Title: It Prevents Osteoporosis!
Author: Potato Maiden
Pairing: Umi Ryuuzaki/Ascot
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Theme: #28 - Wada Calcium CD3 (Calcium Pills)
Disclaimer: I do not own Magic Knight Rayearth, it, and all it's components belong to Clamp, who refuse to answer my phone calls...

There are multiple reasons to stay out of one's medicine cabinet. Some of those including things that could make a sailor proud. However, what was found in Umi's medicine cabinet was not one of those. In fact, it would be something that would not only make parents and doctors proud, it would make the dentist proud too. Of course, those that had no idea what this was had set out to ask.

"Umi, I found these on the floor in your bathroom. What is it?" Ascot had asked the blue haired vixen. He handed her the small white bottle.

"These are calcium pills. They'll help prevent problems when I get older with my bones and such." Ascot nodded slowly.

"Why do you take them?"

"To prevent osteoporosis."

"What's that?"

"Well, it's something that can make the bones all brittle. Kind of like when you snap a twig." Umi picked up a stick and snapped it in half to prove her point. Ascot's face visibly paled at the demonstration.

"I-I'm going to go p-put these back." Ascot said, retreating out of the room. Umi sighed and followed Ascot and watched as he put the pills back into the medicine cabinet.

"I didn't mean to erm... shock you like that Ascot. Come here, let's go take a walk." Umi took the palu's hand and walked, more like pulled him, around the castle.

"How's your day been, Umi?" Ascot asked after an uneasy silence.

"It's been fine. How about yours?" Umi looked off to the side, watching sunlight drift through the windows.

"O-okay I-I guess." Umi looked up at her tall friend in curiosity.

"Why are you so nervous, Ascot? It's just me."

'That's just it. It's you...' Ascot thought. In response to Umi, he shrugged and allowed himself to be pulled around the castle, in and out of rooms, up and down stairs, to and fro through the corridors.

"Well, you shouldn't be so nervous."

"I can't help it... I guess." Umi laughed to herself softly.

"I'd understand if I did something sudden like kissing you, I'd understand if you were nervous around me after that. But I haven't done anything like that." 'Yet...' Umi and Ascot stopped in front of a window with the warm, streaming, golden sunlight with little dust particles floating in the scene.

"Why did we stop here?"

"No reason." Umi stood on the tips of her toes and kissed Ascot on the lips. "I just wanted to give you a real reason to be nervous." she smiled and took the blushing boy's hand.

"I-I-I'm not nervous, Umi."

"Right, so you're stuttering just because?"

"Y-yes." Umi smiled and pulled Ascot back into their trek around the castle. As they walked thoughts raced through Ascot's head.

'Why'd she kiss me? I don't understand how she... Stop it Ascot. Don't question why she did it. But it was so... I said stop.Ascot shook his thoughts out of his head and held Umi's hand with a new sense of pride, a bright red blush on his face and a rather large grin plastered on his face.

a/n: And that's another chapter!