Chapter 3: Meeting
Shaina blinked and looked around the landing strip of the Japanese airport, if the different language wasn't the biggest clue that she wasn't in Greece anymore, the fact that she was being greeted by a large bald man with a large brow and beady eyes didn't help much.
"Miss Shaina, welcome to Japan. Miss Kido has a limo waiting for you out side." He said bowing.
Shaina looked the man up and down and walked past him without so much as a nod. As far as she cared she would have been happy catching a cab, all this V.I.P treatment wasn't her thing, and Tatsumi got that message very clearly. She paused as she was remembered that she had no idea where the limo was. "I should have asked that oaf where the limo was." She muttered as the stunned Tatsumi and her escorts finally gathered the balls to come after her. "Well, where's the damn limo, or where you lying to me you over muscled idiot?" she asked rounding on Tatsumi quickly.
"Geeze Shaina, ever the cruel warrior aren't you? It's good to see you, although I gotta admit I'm glad to see ya here." Said a cocky, yet cheerful voice from behind her. Shaina grinned and turned around, as she guessed it was none other than the Pegasus Saint, Seiya. "It's good to see you Shaina. Welcome to Japan!" he said scratching the back of his head and gestured to the impressive skyline behind him.
"So, what exactly brings you all the way to Japan Shaina? You didn't come here to just visit lil' ol' me did ya?" Seiya asked as he stretched his arms about the back of the limo seat that he was in. Shaina was sipping from a bottle of water when Seiya asked her why she was here, she looked at Seiya with her dark eyes, she'd removed her mask after making sure that neither of the two men that had escorted her on her flight and Tatsumi weren't able to see her face from the other side of the patron that separated the cab from the actual sitting area of the limo.
"Well, I guess because we have some unfinished business. Remember when I saved your ass from Leo Aiolia? What I said then, you remember it?"
"Hunh? Yeah, you said…" Seiya paused and looked at Shaina with mild confusion, "You were serious about that? I thought it was the fact that I might not win and we'd die." He said quickly as a flush shot across his face.
"Oh, so is that what you thought?! Gods, how stupid can you be?"
Shaina glared at Seiya, who had attempted to back even further in his seat to escape the mad female saint. In all honesty he knew that Shaina wasn't the type of person to say things like that when death stared them in the face, but there was always that one little chance. "Okay, okay! You were serious about that, I get it. So can you not kill me?" he pleaded quickly holding up his hands in defense.
"Fine, but only because trying to talk to a dead guy isn't why I can here." Shaina replied as she gave Seiya a smile. "You never did tell me how you felt about me, so out with it." She demanded as she sat back and reached for a bottle of water that was poking up out of a container of ice.
"Well I guess you're okay. I mean don't get me wrong, you're attractive, plenty attractive. Wait, you?" he questioned as Shaina preoccupied herself with looking at the various shops that they passed.
"You do don't you?"
"So what if I do? You have a problem with it? Besides, just think of it as me on vacation."
"You? On vacation? Ha, that'll be the day, or I'll believe it." He said nervously as Shaina gave him a threatening look.
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Shaina looked around Seiya's small apartment. It was pretty meager, although it was an upgrade from what he'd been living in at the Sanctuary.
"Nice place. A bit small, but it's a nice place all and all." She said dropping her cloth box and duffle bag at the door.
Seiya sighed and shuffled around the obstructions in his front door and closed the door. He knew that Shaina was impressed, but she wouldn't let him know that willing, but it was all there in her body language.
"It is sorta small, especially compared to Kido's place. C'mon let me show you the upstairs." He said leading the way to the second floor. Shaina smirked behind her mask which she'd put back on when they were dropped off at Seiya's place.
From the outside the house didn't look too impressive, but on the inside, that was a totally different thing. The main living room was built into the ground and had a fairly cozy appearance. The kitchen was built so that it was even with entrance to both the house and the living room and had some impressive cooking items.
"Coming up or what?" called Seiya from the top of the stairs which prevented Shaina from taking a tour of the house on her own.
"In a minute Pegasus saint, in a minute." She called back picking up her things and heading towards the steps.
The second floor was just as impressive, if not more impressive than the first. Most of it had been converted into a training room, and had some very impressive workout equipment. There were three doors on this floor, two of which were side by side; the third was closer to the steps. She figured that the two doors farthest from her were the bedrooms and the one closest to her was a closet of some sort. She gave the room another looking over and nodded, obviously happy with what she'd seen so far.
"Well it's good to know that you haven't been slacking off in your training. I'm guessing that Athena is footing the bill for this place, no?" she asked as she stuffed her cloth box on top of Seiya's which was on the floor of the high ceiling closet.
"Most of it. I do some teaching at a local community center. Mostly self defense classes, nothing too major." He said opening one of the rooms and then looking back at Shaina, "The guest room is clear, go a head and unpack and I'll get us something to eat." He said as Shaina walked into the room. She was fairly happy that Seiya kept the spare room clean, at the very least Marin had taught the Bronze Knight the importance of keeping a clean spare room.
"Thanks. Don't strain yourself trying to cook, as long as it won't kill me it'll be fine." She said from inside the room.
"Sure, although if you promise not to kill me I'll promise to order a pizza for your first night here." He responded cheerfully.
Shaina smirked, Seiya and his jokes. She guessed that it was one of the few things that made her fall in love with the Pegasus Knight.