Hitomi Kanzaki and A Semester Abroad
Part 3- Battering Ram
By: SeraphAnaesthesia
A/N: Once again, I am in utter awe of Thetys. You are so cool! You're my favorite reviewer! Well, besides ChibiHitomi, because she rocks too! I LOVE YOU GUYS! I wanna be your best friend now. I seriously will make a shrine to you in my humble sock drawer because you totally rock. throws lollipops (instead of cookies this time) at all of the loyal reviews You guys deserve a major pat on the back. I was so squealy this morning when I opened up my mailbox and found reviews! You can ask my mom, I was literally jumping around and spazzing out. I kept screaming, "I love being loved! 'Tis so much fun!" Anyway, the more reviews I get, the faster I update! Today is 3-13-05, and I promise I'll have at least two chapters up by the 16th!
To the beautiful reviewers: My messages to all of thee!
Thetys: You are awesome, and you're my best reviewer. I am so sorry about making the last chapter so short! I was really rushed and in a hurry! I promise this chapter will be longer, you can have my word. gives Thetys some Dilly, Van, and Gaddes copies Here ya go! winks Have fun! sighs -.-;; I did NOT just say that. My muse Kamuro: "Oh yes you did!"
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Hitomi gulped as she found out that Dilandau knew her secret. Her face screwed up in fierce concentration, as if raging a war with herself in the deep confines of her broken mind. Hitomi finally gave in and sighed. 'Oh, what the hell.' "What's his name?" Hitomi was startled back into the real world by the sound of Dilandau's deep voice. Laughing lightly as her own stupidity, she smiled despite the situation. What situation, you ask? 1.) Hitomi was in the middle of England without knowing anyone except for a hot pyro and a girly rat man. 2.) Her friends were all back home, and she missed them so much she felt like her heart was torn. 3.) Hitomi considered herself deeply pathetic, since she'd only been gone from the United States for less than two days. For some reason she felt oddly weak.
Yup, just her luck.
"His name is Van Fanel. I told you about him earlier, but…" Hitomi bit her lower lip and Dilandau smiled down on her with a knowing expression. He finished her sentence. "…You forgot to mention that he was your boyfriend. Ah, I see. How about you just call him? Surely that'd put your head to rest." He leaned back against the hard cement wall, both of them standing on the stairs, only about two feet from the hallway phone. Hitomi looked up with a hopeful expression. "I guess I will."
Hitomi trudged over to the phone with a hopeful expression, figuring out the right amount of change within her grey pockets. She stuck the coins in one by one, and dialled the number slowly. She was still not quite used to the strange area codes and such and such that needed to be dialled to call someone back in the states. Shaking slightly, she put the phone to her ear. Hitomi mentally noted that Dilandau had gone back to the room, and she was thankful that he gave her some privacy for her phone call. Then it rang.
A sleepy male's voice picked up the receiver and Hitomi instantly knew it was Van. He muttered a strained, "Hullo?" Sounding like a typical male interrupted from his sleep. Hitomi felt slightly guilty for waking him up in the first place. 'Oh well, he'll live.' "Van? This…This is Hitomi." Hitomi could actually hear Van shooting up from his comfortable position on his bed, and his muddled voice now clear and practically bursting from hearing from his girlfriend. Hitomi smiled lightly, so glad that she could hear him now. "Hey Hitomi! Geez, didja miss us that much?" Van laughed lightly. "How are things going in England? Everything okay?"
"Yeah, Van, everything's fine. I've already met two new people. Dilandau and Allen, so at least I know some people here. I really do miss you though… England is okay, I guess. But I really miss home and everything. How are things with your band coming?" Hitomi tried to sound cheerful, but was actually failing miserably. Luckily, Van couldn't tell over the crappy connections of a hotel phone. Hitomi smiled, though inside even kind of confused on why she was really sad. Van, on the other end, was confused terribly. 'Hmm, Dilandau…Where have I heard that name before?' He ignored it for the moment, and concentrated on Hitomi instead.
"Great! We just signed a deal with a record company! Our CD might be out in a few months, since we've already got most of the songs recorded and everything. Thanks for asking. Our CD is going to be awesome." Van sounded really happy, so Hitomi was generally ecstatic Van had been working on the band for three years now, and it was like he and his band mates were simply destined to play music. Hitomi grinned. "What are you going to call the CD?" Van thought for a minute, as if trying to remember the title that he had thought of earlier that day. "We're going to call ourselves Sinclarity. The CD's title is Eyes Gone Blind With Regret. Like it? I created it myself. Dryden and the guys thought it was awesome."
Hitomi was in awe. She laughed lightly, "Van, that's so awesome! Well, I have to go, I don't know how long these stupid phones are supposed to last, and I left most of my change in my room. I hope everything works out okay!" Hitomi was so happy that the band was going somewhere, and noticed that Van had suddenly gone quiet. She hesitated for a moment, wondering if the phone had gone dead, or if Van had just hung up or was just quiet. But she heard shallow breathing. " Hitomi?" Hitomi blinked lightly. Van sounded like a scared little kid. "Yeah, Van? What's wrong?" He spoke up again, "Promise me you'll be there at our first live concert, I want you to hear us sing. It'll even be on the radio, too." "Um…okay, why?" "Just PROMISE me. Please, Hitomi?" "Okay, I promise." "I love you, Hitomi." "I love you too, Van." Silence on the other end. Hitomi hung up the payphone. She talked to herself with a confused face.
"Well, THAT was weird."
Climbing back up the stairs, she peeked her head into the room that she and Dilandau shared. Noticing that it was dark outside, she noticed a silver-haired lump on one of the beds, that entire side of the room dark from the shut-off lamp. Hitomi smiled at Dilandau and crept over to her own bed, flicking on the small lamp next to her. Rummaging through her bag as quietly as possible, she pulled out a journal labeled "He Knows Me Too Well" and a Neopiko black inkpen and began writing. Hell, maybe her song would even be used on the Sinclarity CD. It warmed Hitomi to know that Van would be singing something she created, yet part of her was still tinged lightly with sadness.
'I wonder how I've even managed to handle it
You caught me now, bruised and red-handed
I just can't explain why I'm dying to cry and to bleed
Drinks all around, but for everyone but me.
I'm feeling nauseous, swooning into the room
Blood clots beneath the skin soon grow into bloom
I just can't explain why I'm dying to wait and see
Drinks all around, don't worry, the vodka's all on me.
This is pathetic, this regret is drunken madness
This is so lame, everything consumed by sadness
You make me want to breathe it in, write it all down
No need to hurry, free drinks all around.
And for some reason unknown unto me
I've never been captured but I've never been free
Now you're not here, I will not make a sound
From me to you, free drink's all around.
You cannot smile, it's all unallowed
There's a thin line between being lost and found
This may seem pathetic, but the screams are too loud
I'm on my deathbed, but there's free drinks all around.
I wonder how I've even managed to handle it
You caught me now, bruised and red-handed
I just can't explain why I'm dying to cry and to bleed
Drinks all around, but for everyone but me.'
The pen dropped from Hitomi's hand as she fell asleep, a contented looked on her pale features.
She woke up when she heard the water running, but knew that it was just Dilandau. Hitomi yelped, "What if he used all of the hot water!" Hitomi cursed lightly to herself and put on some different clothes. Grabbing a pair of black jeans, she threw on a T-shirt with a little girl in fancy clothes with a bat next to her. Underneath the girl and bat it said, 'Seemingly Innocent.' (I HAVE THAT SHIRT!) Noticing the slight chill in the room, she grabbed a knitted grey, black, and white (like one of those mixed ones, y'know?) long trench coat with a hood and sat down on the bed. Struggling to get her dark grey and black striped toe socks on, she pulled on a pair of combat boots. She walked over to a lone mirror, combing her hair.
Dilandau walked over of the bathroom, drying his silver hair with a small towel. He was dressed in a black hoodie with a barely visible yellow T-shirt sticking out beneath it. The hoodie had the words 'Life, love, and sudden death.' written on it in bright yellow. He was wearing a pair of baggy blue jeans and smirked lightly as he noticed Hitomi checking him out. "You're taken, remember?" Hitomi blushed deep as he looked at her once again with his knowing eye. 'Jesus, what is he, psychic or something!' Hitomi thought exasperatedly. Dilandau just looked at her weirdly (like O.o) and said, "Maybe." Okay, now she was just slightly freaked out.
Scratching her head, she nodded towards the bathroom. "I pray to God that thou did not useth all of thy hot water?" (OMG, I have the song Happening To Me from the movie The Thief and the Cobbler stuck in my head! GO WATCH THAT MOVIE! Tack x YumYum forever! ) Hitomi randomly asked him in a fakeish (Not a word. Oh well.) accent and then walked into the bathroom. Dilandau just watched her in fascination as she shut the door in his face, grinning. A few seconds later the door opened again and Hitomi poked her head out of the bathroom, smirking. "I'm taken, remember? You can stop staring now."
A/N: Didyoulikeitdidyoulikeitdidyoulikeitdidyoulikeit! It's not really REALLY been edited though. Sorry, somebody fed me yellow cake with realllllyyyyy yummy chocolate chips in it. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed it. Since I promised a longer chapter, I'm going to had a terribly suspenseful scene that's from the next chapter that will leave you begging me for more. grins evilly You'll see.
A scene from:
Hitomi Kanzaki and A Semester Abroad
Part 4- Ever Passing Moments
By: SeraphAnaesthesia
Hitomi had just gotten back from grocery shopping for the sixth time because they eat too much, and lazily set the brown paper bags down on the counter of the small built-in kitchen to her and Dilly's apartment. She sighed, wiping imaginary sweat from her pale forehead. "Phew… Man, was that a pain in the ass." Something from her black backpack rang, and for once Hitomi was actually glad she had bought the little phone on their last trip to the mall. Only five people knew the number, Van, Van's sister Merle, Yukari, Millerna, and Dryden. Well, okay, Dilandau knew it too. But he lived with her, so it didn't really count. "Hello?" Hitomi flipped open the little gadget.
"Hitomi, Merle…Merle is dead."
She dropped the phone as it clattered on the floor.
A/N: Don't hate me! ducks knives and mallets Read and review, and I am SO sorry! u.u;;