[Closed Log]

[wilder]

Date & Time: September 19th, after the rescue mission
Location: Exsilium
Characters: Zelos Wilder (wilder) and Sheena Fujibayashi (holeseeker)
Summary: Reunion
Warnings: Standard PG-13. If something comes up warning like, it'll get slapped on.

[The train ride back from the UE compound was far too long and uncomfortable for Zelos's liking. It left with too much to think about, far too many troubling thoughts with the new things he learned about. He still didn't know what had cause him to become like that, nor did he know what to think about the UE somehow 'copying' his powers. Both things made him feel sick. ]

[When they finally reached Exsilium, he managed to split away from the masses coming off the train. He didn't have a jacket, so the chill and rain seemed even colder than usual, causing him to rub his arms as he looked around the familiar dreary setting.]

[Jeez, it was almost hard to believe he spent the past week missing this crappy place.]

[Looking around the scenery helped him catch sight of a woman with an all too familiar ponytail and pink bow. He hadn't seen her during the rescue mission or the train ride, so seeing her now gave him a bit of relief. He only hesitates slightly before calling out]

Sheena!

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[wilder]

[She was actually kissing him back. He had expected something- a yell, a hit- maybe even for her to jump back a whole ten feet. Somehow actually returning his kiss wasn't in the list of possible scenarios. Neither was grabbing onto his hair, or keeping him close.]

[He always did overlook any notion that someone would want him close. ]

[It certainly wasn't one of his suave kisses he had mastered for girls he barely knew. In fact he was so startled when she started kissing him back he nearly stumbled on her with a jolt, catching himself before he moved too much. He can hear his heart racing- he feels like it's so loud it drowns out most of the rain.]

[He could stop this, actually face her and confront this. He's going to have to do that eventually, it would probably be the right thing to do. Or he could run, but he tried running for months here- it really didn't work out. He always ended up back at her. She didn't even need to chase him half the time, he'd do it to himself.]

[In the end, he goes with the cowardly third way, choosing to keep the kiss up and try to lose himself in it. It's not hard, his arm easily finds it's way around her waist while the other her hair. The kiss definitely becomes more like a real one, still full of that feeling. Since hey, he might not get another chance right?]

[fujibayashi]

[Wow. He really isn't running? For that matter-- why isn't Sheena running, either?

She didn't have some grand romantic epiphany. She'd realized on that mission to the Kettle War that she didn't want to lose him, not ever, and then he'd been taken from her immediately afterward. She wants to save him, but she wants more than that. He isn't a pet project or something to be fixed. In a strange way, they're the only people who understand each other. Her love of him is selfish in that way and she realizes it, but she can't help it.

She embraces that fact and the kiss. She isn't nearly as skilled as he is. She feels clumsy in a way that has nothing to do with her usual failures as a ninja. It's that she hasn't kissed anyone in four or five years. Certainly not like this, certainly not with someone she cares this deeply for. It was awkward and teenage before, and the boy had really only done it on a dare, and so it... didn't matter.

On the shores of a foreign world, surrounded by danger, she can say this one matters far more.

She loosens her hands from his hair, no longer afraid of him taking off like the devil. Her ungloved fingertips trail down his cheeks. Slowly, hesitantly, she breaks the kiss and looks up at him. She knows she should say something, but she's still surprised; she's not even sure that was real.]

Um, [she starts, her cheeks quickly turning red.] That-- that wasn't fair! I... I demand a rematch!

[wilder]

[Whether she's skilled or not, it's still amazing and frightening to him. How many years has he spent feeling something for her, knowing he'd never have a chance? In a way, he almost took a comfort there. There wasn't a way to be hurt when you knew there was no chance. It was safe...and now]

[When the kiss ends and she breaks it off, he can feel his fear starting to rise as he's no longer distracted. This was it, the time for the other shoe to fall. For things to go wrong---]

[Those thoughts are promptly cut off when she speaks because, well, they frankly made no sense. So much that he goes from scared to downright confused very quickly.]

W-What?

[A rematch to a kiss?? Is this yet another weird Mizuho courting custom he didn't know about? Man, he is so not cut out for the women of that village]

[fujibayashi]

[It barely makes sense to Sheena, either. At least she's not getting angry and violent. She understands she has at least some fault in this. This... thing. Whatever it is.]

I-I told you to deal with it and then you did that! How else was I supposed to respond? T-that's why it's not fair!

[She jabs a finger at his face.]

The rematch will be-- uh-- two weeks from now! At 5 P.M.!

[That sounds like a date, Sheena.]

[wilder]

W-Well it seemed like a way to deal at the time! What do you expect, I'm not good at emotional moments even on days where I haven't been kidnapped! You should know that!

[He leans back before that jab pokes one of his eyes out, holding out his hands in innocence]

Whoa- whoa wait! What do you even mean rematch?! Do you mean like a fight or making out?! Because I'm really unclear on that!

[fujibayashi]

[... Well, he's right about that, at least. It's rare that he's so honest, but she's kind of panicking too much to appreciate it.]

We're going to do this the right way! With candles! A-and food! And if you back out of it, I'll never let you live it down!

[wilder]

[....Crap were there candles and food at her battle with Kuchikawa he seriously cannot remember!! ]

[Screw it maybe there's a Mizuho customs book in the library or something! Better answer before the bed of nails make a reappearance]

Okay okay! Rematch with food and candles in two weeks at five- I'll be there!

[fujibayashi]

Good! [At this point, she's dying too much of embarrassment to stick around and she breaks away.] I'll see you later!

[What just happened?]

[wilder]

Uh...yeah...later.

[And he'll stand here, being shell shocked and not sure at ALL what happened here. ]

[No seriously what the hell just happened here he doesn't even know omfg]