multi-chapter stories, so if you have any ideas that you just can't seem to write about on your own, and that you would like to see someone else take a shot at, please, don't be afraid to tell me:D Thank you, and happy readings!
Next Time ... The day has come! Chrno, Rosette, Azmaria and Joshua return to the lake to spend some time away from the stressful life of the Magdalan Order. What do Chrno and Rosette have planned in order to get Azmaria and Joshua to admit their feelings to each other? Stay Tuned!