Four years...
Naota Nandaba lived his life after the strange events four years before. He was never happy anymore, after the two most important people in his life decided to leave him for something bigger.
One of those people was Samejima Mamimi, His older brother Tasuku's ex-girlfriend, and one of Naota's best friends. She had decided to pursue a career in photography in America. Naota personally thinks she just went to find Tasuku.
The other person is Haruhara Haruko, the strange Vespa driving, bass guitar weilding alien who had used him to find the most powerful space pirate in the galaxy, Atomsk. She had got him by using the vast amounts of N.O. energy in Naota's head. He had fell in love with her and her strange ways during her visit to Earth. After Atomsk was released, he escaped, and Haruko left Earth on her flying Vespa to search for him.
Naota only wished he would have said yes to coming with her when he had the chance.
She had asked him that, but before he had a chance to think of an answer, she decided for him.
You know what? Forget it. Because your still just a kid, Ta-kun. Save it for next time. These words had echoed in Naota's head ever since he heard them.
Next time.
Was there ever going to be a next time?
Naota never felt happiness or joy, he just wanted to get life over with. He never tries anything new, just the same old routine everyday. Wake up, go to school, go home, eat, sleep.
And after four years of an unoriginal life, he wanted change. He didn't care how, he just wanted it. Needed it.
After the events of four years ago, not much changed. The parts of the city that were destroyed were repaired, that Amarao guy left to wherever, and Eri Ninamori and other friends continued to go through the same unoriginal life Naota did.
Naota sometimes wondered if Haruko remembered him.
Naota also wondered if Haruko would come back. It was farfetched, but he always had hopes. He didn't care if Mamimi came back. Haruko was the love of his life, so to speak. Haruko had changed Naota's life in a way no one else could, and he would never forget her.
Would she ever come back? She said next time, so it couldn't be the last time he saw her. But you never know, sometimes life comes at you like an alien on a Vespa.
