(READ PLEASE!) Hello again, I'm sorry if the last chapter was a little boring, it was suppose to be a simple part of the story, you know? Well the best parts will come soon. I have to come up with some good ideas because I'm the type that doesn't have the story already ready to type. But the more I look around the more ideas pop into my head...so don't worry ;).
CherryBlossom210
Chapter 3: Filling Up.
The school bell rings at the time of 8'oclock. The voice that Himeno had in her head was gone for a few minutes before the bell rang loudly.
Himeno walks into the school, passing through hallways and past classrooms til she got to her classroom. She stepped in and she was the only person in the room with teacher, Mrs. Fujiwara (sorry I don't know the teacher's name or gender so I'm making it up).
"My, my guess who showed up early for the first time to school," She says tilting her glasses to get a better view.
"Hi Mrs. Fujiwara," Himeno says with a sweat dropping down her head.
She sits in her desk chair waiting for the other people to arrive.
She looks out the window, looking at the clouds stroll by. But one there was one thing on her mind that was eating her from the inside out.
'Whose was that Michiko person anyway, and why was she talking with me in my head? Should I trust her? Is she a good or bad person?'
These questions keep rolling in her mind over and over which ,Himeno begins to have pains in her head just thinking too much on one subject.
As she looks around, everyone got into their seat ready for the class to start. She picks out her note book out of her bag and her text book that was part of the class subject that she was in.
The tardy bell rings to begin the first session of the day. Seconds turns into minutes and those minutes turn into hours. Himeno just jots down the notes for the lesson into her note book while having an intention of boredom overwhelming her body and seeping into the pores of her skin, causing her to yawn too much. She wanted to sleep, she didn't get enough rest the night before.
Lunch finally came and she sets her lunch down in her usual seat with Yayoi.
"What's wrong Himeno? You didn't get get any sleep last night either?"
"No, no...I did get some sleep, better than the past few days," Himeno then lays her head down on the table with the support of her arms as a pillow.
"You're still probably think about Hayate and all."
Himeno brings her head up with a scared look on her face with blue lines running down from one of her eyes.
"That's creepy, can you read minds?"
"No, it's just too easy to read you Himeno."
'Great, I', like a childrens book.' Her eye then starts twitching.
"Can we talk about something that doesn't include "him"?"
Yayoi then gives her friend a small smile.
"What ever you want Himeno."
Hayate passes through the garden, watering plants as he went. He found it peaceful to be around in the garden every time he started stressing out about Himeno or just something to do with work. The water can sprinkles the clear liquid onto the daisies, forget-me-nots, the magnolias, violets, oleanders, wisterias, and tulips. He puts the water can down and kneels down to the tulips. There were so many of them, all in there own tulipish ways. He picks one of the tulips and softly smiles at it. The picture of Himeno's face appears at mind: laughing and smiling brightly.
He could resist but to keep the smile on his face.
Shaking his head vigorously, his smile fades away."What am I thinking? From the way she acts around me, she would never feel the same about me. She acts like she only considers me as a really good friend."
He stands back up on his feet, he goes to the kitchen of the mansion, takes the tulip and he puts it in a small vase filled with ice cold water.
As he turns, he jumps back from seeing Kei in front of him.
"Don't sneak up on me like that Kei," Hayate shouts,"...and why are you hear?"
Kei doesn't ignores his question and walks up to the vase where Hayate had put the tulip in.
He smiles a little and turns to Hayate who still has the why-are-you-here look.
"Is this for Himeno," Kei asks him. Hayate's cheeks begin to burn the light color of red. "Uh...uh."
"Well?"
"N...no. I just got it off my own accord. I picked it from the garden while I was watering the plants."
"Mhmm... then tell me why you're blushing?"
"Well..you see...wwwait why am I telling you this? I want to know why you are here!"
Kei's thin lips straighten as he walks towards the knight of wind.
"I came here because they gave me the rest of the day off, so I decided to see what you were doing."
"Oh okay well..."
Then Kei cuts him off by a little chuckle.
"But...I overheard you whispering to yourself about your feelings Himeno. I'm not the knight of sound but I was close enough to hear you."
Hayate's face deepens into a full face blush, that it made his blue hair and eyes stand out even more.
"S..s..so," Hayate stutters while he yells. "What's it to you Kei?"
Kei let out another giggle with an even bigger smile than before.
"What's it to me? Well not just me, the rest of the team too."
Hayate's face begins to drain white, paler than pale. He couldn't believe his own two ears. His own team hid the fact that they know that he loves Himeno? Why up until now that one of them tells him? He backs out of the kitchen and back outside with Kei following out behind him. He tries to ditch him but everywhere he goes, Kei still catches up to him.
"How did you get so interested with this," Hayate asks giving up.
"It's well...kind of... fun. It's not normal to to see ol' pokerface himself fall in love with the pretear."
Hayate turns around to face the Light Knight. It wasn't his fault that he fell in love, it was the fact that she was the most annoying thing; which that made him interested in her in the first place. He couldn't help but stair at Kei with a blank face. Kei's presence didn't help the situation.
"You really love bugging me don't you?"
"No, well... kinda." Kei gives out another little chuckle. Hayate got tired of this really quickly, he didn't want Kei and the others interfering with his "love life". He shrugs it off with a groan and begins to walk away.
"Why don't you just tell her? You can't deny it Hayate, we all saw you confess and kiss her when she was died from giving out all of her leafe to save us."
The Wind Knight pauses in his steps. With the same pokerface look he says, "You know that I'm not good with things that have to do with love. So why don't you get off my back about it, will ya?"
Kei glares holes into Hayate's head after the line he just spoke. He was not going to let him get away with that.
"No I won't, I'm only helping you so that..." Kei stops for a minute before continuing, it made him mad every time Hayate was acting like this.
"...so that you won't end up hurting Himeno!"
Hayate turns so his back wasn't facing his team mate. The words kept replaying in his head, of what Kei said, but his face stood as showing no emotion.
"It's not your fault that Takako turned into the Princess of Disaster when you rejected her, she had lingering feelings for you; but it's good to be prepared for the next step, Himeno."
Hayate didn't know know what to say, from how much his heart can take, he didn't know if he should cry or blush. He wants to tell her so badly, but he's afraid of feeling the same pain Takako did when he rejected her feelings. He doesn't want to hear the words of rejection come out of Himeno's lips.
"I..I just can't tell her," he finally breaks the silence.
"Why is that, Hayate?"
He takes a few moments to think, so he sits down on the bench that is closest to him.
"I doubtfully think that Himeno harbors any feelings for me. When I look at her, she smiles at me, but that smile only show's friendship. She only see's me as a good friend."
Kei shakes his head at his friend. 'He's only thinking about the bad side of things.'
"Why don't you look on the bright side of things for once," Kei says as he pushes Hayate towards the gate entrance. "Now why don't you go on a nice walk around town?"
"But how about wor.."
"I'll tell Mr. Awayuki to give you a break, I'm sure he won't mind. Now after your walk, you can probably walk Himeno home from school."
"But..."
"NO BUTS! If your really want to tell her that you love her, it will be a good time to."
Kei and Hayate finally reach the gate entrance, then Kei pushes Hayate out of the estate and closes the gate door. "I won't let you come back in until you told her how you feel about her."
"If I don't tell her, I can always ask the others to let me in."
"Nice try Einstein, I already have it planned out that everyone will know not to let you in the estate,"Kei says with a slight smirk on his face.
"You bas..." Before he could finish his sentence, Kei disappears from his sight.
Now all Hayate could do is walk around town to get his line ready when the time is right to say it. It took an hour on foot for him to go into town square... or at least around it. He walks past a few people and a bunch more, as he looks around, most those people are arm in arm as a couple. Sweat drops on the side of his head to see how many people around him are couples. Hayate sits on the closet bench. It was a little too much for him to handle, seeing everyone happy as a couple. 'I wish I have that. All that happiness, the love, that person...' "Himeno," he whispers to himself.
A shiny light caught his eye, causing him to get a little blind. He closes his eyes a little bit trying to get the light out of his sight. He notices that it's a jewelry store window reflecting the sun's light.
He walks up to the jewelry store and stops looking in the window. There was a silver heart-shaped locket about the size of a guitar pick, with a silver chain necklace. It was so beautiful; he could see his reflection clearly on the locket. The swirls on the edges of the heart reminds him of the wind, even the tiny blue diamonds going around the border with the swirls. He couldn't take his eyes off of it. It reminds him too much of the wind, it said everything about the harbored feelings in his own heart.
He opens the entrance to the jewelry store, being welcomed by the salesclerk. "Welcome to Grace du ciel. How may I help you today?" The salesclerk looks like he's about in his mid-thirties. (Just so you know, Grace du ciel means Heaven's Grace in french)
Hayate walks up to the counter the clerk is behind. "That locket in the window...how much is it," he asks. The clerk opens the door to the counter and walks up to the display window. Opening it and closing it he turns back and walks towards the counter.
"Your lucky today, it's 20% off. It'll be $46.80 total." Hayate smiles, he's happy at least the price was low. 'Good thing that I have my wallet with me.' Before he could pull his wallet out, the clerk says,"Would you like it engraved sir, it's on the house?"
Hayate smiles again and nods. "Sure."
"So," the clerk says. "Is this for girl?"
Hayate's smile disappears, with all that's left is a slight blush on his face. "Uh..."
"It's okay, you don't have to tell me." The clerk gives him a wink as he opens a door to under the cabinet and takes out a piece of paper and pen.
"Just sign your name here and put what you want that is engraved."
Hayate signs the paper and puts the description on the bottom in the box. He lies the pen down and slides it to the clerk. The clerk gives a good look at it before he smiles,"It'll take about 30 minutes, you can wait here if you want."
"Okay, thanks."
"No problem." The clerk heads into the back room with the locket and paper in his hand. Hayate picks up a news magazine,sits down in a chair and starts reading it while waiting for 30 minutes. Time flies by and Hayate has already read 7 articles out of each magazine (he's pretty fast at reading). All the magazines are piled up neatly on the table next to the chair he is sitting in. He laid his head back and stares at the ceiling.
"Squeak" The door opens to the backroom.
"Your locket is done sir."
Hayate looks up at the clerk and stands on his feet. "Okay..."
The clerk sets it on the counter for Hayate to look at. His eyes open widely with a faint blush on his right cheek. Hayate's wide eyes turns soft at the moment. He is happy for what he did, a beautiful necklace dazzles his soft dark ocean blue eyes. A smile creeps onto his face, he knows that he'll never regret this moment.
Himeno sits on the ground and looks up into the light blue sky and wonders if she could ever get out of school and see the Wind Knight.
It's enough that her couch told her to stop looking at the sky and pay attention to what she was doing, but it didn't really bother her. The blue sky reminds her of an ocean, an ocean so deep that it's hard to get out of. That's what she felt like when she looks at Hayate in the eyes. His long navy blue hair, she thinks that it really looks good long. She will never let him cut it short, if he tries she would kick him in the face, hard.
She never thought she would fall for someone. Out of all people in the world, she fell for a blue haired, blue eyed man, that goes by the name Hayate. At first she didn't know if it was love or just a crush. A crush that you would like for a period of time, then move on and find a different person. As she got to know Hayate better, she realized that it wasn't a crush, it was more than that. She started to think more about him, asking herself what she was to him. All she could think about revolved around Hayate. Then she started to realize that if this was a crush, it would never go away, ever.
Himeno never had the courage to go up to Hayate and tell him in the eye; that she has fallen in love with him. All she could do was turn crimson all over and run when she ever tried to. She was really afraid to get hurt by him. She wants to be a strong person and don't give in to her dark side.
Himeno gets up onto her feet and starts to run towards the locker room to change back in her school uniform. It is the last class of the day anyway, so she really wants to get out of there.
'What is the rush princess?'
Himeno slows down as she hears the familiar voice in her head.
'Hello again Michiko.'
'Hello again princess.'
'Why exactly do you talk to me in my head?'
'Because we can't see each other right now.'
'How come and how can you talk to me in my head?'
'No rushes my princess, now go change before your knight will get tired of waiting for you.'
'Wait the school bell didn't even ring yet.'
"RING"
'Okay it rang. But my knight? Who are you talking about?'
'You'll see soon enough, now hurry!'
'Okay thanks.'
And from that, Michiko's voice dissolves from her mind.
Himeno rushes into the locker room and changes into her school uniform. She grabs her bag and runs out of the locker room and down the hallway in a whiplash. She reaches for the school double doors, she peeks through the windows and sees Hayate waiting by the school entrance. With her heart pounding she takes a step out of the door and walks to him.
"Took you long enough Tulip-Head."
A vein then pops up on the side of Himeno's head.
"That's how you greet me?" Himeno says with an irritated look.
"Sorry, I'll try again...Hello Tulip-Head, how was your day at school?"
That wasn't any better than she was hoping for.
"Don't you think that's getting a little old Mary Sue?"
"Huh?"
"Mary Sue, that's your new nick name."
Hayate gives her a look of confusion. "I'm not following you."
"It rhymes with blue, which is the color of your hair and eyes. Plus your long hair reminds me of a girl so I call you Mary Sue."
"Oh...HEY!"
Himeno laughs and runs out of the gates while Hayate runs after her. Still running she yell out behind her, "Well that's what you get for calling me Tulip-Head all the time."
"Okay I do deserve that but why call me Mary Sue?"
"Like I said! Your hair reminds me of a girl!"
"Why you little!"
"Haha!"
Hayate runs faster, he catches Himeno and tackles her to the ground.
On top of her (wrong position to look at), he says,"Got you, you little brat!"
"Ugh your heavy!" Hayate is pinning her on the ground at the wrists. "Get off of me, Hayate!"
"Ohhhh, now your calling me by my name," Hayate says with a playful smirk. "No your name is Mary Sue! Now Mary Sue, will you please get off of me!"
"Nope."
"Why not?"
Himeno starts to steam up.
"Because you're not calling me by my first name!"
"I don't have to call you by your first name!"
"The what else can you call me by?"
"Mary Sue...duh!"
"Grrr." His vein starts to pop out of his head.
"Maybe if you cut your hair, you would look more like a man."
The vein gets bigger on his head and more vein start to pop out on his hands.
"Why you! What if I do cut my hair?"
Hayate stands up on his feet groaning with anger and starts walking away. Himeno gets up too, but this time with a face; I-wish-I hadn't-said-that-to-him look. She knows that she made him angry. She didn't like it when he was angry, she only loves to see a smile on his face. With his anger, there was no way there's going to be a smile. "Great just great... he must hate me now," Himeno whispers to herself. 'I shouldn't have said that to him.'
She walks slowly behind him; dazing out from what happened. She looks up at a cloud that was shaped as ice cream. "Growl," Himeno hears her stomach growl out of hunger. 'Geez, I should have ate lunch at school; I didn't even have breakfast either. What a bummer.' Himeno holds her stomach in from growling any louder. "GROWL." "Oh crap, now it's just getting worse," Himeno whispers to herself. Hearing Himeno's stomach growl so loud, Hayate feels in his pocket for blushes a little Hayate before he stops walking and says, "You want to get something to eat?"
Himeno looks up at him and see's Hayate's face looking at hers, even though she didn't notice the blush on his face. "Well, what's your answer?"
"Oh...uh, sure." She runs up next to him and they both start walking towards where Goh works.
"Sorry about earlier Hayate. It got out of hand."
Hayate says nothing, he just keeps his head and eyes straight forward; walking in the same pace as he always does.
Hearing nothing out of Hayate, Himeno takes it the wrong way and hangs her head down enough to watch her foot steps and where she was going. Her cheery cheeks turn paler then they usually were.
'Maybe I hurt him. Why am I so stupid?'
'Looks like you're not feeling well my Princess.'
'Oh, it's you Michiko. And uh not really.'
'Whatever could be wrong?'
'I think I hurt Hayate.'
Himeno looks at Hayate at the coner of her eye.
'I apologized to him, but he's not responding at all.'
'Well just an apology won't heal up what's been done in the past. Some times you have to do more than just an apology.'
'I know...but I don't know what to do. I think he doesn't want to talk to me ever again.'
'Don't think that, he usually seems quiet anyway.'
'Well yeah, but he usually answers a question when asked.'
'He probably didn't hear you.'
'I doubt that.'
'Well just try to make it up to him somehow, then he'll probably forgive you.'
'Okay I'll try. Thanks for your help.'
'No worries princess.'
Himeno and Hayate finally walk up to Goh's cafe (or whatever you call it). Goh is at one of the tables cleaning it off from former customers. With his smile, he looks up to see Himeno and Hayate coming towards him.
"Hey guys. Whats up?"
"We're not here to hang out, do not acknowledge us as your friends at work. For now we are your customers," Hayate says in a commanding tone.
Goh raises and eyebrow, "Look who woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."
A vein pops up in Hayate's head. He quickly sits down in the chair he was standing behind and gives a sharp glare at Goh.
"Just hurry up and serve us."
"Okay, okay. What do you want Mr. Grumpy," Goh whispers out the last sentence.
"What was that," Hayate asks strictly.
Goh shows Hayate a sorry look. "Nothing, nothing." Then he walks back into the building to put away his cleaning supplies.
"I thought so."
Sweat drops on the side of Himeno's head. 'Hayate is showing off an attitude like when we first met.'
She pulls out the chair in front of her and sits down trying not to make it noticable that she was getting nervous around Hayate from the way he's acting. 'I should really do something for him. I didn't mean to hurt him.'
Goh comes back out with his notebook to take Himeno and Hayate's order. He flips the notebook open and takes out a pen.
"What would you both like today?"
"Umm...what is your special today Goh," Himeno asks.
"Mushroom soup...to me that doesn't sound like a special."
"Eh, just get me the curry with rice on the side."
"What about a drink?"
"Green tea sounds good right now."
Goh scribbles down Himeno's order less than twenty seconds.
"How about you Hayate," Goh says.
Hayate lets out a big sigh,"Get me that mushroom soup you don't like so much. With water as my drink."
'No coffee? Coffee is what he drinks,' Goh thinks as he scribbles down Hayate's order.
"Okay, I'll be back in a bit."
Goh goes back into the building to get the orders. Himeno looks at Hayate, who seems to be in a bad mood still.
'Why does it have to be this way?'
Eight minutes past and Hayate's attitude didn't change. Himeno still feeling very concerned tried to say something for the past few minutes, but she couldn't spit it out. She looks at her curry that Goh had brought out five minutes earlier and starts to poke it with her utensil. She is hungry but it did take her awhile to stop poking it and actually eat it. Hayate got his soup at the same time Himeno got her curry. He's half way finished with it when he looks up to see Himeno taking small bites at a time. The last time he saw her eat was when she was gobbling down her dinner, about ten to twenty plates thoroughly.
'Man I should have ignored her awhile ago. I should have just said "It's okay." But I didn't; I just rudely ignored her. Then again, it still doesn't feel what she said, it's already like she rejected me without even telling her how I feel.'
Fifteen minutes pass and Himeno finishes her soup.
"How was your soup Himeno," Goh walks up to Himeno and asks.
"It was fine, I can't eat anymore, I'm full."
"You sure?"
"Yeah."
"Well...okay." 'That's weird, she usually eats more than one plate when she comes here.'
Goh turns to Hayate taking away his smile and puts down the reciept.
"How was yours Hayate?" Hayate takes out his wallet and pulls out a twenty and slaps it down on the table.
He stands up and passes by Goh saying, "It was okay I guess."
"What's wrong with him, Himeno?"
Himeno stands up from her seat to follow Hayate. Himeno first whispers to Goh as she passes by,"I think I hurt Hayate."
"Oh."
Himeno waves at Goh, then follow's Hayate slowly behind. Himeno keeps her distance from Hayate, she felt like if she went up to him and started an arguement over nothing, it would hurt him even more. She didn't want that, not at all. 'If I could only do something for him...that would make him feel better.' She looks into the windows of a couple of stores as she passes by, hoping to find a solution to her problem. A light catches her eye from inside one of the stores. She looks through the window and covers the area of where the sun shines to see the inside of the store better. 'What was that shining light,' Himeno thinks.
Squinting her eyes, the beaming light slowly fades away and she sees what looks like to be a shiny silver metal wrist cuff with the letter "H" swirled engraved on the side.
Her intention pops up of wanting that brace as an idea as a gift for Hayate. "Hayate, wait!"
He looks over his shoulder at a waving vigorously Himeno.
"What is it?"
"Wait here, I have to buy something!"
"Wait, what?"
But as soon as he questions she already disappears into the store that she was standing next to.
'Himeno...'
Inside the store.
The aroma of vanilla filled Himeno's nostrils when she first opened the door a few seconds ago. She only wanted one thing in this store and that would be the wrist cuff.
She scans the whole store until her sight lands on the wrist cuff; it was only a few feet away from her, on a a hook stand on the counter of the check out counter.
She takes her first steps towards it,"Excuse me, how much is the metal wrist cuff beside you?"
A teenager, about the age of 17 with long brown hair twirls around with a cheeky smile. "It's only $23.95," the girl says as she puts the cuff in a store bag.
Himeno feels through her bag for her wallet, she couldn't find it. "Oh crap, where did it go!"
"Is there something wrong?"
She dumps out all of her stuff out on the open floor, panicking to find her wallet.
"My wallet, my wallet! Where the heck is my wallet," Himeno cries.
Jingling of the sound of bells comes through the store's front door. Which meant a customer just walked in.
"Oh my...,"the teenage employee says with a blush going across her face. "Wh..hat," Himeno looks at the employee.
Himeno looks over her shoulder; a young man with the same blue eyes and blue hair, glares at the pink reddish headed girl with her things spilled out of her bag.
"Hehehehe, Hi Hayate," Himeno says laughing nervously.
He sighs, telling himself what was he going to do with her. He kneels down picking up her things and filling them back up in her bag.
"Your so clumsy, you dummy," standing and throwing her bag over his shoulder.
"I did that on pur...pose."
"Wha," Hayate raises an eyebrow.
"Well...I...uh..was looking for my wallet," she looks down and ruffles her skirt.
Hayate sighs again, "I knew that you'll be looking for this Himeno."
He feels in his jacket pocket and pulls out a maroon wallet with Himeno's name on it.
He shows it to her,"Here. You dropped it when I tackled you to the ground earlier. Don't lose it again."
Himeno reaches out and carefully takes the item into her palms. She smiles in relief as she see that none of her cards or money have fallen out. She stands up slowly and hugs Hayate out of nowhere. "Thanks Hayate, I thought I really was in trouble that time."
His face flushes with crimson, so dark as a red rose. "Uh...like..I said, don't lose it again."
"Okay,"Himeno lets her grip go and gives the money to the teenage employer. "Thank you come again, and miss, you're lucky to have such a nice boyfriend."
Himeno flushes a little. "Well thanks, but he's not my boyfriend."
"Oh really, that's too bad, he seems to be really into you."
"How's that?"
"He was blushing when you hugged him."
Himeno looks at Hayate who seems to be waiting for her. "Really?"
"If your finished here, lets go,"Hayate calls out.
"Alright..."
Himeno walks away with a smile and waves back at the employer. "Have a great day," Himeno says.
They take their steps out of the store and start heading towards the park. "What did you need in there anyway?"
Hayate still haves a grumpy look, while Himeno was feeling a bit better for buying the gift. "You'll see..."
"Huh," Hayate questioning through his eyes. They were a hard core cold as an ice berg in the Atlantic ocean: that sunk the Titanic. Himeno trying to reach for a sign in his eyes that he still has warmth, but she fails. His ice blue eyes remain cold as before, in the past whenever he would smile at her, the warmth floods his dark sky blue eyes. Now, all she see's are dark, cold, sea blue eyes.
They approach the park entrance; the green leaves of every corner covers the trees' tops.
There sits a bench that awaits for them to sit on. Himeno slumps down relieving all her muscle tensions for a long walk around town.
"You are so unlady like," Hayate says taking a spot a few feet from her. She looks at the distance between them, she thinks that he really may hate her now.
"I wouldn't be talking Mary Sue," Himeno shot back. In shock, she covers her mouth. 'Way to go Himeno,' Himeno yells in her head.
Hayate stands up,"If your going to keep up with the name calling, I might as well leave." His foot moves forward and the other foot coming to take the next step, Himeno grabs his arm.
"Don't!"
Himeno's eyes beg his to stay, but his keep rejecting the plea. "Don't go, please. I'm sorry," Himeno giving out on her grip. Hayate flaps Himeno's hand away; in how much it hurt him to wanting to leave, he didn't want to stay to be insulted by someone who he's in love with.
Himeno's heart sinks below her stomach. She doesn't want this to happen, she just has to say something to make him stay. She doesn't want to feel alone, like when her mother passed away.
"I...I'm sorry I called you that. Stuff slips out of my mouth when I get angry. I can't help but just to talk back. I'm sorry for saying that you would look more like a man if you cut your hair. I didn't mean any of that."
Hayate stops from hearing her speech. He looks at her questioning himself if he should stay. Himeno continues on,"I didn't mean any of that because..," her heart racing like a race horse and a form of blush escapes from her face . "Because I... like your hair being that long and.. I... do think you look manly with it."
Hayate flashes his eyes open. He couldn't believe his ears.
"Himeno..."
His mind answers to his own question and lets him walk back towards her.
He stands before her, looking deep into her pink auburn eyes. A hand of his hovers over Himeno's head and he pats her head. "It's okay Himeno."
She smiles at him brightly and he smiles back. "Oh and Hayate."
Himeno picks up her bag that she got from the store. "That thing that I bought," she takes it out of the bag and hands it to Hayate, "...here."
Hayate, in a surprised manor, takes the item into his hands. "This is for me?"
Himeno nods her head, "I thought that if I got you something for all that you do for me. You know, a thank you and apology present."
Hayate looks at her with a speechless look, he slides on the cuff to his wrist. "Himeno, I don't know what to say."
"You don't have to say anything, I can see your heart saying thanks through your eyes."
"Himeno."
Hayate got to speechless, he lost his will of hiding his emotions.
He pulls Himeno into an embrace. Ignoring the heavy beats of his heart, he lifts up Himeno's chin, moving his head lower to hers.
"Hayate?"
"Himeno I...I.."
"Crack, BAM"
A tree limb snaps off and crashes to the green grass, with four fimilar knights coming down with it.
Both Himeno and Hayate look in the direction of the crash and at Goh, Mannen, Hajime, and Shin scattered around a large hunk of tree. They stand up, wiping off the dirt and tree bark on their cloths. "Hehe...Hey guys," Goh sounding sheepishly.
"G..Goh! Mannen! Hajime! Shin! What are you doing? Eves-dropping on us," Himeno throwing herself out of Hayate's embrace and blushing.
"I can..n..explain," Goh says.
"You've got three minutes to explain Goh," Hayate coming up to him with fiery in his eyes.
"Okay..okay..I got off work early after you two came."
"Wwwait! Himeno and Hayate went on a date," Mannen exclaims.
"Shut up you brat. Well anyways I thought I could take a nice walk through the park and I happened to see Mannen and Hajime trying to get Shin out of a tree, don't ask me why... So I went and helped them by Hajime getting on my shoulders and Mannen on his. As he was reaching for him, you two showed up. Mannen panicked and grabbed Hajime and pulled him up into the tree with him. I didn't know what to do, so I climbed up there with them. When you two were making your scene, the branch broke off."
"That's all," Hayate asks.
All three nod up and down quickly. Hayate sighs,"You three put me into stress. Lets just forget about this and go drop off Himeno at home, I have to get back to work."
"Okay," all three nervously shaking.
Hayate heads for the exit with Himeno, Mannen, Hajime, Shin, and Goh following behind.
Partway back to Awayuki home...
Goh runs up next to Hayate with Himeno hanging back with the younger three.
"Hey Hayate, did you tell her?"
"Tell who what?"
"Himeno...did you tell her how you feel," he speeks in a whisper.
Hayate groans, "With you four knuckle heads, I couldn't."
"Well I guess I can't let you back into the gates," Goh smiles evily.
"I'm guessing Kei told you."
"Bingo, he told everyone, including the other three behind us."
Hayate's vein pops on his head,"Well it's not my fault! You'll have to let me in."
"True."
They walk up to the main gate doors with Kei standing by.
"If I go down, I'm bringing you with me," Hayate whispers to Goh.
"Hey Hayate," they walk up to Kei,"So?"
"So what?"
"Did you tell her," Kei asks.
"If you want to ask me that, talk to Goh."
Kei gives Goh a serious look, "Did you do something?"
Goh rubs the back of his head,"Hey don't look at me. This whole thing is about Hayate!"
Himeno passes the group with the younger three into to Awayuki residents. She jumps a little forgeting something and runs back up to Hayate, "Hayate can I have my school bag back?" Hayate raises his arm and extends his hand to Himeno, the hand with the bag and places it on her neck to cross over to her side. "Thanks Hayate," Himeno says sweetly. She runs back over to where she left Mannen, Hajime, and Shin waiting for her.
Hayate follows her movement of her body as she runs away. Kei and Goh watch Hayate's eyes, peircing at every movement of Himeno. Goh clears his throat and startles Hayate. "What," Hayate asks.
"Mhmm, we saw you looking at her," Kei teases.
Crimson flushes over Hayate's cheeks, "I...I don't think perverted things!"
"Who said you did," Goh smiles.
"Uh..uh..jjjust shut up!"
"Hayate don't play dumb," Takako comes out of nowhere with Sasame .
"Hayate, what did you get Himeno from that jewelry store," Sasame asks. 'Of course he would know, he's the knight of sound.' Kei then gives Hayate an Ohh-you-got-her-something look.
"N..none of your bussiness," Hayate starts to walk away, trying to pass Kei through the gates.
"I don't think so," Kei says grabbing the collar of Hayate's work jacket.
"Change in plans Hayate," Kei flings Hayate forward, but Hayate recovers his balance after almost falling.
"Tell us what you got," Kei says. "And we'll let you back in," Sasame finishing the sentence.
"What? You guys make up your minds so quickly," Hayate yells in rage.
"Oh just shut up and tell us Hayate," Mannen dressed in his knight uniform lands infront of Hayate.
"Yeah, yeah," Shin and Hajime coming from behind Mannen.
"W..where's Himeno?"
Mannen sighs, he's getting irritated over Hayate's stupid questions.
"Don't worry, she's just getting ready for the end of the day."
"Oh."
"C'mon Hayate, spit it out," Mannen finally loses it. Goh punches Mannen on the top of his head, "Since when did you care about this situation? You always got onto Hayate about Himeno."
The white haired boy looks the other way, Goh was right, Mannen would always whine over when thinking that Hayate's dating Himeno. "I...I like Himeno to be happy for once. Seeing the former Pretear, Takako being happy with Sasame...well...I thought, since Himeno as the current Pretear...she should be happy like Takako."
For once, Mannen said something that wasn't against Hayate making Himeno happy. The stares go upon the ice knight, all of them finally now understands their little brother. "Your a gonna be a good man Mannen," Goh gently rubs his head. Mannen looks up to the fire knight and smiles.
"Okay...but were still not over the subject of Himeno and Hayate," Mannen crosses his arms across his chest.
Shin tip toes to Hayate tugging on his sleeve. "Hayate, just please tell us." Hayate looks down at his little brother; Shin's big beady eyes looks like puppy eyes. Hayate knew it was bad to have his brother cry, meaning by Shin.
"F..fine, I give up." Hayate reaches into his pocket and takes out a Velvet red box. He carefully opens it and a silver heart locket shines out to the bunch. Takako awes at the necklace as she reads the message that was engraved on the outside.
"Woah," Kei's eyes fly open. He never thought he could see something so shiny, that he can see his side blond pony tail and dark tan skin and face in the reflection of himself.
Sasame only could do but smile at his big brother. "You are a very soft guy with a hard exterior...good job."
Hayate's eyes grew soft by the moment, his face slightly flushes with a smile. "Thanks Sasame."
"You have the necklace Hayate and all you have to do is not screw up," Goh pats Hayate's back once.
"Yeah..."
The sun setting over the horizon was the signal that they should go hime at the least. Hayate still has to do work, when he got the job it came out to be a day and night job, just to have as an excuse to be near Himeno. Hayate and Himeno spent their time mostly walking around Awayuki town, it may have been a long day to Hayate, but to the others it was a short day to squeeze Hayate into confessing his feeling to Himeno; even though it didn't happen. The group heads back into the gates, it has been a complicated day for all of them.
Wow I can't believe how long it took me to write this chapter! But the longer the better, you know? It's hard to take care of two Pretear fanfics at the same time. I'm focusing more on this fanfic than I am the other, but I'm still going to be working on the other one, so I have to work on both fanfics from time to time. Right now I'm at least glad this chapter is done so I can work on the next chapter. Til' the next chapter!
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