Disclaimer : I want them…sob
A/N : RaginFireDesire and LitaDelacour….many thanks for the reviews or I wouldn't have updated this story…domo ne!
Be Mine Tonight
- Forgive Me -
"Hey babe…wanna join us?"
Michiru looked around to see 4 guys staring at her.
Correction, starring lustfully at her.
"er…no thanks" traces of coldness can be heard from Michiru's voice though the girl smiled sweetly as she tried to regain back her composure which slackens when she saw the offending guys.
"I'm waiting for my boyfriend" she emphazis at the word 'boyfriend' praying that Haruka'll get back here soon.
"well…no harm in waiting together then?" one of the offending guys sat next to Michiru (who slid away as quietly as possible)
The others grouped around them, bringing a strong whiff of alchohol that almost choke the aqua-haired girl to death (literally speaking).
Michiru tried as politely as possible to get way from the sudden grouping, but her twisted ankle had prevented her from standing up without falling back down again. She's getting more and more annoyed by the minute and when the guy on her righ tried to put his arm around her, she then knew that her big purse is itching to whack the offending arm away.
"Huh??" the guy froze in mid-action and looked behind him when a hand tapped him on the shoulder.
Suddenly, a flying fist made contact with his jaw and sent the poor guy flying before landing painfully at the ground with a painful thud.
"if you dare to touch her…" an angry Tenoh Haruka came out of the shadows, standing protectively behind Michiru "I'll make sure you see hell…right here. Right now."
"understand?" teal eyes narrowed dangerously
The unwounded three flinched at the glare and after sending their unconscius friend a quick glance, they nodded and scurried away, dragging Haruka's victim by the legs.
"I'm sorry that had to happen" the blonde racer turned to her girlfriend as she dusted off Michiru's shoulder, espescially at the spot where those guys had almost touched her.
The aqua-haired girl smiled "that's alright. At least I get to see my knight come to my rescue" she added coyly, making the racer blushed.
Michiru giggled.
"er…so" Haruka cleared her throat, making her companion turn her attention back towards the racer, who suddenly kneeled infront of her.
"Haruka?" Michiru wondered what on earth is Haruka doing, kneeling like that?
"Your ankle is still swollen right? I've found an inn, but it's quite far. So I thought I'd give you a piggy back ride there…" her voice trailed away as the usually calm face reddens at the statement.
Michiru blinked, then she blushed too "b-but I…I''m too heavy…"
"I know that" Haruka said with a smirk, her teal eyes glinted mischieviously "you're been nibbling much on chocolates lately"
Michiru narrowed her eyes dangerously as her eyebrows twitched. Then she jumped on to Haruka's back without telling, and wrapped her arms tightly around the blonde's neck, making her gagged on air.
"Now, who's heavy?" the aqua-haired asks sweetly
"evil" Haruka managed to choke out "you're evil"
"don't tease me then. Giddy up lets go" the blonde receive a playful smack on her head and she walked back to the inn, muttering "evil…evil…" all the way, making the aqua-haired girl laugh.
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"Sorry it's small, it's the only room left" Haruka snapped on the lights, revealing a smal room, only 4 tatama wide.
"I don't mind" Michiru replied as Haruka helped her tuck in inside the only futon in the room "but, Haruka, there's only one futon here. Where are you going to lie down?"
Haruka gave a meaningful smile as she moved to bandage Michiru's swollen ankle in cold bandage she got from the recepsionist. "I don't need to lie down" she said shortly after finishing the task while teasing Michiru about having a stinky feet.
Michiru rose up, groaning slightly at the pain in her ankle "b-but…" but the blonde silence her with a sush.
"I'll sit here and keep an eye on you" the blonde racer moved to Michiru's left and settled herself comfortably between the wall and Michiru "don't complain" she added when the violinist opened her mouth to complain.
Michiru's shoulders sagged in defeat "I'm sorry…" she mumbled softly
Haruka cocked her head in confusion "what for?"
"for making you sit there the rest of the night…"
Haruka let out a sigh, and bend forward to kiss the smaller girl on the lips. It was a moment before the two parted.
"if you complain one more time, we'll get out of this inn and sleep on the dirty ground outside, got it?" the blonde said jokingly with a smile
The violinist nodded at last, before snuggling herself comfortably inside the futon. Haruka smiled and started closing her eyes.
"Haruka?" teal eyes fluttered open, meeting Michiru's beautiful blue orbs staring at her
"Hai?"
"Can I hold your hand? I'll feel much safer then" Michiru asks hopefully
Haruka looked taken aback at the request, but she smiled and nod. And the two of them dozed off through the night, holding each other's hands tightly.
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Haruka and Michiru barely make it back at the Kaioh Mansion alive the next day. They've taken the earliest train possible back to town, and thanks to Haruka's fame, they manage to catch a ride to the Kaioh's Mansion, costing them an autograph and several snaps of picture.
They struggled up the steps as Michiru's ankle is still swollen. And with beating hearts, Haruka rang the bell.
"Michiru!!" Michiru's father opened the door and it took him several minutes to see that his daugter is in front of him.
"Otou-san I – " Michiru sentence's left hanging as her father's palm made contact with her face.
"You ungrateful wreck!!" he roared "where've you been last night?!"
Haruka tensed in anger as she helped her lover up to her feet. If it wasn't for the fact it was Michiru's dad and the aqua-haired girl clutching her arm, she would've swung her fist like she'd done yesterday to the offending man's jaw.
"Father, I tried to call but – "
"You!!" Michiru's father grabbed the front of Haruka's shirt "what have you done to my daughter?" full of anger he hit her on the face and Haruka taste blood on her mouth as she fell seated to the cold landing.
"Haruka!!" Michiru got to her side and studied the bruise, it's not bad. Haruka had gritted her teeth at the contact, so it's only a small wound.
"Don't you know how worried we were?" Michiru's father demanded "Don't you know how much we've gone through?! We've called all your friends, called the police, the neighbours if they've seen you, and now you've turned up at the steps with your boyfriend? You brought shame to the family name!!"
"I'm sorry! But it wasn't Haruka's fault! I asked her to go the festival! I know I should've called, but there was no signal and my cellphone ran out of batteries!" Michiru was crying now as she desperately explaining to her angry father. Her mother had came at the commotion, and tried to calm her husband's anger, but it was no use.
The old man pulled Michiru away from Haruka's side and shove her inside the door.
"you" he pointed a warning finger at the racer who had stood up and was restraining herself from beating the older man into a pulp "don't you dare to go near my daughter again. I wont let her see you ever again"
"Haruka!!" Michiru shouted, struggling against her mother's effort keeping her inside the house "Haruka!!"
but before the blonde racer could do or say anything, the door had been slammed close on her face.
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It was a week after the festival chaos. Michiru hasn't seen or been in contact with Haruka since the festival chaos.
Her ankle, as it turns out, wasn't twisted, the ankle bone had actually cracked as she had quite a hard fall at that night. She'd to stay home for a whole week to let her ankle heal.
Her father's anger didn't fade quickly, he'd taken Michiru's cellphone away and thought of many ways from stopping her from seeing the blonde racer since.
The aqua-haired girl had felt really bad at the hectic parting and dying to see her again. And today, she's going to see her and sort things out. She wont let her father destroy her beautiful relationship.
But something had gone wrong. At the moment she'd stepped inside the school, whispered rumour of her were heard.
"Did you hear?" Michiru over heard a girl whispered to her friend when she went to her locker "that Kaioh girl tried to elope with Tenoh-san! Did you hear she's pregnant?"
Michiru slammed her locker shut and breaking off the whispered conversation before storming to her class. The rumour got more ridiculous by lunch. She heard that some people even said that she'd been absent for a whole week to get an abortion.
'Honestly' she thought stabbing on a chiken katsu furiously at lunch 'they need to get a life. Haruka's not even a boy!'.
Putting that aside, she had not been able to get hold of that blonde racer. Michiru knows to Haruka too well, she know Haruka was feeling guilty right now, and she needs to straightened her out.
No thanks to her so-called-friends, they doesn't want to talk to a girl with HIV or something like that, that's why Michiru's having quite a hard time at the first week back. some tried to comfort her, but she'd known too well that they were just doing that to check if she'd really gotten an abortion or not. And for your information, she'd sick of it. She's really sick at her father who spread these ridiculous rumours about her and Haruka, and destroyed their perfect relationship.
Michiru came to the racing track at Wednesday afternoon, knowing that it was Haruka's training day. She went to Haruka's garage, but no one was there, only her racing gear were seen lying on the car.
Michiru walked around searching for a certain messy blonde locks, but she froze suddenly right in front of a door with the label 'Manager'.
"Tenoh" she heard the hard voice again, and she paste her ear to the door to listen "I'm really disappointed with you right now"
"Why would you be?" Haruka's voice were innocent yet a trace of comphrehension were heard
" You have got to get this rumour down. This rumour, you got your girlfriend pregnant, is it true?"
Michiru heard Haruka swore softly "what? They're just rumours!"
"is it? for all I care our sake of getting more sponsors is depending on your behaviour!" the manager shot back at her "if you keep this up, we wont race!"
Haruka didn't reply.
"Get this rumour sorted, Tenoh" shuffling of papers were heard from inside the room "or you're fired"
Michiru's eyes widened in shock. What had she done?
Not only she'd brought shame to her whole family, now she had Haruka's career at stake!!
The doorknob turned and Michiru ran away from the spot, leaving a trail of tears in her wake.
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Grudging against the turnout of events in the past few days , Haruka entered the garage. She put on her glove and jumpsuit, before realizing sobs were heard from the corner of the room.
"What – Michiru!!" Haruka ran to the sobbing girl.
Michiru was sobbing facing the wall, and Haruka had to turn her around to see her face.
"Why are you crying?" she wiped the tears away from the violinist's swollen eyes "are you that sad to see me?" the racer asks jokingly. Unfortunately, the smaller girl didn't buy the joke and continued sniffling.
"Michiru – Koi? What happened? Tell me, please" teal eyes stared pleadingly at Michiru's sapphire orbs.
"I'm sorry" Michiru choked out between sobs "I'm sorry you got your career on hold"
Haruka stared at her before realizing what the smaller girl had been talking about "you heard?" she asks urgently
Michiru nod, tears falling freely down her face. Haruka quickly gathered the crying girl to her arms.
"No, it's not your fault" she tried to calm Michiru down, who was sobbing restrainly on her chest "don't worry about it"
"No, it's MY fault!" Michiru sobbed loudly "it's because of that stupid rumour, this had to happen!"
More tears splashed as Haruka held the girl tighter, kissing the top of her head in assurance. Somehow she had to stop Michiru crying…or something unwanted will happen…
Michiru stopped crying a moment later, though the 2 of them were still holding each other tight at the empty garage.
The violinist looked up to Haruka's releived face "feel better?" the racer inquried
Michiru nod, setting her heart for a hard decision that she hoped will straightened up this mess. Haruka smiled and leaned down for a kiss, but Michiru pulled away at the last moment.
"I'm sorry Haruka" she said sadly, tears threatening to fall again "but I cant, not anymore"
"Michiru?" the blonde racer feared the worst, Michiru's tone is not a good sign "Michiru, what do you mean?"
"This is the only way I can do to stop you from losing the thing you love" Michiru bit her lip to stop her tears from falling, but it failed as it now fell down freely again.
"Michiru?" Haruka moved forward, eyes burning, reaching out to hold the smaller girl, who backed away.
"We have…to stop seeing each other" Michiru choked out "I cant see you anymore!" saying those words felt like hell to the violinist. Her heart screamed in agony of the pain she felt, but she wont let Haruka stopped racing just because some silly rumour her father raised.
"No, Michiru! No!" Haruka was crying now. She desperately reached out for the smaller girl, who backed away and tried to keep a good distance away "don't do this, please…" the reacer begged, calm and cold face falling apart at once
Michiru shook her head, tears splashing "I'm sorry…" she looked up at those lovely teal eyes she loved, the gentle figure she's held close for two years.
"Goodbye" Michiru said with a sad last smile and ran out of the garage.
Haruka pound the wall with her right fist
"Michiru…!!" tears kept falling down no matter what she do to prevent it.
The worse had happened at last.
The next day, the school principal had something important to tell his students and they all gathered at the huge school hall.
To Haruka's horror, the principal was talking about the rumours about her and Michiru. It seems that Michiru had sent him a letter explaining the whole real situation from A to Z and wished the principal would tell the whole school and clear Haruka's name. Haruka's pale with shock as she listened to the speech.
Her friend had also gave her of the morning's issue of newspaper, bearing the headline "KAIOH MICHIRU SPEAKS OUT, TRUTH BEHIND THE VIOLINIST - RACER RUMOUR".
The aqua-haired girl had taken all charges into her hand and told the whole press that Haruka has nothing to do with all this. The racer's name is cleared of all charges. Her agent had called her that her racing career is still safe from the violinist's confession, but this didn't made the racer felt any better.
"Kaioh-san?" Haruka caught up with the principal after the gathering ended "no, she's not here anymore. She'd moved away"
The blonde racer felt her heart is shattered to many delicate pieces. All hope was lost, her world is as much as over.
Michiru had left her.
A/N : Cruel eh? Hehehe… R/R please!!