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Post by Sakura-chan on May 21, 2006 2:34:43 GMT -5
Jack sighed as he finally found his way back into his pasture. It was the one place no one could bother him except the cows and sheep. He had to admit, he had a hard day that day. Getting married to a woman he hardly even knew. He had to admit though; he would have a cooked meal everyday after work, and wouldn’t come home to talk to the TV again. Maybe he could get used to having a wife.
The stars were shining a bright glow for the first time in a while, since blizzards and snowy days had clouded the skies of Forget Valley. As he plunged down onto the grass, something caught Jack’s eye. He sat up for a second to find Nami was sitting on a fence post, only a yard or two away, staring into the sky. It was then, for the first time, Jack noticed how sad she always looked.
The red head was gazing into the sky with an expression that merely showed the pain she was facing either at that moment then, or whenever she was pondering about. Nami then sighed, and looked back at her outfit. Jack stood up and began walking closer, startling her. Nami then put her frown back on, covering up any expression. The young farmer jumped over the fence, landing just so that he was sitting on it, next to Nami.
“What do you want, Jack?” she said, evil smirk covering up any expression she may had been feeling. Jack frowned.
“I’m your husband,” he said, trying to smile, and lighten the conversation, “I think I deserve to find out why in the world you wanted to marry me so quick.”
Sighing, Nami began to take off her normal “bite me” face, and put back on the face she normally not let many see. She even jumped off the fence, into the pasture to hide it.
“It’s my parents…” Nami said, looking up into the starlit sky. Jack tilted his head in confusion. “My mom wants to control my life, and my father is… well… not exactly as nice as other fathers. My older sister, Yumi, and younger sister, Rika, both are wanna be perfect, and hate me for having my own personality. My entire family is the reason I ran away from home, and began traveling the world.”
Jack smiled, “Nami, I’m sure they are not THAT bad…I mean, my dad used to always try and put me in law school but-”
The fiery spirited woman turned around and cut off his sentence, “My family is not like that! See for your self! They are coming, and they planned to take me with them! Having a marriage was the only way to weave my way out from under their glaring eyes the months they will be here…”
It was then Jack noticed the tears building up in her eyes. As a single tear rolled down her cheek, Jack realized that Nami wasn’t exaggerating about her family; she truly meant every harsh word she was saying. She suddenly began to break down into the very fiber than reminded the few who had seen her in the condition, that she was still a young girl, trying to find her own place.
Jack slid off the fence, trying to close in to try and comfort her. As he put a hand on her shoulder, Nami leapt forward causing the idiot of a man to fall face first onto the ground.
“Oh my god! Jack! Are you OK?” Nami asked, plunging herself onto the ground to check the idiot. Jack slowly but surely lifted his head off the ground, and looked at her. He lifted a hand, and gave a L&P sign, while smiling the most cheesiest anime smile ever created. The injured farmer sat up in the grass and looked at Nami. She suddenly began cracking up. Slowly, the girl’s laugh brought him into a laugh too. It was then, during the laughing, that Jack noticed something about Nami, which not even Ruby and Tim had discovered. Nami had a beautiful laugh. Even though every once in a while she would have to hold her nose to stop herself from snorting, she truly looked beautiful while laughing.
When the laughing finally stopped, the red headed girl stood up and held a hand out to pull Jack up. Gladly, he accepted it, and got up to his feet. Nami then rushed off to the house, leaving Jack alone in thought. He replayed the quick event of humiliation in his head, only to find a discovery a side of Nami just maybe only Tim and Ruby knew themselves. The look in her eyes, and the sound of her voice, unchanged by a bad childhood, or the mask of separation; it sounded caring.
Just as he thought he had found a part of the mysterious woman he called Nami, Jack heard a scream that shrilled even the calmest cat.
“JACK!!!! WHO PUT THAT IN THERE!!!!?”
Slowly, Jack began walking to the house. When he arrived, he saw Nami with the look of death planted all over her face, and frozen solid, in the pointing position to the bed. Jack was unsure what caused the matter until he turned around to see what she saw. In stead of the usual blue diamond patterned SINGLE bed, was a complete QUEEN SIZE bed with a pattern on the comforter, which would shock ANY newly wedded couple.
Limply, the scared couple walked up to the bed to find a tag on the head board. It clearly stated “Thought you might need a bigger bed! – Takakura”. Jack then began to crumple the paper in anger. Nami began to turn as red as her own hair (if it is possible). The furious idiot began to run out the house to go and pretty much assassinate Takakura. Nami grabbed him before he reached the door, causing him to pretty much melt from releasing the hot energy…
“Let it go, Jack. It’s like 9:00... The wimp’s probably in bed. Just let it go…” Nami said, finally sitting him in a chair. “because he is MINE tomorrow morning!” The just a second ago, freaked out woman, now had a look of evil and plotting in her eyes. She walked over to the crap of a kitchen and began to fix a cup of tea with one of the tea packs she brought from the Inn.
Grabbing a cup from the cabinets, Nami poured a hot cup and set in front of him. She then reached deep inside her sack and pulled out what seemed like an outfit. She then began undressing.
Jack immediately turned red, “NAMI! What are you doing?!!?!?!” he said, stopping her before she pulled her shirt all the way off.
“Dressing for bed, you idjit!” she said turning him around. “You think I’m going to change outside or something? I didn’t tell you to watch or anything like that!”
Jack suddenly felt a chill of nervousness. When she finally finished dressing for bed, he was amazed. For once, Nami actually looked like a GIRL. She was wearing a knee long, spaghetti strapped night gown, and had washed her normally sour expression off of her face.
The miraculously changed woman felt Jack’s eyes on her, “What?”
“NOTHING!” He muttered, turning away. Nami smiled, and jumped into bed. She pulled her journal out of her bag, and began writing. Jack, feeling so very tired began to wonder how they were going to make this work. “OK, now HOW are we going to do this?”
“Do what?”
Jack began to turn red with embarrassment, “You know, Nami. Sleep… in… the… same bed?” Nami sat her journal down on the side table, on top of Jack’s Assets book, and looked at the bed. They were in a predicament….
“Haven’t you ever shared a bed with a sibling?” she asked, truly confused about the predicament, and why it was so hard for a man’s mind to solve it.
Jack shook his head, “No, my parents never let me and my little sister share a bed.” Nami sighed, “Well just pretended that there is a line in the middle of the bed, and if you cross it, I’ll kick you in the magical-man-only-happy-place.”
The already nervous man, now 10 xs more nervous, began to gulp as a feeling of simulated pain went through him. Nami turned over, and Jack slowly began to change, WATCHING her with a hawk like eye to make sure she wasn’t peeking. For the first time, changing into sleep pants wsd the hardest thing ever done. When he finally finished, Jack slid into the new full size bed to fall asleep into a deep, uncomfortable, sleep.
One month later
Nami awoke to the sound of eggs and omelets frying on the other side of the one room house like apartment. The bright morning sun shone through the window, causing her to cover her eyes in discomfort. She tossed over, and opened her eyes to the closed area of the house, to find Jack standing by the stove, flipping omelets.
“Ah!” she yelled, jumping up. Jack turned his head inquiringly at her. Oh, right, Nami remembered, I live here now…
Jack smiled at her, “Good morning.” Nami put a quick frown.
“What are you smiling at?” the freaked out woman asked, with the ever normal frown on her face. It just made Jack smile even more, which made Nami frown even more.
Jack sat two plates filled with food on the table. “I see you had the same reaction I did this morning…” he said, remembering the comment he said earlier that morning, when he woke.
(Flashback: Waking up to see Nami, he responded “OH MY GOD! Why are you in my bed, Nami?!”)
Nami flushed in embarrassment. Neither one of them was still used to the idea that they lived together, let alone SLEPT in the same bed. “I’m just not used to waking up in a different room, Jack…” Of course, Jack wouldn’t take that for an answer. Reluctantly, Jack let it slide, considering how Nami was really only embarrassing herself with the matter.
“Anyways,” he said, changing the subject, “I was wondering when you were going to wake up, Mrs. Unlikely sleeping beauty.” Nami didn’t understand what he meant until she looked at the mirror Ruby had bought for her. Her hair was matted and in a mess, half of it slopped on one side. Jack began to laugh while Nami pulled out a brush from her sack and began to brush it.
When she turned back around, Jack began to almost choke on the piece of egg. Because of his immediate stop of laughter, Nami caused the un-chewed chunk of egg to go down his throat. After hacking the egg back up, the angered red head rushed away at her new job as a house wife, and began to clean up the breakfast dishes.
Surprised, Jack went up to help her. When he saw that she was cleaning to vent out anger, he just left to continue planting the spring vegetables. Silently, but filled with anger, Nami scrubbed each and every little part of the dish. After only 30 or so minutes, every single dish was washed, and her clothes and personal belongings were unpacked and put away.
After cleaning the house from top to bottom, watching the same “Music Room with Minoru Tanaka” 4 times over again, Nami decided to get outside the house for fresh air. Of course, it was about noon or so, so she fixed a sandwich and drink to bring outside to her “husband”.
When she arrived outside, she saw a surprising view. The bright sun shone over the fields, clearly showing the pride the owner took in them, and the cows, sheep, and horse were grazing in the pasture to only add to the farm scene. Nami took in her surroundings as she walked down the side of the fields, looking for Jack.
She walked down only past the chicken coop, to see past the shed was Jack, tilling the field, and planting as he went a long. Dirt was all over his clothes, even smudges on his face. Nami put back on her normal glare as she walked up to him.
“Tomatoes, Watermelons,” Nami heard Jack recite, as he checked his rows of veggies. Jack looked up enough to see her. He smiled and set his hoe down and walked up to her.
Nami looked down, “I brought you some lunch, considering you may be hungry. Don’t get used to it. I just thought that since you were planting-” Jack cut her off mid sentence.
“Thanks.”
The embarrassed woman sat down next to the field. Jack smiled and began to sit down next to her. When Nami looked over at him, she saw a man who was determined to do successful on his job. I don’t know WHAT Celia and Muffy see in him, Nami thought to herself, as she stared into an abyss of wonder. Maybe, if I try to look at him from their point of view, I might…
Nami then threw aside what all she knew and thought about Jack, and began to look like Muffy and Celia. What she saw was a man, but one with ambition, and a love of everything he does. She looked into him and saw his deep brown eyes, that any teenage girl could fall madly in love in, and his musty brown hair that basically called for someone to run their fingers through them. And his hands, so big and strong and-
The girl shook the thoughts from her head. How could she think that way? Was it truly all in her mind that he wasn’t the perfect man? Was it all in her mind that he was just another man that occupied the earth, with no special connection to her? Nami rambled on and on in her mind, but never took her conceived eyes off of him. Nami then began feeling weak.
(P.O.V. change)
Jack apparently felt her eyes on him, because he turned and returned the same stare.
“Nami?” He asked to her, trying to pull her out of her unknown state. Her eyes no longer had that look of “get away” but a look of “oh my god…” It truly looked like for the first time, she was no longer thinking about the way she acted. When she didn’t respond, Jack became worried. He looked at her. Her face was flushed for some reason.
Suddenly, the weak woman collapsed onto the grass causing, Jack to jump up. “Nami!” Jack yelled, seeing her fall to the ground. He put his hand over her forehead to see if she had a temperature. As he thought, she was burning up. Of course, after we get married, she winds up sick. He had to admit, she wasn’t used to the farm life style, which probably caused her to get sick out of frustration. Jack kneeled down next to her, and picked Nami up. She was a whole lot lighter than he thought she would be. Slowly but surely, he lifted her off of the ground. And he carried her back to the house.
Jack was in awe as he walked into his house. As he looked into his newly cleaned house, he saw dishes perfectly cleaned and put away, the fridge was cleaned of its cobwebs, and even the TV was washed down and was perfectly shiny. The amazed man could feel Nami sliding out from his arms. He struggled to keep the unconscious woman in his arms, but slowly walked to the bed, so he could set her down.
“Apparently you got bored,” he said to the sleeping body that now laid on the bed. He then looked at her in a way he never thought he could before. He looked at the sleeping body in the bed and noticed what Nami truly looked like under the smirk. Her hair was tossed to the side, revealing her entire face. She slept with a smile actually, and no longer looked like the tomboy Nami everyone thought she was. The Nami that Jack then saw was a Nami that was beautiful in every aspect. Her hair, though wildly red, matched her personality, and her blue eyes, that were now covered, only added to the beauty which she naturally had.
It was then at that moment, Jack began to wonder why no one else had seen it except him. Was it because he was truly trying to UNDERSTAND her? Or was it because he was forced to be with her? Jack sat down next to the bed, and looked at her. There was something about Nami that he just couldn’t put his hand quiet on it. When he looked at her, he suddenly began to feel his body get warmer. When he caught her looking at her from the pasture, he began to feel the blood run to his cheeks.
A wind swept through the window from the outside, letting the breeze of an oncoming summer rain catch his nose. Jack looked out the window only to see clouds building up over Ramona’s Villa. Jack sighed, and looked back down at her. Apparently, Nami’s immune system could feel this coming and put her into a system shut down of some sort. It could be that she was sick, but it was the fact that she was sleeping so peacefully he thought not. Seeing how he still had half of a field to plant, and animals to get inside, Jack quietly left Nami to rest in her peaceful sleep. Going outside, he could still vividly see Nami in the bed, and every feature of her. He could still feel her soft skin from when he carried her to the bed. He hair, felt so smooth-
Jack then cut his thoughts off, feeling the warmth of his cheeks. “Jack! You can’t feel that way! You two are going to get a divorce after her family comes and leaves… right?” He suddenly felt depressed at the thought of losing Nami. He then looked into the clouded sky, “Why is it that I still feel this way?”
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