A Lost Soul – Chapter Three – Let's Go on a "Date"!
"I don't want to watch this stupid thing…" Ren insisted as Lost pulled him onto the sofa and turned on the television. "It's a waste of my valuable time!"
"Awww, c'mon! It'll be fun!" Lost insisted as she started pressing numbers. She stopped on a movie with a couple kissing in a restaurant. "Let's watch this!"
"No, let's not watch anything!" Ren snapped, trying to grab the remote.
"But I love this!" Lost told him, "C'mon, let's watch it together!"
"I really don't want to…" Ren snapped, "I'm going to lift weights again."
"You do that all day!" Lost pouted. "You never spend time with me!"
"I just met you yesterday!" Ren screamed.
"So! I have a crush on you so watch with me!" Lost insisted, "Ooops…I forgot, that's supposed to be a secret."
Ren stared at her and then rolled his eyes, "I'll never get a moment's peace unless I watch this stupid box with you." He plopped down next to Lost and she squealed.
"Yay!" she clapped her hands, "Let's watch together…" she grabbed Ren's arm and snuggled into his chest, making him blush cherry red.
"H-hey, let go of me!"
"Not gonna!" she laughed and squeezed with more force.
"Let go!" Ren commanded, trying to wave his arm.
"Not gonna, not gonna!" she laughed and held on tighter.
"LET GO NOW!"
Crack! With a swift move, Ren's hand slapped Lost's face, making her eyes widen until the iris was completely shown. Ren looked at the pain in her eyes, and felt guilty slightly, but quickly masked it. "It's-it's your fault for not letting go!"
"H-help…" Lost whispered. Ren looked at her and noticed that buckets of tears were flowing down her face. "I-I'm sorry…don't hit me…please don't hit me…please…STOP, STOP PLEASE!" She grabbed her hair and tugged so hard on her scalp that Ren thought she would just tear out her hair. "AARRRGGGH! STOP, PLEASE STOP FATHER!" she shrieked violently.
"Stop it Lost! Stop, it's okay!" Ren grabbed her wrists and thrust her toward him, "STOP!"
"FATHER, I'M SORRY, STOP, PLEASE STOP!" she continued to scream, and Ren started to shake her.
"Stop it Lost!" Ren screamed, "It's okay!" He gulped as Lost continued to scream, and then, in one sudden motion, he pulled her head close to his chest. "It's okay…It's going to be okay, so stop crying dammit!"
"R-Ren-san…" Lost whispered.
"Please stop crying…" he told her, stroking her hair, "Please…"
"Ren-san…" Lost cried, "I…I remember…"
"You do?" Ren asked, "Your name?"
"No…just…that…" Lost blinked, "I was hit…and…stabbed…and then…I…" she gulped and pulled the zipper of her dress down. She turned around and Ren's eyes widened as he saw a giant burn mark on her back. It was a circle with five circles in the middle and a giant cross through the entire thing.
"Lost…"
"I have a mark on my back too…" Lost said, working her hands under Ren's shirt and feeling his back. "Like you…we're the same…"
"Lost…" Ren whispered and then, in a fleeting motion, felt himself grab her waist and hold her close to him. He felt the burn mark on her back as she delicately fingered his mark. "Do you…have any other wounds?"
"I…I don't think so…" she shook her head, "All on the inside. What about you?"
"I'm the same…" Ren nodded, resting his head on her shoulder. She did the same to him and they sat there for a second, fingering each other's backs and just stopping time to be with one another. "Lost…I…"
"Ren…let's go on a date," Lost smiled, "Since we both feel the same way, and you said that you don't know if people have to be in love to go on dates!"
"Lost…" Ren looked at her, "I…it's ridiculous!" He quickly backed away, making Lost let go of his back. "I'm much too busy."
"At least watch the box with me!" Lost insisted, "Please?"
"I…I'll watch the television…"
"Is that what it's called?" Lost asked and Ren nodded. "Then let's watch!"
But after about thirty minutes of the program, Lost was asleep against the couch while Ren was ready to beat his brains out due to the dull program. "Lost…can we stop now?" he looked over and saw Lost asleep. He sighed and flicked off the TV, all too happy to do so. "I guess she's really tired…"
"Ren-san…" Lost murmured in her sleep, "Let's get married…"
Ren looked at her, his eyes still narrowing, "Lost…"
"I have a crush on you…" Lost murmured again, and, to Ren's surprise, she grabbed his waist and nuzzled into his chest, making him blush ten shades of red. "I love you Ren-san…"
"Hey! Get off of me!" he tried to pull her off, but it was no use, she was clinging tight. Ren stopped, looked at her, smiling warmly and then stopped. "I…I guess…I can just sleep here tonight."
RRRRIIIINNNNG! "GOD DAMMIT!" Ren screamed as he jumped up the next morning as the loud ringing of the phone came into his ear. He jumped up, Lost now only lightly snuggled against him. As he picked up the receiver, he realized it was already 11:30 A.M. "What?"
"Ren…it's me, Jun," Jun's voice spoke over the phone, "How are you and that girl?"
"Lost and I are fine…I'm not a baby anymore Jun, I can take care of myself."
"Lost?" Jun questioned, "What's lost?"
"No…the girl…umm…well…I kind of named her Lost." A silence came over the phone that suggested the coy smirk that Jun had plastered on her face. "It means nothing! I just couldn't call her "hey you!" could I?"
"Is she being a bother?"
"Oh no, she's charming," Ren drawled sarcastically. "She won't leave me alone, I swear! Last night, she clung onto me so I had to sleep on the couch!"
"Looks like she's got a thing for you," Jun giggled.
"Please…yesterday…I had to explain love to her…"
"Oh…and you're an expert on that."
"I'd rather not talk about it. She already wants us to go on a "date"…" Ren grimaced.
"Why not? It might be fun to get out of the house. You're always cooped up in there anyway," Jun pointed out. "And Lost must be really sweet."
"She…" Ren stopped, "Please…she's a pest."
"I'm sure…be nice Ren. G'bye."
"Goodbye Jun…"
As Ren hung up the phone, he looked back over at the couch to see Lost still sleeping peacefully. He sighed, shook his head, and made his way over to her. He lightly shook her, and she opened one eye. "G'morning Ren…how are you?"
"I'm fine," he sniffed, sitting down, "Have a good sleep?"
"Great…I felt like something really soft was looking after me…" she smiled, "Soft…but strong…like an aura you know?"
Ren blushed, not acknowledging that she had fallen asleep against him in the middle of the night. "Feh, you're talking craziness."
"Ren…" Lost blushed and looked at him in the eye, her own eyes glossy.
"What?" Ren asked, annoyed, and slightly disturbed at her face.
"I…I…I can't keep it a secret anymore," she shook her head, "I have a crush on you!"
"YOU IDIOT!" Ren gave her a sharp hit across the head, "You already told me that like a thousand times! I don't care!"
"B-but now that I told you properly, we can go on a date right?" she asked, smiling. "Please!"
"No…" Ren shifted his eyes, "We can't, cause I don't feel the same way about you."
"H…how can I make you feel that way about me?"
"You can't. I've never loved anybody and I never will."
"B-but…" Ren looked over at Lost and blushed as he saw tears forming in her eyes and her face turning red. She was on the verge of crying, "but you…you—I really like you…but you…you never pay attention to me, and all I ever…ever do is cause you problems…and…I want you to be happy…so…"
"Will you stop CRYING!" Ren screamed, almost aggravated at the tears the girl could produce. Lost stopped suddenly and Ren sighed. "Lost, we're NOT going on a date, all right!" With that, Ren jumped up and went to the weight room, leaving Lost alone.
Lost hadn't bothered Ren all through his workout and, as weird as it was to say, he was slightly worried about her. 'She usually would be in here annoying me…' He deduced, his eyebrow arched as he crunched his abdomen. There was a silence, even in his mind. 'I mean…wouldn't she be upset since I said we weren't going on a date?' He paused again as he pressed his abs over and over. 'Maybe…she hates me…'
"Lost!" He called harshly and in a few seconds, Lost poked her head into the door frame. He sighed. "What are you doing?"
"I'm…I'm not bothering you…" Lost said meekly.
"Come in here!" Ren snapped and Lost shook her head. "I said come in here!"
"I…I can't…I look…dumb…"
"What do you mean? How can you look dumb?" Ren asked, sneering slightly. "Get in here, NOW!"
Lost sighed and then stepped into the door frame and Ren dropped the weight he had just taken out of his abdominal region.
Lost had tried on another one of Jun's dresses, only this one had been from when Jun was fifteen. It was one of her favorites that she couldn't throw away. It was red with gold trim and a high leg slit. The dress was covered with gold and white orchids and it tightly grasped around Lost's curves. On her feet were Chinese red slippers. Lost lowered her head, and Ren realized she had tied part of her hair in a red ribbon. She definitely didn't look dumb. "Y-y-you…"
"I know!" she blushed as red as the dress. "I look…stupid…don't I?"
"Feh…" Ren snapped. "I just realized that you've been poking your nose through Jun's closet."
"It's that…" Lost bit her lip and blushed. "All…all of the girls on the tebelision…"
"Television," Ren corrected tersely.
"Right…on the box…" she scrunched up her eyes, "all the women who went on dates with the boys they had crushes on looked really pretty." Ren's eyes widened. He knew now what this was about. "They…their eyes were pretty colors and their hair was really shiny. And they wore nice clothes…but I don't have pretty colored eyes, or lips, or cheeks. I don't have any pretty clothes…and…my hair isn't shiny either…" She looked up at Ren. "Is that why you won't go on a date with me?"
Ren didn't want to admit it, but Lost was an extremely pretty girl. He thought her hair was perfectly shiny, and the pale fluffy blonde that it was colored was a rare color that Ren appreciated. Her curves were perfect and she had a nicely shaped face. "Bah…" he snapped again, "you're so stupid. Those women have make-up on! It's stuff that makes your face look prettier when you're not already beautiful." Ren looked up at her. "You may be as dumb as a brick, and annoying, but you've got one thing going for you. You're not ugly…"
Lost looked at Ren, surprised and she then walked up to him, smiling. "How do I look?" She twirled and Ren saw the dress flare up slightly, revealing her slender legs.
"Feh…all right…I guess," Ren shrugged and reached for the weight he had dropped, only to have it slip out of his sweaty hands.
"You dropped it," Lost smiled, then kneeled down next to him. She leaned over him and picked up the weight. As Lost leaned over Ren, he blushed furiously, and found himself staring at the slit in her dress. Lost smiled at Ren and offered him the weight. "You dropped this."
"Whatever…" he snatched it, his face still red.
"Ren-san…" Lost smiled and sat down on the blue mat in the room as Ren began to lift the weight absent-mindedly, still blushing and thinking about Lost in the dress. "Why are you working out so much?"
"So I can be Shaman King."
"Huh?"
"You wouldn't understand…" Ren sighed. "You probably can't even see ghosts…"
"Ghosts? What are those?" Lost asked, and Ren almost fell over.
"You don't even remember what a ghost is?" Ren snapped, his eyebrows arched dangerously. "It's a spirit that lives on earth. Only shamans can interact with ghosts."
"How…how can you tell what a ghost is?" Lost asked. "Ren-san?"
"Wait for one question to be answered before you ask another one," Ren said sharply. "But what?"
"Am…am I a…ghost?"
"Huh?"
"You said you were a Shaman," she pointed out. "And…it seems like…I was alone, before I met you. Maybe…" her eyes became slightly dull. "I'm just a ghost."
"Bason is a ghost, not you!" Ren snapped. "You're not dead, you're a human!"
"Bason? Who's that?" Lost asked.
"I forgot…you probably can't see him…" Ren sighed. "He's my spirit ally."
"Is…" Lost stopped, grew a confused look and then pointed behind Ren. "Is he that man who seems to follow you everywhere?"
"HOLY CRAP YOU CAN SEE HIM!" Ren's eyes almost bugged out of his head as he stared at Bason, who was, indeed, behind him where Lost was pointing. "Bason! Does she have any shamanic focus? I'm not sensing anything…"
"No Lord Ren," Bason shook his head. "Nothing I can speak of…she seems to be an ordinary mortal."
"So…you're not a shaman, but you can see ghosts, huh?" Ren asked, his eyebrow arched at Lost. "Oh well, that might make things easier on me…"
"So you're Bason?" she asked Bason and he nodded. "I'm Lost, pleased to meet you!"
"Hello Lady Lost," Bason bowed. "I see you are Lord Ren's lover?"
Ren blushed furiously. "BASON, YOU FOOL, SHE IS NOT!"
"No…" Lost shook her head. "But guess what?" She whispered to Bason. "I have a crush on Ren!"
"A what?" Bason asked. "I do not understand Lady Lost."
"It means I love him, but I can't tell him! But you can tell him, right?"
"You've already told me!"
"Lord Ren, Lady Lost has…a…"crush" on you," Bason reported, still slightly confused.
"I KNOW!" Ren screamed and then stood up suddenly. "I'm going to take a nap, this is aggravating me!"
"I do not understand, but it seems Lord Ren should be left alone…" Bason said. "Perhaps you should leave Lord Ren be for a while."
"More like forever!" Ren yelled from his room before slamming the door shut.
Awww…how sad, yet how steamy! Ren's got a crush on Lost, Ren's got a crush on Lost!
Ren: Shut up before I order Bason to poke out your dumb authoress eyes!
Me: You don't mean that!
Ren: Wanna bet?
Me: Umm…on second thought…
Ren: That's what I thought. Review, after all, this story does star me, even if the annoying girl has some part.
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