Disclaimer: I do not own MKR or its chapters, they belong to CLAMP (and I will never stop to thank them for having created them!)
Notes: I started writing this without having the whole plot in mind, just some episodes of it...I hope it will still turn out as a good fiction. Enjoy! ^^
They had met once again to Tokyo Tower. After their graduation they knew that finally they could have some time to spend in Cephiro with their friends and lovers.
Umi smiled looking at Hikaru running towards her
"Umi chan!" she exclaimed holding her
"hi Karu!" the bluette answered with a wide smile, she was so happy to go back to Cephiro, she missed it so much!
"I see that finally your mood is good…it was ages I didn't see you smiling that way" the red headed girl considered winking, Umi blushed and let go a soft giggle.
During the long period on Earth she had been quite gloomy and depressed, she arrived at the point to avoid their discussion about Cephiro or burst in crying when she heard its name.
Fuu and Hikaru had grown worried about her so, during a sleep over to Hikaru's she finally admitted that the reason why she was so sad was that she had fallen in love with one of their Cephrian friends.
Hikaru was ready to bet on Ascot, in the end he had always been so kind and loving to Umi, but Fuu knew it better, she just smiled and said
"well, I suppose that you have to tell Clef what you feel…" Umi looked at her with wide eyes and the blonde girl giggled fixing her glasses on her nose
"hey, I may even have some sight problems, but I'm not blind, Umi. I guess it was clear you love him since you couldn't stop worrying about him last time we went there and you spend lot of times in his study during our short trips…" she explained.
"he would never be able to love me back, Fuu…I mean, look at me, I'm just..Umi…no, worse, I'm just the Water Knight…"
"don't be stupid Umi, he cares of you, he had shown it in so many ways!" Fuu replied
"You know, Umi chan, Fuu is right, I think that you have a chance with him…more than just one" Hikaru agreed with the blond girl, Umi sighed
"Well, anyway it's quite useless talking of it, we can't go there 'till this summer, school is killing us…"
"I agree" Fuu said
"this is our last year, the exams for graduation will be pretty hard, so I think that we should focuse on them now, and enjoy a good trip on Cephiro in the summer…what do you think about it?"
"to be sincere I had planned to see Lantis next week end, but I guess that I won't go there without you two, so it's ok, I'll wait" Hikaru said.
"Umi, Hikaru!" Fuu's voice made them turn
"I'm late, gomen" she said
"no problem Fuu chan…so, are you ready?" Hikaru asked, the other two girls nodded, then they walked to a not-too-crowed corner and held each other's and closing their eyes
"Rayearth…"
"Windam…"
"Selece…"
In a moment they felt like they were falling from the sky, and indeed they were.
They waited expecting to find Clef's flying fish to come and catch them, but instead of the soft back of the animal they crashed on a tall tree
"ouch!" Hikaru exclaimed rubbing her head
"this is unusual…" Fuu commented fixing her glasses
"I hope Clef has a good excuse for what happened!" Umi said angry rubbing her back
They looked at the castle stretching skywards in the distance
"I can't wait to see them all!" Hikaru exclaimed jumping down of the tree
"don't you?" she asked looking at her friends
"yes" Fuu answered reaching her hand out for Hikaru to help her, once she was done too she looked at Umi who was trying to get free from some branches, both of the girls laughed
"there's nothing to laugh for!" the Water Knight exclaimed.
A ripping sound come from her blouse and she fell on the floor, Hikaru helped her to stand up, still laughing
"oh, tell me it hadn't just happened!" she exclaimed looking at her outfit
"I'm sorry Umi, but I think it happened…" Fuu said shrugging, the bluette examined her blouse
"It was my favorite one!" she winced
"oh I swear I'll yell at him! He and his damn powers! Couldn't he sent his damn fish for us?!"
Hikaru and Fuu laughed
"stop laughing, let's go to the palace!" she exclaimed grabbing their wrists and leading them towards the Royal Palace.
"not bad your highness, but you have to do better" Lantis commented with a smirk blocking Ferio's attack
"give it a rest, everyone knows you are the best swordsman here so stop it!" Ferio said back, the soldier let a thin, rare smile to form on his lips, then moved away and attacked Ferio, the King's sword got off of his hand and fell away not too distant from where they were fighting
"I give up, I can't suffer another defeat" Ferio said rising up his hands
"The King of Cephiro who can't fence…you should be ashamed your highness…" a female voice teased him, he turned and saw the Magic Knights walking towards them, Fuu run to him launching herself in his arms, he laughed and kissed her holding her back, then he looked at Umi who was holding his sword
"don't be so confident Ryuuzaki, I can beat you whenever I want…" he snapped, Umi laughed
"yes, sure…" she answered sarcastically giving him his sword, he took it and folded it.
"nice outfit, anyway" he commented, she glared at him
"all your Master Mage's fault!" Umi exclaimed
"in fact you'll excuse me, but I have something to tell him" she added walking away.
Lantis looked at her going away, then gave an interrogative look to Hikaru
"she's angry because Fyuula didn't came to catch us…" she answered shrugging and raising on her tiptoes to get Lantis' kiss, the swordsman just shook his head with an exasperated look on his face, then he turned to the Fire Knight and kissed her tenderly.
"I hope for you that you have a good excuse for what just happened!" a female voice made he look away from his book to see the doors of his study getting roughly opened
"huh?" he asked, then he saw Umi coming towards him, he hardly held back a laugh seeing her, probably she hadn't a pleasing landing, but though she was looking quite messed up she couldn't think she was still a beautiful girl. She catch his amused stare
"what's so funny?!" she yelled
"well, apart from the leafs in your hair, some dust signs on your cheeks, and your shredded shirt…well, nothing…" he calmly said
"it's all your fault, Mr. Master Mage!" she snapped, he rolled his eyes, yeah, she could even be beautiful but her temp was pretty annoying sometimes
"why in the world should I be responsible for your lost fight with…a tree, I guess?" he asked taking a leaf away from her long blue hair
"maybe because your damn fish was supposed to take us instead of letting us crashing on it?!" she told him back
"don't talk that way of my Fyuula!" he exclaimed
"oh give it a rest! Why the hell didn't you summoned it?!"
"I just didn't sensed you coming"
"you didn't?! you always do!"
"maybe this time I was busy, Umi..."
"busy in reading these damn old book?" she snapped, he marked the page of his book and shut it, the despise she had for his precious bibliotheca was one of the things that he hated the most
"yes, because, in case you didn't catch it yet, I'm the Master Mage, the Supreme Yil, the Madoshi, one of the highest ranked people of this kingdom and these "damn books" are my work…" he snapped her back, he really didn't mean to be so sharp, but she had an amazing ability in making him lose his patience, though he was a very patient man
"you should even protect the Magic Knights" she pointed out crossing her arms, he rolled his eyes, that girl was impossible
"you are right and I think I always protected you when you were in danger but a crash landing on a tree and a shredded blouse aren't exactly a peril for your life…"
"but…"
"no buts, you know, you are impossible sometimes, you may even grow up of thousands of years but you are and you will still remain the most childish person in the whole universe" he said.
He saw her mouth dropping open, she tried to reply but no sound came out from her, so she just clenched her fisted and turned away slamming the door behind her.
He cursed himself mentally, he didn't mean to treat her so badly, it was the last thing he wanted to do, but in the end it was the truth, she had the worse temper he ever had to do with, and actually he liked it, she was the only one person who could stand an argument with him. He smirked to himself thinking that finally had won an argument with the Water Knight.
Umi 100, Clef 1. Well, it was something.
He rested his back against the seat and closed his eyes, Umi's imagine came to his mind, she was delicious, even if messed up.
She walked to her room and slammed the door behind her, how did he dared to talk to her in that way?!
She had come back for him and he let her crashing on a damn tree and moreover he told her she was childish…she, Umi Ryuuzaki, childish! Hearing it from a seven centuries old man who was still chained in a 12 years old kid body was ridiculous!
Did he wanted a more mature Umi? Well, he'd have it, he just had to wait 'till dinner and he would have to swallow back all that he had said.
She filled her bathtub with warm water and dipped inside it, a good bath was all she needed now.