Mine Chapter 5
Title: Mine
Author: hikarijournal
Rating: PG -13
Pairings: Takaki/Chinen, Yamada/Chinen, Yuto/Chinen, hinted: Ryutaro will appear too.
Genre: Romance, Angst, Love, Mystery, Suspense
Warning: Yuri is a girl here. Ryutaro will appear on the later part of the chapters.
Summary: Yuri is a girl full of wit and vigor. Even though her family is so poor and her schooling is just covered by scholarship, she is very happy already. Everything on her life is just normal until one day she meets three strangers who mess up her life in the game of love and money. After that, everything change and so her identity.
Yamada Ryosuke: You’re my Sleeping Beauty… I’ll wake you up with my sweetest kiss.
Nakajima Yuto: You’re my Snow White… I’ll eat the poisoned apple just for you to see how much I care.
Takaki Yuya: You’re my Cinderella… I’ll stop the time before twelve midnight just to have you with me forever.
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Chapter 5
Me and The Feelings I Haven’t Felt Before
CHAPTER LINKS HERE~
It has been three days already since that boy pushed me on the pool. I lived peacefully with no more threats after that incident, but I wonder why. Isn’t it usual for a killer to check if his prey is still alive or not?... but in his case, he did not bother me anymore. Even everyone had told me to forget it already, I still had some vibes on me that somehow there is an inside job, because none of the guards had found that boy after searching thoroughly. Does this means, someone is protecting that boy or someone is pushing that boy to kill me?
Yuri stepped out her room yawning continuously. She hasn’t had enough sleep for the last three days because of something which bothering her yet she could not explain. She palmed her neck the moment she brought herself completely outside her room and her bodyguard stared at her with lust while whistling a hooting sound for no reason. “What?!...”
“You’re sexy…” Yuya muttered, biting his lower lip while eyeing the three loosened buttons on Yuri’s blouse. “I think its better if you---” he was shut when an arm with a sleeve hit his eyes suddenly which pushed him away from the girl also. “Itai!!!...” he shrieked.
Yuri stepped back the moment her butler battered her bodyguard while cursing herself of being too clumsy to forget about buttoning her own blouse. She is about to clasp her dangling neckline but Yuto, her butler, closed the buttons for her in advance with no hint of any perverted action. She can’t say a word since the guy is doing his job perfectly.
“Next time… check yourself before the mirror…” Yuto muttered, with his eyes fixed on the guy he just smacked. “Because perverted stray dogs are just loitering anywhere…” he added.
“Are you talking to yourself Nakajima?...” Yuya asked after rubbing his eyes vigorously.
“No… I’m talking about you…” Yuto snapped.
“Omae!---”
“Stop!!!...” Yuri intervened, taking too long for her to halt the argument since her head is still spinning from drowsiness. “I don’t care if the two of you are going to beat each other’s face but…” she yawned. “Just do it outside the mansion or anywhere as far as I can’t see…” she continued, pacing toward the direction opposite where the two are arguing.
“Oh!... Ohayoo Chi Chi!!!...” Yamada greeted the moment he hopped from where he was hiding. “Ready for your lesson today?...”
Yuri’s sleepy atmosphere snapped out in a second. Uneasy feeling of unknown impels her to run opposite the direction of Yamada even it means she will end up crossing the two whom she just avoided. She herself is bewildered on her action since everytime she meets the guy something is being stirred inside her. A feeling which is unexplainable that causes her to feel fear somehow since her heart is beating riotously by no means. And if you’re wondering why then let’s go back to the time she was saved from the pool…
“Are you ok?...” Yamada asked.
“I’m fine…” Yuri retorted breathlessly.
“Yugatta…” he sighed in relief, brushing the hair of the girl away from the face while tucking some of it behind the ears. “Why did you fall?...” he asked worriedly, rubbing a thumb on the cheek of the girl.
“I-I w-was…” she shivered in cold and the guy pulled him out the pool right away. She can’t stop shaking since the fear she has inside doubled the coldness in her body.
“You’re cold… wait here I’ll call---” he snapped out from his words when the girl pulled him for a tight hug. He did not argue since he understands the condition of the girl. And besides, this is his chance to prove something good about him. “What happened?...”
“S-Someone p-pushed m-me…” she cried, pulling Yamada closer to her. “I-I d-don’t k-know h-him t-though--”
“Ssshhhh… It’s ok I’m here…” he whispered while brushing her hair soothingly. “You’re safe…”He pushes the girl a little just enough for them to see each other face-by face and he uses his fingers to wipe her tears until she stops. By looking at her crying face, he realizes that somehow she is important to him since he was hurt and frightened. Hurt to the point that the tears forming on her eyes pierced his heart and frightened pertinent to the drowning that might cost her life. “Are you alright now?...”
Yuri nodded while staring at her savior. She has been kissed many times but it seems like it is her first time to be so close at someone’s face. She can feel his breath, smell his scent and even see the fear lingering around the corner of his eyes. “A-ri-ga-to…” she hiccupped.
“You’re welcome…” he smiled, touching the chin of the girl until he slid his hand behind her neck. He doesn’t have any intention to kiss her again but the girl is the one who moved closer to him. To his surprised, Yuri kissed him unexpectedly and eventually falls down to his shoulder, unconscious. “Eh?...” he gulped. His heart skipped a beat though but he’s not convinced since everything occurred so fast. He laid the girl like a baby on his arms and carried her toward the parlour while trying to wake her up. “Chi…” he called her nickname repeatedly but she is not responding.
People inside the castle panicked the moment they saw the condition of their lady. The Head Empress ordered the guards to search the entire castle immediately and requested her butler to call for a doctor. “What happened to her?...”she asked the tutor.
“She told me that she was pushed on the pool by someone…”
“Did she told you anything about that someone?...”
“No… because she passed out.”
Everyone settled when the doctor announced a non-alarming result on Yuri’s condition. She slept for almost six hours, undisturbed. Her soaked clothes were changed by the maids and the security outside her room was tripled. A clang which always rings everytime the clock strikes 6:00 pm awakens her. She opens her eyes and found the three annoying guys looking down at her worriedly. “What are you doing?...”
“Checking if you are awake already…” Yuya answered while leaning his palms on the mattress of the bed.
“I’m awake… now step back…” she ordered, pushing herself to sit up.
“How’s your feeling right now?...” Yuto asked, assisting his lady to heave up.
“Fine…” she sighed, shoving the hand of her butler away from her. “Just leave me alone for a while…”she grimaced.
“Are you hungry?...” Yamada asked as he offers an orange to her while jittering.
“No!!!...” she exclaimed and everybody stepped away from her at once. “Get out…”
“Come on!!!... We’re worried!!!...” Yuya whined.
“Just get out!!!...” she pointed a finger to the door this time and the three march their way outside her room, murmuring about her lack of appreciation. The moment the door closes she starts wobbling on her bed while flapping her legs simultaneously and messing her hair to its utmost tangle. “It did not happened… if it really happened then it was an accident… if it was an accident then I could make excuses… or should I just pretend that I don’t remember it at all…” she blabbered, bashing the last memory she had before she passed out. “That’s the final… I don’t remember it at all… period” she straightened out, inhaling and exhaling to ease her restlessness. “But why did I fall toward him?... if I just push myself to fall backwardly then that thing did not happened…” she sighed.
“Lady Yuri… can we come in…” called by the Head Mistress while knocking the door from the outside.
Hurriedly, Yuri fixes her hair and tucked herself back inside her blanket. “Sure…” she replied and the guests entered.
“You don’t have to sit Milady… they are just here to ask some information from you…” instructed by the Head Mistress the moment she saw a getting up motion from the girl’s gesture. “Let me introduce first… this is Detective Yaotome Hikaru and his crew… they are the people hired from the bureau of investigation to probe the threats conferred at you…”she introduced and the guests bowed their heads courteously
Yuri bowed a head in response, showing respect to the authority even though she is much higher than them. “I’m---”
“You don’t have to introduce yourself Milady… everyone knows you already…” Hikaru prodded. He pulled a chair toward the bed and skid on it instantly. “Can we start?...” he asked the girl just to know if she’s ready.
“Yes…” she nodded.
“So let’s start with the face of the person who pushed you at the pool…”
“Eh?... why did she run away again?...” Yamada asked himself, scratching his nape in frustration. “She missed three days of lecture already… and we have lots of things to catch up…” he murmured.
“Yamada…” growled by the two while approaching the frustrated guy.
“What did you do to her?...” Yuto asked after pulling and pinning the guy on the wall.
“Nothing!!!...” Yamada struggled but the pinning becomes more painful once he tries to badge from it. “Come on guys!... I’m not in the mood to become your punching bag again… so just let me go…”
“We’ll do that if you give us an answer…” Yuya demanded, pinching and squeezing the cheeks of the boy until tears escape on Yamada’s eyes. “Why are you crying?...” he wondered.
“It hurts idiot!!!...” he cried.
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Yuri ends up locking herself inside the kitchen. “Calm down…” she told herself. “Why should I calm down?…” she asked herself idiotically. “And why am I running a---” she was cut when a loud crash accompanied by an exasperated sigh meddled. “Hello?...”
The guy, who sighed, sticks his head outside the storage room and crashes his way to bow at the presence of the princess. “I’m so sorry Milady… did I startle you?...”
“A little…”
“A little?...” he shivered while fiddling and pinching his apron tightly. “I’m so sorry…” he bowed his head.
Yuri wondered on the wayward behavior of the guy since the act is too childish yet the appearance is so mature. It is quite absurd to see such handsome man to be so clumsy. “You don’t have to be sorry… it’s ok…”
“No…” he shook his head. “I’m such a klutz… if it angered you just punish me…” he cried.
“Huh?...”
“I’m always like this… I can’t fix the fridge properly and I often startle people around me!...” he kneeled down and bowed his head until it kissed on the floor. “Please forgive me…”
“Enough…” Yuri pulled the guy up herself, hating to see someone kneeling at her like that and unexpectedly a beaded bracelet on his wrist shattered. “I’m sorry…” she has an intent to collect all the blobs that scatters but the guy halted her as he collects them all by himself. “I did not intend to break it…”
“It’s ok… I’m actually waiting for someone to break it for me since I can’t break it myself…” he justified and a faint smile formed in his lips. He opened the bin to trash the bracelet but his eyes are to focus on it that hesitancy strikes him doubt to hold it back.
“What’s wrong?...” Yuri asked, approaching the guy who seemed to be so sad.
“I can’t throw it away!…” he whined.
“Eh?...” Yuri reacted sarcastically.
The guy delved his hand inside his pocket, grabbed a neatly folded handkerchief from it, and then laid it open on the surface of the baking table. He placed all the blobs on top of the cloth and wrapped it securely afterwards. “This was given by someone who is so important to me… that’s why I can’t break or throw it myself…” he turn his gaze to the girl and give his most persuasive stare. “Can you please----”
“Wait…” Yuri interjected as she knows the next thing to happen, which is a favor of throwing the object on his behalf. “If that thing comes from the most important person for you… then why are throwing it away?... isn’t it worth keeping?...”
“You don’t understand…” he sobbed.
“So tell me…”
“About what?...”
“About the thing that I don’t understand…”
The guy looked down as he clasped the object tight enough to feel the thing inside it. “This was given by my first love… but it is impossible for us to be together…”
“Why?...”
“Because that person is just like you Milady… a wealthy and a powerful aristocrat…” he used his sleeves to rub away the tears dripping stubbornly from his eyes. “And I’m just no one…”
“Are you nuts?...” she asked and the guy gave her a surprised expression. “Do you think money and power can make you happy?... do you think those stuff are the basis of love between two people?... No!!!...” she gripped the arms and nagged the guy to her utmost convincing power. “People are falling in love because they like each other… because they want each other… and because they want to become happy together!!!...” she stopped when she realized that her words and her actions are not elegant anymore. “Sorry…” she backed off.
“It’s…. ok…” he sighed.
“What’s your name?...” she asked just to change the topic and to divert the awkwardness between them.
“Yabu Kota de gozaimasu…” he bowed.
“What are you doing here?...”
“I’m working here as you Chief Milady…”
“I see!...” she smiled delightfully. “I like all your cooking… especially the roasted chicken, salad dressing, dessert and the fruit shake you’ve made yesterday!...” she’s trying to cheer him up.
“Yesterday?...”
“Yes!...” she nodded.
“I was on-leave yesterday Milady…”
“Huh?...”
“I believe it was your butler who cooked your food yesterday…” he answered woefully while rolling his eyes over the corner as the feeling of being nothing starts to stir inside him again. “As I expect… I’m no one since I can’t even cook the food of your preference…”
“No!!!...” she waved her hand in a sideward motion, trying to get his attention back. “Didn’t I say that I like all your cooking?...”
“Yeah…” he sighed, thinking that like is too far to be at par from love. “Milady… have you liked someone before?...” he asked.
“Of course!...” she grinned chirpily but the guy frowned in response.
“Have you love someone before?...” he asked again.
“Of course?...” she puckered a brow this time since the talk are now going somewhere she doesn’t like to be talked about. “Why are you asking?...”
“Because like and love are different entities and they are too far to be the same Milady…”
“What do you mean?...”
He inserts the wrapped object inside his pocket and tucked the thing firmly just to be sure that he placed it properly before removing a hand from it. “Like is something you can give up but love is the opposite… once you love something you can’t give it up because no matter what happened Mr. Heart will search that something to reach his satisfaction and if you ignore him… he’ll cry and eventually die…”
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Yamada has been chuckling since the time he left the two who were so guilty of doing something wicked. “I think I should use that crying strategy everytime they harass me so that I can get away immediately…” he speculated. “But I think I should find her first…” he settled. After an hour of searching with his patience almost at limit, finally he found the girl at the lawn walking like a lazy zombie. “Chi!...” he shouted and the girl panicked right away. “Chotto!!!...” he blocked her way this time in order to stop her from escaping anymore. “What’s wrong with you?...”
“Nothing…” she lied.
“You’re lying…”
“I’m not!...” she stepped back, quite flustered.
Yamada sighed as he can’t take her gaucheness anymore. He placed his hands on his waist and decided to create an atmosphere of laughter just to make her comfortable again. “Chi… Am I a camera?...”
“Huh?...” she fluttered her lashes and the guy give a hint of about to smile at her. “What did you ask?...”
“Am I a camera?...” he repeated.
“Why did you ask?...”
“Because everytime I click…" he winked. "I capture you...” he grinned.
“Duh!...” Yuri reacted as she flouts her gaze away from him.
“Then how about this…” he hopped to the area where her focus is at present. “You’re a cactus…”
“Then I’ll poke you with my thorns!...” she starts countering the pranks.
“I don’t care… because you are still huggable for me…” he chuckled.
“Very funny… haha…” she looked down since her lips are now forming a curve to smile.
“Ah!...” he reacted as he placed his palm on the head of the girl. “Did you got taller?...”
“Really?...” she looked up instantly.
“Yes… because before you are just at my shoulder level but now you are in my mind…” he joked while pointing a finger on his temple. “Oh!... you got smaller suddenly!...” he palmed the head again.
“Are you insulting me?!...”
“Nope… I’m just telling that from my mind you are now in my heart…” he joked again while pointing to his chest. “Wah!... you’re smiling!... don’t hold it… I just saw it!...” he declared after seeing the glint on her eyes.
“Are you a pollen grain?...” Yuri asked, holding her laughter somewhere inside her.
“Why?... are you making a honey out of me?...”
“Nope!... It is just that you got into my eyes and it SORES!!!...” she exclaimed, pushing the guy on the side to escape again.
“Sore eyes…” he frowned. “At least I got into her eyes…” he giggled.
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A/N: Sorry for the late update… I’m finishing my Love-Lies first since I’m almost at the end… and sorry for my wrong grammars here <--- edited it already... but not confident enough yet… I’m quite sleepy lately… but hope you enjoy!...
Author: hikarijournal
Rating: PG -13
Pairings: Takaki/Chinen, Yamada/Chinen, Yuto/Chinen, hinted: Ryutaro will appear too.
Genre: Romance, Angst, Love, Mystery, Suspense
Warning: Yuri is a girl here. Ryutaro will appear on the later part of the chapters.
Summary: Yuri is a girl full of wit and vigor. Even though her family is so poor and her schooling is just covered by scholarship, she is very happy already. Everything on her life is just normal until one day she meets three strangers who mess up her life in the game of love and money. After that, everything change and so her identity.
Yamada Ryosuke: You’re my Sleeping Beauty… I’ll wake you up with my sweetest kiss.
Nakajima Yuto: You’re my Snow White… I’ll eat the poisoned apple just for you to see how much I care.
Takaki Yuya: You’re my Cinderella… I’ll stop the time before twelve midnight just to have you with me forever.
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Chapter 5
Me and The Feelings I Haven’t Felt Before
CHAPTER LINKS HERE~
It has been three days already since that boy pushed me on the pool. I lived peacefully with no more threats after that incident, but I wonder why. Isn’t it usual for a killer to check if his prey is still alive or not?... but in his case, he did not bother me anymore. Even everyone had told me to forget it already, I still had some vibes on me that somehow there is an inside job, because none of the guards had found that boy after searching thoroughly. Does this means, someone is protecting that boy or someone is pushing that boy to kill me?
Yuri stepped out her room yawning continuously. She hasn’t had enough sleep for the last three days because of something which bothering her yet she could not explain. She palmed her neck the moment she brought herself completely outside her room and her bodyguard stared at her with lust while whistling a hooting sound for no reason. “What?!...”
“You’re sexy…” Yuya muttered, biting his lower lip while eyeing the three loosened buttons on Yuri’s blouse. “I think its better if you---” he was shut when an arm with a sleeve hit his eyes suddenly which pushed him away from the girl also. “Itai!!!...” he shrieked.
Yuri stepped back the moment her butler battered her bodyguard while cursing herself of being too clumsy to forget about buttoning her own blouse. She is about to clasp her dangling neckline but Yuto, her butler, closed the buttons for her in advance with no hint of any perverted action. She can’t say a word since the guy is doing his job perfectly.
“Next time… check yourself before the mirror…” Yuto muttered, with his eyes fixed on the guy he just smacked. “Because perverted stray dogs are just loitering anywhere…” he added.
“Are you talking to yourself Nakajima?...” Yuya asked after rubbing his eyes vigorously.
“No… I’m talking about you…” Yuto snapped.
“Omae!---”
“Stop!!!...” Yuri intervened, taking too long for her to halt the argument since her head is still spinning from drowsiness. “I don’t care if the two of you are going to beat each other’s face but…” she yawned. “Just do it outside the mansion or anywhere as far as I can’t see…” she continued, pacing toward the direction opposite where the two are arguing.
“Oh!... Ohayoo Chi Chi!!!...” Yamada greeted the moment he hopped from where he was hiding. “Ready for your lesson today?...”
Yuri’s sleepy atmosphere snapped out in a second. Uneasy feeling of unknown impels her to run opposite the direction of Yamada even it means she will end up crossing the two whom she just avoided. She herself is bewildered on her action since everytime she meets the guy something is being stirred inside her. A feeling which is unexplainable that causes her to feel fear somehow since her heart is beating riotously by no means. And if you’re wondering why then let’s go back to the time she was saved from the pool…
“Are you ok?...” Yamada asked.
“I’m fine…” Yuri retorted breathlessly.
“Yugatta…” he sighed in relief, brushing the hair of the girl away from the face while tucking some of it behind the ears. “Why did you fall?...” he asked worriedly, rubbing a thumb on the cheek of the girl.
“I-I w-was…” she shivered in cold and the guy pulled him out the pool right away. She can’t stop shaking since the fear she has inside doubled the coldness in her body.
“You’re cold… wait here I’ll call---” he snapped out from his words when the girl pulled him for a tight hug. He did not argue since he understands the condition of the girl. And besides, this is his chance to prove something good about him. “What happened?...”
“S-Someone p-pushed m-me…” she cried, pulling Yamada closer to her. “I-I d-don’t k-know h-him t-though--”
“Ssshhhh… It’s ok I’m here…” he whispered while brushing her hair soothingly. “You’re safe…”He pushes the girl a little just enough for them to see each other face-by face and he uses his fingers to wipe her tears until she stops. By looking at her crying face, he realizes that somehow she is important to him since he was hurt and frightened. Hurt to the point that the tears forming on her eyes pierced his heart and frightened pertinent to the drowning that might cost her life. “Are you alright now?...”
Yuri nodded while staring at her savior. She has been kissed many times but it seems like it is her first time to be so close at someone’s face. She can feel his breath, smell his scent and even see the fear lingering around the corner of his eyes. “A-ri-ga-to…” she hiccupped.
“You’re welcome…” he smiled, touching the chin of the girl until he slid his hand behind her neck. He doesn’t have any intention to kiss her again but the girl is the one who moved closer to him. To his surprised, Yuri kissed him unexpectedly and eventually falls down to his shoulder, unconscious. “Eh?...” he gulped. His heart skipped a beat though but he’s not convinced since everything occurred so fast. He laid the girl like a baby on his arms and carried her toward the parlour while trying to wake her up. “Chi…” he called her nickname repeatedly but she is not responding.
People inside the castle panicked the moment they saw the condition of their lady. The Head Empress ordered the guards to search the entire castle immediately and requested her butler to call for a doctor. “What happened to her?...”she asked the tutor.
“She told me that she was pushed on the pool by someone…”
“Did she told you anything about that someone?...”
“No… because she passed out.”
Everyone settled when the doctor announced a non-alarming result on Yuri’s condition. She slept for almost six hours, undisturbed. Her soaked clothes were changed by the maids and the security outside her room was tripled. A clang which always rings everytime the clock strikes 6:00 pm awakens her. She opens her eyes and found the three annoying guys looking down at her worriedly. “What are you doing?...”
“Checking if you are awake already…” Yuya answered while leaning his palms on the mattress of the bed.
“I’m awake… now step back…” she ordered, pushing herself to sit up.
“How’s your feeling right now?...” Yuto asked, assisting his lady to heave up.
“Fine…” she sighed, shoving the hand of her butler away from her. “Just leave me alone for a while…”she grimaced.
“Are you hungry?...” Yamada asked as he offers an orange to her while jittering.
“No!!!...” she exclaimed and everybody stepped away from her at once. “Get out…”
“Come on!!!... We’re worried!!!...” Yuya whined.
“Just get out!!!...” she pointed a finger to the door this time and the three march their way outside her room, murmuring about her lack of appreciation. The moment the door closes she starts wobbling on her bed while flapping her legs simultaneously and messing her hair to its utmost tangle. “It did not happened… if it really happened then it was an accident… if it was an accident then I could make excuses… or should I just pretend that I don’t remember it at all…” she blabbered, bashing the last memory she had before she passed out. “That’s the final… I don’t remember it at all… period” she straightened out, inhaling and exhaling to ease her restlessness. “But why did I fall toward him?... if I just push myself to fall backwardly then that thing did not happened…” she sighed.
“Lady Yuri… can we come in…” called by the Head Mistress while knocking the door from the outside.
Hurriedly, Yuri fixes her hair and tucked herself back inside her blanket. “Sure…” she replied and the guests entered.
“You don’t have to sit Milady… they are just here to ask some information from you…” instructed by the Head Mistress the moment she saw a getting up motion from the girl’s gesture. “Let me introduce first… this is Detective Yaotome Hikaru and his crew… they are the people hired from the bureau of investigation to probe the threats conferred at you…”she introduced and the guests bowed their heads courteously
Yuri bowed a head in response, showing respect to the authority even though she is much higher than them. “I’m---”
“You don’t have to introduce yourself Milady… everyone knows you already…” Hikaru prodded. He pulled a chair toward the bed and skid on it instantly. “Can we start?...” he asked the girl just to know if she’s ready.
“Yes…” she nodded.
“So let’s start with the face of the person who pushed you at the pool…”
“Eh?... why did she run away again?...” Yamada asked himself, scratching his nape in frustration. “She missed three days of lecture already… and we have lots of things to catch up…” he murmured.
“Yamada…” growled by the two while approaching the frustrated guy.
“What did you do to her?...” Yuto asked after pulling and pinning the guy on the wall.
“Nothing!!!...” Yamada struggled but the pinning becomes more painful once he tries to badge from it. “Come on guys!... I’m not in the mood to become your punching bag again… so just let me go…”
“We’ll do that if you give us an answer…” Yuya demanded, pinching and squeezing the cheeks of the boy until tears escape on Yamada’s eyes. “Why are you crying?...” he wondered.
“It hurts idiot!!!...” he cried.
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Yuri ends up locking herself inside the kitchen. “Calm down…” she told herself. “Why should I calm down?…” she asked herself idiotically. “And why am I running a---” she was cut when a loud crash accompanied by an exasperated sigh meddled. “Hello?...”
The guy, who sighed, sticks his head outside the storage room and crashes his way to bow at the presence of the princess. “I’m so sorry Milady… did I startle you?...”
“A little…”
“A little?...” he shivered while fiddling and pinching his apron tightly. “I’m so sorry…” he bowed his head.
Yuri wondered on the wayward behavior of the guy since the act is too childish yet the appearance is so mature. It is quite absurd to see such handsome man to be so clumsy. “You don’t have to be sorry… it’s ok…”
“No…” he shook his head. “I’m such a klutz… if it angered you just punish me…” he cried.
“Huh?...”
“I’m always like this… I can’t fix the fridge properly and I often startle people around me!...” he kneeled down and bowed his head until it kissed on the floor. “Please forgive me…”
“Enough…” Yuri pulled the guy up herself, hating to see someone kneeling at her like that and unexpectedly a beaded bracelet on his wrist shattered. “I’m sorry…” she has an intent to collect all the blobs that scatters but the guy halted her as he collects them all by himself. “I did not intend to break it…”
“It’s ok… I’m actually waiting for someone to break it for me since I can’t break it myself…” he justified and a faint smile formed in his lips. He opened the bin to trash the bracelet but his eyes are to focus on it that hesitancy strikes him doubt to hold it back.
“What’s wrong?...” Yuri asked, approaching the guy who seemed to be so sad.
“I can’t throw it away!…” he whined.
“Eh?...” Yuri reacted sarcastically.
The guy delved his hand inside his pocket, grabbed a neatly folded handkerchief from it, and then laid it open on the surface of the baking table. He placed all the blobs on top of the cloth and wrapped it securely afterwards. “This was given by someone who is so important to me… that’s why I can’t break or throw it myself…” he turn his gaze to the girl and give his most persuasive stare. “Can you please----”
“Wait…” Yuri interjected as she knows the next thing to happen, which is a favor of throwing the object on his behalf. “If that thing comes from the most important person for you… then why are throwing it away?... isn’t it worth keeping?...”
“You don’t understand…” he sobbed.
“So tell me…”
“About what?...”
“About the thing that I don’t understand…”
The guy looked down as he clasped the object tight enough to feel the thing inside it. “This was given by my first love… but it is impossible for us to be together…”
“Why?...”
“Because that person is just like you Milady… a wealthy and a powerful aristocrat…” he used his sleeves to rub away the tears dripping stubbornly from his eyes. “And I’m just no one…”
“Are you nuts?...” she asked and the guy gave her a surprised expression. “Do you think money and power can make you happy?... do you think those stuff are the basis of love between two people?... No!!!...” she gripped the arms and nagged the guy to her utmost convincing power. “People are falling in love because they like each other… because they want each other… and because they want to become happy together!!!...” she stopped when she realized that her words and her actions are not elegant anymore. “Sorry…” she backed off.
“It’s…. ok…” he sighed.
“What’s your name?...” she asked just to change the topic and to divert the awkwardness between them.
“Yabu Kota de gozaimasu…” he bowed.
“What are you doing here?...”
“I’m working here as you Chief Milady…”
“I see!...” she smiled delightfully. “I like all your cooking… especially the roasted chicken, salad dressing, dessert and the fruit shake you’ve made yesterday!...” she’s trying to cheer him up.
“Yesterday?...”
“Yes!...” she nodded.
“I was on-leave yesterday Milady…”
“Huh?...”
“I believe it was your butler who cooked your food yesterday…” he answered woefully while rolling his eyes over the corner as the feeling of being nothing starts to stir inside him again. “As I expect… I’m no one since I can’t even cook the food of your preference…”
“No!!!...” she waved her hand in a sideward motion, trying to get his attention back. “Didn’t I say that I like all your cooking?...”
“Yeah…” he sighed, thinking that like is too far to be at par from love. “Milady… have you liked someone before?...” he asked.
“Of course!...” she grinned chirpily but the guy frowned in response.
“Have you love someone before?...” he asked again.
“Of course?...” she puckered a brow this time since the talk are now going somewhere she doesn’t like to be talked about. “Why are you asking?...”
“Because like and love are different entities and they are too far to be the same Milady…”
“What do you mean?...”
He inserts the wrapped object inside his pocket and tucked the thing firmly just to be sure that he placed it properly before removing a hand from it. “Like is something you can give up but love is the opposite… once you love something you can’t give it up because no matter what happened Mr. Heart will search that something to reach his satisfaction and if you ignore him… he’ll cry and eventually die…”
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Yamada has been chuckling since the time he left the two who were so guilty of doing something wicked. “I think I should use that crying strategy everytime they harass me so that I can get away immediately…” he speculated. “But I think I should find her first…” he settled. After an hour of searching with his patience almost at limit, finally he found the girl at the lawn walking like a lazy zombie. “Chi!...” he shouted and the girl panicked right away. “Chotto!!!...” he blocked her way this time in order to stop her from escaping anymore. “What’s wrong with you?...”
“Nothing…” she lied.
“You’re lying…”
“I’m not!...” she stepped back, quite flustered.
Yamada sighed as he can’t take her gaucheness anymore. He placed his hands on his waist and decided to create an atmosphere of laughter just to make her comfortable again. “Chi… Am I a camera?...”
“Huh?...” she fluttered her lashes and the guy give a hint of about to smile at her. “What did you ask?...”
“Am I a camera?...” he repeated.
“Why did you ask?...”
“Because everytime I click…" he winked. "I capture you...” he grinned.
“Duh!...” Yuri reacted as she flouts her gaze away from him.
“Then how about this…” he hopped to the area where her focus is at present. “You’re a cactus…”
“Then I’ll poke you with my thorns!...” she starts countering the pranks.
“I don’t care… because you are still huggable for me…” he chuckled.
“Very funny… haha…” she looked down since her lips are now forming a curve to smile.
“Ah!...” he reacted as he placed his palm on the head of the girl. “Did you got taller?...”
“Really?...” she looked up instantly.
“Yes… because before you are just at my shoulder level but now you are in my mind…” he joked while pointing a finger on his temple. “Oh!... you got smaller suddenly!...” he palmed the head again.
“Are you insulting me?!...”
“Nope… I’m just telling that from my mind you are now in my heart…” he joked again while pointing to his chest. “Wah!... you’re smiling!... don’t hold it… I just saw it!...” he declared after seeing the glint on her eyes.
“Are you a pollen grain?...” Yuri asked, holding her laughter somewhere inside her.
“Why?... are you making a honey out of me?...”
“Nope!... It is just that you got into my eyes and it SORES!!!...” she exclaimed, pushing the guy on the side to escape again.
“Sore eyes…” he frowned. “At least I got into her eyes…” he giggled.
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A/N: Sorry for the late update… I’m finishing my Love-Lies first since I’m almost at the end… and sorry for my wrong grammars here <--- edited it already... but not confident enough yet… I’m quite sleepy lately… but hope you enjoy!...