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Chapter One

Cooro, Husky, Senri, and Nana had just left the town Octopus. They were walking down the dirt road and Husky turned around. Then he turned back around, "guys, there is someone following us."

"What!" Nana shouted. "That's creepy!"

"Should we go check it out?" Husky asked them.

Cooro nodded, "yup, yup!"

They started their walk back, but to their dismay, the person walked back too. They ran back, the person did likewise; same with going forward. It was night when they got tired of doing this and they made camp.

"it would be nice to know who's following us, 'cause it creepy when you don't know who it is," Cooro say as he gobbled his food down.

Husky frowned, "it's creepy even if we did know who it was, Cooro. In fact, it would be weirder." Too bad for Husky because Cooro made his mind up and flew away to the person.

Cooro's POV

I skimmed the ground to try to find the person who was following us. It was really hard in the dark, but the guy couldn't keep up with me. "Excuse me," I landed in front of him, "why are you following us?"

The man stiffened and mumbled in a voice, almost like mine, "Umm, I'm a hiker that doesn't want to hike alone, so I thought it was ok to travel behind you guys."

I smiled, though it might have been too dark to see, "why didn't you just ask? We would have gladly let you come with us."

"You would? You would let me travel with you?" he sounded like it was an honor to travel with us.

"Yeah, follow me!" I started walking toward the little orange dot that was our campfire.

Normal POV

Cooro returned to the campsite with the man at his tail. Now that there was light, they could see his features. He had a dark blue suit on, but it had one sleeve rolled up and the other down, also it had its buttons messed up. His pants were almost like bell-bottoms but the end of the pant was curved and tied tightly around his ankles. His face was what really described him: he had dark brown hair, bright blue eyes, square glasses, dark markings under his eyes, like someone had smeared soot under them, and he had a scar on his right cheek, going all the way to his eye.

Cooro finished scrutinizing and said, "You look too old to hike."

Husky chimed in, "yeah, you look like you're 50."

His face was red with anger and he exclaimed, "Stop calling me old! I'm only sixteen!"

"You're sixteen?" Nana asked.

"How old do you think I am?!" he snarled.

"50," Husky smirked.

"Am not!" he yelled.

"Face it, you're old. Don't try to hide it," Husky said back.

"Hey umm," Cooro intervened, "so what's you're name?"

"The name's Kazuo. What are yours?" Kazuo asked.

"Mines Husky, that's Nana, that's Cooro, and that's Senri," Husky replied.

"I'm glad to meet you, Husky, Nana, Senri." He neglected to mention Cooro, but he missed it.

"Nice to meet you too!" Cooro smiled.

Kazuo changed the subject, "so why are kids like you traveling like this when you could be sitting at home with your parent?"

Nana stood up and yelled, "Because we don't have any!"

"heh, heh, same with me, kido," he looked ominously away into the distance.

"What happened?" Cooro asked.

He seemed surprised to hear this but he explained, "Well, my dad ran away from us when I was very little and my mom," he paused to laugh a little, "she died. It was a very wonderful funeral-"

Husky yelled, "you mean you enjoyed that she died?!"

Kazuo held his hand up in a comforting way and continued, "I was going to say 'it was a very wonderful funeral because my baby brother was born.' If you didn't interrupt people, you would find things out quicker."

The group stared in silence; Kazuo got nervous and blurted, "umm, anyway, he flew into the sky and-" he was interrupted by Husky again.

"Flew?!"

"You know," he made flapping gestures, "flying with wings and all?"

"Oh" they said synchronized (Senri didn't though.).

"So," he continued the story, "he was just newborn so I wanted to take care of him, but he flew around to much so I just ended up chasing him around. Years passed and so I just kinda' followed him around. Then one day he flew away to fast and I lost track of him." He glanced downward.

"Oh, so you can't find him?" Nana asked, worried.

Kazuo shook his head, "nope, I found him." He glanced at Cooro, "I've finally found you."

"ehh?" Nana exclaimed.

"I've finally found you," he smiled at Cooro, "brother."


Teddie: XP

Cooro: my brother stalks me!!

Kazuo: I'm not stalking you! (hushed voice) I'm protecting you.

Husky: yeah right, stalker.

Cooro: plus he's OOLLLDD!!

Kazuo: I'm not old! I just look like it…

Husky: sure you are…