hello! im here with another crossing blades chapter. i decided to continue this story because i've gotten more than enough thumbs up for it. that and i love chaos, thats why im in the army, because the ultimate chaos is the chaos of war...maybe love too but i love machine guns so yeah...anywho on with the show
Motoko Aoyama woke with a start when thunder clapped right outside the window. Tenchi, who was knocked unconsious, was sound asleep nearby. Her brown eyes darted around for a few moments, getting them used to the darkness of night time.
"I must have nodded off...". her voice echoed quietly through the room as she began to stand up. Grabbing the hilt of her sword, the swordswoman glanced down at Tenchi as he rolled onto his right side. Her exspression calmed as she let her hand off the hilt, kneeling back down she put a hand to his forehead to check for a fever. Motoko held her hand on his head for a moment, watching him closely. A knock on the door caused her to pull her hand away quickly.
"Motoko? its shinobu, are you still there? its two in the morning...". Shinobu stood on the other side of the door, it was not like Motoko to stay by someones side, especially a males side for so long. She reached up to tap onto the door again, only to find it slide away, revealing Motoko.
The swordswoman looked down to one of the youngest residents of the Hinata apartments. She smiled softly and stated "i drifted off...im sorry about worrying you shinobu..". Placing a hand on the younger girls shoulder to reasure her, Motoko then made her way to her own room. Motoko began to lay down to sleep herself, but her thoughts kept on going back to the new resident. She blamed it on curiosity before nodding off into sleep.
The next morning was unusual for the tenants, because Motoko had slept in. This just did not happen to her. Naru, having worried about her friend and team mate when it came to smacking Keitaro around, finally poked her head into the swordswomans room. Worry had left her when she saw Motoko, out cold in her bed. But as worry left her, curiosity replaced it. Naru slipped in slowly and creeped over to Motoko, taking her hand she shook her softly.
"motoko? wake up...". Motoko eyes fluttered open as she was met with naru, who was leaning over her. "sooooo...what happened last night?".
Motoko sat up quickly and said "what? nothing happened!". A blushed creeped onto her face as she stood and quickly dressed herself before looking at Naru. "He did not do nothing that your implying naru...". At that moment, Motoko left Naru alone, who was shocked by the swordswomans reply.
Motoko shook her head and kept walking, she did not get the sleep she wanted. Her thoughts kept going back to Tenchi, a blow from Kaolla su could be brushed off by Keitaro. But a normal person could get hurt badly by it. She stopped and proceeded down into the living room area of the Hinata apartments.
On the couch sat Tenchi who was still alittle dizzy from the blow to his head last night. He heard someone stop suddenly behind him, feeling their eyes looking at him, Tenchi slowly and cautiously looked over his shoulder. It was that one girl who he locked eyes with yesterday, Motoko was her name.
Tenchi decided to break the silence between them, "hello miss aoyama...are you ok?".
Motoko's brown eyes glanced away from his and replied "i should be asking you that".
Tenchi let out a nervous laugh as he nodded his head alittle, showing her that he was alright for the time being. "i've been through worse, grandpa trained me all the time...his hits hurt when he gets through your guard...".
The swordswoman blushed and said "you have been trained in kendo?". she watched him nod his head before continuing "ive been training with Keitaro but he's more defensive than offensive...would you like to train with me Tenchi?".
"train together...yeah i would like that". her heart seemed to jump, he was actually agreeing with training. She tried to keep her composure as she left the room, Motoko was overjoyed to actually have someone with a higher level of training. Keitaro was good to practice offensive techniques, but defence was one thing she wanted to focus on. She stopped again, why was she thinking about his eyes?.
"NO! this is not going to happen again! i wont let it!". Motoko's words echoed through the hallway, she growled and turned around, drawing her blade as she did. Stopping, she slammed the sword back into place, violence would not solve this. Besides, Tenchi seemed to be a gentle soul and causing him distress would actually phase her.
Caught up in her thoughts, Motoko did not feel a certain Kitsune come around the corner. "whats all the commotion? not let what happen again hun?". Kitsune stopped and looked Motoko up and down, a smile came across the older womans face. "I know that lil' look...looks like Motoko gots the hots for someone".
Motoko looked coldly at Kitsune, her usual distant eyes were now angry. "NO! your wrong! he just got he-". She knew then that she gave too much information to Kitsune, who only smiled innocently at Motoko.
"well well well! i would neva' guessed that the powerful motoko falls for the sweet good ol' farmboy. But i aint complainin either, he is a handsome guy". Those words brought fury from Motoko, who pointed a lone finger into Kitsunes face as she spoke "dont even say another word...I do not have a crush on him!".
Kitsune tilted her head to the side and said "well hun, your face is beat red and you stayed right by his lil' side for a whole night and you probably didnt get a whole lotta sleep because you kept wakin up".
Motoko eyes went narrow as she yelled "who told you that! any of that is none of your business! what i do is my concern, not yours!".
Kitsune shrugged and replied "sugga, i can tell when a girls fallin for a boy. You get that feelin' about stuff like that when your older. and im gonna tell ya right now, he's got ya. Hook, line and sinker! you just tryin to deny it, but look how long it took you to get a crush on ol' Keitaro".
Kitsune walked by Motoko, who was still thinking about her words. Motoko hated Kitsunes words, because most the time the woman was right. Then and there Motoko made her decision, if Tenchi defeated her during a sparing match, then she would pursue it futher. If he lost, she would drop it right then and there.
well thats part two, im sorry to anyone who's been waiting for this. i had the writers block and plus the fact the army is a job that takes up time and stuff like that.