InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Goddess of the Past ❯ Confessions and Passions ( Chapter 8 )

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Nena flopped back down on the bed and let out an exasperated sigh. Mareo promptly pulled her back up.
"Explain it to me again." He looked at her straight in the eyes.
Nena brought her hands ups to cover her face. "How can you not get this?!" came her muffled and somewhat irritated voice. Mareo grasped her wrists and pulled her hands away from her flawless face, "Because you have a tendency to ramble and to talk really fast when you're upset, just as you are now. You should really work on your speech skills, darling." His handsome face broke out a gorgeously sly smile, as his spoke the last word sarcastically with a mock British accent.
Nena quickly responded by smacking his upper arm. "This is not the time for teasing, so stop poking fun at me."
"I know this is a serious matter for you, but you're not making sense. And that makes it just so humorous for me." His repeated sarcastic tone made Nena want to scream, somehow she resisted.
"I'm going to ignore that last comment, and maybe I'm not making sense because none of this makes sense," her voice raising with the end of the statement. Nena was on the edge of having a major freak out session. Now that she'd had the time to really reflect on her dream, she was fearful of what they could mean. And Mareo wasn't helping. She knew he was just trying to make her calm down by making light of the situation, but this was not one the time he could pull a joke and make it all better.
Mareo, whose hand were still grasping Nena's wrists, could feel her racing pulse, and with the small distance between them could hear her increased breathing. He now realized this was truly serious and that Nena was afraid because of it. This fact shocked him because Nena feared nothing. In all the time he knew her she'd never backed down or shown fear to anything. She was the strongest person he knew, and that made him stronger as well. The two of them always seemed to be unstoppable when they were together. Mareo, knew that it was because of this girl that he learned to conquer fear. Now he felt he could accomplish anything and feared nothing. Well, there is one thing. His biggest and greatest fear was not of pain, failure or even death. No the thing he fear the most, the one thing that could make his heart freeze, was the idea of losing Nena.
Mareo tightened his grip on her. "Okay, first you need to calm down, before you go comatose on me again. And second, try explaining to me again calmly, I'll listen and no more joke, I promise. But just give me the facts, and don't add any of those speculations you kept throwing in last time. And chill okay? It's me, we'll get through this together alright?"
Nena nodded her head slightly. She looked into his calm honey eyes, "thank you." She took a deep breath and began from the beginning. This time she made a mental note to try and be coherent.

Lissy walked swiftly down the hallway.

“Where is she?” Lissy was getting really annoyed about this. Kira was missing and that always meant trouble. Lissy had checked all the room on the first and second floors, and she wasn’t in the basement either.

“Why on earth would she hide now? Mareo is here and I usually have to play gatekeeper to Nena’s door when he comes over. She should be itching to listen in.” It was then that Lissy noticed a light coming into the hall from under the closet door. Since the sun had just gone down and the night was fresh, she’d hadn’t noticed it earlier.
“Not again! How could I have missed this? Nena will be livid if she finds out! That stupid girl, she needs to not do this anymore. Or at least learn to hide it better.”

Lissy opened the closet door and found the interior light to be on high. What an idiot. She quickly turned the light off, and closed the door behind her. She pushed the wall of heavy coats aside, and felt around until she found the latch on the back wall. At least she closed the doors this time. She opened the latch and pulled until the second door was open. She crawled through the small opening and pulled the door shut behind her. She now faced a small set of stairs which she quickly scaled, and found her target when she reached the top.

Kira had settled herself on the floor to the right of the stairs, and appeared to be fascinated by the wooded surface in front of her. But it wasn’t the child, but the room itself that demanded attention. In the tiny space were colors everywhere. Blues and silvers decorated the walls, and small window in sheer fabric, while reds and golds adorned the floor in the carpet, pillows and blankets. It was a bold, yer pleasing contrast that gave the room its own unique energy. On the walls hung drawings of every kind. In the floor were piles of books in the near-left corner, as well as an Ibook charging near the entrance on a tiny table. Lissy loved this room. Nena sure has done a great job up here.

Lissy crouched down, because of the low ceiling. And lifted Kira up from her collar. “And just what do you think you are doing?” Lissy gave her sister an inquiring look.

Kira, meanwhile, had a suspicious one in her eyes, “Oh just hanging out.”

“Yeah right, you were spying on then through the vent in the floor again weren’t you?” Kira remained silent, and her eyes were on the floor. Lissy looked past her to see the lever on the vent was pulled to fully open, and her suspicions were confirmed.

“You know that you are not allowed up here Kira! This is Nena’s space. Now give it to me!” Lissy put Kira on her feet and held her left hand open. “What was it this time?”

Kira placed a combination lock into the older girl’s palm. “It was the same as last time, only backwards.”

“Why do you insist on coming up here to spy on them? You know they’re just friends.” Lissy pocketed the lock

“You’re all full of it. I know they’re closer than that!”

“How? You can’t really see anything through the vent, and the gusts prevent you from hearing much either. So what makes you think they’re relationship is any different than what they claim?”

“I know that they’ve been on her bed the whole time and you know what that could mean!”

Lissy looked at her sister through narrowed eyes. “You know way too much for ab eight-year-old. Let’s go.” With that Lissy picked up her annoying younger sister, and went to exit the room. However, things don’t always go as planned.

As she turned to leave, Kira began to struggle against her, not wanting her fun to end.

“Stop it Kira. You’re going to be in trouble either way, so just make it easier on yourself.” Her grip on her sister’s waist tightened. But Kira continued in her struggle. As Lissy came to the doorway, Kira kicked the wall with her heel, pushing back against Lissy’s side. Lissy was sent flying down the stairs and Kira crashed into a pile of Nena’s textbooks.

Kira collected herself and while holding her bruised hip, looked down the small staircase to Lissy who was on the floor at foot of the door, nursing her banged up head. Their gazes locked. They both knew what was coming next.

Damn it!

“And then I opened my eyes and saw that I was laying in your lap.” Nena had finally finished explaining her dreams again, and she was glad for it. The more she told him, the better she felt. You’ve gotta love Mareo for listening, and he didn’t interrupt once. This time Mareo had a look that made Nena believe he actually understood her. Thank the God for that.

“Bravo. I think that it was actually in English that time.” Mareo displayed that devilish grin of his again, and Nena almost hit him.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, smart ass. Now what are you thinking? That’s why you’re here after all.”
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