Alina: This is the last chapter...Enjoy...oh...and don't hold back on your reviews either...good or bad. Just write what you want to say already. You're annoying me, if you want to say something and you stop yourself from saying it.

Chapter three: Beautiful Vampire.

Setsuna yawned as she turned over and felt for her lover. Hotaru managed to get away from her during the middle of the night without Setsuna noticing.

The smaller woman was missing in action. The side of her bed was cold symbolizing she hadn't been there for a while.

Setsuna could hear the shower sprays once she fully woke up. She had forgotten the other woman had a breakfast date with her aqua haired friend.

Her thoughts wandered back to the first time she'd met Michiru. The young woman was charming and her vibrant smile warm welcoming. She was put off by her seemingly friendly nature and polite mannerisms. Not that she would think that a friend of Hotaru's wouldn't be courteous, she just didn't know what to expect from the other girl.

She then thought to her rough and tumble friend, Haruka. There was no way their Michiru's could have been the same person.

Hotaru finally came out of the bathroom wrapped in her robe, much to Setsuna's dismay.

"Tonight be there," Hotaru told her.

"I will," Setsuna said. "But we need to figure out a way to bring those two back together."

"I don't really think that's our place," Hotaru said. "Since I'm a bit confused on what split them up in the first place."

"That doesn't mean we can't try," Setsuna insisted.

"Fine," Hotaru said.

"We'll bring the two together tonight,"

"But how?" Setsuna asked.

"I'm getting to that," The secretive woman said. "now listen closely..."

--

Michiru sat waiting patiently, as she smoothed the slight wrinkles in her skirt while she passed the time daydreaming. She was glad that although she wasn't occupied by conversation with her long awaited counterpart, she also wasn't completely bored. Her mind kept her occupied as it replayed her encounter the night before.

Why had she run away from Haruka? The woman who was suppose to be her soul mate. Was the one query she couldn't seem to figure out. Was it due to the fact that it was a very unforeseen rendezvous? One that she should have taken in stride instead of completely acting out of character and scampering away like some childish schoolboy afraid of catching the cooties from his pursuer?

The aqua haired goddess sighed thinking, what if she had ruined things with her beloved by running. The thought saddened her a jolt.

Michiru was drawn from her thought's as her breakfast date had arrived. She supposed she'd have plenty of time to think about this situation she had gotten herself into later.

"Good morning lovely," Hotaru said greeting Michiru with a light smile and a hug. "Sorry to keep you waiting."

"No big," Michiru said. "I've learned how to easily entertain myself."

Hotaru laughed lightly as the waiter came over.

"Is there anything I can get you ladies to drink?" He asked pulling out his tab.

"Who are you?" Hotaru asked suspiciously.

The young waiter blushed.

"I'm Logan. I'll be you waiter this morning," He said introducing himself.

"Well then Logan," Michiru said smiling. "I'll have two glasses of water,"

"Nothing for me," Hotaru said. Dismissing the young man.

"will you cut it out!" Michiru said.

"What?" Hotaru said looking at her innocently.

"You scared that poor guy stiff."

"Well he should have introduced himself first." Hotaru defended. "If some man walked up to you and offered you a glass of water you'd take it?"

"Well no, but..."

"Okay then," Hotaru huffed.

--

"Do you drink anything else?" Hotaru asked as they ate breakfast. Michiru was now finishing off her fifth glass of water.

"Leave me alone," she blushed. "I'm really dehydrated."

"There's no way in hell…" Hotaru mumbled eating more of her pancakes.

Michiru smiled lightly as she got another bite of the waffle in front of her.

"How are you doing ladies?" The waiter asked just as the two women got done putting another piece of food into their mouths.

Michiru had to hold back a groan. She knew what would happen.

Hotaru's eyebrow quirked as she chewed her food exaggeratingly slow. The waiter stood there unsure of what to do.

Michiru swallowed her food but knew better than to say anything.

Hotaru slowly took her time as she set her silverware down.

"So nice of you to ask at such a convenient time," Hotaru began. She made eye contact with Michiru and the aqua haired girl instantly knew this guy was in trouble.

"Well Logan, I sat down and was approached by a handsome young man who proceeded to take my order without introducing himself, and after finally inquiring about his name I learned he in fact, was you. After the little mishap was cleared up, I was fairly confident that I could trust you to bring me and my companion a satisfying meal." Hotaru said very slowly.

"You see, as I was looking through the menu, I of course being the very picky eater that I am, quickly dismissed most of the items on the menu, I promised my very lovely friend here a nice breakfast for the two of us to catch up on things we hadn't really gotten the chance to talk about in depth. It wouldn't have been wise of me to not find something appetizing so early in the morning." Hotaru continued but paused for a minute, obviously the waiter thought that it was his turn to speak.

"Well ma'am I.."

"No dear this is a monologue, you're to listen not talk understood?" Hotaru interrupted.

"Yes ma'am..." The poor waiter said defeated as he continued to listen to Hotaru's monologue.

Michiru held in her smile, somewhat feeling sorry for the poor lad. He would have to endure a twenty minute critic of the service and the meals.

The young waiter was extremely glad when it was over and could escape.

By that time their meals were cold and Hotaru ordered again. It of course, was on the house.

--

It was late the next day as the sun finally shone brightly through Haruka's open window. She'd stumbled into her room a few hours prior, hoping sleep would easily consume her. Which wasn't the case, as she turned over multiple times during the first hour. Slowly getting aggravated by her lack of being able to slide into a peaceful sleep, but eventually her wandering mind laid to rest and she was consumed by the dark clouds of welcome unconsciousness.

The blonde growled, wanting nothing more than to stay asleep. There, in the deep folds of bliss, things were peaceful and her life was perfect. There were no rent payments, or bills, no friends who poked fun at her expense, no messy room, and definitely no difficult girlfriends to deal with.

"Rise and shine, sleepy head," The blondes best friend said, looking around the dirty bedroom. "That is of course if something hasn't eaten you yet."

"Sod off Setsuna," Haruka hissed. "It's to early for you're crap."

"What are you talking about?" Setsuna said. "It's four o'clock in the afternoon."

"Four?" Haruka said sitting up and looking for the clock that was suppose to be on her bedside table. She moved an abandoned T shirt and sighed.

"Why on earth would you let me sleep this long?" Haruka asked incredulously.

"Because I'm not your alarm clock," Setsuna reminded her. "You're a big girl now Haruka you're quite capable of tweaking that internal clock of yours."

"Set, you know I'm no tweaker," Haruka joked.

"Right," Setsuna said. "I'll know for sure when you start gaining weight."

Haruka huffed and pulled herself from the small comfort that was her bed.

"Go get yourself ready we're going out," Setsuna said sitting on her computer chair.

"Don't you have a girlfriend you can go out with," Haruka said. "Were is that little weirdo anyway?"

"Don't call her a weirdo and hurry up!" Setsuna hissed.

"I'm going," Haruka said throwing her hands up in defense. "I'm going."

Setsuna watched as Haruka rummaged through her closet and was slightly surprised that there was something in it at all.

After Haruka decided on a suitable attire she whisked herself off to take a shower.

Setsuna looked around uncomfortably and with a sigh got on the task of tiding the other woman's room.

---

Haruka eagerly took in the sights of the circus performers that had taken to the streets. They were some strange looking performers due to the face paint. Slowly the two women made their way toward the pier where all the really fun things appeared to be happening. The children happily ran around as their parent's chased after them. There were people doing juggling acts and selling all kinds of strange things Haruka couldn't quite make out.

She noticed Setsuna had wandered off while she wasn't paying attention, but she shrugged it off. The older woman would make her way back to her side eventually.

Haruka checked out a few of the shows and it wasn't long before the young aqua haired woman made her way into her sights. She was standing next to an old bookstore talking to someone. Haruka couldn't quite make out who it was.

Before Michiru looked away from the woman she was talking to and made eye contact with Haruka.

The young blond felt bad and managed to slink away into the crowd of people.

She sighed, as she got closer to the side of the pier. The wind ruffling her hair, trying to soothe the sadness that came over her.

---

Michiru's senses came to life as she felt the strong aura of her lover nearby. She was at a loss for what to do as for a split second she tried to make eye contact and the slender blonde slinked away and into the crowd.

---

There was a boat, and people were waiting outside of it. She heard screams coming from the inside and suddenly she was interested in what was inside, but not interested enough to go inside.

She wandered around looking for something to keep her occupied. Looking at the clowns that escaped the regular crowded streets that also wandered around towards the pier and trying to entertain the children and families around that area. As she walked closer to the boat and looked around it, she definitely wasn't expecting a beautiful looking vampire to catch her eye inside the boat itself.

Her curiosity built more and she decided to go on the boat and get a closer look at this girl.

"Besides...it would be nice for a change not to feel bad and get my mind off Michiru for a while..." the blonde thought depressingly.

She sighed one last time and walked inside the boat. Looking around it, she thought it could be like a haunted house only it was a haunted boat instead. She could see the "ghouls" or people that dressed up in a white table cloth with holes cut in there for the eyes to make them look like ghosts to scare people. The kids were laughing and running away almost bumping Haruka at the same time.

Luckily that she could maneuver herself away in time before she could get hit by the kids. She looked up in time to see that beautiful standing a couple of feet in front of her, almost in her face but not really. Blinking in surprise she smiled as she walked closer to her.

The vampiress was wearing a long velvety black and red sleeveless dress with slits up both the sit is ides of her thighs, black shiny leather knee high boots that make her legs look almost as long as Haruka's...her long dark jet black hair hung loose down her back and shoulders with her red luscious lipstick accentuating her lips. Her brown eyes capturing Haruka's while she's looking straight at her and smiling back. Everything fit perfectly on the pale body.

Finely face to face, almost a breathe away from their lips touching, the vampiress speaks softly.

"Welcome..." she say's with a slow European accent.

"Hi.." Haruka say's back while continuously looking in her eyes, almost forgetting everything.

"What brings you here?" the vampiress asked.

"I saw you and curiosity got the best of me." Haruka smiled charmingly at her. "I was wondering, if you were a real vampire."

"Oh?" the vampiress raises her eyebrow "is that so...?"

"Well this is a haunted boat after all..." she laughed.

Moving closer to the beautiful vampire, Haruka could feel the body heat that emitted from the beautiful woman, Now as she stood by her side. " I was wondering if you would like to accompany me? Unfortunately my friend has decided to leave me stranded over here alone and I would enjoy your company...if that's okay with you of course." Haruka states as she looks deeper into the vampiress eyes.

She smiled back at Haruka as she let her lead her towards the entry way out of the boat. Walking in sync their fingers almost wrapped together.

"You're beautiful you know that? I heard that vampires come from Romania...Is that true?" Haruka said to her anonymous vampire companion.

"Thank you..." The vampiress smiled at the compliment and replied softly.

"Yes...It is true that we vampire's come from Romania...More like Transylvania" She states with her European accent. Looking back at Haruka, before she can say anything. A tall woman with longer hair than her own pops out of nowhere and glares at Haruka.

"Haruka!" Setsuna growled, firmly planting her hands are on her hips.

Haruka had a tough time not picturing her as an old lady.

"What?" Haruka asked while being surprised by the sudden outburst from her friend.

"What are you doing?" Setsuna asked grabbing Haruka's arm. The older woman glared at her with daggers in her eyes as she pulled her away from the vampire.

"You know, Michiru is waiting for you. You need to go talk to her right now!" Setsuna hissed quietly into the younger blondes ear. "You can not flirt with other women while your girlfriend is looking for you"

"Why not?" Haruka asked, looking apologetically at the vampire as she was being dragged away by Setsuna.

"What are you talking about Set's? Michiru doesn't want to have any part with me. It's over. Done. There's no way she's gonna come back to me now. Not after what I did and how foolish I looked in front of her last night!" Haruka said with mixed emotions, trying to get out of Setsuna's strong grasp, but to no avail she gave up.

"Listen..." Setsuna said stopping right outside of the boat entry way, Her voice was low as she spoke softly in a secretive tone.

"I have a plan to get Michiru to set things straight with you and Michiru. Okay?" She states.

The young blond looked at her senselessly.

"You're kidding right?" Haruka asked.

"No, I'm not kidding. Just follow my plan and you'll have her back in no time!" Setsuna states while pushing the blonde to walk forward through the crowd and starts slapping the blonde's back hard, making her wince a little.

"Gee Setsuna, you know you don't have to hit me that hard!" Haruka states grumpily while rubbing her back and thinking that "this is a bad idea...a very bad idea."

"Just trust me Ruka." Setsuna states while hitting the blonde on top of her head, causing a scene in front of everyone else.

"Oh no.." Haruka raises her hands up to defend herself from Setsuna's blows on her head while looking ahead and realizing that they are going to where she last saw Michiru and that everyone else is now looking at both of them like this is something very amusing and an act.

"Geez Setsuna! Will you stop hitting me already! I mean isn't this enough?" Haruka screamed while holding her head and almost crouching.

Setsuna huffed and hit her again.

"I'm getting fucking annoyed here!" She growls angrily. "Stop already!"

While Setsuna is looking at her almost crazily, and laughing.

"She's enjoying this too much damn it!" Haruka thinks while looking up at her best friend.

--

Michiru watched suspiciously as Setsuna again hit her beloved blond.

She watched as the older woman whispered something into Haruka's ear.

"What in the world are those two doing?" Hotaru said voicing Michiru thoughts.

"Coming this way…" Michiru said, her voice trailing off as unknown emotions crept to the surface..

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