“You’re late!” She snapped “I can’t believe you let me wait in this cold…”
“But Mitsuru” Rinku replied, not bothering to hide his amusement at his newest Myroid “I got here earlier to meet up, you were the one waiting for me.” His face broke out into a teasing grin. “Were you that impatient to start our date? You could’ve just told me~”
“Sh-shut up!” The Myroid cried, her face matching her hair nicely “You should be able to realize that I’d be excited and would show up early!”
“So… where exactly are we going?” Rinku asked, as he followed Mitsuru through this busy downtown streets, as they both dodged passedbyes, families, and couples alike.
Mitsuru only chuckled to herself in seeming amusement at her Master’s question. “There’s no reason for me to tell you that~!” And impish smile graced her face as she stopped to look at him.
“I kinda think it does…” Rinku deadpanned, looking at her blankly.
“Bah, you just be quiet and come with me!”
Rinku just grunted in response, though his smile showed he wasn’t angry or annoyed.
“Well alright, but you gotta stop running ahead like that, all this red is making it a little hard to follow you.” He said, motioning his hand around them, towards the various Christmas ornaments and decorations that draped across the city streets. And not to mention the people! Santa hats, coats, shirts, and dresses galore made Mitsuru’s defining red hair harder to notice amongst the crowd. And with how eager she was to lead him to… well whatever it was, she kept running ahead making the challenge of keeping track of her even more difficult.
“Oh…” Mitsuru trailed off, already seeing what the problem was. She stared at Rinku for a moment, her face ringing pink again, before steeling her resolve… and quickly grabbed his hand.
“Mitsuru?” Rinku asked surprised, but made no motion to release himself from her grasp.
“Th-this is… y-yeah!” She stammered like mad, as her blush covered her entire face to match her hair yet again. “Since it’s cold this will help war-warm us up!” Her head snapped up to look at him in the eyes, as her grip tighten. “It-it has nothing to do with me wanting to be closer to you or something like that…” she trailed off, breaking eye contact. Even she knew how pathetic that sounded.
“So… you don’t want to go on this date?” Rinku said evenly, his voice carrying… something to the Myroid. Something she didn’t like at all.
“No!” She exclaimed, her panic coming back film force ‘Dammit Mitsuru, stop being such a damn coward!’ She chided herself. “I… I’m still new at this, so…! I-I just…”
Mitsuru was becoming more and more flustered by the second. Right before she had a melt down, Rinku gently placed his other hand on top of their held pairs. “Mitsuru.” He said, his voice gentle and caring, no longer with that… disappointed air to it. “It’s ok, I understand what you mean.”
It wasn’t much really. Honestly Rinku would later admit he was inwardly kicking himself for such a lackluster motivational talk, but it was enough for Mitsuru to calm down. The two of them stood there, two amongst a sea of people, as the crowd passed them by, only a few sparing a glance at the odd pair, but neither of them took any mind. After calling herself, Mitsuru took a deep breath and looked her Master in the eyes. Not a word was exchanged between them, as Master and Myroid gazed into each other’s eyes. Rinku smiled, and squeezed their conjoined hands, gentle enough where he wouldn’t hurt her, but firm enough where she could feel it. Mitsuru squeezes back, her smile returning, and breathing returning to normal.
Could this be it? Would she finally…!
“Rinku… I…” Mitsuru trailed off, before blinking, her resolving returning to her. “Is still want to take you there! Then it’ll be perfect, so come on!”
And with that, she ran ahead, her hand never leading his, as she dragged the poor man forward. Rinku’s shock was short lived, as he quickly caught himself from tripping over. “Alright, alright! Give a guy some slack why don’t ya? But why are you so determined to take me to this secret place?”
“It’s because” she began, not stopping their charge forward “you guys are always taking me around places! Now it’s my turn, so just be qu-just come with me!”
‘So tsun-tsun’ Rinku inwardly snorted, but decided it was wise to keep quiet this time and let her lead the way.
Mitsuru lead the two of them through the crowds, and turning into alleyway after alleyway, before finally settling on a small bridge, oddly devoid of anyone around them. A frozen stream, really more of a excess water running into a nearby brook, under the bridge they settled on. Rinku could immediately see why she choose this spot though. The giant Christmas tree of the festival was in full view. The towering Nova Scotian fir, while a bit distant from where the pair stood, was still a beautiful sight to see. The glinting lights, a shining beacon amongst the night sky, gave their view a soft glow. “Is this what we came here for?” Rinku asked lamely, guessing otherwise. If anything he guessed they would’ve gotten closer but…”
“Of course not!” Mitsuru snapped, but frustration melted to a muttered confession “this was the only place I knew we could be alone for awhile.”
Ah. Well that would explain it. It was true, ever since arriving in Hokkaido to celebrate Christmas with his Myroids and friends, he and Mitsuru never did have a moment alone. Either they were together with their group (Poor Micaiah and Kokoro had to keep every of their gawking tourists in line), or Rinku had been dragged along a Christmas date with someone. Be it his wives, Mitsuko, that Miyu girl to go drinking together, the greener haired girl MC, Mango’s older friend Kimiko, hell, even Maya of all people, the sole human male barely could hardly get a word in with her, let alone a moment.
Rinku turned to thank his newest companion, but stopped when he saw she was already looking at him.
“H-hey Rinku!” She stammered, cursing herself under her breath, but continued nonetheless. “There’s something I want to say to you…!”
“Of course” he replied with a smile, which helped the redhead calm herself. ‘Here we go’
“I thought… I thought I hated you.” She confessed, her head turned to the side, not wanting to see his reaction. Rinku simply looked at her neutrally, brow slightly raised, as he knew she had more to say. Mitsuru took a moment to collect her thoughts before continuing.
“When I’m with you I’m so nervous and I can’t calm down. But, I can’t calm down when we’re apart! I-I thought it was because I hated you. And in a way I did! The way you dominated my thoughts so soon after I met you! How I would be doing something, anything, and would randomly think of you! My thoughts, me feelings my dre-my dreams…” the last one enlisted yet another scarlett face from her, as she remembered those certain dreams she had.
“I thought I hated you… but…” with that, she took and deep breath, quickly grabbed his hands, bringing their clasped hands to her heart, and shut her eyes tightly before finally using up her courage to continue. “I realized, and no mater how hard I tried to deny it, I had to realize! It wasn’t hate I felt for you, the exact opposite! It wa-it was…” she opened her eyes, waiting to see some emotion in her Master. What she expected was across the board. Excitement? Happiness? Anger? Disgust? Lust?! She would’ve accepted any of them, even the negative ones (andespicallythelastone), but…
When she looked him in the eyes, she was revived not with sadness and rejection but… amusement. Happiness yes, and definitely something deeper but… that look could only mean one thing.
“Y-y-you knew?!” She squeaked, her voice high and disbelieving. Rinku’s guilty smile was her only answer. “Im-impossible! Are you telling me I mustered up all this courage for nothing?! I had it all planned out! It was supposed to be perfect, I only tol-!” Her nostrils flared, her eyes widened, and her hands, freed from Rinku’s clasp balled into fists!
“…haven’t you realized Aqua can’t keep a secret for shit?”
Mitsuru screamed into the heaven, anger and embarrassment all finally let out. “That worthless big sister of mine! She had one job! One job!!!”
A certain spying group quickly had to comfort a despairing blueberry at Mitsuru’s rage. Another group had a certain bunny angrily slap a lost bet into the hands of her smirking tormentor.
“You jerk!” She yelled, though Rinku found her tantrum to goddamned funny to be angry, even as he turned slightly to deflect the smacks of his Myroids hat as he laughed aloud. “It’s not funny!” She cried, her face finally completing it’s camouflage into her hair “you notice things at! the! worst! time!” The last four words punctuated by another slap on he arm with her hat, the last one loosing it in her grip as it flung to the snow covered ground. Finally having enough, she wrapped her arms around herself in a huff, and her seething was quickly cooled down, and only embarrassment remained.
Rinku laughter had died down by then, an amused grin and slightly stinging bicep remaining. “And what…” he asked, as he approached his Myroid, wrapping his arms around her in a tight embrace, which she didn’t bother struggling. He leaned close to her, and whispered into her ear “…Would that be, my dear~?”
Mitsuru shivered, her face hot (amongst other parts of her), and she squirmed in Rinku’s embrace to face him once again. “Not noticing the most important thing… “ she said, as they both leaned towards each other, her voice barely a whisper, for it was for his ears alone.
“Realize that I love you!”
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