A/N: Well, nothing really happens this chapter. Next chapter will be better. Promise. Miaka/Xun fluff will start next chapter. Fun times.
Chapter 4: Once Again
Blah blah blah. Blah blah. Blaaahh. Blah. Blah Blah. Xun droned on in his head. He rolled his eyes and attempted to stay focused, only to go back to his previous thoughts. His manager could go on forever. Xun grumbled under his breath.
Looking around the room, he noticed that the other band members were as bored as he was. Yuki was playing with the hem of his shirt, Daiki was carefully assessing his fingernails, Kakuei was staring off into space, and Shasuke was sprawled out across part of the table they were sitting at, sleeping. Xun sighed, and crossed his arms. No wonder the band never knew what was going on. Blah, blah, blah. He looked at the clock, the hands telling him it was just passed 1 pm. They had been here for 2 hours already. Knowing they'd leave Osaka soon, he didn't want to waste time by sitting here, ignoring his manager. To make things worse, he still hadn't found the girl from Crimson. That really pissed him off. He reasoned that the manager would stop in the next few minutes. So he waited. Ten minutes later, he was starting to get pissed. When Shasuke started to drool, he knew he had had enough.
Standing up, he knocked over his chair. Shasuke immediately sat up and was looking around confused.
"I'm awake!" He said, wiping his mouth. Everyone ignored him, they were used to him falling asleep when the manager started to talk.
"I'm sick o' these damn meetings!" Xun yelled. Without waiting for a reply, he stormed out of the room, leaving the manager wide-eyed and Shasuke still confused. In the hallway, people moved out of the way of the orange-haired bomb coming their way. Once out of the building, his mind ran a blank as to what he was going to do. His short-term plan was to leave the meeting and get out of the building. Now that he was out of the building, what came next?
Running through his head the list of things he had to accomplish, his first priority landed on finding the girl. He had no idea where to start looking for her, but he decided that going back to Crimson would be a good start. Now, he just had to remember how to get there.
Train. Everyone travels by train in Japan. Satisfied with the first step of his master plan, he set out to find a train station. Trying to cross the street, the "Do Not Walk!" sign kicked in, leaving Xun at the mercy of a person late to work. The driver, hitting the horn violently, yelled out the window for Xun to move. Xun, trying to dive out of the way of the soon-to-be-moving car, ended up on the hood of another car. The angry driver's eyes went wide and she dashed out of her car over to Xun. Pulling out her mobile, she called an ambulance. She checked his vital signs and it was then she noticed his bright orange hair. She gasped.
It's that guy from Mer! Sakako was horrified. I'm in deep trouble…
After lunch, Miaka skipped into Watanabe Firms. Dancing to her desk, Miaka picked up her phone. She dialed over to Astres:Terre Records and asking for Sakako, she was disappointed when she got her voicemail.
"Sakako! My bestest friend ever!" Miaka's cheery voice recorded digitally. "You know how you owe me that favor right? Well, I'm wondering if you could tell me Mer de Visages' next concert? Plllleeeeaaassseeee? I'll talk to you later! Bye!" Hanging up the phone, Miaka was satisfied for today. Settling down into her desk, she wondered what she should do. Before she could contemplate it long, she felt someone watching her. Turning around, she came to face to face with Watanabe-san. The color drained from her face.
"Yuuki-san." He started, his eyes narrowing.
"Yes-sir?" She meeped.
"Where is that report?" Miaka swore that his eyes began to glow red. Either that or the redness of his face was affecting them.
"On your desk?" She hoped. His expression didn't change for a few seconds.
"In those piles of paper?"
"Yep!" She inaudibly sighed. She had thought she forgot to give them to him. "All this weeks' are in there too!"
He jumped. "All of this weeks?" He asked incredulous.
"Yep!" She smiled. "I worked extra hard yesterday!" She wanted to give him either a high-five or a peace sign, but she figured that he wouldn't appreciate that.
"Oh." He looked at her suspiciously, before retiring to his office, fully intending on inspecting the documents.
Miaka finally gave that sigh. Turning back around, the door to Watanabe-san's office opened. He poked his head out before telling her that the work was satisfactory, and that she could go home for the day.
Momentarily at a loss about what to do, Miaka sat there with a question mark above her head. Since she didn't have to stay to work, she decided, she could go track down Sakako and ask her when the next concert was in person! Once again dialing the record company, this time she got Sakako's secretary.
"Oh! Sakako had to go to hospital!" The woman explained. The color drained from Miaka's face.
"The hospital?" She breathed. "What! Is she hurt? She okay?" Miaka began to rant.
"Oh yes, Sakako is fine, she was just helping some poor soul that got hit by a car this morning." The secretary sighed. "She's such a nice person!" Miaka mentally scoffed. She knew that Sakako had probably been responsible in some way to that accident. Otherwise, she would have called an ambulance and dashed to work, instead of following them to the hospital.
Writing down which hospital they went to, Miaka left the office and prepared to catch the nearby train.
Sakako was pacing the hallway in front of the ward. She hadn't seen him since the ambulance came and was wondering if he would live or not. Deciding his wounds really weren't all that bad, she wondered if he would be able to play the guitar anymore. If he couldn't, her bosses would kill her. Not to mention several thousands (possibly millions) of fangirls would too.
The doctor came out of the ward looking grave. He tutted and shook his head. Sakako definitely feared for the worse.
"He's dead…isn't he?" Her eyes were wide. The doctor looked at her in alarm.
"Dead? Oh no, my dear. He's perfectly fine!" He smiled and patted her shoulder. Sakako looked between the doctor and the door.
"But-but, you looked like he had died!" She shouted at him, outraged. The doctor chuckled.
"No no! I was shaking my head at the idiocy of someone calling an ambulance for someone who is perfectly fine!" He took the clipboard from beside the door and walked down the hallway, humming.
Sakako's jaw dropped and her face turned red. "Shows me to be considerate," she grumbled under her breath.
Deciding it was her time to face the music, she walked into the ward. Xun, in his ever-healthy state of being perfectly fine, was sitting on the hospital bed with a scowl on his face.
"Well, hey there!" Sakako nervously said. Xun ignored her. She gave a weak chuckle. "I'm sorry about, y'know…"
"'Bout what?" He snapped.
"The whole car thing." She gave another weak laugh. Xun's eyes went wide.
"THAT WAS YOU!" He stood on the bed and pointed a finger at her. His jaw dropped in disbelief.
"Right…" She slowly edged towards the door. Xun was too quick for her, and now stood in front of the ward's doors.
"Nah uh." He said, shaking his head. "We're going to have a little chat."
"Hold on mister!" She put her hands on her hips. "Just cause you ran into my car—"
"I DID WHAT?"
"-and landed yourself in the hospital-"
"completely your fault!"
"-doesn't give you the right to boss me around!" She was poking her finger into his chest, repeatedly.
"Look, girlie." He opened his mouth, and then shut it. He scowled at her before giving her a once over with his eyes. "Wait a sec…"
She raised her eyebrows at him.
"You're that chick that's friends with that chick!" He said, incredulously. His eyes were wide. Sakako was confused.
"I'm what now?"
"You're friends with that cute girl from Crimson!" He was excited. Finally, after all his hard work, a lead on where to find the girl he'd been looking for.
"What? You mean Miaka?" Sakako was thoroughly confused now. A voice outside stopped their conversation.
"Did someone just say my name?" Tasuki looked out the window on the door of the ward and his jaw dropped.
"Found you." He breathed. He stared at her for a moment, watching in her confusion as she twirled around, trying to find the source of the voices. He smiled, and was about to open the door when he looked down.
"Shit." He was wearing a hospital gown. He needed clothes, preferably sexy clothes, and fast.
Sakako beat him to the punch though, and opened the door. "Miaka! Over here!" Waving her in, Miaka smiled at her friend.
"What's going on?" She looked behind Sakako, and noticed a copper-haired, red-faced man wearing a rather small paper gown.
"Oh, hey Xun!" She smiled fondly at him. "What are you doing here?"
