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Title: Happily Ever After (8 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 07, 2008, 05:30:05 AM
Chapter 1: The Swallowing Darkness

   Turning abruptly around in one spot on both feet in circles, Sayaka searched  the crowded street  for the tall girl she’d know anywhere, no matter what amount of disguise. She saw people everywhere… tiny, petite and admittedly attractive girls with subtle curves, equally tiny, petite boys that did very little to peak her interest, and the elderly inevitably filling their street-side stalls, calling out the bargains for the day. But where was the one of all these-- that tall gorgeous girl she had come to know so well-- she really longed to see?

   Sayaka willed the streets to empty, the people parting before her eyes as the red sea  in Biblical stories she had read once upon a time, and yet they continued to mill about her in annoying circles, their laughter and chatter as persistent as the buzzing of a fly in her ear.

   Removing herself from the restless churning of the crowd, she stepped to the side and with an impatient groan, threw herself face-first against the outer wall of some store with some name she did not care even close enough to know the name of. Turning around, she flopped against the wall on her back, arms splayed so that she felt the chilled grainy surface prick her bare skin.

   “Where is she?” As soon as the words had left her mouth, a hand was on hers, its fingers linking firmly between hers, and she was plucked from the wall. Yanked forward and away, her eyes flitted in their sockets for a moment of surprise before coming to focus on the blonde head bobbing before her.

   A smile flew across her lips and she felt every annoyance of the day fade away and for all she cared, even as they weaved together through the crowded street, not a single person remained there but the two of them.

   Suddenly she was jerked around a corner and following the girl into a narrow, deserted ally. Emboldened by the sudden isolation the ally afforded them, Sayaka pulled back on the long-fingered, slender hand that linked the two together and curled the palm of her other hand against the girl’s hip.

   With a firm nudge, she guided the girl to the ally wall, capturing her there between it and her body. Her hand slipped upward, beginning at the waist, sweeping shoulder blade, gliding across neck, and thrusting into the hair at the nape of her  neck. She tugged, bringing the girl’s lips quickly to hers.

   It was a kiss she knew so well, but those lips set her entire body on fire as much as, if not more than they had before, every time. Her body softened, fitting to the body against hers and her head fell to the side, coming to rest on shoulder. It was then that she felt the rigidity.

   Startled, she lifted her head and looked into the eyes of her first friend and lover. Tentatively-- this was the only girl, the only person she’d ever known that could bring out any sort of tentative nature in her-- she asked, “What’s wrong…?” and felt her stomach lurch when the girl broke the gaze, averting her eyes. A moment of silence that felt like eternity passed between them, before the words were said. “Saya… I’ve met someone else.”

   In that moment, her entire life came before her eyes-- every moment they’d spent together since they were babies, through childhood, the fame that had nearly ended them, the leadership responsibilities that had kept them apart for weeks at a time, and all that had brought them to this moment.

   For the second time in her life, tears formed, filled her eyes to the brim, and then spilled over with equal amounts of the shattering pain and unending love she felt at that moment. She choked on the name “Yossie…” before her body went limp, the ground fell away beneath her feet, and she was swallowed up in darkness.

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Hello! Welcome to my fanfic, Happily Ever After. I know, the title's really corny. But I was just about to post this when I realized I didn't have a name for it and just came up with something quickly.  :lol: Anyway, this is my first H!P fanfic! I was inspired by someone to write this. So here it is.

Some hints for the future: 1) Sayaka is not an idol. 2) The person that Yossie has met is.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: goosefish on April 07, 2008, 07:23:12 AM
Hey Pharadox!

Very nicely done start you have here  :yep:  *gasp* Yossi dumps childhood friend and lover for an H!P member?? Sayaka probably just felt like her entire world was destroyed  :cry: But at the same time, I'm really eager to find out who the girl Yossi met is  :O

Anyway, you have a way of writing that just seems to flow and everything just fits together really well. You definately have a way with words that makes me want to keep reading!!  :D  *waits for update*
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: JFC on April 07, 2008, 07:44:32 AM
:stunned:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: Pharadox on April 07, 2008, 02:16:15 PM
Hey Pharadox!

Very nicely done start you have here  :yep:  *gasp* Yossi dumps childhood friend and lover for an H!P member?? Sayaka probably just felt like her entire world was destroyed  :cry: But at the same time, I'm really eager to find out who the girl Yossi met is  :O

Anyway, you have a way of writing that just seems to flow and everything just fits together really well. You definately have a way with words that makes me want to keep reading!!  :D  *waits for update*

Aww. That's sweet. I'm thrilled you like it so far! :) I will get an update up as soon as possible.

:stunned:

I really don't know whether that's a good or bad response.  :lol:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: zay05ohayou on April 07, 2008, 04:13:16 PM
Ooh! Pharohs fic!

Its well written! It just goes and then you'll just want it to continue more. At first I thought Sayaka was 'Sayaka Ichii' but guess you cleared that out for me. Wow childhood friends huh? And then suddenly dumped.  :doh: poor Saya.. I wonder who Yossie met... hmmm
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: Pharadox on April 07, 2008, 10:25:41 PM
Chapter 2: A Thousand Voiceless Reasons

   Hitomi had seen her cry only once before and that had been when Kouta died. Sayaka didn’t have any siblings of her own, so he’d been the closest thing she knew to a brother. That was one thing she had always admired about Sayaka—she was strong. Together they had been even stronger.

   So, when Hitomi heard her name burst as a sob from Sayaka’s lips, it fractured her heart into pieces that might never be whole again. She felt tears forming at the corners of her eyes and closed them, willing them not to fall. Suddenly the strength that they had once given each other was gone, replaced by the painful truth of a single admission. Nothing could ever be the same between them again.

   Just as she was sure the tears would break their lidded barrier and fall, she felt Sayaka slump forward and drop with the distinctive thud of skull against concrete. Alarmed, Hitomi cried out “Saya!” and dropped to her knees at her side. Crouching over her, she slid her arms around the small, remarkably light body and lifted it onto her lap, cradling Sayaka’s head against her chest. She laid the palm of her hand delicately upon the center of the girl’s chest and breathed a sigh of relief: a heart, slow and steady, beat there.

   Sayaka’s eyes blinked open and peered up into Hitomi’s, registering at first the girl she loved and in the very next second, the pain. There in her arms, Hitomi’s strong Sayaka trembeled and in a voice that wavered on the edge of a whisper, asked “Why, Yossie? I love you… so much…”

   All will and any strength that may have remained within her up until that point died away as the tears began to steadily force their way to the surface and trickle down Hitomi’s cheeks like heavy drops of dew on blades of grass in the morning. There were so many reasons and not a single one of them meant she no longer loved Sayaka as much as she always had and always would.

   She found herself mute, unable to voice the thousands of reasons that had been tormenting her, rolling and thundering like waves crashing against rock for months in her mind. She moved to take Sayaka’s hands in hers, to help her to feet, but the girl flinched, jerking her hands away as if burnt. “No” she gasped, the flow of tears suddenly ebbing, and she repeated herself more firmly, as a command. “No.”

   With that one word said, Sayaka wrenched herself free, jumped up onto her feet, turned abruptly on her heel, and bolted away as quickly from the alley as they had entered into it together. Yet, even in that moment, as Hitomi helplessly watched the girl she would always love run from her, another girl lingered like the scent of roses in her mind…

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In the next chapter, the mysterious "other woman" will be revealed. Haha.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: Pharadox on April 08, 2008, 02:20:49 AM
Ooh! Pharohs fic!

Its well written! It just goes and then you'll just want it to continue more. At first I thought Sayaka was 'Sayaka Ichii' but guess you cleared that out for me. Wow childhood friends huh? And then suddenly dumped.  :doh: poor Saya.. I wonder who Yossie met... hmmm

I'm so happy you're reading and you like it. I promise you will find out who Yossie met soon. :)
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: Grisours on April 08, 2008, 02:35:03 AM
I feel sad for Sayaka, but I'm also extremely curious. I wanna know who Yossi met! Sayaka seemed like she was really important to her, so this new person must be extremely important...
Keep it up! :grin:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: JFC on April 08, 2008, 04:29:21 AM
Yossi =  :pen_cry:

Sayaka =  :mon runcry:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: Pharadox on April 08, 2008, 06:54:57 AM
Chapter 3: Why did you go so far away?

   She fiddled with the small heart pendant suspended on a chain around her neck, stroking it delicately and thinking of the one who had given it to her. She smiled softly and closed her eyes, conjuring an image in her mind of the beautiful girl who wore the matching pendent, a secret communication between the two of them that silently spoke of how they had felt about each other for so long.

   It had begun eight years ago-- years that felt like days now when she looked back on them. The public had paired them just as they had paired Nozomi-chan and Ai-chan. Yet, while those two were likened to inseparable, incorrigible twins, she and Hitomi had immediately adapted very distinct, opposite public identities. Kakkoii and Kawaii, they complimented each other in a way that caught attention, started rumors, and guaranteed they would be drawn together again and again throughout their idol careers.

   It was only a joke in the beginning. The pairing amused them-- they amused each other. They gave the public something to talk about: a flirtation here, a timid blush there, an arm around a waist, a hand laid upon the slope of a hip, and so many “meaningful looks” exchanged between them.

   She wasn’t even certain when it had become more than a game and laughter at the public’s expense. She only knew that for years they were together, until the time came when that changed and suddenly she knew it was more with every fiber of her being.

itsumo  zutto  issho yatta kara
kizukahen katta...
nande  tooku ni itte moutan?

   Those words had haunted her-- to a degree, she’d willingly left. She had graduated from Morning Musume, run from her feelings to whatever unit Up-Front would willingly send her, put a smile on her face, a twinkle in her eyes, and used those things as a wall around her heart. But whatever barrier she put up could not shut out what had already found its place very deep inside. And that was where Hitomi had remained ever since.

   Rika heard someone enter the room from behind, then felt arms encircle her waist from behind her. Long fingers glided her hips and stomach, pulling her possessively into the crevasses of a body she knew by touch alone. Lips swept the side of her neck as she turned in the circle of arms to face the owner of the matching necklace. A smile flicked across her face for only a moment before she saw Hitomi’s eyes, twisted with sadness and longing, searching her own.

   “Yossie, tell me what happ--” Rika was silenced, lips suddenly upon hers in devouring, desperate hunger. Hitomi’s fingers pressed into the small of Rika’s back, molding their bodies together so that she could not have said where one ended and the other began. She thrust Rika back against the make-up counter, bending her over it as her lips traveled her neck wetly, from the sensitive spot beneath her earlobe, to the soft underside of her chin, and finally the delicate dip where cleavage met lace. Moaning, Rika lifted herself up onto the counter and braced against the mirror, winding her legs around Hitomi’s waist to draw her closer with them.

   That was the moment a knob was turned, a door creaked open, and Okada Yui peered into the room. Yui’s  eyes shot open in surprise, her face lit a fiery crimson red, and she murmured a hurried “SorryjustwantedtospeaktoRika. IwillKNOCKnexttime.” as she all but dove back out of the room, slamming the door in her urgency to disappear as quickly as possible.

   Stunned, Rika and Hitomi stared after Yui and then the empty spot where she had stood just seconds before. They silently turned to face each other in wide-eyed surprise. Slowly the lines of their lips softened, turned up at the corners, and finally broke open in waves of laughter.

   Hitomi flopped down into the nearest chair, tugged Rika onto her lap, and kissed her full on the lips with a chuckle. “That was priceless.”

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Is there really any other pairing but Yossie and Rika? It should have been obvious.  :wub: Haha.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: Pharadox on April 08, 2008, 07:02:57 AM
I feel sad for Sayaka, but I'm also extremely curious. I wanna know who Yossi met! Sayaka seemed like she was really important to her, so this new person must be extremely important...
Keep it up! :grin:

Yeah, Saya's really getting the short end of the stick so far.  :-\ But... the story's not over yet, so who knows what will happen.

Yossi =  :pen_cry:

Sayaka =  :mon runcry:

Haha. Hahahaha. That was great.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: poets on April 08, 2008, 08:14:10 AM
O.M.G!!!!! Where the hell have you been all my life? :love:

This story is AMAZING so far. The way you write is so intense, rich and full of detail! Being that I'm a HUGE 1444 fan that last chapter just KILLED ME XDXDXDXDXD KI-LL-ED ME! I haven't been this amazed by an Ishiyoshi Chapter like that in a good while. I love it to bits and pieces, I just wanna read and reread it over and over again untill i get bored. Not to mention that they way you described Rika falling in love was pure  :inlove:.

What's funny is that today I was complain to a fellow author that I'm in the mood for a good romantic, passionate and maybe even epic Ishiyoshi scene. Glad to see someone deliver it!

I barely know you and I already  :heart: you

KEEP WRITING! For my sake  :'(
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: Pharadox on April 08, 2008, 11:33:09 AM
O.M.G!!!!! Where the hell have you been all my life? :love:

This story is AMAZING so far. The way you write is so intense, rich and full of detail! Being that I'm a HUGE 1444 fan that last chapter just KILLED ME XDXDXDXDXD KI-LL-ED ME! I haven't been this amazed by an Ishiyoshi Chapter like that in a good while. I love it to bits and pieces, I just wanna read and reread it over and over again untill i get bored. Not to mention that they way you described Rika falling in love was pure  :inlove:.

What's funny is that today I was complain to a fellow author that I'm in the mood for a good romantic, passionate and maybe even epic Ishiyoshi scene. Glad to see someone deliver it!

I barely know you and I already  :heart: you

KEEP WRITING! For my sake  :'(

Wow, thank you so much! This really encourages me to keep going. I hope you keep enjoying my fanfic this much in the future.  XD
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: katatsumuri on April 08, 2008, 12:14:23 PM
Is there really any other pairing but Yossie and Rika? It should have been obvious.  :wub: Haha.

I couldn't agree more  :gmon twirl:

You've gotten yourself another reader here. I'll definitely be watching this thread. The way you write Yossi and Rika falling in love is just so beautiful~  :gmon love2: great work!
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: zay05ohayou on April 08, 2008, 01:59:24 PM
Awww~! Ishiyoshi!!  :heart: It's Rika-chan after all!
I swear, you make my day everyday!!  :D

Yui's awkward entrance was awesome!

Quote
itsumo  zutto  issho yatta kara
kizukahen katta...
nande  tooku ni itte moutan?
Osaka koi no uta??

I feel so sorry for Sayaka. I don't think she can go between Yossie and Rika..  :'(
Title: Re: Happily Ever After
Post by: Pharadox on April 08, 2008, 02:46:59 PM
Is there really any other pairing but Yossie and Rika? It should have been obvious.  :wub: Haha.

I couldn't agree more  :gmon twirl:

You've gotten yourself another reader here. I'll definitely be watching this thread. The way you write Yossi and Rika falling in love is just so beautiful~  :gmon love2: great work!

Writing them falling in-love is a lot of fun, as well. :) I'm so happy you're enjoying it! I hope I can continue to entertain you with this story!

Awww~! Ishiyoshi!!  :heart: It's Rika-chan after all!
I swear, you make my day everyday!!  :D

Yui's awkward entrance was awesome!

Quote
itsumo  zutto  issho yatta kara
kizukahen katta...
nande  tooku ni itte moutan?
Osaka koi no uta??

I feel so sorry for Sayaka. I don't think she can go between Yossie and Rika..  :'(


Osaka Koi no Uta, it is. :D And yeah, as much as I have to admit I enjoy writing Yossie and Rika passionately grappling at each other, my favorite part was actually the YUI entrance. It's so damn funny. :lol:

Whether or not Sayaka can come between them, it doesn't mean she won't try...
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (3 Chapters)
Post by: zay05ohayou on April 08, 2008, 03:38:15 PM
Whether or not Sayaka can come between them, it doesn't mean she won't try...
lol is that a hint of one of your future chapters?  XD
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (3 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 08, 2008, 03:42:05 PM
Whether or not Sayaka can come between them, it doesn't mean she won't try...
lol is that a hint of one of your future chapters?  XD

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I guess you'll see, won't you?  :lol:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (3 Chapters)
Post by: Grisours on April 08, 2008, 07:17:59 PM
Now we know who the new girl is... Rika!  :otomerika:
Well, it isn't that hard to guess, really... As you said, it should have been obvious!
The last chapter started romantic and kinda sad, but it ended really funny!
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (3 Chapters)
Post by: loveshadow on April 08, 2008, 08:04:02 PM
Great chapter! Nice to see a new writer on board and to quote a certain someone...  that ending "was priceless  :pig laugh:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (3 Chapters)
Post by: JFC on April 09, 2008, 05:57:21 AM
YUI! :on lol:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (4 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 09, 2008, 06:10:43 AM
Chapter 4: A message written in tears

   The sun sizzled in the distance as it set into the earth, evaporating and dispersing in an array of orange and pink across the gently clouded sky. Advancing into the darkness of night, Sayaka aimlessly wandered the streets, taking little notice of the curious and sometimes concerned looks cast her direction as she shuffled by.

   She remembered the touch of Hitomi’s hands upon her like a memory recalled from years ago. The same touch she had craved before more times than she could say had suddenly turned her stomach and chilled her the depths of her bones.

   Why? She had asked for an explanation, had braced herself to hear that she was no longer loved, and had been offered only silence in return. It was cruel. Shaking her head ferociously, she swept past towering shadows that became solid as she carelessly shoved by them.

   Was Hitomi’s love for her so little now that she would not even grant her the truth, in the end? Sayaka felt anger, betrayal, and longing in the depths of her heart, rising like the tide ever higher to submerge her in the depths of a body of emotion as unknown to her as the deepest parts of an ocean.

   When had Sayaka become so frail and devastatingly vulnerable? Had she been all along? Hitomi had called her strong, admiration filling her enormous, beautiful brown eyes. Perhaps Sayaka had been only for the sake of love. Perhaps, without her, there was no longer any reason to be.

   Sayaka stopped before a small home, no different at first glance than any other that lined the familiar street. She lifted swollen eyes to look upon it, knowing that an integral piece of her past and her heart resided within those walls as tangibly as Hitomi once had when they were small and nothing in the entire world seemed it could ever come between them.

   Next door, a single light lit the solitary way to a place that was suddenly a future without the girl she loved more than anything. It was only ten, maybe fifteen steps away, yet she could not lift her feet to walk them. Rooted deeply there to that place in a way that was not at all physical, she crumpled to her knees, covering her face with both open, splayed hands.

   “Who am I without you?” she whispered. Her breath quaked in her chest, tears spilling from her eyes, slipping between her fingers, and splashing upon the concrete like fat drops of rain in the spring. She reached out and touched the tip of her finger to the wet sidewalk below, tracing the words “I am nothing without you” across it as if her tears might dry as ink and remain to be seen.

   Leaning over onto her side, she drew her knees to her chest and tucked her chin against them, curling her body protectively around the tear-soaked message. Closing her eyes, she shut out the light that called her home.

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So, pretty certain most of you at this point are thinking "Dude, this Sayaka chick is a real downer. And she has some SERIOUS issues, too." Yeah, she is, and yeah, she does. But without her and her issues, what's going to happen in the story wouldn't happen! What's going to happen, you ask (or maybe you don't? But let's assume you ask because it's more fun for me that way)? I can't tell you that yet! Patience, readers. Patience.  :lol: Honestly, I just needed to goof around and be an idiot for a moment  because writing this chapter took it all out of me.  :P
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (3 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 09, 2008, 06:20:51 AM
Now we know who the new girl is... Rika!  :otomerika:
Well, it isn't that hard to guess, really... As you said, it should have been obvious!
The last chapter started romantic and kinda sad, but it ended really funny!

Yeah, Yossie and Rika are going to have some really great, romantic moments in this... and I promise there is more funny to come. :) Thanks for reading!

Great chapter! Nice to see a new writer on board and to quote a certain someone...  that ending "was priceless  :pig laugh:

Yeah. I was just a little too happy with myself for that part of the chapter, to be honest. I was writing it, thinking "Oooooh, this is brilliant!" I promise I have gotten over myself since. :D

YUI! :on lol:

I know. It was an incredibly great amount of fun to write Yui walking in on Rika and Yossie.  XD
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (4 Chapters)
Post by: JFC on April 09, 2008, 06:37:31 AM
Crap. Sayaka really, REALLY had it bad for Yossi, didn't she? Possibly moreso than either she or Yossi realized.  :cry:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (4 Chapters)
Post by: anammm on April 09, 2008, 07:06:06 AM
Just want to say that I think of a certain Sayaka from a certain team K who is known to El-Ow-Vee-Ee :love: Yossi and admire her and all that stuff, so yeah, I like this pairing, but IshiYoshi is just meant to be  :wub:

Keep writing cause you have another IshiYoshi fan reader :oops:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (4 Chapters)
Post by: zay05ohayou on April 09, 2008, 09:58:12 AM
Huhuhu... Poor Sayaka..  :cry: Im sure someone else will turn up not as good as Yossie but yea..

Coz Ishiyoshi rules..  :heart:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (4 Chapters)
Post by: sweeety on April 09, 2008, 03:14:33 PM
Just saw this story, its awesome..... But it seems like Yoshi wants both girls. Can't she have both? Please? Its not that she doesnt like Saya, she just finds the new one more interesting, coz she's new. But she still loves Sayaka! Its pretty obvious. She didnt actually say she wanted to break up with her. Hmm, if this is anything like a fic I know, this is all a dream and then, she will wake up (or not) and everything may be fine. But who knows? Btw, I totally get the goofing off thing, writing an angsty one meself. THough I don't think ppl find it as interesting as yours..... Oh well, cya. Keep up the good work! It's great so far, though I do feel really sory for Sayaka, and Yoshi. But it seems like Sayaka is destroyed by that.....Will she bounce back? The pessimist in me says NO! The optimist says she will hook up with a character soon to be revealed, or Yoshii or both or Yoshi and Rika or Yoshi/ Rika and the other char....OR even more ppl, etc.;...... You know what I mean, just, be happy Sayaka! Im taking a leaf out of that pplz page (cnt remember whose) and being optimistic, so saying she WILL be HAPPY in the end! (Sory, I have a very open mind, things just rub of on it easilly......)
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (4 Chapters)
Post by: loveshadow on April 09, 2008, 03:46:24 PM
^Sweeet  :rofl:, your comments are only! XD

Back to the story, O.O.... dude, Sayaka is ridiculously EMO!....I love it!

Again love how you write  :inlove:

And yes i'll be patient :)
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (4 Chapters)
Post by: poets on April 09, 2008, 04:37:57 PM
 :mon scare: Wow...  Sayaka reminds me of KOREAN DRAMA angsty... it's almost unbearably. I've never read a fanfic that makes my eyes waters but if this continues the way it is... I think this one just might be the first.

 :cry: Good Job! *awaits next chatper*


I agree with Anammm (my ishiyoshi partner in crime XD) I like that SayakaXYossy but 1444 4 EVA
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 10, 2008, 03:06:48 AM
Chapter 5: Broken, whole, or split in two

   They lay in bed together, arms and legs tangled like vines in the sheets. Strands of golden and chocolate hair wove together intricately about their heads upon the pillows like a halo. Hitomi’s eyes followed the path of moonlight cast upon Rika’s face, traveling the curve of her neck, the slope of her jaw, and the dip where her lips joined at the corner of her mouth.

   Then, meeting Rika’s eyes with hers, she smiled tremulously, a mixture of countless emotions expressed there at once. In that moment she could have been happy, if not for the knowledge of what she had done to Sayaka only hours before.

   Disentangling her hand from beneath the sheets, Rika settled it affectionately in a caress upon Hitomi’s cheek. “You couldn’t keep lying to protect her feelings, Yossie. In the end it would have hurt her so much more…”

   To some extent, Hitomi knew that what she said was true. That was, after all, why she had done it. Yet, the place deep within where Sayaka existed not merely as friend or lover, but family, ached as if she had not only hurt her, but ripped out her heart. “I don’t think she will ever forgive me… I promised so much to her for so many years and with just one truth, broke every single promise she had trusted without a doubt I would keep.”

   Rika nodded slowly and wound her fingers through the hair at the nape of Hitomi’s neck, drawing her close against the warm comfort her body could silently offer. Tilting her lips toward Hitomi’s ear, she lightly kissed the soft flesh of her earlobe and whispered, “Do you know why I fell in love with you, Yossie…?”

   Without even a moment’s pause, Hitomi shot back, “Because you think I’m dead sexy in a suit?”

   Rika giggled into Hitomi’s ear and playfully nudged her side. “Other than that.” It was an inside joke between the two of them. Hitomi rarely wasted the opportunity, even at a time like this, to remind her that there was video evidence of Rika drooling like a dog in heat, remarking on how kakkoii Hitomi was in the suit she wore for the filming of the Mr. Moonlight ~Ai no Big Band~ promotional video.

   “I fell in love with you because, no matter how many strong fronts you put up or how much you turned even the saddest situation into an opportunity to tell a joke, all I had to do to know your true feelings was look into your eyes. There, I could see how much you really cared… about everyone and everything. Your heart is the biggest I’ve ever known and it has room for so much love.” She paused and touched the tips of her fingers to Hitomi’s cheek, guiding her eyes to meet her own. “I know that you love her, Yossie. That’s never been a problem for me. I only hope that, in time, she will see there is room for both of us in your heart…”

   Hitomi’s eyes filled with emotion, yet a small, coy smile crept across her lips as she asked, “Do you know why I fell in love with you, Rika…?” She pressed gentle kisses, light as leaves cascading from treetops to the ground below in the fall, across the line of Rika’s jaw.

   “Because I think you’re dead sexy in a suit?” Rika quipped, giggling and wriggling at Hitomi’s side as the touch of lips so softly against her skin brought her flesh sensitively alive.

   “Other than that.” Hitomi mimicked, a smirk momentarily crossing her features. “I fell in love with you because I realized, when I’m with you, I don’t need to put on any fronts or tell any jokes to hide my feelings. You take me as I am, broken, whole, split in two… the way no one in my entire life had before you came into it.”

   Hitomi’s hands shifted suddenly downward, skimming the length of Rika’s body. Taking possession of her hips, she pulled Rika forward so that their bodies met, bare and warm in the center of the bed. As her lips came over Rika’s, she murmured against her mouth the words of her unending love, as if they might enter her, travel in search of her heart, and finding it, remain there with her always.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (4 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 10, 2008, 03:20:41 AM
Crap. Sayaka really, REALLY had it bad for Yossi, didn't she? Possibly moreso than either she or Yossi realized.  :cry:

Well, I think that what Yossie didn't realize was not how much Sayaka loved her, but how much Sayaka had built her entire life around their relationship.  :-\

Just want to say that I think of a certain Sayaka from a certain team K who is known to El-Ow-Vee-Ee :love: Yossi and admire her and all that stuff, so yeah, I like this pairing, but IshiYoshi is just meant to be  :wub:

Keep writing cause you have another IshiYoshi fan reader :oops:

I am so glad you're here reading my fanfic! Thank you. But about Sayaka: I did actually name her after a real idol.  :lol: I had been watching a performance of Blue Rose by AKB48 and admiring Akimoto Sayaka right before I started writing this.  :P

Huhuhu... Poor Sayaka..  :cry: Im sure someone else will turn up not as good as Yossie but yea..

Coz Ishiyoshi rules..  :heart:

IshiYoshi does rule. Explains why they're two of my two favorite H!P members. ;) But together they're just so, so, so much better still.  :heart:

Just saw this story, its awesome..... But it seems like Yoshi wants both girls. Can't she have both? Please? Its not that she doesnt like Saya, she just finds the new one more interesting, coz she's new. But she still loves Sayaka! Its pretty obvious. She didnt actually say she wanted to break up with her. Hmm, if this is anything like a fic I know, this is all a dream and then, she will wake up (or not) and everything may be fine. But who knows? Btw, I totally get the goofing off thing, writing an angsty one meself. THough I don't think ppl find it as interesting as yours..... Oh well, cya. Keep up the good work! It's great so far, though I do feel really sory for Sayaka, and Yoshi. But it seems like Sayaka is destroyed by that.....Will she bounce back? The pessimist in me says NO! The optimist says she will hook up with a character soon to be revealed, or Yoshii or both or Yoshi and Rika or Yoshi/ Rika and the other char....OR even more ppl, etc.;...... You know what I mean, just, be happy Sayaka! Im taking a leaf out of that pplz page (cnt remember whose) and being optimistic, so saying she WILL be HAPPY in the end! (Sory, I have a very open mind, things just rub of on it easilly......)

Thank you for reading! I'm so glad you're enjoying it! Yossie does want both girls... but in different ways that she doesn't completely understand yet. I can't tell you more than that, though. I'll ruin it.  :P

^Sweeet  :rofl:, your comments are only! XD

Back to the story, O.O.... dude, Sayaka is ridiculously EMO!....I love it!

Again love how you write  :inlove:

And yes i'll be patient :)

Haha. It's strange though that I have the capacity to write something so emo because I'm so ridiculously balanced it's not even funny. :p I hope the fifth chapter continues to entertain you! :)

:mon scare: Wow...  Sayaka reminds me of KOREAN DRAMA angsty... it's almost unbearably. I've never read a fanfic that makes my eyes waters but if this continues the way it is... I think this one just might be the first.

 :cry: Good Job! *awaits next chatper*


I agree with Anammm (my ishiyoshi partner in crime XD) I like that SayakaXYossy but 1444 4 EVA

I'm really touched that my fanfic brought tears to your eyes. :) I hope that I can continue connecting with you with my fanfic in the future. :)
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: Grisours on April 10, 2008, 03:35:14 AM
This last chapter was cute, sexy, funny and a liiiiitle sad... I love it!!  :grin:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 10, 2008, 03:39:12 AM
^ Yeah, I try to put a little bit of everything into it so that everyone can enjoy it... because some people like to laugh, some people like the sexy, and some people like to cry. ;) And some people are you, and like it all! Haha.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: JFC on April 10, 2008, 06:10:08 AM
As a guy totally secure in his masculinity, I have no trouble proclaiming that Yossi DOES look dead sexy in a suit. 
:wriggly:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 10, 2008, 06:23:21 AM
As a guy totally secure in his masculinity, I have no trouble proclaiming that Yossi DOES look dead sexy in a suit. 
:wriggly:

Yossie looks dead sexy. Period. I could give up men for her, I swear I could. (But then, I could also potentially give up men for Goto Maki and Kamei Eri... and Fujimoto Miki. I think the list ends there. ...I think.)
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: JFC on April 10, 2008, 06:53:36 AM
^ It'd be even better if she'd say that you didn't have to give up the other H!P girls just for her. :twisted: :drool:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: poets on April 10, 2008, 07:22:39 AM
I can't decided what makes me like you more... your writing or the fact that you post so quickly  :heart: Most likely a combination of the two XD.

That was a great chapter... the ending of it was hot XD... and the "reasons" for liking each other was so genuine... 

Gah i can't get enough of you writing this couple... I just LOVE IT!

On a separate note: Not only yossy looks good in a suit... Rika looks super hot as a prince ;)... Rika-Franz FTW.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: zay05ohayou on April 10, 2008, 08:17:40 AM
awesome~

Tilting her lips toward Hitomi’s ear, she lightly kissed the soft flesh of her earlobe and whispered, “Do you know why I fell in love with you, Yossie…?”

   “I fell in love with you because, no matter how many strong fronts you put up or how much you turned even the saddest situation into an opportunity to tell a joke, all I had to do to know your true feelings was look into your eyes. There, I could see how much you really cared… about everyone and everything. Your heart is the biggest I’ve ever known and it has room for so much love.” She paused and touched the tips of her fingers to Hitomi’s cheek, guiding her eyes to meet her own. “I know that you love her, Yossie. That’s never been a problem for me. I only hope that, in time, she will see there is room for both of us in your heart…”

   Hitomi’s eyes filled with emotion, yet a small, coy smile crept across her lips as she asked, “Do you know why I fell in love with you, Rika…?” She pressed gentle kisses, light as leaves cascading from treetops to the ground below in the fall, across the line of Rika’s jaw.

   “Because I think you’re dead sexy in a suit?” Rika quipped, giggling and wriggling at Hitomi’s side as the touch of lips so softly against her skin brought her flesh sensitively alive.

   “Other than that.” Hitomi mimicked, a smirk momentarily crossing her features. “I fell in love with you because I realized, when I’m with you, I don’t need to put on any fronts or tell any jokes to hide my feelings. You take me as I am, broken, whole, split in two… the way no one in my entire life had before you came into it.”
So Yossie still wants Sayaka too huh?  :? Rika sounds like its ok with her though so I think thats kinda good maybe?  XD
Yossie and Rika are so perfect that they can be great being a guy or a girl..  :wub:
Ahh~  :luvluv2: i feel so warm and tingly inside... so much love  :heart:
That was a very sweeeeet chapter!!   :inlove:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 10, 2008, 04:56:45 PM
So, I thought this would be fun.  XD

(http://www.pharadox.com/images/th_writing.jpg) (http://www.pharadox.com/images/writing.jpg)

That's what it looks like when I'm writing this fanfic. Proof that it doesn't just pour right out of me as is. :oops: So, so much revision.  :lol: Click for full size version. Also evidence that my hand-writing is chicken-scratch.

^ It'd be even better if she'd say that you didn't have to give up the other H!P girls just for her. :twisted: :drool:

Indeed.  :wub:

I can't decided what makes me like you more... your writing or the fact that you post so quickly  :heart: Most likely a combination of the two XD.

That was a great chapter... the ending of it was hot XD... and the "reasons" for liking each other was so genuine... 

Gah i can't get enough of you writing this couple... I just LOVE IT!

On a separate note: Not only yossy looks good in a suit... Rika looks super hot as a prince ;)... Rika-Franz FTW.

Yeah, Rika DOES look good in a suit, buuuut... sorry, Yossie still takes the prize in my heart. ;) But as it turns out, Aichan ALSO looks really hot in a suit (http://www.pharadox.com/images/momusu/aisuit.jpg).

awesome~

So Yossie still wants Sayaka too huh?  :? Rika sounds like its ok with her though so I think thats kinda good maybe?  XD
Yossie and Rika are so perfect that they can be great being a guy or a girl..  :wub:
Ahh~  :luvluv2: i feel so warm and tingly inside... so much love  :heart:
That was a very sweeeeet chapter!!   :inlove:

Aww, I'm happy that you liked it. :) What Yossie wants is for Sayaka to be happy because she loves her, whether that means they are together are not.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: zay05ohayou on April 10, 2008, 05:27:17 PM
Wow your hand-writing is neat and rounded. I like it!  :lol: Its not bad at all..  :D
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: goosefish on April 10, 2008, 05:59:39 PM
OHMYGAAAAAWD.

Finally caught up with this!  :oops:

It seems like Sayaka had practically built her entire life around Yossi. Yossi WAS her life, and when Yossi took herself out of that, Sayaka was left with nothing  :cry:  Had Yossi not joined MM, would her life also just be Sayaka??  :? It seems like it's hard for Yossi to forget Sayaka, and just how much she loves her. She probably wishes that she didn't have to do that to Sayaka, even though at the same time she wants to be with Rika  ;) Bah, you write an awesome complicated story! My hat's off to you!  :P

And LOL at

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“Because you think I’m dead sexy in a suit?”
   XD XD XD Had me rofling like there was no tomorrow!
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 10, 2008, 11:20:21 PM
OHMYGAAAAAWD.

Finally caught up with this!  :oops:

It seems like Sayaka had practically built her entire life around Yossi. Yossi WAS her life, and when Yossi took herself out of that, Sayaka was left with nothing  :cry:  Had Yossi not joined MM, would her life also just be Sayaka??  :? It seems like it's hard for Yossi to forget Sayaka, and just how much she loves her. She probably wishes that she didn't have to do that to Sayaka, even though at the same time she wants to be with Rika  ;) Bah, you write an awesome complicated story! My hat's off to you!  :P

And LOL at

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“Because you think I’m dead sexy in a suit?”
   XD XD XD Had me rofling like there was no tomorrow!


Oooh, you really picked up on a key reason that all of this happened that I had been indirectly hinting at. Good job. ;) Things would have been COMPLETELY different if Yossie had not joined MM.  Yossie would be different. And now I will hush before I give too much away. :D

And yeah, the part about the suit amused me, too. :D But really, have you see the video of Rika talking about Yossie in Mr. Moonlight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPw1Rzia7T8)? She's clearly at the very least extremely impressed with her. Haha.

Wow your hand-writing is neat and rounded. I like it!  :lol: Its not bad at all..  :D

Aww, thanks. You might be the only one that thinks so.  :lol:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: sweeety on April 11, 2008, 05:12:38 PM
I like your writing, it's really neat and you can make out which letter is which which is more than I can say for a bunch of ppl I know from my school that make me wonder how they ever got to this grade.....

And you have been hinting at the same thing all this time and even though some ppl will say otherwise I am actually good at picking up subtle hints. So yeah I got what you are saying about Yoshi and Sayaka. Lol, I thought you meant Ichii Sayaka so I was like wth? she is famous too, and rich I would assume..... anyway now that I know its another, and that she has nothing to do with MM then an "Ohhhhh" is in order. But I am still gonna try to imagine Sayaka Ichii in my head..... Its just the way it has to be in my head..... Sory.

 umm and btw Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Poor Sayaka! But now that I know shes not a HP member I just kinda feel like I prefer Yoshi with Rika. But I am a bigger YoMako shipper just so ppl know and mark my words, One day, I will write a YoMako story, and while I have breath in my body and am able to move, this promise stands! (Wow I went all prophet-16thC-Shakespeare-writer thingit there..... COOL!) XD C YA
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 12, 2008, 08:07:30 AM
Chapter 6: The Midnight Duel

         She seemed both at peace and extraordinarily sad, somehow at the same time. A girl lay on the sidewalk at his feet, of all things. She couldn’t have been younger than sixteen or older than twenty-five—old enough to have at least a fleeting knowledge of societal norms and young enough to still have the majority of her marbles. This assumed, of course, that she had any marbles to begin with.

         Despite the possibility she might not be playing with a full deck, he couldn’t deny, as his eyes scanned the length of her body, the cards she did have were lovely. Her raven black hair fell in gentle waves about her heart-shaped face and across her slim neck. Dark, lush black lashes lay perched upon her flushed cheeks like the silken wings of a resting butterfly. What captivated him most about this creature, however, were her delicate, rounded lips, parted as if in a perpetual sigh.

         Squatting at her side, he hesitated a moment, debating on whether or not to wake her, before he gently tapped her shoulder with a single finger. In response she flinched in her sleep and wriggled her nose, a tiny, incomprehensible noise falling in protest from her lips. At this, his heart flipped a somersault in his chest and he couldn’t keep a smile from suddenly leaping to his face. She was precious when asleep, potentially crazy though she may have been.

         As she settled once more, he hesitated again to wake her, but his conscience would not allow him to leave even a crazy girl to sleep on cold concrete. He laid, this time, his full hand on her shoulder and rocked her gently, persistently, until she began to stir. Her eyelids parted and she blinked quickly several times, gathering whatever senses she may have.

         Very suddenly and in a matter of seconds, her eyes took in the shadow of his hunched form cast over her body by the moon, she felt the hand warm on her shoulder, and bolted immediately upright. Their heads collided like the crack of metal against stone and he toppled backward, arms flailing as if he might flap, sprout wings and fly away like a spooked bird.

         Sayaka tore her shoe off and jumped to her feet, brandishing the footwear at him like a knife. “Pervert!” She thrust the heel of her shoe in his direction-- where e lay sprawled on his back across the sidewalk, which occurred to him was an amusing, ironic turn of events-- both eyebrows raised high on her forehead. “I dare you to try something. I just dare you.”

         He gawked, open-mouthed, as she waved the heel at him in as threatening a manner as she could possibly muster. “Me? ME? I wasn’t the one asleep on the sidewalk!” He side-glanced at his watch, smirked, and added “At 12:36 AM, no less. Frankly, it seemed a bit suspect to me. And now that I find myself threatened with death by heel, I can see quite clearly how correct my suspicions were.” He pushed himself up onto his feet, and looking down from his full height, realized at once how tiny this strange girl actually was. Her head couldn't possibly have come to much higher than his armpits, if even that.

         Sayaka paused mid-wave of heel, her arm frozen in the air. A look of honest consideration of what he’d just said flew across her face for a fraction of a second before her eyes narrowed and she jutted the heel at him again. “And you? What are you doing wandering the streets at this time of night?” She tilted her head to the side and raised a single brow in question.

         “I think that much is obvious by now.” He said simply, shrugging his shoulders non-committally. “I’m going about waking up crazy women that sleep on the sidewalk.”

         Her jaw fell open and she stared at him in appalled silence. Snapping her mouth closed at last, a cloud was suddenly blown across her face, transforming the expression in her eyes from one of alarm, outrage, and distrust to one of heart-broken resignation. “I’m not crazy.”

         Seeing this sudden sadness sweep across her face, he felt something deep inside his heart twist into knot after knot, tangling in a complication of feelings a complete and total stranger had somehow created within him. Stepping forward tentatively, he looked into her eyes and smiled kindly. “Well… maybe you could prove it if you’d stop pointing that admittedly concerning heel at me and let me put you in a taxi home for the night?”

         “Oh…” She brought the heel finally at bay at her side and he could see the defenses in her eyes begin to crumble. “That seems fair. Except,” she gestured over her shoulder at the house next door and grimaced, “I live right there.” An embarrassed flush rose in her cheeks, but she shrugged it off, unwilling to appear vulnerable in front of a stranger that had yet to entirely prove he was not, in fact, a pervert

         He starred at her incredulously, as if she might sprout a second head or spontaneously clone herself.  “You live right there and you couldn’t walk the last two or three feet to your own bed?”

         Sayaka glanced over her shoulder, her eyes falling with longing upon the house she had been found asleep in front of, and shook her head slowly. “No… I couldn’t.”

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Oh my goodness, I'm so tired. It's 2 AM and I just finished writing this. Yeah, leave it to me to stay up late writing fanfic on a friday night.  :lol: But to be fair, I'm currently stuck in the middle of nowhere without a car or public transportation. What else was I going to do? Go outside and howl at the moon?

So, this was a lot of fun to write. I enjoyed it. :D I hope you like this chapter as much as I liked writing it, too. :) I LOVE Pointy Heel Brandishing Sayaka.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 12, 2008, 08:12:02 AM
I like your writing, it's really neat and you can make out which letter is which which is more than I can say for a bunch of ppl I know from my school that make me wonder how they ever got to this grade.....

And you have been hinting at the same thing all this time and even though some ppl will say otherwise I am actually good at picking up subtle hints. So yeah I got what you are saying about Yoshi and Sayaka. Lol, I thought you meant Ichii Sayaka so I was like wth? she is famous too, and rich I would assume..... anyway now that I know its another, and that she has nothing to do with MM then an "Ohhhhh" is in order. But I am still gonna try to imagine Sayaka Ichii in my head..... Its just the way it has to be in my head..... Sory.

 umm and btw Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Poor Sayaka! But now that I know shes not a HP member I just kinda feel like I prefer Yoshi with Rika. But I am a bigger YoMako shipper just so ppl know and mark my words, One day, I will write a YoMako story, and while I have breath in my body and am able to move, this promise stands! (Wow I went all prophet-16thC-Shakespeare-writer thingit there..... COOL!) XD C YA

I don't know why but I just never got into YoMako or YoMiki or Yomaki. It's always been just Rika and Yossie for me. :)

I'm glad you're enjoying my fanfic and I hope you continue to! :) Thanks for reading!
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: zay05ohayou on April 12, 2008, 06:28:21 PM
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         Despite the possibility she might not be playing with a full deck, he couldn’t deny, as his eyes scanned the length of her body, the cards she did have were lovely. Her raven black hair fell in gentle waves about her heart-shaped face and across her slim neck. Dark, lush black lashes lay perched upon her flushed cheeks like the silken wings of a resting butterfly. What captivated him most about this creature, however, were her delicate, rounded lips, parted as if in a perpetual sigh.
Hey! Stop falling in love with a girl you just saw on the street! Even though she's pretty and all..  XD

Quote
         Squatting at her side, he hesitated a moment, debating on whether or not to wake her, before he gently tapped her shoulder with a single finger. In response she flinched in her sleep and wriggled her nose, a tiny, incomprehensible noise falling in protest from her lips. At this, his heart flipped a somersault in his chest and he couldn’t keep a smile from suddenly leaping to his face. She was precious when asleep, potentially crazy though she may have been.

         As she settled once more, he hesitated again to wake her, but his conscience would not allow him to leave even a crazy girl to sleep on cold concrete. He laid, this time, his full hand on her shoulder and rocked her gently, persistently, until she began to stir. Her eyelids parted and she blinked quickly several times, gathering whatever senses she may have.
Tsk. Tsk. He sounds like he's having a 'love at first sight' thing going on. Oohh.. lips....  :drool:
Missy wake up and run! You don't know what might happen to you outside!!  :shocked:

         
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Very suddenly and in a matter of seconds, her eyes took in the shadow of his hunched form cast over her body by the moon, she felt the hand warm on her shoulder, and bolted immediately upright. Their heads collided like the crack of metal against stone and he toppled backward, arms flailing as if he might flap, sprout wings and fly away like a spooked bird.

         Sayaka tore her shoe off and jumped to her feet, brandishing the footwear at him like a knife. “Pervert!” She thrust the heel of her shoe in his direction-- where e lay sprawled on his back across the sidewalk, which occurred to him was an amusing, ironic turn of events-- both eyebrows raised high on her forehead. “I dare you to try something. I just dare you.”
That's right! Threaten the guy! Even though you just woke up on the street and all! Its self-defense! Lol, poor dude though. :D

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         He gawked, open-mouthed, as she waved the heel at him in as threatening a manner as she could possibly muster. “Me? ME? I wasn’t the one asleep on the sidewalk!” He side-glanced at his watch, smirked, and added “At 12:36 AM, no less. Frankly, it seemed a bit suspect to me. And now that I find myself threatened with death by heel, I can see quite clearly how correct my suspicions were.” He pushed himself up onto his feet, and looking down from his full height, realized at once how tiny this strange girl actually was. Her head couldn't possibly have come to much higher than his armpits, if even that.
You tell her dude! Yep, that's what it is. That she's you know what right?!  XD

     
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   Sayaka paused mid-wave of heel, her arm frozen in the air. A look of honest consideration of what he’d just said flew across her face for a fraction of a second before her eyes narrowed and she jutted the heel at him again. “And you? What are you doing wandering the streets at this time of night?” She tilted her head to the side and raised a single brow in question.
Hey... yeahh.. What is he doing out and about at that time???

       
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“I think that much is obvious by now.” He said simply, shrugging his shoulders non-committally. “I’m going about waking up crazy women that sleep on the sidewalk.”

         Her jaw fell open and she stared at him in appalled silence. Snapping her mouth closed at last, a cloud was suddenly blown across her face, transforming the expression in her eyes from one of alarm, outrage, and distrust to one of heart-broken resignation. “I’m not crazy.”
Oh no he didn't! Crazy women?!  :O You made poor Sayaka sad now..  :cry:

         
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Seeing this sudden sadness sweep across her face, he felt something deep inside his heart twist into knot after knot, tangling in a complication of feelings a complete and total stranger had somehow created within him. Stepping forward tentatively, he looked into her eyes and smiled kindly. “Well… maybe you could prove it if you’d stop pointing that admittedly concerning heel at me and let me put you in a taxi home for the night?”

         “Oh…” She brought the heel finally at bay at her side and he could see the defenses in her eyes begin to crumble. “That seems fair. Except,” she gestured over her shoulder at the house next door and grimaced, “I live right there.” An embarrassed flush rose in her cheeks, but she shrugged it off, unwilling to appear vulnerable in front of a stranger that had yet to entirely prove he was not, in fact, a pervert
He sounded more like a pervert when he said 'put you in a taxi home for the night'.  ;) Hah, you can't take her on a taxi! She lives right there! At the  house next door! Wherever that is.  :sweatdrop:

         
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He starred at her incredulously, as if she might sprout a second head or spontaneously clone herself.  “You live right there and you couldn’t walk the last two or three feet to your own bed?”

         Sayaka glanced over her shoulder, her eyes falling with longing upon the house she had been found asleep in front of, and shook her head slowly. “No… I couldn’t.”
Oh no, he had to go there... Poor Sayaka...  She must've wanted to go in there really badly though.. It's just really painful...  :cry:

I like your writing, it's really neat and you can make out which letter is which which is more than I can say for a bunch of ppl I know from my school that make me wonder how they ever got to this grade.....

And you have been hinting at the same thing all this time and even though some ppl will say otherwise I am actually good at picking up subtle hints. So yeah I got what you are saying about Yoshi and Sayaka. Lol, I thought you meant Ichii Sayaka so I was like wth? she is famous too, and rich I would assume..... anyway now that I know its another, and that she has nothing to do with MM then an "Ohhhhh" is in order. But I am still gonna try to imagine Sayaka Ichii in my head..... Its just the way it has to be in my head..... Sory.

 umm and btw Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Poor Sayaka! But now that I know shes not a HP member I just kinda feel like I prefer Yoshi with Rika. But I am a bigger YoMako shipper just so ppl know and mark my words, One day, I will write a YoMako story, and while I have breath in my body and am able to move, this promise stands! (Wow I went all prophet-16thC-Shakespeare-writer thingit there..... COOL!) XD C YA

I don't know why but I just never got into YoMako or YoMiki or Yomaki. It's always been just Rika and Yossie for me. :)

I'm glad you're enjoying my fanfic and I hope you continue to! :) Thanks for reading!
lol me too! i'm more of an Ishiyoshi fan.  :heart: i wouldn't say the others are not a good pair but Ishiyoshi is Ishiyoshi!  :wub:

Nice chapter! Wow it would've been funny and painful if Sayaka actually hit the guy with the shoe heel. :lol: Both of the characters here seem lost.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 12, 2008, 07:18:17 PM
^ Woooow. You really had a lot to say about the last chapter, didn't you?  :lol: That's okay. It makes me happy if you are that into what I am writing. :)

But... it is very curious that he's out walking the streets so late at night. And he didn't actually answer the question fully, did he? ;) It makes you wonder. Is he hiding something? Is really a prowling pervert?

We will soon see!  :P
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: sweeety on April 12, 2008, 07:54:41 PM
I think he is Tsunku or working with/for him or equally rich. Anyway, some1 rich and famous who can/will be her benefactor so she can get rich and stuff! That would be awesome! Kinda how like David Boreanaz got signed with an agent when walking a dog, Sayaka can get signed sleeping on a sidewalk! KOOOL! Anyway, glad you liked my comment, hope you keep writing so I can keep reading. I drew a rough sketch of how that would have gone zay, and I will post it as soon as I can (gotta upload first and that takes ages) and btw, I thought you liked charmikitty! You asked for it. Why if I had known I would have resumed (or rather started ) the GAM angsty fic. Which I now have to cancel or at least postpone untill I get mo' nu ideas holmes..... Crud, da J lingo is b fillin' my head with nonsense agin! I should have gone to bed and not started that second beer.....which I am still drinking..... anyway, hope you keep writing this! Its nice.
Here is the rough sketch, I might do a more detailed one in the tomorow.

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg211/Charmy10/scan0001-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on April 12, 2008, 09:12:18 PM
I drew a rough sketch of how that would have gone

Hands down the best thing I've seen today.  :lol:

I will keep writing this. I promise.  :D
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: tru_harmony on June 08, 2008, 11:40:32 AM
sorry for bumping... i hope that promise is kept... ... i'm sorry for being impatient... i love this fic...
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: kRisZ on June 08, 2008, 05:32:11 PM
Your story's  :cry:  :w00t:  XD  :lol:  and I  :heart: it, so ummm, any plans for an update.?.  :)
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on June 08, 2008, 10:11:51 PM
^ Thanks! :) Yeah, I keep meaning to, but other things like my graphics thread and the RPG keep taking over all of my forum time. I'll try my best to get back to it. :)
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (7 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on June 10, 2008, 05:10:51 AM
Chapter 7: Love and Sacrifice

   Hitomi gasped and woke with a start, eyes snapping wide open and swirling around in their sockets as if in search of something. Droplets of perspiration had settled across her forehead like dew gathers upon blades of grass in the spring. Finally, her eyes fell on the silhouetted body next to her in bed and she slipped her arms around it, pulling it close. Nestling her head against the soft, pliant warmth of the body as it stirred next to her, she murmured softly, “Go back to sleep, Saya... It was just a nightmare.”

   In her restless sleep, Hitomi had dreamed she was drowning, sinking slowly into the dark depths of a liquid abyss. Through the rippling water to the surface above she saw two faces, each peering out from above their own boat, features distraught and twisted in agony. Two sets of hands reached out to her from above and somehow she knew that if she took the hands of one and pulled herself to safety, the other would plunge over side of the boat, beneath the surface and sink to the bottom in her place. Then, because she would not--could not-- decide between them, both were suddenly flung forward helplessly into the murky depths. That was when she woke up.

    “Hmm?” the body lying at her side responded sleepily and turned over within the circle of Hitomi’s arms to face her. “What did you say, Yossie?” the girl whispered groggily, eyes slit barely open. Hitomi looked upon the face before her eyes-- the soft lips, dark, thick lashes, and gently sloping jaw line that were not Sayaka’s-- and knew who it was she had woken up and instantly expected to be there: the one that had always been there before.

   “Oh, Rika…” she tucked her face into the hair at the side of Rika’s neck, inhaling the scent of the woman in her arms as if to reassure all five of her senses which girl actually lay at her side. A small, sleepy smile curled across Rika’s lips as she murmured, “You say my name as if you’re surprised to find me here next to you. After what we did together last night, I hope you haven’t forgotten me so soon.” A girlish giggle poured from between her lips as she playfully traced the tips of her fingernails across Hitomi’s hip. “Now, what were you saying before?”

   Hitomi’s thought processes began to transform inside of her mind like liquid evaporating beneath the heat of the sun, but instead beneath the heat of Rika’s touch. Even the sweet, delicious sensations that even the lightest sweep of Rika’s fingers could create inside of her could not completely erode the vivid images that her nightmare had impressed upon her, though. Grimacing, she took Rika’s hand in hers, bringing an end to the caresses that would ordinarily be so very welcome, if her mind were not as cluttered as it was. “It was a nightmare. I’m sorry I woke you up.”

   Rika paused visibly a moment, the thoughts that she wanted to put into words churning within her eyes as she did. Finally, she nodded and said in a very matter-of-fact way, “I think you should go see her in the morning… it’s obvious that you need to speak to her, Yossie.”

   Hitomi could have sworn in that moment that when she’d said Sayaka’s name, Rika had heard and chosen with all the beautiful compassion in her heart to let the moment pass as if it had not happened at all. Suddenly, as it had every day they’d known each other, her love for Rika grew beyond the limits she was always sure must have already been reached and proved there were not really any limits at all.

   She simply nodded and tucked her cheek against Rika’s shoulder, lightly kissing the bare warm flesh there. She knew that Rika knew she would go. She knew that Rika knew her better than anyone in the world. With Rika, she just knew. It was for that reason she had chosen her, in the end. But could she live with what that meant she had done to Sayaka? It was the one thing she did not know…

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Finally, a new chapter. I'm sorry it's been so long! I'll try to be more regular with my updates. :) Enjoy!
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: sweeety on June 10, 2008, 05:44:16 AM
wooohooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tortured Yoshi!!! Now she is starting to understand! Why does this seem like a "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" Kind of story? Where Sayaka (ICHII) is the wimin and the bad husband is Yoshi and the new dude might be Miki or something..... AWESOME! Please update soon@.@
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: tru_harmony on June 10, 2008, 06:04:04 AM
finally, an update...

Rika is awesome here... Yossui slips in her sleep (pun intended)...

thank you for keeping your promise!!! :cow:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on June 10, 2008, 08:14:56 AM
finally, an update...

Rika is awesome here... Yossui slips in her sleep (pun intended)...

thank you for keeping your promise!!! :cow:

Yeah, even if it did take me forever. :D You're welcome.

wooohooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tortured Yoshi!!! Now she is starting to understand! Why does this seem like a "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" Kind of story? Where Sayaka (ICHII) is the wimin and the bad husband is Yoshi and the new dude might be Miki or something..... AWESOME! Please update soon@.@

Haha. It's a little scary, how much you enjoy tortured Yossie.  :lol: But whatever keeps you reading, I guess. ;)
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: zay05ohayou on June 10, 2008, 08:21:09 AM
Awesome~ Update!  :w00t: Its been a month.. but very satisfying..  :)

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Why does this seem like a "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" Kind of story? Where Sayaka (ICHII) is the wimin and the bad husband is Yoshi and the new dude might be Miki or something..... AWESOME! Please update soon@.@
Huh? But it isn't Sayaka Ichii though.. right?? lol, Its funny Sayaka was suppose to be Yossie's name but was changed to Hitomi..  XD

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Finally, her eyes fell on the silhouetted body next to her in bed and she slipped her arms around it, pulling it close. Nestling her head against the soft, pliant warmth of the body as it stirred next to her, she murmured softly, “Go back to sleep, Saya... It was just a nightmare.”
Uh-oh..  :O

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Rika paused visibly a moment, the thoughts that she wanted to put into words churning within her eyes as she did. Finally, she nodded and said in a very matter-of-fact way, “I think you should go see her in the morning… it’s obvious that you need to speak to her, Yossie.”
Oh phew~ She didn't get mad..

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Hitomi could have sworn in that moment that when she’d said Sayaka’s name, Rika had heard and chosen with all the beautiful compassion in her heart to let the moment pass as if it had not happened at all. Suddenly, as it had every day they’d known each other, her love for Rika grew beyond the limits she was always sure must have already been reached and proved there were not really any limits at all.
Aww.. This is so cute..  :wub:

I like this fic cause it's about time that Rika doesn't become a jealous girlfriend or a misfortunate girl who ends up getting hurt because of unrequited love.. Hope i dont jynx it though...  :sweatdrop:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: sweeety on June 10, 2008, 12:02:56 PM
It's not Sayaka Ichii, but I wish it was and imagine her when I read Sayaka so...yeah, that's why I write it. But I know perfectly well it's not her. But that was a good chapter. It just shows how much of an indesicive heartbreaker she is. She already broke Sayaka now she is hurting Rika with her stupid second thoughts.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on June 10, 2008, 12:47:09 PM
It's not Sayaka Ichii, but I wish it was and imagine her when I read Sayaka so...yeah, that's why I write it. But I know perfectly well it's not her. But that was a good chapter. It just shows how much of an indesicive heartbreaker she is. She already broke Sayaka now she is hurting Rika with her stupid second thoughts.

Oh, don't worry. What goes around comes around. And what's even funnier is that I invision a whole 'nother different Sayaka when writing this. There's a lot of Sayaka's floating around here.

Awesome~ Update!  :w00t: Its been a month.. but very satisfying..  :)

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Why does this seem like a "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" Kind of story? Where Sayaka (ICHII) is the wimin and the bad husband is Yoshi and the new dude might be Miki or something..... AWESOME! Please update soon@.@
Huh? But it isn't Sayaka Ichii though.. right?? lol, Its funny Sayaka was suppose to be Yossie's name but was changed to Hitomi..  XD

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Finally, her eyes fell on the silhouetted body next to her in bed and she slipped her arms around it, pulling it close. Nestling her head against the soft, pliant warmth of the body as it stirred next to her, she murmured softly, “Go back to sleep, Saya... It was just a nightmare.”
Uh-oh..  :O

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Rika paused visibly a moment, the thoughts that she wanted to put into words churning within her eyes as she did. Finally, she nodded and said in a very matter-of-fact way, “I think you should go see her in the morning… it’s obvious that you need to speak to her, Yossie.”
Oh phew~ She didn't get mad..

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Hitomi could have sworn in that moment that when she’d said Sayaka’s name, Rika had heard and chosen with all the beautiful compassion in her heart to let the moment pass as if it had not happened at all. Suddenly, as it had every day they’d known each other, her love for Rika grew beyond the limits she was always sure must have already been reached and proved there were not really any limits at all.
Aww.. This is so cute..  :wub:

I like this fic cause it's about time that Rika doesn't become a jealous girlfriend or a misfortunate girl who ends up getting hurt because of unrequited love.. Hope i dont jynx it though...  :sweatdrop:

I love it when you break down your response into sections of the chapter and respond to each piece. :D It amuses and flatters me that you put that much effort into it. :D

So, going to write the next chapter today. ;)
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: poets on June 10, 2008, 11:39:32 PM
The dream was a GREAT ANALOGY btw

But dude, one of the worse things you can do to someone is say your ex's name as you snuggle up with them. It's just.... WRONG!!!! Damn Rika's mature in this one... i love it how she has that deep understanding, kinda like her mentor  8).

I find it ridiculously heart melting how they snuggle up.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: kRisZ on June 12, 2008, 05:00:59 PM
It's the conscience attacking, but with that kind of Rika, for sure things will get better for Yossie, not right away but it will get better
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (8 Chapters)
Post by: Pharadox on June 13, 2008, 04:57:16 PM
Chapter 8: Silently Speaking

   Something about the resignation in the tone of her voice when she’d said she could not go inside had said to him that she didn’t mean she’d been evicted for not paying her bills, but that it ran deeper like a sword through her heart. He could see the barrier between the home and her eyes as she’d looked upon it, as if it were a tangible thing before them.

   So, being the typically tactless man he would no-doubt fully admit to being, he cracked a joke about the importance of paying bills on time and then asked Sayaka if she would like to accompany him for an early morning cup of tea. To his great surprise she’d accepted, the resignation in her eyes silently conceding What else am I going to do? Curl back up on the ground here?

   Still, once there, Sayaka proceeded to sit across the table from him with her arms folded across her chest and her eyes narrowed in an I’m not convinced you’re not a sicko but this is a public place and I’d like to see you try and rape me here in front of these witnesses, JUST TRY IT! way. He found it intriguing, the way that she could say so much with so few words. She could scream and spit at him in dead silence and cry mourning the loss of something he could not yet put his finger on without even shedding a single tear. Looking into her eyes, he saw beyond what she was saying-- words he would not be able to repeat back in five minutes, if asked-- and listened to what she was not saying. That was what he would remember for years.

   She began to become restless sitting there, however. First, her knee started bobbing steadily up and down beneath the table, clunking now and again against the leg of the table so that the tea in their cups trembled. Then, a poor, helpless paper towel succumbed to a shredded fate at the will of her fingers. Finally, she spoke up, “I think I should go home now…” and then, as if to deny out-right that she was restless, as he seemed to be so certain of, and prove other motives for wanting to leave, she added “She’ll worry about me for being out so late, you see.”

   His eyes opened wide at this turn of events. There was someone waiting at home for her? Someone someone someone. Someone sister? Someone mother? Someone… girlfriend? “She? Ah, so you live with someone, then? Your mother? Your sister?”

   “You’re awfully nosey. It’s not really any of your business, is it?” She refolded her arms across her chest, lifting her chin defiantly against his inquiries and diverting her eyes away, looking at anything in the room but him. Just as quickly, however, her shoulders sagged and she peered out the corner of her eyes at him with a nod. “Well, you did treat me to tea... And though you could later use this information to my disadvantage, I suppose I will tell you.”

   She breathed in deeply, as if in preparation for some great ordeal, and then spoke. “Yoshiko is waiting for me. She’s very loyal and devoted to me and I have neglected her all night, so I really should go now.” Standing quickly, she bowed and murmured a quick “Gochisou-sama. Arigatou.” before turning abruptly and bolting like a frightened colt toward the nearest exit.
 
   Abruptly, he jumped up from his seat and just about leapt over the table, shouting after her “I’ll walk you home!” Though she audibly groaned in response, she did not refuse and it encouraged him. Keeping pace with her-- she practically flew home, short legs taking long strides that could put even the tallest of people to shame-- he glanced every now and then to the side at her. She was suddenly in such a hurry to return to that place it had been so difficult for her to be before.

   Rounding the corner onto the street where Sayaka lived, they were at her house in no time, standing again in the spot where they had met just a couple hours before. This time, though, something was different. He could see it in her eyes. Following the wide-eyed mixture of alarm and relief etched across the features of her face, he turned toward the house and saw a girl sitting on the front steps, splayed across them in a peculiarly kakkoii way. And if he didn’t know any better, he could have sworn it was Yoshizawa Hitomi.
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (6 Chapters)
Post by: kRisZ on June 13, 2008, 05:18:48 PM
I wonder how the talk will go but I'm a 100% sure that it would be difficult for both
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (8 Chapters)
Post by: Rhysky on August 19, 2008, 07:53:38 AM
ohh... how will yoshi settle sayaka...??  :dunno:

rika so caring... she understand yoshi so well...  :omamori:

do update soon...  :kneelbow:
Title: Re: Happily Ever After (5 Chapters)
Post by: Atreyuxex on June 01, 2012, 05:26:00 AM
I like your writing, it's really neat and you can make out which letter is which which is more than I can say for a bunch of ppl I know from my school that make me wonder how they ever got to this grade.....

And you have been hinting at the same thing all this time and even though some ppl will say otherwise I am actually good at picking up subtle hints. So yeah I got what you are saying about Yoshi and Sayaka. Lol, I thought you meant Ichii Sayaka so I was like wth? she is famous too, and rich I would assume..... anyway now that I know its another, and that she has nothing to do with MM then an "Ohhhhh" is in order. But I am still gonna try to imagine Sayaka Ichii in my head..... Its just the way it has to be in my head..... Sory.

 umm and btw Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Poor Sayaka! But now that I know shes not a HP member I just kinda feel like I prefer Yoshi with Rika. But I am a bigger YoMako shipper just so ppl know and mark my words, One day, I will write a YoMako story, and while I have breath in my body and am able to move, this promise stands! (Wow I went all prophet-16thC-Shakespeare-writer thingit there..... COOL!) XD C YA


Sweety, please,please PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, write a YoMako story! I will be there to read it. I've been looking all over the place for YoMako fanfic, but have come up with very little. Yossi and Makoto are my fav couple besides IshiYoshi. I'm with ya! Team YoMako all the way =D