I've gotten myself into a better writing mood now. Maybe a little too good, seeing as I'm going to try and start a second fic. A Code Geass one, actually.
I feel like I have to write something more tense too, but I will of course continue this one.
"I don't want to be in room with the stupid Chihuahua!" Taiga yelled as she slammed her fist into the table, startling Ryuuji a little.
"Just be nice, and everything should be fine!" Ryuuji said, not even believing his own words at all. Whenever those two were together, there would always be some sort of commotion.
"I'm sure everyone will be nice to each other, Taiga-san," Yasuko added with a childish voice, which was almost like her trademark. Ryuuji's mother had always been a little air-headed, after all. A little.
"But she's so.. so..!" Taiga was practically fuming as she furiously devoured her rice. Ryuuji already had enough to worry about, what with White Day being in one day. He hadn't really planned anything special, seeing as he had already given her gifts and all that, but he had promised to make it up for his mistake. All he could do was take her out on some really good date, was what Ryuuji thought. He couldn't come up with anything else, so that's what he'd have to do.
"Just calm down and finish your dinner, or else you're going to-"
"SECONDS!" Taiga interrupted Ryuuji, holding out her bowl. Ryuuji sighed with furrowed brows and gave Taiga another helping of rice. If it was this bad already, Ryuuji didn't even want to imagine how the trip would be.
'I'll have to deal with that when the time comes.' Ryuuji thought to himself, a drop of sweat running down his temple.
'But right now, I have more important things at hand.'
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'It's almost as I'm forcing Ryuuji to be romantic, when I am an utter failure at that point myself.' Taiga sighed to herself while getting dressed. It was White Day, and she was sure that Ryuuji would do his best. After all, she'd practically forced him to. 'I'm such an idiot.'
She had no idea what Ryuuji had planned, but she didn't bother too much with what she was wearing. She simply put on clothes that was casual to go around in, but that also looked at least a little good. It was a knee length summer dress with blondes on the straps, and tiny flower symbols covering the orange colored fabric. The weather was nice, so it shouldn't be a problem.
'I'll just have to hope he doesn't take me to some sort of amusement park in these clothes.' Taiga thought with a shrug. It was then that a knock at the door caught Taiga's attention.
'He's here.' She tiptoed over to the door, opening it carefully.
"A-ah, hello." Ryuuji said with a slightly nervous voice. He had a tendency to get like that when he felt that he had to do a good job with something he - well, something he wasn't very good with.
"You look g-good." He uttered. Taiga frowned and looked down at her dress.
"You don't sound too sure about that, stupid dog." She said with her usual 'Taiga' tone. Ryuuji blushed and held a hand up.
"N-no, it's not like that! You really do look good, I'm just.. nervous, I guess." Ryuuji answered with a shaky voice, making it hard for Taiga not to giggle.
"I'm just kidding with you, Ryuuji." Taiga said with a laugh, making Ryuuji sigh in relief. Taiga ran back into her apartment to grab a few things before returning to Ryuuji.
"Shall we go?" Taiga said with a smile, and Ryuuji nodded in consent. Taiga didn't know where he was taking her, so she just went wherever he went. To begin with, they went to decent restaurant, and had some good food. Nothing really special about it, but at least Taiga was enjoying herself.
"So, who's the third person to share rooms with you on the trip?" Ryuuji asked, commonly keeping up conversation. This earned a displeased huff from Taiga.
"With the number of girls in our class, there had to be 1 room with only 3 girls, and that's our room. At least I'll have Minorin." She said with a frown on her face. Ryuuji sighed a little, but didn't take the matter any further. After finishing dinner, they went outside.
"Where are we going now?" Taiga asked, looking up at Ryuuji. It didn't really matter how good he made the date for her, as long as she could spend time with him, was what she thought. But of course, she didn't actually tell him that.
"Well, I was thinking of- Wait.." Ryuuji widened his eyes a little as he looked at the sky. "I felt something hit my arm.. There it is again!" He looked down on his arm and saw a drop of water running down it.
"No.."
Taiga looked at him with a confused expression.
"What is it?"
"No, no, no, no!" Ryuuji looked desperately around for some place to hide, but they'd ended up in a park, and the nearest roof was more like 10 minutes away.
"It's going to rain!" Ryuuji exclaimed with panic all over his face. Ryuuji didn't even doubt that the date would be ruined now.
"Then we'll run!" Taiga practically shouted, sounding as if she thought it was a challenge. Ryuuji nodded, and they started running towards the closest café. It was only a matter of seconds before the rain started pounding onto the ground. They were practically soaked already, but the kept running.
"In this state, we'll both catch a cold!" Ryuuji shouted in desperation. He had never liked untidy rooms, messes or colds. Or mold. But that didn't matter now, because the cold was pretty threatening at that moment. Ryuuji abruptly stopped in his tracks when he heard a slipping sound behind him. He turned only to see Taiga crashing towards the ground. Luckily for he, she was falling towards Ryuuji.
"Got you!" Ryuuji exclaimed as he grabbed the falling body. He felt relieved, until his own legs gave way underneath him.
"Crap!"
He fell back first into a pond of water, Taiga landing over him.
"Argh!"
"A-are you okay?" Taiga asked, sitting over Ryuuji's legs, looking into his eyes. Ryuuji flinched a little from the pain to his head.
"Okay.. definitely catching a cold." He groaned. Taiga looked at him with a bewildered expression before breaking into laughter. Ryuuji didn't really understand to begin with, but he couldn't help but laugh himself.
"Maybe we should.. get up?" Ryuuji asked, and Taiga smirked at him.
"Not yet. This is punishment for messing up our date."
"But it wasn't my fault!" Ryuuji uttered, and Taiga smiled even more.
"I don't care, I'll punish you anyway." She said, and she didn't make any sign to move off of him.
"Yeah.. definitely catching a cold." Ryuuji sighed and closed his eyes, feeling the raindrops tapping at his forehead. In a sense, Ryuuji felt that the rain became comfortable as soon as he was completely drenched. Getting drops of water thrown at your dry skin was somehow uncomfortable, but if ones skin is already wet, it feels different.
"The rain really does feel relaxing when you're already drenched though, doesn't it?" Taiga asked while looking up at the sky. Ryuuji twitched his eyebrow a little, surprised by the fact that he was just thinking the same.
"Yeah, I guess it does." Ryuuji agreed. It was almost as if he didn't feel the water beneath him anymore either. Suddenly, he felt like he was drifting away. Like he and Taiga was all alone in the universe, just lying there. Ryuuji sat up so that he was facing Taiga, startling her a little.
"What are you do-" Taiga was interrupted by Ryuuji's lips carefully pushing up towards hers. It was simply an act of impulse, an impulse Ryuuji had no idea where came from. Ryuuji slowly pulled away from the kiss, looking into Taiga's eyes.
"Let's go home, yeah?" He asked, and Taiga nodded with a blush on her face. They both stood up and walked home in a normal pace, no longer caring about the rain. It took them about 30 minutes to get home to Ryuuji.
"I'll go fill the bath for you, so you can take a bath first." Ryuuji said before he tapped into the bathroom. They had removed their socks to avoid the floor getting wet, but there was still a little water dripping off of their clothes.
"Hey, Taiga! The bath is running, so you can get in." Ryuuji said as he was about to leave the bathroom. He stopped in his tracks, a little surprised, when he saw Taiga standing in the door. She was just standing there, like a mannequin, not moving at all.
"B-bath.." Ryuuji said, trying to make Taiga move out of the way.
"Yeah. Bath." Taiga said, looking like she was severely, emotionally damaged, but this was just a façade to hide the giant blush about to creep up on her face. She put a hand on Ryuuji's chest and pushed him carefully back into the bathroom.
"Together."
Ryuuji widened his eyes at her remark, almost panicking.
"Taiga, what are you-"
"It's only so none of us has to wait for too long – I don't want any of us to get a more horrible cold than the other." Taiga said, looking down to cover her blush.
"But, Taiga.." Ryuuji said, having no idea what to do.
"It's only a bath, idiot." Taiga mumbled.
'What do I do now?' Ryuuji thought, but he didn't have time to do anything before Taiga had already closed the door behind them.
"Taiga.." He uttered, but couldn't get out any more words.
"Turn around." Taiga said with a stern, embarrassed voice. Ryuuji glared at her for a while before realizing what she meant. He nodded and turned around, and it felt as if his throat was about to choke up as he heard a wet piece of cloth fall to the ground.
'What the hell do I do?'
I did not.. plan for that. I don't know why I wrote that, so please don't judge me. D: It was going to end with Taiga getting into the bath alone but oh my god, I have no idea what happened, my fingers just wrote that by themselves.
I am so sorry. Honestly though, as Taiga said, it's only a bath, BUT STILL.
I'm wondering if only that was too 'ecchi' for the rating I have on this fic. I hope not. Anyways, the next thing I upload will probably be the first chapter of my Code Geass fic, but relax, I will keep writing this one regularly too.
