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A/N:- I forgot to mention this before... but the thoughts are in italic. sometimes in quotes some times not... there's no difference between them really, it's just a habit with the quotes I guess... again... the strangeness.. .u;;;;

CHAPTER:14
GETTING CLOSER.

Unable to sleep anymore with the thoughts of the previous day's experience. The feel of the girl he wanted to see again still fresh in his mind, Tasuki got up and stretched in his gray shorts and tee shirt, early that morning.

"This is crazy. She lives right across. I don't need to see her." He looked out of his window to the one right opposite to his, Arwen's window. "But I want to see her for some reason. She really seems familiar. I just need to figure it out that's all. This is nothing more than that. Yeah. That's right." He groaned falling back into his bed as something hit him like a log right in his face.

"What the hell-" swearing could be heard even down below.
Grabbing the newspaper that had hit him he looked out the window angrily.

There was a kid on a bicycle smirking at him but right below was a person in a tracksuit wearing headphones. The kid with the bicycle didn't see he was in course of collision with the jogger. Seeing this in time, he managed to move out of the way but the jogger's foot got ridden on, HARD! There were immediate swears worse than his own from the jogger. He realized who it was.

"ARWEN! Hold it right there! Wait till I get my hand on you young lady!" he shouted from the window. Arwen was groaning, to add to that to hear Tasuki's voice was even more shocking. It was more confusing to see him shouting at her in gray shorts and a tee shirt from a room nowhere near Hori's apartment.

She dropped onto the lawn nearby, taking her shoe off when the door banged open and Tasuki stormed out in a white night robe, a newspaper rolled up in his hand. His face was quite red as if he had been slapped hard.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Massaging my foot you idiot. I thought you were a seishi with good sight." She replied very irritated.

"What the hell is the big idea throwing this into my face!" he dropped the newspaper into her lap. "The nerve-" more cuss words flowed out like a river. Totally shocked at being yelled at for nothing and irritated by having the pain increase she cut him short.

"YOU MORON! I DIDN'T THROW NO PAPER AT YER BLOODY&& FACE! I WISH I HAD THOUGH! WOULD HAVE STUFFED YER MOUTH WITH IT TOO!-" the same cuss words poured out from her as well.

He was astounded to find a girl being able to match him in swearing. He became even angrier.
"The nerve you have to throw things now you're swearing!"
"You fool. Get it into that thick skull sometime! I didn't throw the thing at ya! Now are you gonna help me out with my foot or aren't you!"
"Why the hell should I bother at all?" Tasuki growled back.

Hori stood at the door utterly shocked. Being woken up by swearing from two of his friends was something he had never expected.
He ran down the steps. "Guys! Guys! Stop this swearing! What happened here? Why in the name of Suzaku are you two swearing like crazy? There are kids in this neighborhood you know!"

Both of them began their shouting session again at the same time.
"SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU! I told you this place has kids!" Hori closed his ears and said loudly. They stopped surprised. "Tasuki what happened here?"

"Hell ask her why the hell she threw this bloody thing at my face all the way up to my room?" he pointed to the news paper at her side.
She grabbed it totally annoyed and flung it at him. "Idiot! I told you I didn't do it ya moron!"
"Hey watch it girl!" he ducked just in time.
"Paper. Tasuki. Did you see a boy on a bicycle go by?"

"Yeah that moron broke my foot as well." Arwen groaned massaging her foot.
"Look that was the paper boy for this place. He does that." Hori explained.
Tasuki was really sour at this and totally embarrassed.

"Oh hell. I gotta go." She tried getting up only to drop back to the lawn groaning.
"Arwen!" Hori helped her up at once. "Come in. Let me have a look at that."

To her surprise he easily lifted her off the lawn and took her into the apartment they were in front of.

"Hori. What is this place? What are you doing here?" she asked confused as he laid her on the couch. Tasuki shut the door and stood at the foot of the couch watching him totally spaced out.

"This is my new apartment Ari. I wanted to surprise you… but hell not like this," he took a look at her foot and she groaned loudly again.
"A sprain. " he looked up.
"Damn! I'm sure it's broken."

"No it's not, silly." He shook his head. "The pain would be too much to bear even if I laid a finger had it been broken." He said when he walked in with the ice he had gone to get. "This otta do it." She winced slightly. The alarm on her watch sounded again.

"Oh lord! 7:30! I've gotta go get ready for class." She tried to get up but Hori pushed her back into the couch.
"Are you crazy! Yer not goin anywhere with that foot. What's so important anyway?"
"Anya. I have fencing class with her, then B. Ball; with the guys."
"Not with that foot. Yer not playing anything any day soon." He nodded amused.

"Oh no?"
"Listen if it's that important… why don't I take Anya there. You rest here. When her class is done she can come here and the two of you can go home."

"What! Are you crazy!" she blinked.
"Why not? I don't have anything that important to do today anyway." He shrugged. Tasuki was standing there completely stiff. He was doing it again. Hori was being close to Arwen but he went berserk whenever he talked about meeting Anya.

"Are you serious man?" he blurted out. Hori nodded.
"Are you really sure Hori?" She asked. He nodded again. Tasuki nodded with disbelief. "I'm outta here." He left looking irritated.

"Thanks a bunch Hori." She smiled as he walked out into the hall dressed to go out.
"No problem. Listen. Put up with this guy. He maybe loony now, but he doesn't mean anything." He winked at her. "Just ignore him if needed." She grinned at this and he left a minute later. "Tasuki! I'm leaving."

"Yeah whatever." Came the reply.
A while later Tasuki walked downstairs from his room. He heard a sound in the living room.

The TV was on, but Arwen had dozed off holding the remote.
"Oh. She's still here." He muttered. Walking to her silently he switched off the TV. Staring into her face for a minute he shrugged, "Still can't make out where I know her from, what the hell. She's still a pain." He walked off to the kitchen.

When he was looking into the fridge he heard a loud groan.
"OWWW!"

He shut the door quickly and strode to the hall.
Arwen was on the floor by the coffee table. She was clutching her forehead and foot.
The next minute she took her hand off he let out an inaudible gasp. There was blood on her forehead.

"Shit! Arwen! What the hell happened here?" he rushed to her quickly and pulled her up to the couch.
She winced again. "Duh! I fell down and now I'm bleeding,"
"How do you manage to get hurt like this all the time?" he sat down on the coffee table and pulled her closer and held her head.

She froze. "Let's have a look here." He leant in closer and eyed her cut while she stared into his beautiful face with shock, without even blinking. She felt funny this time he touched her and held her head in his strong hands.

"Well, it's not too deep but it's bad enough." He said and looked down into her brown eyes for an instant only to gaze into it mesmerized a minute longer. He felt that funny feeling inside again as he did whenever he was near her.

"Uh-" he swallowed. "I'll just get the band aid." He got up hastily and went off into the kitchen. She still sat in the same position, blinking, trying to understand what had just happened and just what she was feeling.

He was back soon enough. "What the hell! Arwen," he walked to her and caught her hand to stop her from rubbing her eye. Blood from her head had been hastily wiped off from near her eye.

"What happened?" He sat down again in front of her still holding her hand firmly.
"Blood went into my eye, it's burning. Everything's red." He saw a tear drop as he let go to open the kit to dress the cut.

"No you don't." he caught her hand again. "Let me blow into it," he pulled her closer and blew into her eye. This time she could smell his beautiful cologne making her forget her senses.

"There,"
"IT still hurts." She took her hand to rub her eye again.

"No don't. I'll clean it up. It'll be fine. Just hang on." He pulled himself closer and dressed her cut. She stared into his face again without blinking, with that strange feeling again, wincing once in a while.
He was still having that squirming new feeling inside him as he touched her.

What the hell is happening? Oh man, there's no way I'm falling for this girl.

He came away when it was done. "There. All done." He saw the tears again.

"Why're ya crying fer this?" he wiped her tears away smiling amused,
"I'm not crying Tasuki. My eye is burning, that's all." He smiled gently. "If you say so." Getting up he took her foot up, lay it on his lap as he sat down and gently gave it a small massage. She sat there watching him, wincing at every touch at her foot.

"Why did you do something stupid like this silly girl?" He got up a few minutes later.
"Stop calling me silly. I just wanted to eat something." She scowled,

"And you forgot my name at the last minute to ask me for? That is silly, well whatever, what do ya want. Yeh are hungry." He smirked digging his hands into his pockets.

"I would have made I coffee, but…" he stared at her blankly. "I coffee."
"Oh you know that Indian coffee Hori and I had that day."

"Why not. I'll give it a go. Tell me how ya do it."
"My! I have a helper here don't I? Maybe I could get some more work outta ya." She grinned.
"Don't push it babe." He said flatly.

"Well. That and just a peanut butter sandwich, thanks."
Setting the coffee down, he stared at it hesitantly.
"Oh come on Tasuki. You won't even know the milk was there, I promise."

"And if I do." He looked at her enquiringly.
"I'll give you a kiss and apologize." She grinned.
"Thanks, but I'd rather have the milk." He shot back. Taking in a final breath he took a sip then he opened his eyes and nodded approvingly. "Not too bad." He had another sip.
Arwen just smiled as she had her coffee.

Well, hopefully the relativity of relative relations with relationship will increase. ( if you didn't understand that, don't bother, I don't think I did either O;;;) Thanks to all of you who read my story, it's nice to know you're out there. It'd be nicer to know what you think of my work, so kindly review.

Moichido, the strangeness is meant to be strange, why else would it be called strange? And it holds for my tiny strange mind too, weird ain't it. Mmm… strange that I really thought I knew that…O;;;

Kristall, thanks for your support. It means a lot… and I don't know if i meant to write it that way... but it's good that you think of it like that... hey, I have a friend who you could chat up with about LOTR( SHE CRAZY ABT THE BOOK!)… just write to me if you want to talk… Sayonara.