A/N: Well, I'm down in Lexington, KY. I'm at the hotel and my parents and sister are at a track meet as I write this note. Anyways, I'm bored out of my frapin misery here so I'm bringing you more chapters of the fic, so without further blah blah-ness, Ch. 12
Disclaimer: see Ch. 9
Word Key:
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
"Thoughts also when two sides of the brain are arguing"
Dream
Tape Recorder
Chapter Twelve: Little Voice
Mahiru woke up; if she ever saw a banana-strawberry loaded ice cream sundae again she would literally throw up. For once in her life she was glad to be in the waking world, for the dream-land butterflies were driving her insane. The girl rolled out of bed and started walking down towards the kitchen at a slow crawl.
'I should've never listened to the tape, it's the whole reason I kept thinking of butterflies and sundaes. Cursed them all.' When she thought that last sentence she smacked herself on the forehead. "I'm turning into him."
"Into who?" came a voice from behind scaring the living daylights out of her, causing her to lose her balance and almost fall when the person from behind caught her. "Damn woman, get some balance geez, this is like the second time in two days that I've had to keep you from falling flat on your face."
"M-M-Mitsuru? Heh, you scared me, I didn't know that you were behind me." She blushed a shade of crimson, the last dream on the tape rearing its ugly head back into Mahiru's thoughts. "Erm...As for your question before, it was no-nothing."
"Whatever...Are you done being a klutz on these stairs at the moment...my arm can't hold you much longer."
Glancing down she saw that Mitsuru's arm was around her waist, supporting her up. "Oh, oh I'm sorry." She carefully maneuvered down the last few steps to the ground floor, Mitsuru not far behind; his arm still around her waist. "Umm…Mitsuru, your arm."
"Huh? Oh shit." Immediately his arm snapped back to his side, his face had flushed a bit and inside his mind he was cursing the arm to oblivion and back. The other side of his mind, the one he'd rather not hear, said differently. 'You liked it and you know it, don't lie to yourself.'
"That is so not true dammit! I don't –I don't like her, where the hell did you get an idea like that?" Right then Mitsuru could tell, today was not going to be a good day. As he walked behind the girl to the kitchen he remembered the night before last when he had gone into her room. The next day he didn't go out of his room, apparently neither had she.
'Oh I don't know, maybe the fact that what you're thinking about dealt with you in there with out a shirt.'
"WELL IT WAS YOUR DAMN FAULT IN THE FIRST PLACE!" He snarled. 'No the fault was yours, you handled her roughly and I was making you do what a gentleman would do. You just so happened to forget that you needed to look decent.'
"Shut the fuck up already up stupid moronic idiot." He mumbled, and then mentally slapped himself for a few reasons. One, cause he knew the voice was right; two, the voce was part of his own brain; three, because that voice was part of his brain he was arguing with himself; fourth and finally, what he said before was directed at the voice therefore himself ending in he just insulted himself.
A voice that he would've rather not heard penetrated into his thought process which was about to go haywire after fighting with itself. "Good morning Mitsuru, what's the occasion that we get to see you so bright and early in the morning?"
"I felt it my duty to disrupt your pattern of peace and morning solitude."
"Well you're a bit late for that Mitsuru, Akira and Nozomu beat you to it." Replied the fox demon coolly. Damn how Mitsuru hated that guy's comebacks. "And also, may I ask what happened to your nose that it needed a band-aid?" And damn how he noticed every little flipping detail.
"It was uhh…it was nothing, I hit it on the corner of the desk by my bed." A snowball stood a better chance in hell than him saying that it was because he was in the girl's room at an ungodly hour, in boxer shorts and going to actually apologize for something.
"If you say so." He took a sip of his coffee, "Corners of desks often look like girl's nail scratches." That got Mitsuru on edge, how much did that fox really know about all of…whatever it was that was going on between him and Mahiru? The best name that he could come up with was Tengu Torture against one's will.
'Oh more like MITSURU'S BEING A FRAPPIN' IDIOT AND WON'T EXCEPT THAT HE LO –'
"SHUT UP DO NOT!" He screamed in his mind. The tengu felt like he was going insane, or possibly already was. Letting his drop down onto the table he muttered, "When will this day be over?"
"7:17 a.m. now so in another…sixteen hours and fourteen minutes it will be 12:01 a.m. tomorrow."
Mahiru stared at Misoka, "Whoa, did you do all that in your head?"
"Yes."
The girl shook her head and stared in a different direction out the window, " 'Nother question for ya, what's that?" she pointed out side to two blurs, one blonde the other a shade of brunette.
"A pissed off vampire would be the blonde blur and the other would be a were-wolf running for his life from the pissed off vampire. Why, I have no clue; they were doing that when I got down here, only I told them to take it outside."
The girl went over to the window and looked out at the two, if Nozomu didn't look like he was ready to kill Akira it would have been funny watching them. The said were-wolf then came charging past, "Hihi Mahiru, sorry can't talk right now!" He was soon followed after by Nozomu, "Morning Mahiru!" yelled the vampire as he also ran past.
She waved to them both but by the way things were going she wasn't sure if they were evening paying attention to anything other than what they ran into. "Those two." She chuckled to herself.
The kitchen had then once again become quiet, the fox demon drinking his coffee watching the two outside with amusement. The other demon seemed to have fallen asleep; his shoulders hunched down, head still on the table, and deep even breathing. Mahiru was pretty sure that those signs constituted sleeping.
What she did next was cruel, but funny. She walked quietly around the table so that she did not disturb his slumber and crept behind him and shouted his name in his ear causing him to jolt up. He had an extremely large red spot on his forehead where it had rested in the table. "The were-wolf did it!" he half yelled. (get it, instead of dog it's were-wolf hahahaha…ha…)
"The were-wolf isn't here Mitsuru, he's outside." Replied Misoka
"Grr…Shut up!" The tengu stood up and whirled around, "And you…" he glared at Mahiru trying to find something to insult about her, but to his surprise he couldn't find one damn thing. "Just – just stop being so damn annoying." He stomped back up to his room.
'Stop being annoying? You should've thanked her for waking you up; you're losing the battle here.' Mitsuru swore under his breath, the voice in his head was worse than Misoka and ten times more annoying. 'If you think I'm going to leave then you are completely and utterly wrong. Well, I will leave but only on one condition.'
"What the hell would that be? If that has to deal with admitting that I love her then-," Mitsuru buried his head in his pillow, "SHIT!" The voice in his head suddenly had a field day. 'HAH! I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT! You do love her you're just too scared to admit it. Of course you're also too stubborn, not to mention an idiot.'
"SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY! I DO NOT LOVE HER!"
"At least, I think I don't…Dammit stupid voice, are you happy that you've now given me the world's largest headache. You're the most annoying thing on this whole damn planet, or the universe for that matter." If the voice had a face it would've smiled smugly but before he let it speak he growled at it to shut up and that he had to get ready to clean-up.
Later that night as they were working at the bar, Mitsuru tried not to make eye contact with the Princess. He wasn't so sure about himself now, after the fight with himself; but no matter how hard he tried not to his gaze wondered over to her and there he stood staring. Once or twice she had caught him but he quickly turned it into a glare of extreme hatred, making her look away even quicker than the stare turning into a glare.
The rest of the week had gone like that, Mitsuru gaping at her behind her back and glaring when she was looking and he had become moodier. Little did the rest of them know of his inner conflicts with himself and his dread of what was to happen that night as he awoke from the sun filtering through window on that seventh day since he visited Mahiru. Tonight would be the night of the date…
TBC
A/N: Ok those of you, who got out your torch and pitchfork, put them back NOW. It took longer than I wanted to update, it would have been earlier today but my mom made me turn off the computer since there was thunder and lightning outside and she didn't want the computer fried so I complied. I don't want my baby being hurt, I could very well cry. Also, some of you told me very interesting dreams so I'll tell my own interesting one. The orc dream where the school is being attacked is real, except for it was mine. They were attacking my old elementary school and there was fire everywhere and gasoline in pools. I was in there and had to rescue all the stuffed animals that were trapped in the building and load them on to black army helicopters and fight the orcs along the way. Whelp, that's it for this note, the next chapter is the date and possibly the start of the end? All of that is true except for the last part, I have no idea how far this baby'll go. Later, gotta work on chapter 4 of my other story since people are probably ready to bring out torture devices if I don't update that one. Also, summer reading program so updating may be a tad-bit slow.
Thanks to you guys:
SilverShadowKitsune –Didn't update as fast as I wanted, but I hope this makes ya happy : )
Korii Shoujo – yes your dreams are very interesting, but have you ever dreamed that your English teacher and your classmates had you hooked up to a computer and sending electronic shock waves to legs where it hurt like hell and when you wake up you find that the pain in your legs is real? I have.
Black Dog Goddess Suiyou – nope I didn't have a whole lot of fun, it was boring as hell and I got my right ear sun burned, now it itches and if I pick it, it'll start to bleed and part of my neck got burned. I said I was bitten by the sun vampire, the food was good though. : )
Writergirl118 –I typed and thought as fast as my fingers and brain could, and here it is over a week later.
Jesusgirl883 –you're better than a plot or subplot bunny, you're one of my bestest friends, but I'll still give ya the pasta with chocolate pudding on it.
Scathac's warrior – one can only guess if he did or didn't my guess would be probably
Ne-ma-pa-sa-ra –I hope I didn't offended you by using the Little Mermaid, I needed an animated movie that boys seem to fear and that's the one that my brothers never wanted to watch, and watch it whenever ya want, more power to ya, cause in all honesty I kinda like it.
Rauko-chan – I have read your fic and I'm waiting patiently for the update, which I hope will come very soon. You're making me blush thought with all the compliments, I really like your writing style I can actually imagine the stuff that goes on.
BlackLadyCharon – that's good, and when did Misoka get here OO oh well none of my business
Motokonobaka – it is possible since he was a ward of the state so he probably went to different foster homes and probably had an older sister or two along the way. If they were blood related though, she probably would get with Ryu and pound some sense into Mitty's head. 'That rabbit's got a vicious streak a mild wide!
ilovekaihiwatari – oh ok, that's good (creeps slowly out from behind large boulder)
kalidra – I updated again, I'm not really all that thrilled by this chapter, I find it kind of crappy
Elen – no it's a funny joke, it took me a sec to get it though, but when I got it, it was funny. Hope your internet stops being so screwy and it's all right that you haven't been review that much, I just like that you review: )
And Thanks to all those who review after I post this chapter.