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                        Because I have nothing better to do Productions
                                  An Eldrick Tobin project
                           From "It makes sense in my head" Theater
                       In Association with Never Challenge A Pervert Inc.

                                    "Flowering Romance"
                        A Shojou Kakumei Utena story that never was...
  Part 4

"Neh Utena... walk me home."

"Nani?" Utena answered her friend.

"I'm serious... I've been watching the news..."

"And you're worried some mugger will attack you? Fine Wakaba. I'll walk you 
home."

"Yes with the Dashing Heroine protecting me no harm could ever befall me," 
Wakaba looked triumphant.

Utena smiled uneasily and turned to Anthy... to find her smiling back at 
her,"Ano... Himemiya..."

"Hai... I'll head to the dorm by myself, Utena-sama. I'll see you later, 
Utena-sama," And The Rose Bride picked up Chu-chu from Tenjou's shoulder and 
headed in the other direction.

Wakaba leapt onto Utena's back,"Now we're alone Utena."

"Ha... Hai. Neh you feel warmer than usual... are you feeling okay?"

"I'm doing fine enough. Actually I haven't felt this good in a long time."

The silence dragged itself into the scene, almost deafening were it's footsteps. 
It soon dragged itself back out when Wakaba asked,"Neh Utena... you were really 
good at lunch time. I almost cried."

Utena blushed as she tried to quell troublesome emotions,"Well I'm no good at 
acting. Just trying to get the lines right."

"Actually you missed the lines Utena... but that doesn't matter one bit. It was 
beautiful. You think we could go over that scene when we get to my dorm?"

Utena blushed again,"Ha... hai."

"Halfway there... I'll get down now. You need your strength."

The troublesome emotions welled up again.

<cue Wakaba's dorm room>

Wakaba's reaction when she got Utena into her dorm was less than 
helpful,"Victory!!!"

"Eh?"

"I'm one of the first people alone with you in a bedroom! I beat the world."

"Is that in The Book? Remember I haven't gotten very far."

Wakaba crossveined in exasperation and handed her a tea,"I'll find our 
dialogue... I think I know an even better scene."

"Better?"

"Hai!" and Wakaba rifled through her copy while Utena drank the tea out of the 
can. "Here we are... page 130!"

"I'm only to 75..."

"Still Utena... is it too steamy for you? Ah-ha! It is! This should be okay 
enough then. Ahem! 'My Dashing Heroine,'" Wakaba took on her dramatic pose 
talking to a fake audience to their left like this was a play and not a 
novel,"'I must thank thee again... that knave almost knew me... and had he known 
me I know not what done would I.'"

"'Speak not of such things... our love shown through would it have. No number of 
lovers could separate us from the feelings we have. No amount of lust outside 
this room could come between our sacred emotions. Worry not on such things.'"

"'But,' Is it okay if I call the Dashing Heroine after you? saying The Dashing 
Heroine so much is going to make me hoarse."

"Hai Wakaba," Utena grinned mischeviously,"Should I call the other person after 
you?"

Wakaba answered just as a light flashed passed the window obscuring her 
face,"Fair's fair. Ahem,'But Utena... I see the way the people look at you... I 
know the way the King feels about thee. Would it not be simpler to simply part 
ways love or no... I feel our feelings complicate our world so much that surely 
disaster looks for us in every house and villa... creek and river...'"

"'Gentle Wakaba. Fear Not! No harm shall I ever let harm you... no villanous 
sword will ever harm you... no person could come between us. My love for you is 
like the love in books in plays... it is perfect, glorious and radiant like your 
face shining in the morning light as it does now. Beckoning me forward... 
calling to me... and I like one trapped by the Siren sweep forward to embrace 
thee,'" Utena hugs Wakaba close with the book over her friend's shoulder,"' and 
show you that we are one piece on the chess board of existence... to be moved 
together... inseparable... unable to be described by words alone.'"

Wakaba was quiet for a second, then said,"'My Utena... if never are we to be 
like this again. If never are we to know love as we do this very moment. If the 
world would make us part our ways... then share my bed just this one time as if 
we'd never done so before. For a memory I would have us make even if nothing 
else from this room could be taken,'" Wakaba looked up at Utena with tears in 
her eyes. Utena dropped the book to the ground and kissed away her friend's 
tears, and gently kissed her on the lips... a kiss like a prince gives to his 
beloved princess.


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End part 4