Disclaimer: I do not own saint seiya.
Valentine's Day sucks…or does it?
the Sun had set itself high in the sky radiating the day with warm and tender feeling unfortunately shun wasn't able to enjoy it, because he was hiding from a mob of girls behind a fruit stand.
SHUN'S POV
The war with Hades had ended 3 years ago and everyone lives very peaceful lives now, shiryu had finally settled down and lives in china with shunrei, seiya lives with his sister seika here in Greece and hyoga lives in Siberia with his girlfriend Eri. I live a happy life as a protector of the sanctuary and live an ordinary life except for today because…it 's valentines' day in the sanctuary (which me and ikki now lived in) and it's safe to say it's living nightmare. Young girls from the village will chase me with declaring their undying affection and offering chocolates of all shapes and sizes.
Now don't get me wrong I appreaciate their gifts…it's just alittle too much, one man cannot eat that much chocolate or break that many hearts without feeling bad afterwards. So here I am in a fruit standing hiding behind and large container filled with apples, hoping to god they don't find me.
Normal pov.
The crowd of fangirls raced across the market place looking for their beloved shun but luck was on shun's side and he was able to remain undetected as they searched endleslys for him but eventually tired looked else where. He took a sigh of relief as he heard them storm off in hopes of finding him in sanctuary instead of the village.
"Anthony thanks for the letting me hide here." Shun said thanking the fruit vender as he stood up.
Anthony gave him smile.
"no problem but good luck getting out their clutches those girls are determined." Anthony responded.
Shun sighed this day was becoming more dreadful by the minute. Anthony notice the saints glumness and decided to cheer him up.
"oii that girl…uhh jane or june-
"june! What about her?" shun asked seeming more animated after hearing her name.
"she was here at the market buying a bunch of flowers and chocolates, oh and you're right she's not that scary in person." Anthony replied.
"of course not june a perfectly normal person…she's just a bit assertive." Shun responded.
"anyways I think she was looking for you." Anthony continued.
Shun blushed slightly but then snapped out of it.
"for me…doubt it june and I don't talk much these days." Shun replied dismissively in sadden tone.
"didn't you say you guys used to be bestfriends or something?" Anthony inquired.
Shun sighed.
"yeah… "used to" are the keywords in that sentence, she doesn't even call me by my name anymore." He replied gloomily.
"ouch! But dude I really think she was looking for you, you how your total freak about pears--.
"darn it! I am not freak because I like pears!!" shun protested.
Anthony just rolled his eyes.
"anyways, she ordered like a million of them." He explained.
"she could like pears too you know." Shun countered.
"just go see her!!geez!!" Anthony said as he pushed shun towards the sanctuary.
"but I- Anthony this is stupid-
"no buts just go !!you know you like her !be a man and go see her." Anthony said egging him on.
Shun sighed he really hated valentine's day, he nodded and complied with Anthony's suggestion and walked towards the sanctuary.
"ATTA BOY!! GO GET HER TIGER!!" Anthony said as shun walked hestitantly.
Earning weird looks for many bystanders making shun feel utterly humiliated.
"ugh can this day get any worse." He spoke to himself.
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While shun was on his way, june was finished baking a huge peach pie with the help of mu.
(june is bit impatient and usually breaks a lot of things if left alone in a kitchen.)
"it smell wonderful june, but you have yet to tell me who it's for." Mu said as he took it out of the oven.
"it's for no one it just wanted to bake something…I hear it reveals stress or something like that!" She replied quickly.
"you hate baking." Mu stated supicously.
"I hate meditation but I still do it, it helps me relax." She replied.
"uh huh…and today being valentine's day had nothing to do with this sudden urge to bake." He replied teasingly.
"of course not who would I want to bake for, it's stupid." She retorted.
"then why do it." He countered.
"I just felt like it." She said sitting down on a chair next to her small dinning table.
"june you should really trust me more." Mu said sitting beside her.
"I do mu-sama, it's you who should trust me! I think I'm getting better at controling my anger so I though I'd see if could do something that takes a lot of patient." She explained.
"well you definetly broke a lot less things then when you baked a cake for kiki's birthday." Mu said half praising half teasing her.
"yeah I think mediatation and therapy are really working." She replied.
"I'm glad I've been able to help, this anger you've held since your master's death it's not healthy." He said in serious yet comforting tone.
June sighed.
"I know it's wrong to have this much anger and hatred in me but I do…I want to get better I really do mu-sama." She replied.
Mu smiled kindly.
"I've heard you've been able to talk to Andromeda." He stated.
"hai, but only brief conversations, nothing big, he seems the same, maybe even happier." She responded.
"I bet he was happy to see you again." Mu replied.
"I think so…he embraced when I went to greet him." She responded.
"did you tell him about your… problem." Mu asked.
"no why trouble him over something so trivial, we don't talk much let alone see each other so neither of has much to do with the other one's life." She replied.
"do you think you'll be able to tell him how you feel?" mu inquired.
"about what? she asked .
Mu raised a brow in slight annoyance .
"don't play stupid june it doesn't suit a woman like you, you know exactly what I'm talking about." He replied.
June stood up and went to reach for the one picture frame that she had on her bookshelf.
It was of her and shun along with their master.
( the picture of them is posted on Copy and past this link:
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alrighty back to the story)
"no, the only life we will ever have together is that of the past… as should be." She responded.
"he'd be happy to at least talk over 5 minutes with you." Mu replied. " he cares a lot about you june."
June smiled beneath her mask, though amazon where no longer forced to wear them most still did it out habit.
"I'm sure your right andromeda was always one to be overly concerned for others." June replied.
"you should talk to him." Mu adviced.
"and say what?" june retorted.
"how about I love you?" mu replied sacrastically.
"how about never." June retorted. " and besides we barely see each other it's not like he's going to magically appear on door step-
"FOR THE LOVE OF ATHENA SOME BODY SAVE ME!!!!!!!" shun exclaimed interrupting june running away from his fangirls who had found him.
"SHUN-SAMA DON'T RUN WE LOVE YOU!!!" they exclaimed in unsion.
"shun!" june exclaimed running outside of her apartment along with mu.
They found the boy outside running he quickly haulted when he saw them.
"mu! june!" shun shouted as he saw they up headed. "hide me!!"
he hid behind them as they saw the crowd of girls coming after him.
"oii outta of the way!!!" they shouted to june and mu.
"you wanna run that by me again, little girl."June coldly replied balling her hands into fists and turning around slowly to face them , she was beyond pissed one cause she was jealous and two they were being rude.
Mu noticed her tention and quickly protested.
"juneth! Don't you dare they're just village girls!" he shouted.
"june you wouldn't" shun stated.
June tighten her fist in frustration, he was right, she couldn't hurt them. Especially not in front of shun.
"get the hell out of her before I change my mind a kill each and everyone of ya!!!!" she yelled.
The girls frighten by the amazon scurred away. Mu smiled june as angry as she was would never hurt anyone not if she could help it, not if she could control herself.
"not bad,you are getting better june." Mu complimented.
June ignored his comment and turn towards shun.
"andromeda you alright?" she asked.
Shun looked down at floor, for second he had frogotten june didn't call him by his name anymore.
"hai,sorry for being such trouble." He replied sadly.
"it's fine, what are doing here anyways." June question.
Shun blushed remembering why he had come.
"I was looking for…marin-san- yeah! Marin-san !...and I ran into those girls." He replied nervously.
"oh well marin lives a couple doors down on the right side of the our building." June replied politely.
Shun nodded, both seem like they wanted to say something but neither of them spoke. An awkward pause was set between then until Mu decided to break it.
"--clear his throat-- well june I'll be going have nice day, you too shun." he said walking away.
"mu-sama wait the pie's not done!! You still have to help me!!!" she said protesting.
"I'm sure shun would love to help." He said as continued walking.
"he's probably busy and beside you promised!!" she exclaimed.
"trust me june you'll be fine all that's left is to decorate it, I think you can handle that." he said.
"mu-sama!!" she exclaimed as he kept walking further.
"I've going check on kiki! That boy can't be left alone for to long you know!" he replied now too far to hear her.
June let out a loud groan, that man would do anything to get her and shun talking.
"umm I can help… if you want me to, that is." Shun voiced meekly.
June turned around to see shun with kind smile on his face.
"andromeda…are you sure? this is nothing important, I mean if you were looking for marin it must-
"no- I mean it's nothing urgent, and I guess I kinda want to help you, I don't see you that often." He said stopping her mid sentence.
"I see…well then of course you can help." She responded leading him into the apartment.
She pause for a minute, having shun this close it felt strange and it made her feel as if something was clutching her heart, it was painfully sufficating.
Shun and her began to decorate the pie like mu had taught her, it was strangely amusing shun wasn't very gifted at decoration and they had to start over more than 6 times, but it was fun…she laughed, it was something she hadn't done in a long time. Eventually they finished and june offered shun to stay over for tea. Shun graciously excepted, he too had enjoyed himself, it felt nice to be with june to hear her voice, even when it was her scolding him on messing up, she still held that tone of gentleness she only held for him.
"tea's done, here you go." She said as she handed him a cup.
"arigato." He said as he took the cup.
June sat down next to him and took off her mask.
"it's fine, it's the least I could do, you wasted the whole day here, well it's only 5pm but still, 3 hours is a lot." She replied.
"I wouldn't say wasted, more like spent, I spent time with an old friend, it was nice." He responded smiling.
"yes…I supose it was." She said drinking her tea.
Shun would sneak glances at her everytime he could, she was beautiful just like he remembered, but her blue eyes, looked so angry and sad… he gripped his cup harder, it pained him to see june like this.
"june, tell how are you feeling, you look troubled." Shun asked.
His question startled her but she composed herself.
"I'm fine andromeda, just bit tired from work is all, training the new recruits is hard work." She replied smiling.
"I see." He replied sipping his tea, she was lying, like always.
"and you andromeda, it's valentine's day why aren't you with a love one or a girlfriend?" she questioned.
"I guess I just haven't found the one, but in truth I don't think she out there." He replied.
"don't talk nonsense there's plenty of girls out there you'll find her." She said reassuringly.
Though inside it broke her heart at the thought of shun with another girl.
"thanks and you why aren't you with someone?" he asked.
"I'm not really looking at the moment."she replied.
"your robbing some lucky guy the oppurtunity to love you." He replied teasingly.
" the same could for you." she teased back laughing.
"I heard you bought a mountain of flowers." He voiced.
"hai aolia-sama wanted me to pick them up it was surprise for marin-san." She replied.
"how strange aolia never seem like the the flowers and chocolate type." Shun replied.
"love is a strange thing." She stated.
He blushed thinking of how he wished he could have done something for june, maybe on white day he'd do something nice.
"but I did buy some only one bouquet though…it seem pretty…I guess, it's in that vase right there." She said pointing to the a vase by her only framed picture.
Shun looked at the flowers they were simple yet beautiful, they were wild yellow daises, the similar to the ones that grew near the island, he notice the picture frame by them, it was him june and their master, back when he was only eight and june 10.
"They're beautiful." He responded turning back to see june.
June smiled and nodded. in truth she had bought them to give to shun but frown on the idea after giving it some thought shun wasn't part of her life anymore, it seem unusual to get flowers from someone you barely know, beside she could have never worked up the courage to give them to him.
Shun at moment was having his own thoughs, he wanted to spend more time with june to see her smile, to make her laugh, anything to make that weary look in her eyes go away. He blushed at the idea, he'd always wanted to ask june out but, due to the circumstances of past the dating wasn't something that was top priority but now in this time of peace perhaps he could.
"june." Shun said deciding it was now or never.
"hmm?" she said.
"I was wondering…if you'd like to…come with me to this play their performing next week, it's one of my favorites but it's strange to go to the theater alone and after last time ni-san absolutely refuses to go, everyone else is well …too homophobic to go the play with their friend, apparently it's gay or something and since I like spending time with you, and I think you might like it maybe you'd like to, if you don't that's okay, I mean most people think their totally lame, plays I mean, I'm sure your busy and stuff." He asked rambling on hoping to god she'd say yes.
"are-are asking me out…like on a date?" june asked in shock.
She couldn't beileve it, shun just asked her out, this was impossible!
"well yeah- I mean sort of." He said blushing.
"andromeda, I'm not sure we should, I would like too, it just I…" she paused trying to find words to expressed what she felt.
" I think you should find some else to go with you, I don't I'm the kind of woman your looking for." She continued.
"what! Why not?!? Your beautiful, intellegent, strong , charming, and that's just of the top of my head, june I've liked you for a really long time, why shouldn't I like you?" He retorted loudly.
June's eyes widened and she blushed, she never expected him to say such things.
"baka! You don't understand!" she exclaimed.
"well I want to!" he replied. " I don't want to be some old friend you see now and again! I want to be a part of your life june, a big part!"
She stood up from the table.
"Andromeda its best we stay as we are, just acquaintances." She said turning in order of avoid his gaze.
"June you really feel nothing for me, nothing at all?" he asked with a heartbroken tone.
June bit her lip trying to hold back any tears, hoping she could lie to him, anything even if it meant hurting him, as long as he didn't know about her problems.
"yes, your just my-
Before she could continue shun hugged her from behind, his arms wrapped around her gently.
"say it again, say you feel nothing for me." He asked as he turned her around to see her gentle eyes look at his own.
"I- I don't feel anything for you." She said in low tone avoiding his gaze.
"at least look me in eyes, if you're going to reject me." Shun asked.
She looked up hoping she lie, hoping for if only two minutes she could hide her feelings but such ideas fled her mind once she saw his hurt emerald eyes.
"I – I …" she said trying make the words come out.
"you what?" he asked gently.
She closed her eyes; she couldn't lie not with him so close.
"I –I love you…shun." She said paused. "I've always loved you." She finished as she closed the space between her lips and his.
Shun eyes widen he hadn't expected her to kiss him, but it wasn't something he minded. He closed his eyes and kissed back holding her tightly, like he longed to do years ago. She parted from his lips and held him closely.
"shun, it's been so long since you've held me in your arms." June said in soft tone.
"Too long." He replied. "I want us to be close again june, there's nothing in our way now, I have all in time in the world to love you."
"shun…"she said at loss for other words.
He smiled.
"say it again." He asked. " say my name."
"shun." She said smiling.
"again." He asked giving her a peck on the lips.
"shun." She replied laughing as he kissed her again and again as she repeated his name countless times.
"never call me Andromeda again, hearing you say my name, it means see you now, how you saw me then." He explain.
"shun I've never change my image of you, I just-there's things that are different."she said.
"like what?" he asked concernly.
"I've had some problems, gotten into a lot of fights, hurt a lot of people, I've changed my heart is full hatred and anger, and no matter what I do it won't go away, it's gotten better and I've gotten help but I don't want you to see me that way, as someone hateful." She explained.
"june why didn't you tell me, I would have helped, I could never see you as someone hateful, maybe bit feisty but not hateful." He replied.
"shun I want to be how I use to be, but when our sensei died…sensei was all I had, he was practically my father, when he died my heart was full conflict and turmoil even now, I feel anger and hatred, I couldn't save him, I couldn't stop you! I couldn't do anything for the people I loved!" she retorted.
"sensei must never sleep peacefully knowing he causes you grief, and I can never think of a day I don't regret hurting you." He replied.
June looked up at him.
"no I don't hate either of you! I hate myself, I hate how weak I was and still am! I let the man who was like my father die and then man I love run off to give his life." She exclaimed.
"june, sensei would never want you to be like this, he loved you like his own daughter! He'd never want you to hate yourself!" shun retorted.
"that's what everyone says! But-but I can't stop this pain, this guilt in my heart." She countered.
"then listen to me, listen to someone who knew sensei just well as you did." He said as he took her hand brought to his lips.
"sensei has never held even an ounce of resentment towards you, he would never hate you, and he wouldn't want you to live with unnecessary pain in your heart." He said in honest tone.
She smiled weakily.
"some how…coming from you, it doesn't sound so scripted, shun I'm not sure if I'll ever get better but I know that no matter what I want to be with you." She replied.
"I'll help I promise." He responded.
She smiled.
"I don't feel that hatred…it's almost as if it's gone…but its there I just can't feel it, with him here." She though as she felt his arms tighten around her.
"I have something for you." She said.
Shun looked at her in confusion.
"you know that pie we were decorating…I kinda wanted to give to you…for valentines day, I know its dumb and stuff but still I thought you might like it since you love pears." She explained blushing.
Shun blushed too.
"so that's why you were baking! You hate cooking!" he mused.
"of course I do it's stupid!!!" she replied.
He laughed and kissed her on the cheek.
"so you did something you hate for me, that's gonna be hard to top on white day." He said earning a blush from june.
"you idiot, you don't have to do anything, just being with me is enough." She replied harshily.
He blushed and laughed.
"hey on white day I call the shots! So be nice june." He said taking her hand. "come on lets go to kitchen and eat some of that pie, it looked so good!" he continued.
June smiled and followed geez he was glutton.
The day ended well shun and june were together, shun wasn't molested by his many fangirls and june didn't kill anyone, I'd say that's the best valentine's day either of them had.
The end.
Sorry about the sucky ending! Please review!! I kinda need feedback.