Isidora: This is the second to the last chapter of this story! Hope you enjoy! Please read my other stories too! Click my name to get to my profile to view all of them! Thanks a bunch! I might not be posting for awhile after finishing Beer-serk! because I'll be busy. It's time to go back to reality. I've enjoyed my writing fantasy playtime, happier even because I have received reviews saying they (my reader-reviewers) have enjoyed reading them as much as I've enjoyed writing them.
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Shelter
(Chapter 4)
"Which one is it again?" Kanata said as he stared at a row of Korean restaurants near the train station.
Kanata's sweat dropped and sighed inwardly. 'I can't tell these Korean Restaurants apart. They all have this Black Day Special signs and karaoke.'
Kanata sighed again. "If I'm going to check all these out one by one, I'd better get started."
Kanata turned to the first restaurant when he heard a familiar voice call his name.
"Kanata!"
He turned to look at the owner of the voice and found Wannya waving at him, who was carrying a sleeping Ruu on his back.
"Well, isn't this convenient? I was about to look for all of you." Kanata said as he looked at Ruu's peaceful sleeping form. He poked his nose softly and he heard a murmur, which was followed by a smile.
"So where's Miyu?" Kanata finally asked and found Seiya struggling to keep Miyu standing.
"Hey Kanata! I'm so glad you're here!"
"So what happened to this girl?" Kanata asked as he looked closely at Miyu, who smelled awful.
"It was horrible!" Wannya said. "She started throwing up all of a sudden then fell asleep! Master Ruu was bothered by what happened, he cried the whole time she…"
Wannya was cut off by Kanata. "Well she'll be better now that Seiya's iced tea is out of her system."
Kanata took Miyu from Seiya by the arm. Miyu, even though asleep, seemed to understand what he wanted to do. She brought her arms on Kanata's shoulders and let it hang loosely on his chest. She snuggled her head close to Kanata's neck.
"Hold on tight, alright?" Kanata whispered to the sleeping girl. He bent his knees and jolted up, catching the back of Miyu's knees on time.
"It's late we should go." Kanata said to Seiya and Wannya before taking the first step back home.
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They finally found themselves at the foot of the temple staircase. Everyone was quiet on their way back.
Kanata sighed as he looked at a hundred steps or so he had to climb with a sleeping girl on his back.
"Miyu, you are going to pay for this." He muttered under his breath.
Seiya eyed on Kanata as an idea formed in his head. He whispered something to Wannya, which made the sitter-pet run back to the temple in the speed of light.
Kanata blinked. "What's with him?"
"I just told him that as I was scanning through the channels of your television this afternoon I saw that there was a show about this time that will be giving Mitarashi Dangos to those who can give them the correct answer to the question that will pop out of the screen." Seiya explained.
"His head really is full Mitarashi Dangos." Kanata said as he watched Seiya moved up the stairs ahead of him.
"So what's your excuse for going ahead?" Kanata said as he eyed him suspiciously.
"I thought you guys might need some privacy." Seiya winked.
"What do you mean by that?" Kanata asked, trying to squeeze the pulp out of Seiya so he can explain himself properly.
"You know, Miyu seems to act strangely when she drank our iced tea. Maybe she'll say something she won't normally say when she hasn't drank it." Seiya slipped to Kanata's side then pinched Miyu's left cheek.
"Ow!" Miyu said, almost strangling Kanata because of surprise.
"That hurt!" She added drowsily.
"Hey what'd you do that for?" Kanata blurted, almost losing his balance because Miyu started squirming on his back.
Seiya skipped a few steps from them. "She won't talk unless she's awake, right?"
Seiya laughed before skipping back to the temple, leaving Miyu and Kanata by themselves.
"He set this all up." Kanata said as he watched Seiya's back disappeared from his sight.
"Kanata?" Miyu whispered as her arms went tighter against his shoulders. "My head is spinning. Carry me back home."
Kanata smiled. "Idiot, I am carrying you on my back."
"Kanata, do you know why Christine likes you a lot?" Miyu said her voice seemingly in deep sleep.
"I really don't want to know." He said as he slowly took his first steps up the temple.
"She likes you because you've got a nice back." Miyu said despite what Kanata's disinterest.
"That's a weird thing to like about someone." Kanata said a bit embarrassed.
"Kanata always seems to turn his back on other girls. Don't you like anyone of them?" Miyu asked her eyes drooping back to sleep.
"What are you talking about?" Kanata said calmly.
"You won't say anything even when asked. I wouldn't have known that you liked pumpkin until I asked you. We're teenagers and we live together too. We're supposed to talk about those things. What's your type anyway? Should she be someone like Akira?"
"It's not like you have said something about that either." Kanata retorted, trying to divert the topic.
"I don't know anything about it. I never felt anything like that for someone before." Miyu paused.
"Oh." Kanata muttered.
"I don't know but maybe I feel it but I don't know what it is. Maybe I just don't understand." Miyu added. "Do you ever feel something like that?"
Kanata did not answer.
"Then there must be someone you like then?"
Kanata remained silent.
"You're so unfair. We live in the same house but I know nothing about you while you know so much about me. I feel like I'm giving away too much information."
Kanata smiled. "That's because you talk so much."
"Is the girl you like Akira? You don't even write or call her. You're such an idiot. You know if you love someone, even if that someone knows, you should always remind her. It's not only for her to feel happy to be remembered but also because you won't feel alone in this world because you know that in the other side of this world there is someone who needs you badly too."
A chilly wind flew by the two.
"Why are you so quiet? Are you sleeping?" Miyu asked.
Kanata let out a laugh. "You talk like you know a lot of things about love."
Miyu yawned. "You know what I've been planning."
"Planning on what?"
"What I'll do when I already have a special person in my life." Miyu said, her eyes already shut.
"What will you do then?"
"I'll learn how to cook so I can make his lunch. I'll learn how to crochet so I can make him a scarf and a sweater for Christmas. I'll make a thousand paper cranes for him. I'll bake a cake on his birthdays and put sparklers on them. Those kinds of things, I think they're sweet. Don't you think so?" Miyu said thoughtfully with sleep getting the best of her.
"That sounds nice. Good for that person. He's lucky." Kanata said feeling a bit of envy to who ever that person might be.
Kanata heard a soft snore. "How could you sleep on me? And you were saying some interesting things too."
He looked up and found that he was a few steps away from the temple gate. "Miyu, are you really asleep?"
A silent snore replied to his question.
"Good." Kanata gave a half smile. "I don't know either."
He looked up the sky with the wind picking up his bangs. "I don't know how to read signs. How would one know anyway? But I think about it a lot too."
Kanata teased. "You look thin but you are heavy, Miyu."
Kanata stopped by the temple gate. "Miyu, when you learn to cook for that someone special, make me some pumpkin dishes too. Don't forget that."
He finally stepped into the light from the temple, their warm welcome to home.
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To be continued…
Isidora: I've been so inspired because of Corrine May's album 'Beautiful Seed' especially because of the songs Beautiful Seed, On the Side of Me and On My Way. If you could, listen to these songs too!
Hope you enjoyed. See you in the last chapter! :)
