Disclaimer: I do not own Gravitation.
Yuki walked down the hall from the bathroom after taking a shower and getting dressed. His hairs was still soaked, except for the roots that had already begun to dry. He stepped into the kitchen and grabbed a bowl out of the cupboard and then going to get out some cereal and milk. He returned to the counter and poured his cereal in the bowl then spoke up loudly after a while, "Just because I was nice to you Saturday did not give you permission to follow me around the past two days." He slammed the silverware drawer shut after getting out a spoon, "If I had known you'd start stalking me I would've eaten in the living room."
He sat down and glanced over at the entryway to the kitchen. Maiko shyly stepped out into the kitchen, "Sorry." She said bashfully, pretending to pay more attention to her foot, "I'll go watch TV or something." She said inching her way out of the kitchen towards the living room.
Once she was gone Yuki returned to his breakfast. It was Monday and he had a meeting with Mizuki at eleven that morning to discuss the deadline for his new book. Which meant he had about and hour and half until he had to meet her. He finished his breakfast and finished getting completely ready and leaving around 10:30.
"Watcha doing?" Maiko strolled into Yuki's study Tuesday afternoon while Shuichi was at NGR and Tatsuha went for a walk down at the park.
Yuki sighed, trying to control his annoyance, She's only a 16...or 17 year old girl, he kept telling himself. He stopped typing after he finished the word he was on, his fingers still poised over the keyboard, "I'm working on my story. I have a deadline coming up and Mizuki will kill me if I miss another one."
"Oh." Maiko nodded, "I guess you'd like some quiet then." She reasoned.
"Thank you." Yuki said happily, at least she understood better than her brother. He began to type again.
"I can be quiet." Maiko spoke up after a moment, "A lot quieter than my brother." She added. Yuki stopped typing when she started talking again and waited for her to stop so he could start typing again. After a moment she didn't say anything so he started up again, able to concentrate.
He went on typing for about ten minute, oblivious to what was going on around him. He tended to be this way a lot when he was typing up a story.
"You type really fast." Maiko spoke up, causing him to snap back into reality. Yuki immediately stopped typing and looked up behind him at the girl who was now reading over his shoulder. He reached for the laptop and slowly closed it shut.
"Do you mind?" He asked, quite aggravated.
"Oh no, not at all." She shook her head, "Please continue…It's really good."
"I meant," He sighed, "Leave!" Maiko jumped back from being startled. They both watched each other closely before she stomped out of the room. Yuki sighed and returned to his work.
"How do you do that?" Maiko looked over Yuki's shoulder again like she'd been doing all week. He was in the kitchen working on making a cake to help give him something to do while his writer's block cleared up. He'd go for a walk but it'd been raining all day and he didn't feel like avoiding large puddles.
"You push the button." He said through gritted teeth. It's just a question, she doesn't mean any harm, He kept telling himself this. He did the best he could to be as nice to her as was possible, but her sudden annoyance wasn't helping much.
"Which one?" She pressed on. She knew she was starting to get under his skin, but she did all she could, hoping that he'd crack by tomorrow then she'd be able to get what she wanted out of him. Then after Friday she'd be able to win Tatsuha over! She would do whatever it took, even if it involved fake tears, anything to get that wonderful boy from Kyoto to be happy.
"This one!" Yuki screamed and pointed to the button he'd just pushed to turn the electric mixer on, "Does no one in your family know how to cook!" He turned to face Maiko. She ran out of the kitchen in tears, but Yuki didn't really care. She'd been following him around and bugging him since Sunday and he was just about to snap. The only thing that kept him going was that he knew she'd be gone in a few days and be back at home. Plus Tatsuha would be gone in about another week and have to go back to Kyoto. Then it'd just be him and Shuichi again…Wait…That wasn't too much to look forward to, was it?
"Hehehe…today's the day…" Maiko sniggered happily, looking at her calendar. It was Thursday and Shuichi was supposed to leave to go to NGR in about an hour, and Tatsuha planned on spending the day at NGR with Ryuichi and Shuichi figuring out everything he and Shuichi needed to do in order for Tatsuha to beat Yuki in the bet.
She climbed out of bed and hurried to get dressed and eat breakfast. It'd be a long, hard day for her. Making Yuki crack was a simple task, but getting what she wanted afterwards wouldn't be as simple.
"We're leaving now," Shuichi said walking past her, "You got everything planned out…You know he has to ask me today, right?"
"I know," She said giving her brother a hug good bye, "I've got it all planned out, you two go figure out your parts now. I'll handle it all here."
Shuichi and Tatsuha nodded and left, "That's a cool sister you've get there." Tatsuha said as they walked out the door.
He thinks I'm cool! Maiko squealed with joy. And hurried back into the kitchen to finish eating before Yuki got up.
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Yuki yawned and looked at the blinking digital clock that was next to him. It was only 9:47...am. "Still early." He yawned and rolled over to fall back asleep.
"No it's not!" Maiko said happily. Yuki immediately flipped over and looked at Maiko who was standing next to his bed smiling. "You should think about getting up earlier more often. You'd get more writing done if you didn't sleep all day and screw my brother all night." She said in her still happy voice.
Yuki worked on covering his bare self with the blankets even though Maiko didn't seem to notice. "What are you doing in my room?" He finally managed to blurt out once he was positive she couldn't see anything.
"It's my brother's room too!" She placed her hands on her hips and frowned.
"Well, did you go into your brother's room when he lived with you?" Yuki snapped back.
"Yes!" She said matter-of-factly, "I did all the time, and he didn't seem to mind. I actually went in one time when he and Hiro were-"
"I don't want to here what all your brother and his friend did." Yuki frowned. "So get out of my room and let me sleep!"
"Not until you rise and shine." She said reaching for the blankets and giving them a slight tug. Yuki pulled them back, "Come on! You can't stay in bed forever!"
"Yes I can!" Yuki argued back, doing all he could to keep himself covered up.
"No you can't!" Maiko argued back again and released the blanket, "I'll go make you some breakfast now, so you can get up and dressed. But hurry up so it doesn't get cold." She smiled and skipped out of the room.
Yuki sighed once she left and fell back in the bed with his face in his hands, 'IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY!" He screamed, almost crying it out.
If Maiko was as much like Shuichi as she seemed, Yuki knew there'd be no point in staying in bed any longer so he went ahead and climbed out of bed and got dressed before she attempted to get a view of him again.
He slowly made his way out of the room and into the kitchen where Maiko was setting the table while a few pancakes cooked on the stove. Yuki walked over to the coffee machine and grabbed the pot getting ready to pour a cup when he stopped, realizing it was empty.
"Oh, sorry, I hadn't gotten to that yet." Maiko said cheerfully, taking the pot from his hand and taking it to the sink to fill with water. She poured the water into the coffee machine and started looking around the kitchen for the beans and filter.
She spent a few minutes rummaging through a few cabinets before stopping and turning around to face Yuki and ask him where they were when she saw him dumping a few spoonfuls of the ground beans into the filter. "I was going to get that fo-"
"I don't have time for you" Yuki snapped. He didn't care if he hurt her feelings anymore, she was becoming more than a nuisance.
"Oh, but please, let me get it…You should rest you fingers." She rushed over to him and went to pull the can away from him. He tugged it back.
"I got it…Go worry about your pancakes or something."
"No their fine! I want to help you out!"
"Then leave me alone and let me make my own coffee!"
"No! That's not helping!"
"Yes it is!" They continued their tugging of the coffee can until it flew out of both of their hands and flew on the floor upside down on the floor.
"I can get it!" Maiko said jumping over it and running out of the kitchen, "Where's your broom?"
Yuki sighed, not bothering to answer her and went to grab the broom out of the pantry and let her run around the house while he cleaned up. He picked up the can and tossed it in the garbage and began to sweep up the mess.
"There it is!" Maiko said running back into the kitchen.
"I got it, don't worry." Yuki said still sweeping up the beans into a neat pile.
"No really, you should rest. I can get." She grabbed the broom and gave it a slight tug to get it from his hands so she could sweep up the mess.
"Just let it go!" Yuki bellowed, "Your pancakes are burning!"
"I don't care about the pancakes!" She creamed back and gave the broom a hard tug which caused her to lose her footing and fall back on the pile of ground coffee beans. Which then made the beans fly everywhere and made a bigger mess.
Yuki groaned and threw the broom down on the ground, "What is you problem!" He screamed at her, "What do you want, you weird, stalkerish, FANGIRL!" He had finally cracked. Maiko had to cover up her happiness with a face of fear, "You want an autograph, a shirt, my underwear, HAIR? What!"
"Um…C-can you go out with my brother?" She asked sounding timid.
Yuki eyed her suspiciously, "Why would I go out with your brother?"
"I'll leave alone for the rest of my stay…Plus I think you two could use some alone time." She shrugged, "He's seemed kind of lonely lately and he and Tatsuha have been getting pretty close lately and I'm kind of jealous. I think you should be too." Finally saying everything she'd planned for the entire week gave her a huge relief.
"Him and Tatsuha getting pretty close, huh?" Yuki thought for a moment, "And you're getting jealous because you like Tatsuha and you think I should be jealous too because I sleep with your brother?"
"Yup." She nodded, "If not for yourself, at least take Shuichi out for me so that he'll leave Tatsuha alone and I can finally have my chance."
Yuki gave this some consideration then nodded, "OK, leave me alone for the rest of your stay, and I'll do that for you, brat. Then you can have your way with Tatsuha or whatever."
"Thank you!" Maiko said getting up and resisting the urge to hug him and returned to the pancakes that were now burnt, "Just make sure you ask him tonight."
"Whatever." Yuki sighed and worked on cleaning up the coffee mess again.
A/N: You're all lucky...I'm on a roll tonight so I just MAY have the fic done before I leave for my grandma's for a week...too bad I can't say the same for the Fullmetall Alchemist fic v.v