01: The encounter
"I'm home..." I said to myself as I walked into my apartment.
I put away my baseball gear and changed into my PJs. Then I laid on my bed and closed my eyes for a minute.
I imagined a cute idiot that I remembered doing something annoying...
'Yui Nyan~!'
"Ah...I gotta stop remembering her doing those annoying things..." I said to myself. But I really missed that stuff...
I paused in thought and looked back to when I was in the afterlife.
Yurippe, Otonashi, Oyama, all the other SSS members...
...and Yui.
It has been 3 years...and I still haven't found her...
I promised that I would find her...
But no matter how many windows I break, it's never her window.
The police are, at some point, going to see me breaking some one's window on purpose and then I'll ave to pay them lots of money for doing something so stupid.
Am I not looking in the right area? Where is she?
"I have to find her...I have...to..." I mumbled to myself and fell asleep.
...
"Hinata-kun! Hinata-kun! Wake up you idiot!" said a voice I remembered very well.
"Uhwaa...5 more minutes mom..." I replied in a daze from waking up.
"I'm not your mother, moron! Now wake up or we'll both die!" she yelled.
"I don't wanna die again...mom..." I said, still a bit dazed.
The girl pulled (more like yanked) me out of bed and into the bathroom.
"WAKE UP!" she said and got my face wet.
I instantly reacted and pulled my self away from the water.
"Bwaa! Wha-what was that for-?" I said looking to the girl next to me.
"YURIPPE?"
"Good. Your awake. C'mon we gotta get going, or we'll both die!" she said and grabbed me by the wrist and started pulling me out and down the hall and stairs of the hotel.
Stuff was starting to blow up from behind us, and that made me run on my own.
"What's going on Yurippe? And how did you find me?" I asked, gasping for breath now since I hadn't ran for my life in a long time.
"I'll explain once we get to a safe spot! Until then, keep running!" she said and ran a bit faster while not looking back.
"I wish I knew WHAT we were running from!-WHOA!" I said, just dodging a piece of concrete that was flung toward us. We were running down the street now. I wonder why no one else is awake yet?...
"It's probably the devil himself!" answered Yurippe.
"WHAT?" I yelled and looked behind us.
Now I don't know what the devil looks like...but I'm pretty sure he looks something like what I saw.
The darkest black scaly skin, and the bloodiest red eyes. Any hair that was on that thing looked like you could jump in and never be seen again. It has large thorns on it's head, fingers, and feet. Fire was coming from his nose and pitch black smoke from his mouth. All the smoke had made the sky as dark as it probably ever would've been.
"Whoa!" I said in awe. The "devil" was only like 2 miles away from us. He took looong footsteps that left footprints everywhere he was. He was a GIANT!
"Yeah, this is pretty intense. We need to get out of view before it trys to grab us or something!" said Yurippe was was looking around for a good hiding place.
"Hide? Don't you have a gun?"
"No. That was in the afterlife 3 years ago, idiot!" was her reply
"Oh right..." I said feeling a bit stupid.
We kept running and running, we both looked very tired by now.
Suddenly as we were passing by a dump, we were pulled inside!
"Wha-! OUCH THAT HURTS!" I yelled at the person who pulled us roughly into the trash. I couldn't tell who it was though.
"Ow!...Huh? Chaa?" said Yurippe, who somehow got pulled on top of me. If Noda saw this he would freak.
Haha! I miss those days...
Great, now I sound like a grandpa.
"Wait, Chaa? Where?" I asked. I couldn't see much since Yurippe was on top of me.
"Right there you idiot-!" she said looking down at me, then her cheeks turned pink as she realized why I couldn't see. Now we were only about an inch away from our noses touching.
"Yurippe, I obviously can't see a thing from down here." I said bluntly.
She was silent for a minute, and then she punched me.
"Idiot." she growled and got off and went to the right.
"Hahaha! You guys are as funny together as you used to be!" said a voice that I also remembered.
And I quite agree with him.
I got up and looked behind me and saw an old face. It was Chaa!
"Chaa! I didn't know you lived at a dump!" I said sarcastically.
"Haha, no I'm just here for hiding...and waiting..." he replied, his arms crossed and himself settled on a broken old couch.
"For what?" asked Yurippe.
"Not what, who. I was waiting for any SSS members to show up. I've already found three. Two of them I sent somewhere else along with some weapons a bullets." explained Chaa.
"Who were they?" I asked, standing fully up now.
"Otonashi and Kanade, I sent those two together into my new hide out, and then Noda, and he said he wanted to help me grab anymore members that came along." he answered.
That's our Noda alright.
"Huh? Noda-kun is here too?" asked Yurippe.
"Why yes, he is. He grabbed and flung you two to my feet! Haha!" said Chaa with a hearty laugh.
Me and Yurippe both looked behind us slowly and saw Noda standing right behind us.
"Uh oh..." I mumbled. He looked pissed off...AT ME. I know this because he was glaring at me.
"Noda-kun!" said Yurippe while taking his hand, "It's good to see you again!" she smiled kindly, making Noda go instantly cherry red.
"N-nice t-to see you again t-too, Yurippe!" he said, quickly getting over his anger at me.
"Sooo..." I said and looked back at Chaa.
"Yes?" he asked.
"How are SSS members that can't move...going to be safe?" I asked.
"They won't. Unless we find them on our own...I don't think we can get them if we just sit around." he explained.
I was stunned and silent.
"Is there a certain someone that you want safe?" he asked.
I gave no answer.
"If you know where they are, I suggest to go and get them before it's too late, Hinata." he said and then sighed after a minute I still hadn't responded.
"So you don't know where they are?" he asked. This time I shook my head, while giving a look of sadness.
"It might already be...too late..." I said in almost a whisper.
"I'm sorry, Hinata...but there's nothing we can do." said Chaa and got up.
The devil thing was getting closer, Chaa gave me and Yurippe both weapons, plus bullets, and then he took me and Yurippe to a man hole.
"Go down here and then you'll find Otonashi and Kanade." he said and took the lid off of the man hole.
Just is the smallest sound that would've never been heard...
I heard a scream.
It was a girl...
Could it be?...
"What was that scream?" asked Yurippe looking around. It must have been louder then I thought.
"I don't...know...it sounded like..." I said slowly and looked around. It was coming from a house that was very close to the devils feet, which was only a little ways away.
"Yurippe...should we check it out?" I asked and looked at her, I think I had a worried expression on because once she looked at me to give an answer, she pauses while staring at me.
"...Fine. Let's go, Hinata-kun." she said finally and we both left for the house.
On the way I saw a base ball on the ground and I picked it up, then threw it at the front window of the house, just in case...
"What was THATfor?" asked Yurippe as we ran for the house.
"Longstory Yurippe. I'll tell ya later!" I said and ran on ahead. Yurippe was still tired from running so much last time.
I got into the house somehow and landed hard onto the ground.
"Owww..." I groaned.
"Wh-who's there?" asked a voice that I now recognized.
I looked up quickly and saw a cute girl, with pink long hair and pretty pink eyes.
It was...
"YUI?" I said, shocked that I really found her.
"Huh?..." she said and squinted her eyes a bit to see better.
"SEMPAI?" said Yui, also shocked now that she knew who I was.
"Yeah! It's me!"
"It took you long enough!" she complained
"Haha, we'll talk about that later. In te mean time, we gotta get outta here!" I said and got up and ran to her side.
"But I can't move or anything-!" she protested and then I picked her up and carried her like she was a princess.
"Don't worry, I'll carry you." I said charmingly enough to get her to blush.
"HURRY UP IN THERE HINATA-KUN!" yelled Yurippe from outside, ruining our moment. I don't think she could see in through the window though since it was so dark.
"I'M COMING! JEEZ!" I yelled back then looked back to Yui. "Hold on tight, OK?"
"Sempai."
"Call me Hinata."
"Fine. Hinata-sempai."
"Yes?"
"I can't grip, hold on, you get it?"
"OH RIGHT. Sorry..."
And then I left out the window and began running for my life with Yurippe again for the third time. I gripped tightly to Yui so she wouldn't fall out of my arms.
After dodging a lot of things thrown at us, we finally made it back and went down the man hole.
"EEEEWWWW! It's stinky down here!" yelled Yui who, probably at this moment, REALLY wanted to plug her nose.
"Yeah it is..." I said, starting to cough a little.
"Hinata? Yui?"
said a voice from not too far away.
"It sounds like them..." said another voice.
"Yeah it does...but how would Yui get here if she's paralyzed?" wondered out loud the first voice again.
"Otonashi? Kanade too?" asked Yurippe and then we found ourselvesin a lit area with Otonashi and Kanade sitting down on a pipe.
"Eh? Yurippe too?" said Otonashi. Kanade ran over to Yurippe and gave her a hug.
"Uh..yeah...good to see you too.." said Yurippe while hugging Kanade back.
"Ah...so Hinata is carrying Yui..." said Otonashi now looking at me carrying the little girl in pajamas.
Well actually we're ALL in our pajamas. This is SO funny, you should've seen Noda's!
Once I laid Yui down I sat next to her while holding her hand. Then we all told our stories about what we started doing once we had gotten out of the afterlife 3 years ago.
"YOU LOOKED FOR YUI FOR 3 YEARS, HINATA?" yelled Otonashi.
"That's mean Otonashi...your making it sound like I'm crazy!" I said with a funny pout.
"Yeah but...I would think you'd find her sooner then that..."
"DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY WINDOWS I BROKE EVERYDAY?"
"OK OK...never mind." said Otonashi backing down. I bet I looked like a mad man now.
Yuibluntly said she laid in bed watching a lot of TV for 3 years. Yuri said she got a job at a book store and saved up for a very cool gun. Now she's just saving up for it's very cool bullets. Look at who's crazy, Otonashi.
Otonashi said he finished collage and, after finding her, started dating Kanade. Kanade only said she spent 3 good years with Yuzuru.
"Yuzuru?"
"That's his first name, not his last which is Otonashi." she replied.
"Oh...OK."
And so we sat down there for awhile, just talking.
HEY! :D I finally made my Angel Beats! fanfic! I'm so happy that I did it~ =w=
I got this plot idea last night around 11:50 at night last night...
After I had the idea I just COULDN'T sleep!
So I started writing a bit of it, then went to bed, and woke up with an idea of what to write next. And now it's done! YAY!
I hope you all enjoyed this story! It's gonna get even better soon! :3
Look forward to next time! BAI BAI~! x3
~Panda-chiii