Magic Knight Rayearth Fan Fiction ❯ Cross ❯ Suspiscious Man ( Chapter 13 )

Beads of sweat trickled down Satoru's face, he sliced through the morning air with his katana, executing a number of fluent, expert moves. Today he'd cancelled his classes; to take a day off from kendo-how ironic it was that for the entire morning thus far all he'd done was train. He stood still a moment as he contemplated what to do next, and then went into his trade stance. He moved perfectly, attacking his invisible targets accurately, his footwork, just as important as his pretend attacks if not more so. He liked using the katana. It was a good weight and had a better feel than the shinai or the bokken.

He stopped. Deciding that he'd trained enough-for at least the time being. There was work around the house to be done and he couldn't rightly shove it all on his baby sister. He wiped the sweat off his forehead and sheathed his sword into the scabbard. He stretched, cracking his back and again wiped away more sweat.

The eldest Shidou heard the enthusiastic dog barks and looked in the direction from which they came only to find Lantis stroking the dog's head as he leashed him. Lantis stood and the dog wagged its tail happily and barked again.

"Hello? Satoru-niisama?" Came his little sister's voice and he looked down. "I said we're taking Hikari off for his walk."

"What? Who? Oh, you and… Lantis, yes?" He looked back up at the black haired man who was now playing with Hikari. "Just the two of you?"

"That's okay right?"

Satoru paused a moment. "Hikaru."

"Yes?"

He sighed. I'm just being over protective. He told himself, he didn't want to deal with this right now. "Unless you can give me a reason, why you shouldn't go out, I see no reason why it wouldn't be okay."

Hikaru looked both concerned and worried. "Is there something wrong Satoru-niisama?"

"No. I suppose not. Excuse me," and with that, he headed towards his house to shower. I'm just being over protective. He told himself again. Hikaru doesn't like boys like that, and if Lantis were a danger to her, Hikari certainly wouldn't be affectionate towards him. Still… he's quite the curious man…

"In this world, it takes a lot more energy and concentration. Calm your mind and focus only on me." Lantis instructed, Hikaru complied. Currently they were seated on the grass in a somewhat quiet section of the park. Hikari lye sleeping close by, exhausted from previously playing with both his master and the raven-haired man.

The young woman's eyes closed and again she concentrated, and that's when she felt something light flutter onto her hair. She opened one eye slowly then the other. She lifted her hand and he heard a crunch sound.

Lantis opened his eyes and sighed when he found Hikaru playing with a crushed leaf. "Hikaru…"

"Oh, yeah, right. Sorry."

He thought a moment. She looked down at her palm and brushed it away then wiped her hands on her pants. "Were you at least trying?"

"Yes. But it wasn't working."

"What were you thinking about?"

She smiled brightly, "Ice cream!"

He gave her a strange look then shook his head. "Do you want to try again?" She nodded.

Again they tried and again they failed.

Hikaru sighed, "This is really tiring…" Her shoulders slumped. She had a touch of fatigue.

Lantis simply cracked his neck. He then stood up stretched and sat back down again. "Let's stop. We're getting nowhere."

"Agreed." She whistled and Hikari instantly awoke, perking his ears up, he then walked over to them and sat down. Hikaru happily patted him and he returned her affections by licking her face.

"We should probably get going. I'm sure your brothers will have expected us back by now."

"Oh, okay." She re-leashed Hikari.

Lantis stood again, took a step forward and held out his hand for her to take as she stood up. When she took it, he suddenly felt an intense felling, and when she stood and released herself from his grasp, the feeling went away. She began to walk and he grabbed her arm.

"Wah!"

"Are you hungry?" he asked.

"How'd you know?"

"Think of something."

"Think of what?"

"Anything."

"We already tried this."

"Just do it."

He continued to hold her and he felt it again. A thought. "That's not a very healthy lunch."

"What isn't?"

"The food you're wanting to eat."

"How'd-"

"Apparently it only works if we're in physical contact with each other."

"Huh?" She looked down at the hand firmly around her arm. Suddenly she could feel his thoughts as well and when he released her, she began to laugh.

"What's so funny?"

"We spent all that time trying to communicate with each other without saying anything, and here all we had to do was hold hands.

He thought about that for a moment. That was kinda funny… He felt her take his hand again and again he felt her thoughts. `Shall we go?' He gave her hand a squeeze and sent his confirming thought to her.

< Authors Notes: Nothing much to say other than in the next chapter we get back on track a little. I'm in the process of typing it up so I'm not exactly sure when I'm going to get around to posting it. >