Rei sat on the porch and sighed, she felt like crying all day but she didn't want the others to find out how sad she really was it would just ruin their vacation. WHY couldn't he just say he loved me? she thought sadly. She sipped on the tea she made, she couldn't have done anything wrong.. all she said was "I miss you." And "Do you love me?" why did he react that way? Any other day he would say he loved her…
"ei.. Rei…" a voice broke her out of her trance she looked up to see a worried Yuki.
"Hm?"
" Are you okay? You look so sad."
"Me?"
"Mmhmm"
"I'm ok.. aww who am I kidding? I'm upset beyond belief."
"What happened?"
"I don't really want to talk about it."
"Okay.. well what ever it is.. I hope you feel better."
"Thanks Yuki."
He left her and went into the house, she saw Kyo and the rest of them come out of the forest she smiled, All I can do is watch over them and make sure they don't get hurt like me. She thought. "So any luck?"
"No but we put sugar water on trees to attract the stag beetles."
"Good idea."
"Yepyepyep!" said Momiji he looked at her and smiled brightly.
"What's wrong with Kisa? She seems sad."
Kisa looked up at her and smiled, "Nothing is the matter."
"Okay."
They walked inside, "Did Kisa and Hiro have a fight? They didn't talk at dinner and they're already in bed." Said Yuki.
"We don't really know what happened…" said Tohru.
"I thought they both looked kinda upset earlier." Said Rei she marked her place in her book and frowned, "Kisa looked like she was crying."
"Really?"asked Momiji.
"Yeah… Maybe something happened to make Hiro angry and Kisa sad, maybe Hiro did something to make Kisa nervous again."
"Maybe."
"It's a waste of effort for a third party to interfere with a lover's quarrel.It would be best to leave them alone." Said Haru.
"I don't know if you're being nice or cold." Said Yuki.
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Rei woke up the next morning and sighed, now she wasn't the only person who was depressed, now it was Kisa. "I should talk to her.." said Rei. She got dressed and tied her hair into a pony tail and flipped it up in an alligator clip so it looked spikey. She walked out of her room and into the living room. "Hey guys…" she said.
"Hello! Hello! Hello! Ja! Rei you should get your bathing suit on we are going to the beach!" said Momiji.
"What about the beetles?"
"Rei san it's 1 o clock in the afternoon." Said Yuki.
"Oh crud, sorry… I overslept."
"It's ok! Come on! Get your suit on! Ja! Ja! Ja!"
"I will I'll be a while so why don't I meet you guys there ok?"
"JA!"
Rei went back into her room and removed her clothes and put her suit on with a red button down shirt over it. She grabbed her towel and walked down to the beach, there sitting on a step was Shigure. He was fanning himself. "Ahhh." He turned around tot see Rei. "Wow you look totally different."
"When you say that you sound like a pervert." She said and she walked onto the beach and took off her red shirt, she didn't know if that was the wisest thing to do with Shigure there and all. "Mmmm…It's really nice out today." She said she stretched then walked over to Kisa and Tohru. They were squealing happily.
"Sup?"
"Hiro chan's mama is having a baby!" said Momiji.
"Hmm.. what's your mom's name?"
Hiro looked as if he was going to throw a nasty comment at her but then his face softened, "It's Satsuki."
"Umm… Hiro kun.. not to be disrespectful but isn't she a bit of a klutz? I remember bandaging up her knee after she fell face down from tripping on a chord."
"That's her."
"Hopefully she wont fall again expecially since she's pregnant."
"Oh my god! She might fall!" said Hiro petrified.
"Crud,"
"She is bouncing off the walls she wants me to come home soon so she can celebrate."
"Really? Well I am sure you'll make a fine older brother." Said Rei she smiled.
"OH! Rei san! Hatori's here too!" said Shigure.
"Oh really?" she said she really didn't care.
"Yeah."
"Ok?"
"Satsuki so young….." said Shigure.
"Don't talk about my mom like that!" shouted Hiro.
"Shigure Oji chan? Why aren't you swimming?" asked Kisa obviously in high spirits.
"Oh? Oji chan doesn't like the water very much."
"Then what are you doing here?"
"More like admiring swim suits?" Said Shigure.
Rei pulled Kisa and Hiro away from him, "Take her away from him." Then she knocked Shigure right on the head hard. "PERVERT! NO MEGA PERVERT!" she said angrily.
"Ouch! Are you really a fe-"
Rei hit him again, "God you are a child sexual harasser!" she said she was fed up with him , "GROW UP!"
Then she walked away.
Tohru just stood there confused.
Hiro smiled at her, "I'm proud of you no one else was going to do anything about him."
"Thanks."
"I think I'm beginning to like you."
"Great." She looked over at Shigure who was pretending to cry as a gullible Tohru consoled him and she sighed. "Kids, well Kisa and Hiro… DON'T GROW UP TO BE LIKE HIM." She said.
She saw a shadow on the ground and she looked up. It was Hatori he was looking down from the top step at her. She looked away. He walked onto the beach and kissed her. "Hey."
She looked away, DON'T LOOK AT HIM she thought. She refused to look at him and she was confused and angry about how he was treated her earlier.
"Can we talk somewhere private?" he asked obviously noticing her coldness.
"WHY?"
"I think we have a misunderstanding. I think we should talk about it."
"I don't want to."
"Why not?"
"Because nothing was real."
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about your feelings for me."
"What do you mean they 'weren't real' of course they were."
"I don't know whether I should believe you or not."
"Well maybe we should talk to each other about this."
"Why?"
"Because I don't like to see you unhappy."
"Well you sure didn't think about that when you talked to me on the phone."
"Listen I have an explanation for that…"
"Sure you do."
"Please Rei I really want to work this out."
"Fine." She grabbed her shirt and shook the sand out of it and put it on. "I'll talk to you kiddies later ok?"
"Kay." Said Kisa.
Rei walked off the beach and Hatori grabbed her hand and held it. She jerked away and looked away half out of confusion and half out of anger.
Hatori sighed and stopped after they were out of earshot, "Rei… I don't know what made you hate me so much."
"What you said yesterday."
"What?"
"What you said was that you couldn't tell me if you missed me and that you love me."
"I couldn't and I have an explanation for that…"
"Was it because you were with your beloved Akito?"
"How did you…"
"Momiji."
"Oh. Rei I HAD to say that you don't know Akito he would hurt you if he found out I loved you. I can't have that happen I love you Rei I do. I couldn't tell you because I was with Mayu."
"Oh? You were?"
"Yes I was."
"Doing what?"
"We were just eating lunch together."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah.. I couldn't say I love you because Mayu likes me a lot and I didn't want to hurt her feelings…."
"That's kind and all but I already told her that you and I were going out."
"You did?"
"Yeah. She said she was happy for me."
"Oh.. she didn't tell me."
"Well oh well."
"Listen Rei. I didn't know."
"I understand but you were so cold to me before you went to Akito's side."
"I'm sorry for that I shouldn't have been cold to you I was just worried that he knew that we were going out."
"That is no reason to make me worried that I did something wrong."
"I said I was sorry."
"what did Mayu say."
"That it couldn't be true that I cant be happy. Which is true because I AM happy… with you."
"Sometimes I don't know what to do with you…. I don't know if I should love you all the time… sometimes there are times where I don't want to and sometimes there are times where I DO want to love you."
"And what about now?"
"I don't know… I am really upset with you so I doubt it."
"Rei… I understand you are mad at me and you have the right to be but know this… I love you I honestly do."
"Tch."
"Rei cut it out."
"What?"
"With the fake I hate you additude."
"It aint fake." She was trying to cover the happiness in her voice.
"Yes it is."
She smiled at him and he smiled back.
"I've missed you." She said she laid her head on his chest.
"And I've missed you."