souna no miko
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and all original characters mentioned in this story is owned by the great Takeuchi Naoko. There is no way I would claim them as my own. The song/s that will be used as part of the story are not mine either, they are owned by their respective writers and singers.
Chapter 14The Giggling Hotaru
It was already Monday and it's a new fresh week, birds were chirping in the birdbath outside the house and the sun was already up and shinning brightly as ever. Haruko was already dressing up when Setsuna knocked on her door and called her for breakfast. After five minutes she was down the stairs and inside the dining room where her brother was sitting comfortably reading the morning paper.
"Ohayou gozaimasu minna-san. (Goodmorning everyone)" She greeted.
"Ohayou." Hotaru and Setsuna greeted back.
"Ohayou Haru-chan. It's a good thing you woke up early today." Michiru greeted.
"It's already 7:30...you call this early?! So I guess when I woke up at around 5:30 in the morning I was waking up in the middle of the night. Is it just me or is my watch too advanced?" Haruka commented without looking up from the paper he was reading.
Haruko glared at her brother and sat down beside Hotaru who was already enjoying her food,
"Perhaps you're just too obsessive compulsive when it comes to punctuality. For your information my class starts at 8:10." Haruko replied.
"It's better to be early and on time than be late." Haruka answered back.
"Whoever said anything about being late?" Haruko demanded.
Haruka sighed and concluded,
"You're saying nonsense."
Haruko stood up and slammed her hands on the table saying,
"That's it Tenou Haruka, I've had enough!"
Haruko grabbed her obento from Michiru's hands and stormed out of the house fuming. When she left, Michiru recieved a message from Haruko in her cellphone,
- Thnx 4 lunch Michi!
Michiru sighed and served Haruka and Setsuna their breakfast when all of a sudden Hotaru started giggling.
"What's so funny Hotaru?" Setsuna asked.
Hotaru continued giggling and tried so hard to say these words in between her giggles,
"It's gonna be..." another giggle, "It's gonna be fun watching those two fight over the simplest things..." giggles, "…They even fight over time now!"
Haruka placed his paper beside his plate and looked at Hotaru quite surprised,
"What has gotten into you?" Haruka asked.
Hotaru stopped giggling and became serious as she said,
"But then again, I see dark clouds approaching and it means serious danger for all of us. We may have fun but we must always keep our senses open so that we will not neglect our duties as soldiers. We must make sure that we will not be able to let anything bad happen to our Princess and to Persephone as well...."
"Hotaru's right, we must look after one another." Setsuna seconded as she looked at Haruka.
Haruka avoided Setsuna's eyes and instead he started eating his breakfast. Hotaru started giggling again, and once again in between her giggles came these words,
"This is gonna be more interesting than the animes and doramas I watch on TV! I'm gonna love this!"
Hotaru kept on giggling until she fell of her chair.
"Hotaru!" Michiru exclaimed.
"Get up from there young lady!" Setsuna ordered
Haruka peeked at the giggling Hotaru and just shook his head with a sigh.
Chapter 15Draco's Invitation
It was already ten minutes before 8:00 when Haruko arrived at school. She saw Draco staring out the window so she approached him very quietly.
"Ohayou Gozaimasu!" Haruko shouted which startled the platinum haired idol.
Draco jumped from his seat and turned to face Haruko as he exclaimed,
"What the heck are you trying to do, kill me?!"
Haruko smiled slyly and looked at the ceiling,
"Well...that's not a bad idea but then again I'd be losing one guardian so...." Haruko replied with a giggle.
"Omae...(You…)"
Draco grabbed Haruko and started tickling her. In between her laughs she managed to say these words,
"Yamero Yaten-kun! Onegai! Yameru! (Stop it Yaten-kun! Please! Stop it!)"
Draco stopped his childishness and went back to staring out the window. Haruko noticed the sudden change of attitude and sat on top of Soul's desk, which was beside Draco's.
"Doushta no Yaten-kun? (What's wrong Yaten-kun?)"
"You called me by that name again."
Haruko tilted her head to her side and wondered what the other meant; laughing the moment she realized what it was.
"Gomene Draco-kun demou...Yaten-kun rolls out of my tongue much better than Draco-kun, ne?"
"Hmph."
"Maa, you're still touchy as you were before, fine I'll go find a way to make Draco sound cute. What about Drakey, or Dra-kun...nah sounds like Dragon or even Dracu as in Dracula...oh man...."
Haruko began to rampage her brain for possible variations of Draco's name. Draco rolled his eyes as he simply sighed and said,
"Fine, you don't have to exhaust your brain looking for the right one. You could call me Yaten if you'd really like to, but you're the only one allowed to do so alright?"
"Yay!" Haruko squealed in delight as she threw her arms around Draco.
Draco turned his head to face Haruko and with their faces inches away from each other they were caught in each other's steady gaze. Draco began to move closer and closer to Haruko ready to lay his lips on hers when all of a sudden the school bell rang and all the other students entered the classroom and everybody settled down and so did Draco and Haruko.
Haruko can't keep herself focused on what their teacher was blabbering about; all she could think of was the previous events between her and Draco.
'I was going to let him kiss me! What was I thinking?!' Haruko thought to herself.
She started fidgeting with her ball pen as she continued talking to herself,
'But on second thought, he is kind of cute...kind of thoughtful...maybe he could....' Haruko paused as she looked outside the window and with a heavy sigh she continued, '...demou...I don't love him. I might like him but to love him is....' Haruko shook her head violently until their teacher noticed her actions.
"Ms. Tenou, daijoubu desu ka? (Ms. Tenou are you okay?)"
Haruko was startled and caused her to immediately stand up,
"Gomene sensei my head was spinning." She reasoned out.
"Would you like to go to the clinic?"
"Iiye. I think I'm okay now."
"Very well then. Now take your seat."
"Hai." Haruko replied as she sat back down on to her chair.
Lunchtime,
"Ikemasho Haru-chan!" Usagi yelled from the door.
"I'll be right behind you!" Haruko shouted back.
"Okay!" Usagi replied as she left with the other girls leaving Haruko behind.
Suddenly Draco entered the room, standing right behind the busy Haruko.
"Y-yaten-kun you startled me!"
"Gomene."
Draco moved in front of Haruko and sat on top of her desk,
"Sorry about what happened this morning..." Draco started.
"Iiye. Nande mo nai, dakara shinpai nai yo Yaten-kun, ne?" (No. It's nothing, that's why you shouldn't worry, okay Yaten-kun?) Haruko replied with a smile.
Draco stammered for a while until,
"Listen Haruko, I was wondering if you would like to go on a picnic with me...I mean just to take your mind off of things and to apologize for what happened this morning."
"Like a date?"
Draco blushed and looked out the window as he replied,
"Uhm well not really...kinda like a friendly outing....err..uhm..picnic. You know, like a princess-guardian bonding thing."
Haruko laughed and looked at Draco with a smile.
"Yeah sure. I'd love to." Haruko replied.
Draco's eyes widened as his heart jumped for joy.
"For real?!"
"Yes. For real."
"Saturday then?" Draco asked.
"Pick me up at 8:30" Haruko replied with a wink.
Yaten nodded softly and together they left the classroom to go where the other girls were.
Tsuzuku…