Chapter 2 - Here we go.

"Well, I guess this is it" Asahi said as she opened the door. "I CALL BEST BED!!!!" Hitoshi yelled as he ran over Asahi and throughout the apartment. "Okay, okay! I call this one for me and Asahi!" Hikari put her arms across the doorway that was directly across from the bathroom. "No way! Not fair! you two will hogg the bathroom and make it all girly!" Atsutomo complained. Asahi walked close to him "Atsutomo, you've known me and Hikari for some time now, have you ever known us to be girly?" she raised her eyebrow "No, but still sharing a bathroom between six people will be a challenge" He figured that response wouldn't piss her off. "Meh, it won't be too hard" Hikari assured them. "Just make sure to put to seat down". "Hey! We should go explore, ya know?. Meet some people!" Hikari suggested. "Sure I'll go with ya Hik!" Asahi stood by Hikari "Come on, you guys!" Asahi tugged on Neku's arm "Fine, I'll go with you too" Neku agreed as if it was some huge imposison on his part. "I'll go too!" Hitoshi walked over to the other side of the room. "Me and Atsutomo will stay back." Daisuke sighed in relife. He was still tired and wanted to sleep more. Hikari and Asahi linked arms and headed out with the two boys. This was the adventure they had all been wishing for and the two girls were gonna make the most of it. [br]

"Okay! So which way?" Hikari pointed to a fork in the road. "Um, lets go this way" Neku pointed to the road on his left, "And Asahi and Hitoshi can go the other way". Hikari could feel herself starting to blush hard! "But like, what if we get lost or like something bad happens to one of us!" Hikari faked being concerned, she was ecstatic that Neku wanted her to go with him. "Ugh! I dont wanna go with hiiiiimmmmmmm" Asahi complained jokingly "I love you too Ashi!" Hitoshi gave her a big grin and hugged her, but she wasn't paying attention. "Ashi", thats what my parents used to call me. Emotion overcame the girl as she faught back tears. She re-gained composure, grabbed Hitoshi's arm and lead him on their way. Neku nodded to Hitoshi as he was being dragged away. The gesture being completly unnoticed by either of the girls who were lost in their own train of thought. [br]

"Heyy Ashi, Helllooooo?" Hitoshi waved his hand infront of her face attempting to get her attention and failing. Suddenly she bumped into someone "Omigosh I'm so sorry!" Asahi tripping over herself and landing on the dark haired boy she had just ran into. She shook her head and got up, holding her hand out to help him up. He rejected it, got up by himself and brushed himself off. "Who are you?" the boy questioned seeming somewhat pissed. "Name's Asahi! The Hokage brought me and a bunch of others ba-".She was cut off by Hitoshi "Come on Ashi, we don't need to explain anything to him." Hitoshi glared him. "Oh, okay, Sorry again who ever you are".[br]

They walked on "So, uh, Hitoshi, what's with you calling me 'Ashi' ?", "I unno just kinda sounded right to me, isn't that what everyone called you when we were little?" Hitoshi was a little embarrassed "Yeah, it was". She ran off knowing exactly where she was going. She ran to the place where the Hokage was.She suddenly felt nervous and was sure the Hokage didnt have the time to help her with her petty problems, but there was something inside that just had to know. Asahi knocked on the door to his study "Yes? Come in" the old man's voice said "Um, Hokage sir? Can you please tell me what my parents were like? I was so small when they died, I can barley remember them." Tears flooded her eyes. "Ah, yes" He got up and went to one of the many cabinets in the room and got out a folder. He took out a few pictures and handed them to her, they were ones of her and her parents. "Your mother was a beauty and a fine shinobi. She would take any mission if it were for the good of the village and your father was the class clown in his academy years, he was friendly and a good nagotiator, that came in handy when making treaties with other villages" He smiled warmly at her. Tears streamed down Asahi's face as memories of her mothers smiles and her fathers' hugs came rushing back. "Do you think I'm anything like them?" Asahi asked looking up from the pictures of her parents. " Yes, i do. You look so mush like you mother, you have her wisdom, her maturity, and her independence. You are the problem solver, the advice giver and the shoulder to lean on. You will make one fine shinobi" The young girl blushed. She had always bee sure of who she was and wouldn't change for anyone, but she never knew anyone else could see that in her. Asahi hugged the Hokage and thanked him.[br]
Asahi walked out of the Hokage's palace satisfied, a memory of her parents playing slightly in the back of her head now. Even though it wasn't alot, it was still information, and she could vividly see her mother's face...and hear her father's laugh. As she joined up with Hitoshi, who was waiting pateintly outside for her, she smiled to herself, for now she was filled with a different nostalgia. Her friends. She gripped Hitoshi's hand in sisterly way, and began to speak of their childhood, remembering the past years of elementary. Hitoshi and Asahi walked through Konoha that night like that, hand in hand and content with the world. But on the other side of town, Hikari was having a bit of happiness inside of her aswell. [br]
Hikari felt her heart beating rapidly as she walked down dusty dirt pathed road with Neku by her side, her hair almost brushing past his shoulder. She couldn't belive she was here, walking right beside him..."God is good," she thought as she dreamily looked to Neku, his sapphire eyes staring ahead, reflecting the lights that lit up the evening Konoha. He, meanwhile, wasn't even paying attention to the love sick girl next to him, just taking in everything else. He was born here, and so he wanted to know every detail that it held...It felt special to him somehow, he just didn't know why. Suddenly he felt Hikari's hair on his skin, and he looked down to her. Neku expected her to be staring at him like she did at school, but she wasn't. Just looking to the ground with an extremely red face, a smile on her lips from what he could see. [br]
He rose his eyes away from her, and continued to look ahead. "You look happy, Hikari." he said calmly, them passing by a ramen shack now, as someone loudly yelled "Believe it!" But she ignored it once she felt her stomach churn at the sound of Neku's smooth voice, and she began to fiddle with the zipper on her shirt. "Um...I..I am," she said in a small voice that always made him want to laugh, since she sounded like a chipmunk munchkin on helium."Yeah? Why's that?," he asked stretching, not really wondering why, but wanting to keep a conversation. "...Because I'm..." [br]
" Naruto, get back here and pay for it yourself!!," a man's voice hollered as the two turned around to see the commotion. Some boy clad in orange was sprinting out of the ramen bar with a laugh and a determined expression on his face. He obviously wasn't up to any good. "NO WAY SENSEI, YOU PROMISED ME DINNER!!," he yelled back as he continued to run away from his bill. [br]
Neku and Hikari glanced to each other, then to him again who was charging full speed in their direction, not paying attention due to the fact he was looking back at the scarred man who was glaring at him from the ramen bar. Neku suddenly realised that he was going to-- And WHAM right into Hikari..He knocked her to the ground, making her squeak in pain. He was bearing green googles like their own, which had crashed against her forehead, cutting open some skin, and knocked her a bit unconscious. [br]
"OH! Sorry!," he apolgized quickly as he sped away down the road. " Watch were you're going!!," Neku yelled slightly aggressive, angered by the fact that jerk didn't even stop to help. He bent down to Hikari to help her to her feet, but she was a little wobbly. "Hey, you okay?" She nodded and smiled sweetly with tears of pain in her eyes. "Yeah, fine!..But sorta dizzy...," she replied, glancing to him before darting her eyes away, him making her nervous as always. "...Well, you are sorta bleeding," he said in the "no-duh-you-freaking tard" kind of voice. " Let's just go back home before you get into even more trouble." Embarressed, she nodded and looked to her feet as they began to walk back. "..Wait, turn to me," he demanded, and she did so. He wiped away the blood with his sleeve, knowing that it would make her blush. Seeing her as red as a tomato was freaking hilarious. [br]
She jerked her head away before he could finish and ran off yelling," C'mon let's go!!," [br]
....[br]
She knew he wouldn't like her.[br]
Her face red with blush and stained with tears, the girl darted home with Neku at her heels, not knowing why she was crying. He could tell, for her tears were sort of splashing him in the cheek. "Hikari wait, you're going to get lost," he said as he caught up with her, but stubborn as she is she simply jumped up unto the roof tops and trees and continued her way home from there.[br]

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