She tried to connect to her twin, but she couldn't get through. It was disturbing and slightly d�j� vu-esque, although she didn't know quite why. She tried her communicator, but got no response. *Neko-chan!* She forgot all about resting and ran out of the house.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Tenshi landed in the pit and waited for the clank of the bar that she knew was coming. But rather than be upset, she was happy. Finally, she was done! She could go on her date with Neko-chan now!
She wouldn't have minded practicing longer if Neko-chan had been there watching, but she wasn't. For some reason she wanted to wait for Tenshi out in front of the locker room instead. Well, that was fine, except that Tenshi didn't really have any incentive to jump well. Now that she had missed three times at 15', she was free to go out with Neko-chan!
But after changing into her afterschool clothes (sweatshirt and jeans), she couldn't find Neko-chan anywhere. She looked all around and in the locker room, the library, the gym� basically anywhere she thought Neko-chan might be. But she couldn't find her.
She felt like crying (but she wasn't going to). Had Neko-chan forgotten about their date?! Or worse, had she stood Tenshi up?! Where could she be?!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Neko opened her eyes and tried to figure out where she was. She sat up and looked around. Nothing looked familiar around her, but she was definitely on somebody's couch in somebody's house. That was about as far as she got before a child of boundless energy ran into the room exclaiming, "Neko-san, you're awake! Yay! Come play with me, onegai!"
"Puroko-chan?" Neko rubbed her temples in an attempt to make her head stop pounding. She loved the girl, but she couldn't take her hyperactivity at the moment. "Am I at your house?" It would make sense. She kind of remembered someone catching her from her fall and she thought it might have been Tenshi-kun, but that might have been leftover from the first time she had passed out that day.
"Hai, and I've been waiting forever for you to wake up! You want to see all my cool toys?" She bounced up and down in excitement.
"Ne, Aiji-chan?" called a voice from the other room.
"Hai."
Haruka-sama walked into the room (soft music played in the background). "What did I tell you about bothering Neko-chan?"
"I'm not bothering her. She's going to play with me? Right, Neko-san?"
Before Neko could answer, Haruka-sama suggested, "Why don't you bring down one of your toys and show it off to Neko-chan, ne?"
"Okay," Puroko-chan sang and skipped out of the room
"Arigatou, Tenoh-sama," Neko said shyly. The Mizuno kids had had some contact with the original Senshi (excluding their parents), but not much. Except for Mi-chan with Haruka-sama and Kimako with Rei-sama, of course. Neko was slightly intimidated about being in the Tenoh-Kaiou household. The fact that Haruka-sama and Michiru-sama were Tenshi-kun's parents wasn't helping much.
Haruka-sama was gazing off in the direction that Puroko-chan had disappeared, smiling. "Yeah, she's kawaii, but sometimes she's a little too energetic, ne?" Then she turned her attention to Neko. "How are you feeling?"
By now Neko's head was mostly clear. "Better�. I got dizzy and fell off a wall and� did you catch me?"
"Hai. But you thought I was Tenshi then, didn't you?" she asked with a teasing smile on her face.
Neko blushed. "She caught me earlier today." Then she blushed even harder and looked down, embarrassed by the admission that this wasn't the first time she'd fainted today.
Haruka's eyes narrowed. "You mean something happened earlier today?"
"Hai, when J- when someone gave me flowers this morning, I got dizzy and fainted." Neko realized that Jian-kun had nothing to do with her latest fainting spell. She didn't want to get him in trouble, even if she was mad at him. But Haruka-sama wasn't really known for giving people the benefit of the doubt, so Neko thought she'd leave his name out of it for now. She added, "The guy on the other side of the wall had flowers too. I asked to see them because he said he gave them to his girlfriend and that she had been allergic and fainted. When he gave them to me, that's when I got dizzy again. It was kinda like being drained of energy."
Haruka-sama frowned. "Ok, I'm going to go call the other Senshi about this. Stay right here." She got up to leave, but right before leaving the room added, "Michiru's making dinner right now. If you want, you can stay for dinner. I'll tell your parents that you're here. Oh, and Tenshi should be home soon." She left.
*Tenshi-kun!* Neko had forgotten all about their date. And now she had no way to get in touch with her and she'd think that she'd been stood up.
Then she realized that Mi-chan was probably freaking out right about now. It was probably a good idea to call her and tell her that she was ok.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Mi-chan jumped off the bus that had finally stopped at Infinity College. This was the last place she'd seen Neko-chan and pole vault should have still been going on when she felt Neko-chan lose consciousness, so Neko-chan should still be here. In theory, at least.
She headed toward the locker room, hoping that Neko-chan would be there. As she turned the corner, she saw Tenshi-san there, but no Neko-chan. Mi-chan ran towards him.
"Tenshi-san!" she yelled.
Tenshi-san looked up, smiled and then frowned.
"Michiru-chan? Shouldn't you be at home resting?"
Now that he mentioned it, Mi-chan wasn't really feeling her best, but she wasn't about to sit around when something was wrong with Neko-chan. She caught her breath and asked him, "Have you seen Neko-chan?"
Tenshi-san frowned even more. "Ano, she was supposed to be here. Demo when I finished with pole vault, I couldn't find her. Doushita?"
Mi-chan looked at him in desperation. "She's in trouble! Onegai, you gotta help me find her!"
He put his hands on her shoulders and said firmly, but gently, "Michiru-chan calm down. What happened?"
