Into The Rose Garden (Seidou x Kanae/Karren)

Chapter Forty-seven - The rose's secret revealed

Warning: This chapter touches a little on gender identity and questioning. Please continue to read as it does play a part in future chapters. There's more to it than meets the eye, you know.

Kanae freezes there in place, as does Seidou. Everything else between the two was frozen, especially time itself. Seidou didn't know how to react, or even what to think or say.

Suddenly, Kanae looks over at a nearby towel. Grabbing it, Kanae continues to look at the male, wearing both an embarrassed and irritated expression. Covering his chest, he shouts. "G-Get out, get out! Aussteigen!" Suddenly, Seidou blushed immensely, he turns around and covers his eyes. He squats down, still covering his eyes as he screamed. "Aaaahh! I'M SORRY!"

Kanae screams back. "DON'T JUST STAY THERE, SHUT THE DAMN DOOR! DON'T LOOK AT ME!" Seidou sighed deeply, uncovering his eyes and stands back up. He turns around, revealing to have his eyes shut.

As he began to shut it, his eyes slightly open, seeing Kanae's somewhat curvy and feminine body. As well as...fairly toned. Kanae screams then yells. "YOU'RE PEEKING, SCHLEICH!"

Seidou's entire face turns red, and he slams the door. Running away and screaming as Kanae contemplates how to break the ice...while trying not to get furious with him. Seidou goes into full sprint, blushing immensely as he greatly struggled to get the image of Kanae's female figure out of his thoughts.

'NO! STOP THINKING ABOUT IT SEIDOU!' Matsumae is soon seen up ahead, waving at the still sprinting male. "Hey Seidou, what are you-?" "AAAAAAAHHHH!!! I SAW NOTHING, I SWEEEEEAAR!!!" Running right past the female, leaving her in shock. "Up...to...?" The female finished.

She raised an eyebrow, slowly making her way towards the direction Seidou had just left.   

Eventually, the male made it outside. Panting excessively and blushing immensely, his mind stuck on the image. "N-No, stop...! Stop thinking about it, you have to!" 'What's this feeling I'm getting, I haven't felt this in...goodness, I can't even remember! But I have to stop thinking about it!' 'Aww, but why~? He-! Oh, I mean... She looked pretty good. Imagine her just falling to her knees, just to-!'

Seidou grabbed his head, shaking it. "S-Stop, it's bad!" "S-Seidou, what happened?!" Seidou instantly turned around, his face still completely red. "I SAID I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING-!" Seeing it to be Matsumae, concerned over the young male.

"M-Matsumae, I-I'm sorry about earlier! I-I-!" "It's alright, I don't really have the context, so..." The male sighed softly, crossing his arms. "I-I don't know if I should say, or ask..." Matsumae lightly chuckled at the male. "Ask away, it's fine."

Seidou looks away sheepishly, blushing even more. Seidou then slowly points towards a nearby set of outdoor stairs. "C-Can...Can we take a seat, o-over there...?" Matsumae smiles warmly, nodding slightly. "Of course."

And once Seidou had taken a seat, his chest began to hurt. Both from the running and the  anticipation of having to tell the female. "U-Um, I-I don't...want to assume anything..." "That's why it's okay to ask, Takizawa." 

Seidou placed his hand upon his chest, gulping down his saliva as flashes of Kanae's almost naked body flood in. "U-Um...I saw...some things...that I don't think I should've seen..." Matsumae tilted her head. "Why, what is it?"

Seidou sighed deeply, still looking away as he blushed immensely. "I-I saw...Rosewald...n-naked... Almost." Matsumae's eyes widen, with her mouth gaped open. "O-Oh... So, you saw...everything?" Seidou nodded softly. "I-I saw enough-! B-But it really was an accident, I-I didn't mean to look!" The male exclaimed. "I didn't know, I-I...didn't know about Rosewald-..."

Matsumae held her knees, sighing once again as she looked far into the distance. "You weren't supposed to, not yet anyway. It's not something Kanae can feel comfortable with sharing. He's technically trans, but maybe it would be for the best if he told you about it..."