Disclaimer: Michiru and Haruka are Characters from Sailor Moon, The plot and any OC related characters are all mine.

Thanks for your reviews and I know I know this story needs kiss scenes and romance, I promise I'll make it up to you…

Sirena

By auraluna7

Chapter 7: Lunch

Michiru looked right into Haruka's teal eyes. "Why do I feel so weird around Haruka? I like him, but he makes me mad and confused all the time.""Maybe I will…"

Seconds past but none of them move, standing so close to each other in the water there was a moment when Michiru thought Haruka was willing to kiss her but then Michiru remembered they were still in the middle of the ocean, so she focussed her attention in their surroundings again, she had joked about it but there was dangers in the ocean all the time. "Let's go, the water is not deep"

Haruka sighted softly, she lost her chance of kissing Michiru, she had hesitated, they were so close to each other yet she had froze. "What's wrong? Why do I act like this is my first kiss? I like her, I think she likes me, but she makes me so confused with how she reacts…"

The swim was actually nicer than Haruka thought, the ocean life here was immense and colorful, all kinds of coloured fish swam along with them and the coral barrier had intense, almost magical shades under the water.

After more or less an hour, they came to a beach where the sand was so white sunlight reflected on it making it look like mirage snow.

"This place is beautiful; I've never seen sand so white"

"Yeah, the sand is white because it's actually made of coral, despite the bright colors under water when the coral die it becomes white."

"Oh…" Michiru took Haruka's hand to guide her trough a hidden path past the beach, a gesture she first thought natural but for some reason it was hard think of anything else but hot skin touching hers making her heart beat a little faster.

And Haruka felt it too, she stood silent the whole time they were holding hands, wanting not to break the subtle spell between them, trying to concentrate on anything else but the soft skin of Michiru's hand but every time she tried, she found it was even worse trying to take her eyes of Michiru's backside swaying softly just a step in front of her, maybe Michiru was right, she was a total pervert.

The couple finally arrived to a clear area past the luscious vegetation next a small clear lagoon. Michiru let go of Haruka's hand unwillingly pretending to fix her untameable mass of ocean colored curls and bit her lip as Haruka looked at her with the same awe she gave the white sand and the kaleidoscopic flora, and she felt a bit like a tropical fish on an aquarium without knowing what to do but took her eyes of the teal ones.

"Do you like this place?"

When Michiru looked away from her Haruka felt like an idiot for staring, because there was no doubt that was she was doing, she couldn't keep her eyes from Michiru's lips when the girl bit it, so she cleared her voice and tried to make up by sounding casual. "Yeah its beautiful do you here often?"

"Almost every day, no one else comes here so you can say I own it"

"How come no one comes?"

"They say the place is enchanted, ghosts and stuff, that's a lie nothing to worry about…"

"You say it like I'll be scared or something"

Michiru half smiled and sat by the fresh water lagoon. "No, of course not Mr. 'are there any sharks around here?' …."

"Sharks are a real thing! Ghosts do not exist!" Haruka sat next to Michiru and skipped a rock into the lagoon. "What kind of ghosts? Just out of scientific curiosity."

"Right, well there's a story about a man that had a beautiful daughter, beautiful as the mornings are bright anyways the Man didn't want her to marry her boyfriend so he claimed she had died of a mysterious illness overnight and hid her in this island.

The girl was crushed, she loved her fiancé so much and she awaited for him to come rescue her but after a few weeks the heartbroken fiancé left town. The father then decided to come seek his daughter and get her out of her exile; but when they reach her they found out the maiden had died of sorrow.

She laid like a sleeping beauty on a tomb stone surrounded by a mountain of pearls – the pearls were her tears you see- and the legend says that from that day on her spirit it's still here looking for her love, so it's a maiden's ghost, that's where the Island gets its name, no one comes here except me…"

"Oh wow, it is a very interesting little story, poor girl, yet I think she should have tried harder to escape from here you know? Love is worth fighting for."

"It is, but...Against anything? Even your family? I always think she could have escaped but she was torn between her love for the fiancé and her father's love."

"Nothing would keep me from following love, nothing in this world." Michiru lowered her eyes, she was not sure she could fight against anything for love; perhaps you could only feel like fighting it all when you actually knew love and she didn't...

"Are you ok Michiru?"

"Sure, just hungry aren't you?"

"Very, but I was being prudent not to ask" Michiru smiled again, she brushed aside the thoughts of love and concentrated on making this lunch date lighthearted again.

Reaching for the small waterproof black back pack she carried Michiru took out matches a little pot and tea.

"Can you offer you tea?"

"Sure. Hey where's the food? Did you forget to pack the food?" Haruka had noticed the little back pack lied empty now.

"You didn't think I had a buffet in there do you? It's a tiny bag. I'll go pick some fruit, wait here…"

Haruka couldn't hide her disbelief, she had been out hiking and swimming and she was famished, she didn't even fancied fruit that much as a regular food staple. "You're kidding! I'm starving! Fruit is for birds and little girls like you. I need protein"

Michiru looked puzzled, she always had a little bit of fruit and tea, then again Haruka was a lot taller and a lot more muscular than her. "What else do you think I can find here? Wait... do you like fish?"

"Yes! Now we're talking"

"Alright then" Michiru walked slowly towards the lagoon, her hips swaying softly, before entering the water she untied her skirt bending slowly to place it neatly on the ground.

Haruka look at her with amusement, she was seriously stating to think she was going to hold on fruit till they get back to Tahi and Michiru was going to come up with a smart joke about fish, yet the view was worth it at least.

The smaller girl stopped where the water reached her knees, then bending slightly she stay still for a few seconds; Haruka was confused, it seemed a bit too much wait for a punch line.

In a sudden movement however Michiru got her hands in the water and amazingly she got out not one fish, but two fish, one on each hand and started walking back towards the blonde. Haruka couldn't believe her eyes... "There stop complaining"

Placing the fish down the blue eyed beauty started gathering kindle to start a fire, Haruka was still perplexed. "How did you do that?"

Michiru smiled mysteriously and spoke on a serious tone "I ask for them..." After a few seconds Haruka was unable to say anything Michiru began laughing. "I live in a fishing village did you honestly think I've never fished before?" Michiru had strapped to her leg a little knife she took it out and began cleaning the fish.

"You are something else Michiru Kaioh .You got me there!"

In the end, the couple had a nice lunch, light in Haruka's opinion, but plenty to keep her going. Michiru kept making fun of Haruka for looking so surprised about her fishing capabilities and from then on the conversation was light and animated.

While they both sip the remains of their green tea Haruka spoke softly. "It's nice not to be fighting for a while…"

"Yeah perhaps I should feed you more often; you become nicer on a fuller stomach Haruka"

"That's the key to this heart…" She claimed patting her stomach happily. "So besides fishing and swimming to haunted islands what else do you enjoy?"

"Mmmm, I like to paint sometimes, and that's it, simple life for a simple girl."

"I don't think you're simple, in fact I can't believe you're not bored out of your skull in such a small place."

"Well I'm not"

"Don't you want to get out to this island? Followed your dreams? Perhaps being an Olympic swimmer? Or I don't know, don't you have other dreams?"

Bringing her sea eyes down to the teacup resting in her hands Michiru spoke flatly. "My dreams are here, I don't need anything else, I got everything I want, I'm free to go everywhere and do anything I want"

"And what about love? Are you in love with Hanzo? Are you marrying him and live here forever? Is that your dream Michiru?"

"You sound like if staying here was a bad thing… Hanzo is a good man"

Haruka couldn't suppress the small sting in her chest. "Do you love him then?"

"No" The answer had come up to her lips before she stopped it, but then again it was the truth.

"Then, why are you marrying him?"

"Who says I'm marrying him? That's our parents' wishful thinking, we are not even dating"

"So… I still have a chance?" Haruka's words took Michiru by surprise; she was distracted thinking of Hanzo, a few weeks seemed like just a few seconds when it came to giving him an answer about the future.

She looked right at Haruka her deep blue eyes sparkling. Haruka look back at her, then she touched Michiru's hand with her own. "Do I?"

Michiru sighed softly. "Don't play with me; I can leave you in this island to die…"

"I'm not playing…." Michiru broke the eye contact and got on her feet, she was too confused.

"Let's go, it's getting late and we still have to swim back to the boat"

Haruka hung her head on defeat. "Why are you so distrusted?"

They swim back to the boat in silence, the sun was coming down already, they had been together all day and for Haruka it had been like being thirsty and drank only a zip of water. Michiru drive them back to the Marina, they walked along the beach in silence until they were standing in front of the Hatachi's house.

"Well, good bye then." Michiru turned around began walking towards own house.

"Wait Michiru…" Haruka held her by the wrist, Michiru could not face Haruka, she was bursting with these emotions she had never felt, she was afraid her face would tell Haruka what she couldn't word out.

"What is it?"

"Can I come seeing you tomorrow?"

"It's a free country"

"Look at me" Michiru obeyed without knowing why, she felt shy, and she had never been shy before. "I'm not playing with you, I really like you"

Michiru lowered her eyes again, she was speechless the only desire in her heart was to run to her house and hide somewhere. "I…I'll see you tomorrow Haruka" Michiru loosen from Haruka's grip, and walk away really fast. Haruka saw her walk away thinking that the battle wasn't lost, at least she said tomorrow. Tomorrow could bring the perfect chance for them.

(Ok there was no kiss scene….why? Because I had the perfect kiss scene planned and it's not in this chapter! So you'll have to hold on, ok? Thanks Anyway with a bit of luck I'll put the kiss scene in next chapter. )