Risa's Presents
By Chiharu Tanaka
A/n: This is very Satoshi/Risa. Do not read if you do not like.
Disclaimer: I don't own DNAngel! If I owned it, this would be in the manga!
Chapter 1: Gifts for the Sacred Maiden
A gentle smile lit up the room. Sixteen is a wonderful age for a girl, they say. She brushed her soft, luscious locks of mahogany hair that cascaded from the top of her head up till just above her tiny waist. Resisting the urge to bite off her polished nails, a childish habit of hers, she took a simple pink satin ribbon and tenderly tied a few locks of her hair neatly behind her head. She straightened out the stunning white dress, lined with silk bows and sequins, which she was wearing. Smiling, she looked at her reflection in the mirror, golden eyes meeting golden ones.
"Happy birthday, Risa. You're officially sixteen."
Stepping downstairs from her chambers, her twin sister, Riku Harada, with stunning red hair and similar golden eyes looked back at her. "You're finally done – what took you so long? The party's starting in a few minutes!" she exclaimed. Risa just smiled sweetly at her sister. Riku shrugged and straightened her own blouse and skirt. That's right, thought Risa. Riku has gotten much more feminine lately.
Riku turned to her. "Why are you smiling like a monkey?" she asked, bewildered. Risa giggled slightly. Seems like she hasn't lost her sense of humour…
"It's nothing, Riku-chan."
As the twins stood there in an awkward feeling in the air, the doorbell rang. Riku rushed over to answer the door. There stood Daisuke, a young and tall redhead with a cute and adorable appearance. "Happy birthday, Riku-chan," he greeted her with love. Riku smiled and hugged him before letting him in their huge house.
"I've got presents. You can open them now if you wish, because I don't think I can keep Risa's present quiet any longer…" he said.
The twins looked at him, puzzled. "What do you mean by 'quiet', Daisuke-kun?" asked Risa. Her curiousity was getting to her again. What could Daisuke have gotten her that would be noisy?
He smiled and took out a pet cage from behind him. He set it on the floor and opened the cage door. "It's a kitten. I knew you always liked cats, so I thought you wouldn't mind having one," he said, and pulled out a little white kitten from the cage.
Awestruck, she squeaked, "How cute!" and took the kitten from Daisuke. Its fur was snow white, and as Risa patted it, the fur was soft as well. Risa looked into the kitten's eyes and a pair of blue eyes looked back at her. "It's female, isn't it?" she asked Daisuke.
Daisuke looked at her in surprise. "How did you know that? You didn't even check the…" Risa giggled.
"Well, I know no other male owns eyes as blue as hers, except Hiwatari-kun."
Daisuke chuckled lightly. "Well, she's yours now. What are you going to name her?" Risa looked at him.
"I'll have to think about that later…"
"Take your time. Oh, and Riku-chan, here's your gift." He pulled out a small, velvet black box and opened it, revealing a beautiful pure silver ring, embedded with little emeralds, engraved with their names on it. "Dai-chan! You shouldn't have! This must be so expensive!" she practically screamed. Her eyes were like shining stars, as if she was blinded by the ring.
"I've been saving my pocket money. I also took part-time jobs to pay these presents of yours," he said shyly. Riku hugged him and gave him a peck on his lips.
"Thank you so much, Dai-chan, I'll treasure this forever!" she said. Risa smiled gratefully at him as well.
"Yeah, thank you, Daisuke-kun – she's so cute!" thanked Risa, patting the kitten gently. Daisuke just smiled back at them with a sheepish grin.
"You're welcome. Now…let's wait for the rest to get the party started, okay?"
Risa tried to stifle a giggle, watching her twin sister chatting rapidly with the crowd, though the thumping music made them shout at each other instead. Riku really had become more feminine, Risa noticed, after Daisuke had become her boyfriend for more than one year now. Her hair had gotten longer, the ends lightly touching her shoulders. Mine grew longer, too, thought Risa, as the kitten played around with her own soft, waist-length hair. Maybe I need to get a haircut…
She turned back to the playful kitten. "Now, what should I name you? Yuki? No, that's too common…"
"What about Rina?"
Risa looked up from her seat on the couch and saw Takeshi Saehara, her classmate. He still had his old hairdo and his cheesy grin seemed to have attach like superglue to his face. "Oh, hi Saehara-kun. I think that's a lovely name, thanks for the suggestion," she said with a gentle smile.
"Happy sixteenth birthday, Harada-imouto. I met your sister – she looks very different from when we were fourteen, doesn't she?" he commented, handing her a wrapped up gift.
"Yeah, I guess so. She's become so…girl-like since becoming Daisuke-kun's girlfriend," said Risa with a sigh. Saehara just looked at her with his pearly grin.
"You look so down; maybe you should get a boyfriend too! Hahah!"
Risa pouted at him. Clearly, he thought of her as a boy-crazy person of some sort. "I'm joking! Anyway, I have a message to pass to you. Unfortunately, Hiwatari-kun isn't able to come to the party tonight. He says he got a lot of work to do. Don't know why, but he wishes you a happy birthday, and here's his gift for you."
Risa's pout turned into a frown. "Oh," she said, taking the little, box-like present wrapped in white from him. Why was it that she suddenly felt her heart plummeting to the pit of her stomach? Emotions will forever be a mystery, thought Risa.
With a sigh, she picked Rina up from her lap and cuddled it in her arms. "I guess your name is Rina, then." Riku emerged from the hallway and quickly approached Risa.
"What are you doing, Risa-chan! It's our birthday, for heaven's sake! Let's celebrate!" she wailed, tugging at Risa's sleeves. "Let's dance!"
With a forced smile, she replied, "Okay."
After a short kiss, Daisuke left the Harada residence for home. Risa gently patted Rina, as she purred softly, responding to Risa's touch. I still feel depressed, she thought. Maybe Hiwatari-kun's absence at the party did affect me a lot. But then again, he is a busy man. Though, I really wanted to show him my new dress…
"Let's open our presents!" said Riku, plopping down on the sofa beside Risa. "What did you name your kitten anyway?"
"Rina."
"Wow, she sounds like one of us!" replied Riku with a grin, picking up a wrapped up present and opening it up.
Initially, she picked up the white gift from Satoshi. She untied the white ribbon and opened up the box. Inside, was a large yet stunning white silk ribbon, much like the one Daisuke had described the one his dad gave to his mom on St. White's Day. There was a card on top of it. She opened it up and as she expected, written on the card was Satoshi's refined handwriting.
To Harada Risa,
Happy birthday and many happy returns to you. The white ribbon is yours; I've been meaning to return it to you for quite some time. Your gift is deeper within the box.
- Hikari Satoshi
Deeper within the box? Wait a minute; I haven't lost any white ribbon! she thought. She pulled the ribbon out and saw what Satoshi had meant: a silver necklace with a tiny crystal pendant, shaped like a small bird feather. Risa held it up to the light, and the light seemed to penetrate through the crystal, and like a prism, it shone like a disco ball.
"Wow, that's beautiful, Risa-chan! Who gave that to you?" asked Riku, amazed herself.
As if she had not smiled in ages, a grin formed on her lips.
"Hiwatari-kun did."
To be continued…
A/n: Baahh, and I haven't even typed out chapter 6 of Dance Steps! I'm such a lazy pig! knocks herself on head (Common fact: I couldn't be writing these fics if it weren't for you S/R fans out there! Keep up the spirit! (:D)
Please review (:D)
P.S. Do my fics sound too cheesy?