[RL w/Yoko] No Crying Allowed!

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[RL w/Yoko] No Crying Allowed!

Kamina grinned at the familiar landscape. Sand, rocks, and a huge open sky. There was no place like home.

He closed the door behind him and sat on one of the surrounding boulders. Stupid Yoko. He knew hew as going to have to wait on her. He was going to have to give her a warning. But what she had said...

I kinda like you a lot too.

And he had his debt to repay. Maybe it wasn't so bad waiting. It gave him more time to sort out all the feelings and thoughts rushing through his head. Augh. He laid back, the stone warming his back while he fell deep into thought.

Stupid girls.

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She saw him from a distance, first; she'd walked almost ten minutes away from the camp to make sure that they wouldn't be seen. She stopped for a breath, staring at his back as he sat on the rock, watching him lie down, as if to make sure it was really him, and then continued approaching.

She was a little quieter than usual as she approached, and leaned over him, her hair hanging down. "You still don't pay much attention," she said with a small smile, her heart racing.

Huh. Well anything he came up with just flew out the window. How did they do that?

"'Cause you're watchin' my back, that's why. I don't have ta pay attention."

She grinned, and it was almost like it had been again. "Of course I am."

She nudged him with her knee. "Shove over, I need to sit down too."

"You better or I'll kick you out," he huffed. He didn't offer any more complaints as shifted to the side to give her some space. To be honest, he didn't know what else to do at this point. All the girls in the village had avoided him and Kamina had only had Yoko and the Black sisters for serious female interaction.

This is going to go great.

She sat down next to him and brought her knees up to her chest, wrapping her arms around her knees, looking at him a little sideways. To tell the truth she wasn't really sure what to do either; it still hurt her heart that he had died but he was right here, did that even count at all?

She reached over and put a hand on his arm, like she was making sure he was real.

He stared at the hand on his arm and then up at her. It seemed like a lifetime since he'd seen her last. Even now, there was that lingering thought that at some point he'd had to leave her. Again. Kamina wasn't sorry he died and he wasn't sorry things had turned out they way they had (he'd been to their future, saw Simon a grown, self-confident man, Yoko, a teacher, surrounded by children and happy), but he was sorry he couldn't be a part of it. It just made him sad that he couldn't be there all the time to watch it.

It was best to live in the moment right now so he said the first thing that came to his head.

"Hey."

She curled her hand into a fist and punched his arm lightly. "Don't 'hey' me," she said, not unkindly. "That's all you can think of?"

"What else am I supposed to say? An' don't hit me," he said, grinning. At least it wasn't a real punch.

"I guess I shouldn't have expected something that fit the mood, you big idiot," she said, still smiling. It was easier than she had expected to smile instead of cry, when he was being so... Kamina.

Kamina huffed as he right himself. "What mood are you talkin' about? Are we supposed to be serious or somethin'?"

She rolled her eyes. "You're such a guy, you know that?"

"Good! A man's always gotta stay true to himself!" He bent over and rested his arms on his knees. "And ain't nobody a more manly guy than me!"

"I should have known you'd take it as a compliment," she said with another roll of her eyes, leaning back on her hands.

She paused, then. "I... missed you, you know? Even if you are an idiot." And then more firmly, "And I'm not going to cry on you about it, I'm just telling you!"

"Havin' you around wouldn't be too bad either. Although you nag all the time or whatever." He scratched the back of his head. Girls were so hard to talk to. "Good," he answered, "an' don't think I'd let you get away with crying!"

"I won't!" she said with a huff, looking down. She lapsed into silence, trying to figure out what to say next without looking like she was unsure; she felt like the fact that they'd... well, basically confessed to each other was hanging over their heads, and she knew that he'd never be the one to bring it up. Boys were so obnoxious.

She was right about that, he'd never bring it up without a little prodding. Talking about his feelings was hard enough. He looked up at the expansive sky, looking for some kind of sign. He pointed to one of the slower moving clouds. "That one looks like a raccoon bird."

She shaded her eyes and looked up. "It looks like a cloud."

"No, no, look at it! It's got the wings an' everything!" He pointed at one particular point. "There's the nose."

She gave it a closer look, mostly to humor him, leaning in closer to try and see it from the same angle. "Are you sure? Wouldn't that be the tail, if anything?"

He squinted his eyes and tilted his head, getting closer to Yoko in the process. "Nah, one of the ears."

She hesitated, then leaned in and rested her head on his shoulder, her cheeks turning slightly red. "Didn't you say it was the nose before?"

That was unexpected. He kept his eyes to the sky in a vain attempt to hide his own bright red cheeks. "Yeah, but I looked at it again. 'S definitely a ear."

"Fine, fine," she said, relaxing against him. "It's an ear, you dummy."

"Course it is." He put an arm around her waist. Please don't let this get him shot.

Not today. "I never thought you'd like cloud watching. It's too relaxing for you," she teased, tilting her head to look up at him, trying to pretend that her blush wasn't spreading.

Awesome. He tilted his head to the side and looked at her sideways. "Ya get to think of them as whatever you want to. It can be a bird or a Ganmen or person. It's kinda neat."

"A person, huh?" She looked back up, scanning the sky, and then pointed. "That one looks kind of like it's got a cape." It was strange, doing something this relaxing when she had spent the last who knows how long constantly on high alert, but she couldn't say she really minded.

"Hey, it does!" he said happily. He hadn't noticed that one. "Think it's as good as mine?"

"Hm, I dunno," she teased, grinning up at him again. "I think it might be even better."

"Hey!" he pouted. "Ain't nothin' as good as mine."

Yoko laughed at the look on his face; she couldn't remember when she'd last been this happy just to be talking with someone and she suddenly turned slightly and threw her arms around him, pressing her face into his chest and mumbling something too muffled for him to hear.

The sudden weight on his chest made him grunt, but considering how things were, he didn't mind. A few months ago he would have killed to be in this spot and now...well, he had been killed and was in this spot. Weird how life worked out like that. He awkwardly put his arms around her waist and hugged back. He hoped he was doing this right.

"I'm glad you're here," she mumbled again, louder this time.

What to say, what to say? "'m glad too. And you bein' here with me ain't so bad."

She smiled; it was probably time to pull away, but she didn't want to. Not just yet.

He didn't think about what he did next. Just took her head in his hands and proceeded to pay her back ten times over.

A tingle ran down her spine as she wrapped her arms around him and closed her eyes. It almost made up for the time he hadn't been here. Almost.

He only pulled away once his head started swimming from the lack of oxygen. "We're--even," he panted.

"Y-yeah," she said, reddening even more. "We're finally even."

His grin was cocky as he said, "That was good, huh?"

"Shut up," she said, smacking his shoulder lightly. "Don't get cocky."

"Whaddya mean? It was good, all you gotta do is say it was." Women. Why were they so frustrating?

"Well don't just say it like that! You're so full of yourself." She would have told him to be at least a little romantic, but... this was Kamina she was talking to. She wasn't sure he even knew what that was.

"A man's straightforward an' doesn't beat around the bush. You're just weird." He crossed his arms in defiance.

She rolled her eyes. "You're so... Kamina," she said, not unkindly.

He didn't get what that was supposed to mean, but he let it go. He wasn't a mangled pile of flesh and bone right now so it wasn't so bad. "You never told how Simon and Gurren were doin'? Did you beat the Spiral King yet? Did ya figure out who it was?"

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