Chapter 9:
Love Of Sword And Pen
After i closed up the book store i along with Kenshin:
(With?Wow that sounds so weird to even think.)
We walked to the aracde beside so i can meet up and talk with uncle Goji,who is trying vainly to my amusement to teach a young child with his teenage brother how to properly play the mini basketball game but the boys are both miserable at aiming and somehow only seem to hit the machine everywhere else but the hoop.
I hear Kenshin chuckling beside me and if i am being honest i am starting too as well.We both take a hiding postion behind another machine a little distance away to watch the fun.That only lasted so long though because the down side of having a beautiful man beside you is that fact itself.
He is stunning and knows it,making it hard for me to relax once the laughter settles down for me and i have a moment to really catch on to the fact he is RIGHT behind me.I feel his breath by my shoulder,it smells like strawberry goblin candy my mom makes and it is making my brain a little less sane.
"Who is that?Does your Uncle have a girlfriend?"
I look up at him,stunned out of my girly moment and am much to close to the very area i was just referring to smelling good,He seems criminally aware as well and smirks leaning in just a bit asking the same question again.
"I do not know!He hasn't told me you smell good.....oh no..."
My face becomes a tomato.
Yes.
A large,red and ripe tomato that could burst and the smile on his face gets wider while i focus every ounce of attention on what i am seeing.
Uncle Goji looks like a tree lit up for the holidays kind of happy,The woman beside him has shoulder length wolf cut hair and big beautiul brown eyes with a smile that i can see would make men weak."She does look familiar but...where?"I ask myself then shake my head and take Kenshin by the wrist leading us both out.
"What are you laughing about?"
He lifts his wrist proudly,i become literal mortification and walk so fast that if Kenshin were not in amazing shape i could have out walked him.
Didn't happen.
The whole walk to our apartment is of Kenshin laughing about how i wouldn't release his wrist or the fact that he smells good is of note to him.
"Hungry?"
I ask.
Figuring if he has a mouth full of ramen or maybe a rice ball stuffed with cayenne he will be easier to deal with.
"Always but i will wait,i hoped to treat you and your Uncle to a meal.He always treated me like a little brother when i needed one so i would like to return that.Also Lovely,feeding me will never hush my flattery or flattering."
I attempt to ignore that,attempt to ignore how he playfully smiles at me as i try to cook my own ramen hoping eating will make me less goofy before i tell him the plan.
Where'd he go?
I hold onto my ramen cup,Cookie follows not in the slightest bit in defense mode around Kenshin at all and i whisper to him."What kind of protector are you??He may be mad or a killer!"
The fierce attack dog of mine only bounds into my room to try and climb Kenshins leg to get his attention,He kneels and takes Cookie in his arms and pets him like they have known each other since forever while i am in awe at his presumptiousness.
Kenshin Ito.
In my room.
I am trying to remember where i put my under garments i hand washed last night....
"Did you write and draw all of these?"
I am trying so hard to remain calm as i search my room discreetly looking for unmentionables while i answer him.
"Yes.I figured you knew i was a writer and that was the reason you wanted to have my help.You said you knew it."
"I do....i do."
Kenshins words are soft,he looks back to me while Cookie is drinking his affection like an elixir which makes me laughingly scold him again.
"How come you are so okay with other company?I'm not enough now?"
"Don't ever stop...."
"Eh?"
I ask him after my words,taking Cookie from his arms, he blushes slightly and turns back to looking at my wall.
"So what do you want first?A scolding for walking into my room,uninvited or what i needed to talk to you about earlier?"
His eyes seem to flick between something dangerously flirty or gentle and he is taking long seconds deciding so i decide to pull the bandage off first.
"Have they at school told you about what happened to me two years ago?What i did after that?Making any kind of future work with me could be halted or stopped entirely depending on how the public views it."
"All i know is that a beautiful girl is before me that GOD made,all i know is that because you hear bad things is doesn't mean they are true same for everything else.Many things i have heard at school and i heard about things on the internet when i was trying to find you for my cause.Our,cause.I have no intention of making you tell me something you are not ready to tell and if the social world knows your past already yet still hasn't painted you very darkly ,then even they know that you are not some super villlain in your story.I want to know all about you anyway,good and bad,Not like this though.If you cry i want an excuse to kiss a tear away and i can't do that as a part time acquaintance.Can i?"
I push aside the thump,thumping making my heart pound and look him in the eyes and they are so serious,gentle but meaningful.
I actually want to cry because i do not have to think about it for some reason.
I believe him.
"Cool the hormones sword boy.If you truly believe that the goal is safe then come back into the main room.I have a plan and it will require that high level of....charm,you have."
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