Title: Day Dreams
Author: Potato Maiden
Pairing: Umi Ryuuzaki/Ascot
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Theme: #6 - The Space Between Dream and Reality
Disclaimer: I do not own Magic Knight Rayearth, it, and all it's components belong to Clamp, who refuse to answer my phone calls...

Umi had grinned, as she had done in the past. Her usual mischievous grin that usually followed her plan to find out what Mokona was really made of. But this time it wasn't to find out Mokona's flavor, it was to find out through the innocence and naivety of Hikaru on how a certain palu felt about her. In this chance for daydreaming, that is what Umi did. In her daydreams, Hikaru had come back with news, whether it was good or bad was up for grabs. You see, the news was good in one sense, and bad in the other. Ascot had indeed returned her affections and would be willing to run away and have fifty billion children with her, however, a now very angry Clef was also in love with the knight of water and was willing to duel the palu for Umi's love. And so, she watched, munching on popcorn, as two males fought for her love.

In reality, Hikaru was standing in front of Ascot, staring up at him, trying to decipher his stammers from stutters and make sentences of his incoherent mess of whether or not he liked Umi the way she liked him. Which we all know by now, he does. As Hikaru was becoming a master of deciphering, a daydream of her frolicing in a field of daisies with Mokona at her side soon entered her mind and as the hold music began to play, Ascot had sputtered out the answer.

Running into Umi's arms, Ascot planted a fierce kiss upon Umi's lips and proceeded to carry her off into the sunset as a defeated Clef weeped over his missing arm and no longer his - Umi. Snapping out of her dream by the sharp jabbing coming from Hikaru, Umi realized that she had been spacing out.

"Well?" she asked eagerly. Hikaru turned red and looked down at the ground sheepishly.

"You see... Umi-chan... I couldn't really understand what he was saying and I... erm... started to daydream." Hikaru flinched, waiting for Umi's reaction. Umi had a split second to think before she did something to literally scar Hikaru.

"That's fine, Hikaru..." Umi paused to finish her thought process before she would say something overly blunt. "I'll ask him.." Hikaru nodded and left the room in a newfound hurry, perhaps it was because she had been spared Umi's temper.

With a newly established confidence, Ascot walked to where Umi would be, and found her almost too quickly. Confidence draining, Ascot did what anybody would do when they were faced with their true love and was afraid that they may have feelings for someone who was four foot two and fifty billion years old. He kissed her. She was taken by surprise, to say the least and had done something upon impulse that would be a great story to tell the grandkids. She slapped him.

a/n: Heh... the RP on greatestjournal has been consuming my time and so has my laziness. On a semi-happy note, it's almost over:D?