Author's Notes: Second chapter here, fast update!
"Will you please stop following me?" Ren asked as the girl continued to follow him. It seemed that Jun's statement of "you'll hardly know she's there" had turned out to be quality bull. All day since Jun had left, the girl had been following Ren around the house. Ren had changed into a black shirt and matching sweat pants, the girl still wearing Jun's dress. "I need to work out you know…"
"Work out?" the girl asked, "What's that?"
"When you train your body," Ren told her, "You barely remember how to speak, don't you?"
"I guess…" the girl nodded.
"Anyway, don't bother me…" Ren commanded as he sat down on a bench next to a pile of heavy weights. He picked up two labeled "30lbs" and started to lift them up and down with his muscular arms. The girl watched him and smiled. She ran over to the pile of weights and picked out two different ones, one 20lbs and the other 22 lbs. Or…at least she tried to pick them up, but she couldn't.
"Ow!" she screamed and dropped the weights, making them make a large CLANG on the others.
"Idiot!" Ren walked over to her, "I told you not to bother me."
"Ow…" she rubbed her arms where the bandages were. "Ow…it hurts so bad…"
"Let me see," Ren took her arm in his hand and he noticed the bandage becoming blood-stained. "You must have reopened your wounds, don't worry, they'll heal up soon."
"Ow…ow it hurts so bad…" she shivered and then grabbed Ren around his waist suddenly, embracing him. Ren blushed.
"H-hey, get off of me!"
"It hurts so bad…" she whimpered. Ren looked at her with a slight flash of sympathy in his eyes.
"Come with me," he told her and took her hand. He led her to the first aid kit and quickly took of her bloodstained bandages. "I'll wrap them up…it may not hurt as much then." He took off the bandages and wrapped them gently around her arm. She stopped crying as Ren gracefully tied the bandages on her arms. But not before he noticed something… "These…are knife wounds."
"Kn-knife?" she asked.
"Who the hell would slice you with a knife?" Ren asked, his eyes wide.
"I don't…"
"Remember, I know. Come here," Ren sighed and brought her over to the living room in which a television and a couch were set up. He sat the girl down and grabbed the remote control. "Here, you can watch this, God knows I never do. Dumb invention."
"Wh-what is it?" she asked.
"You press the numbers and you get different things on the screen," Ren told her, "Watch them…it's so called "entertainment"."
"Okay…" the girl nodded as Ren flicked on the television. He threw her the remote.
"Here, you watch it."
"Th-thank you…" she nodded and started pushing buttons, the channel changing rapidly. Ren rolled his eyes, gave a long sigh, and walked back to his work out room in peace.
"Ren-san?" the girl came back into the room as Ren was lifting heavier weights. "Umm…I finished watching the box."
"How can you have "finished"?" Ren asked incredulously, "It's always playing something."
"Are you done…working out?" she used the term lightly.
"Yes…I think I'll take a shower now…I'm pretty sweaty."
"What's a shower?"
"It's where you get into hot water and wash yourself…" he grunted, tired of explaining things.
"Does it feel good?" the girl asked.
"Yes."
"Can I take a shower with you?"
Ren stopped, blushing so red that he looked like a tomato. "N-no of course you can't!"
"Why not?" the girl asked, "You said it feels good…"
"You have to take your clothes off to take one," Ren explained.
"Oh! Okay!" the girl smiled and started to unzip Jun's dress. Ren blushed as he saw that she wasn't wearing a bra as the dress dropped past her shoulders.
"N-N-NO, PUT IT BACK ON!" he screamed, throwing the dress back over her shoulders.
"But I want to take a shower!" the girl insisted, trying to take the dress off.
"ONLY ONE PERSON CAN TAKE A SHOWER AT A TIME!" he told her, "IT'S THE RULES!"
"Oh…" the girl sniffed, brushing her nose. She let go of the dress, as did Ren, and let's just say Ren had an embarrassing situation.
He flashed his head around, "PUT IT BACK ON!" he told her.
"Can I go first?" she asked him.
"OKAY, I DON'T CARE, JUST GO!" He said, closing his eyes. Next thing he knew, he felt something squishy on his back and arms around his chest. He didn't move; he just blushed furiously.
"Thanks!" she laughed and ran through Ren's room, looking for the shower. Ren turned around to see the dress on the floor.
"She…she…was…na-"
"I think I found it!" she called, "How do you turn it on!"
"Turn the knob!"
"Okay! It's warm!" she smiled, "So I just stand in this?"
"Yeah!" he called to her, "Come out when you're done!"
Ren waited on his bed, blushing every time he heard the water hit her skin. Her pearly white skin of which he had caught a glimpse of. She was rather well filled out…Ren had noticed, if only for a second. The water stopped and he quickly called, "Wrap a towel around your body when you come out!"
"Okay!" she laughed. "What's a towel?"
"One of those clothes on the metal pole!" Ren told her.
"Found it!" she called, "I'm good at this, aren't I?" From the door came the girl, wrapped in a towel and smiling. "That felt really nice Ren-san."
"Good…" he blushed and threw the dress at her, "Put this on, I'll turn around." He did as he told himself as she slipped on the dress and zipped it up. Ren turned around to see the girl completely clothed and smiling.
"You want to take one now?" she asked, sitting next to him on the bed. She smiled charmingly, and Ren felt himself melting.
"Sure…" he sighed and then felt the girl taking off his shirt. "H-hey what are you doing!"
"Taking off your clothes!" she told him. "You don't want them to get wet right?"
"Stop it!" he told her, squirming.
"What's this?" she asked, and ran her hand on Ren's back. His eyes widened as he realized what she was looking at. His spine shivered as she outlined it with her delicate finger.
"Don't touch it…" Ren said, the pain stabbing at his heart, "Stop touching it…"
"But…what is it?"
"My…reminder…" Ren spoke, "Stop touching it…"
"Ren-san?" she asked, "Are you crying?"
"Why would you think that?" Ren asked coldly, then felt himself becoming shocked as he felt the girl's lips lock on his neck. "What the hell are you doing!" he asked.
"I saw this on that box…" she said, "The man was sad and the woman did this to him…" She turned his head around and Ren felt his eyes widening as the girl licked his rock hard abs, then his chest. "Do you feel better?" She asked, then moved up to his face, "I'm supposed to press my lips to yours now…"
"Stop!" he told her, and she drew back. "Don't you get it! That's not something that everyone does to anyone! It's something that people do to each other when they love each other!"
"Love?" the girl asked, "What's that?"
"When…when…" Ren searched for the words, "When you're willing to give your entire being for the person you love…I never understood it myself."
"I…I didn't know that," the girl bit her lip, "So…to make you feel better…I have to "love" you?"
"I…I guess…" Ren nodded.
"Then I'll love you!" the girl insisted.
"You can't just decide to love someone!" Ren told her, "It comes on naturally, you know?"
"Oh…" the girl said, "I still have a lot to learn, don't I?"
"You'll remember soon…" Ren assured her, putting his hand on her shoulder, "Hey…are you sure you still don't remember your name?"
"No…" the girl shook her head, "It was like I was born lost."
"Well, then that's your name." The girl looked up at Ren and he frowned her way, "Your name is Lost."
Lost looked at him and then smiled, "Lost…I like that name. Ren-san?" Lost asked.
"Yeah?"
"Can you try to explain "love" to me again?" She threw her head down on his pillow and Ren sighed. He lay next to her and looked at the ceiling.
"Well…first…there are things called "crushes" you see? Believe me, I'm no expert on "love", it's a petty thing in the end."
"What's a crush?" Lost asked.
"It's when you love a person, but you don't tell them…Jun had one when I was little…"
"But if you don't tell them, then they can't say that they have a "crush" on you, right?" Lost asked and Ren chuckled.
"Very wise…but some people are embarrassed about love you see. I don't know why…"
"What happens after a "crush"?" Lost asked, now very into the subject.
"Then…you can "date" a person."
"What's a "date"?"
"It's when you go someplace with a person you love and have a romantic time. At least that's what I've seen…" Ren explained.
"But…you can only go on a "date" if you love a person?" Lost asked.
"I'm not sure…" Ren shrugged, "Well, after dates…there's…kissing…which is what you did to me."
"I skipped two stages!" Lost gasped, "I really do have so much left to understand!"
"You press your lips to another person's…" Ren told her, "And that's considered an expression of love."
"Oh Ren-san…" Lost sighed, "It sounds wonderful…"
"Feh," Ren snapped, "Sounds like bull to me. Anyway…after that…there's something called "marriage" which is really the stupidest thing I've ever heard of."
"What is it?"
"It's when two people swear to love each other and only each other for the rest of their lives…" Ren said.
"Ren, when I love you, let's get married!" Lost exclaimed and Ren blushed.
"Both people have to love each other!" Ren told her.
"Oh…and…you'll never love me right?" Lost asked, her eyes forlorn.
"Nope, so we can't get married," he said.
"That's a shame…can I get married to Jun?"
"Only boys and girls can fall in love…or well…I'm not going to go into that."
"So…what's after marriage?" Lost asked.
"…something called "making love"." Ren blushed furiously, feeling as though he was giving the "where do babies come from" talk.
"What's that?" Lost inquired.
"When…when both people…" Ren paused, blushing furiously, "It's nothing…I'll tell you later. I'm going to take a shower." Ren went into the bathroom and slammed the door.
This was seriously pissing him off. He had had to explain "love" to a girl with amnesia! Any other day of the week, he would have just thrown her out the window and forgotten she existed. But somehow…Lost…made him feel a certain way. "I can't pinpoint it…" he told himself frustrated. "Bason!"
"Yes Master Ren?" Bason asked from outside the shower.
"I'm feeling weird when I'm around Lost…tell me, do you have any idea what this might be?"
"I am not sure Master Ren…but perhaps it is the emotion called "love"?"
"PLEASE!" Ren snapped, "Like I'd be in love with her!"
"She doesn't seem to understand anything," Bason reasoned.
"Feh, you can say that again," Ren commented, "I could force her to do whatever I wanted with me and she wouldn't know what I was doing."
"I'm sure you would do nothing of the kind Master Ren," Bason gulped.
"Of course not…" Ren sniffed, "She's not that attractive…and what I saw of her body…really isn't worth my time…"
"Of course Master Ren," Bason sighed.
"Ren-san!" Lost called, opening the door, "Want me to wash your back?"
"NO!" Ren screamed, "I'm fine, get back in the room!"
"Okay…" Lost sniffled and then closed the door.
"My God…" Ren turned off the shower and rubbed himself dry with a towel. "She seriously is clueless."
Ren came out of the shower, the droplets sliding down his chest. With a towel wrapped around his waist, he walked back into the room to see Lost still sitting on his bed, waiting for him. Her face became red as she saw him. "Hey…you blushed…how come?"
"I don't know…" she said, "Seeing your bare chest…kind of made me feel self-conscious."
"At least you're human," Ren sighed, "Turn the other way." Lost turned around as Ren slipped on his clothes. She turned back around as Ren sat next to her.
"How was your shower?" she asked pleasantly, the blush wearing off her face.
"Fine," he said gruffly, "Hey…how are your wounds? Did you take off the bandages when you went into the shower?"
"No…" Lost shook her head, "Was I supposed to?"
"Idiot!" Ren ran to her side to see soaked bandages. "Let me change them! Oh crap…you must be hurting!"
"No…I'm fine…" she shook her head.
"I should change them anyway," Ren told her, taking a new wrap of bandages and re-bandaging her arm. As he finished, he stopped, "There, finished."
"Thanks," Lost smiled, "Hey Ren!"
"What?" he asked tersely.
"I think I have a crush on you!" she laughed and Ren blushed furiously.
"Y-you're not supposed to tell me that!" he told her.
"Ooops, just kidding!" she laughed, writhing on the bed, "You're so much fun to be with!"
He stopped. No one…no one had ever said that to him… "Lost…"
"C'mon!" Lost smiled, grabbing his hand, "Let's go watch that box together!" And with that, Lost pulled Ren out of his room to the living room.
Oh yeah!Thanks to all my reviewers! Get ready for chapter 3!
Chapter 3: Let's Go on a "Date!"