Title: The Other Ankh
Series: Kamen Rider OOO
Pairing: Various (I think o_O)
Rating: T
Synopsis: Part 3 – She makes her move.
AU: Did I write too much? =S
Ownage: Unfortunately the characters or actors do not belong to me but the imagination does! =D
Other: Enjoy! ^_^

 

 

Ankh had been keeping his eyes on her permanently, looking for any sign or signal that she was going to put her plan into action. But nothing. Over the past week, she had acted normal (besides that one time) and became good friends with everyone. It was like she didn’t have an interior motive. What scared him most was the fact that he was getting close with her after 800 years, proving that some connections never leave. However, he didn’t want people to know it was his sister; it could ruin things. He didn’t want to risk it. Luckily, she was acting like she’d never met him before.

“Hai!” Aiyu said, placing bowls into his hands.
“What are these for?” looking confused.
“You’re helping out!” and off she ran, back to get more things to set the restaurant before it opened.
“Tch,” he frowned and then (easily defeated) went over to the table Eiji was setting up.
“Morning Ankh! Surprised to see you here” he exclaimed as he placed the cutlery.
“Why?”
“Well lately you’ve been taking off at strange hours and come back at random times and not telling me anything as to where you’ve been and why,” he explained.
“So I can’t do what I want?” he looked at Eiji. It’s true, he had stopped his routine of coming and going, luckily it hadn’t really raised any suspicions.
“No it’s not that… never mind.”
“Well I shall be going out today. No point following me, you can’t catch up,” he said coldly.
“Don’t worry I won’t. I have plans” at this, Ankh’s head turned within a split second, “what?” he was shocked. Eiji never had plans; only to help out at the restaurant.
“I have plans… are you okay with that?” Eiji stopped what he was doing. Ankh gave a smirk and turned his back to him, “ha! What does it matter to me. As long as you don’t get yourself killed. I need you remember, as OOOs”

Eiji gave a small smile, “Don’t worry. I won’t get myself killed.”
“Hey Eiji! You ready to go?” shouted a voice from the opposite side. They both turned to look towards where the voice was coming from. Eiji smiled widely, “yeah! Just let me grab my jacket,” and off he went upstairs. Ankh, on the other hand, narrowed his eyes. Aiyu stood there with a basket in one hand and a blanket in the other.
“What are you up to today?” trying to sound curious but not suspicious at the same time.
“Me and Eiji are going on a picnic,” she smiled at him. What? Ankh thought immediately, “Can I come?”
“If you wish…”

Ankh was taken aback. She wouldn’t let him come if she had something planned. Maybe she wasn’t going to do the things she said she would. This didn’t sound like she didn’t want Ankh to come, meaning she wasn’t plotting. Eiji ran down the stairs and grabbed the basket, “let’s go!”
“Un!” nodded Aiyu looking straight at him. They made their way to the door, where Eiji stopped and turned to Ankh, “you coming?”

Ankh hesitated for a moment.
“Yeah… okay!” he dragged his feet behind him as he caught up with them. He needed to keep her in eye sight, just in case this was a plan.

*

“Ah! This feels so good!” exclaimed Aiyu was she stretched her arms and legs out across the blanket. Ankh positioned himself in a tree behind them with an ice candie in his hand, keeping his eyes fixed on her. Eiji sat next to her, smiling, “Un! It’s good to just relax every now and again with no yummy- I mean no running about in the restaurant to do.”
“Yummy?” she cocked her head to the side in confusion.
“Well-“
“Eiji!” yelled Ankh. Eiji knew he was warning him not to say anything; he looked back at Aiyu and scratched the back of his head, “it’s nothing. Let’s eat?” Aiyu nodded happily and grabbed the basket and brought out all kinds of food, most importantly strawberries and cream. They were happily eating, until she playfully ran the strawberry that was covered in cream down Eiji’s nose. She smiled and blushed – this made Ankh slightly disgusted and a touch jealous – before Eiji grabbed a strawberry. She jumped to her feet and began to run away from him as she chance after him. Ankh sat up right and was about to move, but then he heard a voice behind him, “I didn’t think you were the type to relax… Ankh.”

Ankh’s head whipped around, “Kazari!” he jumped down from the tree and went up to him, “I wasn’t relaxing.”
Kazari was in his human form. He raised an eyebrow, “I see… so you know then?” Ankh’s faced puzzled for a moment, looking down at the floor. Suddenly he understood what Kazari was going on about and shot back up and starred, “You knew she was here?”


Aiyu ran as fast as her legs would take her, laughing playfully as she went. Eiji was slowly catching up to her. She ran around a tree and hide behind it. Feeling jittery, she couldn’t keep quiet. Eiji snuck slowly around the tree and dashed to get her with his strawberry. He missed and fell against the bark of the tree. He began to laugh with her and looked at his strawberry – it was ruined.
“That was a waste of a good fruit!” he laughed.
Aiyu soon got her breath back, “well that wasted a few minutes!” she still had her strawberry in her hand, which was still in shape and edible. She took a bite and looked at Eiji. She offered him the other half. He went to bite it but her hand moved and she took a step back. He tried again, she did the same. Soon enough, her back was to another tree. Her arm was stretched out. He tried again, her hand moved it. Finally it was close to her than to him and he was now determined to eat it before it went into her mouth the next time she moved. He looked at her cautiously and very slowly leaned in. Quickly he went for the bite. He missed the strawberry but caught something else! As Aiyu moved the strawberry away, she replaced it with her lips which caught onto his. His eyes grew wide while hers were closed. When they pulled away, she looked at him, blushed and finished off the strawberry, “so in the end you still lost!” she laughed.
“Well it was your fault,” he was looking away from her, embarrassed.
“How was it my fault?” she was pushing for the answer.
“Because you…”
“Because what?”
“Because…”
“Because I did this?” she twisted her head to meet his turned head and caught his lips once more. This time he was less shocked, but still embarrassed. She pulled away.
“You taste like the strawberry I didn’t get” he said shyly.
“Didn’t hate it?” he didn’t reply, “what would Hina say…” she asked. Eiji looked at her, “Hina?”
“Aren’t you two…?”
“Oh! No we’re not.”
“Never?”
“Never… that was my umm”
“I get it,” she replied to save him from further embarrassment, “me too” she lied.
She watched him look towards the clouds and the rest of the trees for a while, allowing him to collect himself before jumping in front of him and saying “shall we go back?” Eiji nodded with a smile.

“How long have you known?” Ankh asked Kazari. Kazari leant against the bark with a smirk signalling he’d won this confrontation.
“Quite while. Just after we were released.”
“Do you know her plan?”
“Nope. But I can guess at it,” he looked at Ankh. His smile grew wider, “has she made her move?” Ankh turned away, “so she’s made a move…”
“Is she not a threat to you?” Ankh asked, trying to change the aim of the subject.
“Not at the moment no. But I’m guessing once she’s done with you, she’ll come after us. You two were in fact on OOOs side 800years ago, so it’s natural we’re enemies.”
They heard talking nearby and saw Aiyu and Eiji walking back, laughing.
“I’d be careful if I was you,” whispered Kazari in Ankh’s ear. Ankh turned around to reply but was gone.
“Hey Ankh!” yelled Eiji.
“Where the hell have you been?!” Ankh asked storming up to them, “I don’t want you getting killed!”
“Don’t worry, we were only running through tree,” Aiyu replied. Ankh looked at her. There was something different in her eyes, a type of smile that could only be seen in the eyes rather than on the mouth. What have you been up to? he thought. He looked at Eiji, who still seemed to be blushing.
“…want another ice candie Ankh? You better eat that one before it melts!” said Eiji happily before reaching back to the blanket and basket, leaving Ankh and Aiyu starring at each other.
“What have you done?” he whispered. She smiled,
“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” she replied and walked back to Eiji.


*

Ankh lay upon his red satin cover, starring towards the window, up to the shinning full moon that hung in the sky. He had skipped dinner, saying he wasn’t feeling too well; they decided to blame it on the amount of ice candies he had been consuming. He heard footsteps come up the stairs. His heart sank, hoping it not to be her. The door opened.
“Hey Ankh… are you okay?” asked Eiji, peering around the corner of the bed to look at him. Ankh sat up quickly.
“I’m fine,” he replied moodily. Eiji decided not to press it further and walked towards the window.
“Beautiful moon isn’t it Ankh?” Ankh took another look up at the moon.
“Yes it is… In 800 years it hasn’t changed one bit…” silence hit the room, “ne Eiji.”
“Un?”
“Did anything happen today?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean with… Aiyu?” Eiji froze.
“N…no” he stuttered in reply. Ankh jumped down from his bunk.
“Don’t lie to me Eiji. I can tell you are.”
“Oh… oh it’s nothing really-“
“Eiji” he said firmly. Eiji slowly turned to look at him, “what happened?” Eiji turned back to the window and didn’t reply. Moments past and Ankh’s anger welled up inside. Soon enough, he grabbed Eiji’s t-shirt and pushed him against his bed frame, “tell me,” he commanded. Eiji looked at him confused.
“Why do you want to know?”
“I need to know.”
“It’s nothing serious.”
“Then tell me!”
“Why?!”
“Because I have to know!”
“No Ankh, it’s none of your business!”
“Yes it is!”
Ankh’s arm no uncovered itself and pressed deeply against Eiji’s throat.
“It’s important to me!” he yelled.
“Why?!”
“Because it is!”
“Not everything I do is about OOOs Ankh!”
“Just tell me!”
“Why should I?!”
At this, Ankh snapped and moved his arm from Eiji’s throat to the back of Eiji’s neck and forced his lips upon Eiji’s. Eiji couldn’t believe this, he was struck again, his eyes widened once more, but this time he pushed away.
“What was that for?!”
“I don’t know!” Ankh turned away, slightly shocked from his action.
“Well you must have some reason for doing it!” Ankh didn’t reply, “…Ankh!”

Ankh spun around and kissed Eiji once more. This time, they missed the bed frame and fell onto Eiji’s bed; Ankh on top. This time, it lasted longer. Eiji’s eyes were closed and his hands grabbed onto Ankh’s jacket. Ankh replied and put more weight on him. His hands smoothed down Eiji’s t-shirt and under it, slowly scraping his nails down Eiji’s torso, creating noises from Eiji’s mouth. This time, Ankh pulled away before it got too heated, stood up and faced his back to Eiji. Eiji looked up as he took deep breaths. Slowly he got stood back up and rearranged his clothing.

“…I’m trying to save your life,” Ankh said in a low voice.
“Eh?”
“I wanted to know what happened today, so I can save your life…” There was silence throughout. Ankh turned to Eiji with sad eyes, something that had never been seen before, “I can’t lose you.”

Eiji slowly walked forward and put his arms around Ankh’s body, “you won’t…” finally he replied, “all that happened today was…” he was debating whether to tell the whole truth. He had no idea what Ankh was trying to protect him from, “me and Aiyu went running in the woods and ended up playing hide and seek. And the only other time you were there was when I went to the bathroom and just now, when you didn’t want to eat,” he let Ankh go and looked at him, “okay?” Ankh nodded his head lightly, “good,” he replied and jumped back up to his bed and turned his back to Eiji.

The bedroom door opened, in came Aiyu, looking up at Ankh’s bed, “is he asleep?” she asked Eiji.
“Oh, yeah,” he replied with a smile.
“Okay, well I’ll just grab my pyjamas and go get changed,” she answered lightly grabbing her pyjamas from under her pillow “be back in a minute.”
“Okay,” and she left the room. Eiji climbed into his bed and put his hands behind his head and looked at Ankh.

Ankh lead there silently. So Aiyu had been playing with his mind. Nothing had happened between them, was Ankh’s conclusion.

Owari!

PS. For the next chapter should it be Hina or Gotou/Date?