Ah My Goddess Fan Fiction ❯ Ah! A demon from God!? ❯ Ah! New Arrangements Can Bring New Feelings? ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter 3

Ah! New Arrangements Can Bring New Feelings?

 

Keiichi awoke from the dream he had been having and found himself in another with Belldandy wrapped in his arms. She was breathing slowly and still had a smile on her face as she had the entire time yesterday during their date. Keiichi smiled and hugged Belldandy as she started to stir. He thought back to the previous evening and the chaos that had ensued with the falling object.

`Where did that thing come from?'

“Good morning, Keiichi-san.” Belldandy had awoken and had begun to sit up. “We should start to get ready to go to the University soon. We seem to have slept a little longer than normal.” She gave Keiichi her normal, carefree smile and propped herself up on one arm.

“Hai, we should get moving I suppose.”

“What are you doing in here?! Where's onee-sama?!” Skuld began to scream from down the hall. Her screams were followed by the sound of a Skuld-bomber detonating and a shudder passing through the house from the explosion. Belldandy jumped to her feet and ran out into the hall where she met with Urd.

“Skuld, what are you doing?” Belldandy gave her little sister a very concerned look as she exited Keiichi's room and saw smoke billowing out of the room Seiryu had been moved into.

“Onee-sama, what's this guy doing in your room…AND WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN KEIICHI'S!?!?!”

“She was sleeping you silly child. Lovers tend to sleep in the same room together, you know.” Urd tossed in her comment and a wink as she passed Belldandy and proceeded into the room Seiryu had been staying in, finding him under a protective barrier with a very shocked look on his face. “Skuld! Don't you think you should explain this little outburst?”

“I was looking for onee-sama to tell her what I have found out about the Negative energy generator. But when I came to her room, this guy was sitting in the middle of the floor…He wasn't supposed to be in there!”

“Skuld, you must not attack our guest like that.” Belldandy entered the room and helped Seiryu to his feet as he lowered the barrier. “Gomenasai, Seiryu-san. Skuld overreacted.”

“Nonsense, she just worries about her sister's safety.” Seiryu waved his hand to dismiss Belldandy's concerns, “And please, there is no need for such formality. Just `Seiryu' will suffice.”

Belldandy gave a little nod of acknowledgement and walked back out to Skuld in the hall. By this time Keiichi had finally exited his room and was now receiving a death-glare from Skuld.

“Skuld, what was it that you wanted to tell me about?” Belldandy turned Skuld to face her rather than Keiichi.

“Well, the object, as I said, is a Negative Energy Conversion Generator. It is used to convert positive energy to negative on a global scale. Basically, it would have burrowed into the planet's core and set up a `root system' that would drain all the positive energy off of earth and replace it with negative energy.”

“Sounds like a good thing you and Belldandy stopped it then.” Urd said as she slid her hands over Seiryu's shoulders and poked her head out around his. Seiryu smiled at her over his shoulder before redirecting his attention to the explanation being given.

“After converting all of a planet's energy to negative energy, the roots would begin drawing minerals from the planets core and construct another NECG and would deploy it to another nearby planet.”

“How terrible. What should we do with it then? It is much too dangerous to leave here on Earth.” Belldandy stood and looked to Seiryu.

“Once Yggdrasil's systems are back online I will send it to heaven for them to destroy in whatever manner they see fit. Until then, I will place a barrier over the object.”

“Wait just one second. You don't have enough power to do anything like that. First things first we're taking you to get your power replenished.” Urd gave Seiryu's shoulders a quick squeeze and tugged on his arm. Seiryu again turned to her and smiled and Urd smiled back with a particularly strange look in her eye. “We'll head out to the public bath while Keiichi and Belldandy are at the University today.”

“Oh, right, we should be going Keiichi-san.” Belldandy was stuck with the thought that they might be late if they didn't leave very quickly. Keiichi seemed to be struck by the same thought as Belldandy turned to him.

“Right, I'll go change and bring the bike around front.” With that, Keiichi ran back into the room and closed the door.

“Well, shall we go?” Urd walked around in front of Seiryu and grabbed his hand. Skuld was about to make some protest, but a harsh glare from Urd put an end to whatever she was about to say and Urd continued to lead Seiryu towards the door. “We'll be back later Skuld. Try not to blow the house up and, keep an eye on that rock out there.”

Urd rushed out the door and left Skuld standing in the hallway with her mouth agape as Keiichi emerged from his room again and ran out to ready the bike to take Belldandy and himself to the University.

 

 

Urd had entered the bath first to ensure that she would have the bath to herself and Seiryu. However, she was very disappointed to find that a certain someone had decided to take a day off from class to lounge in the bath. Urd had given strong consideration to blasting her out of the water to get her privacy, but a better idea came to mind as Seiryu came in behind her.

“Sayoko! Fancy meeting you here.” Urd took Seiryu's hand and began to lead him to the edge of the bath and dropped her towel once Sayoko looked over at her. This caused Sayoko's face to change to a vibrant shade of red (partially from anger, and partially because of how outclassed she suddenly felt). Seiryu also changed colors as a very naked Urd continued to lead him into the water. Urd stooped and turned towards Seiryu with a very sinister look in her eye. “Oh, my dear, you cannot take a bath properly with a towel on.” Urd grabbed the towel around Seiryu's waist and began to pull on it. Seiryu's eyes shot wide open and Sayoko began to scream. The “queen” quickly found her way past Urd and Seiryu and ran out of the bath house. Urd released the towel and began to laugh hysterically as she dropped into the water. She motioned for Seiryu to join her and made room for him beside her. Seiryu complied with the request and, much to Urd's surprise, tossed his towel next to hers before dropping into the water and sinking in up to his shoulders. Now it was Urd's turn to be a little embarrassed.

“So, Urd-san, who was that girl? Is she a friend of yours?” Seiryu motioned towards the door Sayoko had charged through.

“Sayoko. She's a bit of a pain, but fun to mess with. I bet she'll be on her way back to the University now. Too bad I really wanted to have an excuse to punish her.” Urd folded her arms behind her head and finished sinking into the water. “How are you feeling? Are your powers coming back yet?”

“Better, much better. Another forty minutes of this and I should be back to full power.” Seiryu mimicked Urd's pose and closed his eyes. “After we finish here, I would like to see this `University' that everyone is going to around here.”

“Uh-huh…” Urd was currently not paying attention to what he was saying. She was busy taking in the sight before her. Urd had never really been in a situation that made her feel `dirty' before but, right now, even though she was neck-deep in a hot spring, she was feeling very dirty. She began to examine the muscles of his neck and chest, desperately wanting to tackle him and take him right there in the spring. Something kept her from acting however. She wasn't sure what it is but, some fluttering feeling within her. It made her admire him but also wanted to keep things more sincere.

`Maybe…I should start trying to make something between us. I have wanted some sort of relationship for myself after doing all that work on Keiichi and, I feel like...maybe…'

Seiryu's eyes snapped open and he looked strait back into her eyes. Urd blushed a little and sunk back into the water as she realized she had started to lean over him while his eyes had been closed.

“Urd-san.”
“Yeah, what is it?”

“You have lovely eyes.” Seiryu smiled at her and caused her to blush a little bit again. She wasn't so much embarrassed now, more just being successfully romanced; something else the goddess wasn't used to. However, her question as to if she should try to establish a relationship with Seiryu was now over. There was no question about it. She'd found someone who could counter her flirting and keep even her on her toes.

 

Keiichi pulled into a parking area and hopped off the bike. He turned and assisted Belldandy as she stepped off as well and both began to hurry to the lecture class. They were only about 3 or 4 minutes late at current point but, experience had taught Keiichi that things only got more and more out of control as the day went on.

`Better hurry before we wind up late for lecture. Never know what can go wrong around here.'

“MORISATO!!”

“Too late…” Keiichi winced a little as he heard Tamiya calling from behind him.

“Running a little behind today, aren't you?”

“Could it be that you were up late doing something with Bell-chan?” Otaki called over Tamiya's shoulder.

“Th-that's not it!” Keiichi spun around and began waving his arms in a panicked attempt to dismiss the accusations he'd received.

“No matter. C'mon Morisato, we need to go discuss some Auto Club stuff this morning.” Tamiya said as he grabbed Keiichi and tossed the underclassman over his shoulder.

“Sempai! I have a lecture to go to!” Keiichi began trying to escape but found his attempts to be useless. He looked at Belldandy with a rather pleading look and motioned for her to come with them. Since she was actually a member of the Auto Club anyway, she had as much right as any to attend this meeting. Besides, he didn't want to be left alone with his sempais for too long.

 

Tamiya and Otaki had signed Keiichi up to do another race without consulting him first. It happened so often though that he stopped caring about it so much. He liked racing, and the race happened to be one where Belldandy could be with him as navigator. He just wished that his sempais would at least warn him first.

After discussing it, Belldandy gave her assurance that Keiichi would win and, of course, Keiichi agreed. They completely missed the lecture to attend the meeting and had to rush to make it to the second lecture of the day.

After sitting through an engineering lecture the couple went out to the courtyard and had lunch.

“Wow Belldandy, I didn't think you had enough time this morning to make anything. This is amazing.” Keiichi was amazed that Belldandy had managed to find the time to make a full lunch despite having been rushed.

“I hope you like it.” She gave Keiichi a bright smile and took a little sip of the cup of tea she was holding onto. Keiichi gave a nod and smiled as best as he could through the mouthful of food. Belldandy began to give him a rather strange, thoughtful look.

`Keiichi-san, seems so happy right now. Almost like last night…' Belldandy thought back to the previous night's events and began to blush a little. She thought about the kiss she and Keiichi had shared overlooking the ocean. She thought about how wonderful it had felt and all the love she felt coming from Keiichi in that moment. She imagined she could feel his lips against hers again and could feel his kindness and love again.

“Uh, Belldandy…” Keiichi had no idea what to make of the expression on her face. Her lips had parted and her eyes were rather wide. She seemed to be breathing rather heavily and a blush had spread across her cheeks, too. `What could be going on with her?'

Belldandy snapped to attention and her blush deepened. She fidgeted a little and gave a little bow.

“G-gomen, Keiichi-san. I'll be right back.” She stood up and quickly moved off in much the same manner of movement she had used when Urd had interrupted their date. `I wonder…' Keiichi began to consider that maybe, just maybe, Belldandy was thinking about that.

This got Keiichi thinking on the same moment. He began to relive that moment and feel the kiss all over again. He'd been terrified at first about what he was about to do but, as soon as he felt the softness of her lips against his all his reservations about the situation were dismissed. Her lips were everything her imagined that a goddess's lips should be like. Everything about it had felt as perfect as the girl he was kissing.

A pair of soft hands fell over his eyes and a light voice behind him whispered in his ear, “Guess who, Keiichi-san.”

Keiichi broke into a wide grin and turned around.

“Belldan-! URD! What are you doing here?!”

“Seiryu wanted to see what the University was like so I agreed to bring him.” Urd motioned to Seiryu who dressed in his combat uniform standing just behind her, and sticking out like a sore thumb being dressed the way he was. “Where's Belldandy run off to?”

“I'm not sure. I think she went to the bathroom or something.” Keiichi scratched his nose and tried to shake himself of his memories for a moment.

“Hmm, well, knowing her, I bet she was thinking about that kiss you two had during your date last night.” Hearing this made Keiichi's face turn red and he shifted a little. “By the way, sorry about interrupting you two, it looked like a REALLY good kiss, too.”

“Eh…Well, I-I certainly enjoyed it. Do you really think she was thinking about it?”

Urd cast a glance past Keiichi and started to walk off, “Why don't you ask her yourself, kiddo? We'll see you when you get back tonight.” With that Urd and Seiryu moved off out of hearing range. Keiichi felt a gentle hand land on his shoulder and turned to see the bright, sapphire eyes of the woman he loved a few mere inches from his own. It took all he had to not lean forward and complete another kiss like the one from the previous evening. But, with so many others in the courtyard, Keiichi decided that such a blatant case of PDA might have drawn more attention than the couple needed.

“Keiichi-san?” Belldandy said rather sweetly as Keiichi continued to stare at her, “Are you alright? Your face looks so red?”

“H-hai. I'm fine, really.”

“Alright then, we should hurry on to class.”

“Oh, right.” Keiichi stood and bundled up the remains of lunch. He looked back at Belldandy who was once again staring at him with a very strange look on her face. However, this time, Keiichi caught himself staring at her lips in a similar fashion. Anyone who might have passed them may have thought they were having a staring contest. After another few moments of intense staring and secret fantasies both Keiichi and Belldandy walked towards their next class, arm in arm.

Nearby, Urd and Seiryu were hiding in a tree watching the couple, while Urd explained Keiichi's previous ineptness and how far he had come. Both decided that they should continue to watch the young pair for a while as it was much more interesting than anything that might be going on back at the temple.

 

After finishing classes, Belldandy and Keiichi were once again wisked away to the Auto Club's clubhouse where Otaki and Tamiya revealed that they had (of course) just made a wager on the outcome of the race that Keiichi and Belldandy were to be taking part in. While this didn't really affect the way that Keiichi and Belldandy saw things, it did mean that they just had a little bit more riding on this victory. But, then again, they usually had some bet that required the Auto Club's victory, so the pressure was no different from any other race.

“Well, at least you just bet a little money on the race this time rather than saying you'd disband the club if we lost.” Keiichi said as he scratched the back of his head. “No worries though, like Belldandy said, we'll win it.”

“Good. Wouldn't accept anything less from you Morisato.” Tamiya said as he waved his fist around. “We'll leave everything up to you two. You're the best we've got.”

“You have made the auto club proud many times, Morisato.” Otaki began launching himself into an emotional speech that was cut of by Tamiya stomping on the table.

“The race is in four days! The whole Nekomi Tech Auto Club will be there to cheer you on to victory.”

As Tamiya gave his inspirational roar Keiichi reached for the hand of the girl next to him. His fingers curled around Belldandy's soft, fair hand and squeezed. She looked back at him and gave him a warm smile before working her fingers between his. Tamiya dismissed the club and everyone began to pour out of the clubhouse. Keiichi and Belldandy walked around the side of the clubhouse to their ride and stopped short when a man in a black jacket and pants popped out from behind the three-wheeler that was parked against the wall.

“Hey you! What are you doing?” Keiichi stepped in front of Belldandy and began to yell at the shady figure.

“He was just curious, I figured I'd bring him and let him see what your club was like. Seems like he's taken an interest in that thing.” Urd walked up behind Keiichi and Belldandy.

“Indeed. I have also been wondering if I might try to ride your motorcycle sometime as well, Keiichi. It looks to be quite an enjoyable experience.” Seiryu came around the end of the small building and stood next to Urd, his clothes had been changed to a rather formal-looking black outfit and his hair was tied back. Belldandy put on another bright smile and greeted Seiryu.

“Seiryu-san, you should also join the auto club! If you like these things you would fit in very well with the other members of the Auto Club.”

“WHAT!?!? A NEW MEMBER!?!” Both Otaki and Tamiya came running as soon as there was mention of a visitor. They surrounded the stranger (who stood almost an inch taller than Tamiya) and began to bombard him with offers to join the club. “If you wish to join we can get you signed up for a race as soon as another one becomes available.” Otaki shouted as he threw his arm across Seiryu's shoulders. Tamiya began to question Seiryu about his major and his class schedule.

“Urd, what are you still doing here anyway? Weren't you going to go home after Seiryu got his power back?”

“Seiryu decided that he liked being on campus and wanted to stick around for a while. I told him about the Auto club and he became interested.” Urd shifted her gaze to Seiryu for a moment before looking back at Keiichi and Belldandy's joined hands. She smiled and tried to think up a clever comment to make.

“WHAT?! What do you mean you aren't a student here?! What are you doing here then?!”

“I am here accompanying Urd-san.”

“URD-SAN?!” The upperclassmen yelled in unison, “Has Urd perhaps found a lover of her own?!” For the first time that anyone could remember, a sheepish look of embarrassment covered Urd's face and she began to blush.

“Well…Uh…” As Urd fumbled her words, Keiichi took the opportunity and exacted a thousand years worth of revenge in one little phrase.

“So Urd, anything exciting happen while you were out taking Seiryu to the public bath?”

`DAMN YOU KEIICHI!' Urd had another moment of panic as Tamiya began to talk with Otaki and Seiryu about naming their first-born as they had promised Keiichi they were going do.

Keiichi and Belldandy continued to laugh about the situation that Urd had been left in and mounted up on Keiichi's BMW to go home. Urd shouted curses at Keiichi when he drove past but just went back to trying to convince Seiryu to leave.

“C'mon, Seiryu, you can try to talk Keiichi into borrowing his bike when we get back to the temple.” Urd grabbed Seiryu's arm and began to pull him away from the sempais. Unfortunately, they let go at about the same time and Seiryu fell over right on top of Urd.

“Oh,” Seiryu now had a slight red glow to his face, “my apologies Urd-san.”

“I-it's ok, really.” Urd said very quietly as she blushed intensely. “Let's get back to the temple, OK?”

Seiryu jumped to his feet and pulled Urd to hers in one swift, graceful motion but continued to look into her eyes. Meanwhile, a hush had fallen over the mortals present as they all watched with great interest. Finally, Otaki broke the silence.

“Den-chan, I think we had better get started coming up with names by the way this looks.”

 

 

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