Ai no Nagareboshi
Sequel to the songfic - "Lullaby"By Rizukiyatchan Kou Irvine
Notes: Another rainy day with episode 195 blaring.. Don't ask about the phage, they had weird attacks and names in the anime too. Oh, slight yaoi/yuri things here. ;.; Yet again I say this fic isn't gonna stay in the yaoi/yuri catagory.
Chapter 3 Tea and Surprises for Two.
Gym was painful. At least, in Usagi and Yaten's cases. They were on the sidelines, Usagi whining and Yaten complaining. Seiya didn't mind it one bit, he and Makoto were doing the best they could and thensome. Yaten looked up from his spot on the bleachers, folding his arms. "How can he still be so peppy..? Doesn't he question it? Does he not care? He probably thought I was his Odango. Exactly! That's exactly what he thought was happening. Hmph, well, not that I liked it or anything," he mumbled, watching the raven tailed idol spike the volleyball over the net. Of course he was kidding himself. At least part of him thought he was.
The final bell rang. Yaten jumped up from his seat, hurrying to the locker room. Since they were idols, they had the privilage of going home early, so it was the last bell for them. Minako jumped up and hurried after Yaten, but when she went to follow him he was already gone. He was beside himself with curiousity on who it was that wrote him the letter he found in his locker. The handwriting seemed kinda familar.. But, he couldn't figure it out. 'Seems whoever wrote this worked a great deal to make sure I didn't figure out who it was beforehand..' he thought, shrugging to himself. 'No big deal, I'm gonna find out in 15 minutes.'
Seiya slammed the locker door closed, pulling Taiki's arm in his direction. He turned his wrist over and stared at his watch, ignoring Taiki's remarks completly. He cursed and let go, running off towards the back exit of the school as fast as he possibly could. Minako came up then, Usagi at her side. The blondes looked to Taiki, who had the same puzzled look they did.
"Taikisan, is there some reason that Seiyakun and Yatenkun just ran like the world was ending?" Minako asked, rather bluntly.
"I was actually going to ask one of you," Taiki replied. "Because, Tsukinosan, I figured Seiya would tell you of all people. But I guess they both have something on their minds."
"Or they just wanna get out of here as soon as possible like me!" Minako grinned, Taiki and Usagi sweatdropped.
Taiki turned, looking down the hall which his "brothers" ran down. 'What are those two hiding from me?'
********** Seiya placed his sunglasses on, and pushed the door to Crown's open, panting out of breath. He had taken about six shortcuts, and ran as fast as he possibly could, managing to beat Yaten there by around 15 minutes. He looked around for the booth he had indicated and grinned, seeing it empty. He ran a hand through his hair and walked over to the booth, sitting down.
"Sir, are you ready to order?"
Seiya looked up, pulling his sunglasses down a little. He guessed the waitress didn't recognize him, because she was just syanding there with a pen and paper, ready to take whatever he said down. He looked up, his face going pale when he could see Yaten coming down the sidewalk. "Two teas, please."
"Any milk with that, sir?"
"Yeah...yeah, arigato." Seiya flashed a smile, pushing his sunglasses back up with a finger.
The waitress wrote that down and nodded. "I'll be right back."
Seiya took a breath as she left, trying to figure out what he should say. That is, if he could calm down first. The door opened and Seiya nearly ducked underneath the teable. 'No.. If I had the courage to even write that, I should have the courage to TALK to him. We've known each other practically all our lives, what makes this time different?' He grinned for a second, feeling better with that statement. He then slouched in his seat with a fearful look on his face. ' Oh yeah. What makes this time different is that I may, just possibly, have feelings for him, her, whatever, this time. How could I forget.'
The waitress came back with the two cups of tea, placing them on the table, gently. "Here you are, sir."
"Ah.. Arigato.." Seiya replied as she walked off. He took two sugar packages from the little container at the end of the booth and ripped them open, dumping them into the cup. A trembling hand picked the spoon up and started to stir the liquid around as he felt a pair of eyes locked onto him.
"You! What the hell are you doing here?" He heard Yaten yell as he placed his hands on the table. Seiya took a long sip of the tea before placing it back down with a look on his face, pulling the sunglasses off as he coughed.
Yaten slapped his forehead, leaning in closer. "You fool. Normal people wait for the tea to cool a bit before taking a sip. Oh wait, you're not normal."
"Shut up. It wasn't hot. It just.. uh.. Went down the wrong way. Y-yeah." Seiya replied, taking another sip.
"You're such a liar. Why are you here? And what's the deal with the two cups of tea? Thirsty, much?"
"Who are you, a reporter?"
"Sorrrrry, I was just curious.." Yaten mumbled, looking over to the side. "By any chance, did someone give you a note to meet them here, too?"
Seiya was taking another sip oif the tea as Yaten asked that, and nearly spit it out, but managed to swallow it as he turned to face the silver haired idol. "Why?"
Yaten blinked, digging around in his pocket for the note. Once he grabbed a hold of it, he pulled it out of his pocket and handed it to Seiya, who reread what he wrote a few times. Seiya grinned, looking back to his ally. "Sit for a second."
Not questioning it, Yaten sat down on the seat opposite Seiya, raising a brow. Seiya pulled a pen out of his pocket, scribbling something on the note Yaten showed him.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?"
Without saying a word, Seiya passed the note back to Yaten, who stared at him questionably for a moment.
"Would you just read the damn note?"
Rolling his eyes, Yaten uncrumpled the note and looked at it, his face going pale and his hold on the note tightening a bit. It was the same handwriting, the same color ink..
'So tell me, Yaten. Who are you here to see?'
"You mean... You mean YOU wrote this..?" Yaten asked, slowly looking up from his stare at the note. Seiya nodded, pushing over the other tea cup towards the other idol. "Why though?"
"Just like it says.." Seiya started, "I really need to talk to you."
"You mean.." Yaten bit his lip, trying not to blush.
Seiya simply nodded again, finishing up his tea. "Yeah.. About that. I don't want that to kill off what we have between us, you know, as friends."
"It won't.." Seiya looked up at that, it was hardly loud enough for anyone to hear, including himself. "At least, I don't think it will.."
"Why do you think that?"
"I don't know."
"Oh.."
There was a long silence between the two, giving Yaten time to actually drink some of his tea. Seiya was staring at his hands for a minute, unsure of what to say nor what to think, even. After a while, he looked up, still not having a single clue what to do. "I agree with you, actually."
Yaten looked up, bewildered. "What did you just say, Seiya?"
"Your music was annoying me. I went to turn it off, trying not to wake you up. I just looked at you and..." Seiya sweatdropped. Looking up one could see Yaten's face, pale and perplexed, eyes locked onto Seiya's blue ones. Behind him, ducking behind the booth seats, were three girls who were listening, or trying to, intently to the deep conversation the two were having.
"And what..?"
Seiya tried not to blush, seeing how curious and how eager Yaten was to get an answer out of him. Could he possibly be starting to feel the same? Or is this simply curiousity of why it happened? There was only one way to find out, and those girls were not helping one bit.
He stood up, pointing an accusing finger forward in the direction of the three girls, eyes slightly narrowed. "Don't think I'm stupid enough to think there's no one there. Respect is earned, and you don't have mine, so get the hell away from here!"
Yaten turned in his seat, seeing the three pairs of eyes that peeked out from their hiding spot. He sent a cold glare in their direction which made them freeze then run out of the building.
Seiya sighed, sitting back down, tapping his fingers on the table. Yaten turned back around, sitting normally, staring at the tabletop. There was a long period of eerie silence before Seiya started to speak again, loud enough for Yaten to hear, but no one else. "And... I couldn't stop looking at you, Yaten. I couldn't just leave. I know we've known each other for who knows how long, but I couldn't stop. I had to.. just.. I don't know. I wanted to see if my mind would shut up if I kissed you. It didn't obviously, because I kissed you two more times. And you woke up. I panicked. I didn't know how to act.. I've never.. felt this way towards you before. I didn't know what I was supposed to do."
"So.. You didn't think I was your Odango?"
Seiya felt like his heart stopped. "Is...is that why you replied to it?.."
"No. Not at all."
"Then why?.." Seiya leaned in, moving the tea cups to the side.
Before Yaten could reply, a scream that sounded like it could shatter windows was heard. The two stood up and turned around, looking outside the window. It was dark, and it was pouring heavy rain. Leadcrow was standing in front of a girl who had her starseed floating outside her body, turning black.
"Damn!! Another blank?!" Leadcrow shouted, shaking her head.
Vines surrounded the girl and covered her completely before they all pulled back and disappeared, revealing the phage she had become.
"Great.. That was the girl that gave me the tea earlier.." Seiya mumbled.
"Mm... Sucks to be you, huh?" Yaten replied.
Seiya waved his hand in the air, waving the statement off.
"Sailorwaitress!" the phage cried, throwing a plate towards a group of teenagers thay were watching the scene. The plate sped towards them like a frisbee, at rather high speed. Once the plate came in contact with the side of a building, it exploded and shattered glass landed on the ground.
"Yeah.. You do that..." Leadcrow mumbled, stepping backwards into her telephone booth before she disappeared.
The three girls that were listening in on Seiya and Yaten's conversation were trapped in a corner, screaming in fear as the phage came closer to them.
"What would you three like..tonight...? Let me serve you!" She raised two plates up into the air before throwing them like frisbees at the three girls who had no place to run. They stood at their spots in terror, screaming.
"Star Serious Laser!"
A laser flew out and struck both plates, sending the shattered pieces in the phage's direction. "Damn! Who did that?! Who's there?!"
"Penetrating the darkness at night.."
"The air of freedom breaks through.."
"We are two wandering shooting stars!"
The three girls opened their eyes and backed up, looking up to Crown's rooftop, where they saw silouettes of two girls with long ponytails. The shorter one jumped down, landing on the side. "Sailorstarhealer!"
The taller one jumped down next landing beside her ally. "Sailorstarfighter!"
"Sailorstarlights! Stage on!"
"Oh my KAMI!! They DO exist!!" cried out the 'leader' of the three shocked girls, a bright smile appearing on her face.
"Well duh, we're too good looking to merely be figments of people's imaginations, you know," Healer commented, running a hand through her hair.
Fighter sweatdropped, shaking her head. "Hey, you can compliment yourself later, right now we have to control this thing 'till Sailormoon gets here."
The shorter Starlight nodded, pulling her star yell up. The phage narrowed her eyes, sending an onslaught of plates in Fighter and Healer's direction. The two Starlights jumped up and started to dodge the plates to the best of their ability, landing back on the pavement before they jumped up again.
Healer landed and prepared to jump up again to follow Fighter but was hit in the back with an incoming plate which blew up once it came in contact with her. She let out a scream which seemed to get stuck in her throat before she collapsed onto her side, on the wet pavement, squirming and wincing in pain.
"Healer!" Fighter screamed, her eyes narrowing as she turned, feeling sort of refilled in energy due to her anger. She rubbed her wrist and rushed forward, dodging the plates that were thrown in her direction. She jumped up and raised her star yell, eyes locked on her target. "Star Serious... LASER!" She landed behind the phage and let the attack hit her in the back, causing her to fly forward and scream. The phage collapsed onto her knees, panting as she tried to get up. This gave Fighter her chance.
She ran over to her ally and fell to her knees beside her, picking the shorter girl up partly into her arms. "Where did it hit you? Are you okay..?"
"Seiya.. I never got to reply to what you asked...me.." she weakly reply, squirming in Fighter's arms.
"Shh.. It's alright.. You can tell me later.." Fighter whispered, pressing a kiss to Healer's cheek. "I'll protect you, Healerchan."
"Why are you.." Healer gasped, unable to finish her question. Fighter's eyes widened, seeing the phage slowly get up, stumbling in Fighter and Healer's direction.
"Starlight Honeymoon.. Therapy Kiss!!!"
Fighter covered her eyes, Healer's as well, from the blinding light that appeared suddenly, coming from Sailormoon's tier. The light disappeared. Fighter blinked, seeing the waitress collapse onto the ground, unconscious. The rain got heavier. Fighter looked back to her ally, moving soaked bangs from her face as she placed an arm under her knees and kept the other arm around her upper back, standing up with the girl still in her arms.
"Fighter! Wait!!" Sailormoon cried, rushing over to her.
Fighter's head hung, a tear falling down her cheek as she jumped up, disappearing into thin air. "Gomen... Odango... Gomen."
I'll write more tomorrow, happy memorial day and such. I've said it before, but I think this is my last week of updating till June 20th or around there. I have too many finals and regents to worry about. I may sound blah saying this but it's annoying, I don't wanna stop. That and the show I'm watching is making me depressed. ^_^; So, thank you for all the reviews, and this week I'll update as much as humanly possible. Arigato gozaimasu~
~Rizukiyatchan.
Back | Next | Fanfiction