Uuh... hai :D -shot- Sorry, I know, too long updating fic. And this chapter was... worse than I expected it to be...
Disclaimer: Mana Khemia series © GUST.
Maybe today was the worst day a Rozeluxe Meitzen could ever be suffering from.
Got chased by a relentless homicidal maniac for who-knows-since-when, got a nasty wound from a stupid bear, got lifted in a bridal style by a man no less, and…
Now he got a loud, annoying ditzy blonde (accompanied with a baby mana as obnoxious as its master) by his side.
"J-jerktown!" exclaimed the so-called loud and annoying ditzy blonde (accompanied with an also obnoxious mana) Ulrika (Uryuu) with a tremoring finger pointed at him accusingly. "W-what are you—J-Jerktwon-you're s-supposed to be—Miss Fancypants, Jerktown…here, I must be…d-dreaming, Jerktown…,"
"Rose is here! Rose is here!" added Uryuu cheerfully, suprisingly not imitating his master's reaction like always. The mana bounced happily in the air as he clapped his paw to greet 'Rose'. And this 'Rose', of course, shot Uryuu a glare which scared the Mana of Emotion, making him to abruptly stop his bouncing and quickly hide behind his master's back (who still chanted "Jerktown, Jerktown, Jerktown…," incessantly to no one in particular). And, of course (again), the time Roze officially changed his name to Rose was the time he was not annoyed by this.
"Gah, stop it already!" shouted Roze indignantly as he crossed his arms, feeling that he already had enough of the 'Jerktown' and 'Rose' calling. This shouting was indeed successful as Ulrika was quickly silenced by this. She just HAD to shout frantically like that, hadn't she? Then the boy sighed inwardly, feeling exhausted by these peoples' presences, before saying morosely, "Yes; I'm here. You're not dreaming. So, stop it. And, my. Name. Is. Roze! Not Jerktown, and certainly not rose (he bit his lower lip morosely, making poor Uryuu shuddered at his hiding spot—he's the Mana of Emotion, after all, of course the little mana could sense the Ros—Roze's anger), or whatever you're calling me with."
Ulrika nodded briefly, mouth shut like it was being glued.
Roze's glare lost its tense at this (although it still retained its anger to scare the little mana behind); it seemed the blonde had grown a brain from these past months. Well, good for the best of her.
"So, please. I need a rest," continued Roze (he hadn't even been bothering with the fact that he was in other people's house). The blue-haired boy then pointed the still opened wooden door that lead to the outside of the room, a slight hue of grey and brown (presumably, a particular grey-haired doctor and his brunette patient) seen peeking from there. "The door is right there, and if you haven't noticed it yet, I'm not in the mood to bother why in the world you can possibly end up here, out of all place, and what I want from you—if you haven't realized it yet—is nothing but go. Now."
Roze was amazed at how quick the annoying blonde could register his demand into her brain (he still couldn't quite forget the funny part when it was said only dense people could not understand Puni's language—he didn't laugh of course; where would his image go if he did, then?), proven when Ulrika immediately made her way to outside of the room without a single word spoken to merely, say, object or complain more.
But then, a certain tender yet bewildered voice rang from the outside immediately:
"Uum, so Ulrika…, you've known him before?"
An uncomfortable silence, promptly followed by a:
"You—JERKTOWN! Why're you here!"
Roze slapped his face. Hard.
"W-what? S-so, you said there's this that weird girl's boyfriend that has been following you all the time to k-kill you?"
"…weird girl? Anyway, yeah, and maybe he's going for your mana there too, right, Uryuu? Maybe he's hiding in the shadow and in a moment's notice he'll grope you and—aaarggh! Don't touch my foot, you moron!
"Uuh—uuh~! Bad, bad Rose! Bad bad! Going to wilt, yes!"
"Stop it, you—aarggh! Don't bounce on it you—dammit, can you stop this mana of yours?"
"Nuh-uh! No can do! You're scaring him first time first, after all! It is normal for Uryuu to be mad at you!"
"Gaah! I know, I know! But can't you see the point that he's bouncing on my injured foot, for goodness' sak—AARGGH! STOP IT!"
"Seriously, why do you guys always act like a child everytime you met…?"
"Waah—Chloe!"
"Kuroi nee-san~!"
Uryuu (finally) stopped his bouncing on Roze's poor left foot, before padding happily in the air after the appearance of Ulrika's former workshopmate and (doubtful) best friend, Chloe. The same went for Ulrika, as she quickly stood from where she was sitting before and walked up to the bespectacled girl who stood at the edge of the room, eyes gloomy behind those scary shiny glasses and face stoic as ever.
"Ooh, good, thank you…," murmured Roze wistfully as he looked at his poor foot (it actually was not that painful from the little mana's bouncings, thanks for him being very light in weight –he's a mana and he floated in the air, after all- and the doctor –Vayne, was it?- had beforehand bandaged his foot—"It'll be bandaged for now,"—and said he's going to treat it tommorrow. It was nearly late, after all. But his name was not Roze if his mood didn't go down hill by the annoying mana who in the past had dragged him into the whole mana-killing-with-awesomely-sparkly-ring-and-a-definite-pedo-stalking-you case, which unfortunately had not yet been finished as of now).
"Oh, Chloe! You're safe, aren't you? Is there anything wrong? Are you hurt? Possessed? Cursed?" rambled the blonde incessantly with a frantic look, while the brunette who was being asked just sighed in a bored tone. Then the grey-haired man named Vayne stepped into the room with his usual smile in his face, and replied Urlika's questions with "Don't worry, Ulrika. She just got a fever for staying up too late. With a day-rest in the bed she'll be okay tomorrow,"
"Hm, too bad, Ulrika. But I didn't get possessed again," continued Chloe, adding a (strangely) happy (which looked scary in Ulrika's perspective) smile in her face. The said blonde just shuddered on her spot (while her white-fured mana still jumped happily in the air, seemingly oblivious to the current expression her master's best friend had given).
"Ugh, now stop scaring me like that!" complained Ulrika (with the ill-girl obeying silently), "It's your fault for reading past midnight last night! Now you made me got dragged here and I get to meet the jerk-iest people in the world! Jerktown, that is!"
"Who dragged me here?" "Who bursted into the room?" complained both Roze and Chloe indignantly, which succesfully silenced the got-to-be-complained blonde Ulrika. Vayne, witnessing all of this, just laughed it off (which in return made all three pairs of eyes –two angry pairs of eyes and one scared pair of eyes- looking at him).
"W-well, isn't it getting late?" he stuttered, feeling slightly uncomfortable at the glances he received. "Why don't you girls get home? Your parents are going to be worried if you're not at your room as of now. Especially you, Chloe. You still need to have more rest, and don't forget to drink the medicine I've given you just now."
Chloe nodded briefly while Ulrika nodded enthusiastically, and immediately went outside the room (Roze could hear someone –the blonde first, most likely- muttering about, "Why in the world would that Jerktown be in here? Out of all place in the galaxy?", "The same could go to you to in his perspective, you know," "Oooh, please~, Chloe! Who are you siding with, actually!", "My own, or if you want me to really pick side, Vayne-san's.), leaving both men behind in the room alone. Fortunately, Vayne was not the pedo Roze was talking about just now, so he was safe.
And when he heard the sound of the door being closed, Roze sighed in relief. But it was short-lived as he saw a white head and a paw sticking out from the edge of the door. Both the boy and the doctor raised eyebrows after realizing that their were Uryuu's (which was supposed to have gone with his master outside), with a playful expression adorning his roundy face. The white mana waved its paw while his mouth let out a:
"Bye-bye, Vain. Bye-bye, Rose!"
Before magically dissapearing in a small gust of wind, leaving the boy and the doctor in an awkward situation.
Vayne gazed at the boy before him awkwardly before taking a step away after realizing that Roze had had somehow visible fume coming out from his head. And no, he didn't wish for a steam-engine to magically appear in the boy's head, if you're wondering. The boy's teeth were cackling dangerously (and yes, he, too, didn't wish for a drill), before shouting:
"FOR THE LAST TIME EVER, MY NAME IS RO-ZE, NOT ROSE!"
So the life of Rozeluxe Meitzen in the secluded village where the not-so-hidden mana (which he had yet to known) alchemist doctor and two of his former colleague adventures (with an obnoxious yet somehow powerful mana at side) lived while an omnicidal killer maniac was trying to kill him had just began.
And you sure know that it's not going to be an easy life.
~to be continued
Whew, I finally updated this fic ==" Sorry, I've been busy with school-works and such, and seriously, why do I think that this fic is probably the shortest thing I've ever written? Uuh… Sorry, I'll try to make the next chapter longer…
Well, uh, review, guys? It makes Uryuu happy, you know :D
