The Last Odango
Chapter 2
Author: nat-chan
E-mail: natia_99@yahoo.com
Rated: KG (kissing g ^^)
Genre: First Season Romance
Disclaimer: standard
AN's: For Kuris-chan, who asked "Where has all the WAFF gone?"
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Even if the fireworks become stars, or love vanishes into darkness,
Please don't stop the kiss.
From: Tuxedo Mirage
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Usagi sat at the counter with her head in her hands. The girls were crowded
round her.
Makoto tried coaxing her gently, "Usagi? Usagi?! Can you hear us? Ami,
come here, I think she's gone into shock!"
"Her eyes look so vacant!" Said Mina fearfully.
"I'll get her a soda!" Said Motoki, leaping into action.
But then Rei barged through, "Oh for *shove* get out of the way!"
She took Usagi by the shoulders and shook her violently, "Spit it out
Odango brains! WHAT DOES MAMORU WANT?!?!"
She seemed to snap out of it then, for she started to mutter things to
herself.
"Why *that*?!...I don't understand!......huh?"
"Hurry up with that soda Motoki!" Makoto cried in panic, "She's losing it!"
"Usagi...?" Mina asked uncertainly.
Usagi looked at her, "I don't understand Mina....if he hates me, why would
he ask me for a kiss?"
"A KISS?!?!" Mina managed before fainting.
The girls all became shocked then and Motoki returned to find them little more
than blithering idiots (AN: you have to read that in a british accent minna, a
snobby one!)
"What? What?!" Exclaimed Motoki, eyeing them all.
"What does he want? Makoto? Ami? Rei?....hey, is Mina alright down there?
Can any of you hear me?"
He put down the soda and waited, before becoming impatient.
"SOMEONE BETTER TELL ME WHAT HE ASKED HER FOR OR I'M GOING TO DESTROY YOU
*ALL*!!!!!" He bellowed.
This seemed to snap them all out of their trance, for they all replied in
unison--including Usagi--"A KISS!!!"
And that was when Motoki dropped said soda, and fell promptly over backwards,
"HUH?!?!"
Several moments later, everyone collected themselves, and life almost returned to
normal.
The girls all talked at once about why Mamoru would ask for such a thing.
"I don't get it...is it to spite you in some way? By stealing your first kiss?"
"Are you going to do it Usagi? I mean, he *is* cute!!"
"But they're enemies! I don't get it? What is he after? Does he actually think
she'll do it?"
"Probably not."
"I dunno...."
Motoki cut in at this moment, giving Usagi another soda, "Uh, Usagi, girls--"
They all stopped and looked at him.
He focused on Usagi, "Usagi-chan, did you ever think that maybe he's asking you this
way because he would never have the nerve to try and kiss you otherwise?"
"WHAT?!" She shrieked, "Motoki--that can't be it! Mamoru doesn't even like me! He
just enjoys making me mad! Why on earth would he want to kiss me? This is all some
joke to him---he wants to ask me for something that will embarass me! But I don't
care...I never want to hear 'Odango' again!!!"
And that said, she stormed out of the arcade, head held high.
Motoki watched after her.
Mina eyed him, "You think Mamoru actually really likes Usagi?"
Motoki nodded, "Mamoru never bothers with any girls--except Usagi-chan. And I think,
without their banter--he'd be lost. So he's asking her for a kiss because he thinks
she'd never give it to him and things will just stay the same between them--although, I
bet he'd really like a kiss from Usagi!"
They all chuckled.
"You could be right Motoki." Rei commented. He does enjoy teasing her...but he also
pays attention to just her.
The girls eyes began to take on a match-making gleam and Motoki began to feel afraid.
"uhhh...girls...don't get any ideas."
Makoto laughed, "Hah, Mamoru's buried himself in deep this time--we don't need to do
anything. Usagi will kiss him if it means no more 'Odango' and then he'll have to
deal with THAT! In fact, both of them will!"
"I've got a feeling about those two." Mina sighed dreamily.
"Mina! WHAT are you talking about?! Mamoru might have a crush on Usagi, but
them as a destined to be together couple? No way!"
"I don't know Rei," Interjected Ami, "I have a bit of a feeling about them myself...and
my computer data indicates, that although they argue, at another level, they are actually
very compatible."
All eyes turned to Ami. Had AMI actually said that? What was the world coming to?
"You know what? If Ami says so, then I really believe it!" Makoto chuckled.
"Hey!" Protested Mina, "But *I'm* the senshi of LOVE!! Doesn't THAT count for anything?"
No one answered her. sigh, poor Mina...
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Meanwhile, Usagi went home with a heavy and confused heart.
Mamoru was only doing this for a prank....obviously...it couldn't be anything else...
...could it?
Motoki's words rang again and again in her ears, "Maybe he's only doing it because
he'd never have the nerve to kiss you otherwise....."
That couldn't be right!
No, Mamoru was the enemy and he was probably off somewhere right now, laughing up his
sleeve about this whole thing!!!!
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At the park...
Mamoru leaned on the bridge rail contently. All had been set right again in the Universe.
Usagi would refuse, Odango would continue, and balance maintained. Thank the heavens.
He smiled at his own ingenius plan. Asking for a kiss, she'd NEVER give him THAT! Her
arch-nemesis! hah!
But then the smile faded as he caught sight of his reflection in the blue waters below.
Truly she would never kiss him. And his heart longed for her--though it had no right to.
But he was lonely and Usagi chased away loneliness like light to shadows.
And he loved her for it. That and a million other things. He hadn't meant to fall.
And she was certainly not the kind of girl he expected to feel anything for--then again,
he'd never expected to love anyone. Figures that he would end up loving the single-most
loveable person in the world. But that was just it. Usagi received love from all she
touched and would therefore notice right off how dreadful he was at it. He, an orphan
with no memories of love and no experience in it either. Save for the brief flashes of
temper that she aimed at him.
She hated him.
And she hated that nickname even more. But hate he could confidentally draw in. Love
he could not. So he stuck with good old dependable hate.
Suddenly he froze. His two sentences swimming strangely in his head...
She hated him. She'd never kiss him. She hated that nickname. She'd never kiss him.
She hated that nickname SO much, maybe, just maybe, she WOULD kiss him???
Oh Gods!!! That possibility just had not been thinkable and suddenly it was!! His stomach
dropped out of him like ten tons of stone. His mouth ran dry. And it was then the most
horrifying thing of all struck him.
His breath.
If the Odango would really kiss him, his BREATH had to be PERFECT!!!! All thoughts
of reprocussions...of worrying that it would be a kiss of hate...of wondering how he could
face her afterwards....they all fled him, his mind narrowed to the single task of avoiding
bad breath with every means possible.
Zoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom.
He took off for the nearest drugstore in a trail of dust that put his precious Usagi to shame.
But shame would only be the tip of the iceburg if his breath was bad.
Motoki was locking up the arcade when he spotted Mamoru dashing across the street and into
the drugstore as though the devil were at his heels.
Curious, he headed slowly over.
Mamoru flew to the toothpaste aisle and stopped in front of the mouthwash. He looked
for the strongest, the biggest, the most POWERFUL mouthwash....he couldn't leave anything
to chance! He picked up the biggest, econo-size jug of mint-o-wash available and that's
when Motoki turned down his aisle.
He froze, panicked, and looked desperately around for some sort of escape. Motoki couldn't
catch him like this....he might put it together...somehow...Motoki always had a nack for
figuring out things that humiliated him!!!!
He quickly turned to the other shelf to pretend to be shopping for whatever was there.
Pantyhose.
This was not good. He tried vainly to hide the mouthwash but it sloshed obviously behind
his back.
Motoki meanwhile had already put it alllll together.
~Ha ha, he must of actually figured out she might go through with it....now to make
him squirm a bit....~
Mamoru recognized that 'make him squirm a bit' look in his friend's eyes and blanched.
Turning on his heel he ran away quite abruptly, past the cashier and out the door, still
clutching the mouthwash which was now....stolen.
He never realized this however, and ran all the way home without stopping, gasping behind
his closed apartment door and then hiding the mouthwash as though Andrew would fly in behind
him, point at it and yell "AHA!"
He locked the door and put a chair against it, then ran into his room and threw himself
onto the bed.
It was then, he realized the next horrifying thing he must face...
How to stay sane until 4 o'clock the next day!!!!!
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Chapter 2
Author: nat-chan
E-mail: natia_99@yahoo.com
Rated: KG (kissing g ^^)
Genre: First Season Romance
Disclaimer: standard
AN's: For Kuris-chan, who asked "Where has all the WAFF gone?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Even if the fireworks become stars, or love vanishes into darkness,
Please don't stop the kiss.
From: Tuxedo Mirage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Usagi sat at the counter with her head in her hands. The girls were crowded
round her.
Makoto tried coaxing her gently, "Usagi? Usagi?! Can you hear us? Ami,
come here, I think she's gone into shock!"
"Her eyes look so vacant!" Said Mina fearfully.
"I'll get her a soda!" Said Motoki, leaping into action.
But then Rei barged through, "Oh for *shove* get out of the way!"
She took Usagi by the shoulders and shook her violently, "Spit it out
Odango brains! WHAT DOES MAMORU WANT?!?!"
She seemed to snap out of it then, for she started to mutter things to
herself.
"Why *that*?!...I don't understand!......huh?"
"Hurry up with that soda Motoki!" Makoto cried in panic, "She's losing it!"
"Usagi...?" Mina asked uncertainly.
Usagi looked at her, "I don't understand Mina....if he hates me, why would
he ask me for a kiss?"
"A KISS?!?!" Mina managed before fainting.
The girls all became shocked then and Motoki returned to find them little more
than blithering idiots (AN: you have to read that in a british accent minna, a
snobby one!)
"What? What?!" Exclaimed Motoki, eyeing them all.
"What does he want? Makoto? Ami? Rei?....hey, is Mina alright down there?
Can any of you hear me?"
He put down the soda and waited, before becoming impatient.
"SOMEONE BETTER TELL ME WHAT HE ASKED HER FOR OR I'M GOING TO DESTROY YOU
*ALL*!!!!!" He bellowed.
This seemed to snap them all out of their trance, for they all replied in
unison--including Usagi--"A KISS!!!"
And that was when Motoki dropped said soda, and fell promptly over backwards,
"HUH?!?!"
Several moments later, everyone collected themselves, and life almost returned to
normal.
The girls all talked at once about why Mamoru would ask for such a thing.
"I don't get it...is it to spite you in some way? By stealing your first kiss?"
"Are you going to do it Usagi? I mean, he *is* cute!!"
"But they're enemies! I don't get it? What is he after? Does he actually think
she'll do it?"
"Probably not."
"I dunno...."
Motoki cut in at this moment, giving Usagi another soda, "Uh, Usagi, girls--"
They all stopped and looked at him.
He focused on Usagi, "Usagi-chan, did you ever think that maybe he's asking you this
way because he would never have the nerve to try and kiss you otherwise?"
"WHAT?!" She shrieked, "Motoki--that can't be it! Mamoru doesn't even like me! He
just enjoys making me mad! Why on earth would he want to kiss me? This is all some
joke to him---he wants to ask me for something that will embarass me! But I don't
care...I never want to hear 'Odango' again!!!"
And that said, she stormed out of the arcade, head held high.
Motoki watched after her.
Mina eyed him, "You think Mamoru actually really likes Usagi?"
Motoki nodded, "Mamoru never bothers with any girls--except Usagi-chan. And I think,
without their banter--he'd be lost. So he's asking her for a kiss because he thinks
she'd never give it to him and things will just stay the same between them--although, I
bet he'd really like a kiss from Usagi!"
They all chuckled.
"You could be right Motoki." Rei commented. He does enjoy teasing her...but he also
pays attention to just her.
The girls eyes began to take on a match-making gleam and Motoki began to feel afraid.
"uhhh...girls...don't get any ideas."
Makoto laughed, "Hah, Mamoru's buried himself in deep this time--we don't need to do
anything. Usagi will kiss him if it means no more 'Odango' and then he'll have to
deal with THAT! In fact, both of them will!"
"I've got a feeling about those two." Mina sighed dreamily.
"Mina! WHAT are you talking about?! Mamoru might have a crush on Usagi, but
them as a destined to be together couple? No way!"
"I don't know Rei," Interjected Ami, "I have a bit of a feeling about them myself...and
my computer data indicates, that although they argue, at another level, they are actually
very compatible."
All eyes turned to Ami. Had AMI actually said that? What was the world coming to?
"You know what? If Ami says so, then I really believe it!" Makoto chuckled.
"Hey!" Protested Mina, "But *I'm* the senshi of LOVE!! Doesn't THAT count for anything?"
No one answered her. sigh, poor Mina...
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Meanwhile, Usagi went home with a heavy and confused heart.
Mamoru was only doing this for a prank....obviously...it couldn't be anything else...
...could it?
Motoki's words rang again and again in her ears, "Maybe he's only doing it because
he'd never have the nerve to kiss you otherwise....."
That couldn't be right!
No, Mamoru was the enemy and he was probably off somewhere right now, laughing up his
sleeve about this whole thing!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At the park...
Mamoru leaned on the bridge rail contently. All had been set right again in the Universe.
Usagi would refuse, Odango would continue, and balance maintained. Thank the heavens.
He smiled at his own ingenius plan. Asking for a kiss, she'd NEVER give him THAT! Her
arch-nemesis! hah!
But then the smile faded as he caught sight of his reflection in the blue waters below.
Truly she would never kiss him. And his heart longed for her--though it had no right to.
But he was lonely and Usagi chased away loneliness like light to shadows.
And he loved her for it. That and a million other things. He hadn't meant to fall.
And she was certainly not the kind of girl he expected to feel anything for--then again,
he'd never expected to love anyone. Figures that he would end up loving the single-most
loveable person in the world. But that was just it. Usagi received love from all she
touched and would therefore notice right off how dreadful he was at it. He, an orphan
with no memories of love and no experience in it either. Save for the brief flashes of
temper that she aimed at him.
She hated him.
And she hated that nickname even more. But hate he could confidentally draw in. Love
he could not. So he stuck with good old dependable hate.
Suddenly he froze. His two sentences swimming strangely in his head...
She hated him. She'd never kiss him. She hated that nickname. She'd never kiss him.
She hated that nickname SO much, maybe, just maybe, she WOULD kiss him???
Oh Gods!!! That possibility just had not been thinkable and suddenly it was!! His stomach
dropped out of him like ten tons of stone. His mouth ran dry. And it was then the most
horrifying thing of all struck him.
His breath.
If the Odango would really kiss him, his BREATH had to be PERFECT!!!! All thoughts
of reprocussions...of worrying that it would be a kiss of hate...of wondering how he could
face her afterwards....they all fled him, his mind narrowed to the single task of avoiding
bad breath with every means possible.
Zoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom.
He took off for the nearest drugstore in a trail of dust that put his precious Usagi to shame.
But shame would only be the tip of the iceburg if his breath was bad.
Motoki was locking up the arcade when he spotted Mamoru dashing across the street and into
the drugstore as though the devil were at his heels.
Curious, he headed slowly over.
Mamoru flew to the toothpaste aisle and stopped in front of the mouthwash. He looked
for the strongest, the biggest, the most POWERFUL mouthwash....he couldn't leave anything
to chance! He picked up the biggest, econo-size jug of mint-o-wash available and that's
when Motoki turned down his aisle.
He froze, panicked, and looked desperately around for some sort of escape. Motoki couldn't
catch him like this....he might put it together...somehow...Motoki always had a nack for
figuring out things that humiliated him!!!!
He quickly turned to the other shelf to pretend to be shopping for whatever was there.
Pantyhose.
This was not good. He tried vainly to hide the mouthwash but it sloshed obviously behind
his back.
Motoki meanwhile had already put it alllll together.
~Ha ha, he must of actually figured out she might go through with it....now to make
him squirm a bit....~
Mamoru recognized that 'make him squirm a bit' look in his friend's eyes and blanched.
Turning on his heel he ran away quite abruptly, past the cashier and out the door, still
clutching the mouthwash which was now....stolen.
He never realized this however, and ran all the way home without stopping, gasping behind
his closed apartment door and then hiding the mouthwash as though Andrew would fly in behind
him, point at it and yell "AHA!"
He locked the door and put a chair against it, then ran into his room and threw himself
onto the bed.
It was then, he realized the next horrifying thing he must face...
How to stay sane until 4 o'clock the next day!!!!!
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