Someone Different
Disclaimer: I do not own Prétear
Chapter 9
When Katana woke up again, she was backing her own room. The bubble of lights that was the healing part of Leafenia kept her asleep while she healed. She looked around. It seemed to be nighttime as the room was dark and moonlight flowed from it. As she tried to stand, she saw that she hadn't changed out of her Knight uniform.
Testing her legs, she found that she was stable and still as strong as she used to be. She sat on her bed, stretching her cramped muscles. Standing up again, she began to practice some martial art moves. Starting slowly, she quickly quickened her pace as she found that her limbs were in near perfect condition. She soon became a blur, moving swiftly over the hard wood floor.
As she was 'flying' over the floor, the door opened and the 7 other Leafe Knights and her Prétear poked their heads in. She stopped abruptly, in the ending position, her back facing the door. Holding that position for a while, she relaxed. Not looking towards her comrades, she reached for her tape. Wrapping her hands in the soft cloth, she stretched her legs again in a split, seeing if they still had feeling to them.
"Mannen, Hajime and Shin, you can stay but the other males have to leave. Oh, and you too Himeno," Katana said, startling most of the Knights enough so that they fell in a heap. Himeno, being one of the fallen, whined, "Do you HAVE to startle us so?" Katana just grinned at her friend before making shooing motions to the Knights.
The four older ones left, after getting up and grumbling about annoying little females. Himeno stuck out her tongue at them but followed anyways. Katana took out 5 cookies from her uniform and distributed them, 2 to Hajime and Shin each and 1 for Mannen. He pouted, "Why do they –" Katana cut him off, "Because you were bad." Mannen glared at her before biting into the cookie. Shin and Hajime were watching them bicker as they munched on the sweets.
Goh passed the room again at that point, to get something for Hayate. But he forgot about that as Katana started to practice again. Because Katana hadn't seen him yet, Goh pressed himself to the wall beside her door, peering in slightly. She flowed like water, as the kids watched, either on the floor or lounging on her bed. She flipped, twisted, kicked and punched. Then, WHAM! Goh had been so fascinated that he didn't see the fist that came flying his way until it connected to his face. He went flying until his head hit the wall, groaning, his eyes shut tight.
"Oh! I'm so
sorry!" Katana rushed over to help him up. He shook his head to
clear it and to refuse her help. He could get up himself, thank you.
But the pain in his head made itself known and he groaned again,
rubbing the back of his head. Cold metal pressed against his hand
and gentle fingers moved his hand away from his head. "This isn't
the same as ice," there was a pause. Goh guessed that Katana was
glaring daggers at
Mannen, who seemed to be refusing to help,
"but it works," she finished.
He felt her shift and felt himself being pulled away from the wall. Her hand took his and placed the metal in his palm before guiding his hand to the back of his head again. As the metal made full contact with his head, his eyes snapped open and he gave a startled yelp. It was COLD! He then noticed how very close the Knight of Metal was. The female Knight of Metal.
She was concentrating on how to position the metal the best way that she didn't notice that a scant inch separated her nose from his. But Goh definitely noticed. He also noticed that she was leaning over him, enough so that she was on her knees, his legs under her torso, which was parallel to the ground. This gave Goh a slight view of her cleavage, just enough to make him go red in the face. He looked up and away quickly, careful not to move his head.
She moved away when she was finished, a minute or two after Goh had determinedly looked away. Goh sighed slightly with relief. Hayate's errand needed to wait. Right now he needed a cold shower. A really cold shower.