Chapter 5
A/N: Sorry for the wait! I really am! This is the longest I've made people wait- and there's not really one excuse why it took me so long to finish this story- you can choose your own excuse from the following:
1) Boy problems…. LONG story!
2) Moving into nice apt and school starting back up….
3) Trips to Anime conventions the last month of summer! Glomping hot bishie cosplayers…. *drooling* the attention whores enjoyed that ;)
4) ….. Make up your own excuse…
Or
5) I'm lazy and had a serious case of writer's block for this fic and TONS of ideas for other fics…
So anyway- I'll just shut up and get to the story :)
Mvdiva: Thank the Lord! She's shutting up!
Anyway- I don't own nothing :) Not even my soul anymore… I think that thing got pawned off along time ago ;) jk
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Belldandy awoke the next morning like usual. Greeting the rising sun as it came up over the horizon. She quickly was dressed and had breakfast ready for her sleepy sisters before she was out the door and on her way to school.
Yesterday had left her with a great deal of memories. Stepping outside the shrine, she was preparing herself for a five-minute walk to the bus stop, when she came face to face with a familiar person.
"A…oshima?" She said surprised at his presence.
"Dear Belldandy, please allow me to take you to campus." He said taking her hand and motioning her to join him in his nice looking sports car.
"You didn't have to…" She began, but was hushed by him placing a finger to her lips.
"I insist." He smiled as he opened the door and helped Bell get into the car.
It was a quick trip to the campus in the fast car. Belldandy was glad of this. Even though Aoshima was nothing but kind and courteous to her, she just couldn't get past the way he had treated her friends the other day.
"So Belldandy, are you able to join me tonight for dinner? I planned something extra special for us." He said as he continued to drive down the streets.
"Oh, I don't know…" Bell started, but not wanting to be rude, she accepted the offer after much convincing.
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"Hey there lover boy!" Megumi called as she met up with Keiichi outside the guys dorms. "So how did everything go last night? Did you kiss her? Tell me you at least kissed her!" Megumi asked quickly. However, Keiichi's silence told her otherwise. "OK- what happened?"
"I don't want to talk about it." Keiichi mumbled as he walked off to class.
"Come on Keiichi! I'm your sister- you have to tell me." She said running after him.
Suddenly Keiichi abruptly stopped dead in his tracks, having Megumi run into his back. "Hey! Don't stop so quickly!" She grumbled looking at Keiichi's shocked face. "What?" she asked following his eyes to where Belldandy was getting out of a nice looking car. Aoshima jumped out quickly after. Kissing her hand he offered her his hand and escorted her to class. Belldandy's angelic face showed a hint of a blush at his gestures.
Megumi had to only look at Keiichi to recognize the pain he felt seeing him with Belldandy.
"I take it things didn't go so well last night?" She asked quietly trying to get him to think of something other than the sight he had witnessed.
"I don't know what is wrong with me. Everything was perfect." He muttered as he put his head into his hands.
"Well, Keiichi, if things were perfect, she wouldn't be walking into school with him and not you." Megumi pointed out a little maddened at all her hard work ending up with nothing. 'Ok-' She thought to herself- 'drastic times call for drastic measures.' Megumi decided after she parted with Keiichi and went to class.
Luckily she had class with Bell again today, so she could figure out what went wrong.
"Hey Belldandy!" Megumi called cheerfully.
"Oh, good morning Megumi." Bell said a little less than enthusiastic. She was trying hard to think of ways to ask Megumi about Keiichi. Nevertheless, there was just no polite way to ask it.
"I was talking with Keiichi a moment ago." Megumi started after sitting down.
"Really?" Bell's eyes light up with the sound of his name.
"Yeah, and I was wondering…"
"Did I do something wrong? If I offended him in anyway, I'm terribly sorry!" Belldandy blurted out quickly. Holding back tears she spoke in a quite voice, "I didn't mean to be such a big bother to him…"
"What are you talking about Bell?"
"Well, he left so suddenly and I…I thought that I had done something wrong to cause him to leave."
"No, no Belldandy. You didn't do anything wrong. " Megumi smiled assuring her worried friend that she hadn't done anything wrong. "It's Keiichi… he's not use to being around girls he really likes."
"Likes?" Bell whispered.
"Ya, so give him another chance, ok? Tonight… come over to the clubhouse for dinner. It'll just be you and him. You can get to know each other better."
"I'd love to… but…" Belldandy's face saddened a bit.
"But what?"
"I already said I would let someone else take me to dinner."
"Oh," Megumi sighed with a frown.
"I really want to get to know Keiichi better, but it's just that Aoshima, he's…"
"Aoshima?" Megumi cried. "You're going out with that scum?"
"I don't really want to, I'd rather be with you and Keiichi, but he asked and he was so persistent…" Bell sighed as the lecture began. However, for some reason she couldn't focus in class, or any for the rest of the day. Something was bothering her.
'Does Keiichi really like me?' She questioned herself. 'But why doesn't he act like he does… I…I feel my heart flutter whenever he is close, and I… I just wish he likes me.'
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"Ok- truce?" Urd asked her youngest sister.
"Why?" The black haired goddess questioned as she sat at the table with her arms crossed.
"Because things aren't going so hot with the two and you know it!"
"Well if you would have left things alone in the first place, last night would have been a perfect time for them to realize they love each other." Skuld said angrily.
"If I remember correctly it was YOU who ran out there and disturbed their little moment…" The older goddess said with a flip of her white locks.
"But who was chasing me for stopping them from messing with Keiichi's head? So if anyone is to blame for any of this mess it's NOT me!"
"Come on! We're not going to get anywhere if we fight amongst ourselves." Urd said with an innocent looking smile. She knew all too well that it was her 'helping' mishaps that had caused the few bumps in the road. But desperate times called for desperate measures… right?
"If we want to help sis out," Skuld began, "Then we should leave her be. Keiichi will have to come around sometime. I knew from the moment I came here that he truly loves her… and he'll show it by himself." It was evident that the last statement was said with a little doubt in her voice. But Skuld truly believed that things would work out better without Urd's meddling.
"OK, fine. Be that way…" Urd groaned as he slumped down to her knees near the table. "So what do we do now?" She asked.
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"Keiichi! I've got it!" Megumi practically yelled as she ran through the doors of the auto club.
"What now?" Came a depressed sigh from the boy who sat looking off into space.
"You have to win Belldandy's heart and tonight is the night!"
"But she doesn't even like me… I don't know what happened… I think I'm jus going to give up on women all together." He said with a permanent frown on his face. "No one will ever be like Bell… never…"
"And that's exactly why you need to fight for her."
"Fight? Fight who?"
"Aoshima!" Megumi said as if it was nothing at all to go up against one of the richest people in town. Not to mention that fact that Aoshima always got what he wanted, no matter what.
Keiichi sat there and looked at his younger sister with a blank expression on his face. After letting it sink in, he blinked twice before he fell over and crashed head first into the floor.
"Have you gone nuts?" Keiichi nearly screamed, as the next thing he saw was her worried face hovering over him. "Me? Actually try and compete with him?"
"But you love Bell!"
"And I also love my head right where it is…look, Bell will be more happy with him. At least he'll be able to treat her nicely… she'll get all the fabulous things she deserves…." As Keiichi went off into a daydream of Belldandy, Megumi wanted to scream.
'How am I going to get him to make a move, if he's willing to give her up to some… some… bozo like Aoshima?'
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After classes, Belldandy tried to catch up with Megumi and Keiichi, but Megumi said something about preparing for something big at the auto club. And Keiichi, well he was no where to be found. This disheartened Belldandy more than anything did.
Having nothing else to do that day, she began the trek home from the bus station.
Arriving at the remote temple home, Belldandy was amazed that her two sisters were still not talking with each other.
'They must have had a really big fight,' Belldandy figured and went to work cooking a simple dinner for the family. She watched as the time ran by and soon eight drew near.
Aoshima said he would be driving by to pick her up at nine for a late supper under the stars. It did sound nice, except that Aoshima was not the person she wanted to get to know better.
Sighing to herself as she looked in the mirror, she then started to put on the final additions to her outfit.
'I wish it was Keiichi I was meeting up with…'
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'I can't take this! It's driving me nuts!' Keiichi growled as he looked down at the empty page of notebook paper. How was he supposed to write a paper when his mind was certainly not on school? In fact, ever since the first day of school, it had only one subject playing through his mind… Belldandy.
What was it about her specifically; he would ask himself repeatedly. There was something he couldn't quite place with the beautiful looking woman… no she was definitely more than a woman… she was a goddess.
The way she was loving and kind, the bright heavenly smile always was adorned on her dainty lips. 'Oh to touch her skin and hair…'
Keiichi slammed his book shut in frustration. He had learned from Megumi that Aoshima would be taking Belldandy on a date around nine. And that's when Megumi left promptly. Who knew what she was going to do. Keiichi didn't care where Megumi was in reality. He was more concerned over Belldandy and if she truly did want to be with Aoshima… it was eating him up inside.
Standing up, Keiichi decided to get some air. There just was no way homework was going to be done if he couldn't get her off his brain.
Grabbing his coat, he went outside into the city. The streetlights were all on and giving light to the dark and dreary night.
He had to laugh; the weather was reflecting his mood perfectly. All it needed now was rain. Shoving his hands into his coat pockets he decided to take a long walk away from campus. Passing the auto club garage he noticed someone had left a bike out with the sidecar attached.
'Why is that thing so familiar?' He questioned. That particular bike was for pair racers, and he had never had a partner before… so why did he feel like it was a part of him.
Shrugging it off, he continued walking. But for some reason things just kept giving him a weird feeling of deja jv.
As he was about to turn he corner and head back to the dorms, Keiichi felt something in his coat pocket. It was smooth and cold. Pulling the object out in his fist, he opened his fingers and found a small object in his palm.
'A ring?' He asked seeing the small golden ring. 'But why would I need a ring… a promise… it was a promise to…' Then it clicked. The familiar feelings about the places and things he'd seen- everything was connected to one person. The most important person in his life…
"Belldandy…" He whispered clutching the ring over his heart.
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A/N:
Ok- so I won't make you wait so long on the next chapter- I swear! Anyway thanks for all the reviews and such! I enjoy reading them :)
Take care, and until the next time- "Embrace the Inner Ecchi" ;)
A/N: Sorry for the wait! I really am! This is the longest I've made people wait- and there's not really one excuse why it took me so long to finish this story- you can choose your own excuse from the following:
1) Boy problems…. LONG story!
2) Moving into nice apt and school starting back up….
3) Trips to Anime conventions the last month of summer! Glomping hot bishie cosplayers…. *drooling* the attention whores enjoyed that ;)
4) ….. Make up your own excuse…
Or
5) I'm lazy and had a serious case of writer's block for this fic and TONS of ideas for other fics…
So anyway- I'll just shut up and get to the story :)
Mvdiva: Thank the Lord! She's shutting up!
Anyway- I don't own nothing :) Not even my soul anymore… I think that thing got pawned off along time ago ;) jk
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Belldandy awoke the next morning like usual. Greeting the rising sun as it came up over the horizon. She quickly was dressed and had breakfast ready for her sleepy sisters before she was out the door and on her way to school.
Yesterday had left her with a great deal of memories. Stepping outside the shrine, she was preparing herself for a five-minute walk to the bus stop, when she came face to face with a familiar person.
"A…oshima?" She said surprised at his presence.
"Dear Belldandy, please allow me to take you to campus." He said taking her hand and motioning her to join him in his nice looking sports car.
"You didn't have to…" She began, but was hushed by him placing a finger to her lips.
"I insist." He smiled as he opened the door and helped Bell get into the car.
It was a quick trip to the campus in the fast car. Belldandy was glad of this. Even though Aoshima was nothing but kind and courteous to her, she just couldn't get past the way he had treated her friends the other day.
"So Belldandy, are you able to join me tonight for dinner? I planned something extra special for us." He said as he continued to drive down the streets.
"Oh, I don't know…" Bell started, but not wanting to be rude, she accepted the offer after much convincing.
-
"Hey there lover boy!" Megumi called as she met up with Keiichi outside the guys dorms. "So how did everything go last night? Did you kiss her? Tell me you at least kissed her!" Megumi asked quickly. However, Keiichi's silence told her otherwise. "OK- what happened?"
"I don't want to talk about it." Keiichi mumbled as he walked off to class.
"Come on Keiichi! I'm your sister- you have to tell me." She said running after him.
Suddenly Keiichi abruptly stopped dead in his tracks, having Megumi run into his back. "Hey! Don't stop so quickly!" She grumbled looking at Keiichi's shocked face. "What?" she asked following his eyes to where Belldandy was getting out of a nice looking car. Aoshima jumped out quickly after. Kissing her hand he offered her his hand and escorted her to class. Belldandy's angelic face showed a hint of a blush at his gestures.
Megumi had to only look at Keiichi to recognize the pain he felt seeing him with Belldandy.
"I take it things didn't go so well last night?" She asked quietly trying to get him to think of something other than the sight he had witnessed.
"I don't know what is wrong with me. Everything was perfect." He muttered as he put his head into his hands.
"Well, Keiichi, if things were perfect, she wouldn't be walking into school with him and not you." Megumi pointed out a little maddened at all her hard work ending up with nothing. 'Ok-' She thought to herself- 'drastic times call for drastic measures.' Megumi decided after she parted with Keiichi and went to class.
Luckily she had class with Bell again today, so she could figure out what went wrong.
"Hey Belldandy!" Megumi called cheerfully.
"Oh, good morning Megumi." Bell said a little less than enthusiastic. She was trying hard to think of ways to ask Megumi about Keiichi. Nevertheless, there was just no polite way to ask it.
"I was talking with Keiichi a moment ago." Megumi started after sitting down.
"Really?" Bell's eyes light up with the sound of his name.
"Yeah, and I was wondering…"
"Did I do something wrong? If I offended him in anyway, I'm terribly sorry!" Belldandy blurted out quickly. Holding back tears she spoke in a quite voice, "I didn't mean to be such a big bother to him…"
"What are you talking about Bell?"
"Well, he left so suddenly and I…I thought that I had done something wrong to cause him to leave."
"No, no Belldandy. You didn't do anything wrong. " Megumi smiled assuring her worried friend that she hadn't done anything wrong. "It's Keiichi… he's not use to being around girls he really likes."
"Likes?" Bell whispered.
"Ya, so give him another chance, ok? Tonight… come over to the clubhouse for dinner. It'll just be you and him. You can get to know each other better."
"I'd love to… but…" Belldandy's face saddened a bit.
"But what?"
"I already said I would let someone else take me to dinner."
"Oh," Megumi sighed with a frown.
"I really want to get to know Keiichi better, but it's just that Aoshima, he's…"
"Aoshima?" Megumi cried. "You're going out with that scum?"
"I don't really want to, I'd rather be with you and Keiichi, but he asked and he was so persistent…" Bell sighed as the lecture began. However, for some reason she couldn't focus in class, or any for the rest of the day. Something was bothering her.
'Does Keiichi really like me?' She questioned herself. 'But why doesn't he act like he does… I…I feel my heart flutter whenever he is close, and I… I just wish he likes me.'
-
"Ok- truce?" Urd asked her youngest sister.
"Why?" The black haired goddess questioned as she sat at the table with her arms crossed.
"Because things aren't going so hot with the two and you know it!"
"Well if you would have left things alone in the first place, last night would have been a perfect time for them to realize they love each other." Skuld said angrily.
"If I remember correctly it was YOU who ran out there and disturbed their little moment…" The older goddess said with a flip of her white locks.
"But who was chasing me for stopping them from messing with Keiichi's head? So if anyone is to blame for any of this mess it's NOT me!"
"Come on! We're not going to get anywhere if we fight amongst ourselves." Urd said with an innocent looking smile. She knew all too well that it was her 'helping' mishaps that had caused the few bumps in the road. But desperate times called for desperate measures… right?
"If we want to help sis out," Skuld began, "Then we should leave her be. Keiichi will have to come around sometime. I knew from the moment I came here that he truly loves her… and he'll show it by himself." It was evident that the last statement was said with a little doubt in her voice. But Skuld truly believed that things would work out better without Urd's meddling.
"OK, fine. Be that way…" Urd groaned as he slumped down to her knees near the table. "So what do we do now?" She asked.
-
"Keiichi! I've got it!" Megumi practically yelled as she ran through the doors of the auto club.
"What now?" Came a depressed sigh from the boy who sat looking off into space.
"You have to win Belldandy's heart and tonight is the night!"
"But she doesn't even like me… I don't know what happened… I think I'm jus going to give up on women all together." He said with a permanent frown on his face. "No one will ever be like Bell… never…"
"And that's exactly why you need to fight for her."
"Fight? Fight who?"
"Aoshima!" Megumi said as if it was nothing at all to go up against one of the richest people in town. Not to mention that fact that Aoshima always got what he wanted, no matter what.
Keiichi sat there and looked at his younger sister with a blank expression on his face. After letting it sink in, he blinked twice before he fell over and crashed head first into the floor.
"Have you gone nuts?" Keiichi nearly screamed, as the next thing he saw was her worried face hovering over him. "Me? Actually try and compete with him?"
"But you love Bell!"
"And I also love my head right where it is…look, Bell will be more happy with him. At least he'll be able to treat her nicely… she'll get all the fabulous things she deserves…." As Keiichi went off into a daydream of Belldandy, Megumi wanted to scream.
'How am I going to get him to make a move, if he's willing to give her up to some… some… bozo like Aoshima?'
-
After classes, Belldandy tried to catch up with Megumi and Keiichi, but Megumi said something about preparing for something big at the auto club. And Keiichi, well he was no where to be found. This disheartened Belldandy more than anything did.
Having nothing else to do that day, she began the trek home from the bus station.
Arriving at the remote temple home, Belldandy was amazed that her two sisters were still not talking with each other.
'They must have had a really big fight,' Belldandy figured and went to work cooking a simple dinner for the family. She watched as the time ran by and soon eight drew near.
Aoshima said he would be driving by to pick her up at nine for a late supper under the stars. It did sound nice, except that Aoshima was not the person she wanted to get to know better.
Sighing to herself as she looked in the mirror, she then started to put on the final additions to her outfit.
'I wish it was Keiichi I was meeting up with…'
-
'I can't take this! It's driving me nuts!' Keiichi growled as he looked down at the empty page of notebook paper. How was he supposed to write a paper when his mind was certainly not on school? In fact, ever since the first day of school, it had only one subject playing through his mind… Belldandy.
What was it about her specifically; he would ask himself repeatedly. There was something he couldn't quite place with the beautiful looking woman… no she was definitely more than a woman… she was a goddess.
The way she was loving and kind, the bright heavenly smile always was adorned on her dainty lips. 'Oh to touch her skin and hair…'
Keiichi slammed his book shut in frustration. He had learned from Megumi that Aoshima would be taking Belldandy on a date around nine. And that's when Megumi left promptly. Who knew what she was going to do. Keiichi didn't care where Megumi was in reality. He was more concerned over Belldandy and if she truly did want to be with Aoshima… it was eating him up inside.
Standing up, Keiichi decided to get some air. There just was no way homework was going to be done if he couldn't get her off his brain.
Grabbing his coat, he went outside into the city. The streetlights were all on and giving light to the dark and dreary night.
He had to laugh; the weather was reflecting his mood perfectly. All it needed now was rain. Shoving his hands into his coat pockets he decided to take a long walk away from campus. Passing the auto club garage he noticed someone had left a bike out with the sidecar attached.
'Why is that thing so familiar?' He questioned. That particular bike was for pair racers, and he had never had a partner before… so why did he feel like it was a part of him.
Shrugging it off, he continued walking. But for some reason things just kept giving him a weird feeling of deja jv.
As he was about to turn he corner and head back to the dorms, Keiichi felt something in his coat pocket. It was smooth and cold. Pulling the object out in his fist, he opened his fingers and found a small object in his palm.
'A ring?' He asked seeing the small golden ring. 'But why would I need a ring… a promise… it was a promise to…' Then it clicked. The familiar feelings about the places and things he'd seen- everything was connected to one person. The most important person in his life…
"Belldandy…" He whispered clutching the ring over his heart.
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A/N:
Ok- so I won't make you wait so long on the next chapter- I swear! Anyway thanks for all the reviews and such! I enjoy reading them :)
Take care, and until the next time- "Embrace the Inner Ecchi" ;)