A Shout in the Darkness
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by Florencio B. de la Merced, Jr. (fmerced@pworld.net.ph)

A fanfic inspired by the anime/manga Oh! My Goddess! created by
Rumi...oops...Kosuke Fujishima ^_^ (Honest mistake, really.)
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"Keiichi?  What are you doing?"  Belldandy curiously looked from behind
Keiichi's shoulder at what he was drawing up on his desk.  At first it
looked a bit like another one of Keiichi's imaginative vehicles he always
promised to build sometime in the future.  Belldandy always like that in
him, Keiichi was always looking forward for something, and is never really
stumped on what's laid out for him at the present.

"Oh,  Hi, Belldandy,"  Keiichi stretched back out to wring out the
stiffness from his neck and back.  "This, oh it's nothing."  Keiichi
carefully yet swiftly rolled up the paper plans he'd been working on the
past few hours.  Halfway through stocking it back into one of his special
roll cases, he noticed how Belldandy pressed even further to learn about
his drawings.

"You can tell me, Keiichi.  I promise I won't tell anyone."  Belldandy
smartly sat on Keiichi's desk and smiled a patient and genuine stare back
at him.  She even pinched a bit of Keiichi's ears and rustled some of his
hair at the nape, but so strong willed was Keiichi that he shut close and
threw the container away from him.  It landed somewhere among his pile of
other engineering plans he had in his room.  "Keiichi, are you hiding
something from me?"

"Me?  Hiding?" Keiichi tried not to think, for he knew how goddesses
easily can read minds, especially that of his.  "I'm not hiding
something."  Belldandy sported a concerned look, doubting her feelings
past her instincts that she had to do something to know the truth.  "What
made you say that?"

"Ok."  Belldandy exhaled a bit of her own frustration and curiosity.  "I
trust you, Keiichi.  You wouldn't keep something from me if it had nothing
to do with me."  As soon as Belldandy jumped off the desk, her words sank
deep into Keiichi's thoughts.  She noticed how Keiichi was fighting off
the guilt and secrecy from within.  She felt sorry for him, knowing it was
her that's causing the conflict inside Keiichi.  But something, a strong
feeling, was urging her to continue this course.  She walked past
Keiichi's chair and looked behind her.  Keiichi had both his hands up on
his face, swinging it around and up.  ' What are you thinking? '
Belldandy could only see the confusion inside his head.  Nothing really
felt the truth in there, the conflict must be too hard on her Keiichi.

"Alright!"  Keiichi frantically stood up from his chair and dug into his
pile of drawings and soon retrieved the special container that held some
very controversial drawn up plans.  Keiichi just passed them to his
goddess in waiting and quickly retreated back into his chair, carrying a
heavy burden on his head and shoulders.

"What are these?"  Belldandy summoned her past knowledge and experience in
dealing with technical drawings, soon Keiichi's work was getting clearer
for her.  "This looks like the plans for a house?"  Keiichi's head slammed
into his desk.  "I don't recognize this house, Keiichi.  Who's house is
this?"  Silence was all she got from the succumbed young lad.

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"What are you so happy about?"  Urd tried to figure her sister's blissful
morning mood.  "Bell, what's going on?"  Belldandy just walked past Urd,
but not after pinching heartedly one of her cheeks.  "Oww..."  Urd rubbed
the pain away and just continued to stare at the joyous yet meek
Belldandy.

"You'll know, Urd."  Belldandy winked at her older sister, only further
confusing Urd.  "Don't you just love being loved."  Urd felt intoxicated
by the quandary of the moment and she had neither initiative nor
motivation to pursue this little guessing game with Belldandy.

"She's sure is happy about something?"  Skuld just looked perplexed at
Urd, as if confirming her older sister's statement.

"I usually get _that_ excited when somebody gives me Ice-cream."  Both
stared a bit at each other.  "Do you think...?"

"You mean...she and Keiichi?"  A few stares at the retreating Belldandy
and then they looked at each other again.

"Naah!"

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END

Notes:

Wow, my first OMG fic...something I cooked up to pay tribute to my
purchase of 'Love Potion #9' ^_^
C & C are welcome
Lurkers are begged to come out

Signing out