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It took them both a few moments to comprehend what was going on, and during those moments they had still failed to release each other's hands. It was Haruka who first snapped back. She jerked her hand away, and instinctively brought it back around to slap his still outstretched hand away.
"What the hell are you doing," she shouted, Seiya, who felt the slap, which had actually hurt, was completely uncalled for, reared in anger.
"What am I doing!" he yelled back "I was stopping you from falling… why I didn't just let you go over I have no idea. I guess I didn't realise it was you or I would have let you hit the floor and then walked away!"
"I wish you had," she growled, glaring at him, her blue eyes were practically on fire, Seiya figured that the idea that he had helped her, that she should be thankful to him, even for such a small thing was burning her up. After all the aggravation she'd put him through he couldn't help but get a sense of satisfaction from the fact. He stepped around her and started walking away.
"Maybe you should look where your going in future Tenoh," he couldn't see her but he could tell she was flaring up.
"Me! It's you who rushed out!" she yelled and turned on her heel marching away, she didn't notice that he had frozen in his tracks.
Flashback
"Oh it's you again Odango hair" Seiya looked down at the pretty blonde haired girl from the day before, she was still sat on the floor after they had run into each other... literally.
"What! Don't say that after bumping into me!"
"It's unsafe to walk without looking ahead," he teased and she leapt to her feet pointing a finger at him.
"It's you who rushed out!"
- End -
"You're strange," he murmured to himself as he began to move away again. That had only been the second time he'd seen her, the day before he, Taiki and Yaten had transferred to Juuban High School. It was hard to believe it had only been three years ago, so much had happened since. He had known from then that he liked her, she was cute, sweet, funny and very attractive, when exactly attraction turned to love he wasn't entirely sure, so much had been going on in his head, Galaxia, his princess, being famous, but he put it down roughly to when they had been in the baseball match together. He smiled slightly as he remembered how happy she had been when she had won the game, but the smile died again and he shook his head as he once again reminded himself that all that was over. He frowned hard, that Tenoh, she was infuriating, it seemed even when she wasn't trying to get at him about Usagi she still managed it. Sighing he stepped back into the shop and headed towards the till.
"Excuse me," the girl turned, and on seeing him stood there she jumped and nearly fell off her seat. He ignored it, "I left my card," he said not looking at her. She jumped again and reached for where she had put his card for safekeeping.
"H-Hai," She handed it to him shyly, her cheeks were bright red and people in the queue for her till were now looking at him.
"Thank you," he said and turned praying that nobody would…
"Excuse me," a little voice sounded behind him and he cringed. Turning ready to snap at whoever it was, his eyes fell on a little girl and his expression softened instantly,
"U-um," the girl gulped and looked down at the floor, she was clutching a little book. Damn he thought he never could walk away from kids, it's like they had some kind of power over him. This girl had short blonde hair with a little red bow on her head, she reminded him of a small Minako, except she was obviously not so outgoing. He knelt down so his face was level with hers and gave her his best smile.
"What's your name," she looked up at him, with a little smile, and she held out the little book. "Aimi," she said quietly. He nodded and took the book from her
"That's really pretty," he said with a wink as he signed the paper. She beamed and as he handed the book back to her she clutched it to her heart.
"A-arigato," she said bowing, he smiled again and stood patting her head, earning him a round of "Ah's" from the people watching. She giggled and ran back to her mother the biggest smile on her face. He started to walk away making the most of the fact that the little girl was still close by so people wouldn't rush him all of a sudden.
He let out a sigh as he closed the door and leant against it. Taiki and Yaten were obviously not back and he wondered into the kitchen, their interview should be starting about now. He put away the shopping and then headed into the living room, turning on the television and throwing himself onto the sofa. He hadn't had far to run admittedly, but he still cursed himself for being so stupid, from now on he was always paying by cash.
The interview was nothing interesting, the usual questions; a couple were about girls, which were answered with a decisive no on both parts. Seiya rolled his eyes wondering when they were both going to give it up and admit to both being almost as hopelessly in love as he was with Usagi. All Taiki ever seemed to talk about was discussions he had had with Ami Mizuno, and there was barely a moment in the day when Yaten wasn't on the phone with or out with or talking about Mina. Honestly and they say Usagi was blind, he shook his head despairing of both his brothers.
When Taiki and Yaten came into the apartment about an hour and a half later the last thing they expected was the, unmistakable, smell of Seiya's "cooking". They both looked at each other and dashed towards the kitchen, a cloud of smoke hitting them as the opened the door to the Kitchen. Seiya was stood on a stool opening a window and trying to waft the smoke out, he turned when he heard coughing from behind him.
"Seiya, what are you doing!" Taiki said waving his hand around his face to clear the air around him.
"I know you depressed man but there's no need to go this far, I mean you could have taken the apartment with you!" Yaten ran towards the oven to turn it off. With the windows around the kitchen all open and the smoke now clearing Seiya turned to his youngest brother.
"Very funny, as it happens I was not trying to burn the apartment to the ground, I was trying to cook something," he had his arms folded and he looked almost his old self, except the sadness was still evident behind his eyes.
"It's the same thing isn't it," Yaten grinned as Seiya aimed a friendly punch at his arm; he jumped aside and bent down to look into the oven. "And just what the hell is that," he exclaimed. Seiya blushed and muttered something inaudible. Taiki shook his head and, pulling on oven gloves, he took the, whatever it was, from the oven and dropped it in the bin.
"Well you went out then," he said as he started looking through the cupboards,
"Yeah," Seiya sighed and leant against the kitchen unit.
"It was okay then?"
"At first,"
Yaten leant next to him giving him a quizzical look.
"At first?"
"I ran into Tenoh," they all exchanged dark looks, Haruka Tenoh was bad news to run into at the best of times. "Twice," Yaten put a hand on Seiya's shoulder.
"I feel for you I really do," he said remembering that his own most recent run in with the Wind Senshi had ended with a lot of damage done to his ego.
"Yeah well I got mobbed too," his brothers both cringed "Damn my soft heart, this little girl came and asked for my autograph and I just can't say no to kids,"
"Wow, you ran in with Tenoh twice, got guilt tripped by a little girl, mobbed and then nearly had the apartment up in flames. So short of running into Chiba and Usagi your night is just about complete," summarised Yaten. Seiya nodded and rubbed his head.
"I think I'm going to get some sleep," he said.
"You're not hungry?" Taiki looked at him worriedly, "I thought you were making something to eat,"
"Taiki, you should know when Seiya cooks he can't possibly expect it to turn out edible," this comment earned him another punch on the arm.
"I was a little hungry but then, all the smoke made me feel kind of ill,"
"Not as ill as your food would… Ow that one hurt," Seiya shook his head and started to move towards the door, all he wanted to do was collapse on his bed and get some rest, even though he knew he'd be haunted by dreams of Usagi.
"Are you sure you don't want anything,"
"Look if it'll stop you worrying I'll have a banquet for breakfast I just want some sleep right now," he snapped and shut the door behind him. Taiki was still looking worried but Yaten was still grinning.
"What are you so happy about?"
"You mean you're not…?" Yaten looked at him confused.
"Should I be? He's had a really rough evening and I was the one who asked him to go."
"If you ask me that rough evenings clicked something back into place, at least he's not a zombie anymore, for a few minutes there he was practically himself." Taiki said nothing but sighed and Yaten rolled his eyes.
"Don't you start," he said and walked out of the room, maybe he'd phone Mina, even if she had no idea what to do about the situation at the very least he could be sure of getting some kind of response which was more than he was getting around here.
- - -
When Seiya woke up the next morning and some of the previous nights dream came back to him he almost laughed. He couldn't remember much of it but he was sure there had been little Chibi Haruka's dancing around taunting him until he realised he had a fly swatter. Shaking his head, he looked at his clock, wow he'd really slept and it was almost eleven. He caught the smell of food from up the hall and for the first time in a while he felt really starved. Taking this as a good sign he pulled himself out of bed and grabbed a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. As he opened his door he could hear the sound of Taiki's snores still coming from next door, he'd probably been up half the night talking to Ami on the Internet, and then spent the rest of it studying. That could only mean Yaten was the one cooking. Seiya's hunger eased a little, despite Yaten's jibes about Seiya's cooking, his wasn't much better, though it was usually made without quite so much fuss or as much smoke. Still Yaten's or not he really needed something to eat, so he made his way down the hall and towards the kitchen.
"What the hells all this for," He exclaimed as he walked into the dining room, Yaten peeped out from the kitchen and grinned. The table was piled high with what looked like a meal for ten to fifteen people.
"All what?" He asked innocently, Seiya pointed to the table and he laughed "Oh, all that… your banquet." Seiya looked at him dumbfounded, and then back at the table.
So okay he'd been intending to have a good breakfast but this was just taking the mick.
"You expect me to eat all that…"
"Not all of it, I'll have some too and…"
"No offence but how do I even know it's fit for consumption,"
"I resent that," a female voice came from behind Yaten and Minako Aino appeared beside him her arms folded and a very fake frown plastered across her face.
"M- Mina?"
"What you thought I made all this myself, besides it was Mina's idea!" Seiya looked from one to the other, both of them were grinning like idiots. He sighed and pulled up a chair.
"Fine, fine," Mina clapped her hands and bounced over to take the seat across from him, whilst Yaten went to wake Taiki. On finding out that Yaten had not cooked the food it suddenly looked a lot more appetising, he knew all the girls had taken lessons from Makoto Kino and so their culinary skills were much improved, so he started to load up his plate and Mina was doing the same.
"How long have you been working on this then?" She looked up and grinned.
"I got here about nine, so almost two hours,"
"You two have been plotting again,"
She answered only with a small laugh; of the five girls she had changed the most. She was far more mature and, thankfully, less clingy and flirtatious. She had also got her act together over her dismal school grades and had come out of college with straight B's. However there were some things that had never changed, she had always kept that streak of mischievous child like energy, it was one of the things Seiya thought fitted her well with Yaten. Only the two of them could come up with this in one night and have it all done the next morning. She looked up at him from her food, her head on one side as if she were assessing him.
"So, how are you doing?" she said quietly, he didn't answer, he wasn't sure what to say, nobody, even Yaten and Taiki had actually asked him how he was and the truth was, he had no idea.
When he didn't say or do anything but stare into his food she put down her fork and her expression became sympathetic. "That good huh," he gave a small smile, and at that moment Yaten came back dragging a still sleepy Taiki with him.
"For gods sake it's almost half past eleven Taiki," Taiki grumbled about something and then looked around… his eyes widened.
"Y-Yaten? What the…"
"Don't worry about it just sit down," Taiki sat down in the chair beside Seiya still staring at the table. Seiya patted him on the back.
"Right there with you,"
"It's nice to see our efforts so appreciated, wouldn't you say Yaten," Mina, ever the drama queen, huffed. Yaten nodded and Taiki looked up at her as if he'd never seen her before.
"When did you get here?"
"Nine," she replied sharply and started to eat her food again.
Once they'd all finished there was still a lot left over and Mina and Taiki were sorting out the things that could be reheated and those that would have to be thrown away, while Yaten was getting in their way trying to help. Seiya, who was sat observing from a stool on the other side of the kitchen, was for what felt like the first time in forever, kind of enjoying himself. Mina and Yaten were squabbling as per usual, something to do with the interview yesterday and Yaten's answer to the question about whether he was seeing anyone, and as Taiki tried to resolve the issue he found himself shot down by a glare from one or the other or both, which was usually followed by the name Ami, which made him turn beetroot red and shut him up instantly.
- - -
Having resolved their dispute Mina and Yaten decided to go out to the arcade and to everyone's surprise Seiya decided to accompany them. Taiki was headed off to meet Ami at the Library and Seiya was certain that once he was left alone to his own thoughts his good mood would evaporate fast and in no time at all he'd be back at the window. So he tagged along with Yaten and Mina, who were happily chatting, he added his own voice to the conversation occasionally and by the time they reached the Arcade he was almost cheerful.
"Are you two quite finished,"
"I'll not be finished till she admits defeat!"
"Never!"
Seiya sighed and looked at the two of them, they'd been racing each other for about an hour and each was taking it in turns to win then lose, and so neither would give up until one had won two consecutive games. This didn't look set to happen anytime soon so Seiya decided to give up and go get a drink.
"I'll be in the café if you two ever manage to tear yourselves away," they both nodded but wouldn't take their eyes off the game. So shaking his head he walked away towards the café. As he entered however he had the urge to turn back and return to watching his brother and Mina battle it out. Actually he might have time; maybe they hadn't noticed him… he made to turn around when.
"Seiya!" he cringed and turned back to see Rei Hino waving him over, she was sat at the scout's usual corner table, and sat with her was Makoto and Haruka. Worst of all two others with their backs to him, although he had known at once who they were, one had short raven hair and the other blonde with two dessert shaped buns on the top of her head.
oO now whats he going to do, drinks with the woman you love and her husband, that's gotta be bad, and what will our dear friend Haruka have to say... i actually have no idea right now but i'll think it over and try to update soon. I do know one thing, this is set to be quite long, after all we can't expect Sei&Har to just drop their hatred overnight now can we. There may be a thin line between love and hate, but it's a hard one to cross and the line never runs straight. Oh dear i'm starting to sound like my mother someone stop me.
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Also incase anyone has forgotten the flashback scene is from Episode 174 or Sailor Stars Episode 8.
SCREAMS - sorry had to get that out, just so you all know theres going to be a bit of a delay before i can update again since my STUPID kicks computer decided to totally wipe my work, so i have to write it all out again sigh.
