I'm back YAY. Okay i know, really long time updating and this is quite a short chapter but, the dreaded writers block is back, it's short because i just wanted to update as soon as possible.
Anyway - Disclaimer - It is a well established fact by now that i do not own Sailor Moon or its associated characters, or at least that is what the men and women in white coats keep telling me.
It could only have been two or three minutes later that Seiya was reawakened by another loud bang that resounded through the apartment, followed by a loud and, in Seiya's opinion, highly annoying voice.
"Seiya, you here?"
Growling several insults about his younger brother under his breath, Seiya rolled of his bed once again and wondered back into the living room.
"What?" he said irritably, Yaten turned in his seat to look at him.
"You know I could swear I just saw… have you only just got up," he asked, Seiya glared at him.
"Yes!" he snapped, and Yaten jumped slightly.
"Oh… well I thought I just…" He paused again looking Seiya up and down, "Weren't you wearing those yesterday," He gestured to Seiya's clothes; Seiya rolled his eyes but said nothing in reply. Yaten lowered his hand and was also silent for a few moments.
"Has anyone visited you this morning?" he asked suddenly.
Seiya thought about this for a moment, he finally settled on "huh?" for his answer.
"I thought I saw Tenoh leaving the building when I was parking my car…"
"Wha… oh yeah," Yaten stared at him, "yeah she came by about ten minutes ago… she woke me up," So he hadn't dreamt that, he must have been really out of it.
"And what exactly did she want,"
"Uh I think…" he stared out the window, what was it she had said, it had seemed pretty unbelievable, his expression became confused.
"Earth to Seiya," Yaten waved his hand around in front of Seiya's face.
"She wanted to apologise…" he said, only vaguely aware of the words that he was speaking.
"For what?" Yaten was looking at him as if he had gone completely mental, then again, come to think of it maybe he had; it might explain a few things.
"Everything…" he said
"Everything?" Seiya nodded slowly and Yaten looked at him for a few seconds longer.
"You know Seiya… I don't think you're a bit overtired… you're hallucinating" he looked really worried. Seiya blinked a couple of times, he certainly felt overtired.
"Maybe…"
"I don't know what's worn you out so bad but… maybe you had the right idea of getting some more sleep,"
"Yeah…" He answered hazily.
"And… a change of clothes… those stink,"
Seiya frowned slightly, "You're such a girl," He said and turned to walk back to his bedroom, pulling off his shirt. Yaten frowned after him
"That's what I get for trying to help," He grumbled and turned back around in his seat, flicking the television on.
'I didn't… no, I really didn't… I couldn't have… there is no way… I swore, never in a million lifetimes could the tiniest chance of the idea even contemplating the merest possibility of beginning to cross my mind,' Haruka collapsed from her room pacing onto her sofa, causing the two girls already sat there to jump quickly aside
"I can't believe I actually did that!" she growled loudly.
Makoto and Rei exchanged confused glances, neither had the faintest idea what she was talking about. They had arrived about ten minutes earlier to see how she was feeling, and they had been hauled inside set down on the sofa and Haruka had been pacing up and down in front of them ever since.
"Why do I let my conscience get the better of me," She groaned putting her head in her hands "Better yet, why do I even have one, it's damned annoying,"
Makoto put her hand on her back and patted it slightly, unsure of what to do, she exchanged another perplexed look with Rei who shrugged.
That morning, Haruka had woken far earlier than usual and had spent five hours attempting to keep herself occupied, she had set about cleaning the house from top to bottom, something she rarely did on a grand scale, though since Michiru left it had started looking more and more like a tip and less and less like a home every day. When that was done she had actually tried to organise all the books in her small library into alphabetical order, or at least she had started, she reached D, found a load of books that should have been in A and C and suddenly realised that far from occupying her mind the tediousness of it was in fact killing off her brain cells one by one with every book. So she had instead decided to take an afternoon jog. The result of this brilliant decision was that she had unconsciously wound up right outside the home of one of the two people she was trying to keep her mind off. For the next half hour she endured a heated internal battle, which probably made her appear completely insane to passers by as she muttered to herself and moved back and forth towards the building. Eventually however, that damned conscience had gotten the better of her and she had marched herself into the building, argued for ten minutes with two large security guards when nobody answered the intercom, got fed up and knocked said security guards out cold and proceeded to knock loudly on the door for five minutes until a very tired and messy looking Seiya Kou had appeared.
It wasn't enough that she had then gone onto apologise to him, for everything, she had also been what could only be described as 'friendly', she was beginning to scare herself/ Of course she blamed Mina, and Yuki, for forcing the two of them to be civil to one another and refrain for sharp comments and shouting matches; she had been dragged against her will into bad habits and she was not happy about it.
She stood up and resumed her pacing "I'll never live this down… it's unbearable that I actually arg!" she grumbled,
"You actually…" Makoto began
"I can't believe it, maybe he won't remember… he did look like he was out of it… but God what a bloody mess!"
"Haruka?" Rei said
"It's not like I even mean it… not really, I just had to stop that horrible nagging voice in my head!"
"Haruka!" Makoto said a little louder.
"I could take it back… but that doesn't erase the fact that I said it in the fist place!"
"Haruka!" Rei shouted jumping up and waving a hand in her eyes. Haruka looked round.
"Yes?" she said. Rei looked over to Makoto.
"Er well, you know we're here for you and all but… we can't do much to help if you don't tell us what's wrong!" Haruka blinked at the two younger girls who were staring at her looking very confused.
"Did I not mention that?" They shook their heads. "Oh… you know it really doesn't matter!" Rei raised an eybrow at her.
"Haruka if something's bothering you we…"
"No really… it's fine…"
"If it's to do with Michiru…" Makoto began
"Nothing to do with that," Haruka replied sharply and walked out of the room, the followed. "It was nice of you girls to come see me, but I'm fine honest,"
"You're sure?" Rei asked concerned. Haruka nodded and they walked past her, still shooting worried glances at her over their shoulders until they disappeared behind the front door.
Haruka sighed and walked away through the house towards the back garden, once there she found a nice patch of wall and punched it, hard… it was amazing how much better she suddenly felt, despite the now throbbing pain in her hand.
Yeah again sorry for the shortness and the wait, aswell as my two week holiday i've also been at work doing extra hours for MONEY, plus i got my AS level results (Go me - 4 B's and a C) that plus the social life that i do actually have :P has left me very little time to overcome my writers block (sorrysorrysorrysorry x 100)
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Angelsea: I hadn't thought about it until I started writing this fic, actually it was going to be Seiya/Usagi, but I'm glad I decided against that and did Seiya/Haruka instead. I'll try to write more about Michi, I do like her.
Bibi3758: Thanks I had a great trip, and I'm sorry you had to wait and wait for this chapter.
Owwiegh: No Seiya didn't mean she was fat, but I mean I'm not fat or tall, but I'm still pretty heavy just generally. I expect after a long run when your muscles are aching even someone petite would feel heavy and Haruka is probably the same size as Seiya. I hope you're still alive to read this.
debora diskey: You have to see Ireland, it's probably the most beautiful country in the world. I really hope you go one day.
PriestessHelene: Thanks for that I didn't actually remember that Haruka plays. I have heard Angels, it's one of my fave songs, actually a few days before your comment I made an AMV for Haruka and Michiru. It's on youtube, If you want to look it up my name on there is Rinielle as well; I have a lot of Sailor Moon AMV's.
Sailor-ahiru: my faithful reviewer :D. I didn't hinder myself, but fanfic writing provided great entertainment for long car and ferry journeys and I had a great time thanks :P.
SailorUranus28: Yeah poor Ruka, she hates to have to depend on others, she's very independent, you can see that even when she's with Michiru. I personally think she worries about people getting hurt for her sake so she prefers to go it alone.
