Chapter Thirteen: Through the Fires of Hell to Heaven
* She sat on the cold ground in the park. The moon was full, yet it was just as dark as if there was no moon at all. Two months, going on three since Hiiro had left her. She wanted to cry. Of course, a lot of things had changed since he had left her. Bulma had figured out a way to email her through the dimensional barriers. Now she and Bulma had made up, and she and Trunks talked regularly via vid-mail. She and her father had had a long ‘father/daughter chat’; pending changes in their relationship were taking time, but they were slowly rebuilding the years they had lost. With Sammy, it was a different story. She went to his football games now that the schools had been reinstated; and he took classes at the martial arts school she had opened. Yes, a martial arts school. She had needed something to keep herself preoccupied from the loss of Hiiro, so she began a school of self-defense for people of all ages and physical types.
Still, with all the things she did with her time, nights were still cold and lonely. She was so lonesome without someone to talk to. Sure, she had her father and her brother, along with Bulma and Trunks, but all of them actually slept during the night. She didn’t want to deprive them of their needed sleep, so she often snuck out on her own. Tonight everything was so beautiful. But she couldn’t help the tears that ran down her cheeks.
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Hiiro watched the lake with blurred eyes. He hadn’t slept in weeks. He couldn’t. He missed his Serry so much that it was ripping him apart. Ever since the last battle, he hadn’t seen her, and it killed him. Since then, he had managed to get a job as a computer technician. Though he had a decent apartment, got paid well, and had a better life than ever before, he felt something was missing. He knew what that something was, but he refused to think about it. Every time he did, his eyes blurred and his throat choked up. Just like it was doing now.
He heard things about her through the guy Andrew that she had introduced him to their first day in her world. Since then, he and that guy had become something akin to friends. The fact that Andrew knew every little detail about Serry meant little. Ok, so he talked to the guy only to find out about his Serry, but so what? So what if he was still completely infatuated with her. So what if he knew she had a boyfriend already. So what?
It killed him. And now, here he was, nearly three months after leaving, broken and beaten, returning to the place where it had all happened. This damn lake brought back too many memories. Just as he was leaving, he heard someone crying. That voice could only belong to one person. Serry. ‘If that Darien hurt her, I swear he will not live to see the next hour.’
Serena turned just as Hiiro walked into the clearing. She gasped that he was actually there, that he wasn’t just some figment of her imagination. She quickly wiped hert ears away and tried to speak to him.
“Hii…Hii… Hiiro?” Was all that came out.
“Serena.” It stung when he didn’t even call her Serry anymore.
“Hiiro, it is you. Where have you been?”
“Around. Why are you crying? Did that boyfriend Darien of yours hurt you? Did he yell at you? Try something?”
“Hiiro? Boyfriend? What are you talking about?” Suddenly hope surged through her veins. He thought Darien was her boyfriend?
“You know, that pretty boy who calls you Usako. Did he try something with you?”
“No. But apparently he tried something with you.”
“Huh?” Now Hiiro was really confused. “If he didn’t hurt you, then who did?”
“You.” Hiiro did a double take. He hurt her? How? When?
“What?”
“Hiiro, you left me. You left me all alone, without so much as an explanation or a goodbye. Why did you leave?”
“Because I thought you didn’t need me anymore, you did have that baka pretty boy.”
“I didn’t have him. What made you think that?”
“I heard him call you Usako and then tell you he loved you. I thought you had to go back to him after that, because he could say what I couldn’t tell you.”
“If you had stayed long enough to hear the rest, you would have heard me trash him, then break down because you were gone. I locked myself in my room and cried for a week and a half Hiiro Yui! Because you left me! What could he possibly tell me that you couldn’t? I thought we told each other everything?”
“ I wanted to, but I couldn’t.”
“Couldn’t what? Hiiro, I love you. It hurts that you can’t tell me things.”
“You love me?” He asked quietly, almost afraid to break the mood of the moment. By this time, she was standing up, her long golden hair let down, and her eyes searching his, with tears streaming down her cheeks.
“Yes.” She whispered. “I love you so much it hurts.”
“ Serry. I love you too. I wanted to tell you, but I thought that Tux guy…”
“Is history. Hii-chan, you really mean it?”
“Yeah, I do.” With that, she took the initiative to step closer and place her lips upon his. Pure love flowed through her veins, followed by warmth and happiness that she had never experienced. She savored the moment, his soft lips putting more and more pressure upon hers until finally they broke for air.
Hiiro was in total bliss. Serena’s soft lips and delicate kisses made him light headed and dizzy. He wanted more, so he gently pushed harder, and when she didn’t object, he pushed harder still until he needed to breathe.
“So… where does this leave us?” She asked, her eyes filled with an unreadable expression.
“It leaves us in the park, under the full moon, next to a lake, both very much in love and breathless from being thoroughly kissed.” He answered her, his eyes laughing in silence.
“You’re evil, you know that?”
“Yeah, but you love me all the more for it, don’t you?”
“Yeah. Unlucky me.”
“Come on Hii-chan, come back home with me.”
“ Home?”
“Where you live, silly. You know, with me, and my father, and my brother…”
“I live…”
“Of course, you didn’t think I was going to let you leave me again did you? Not a chance.”
“You know what Angel of Compassion?”
“What my Perfect Soldier?”
“I love you.” With that, he pulled her close and kissed her again, in the park, under the full moon, next to a lake.
“You know something, Hii-chan?”
“What’s that Serry?”
“It’s a mad universe out there.”
“And I, for one, am glad I found you in the middle of it all.”*
End
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