So here it is… The long awaited and long over-due, sequel to Runo's Sorrow. I hope you all enjoy it as much as you enjoyed the first. Just please, do review on every chapter. I take your words to

heart and have them all put in a folder to read when I'm feeling down or have writer's block (one of the reasons for the delay another being the slot where you put a flash drive in a computer (Mine

kinda melted itself so the chip was down instead of up) and then the internet and tv and phone's are wiped out for a week (stupid cox got a bug or something)). So without further ado, here's Runo's

Big Summer!


Runo smiled as she slid down the huge indoor water slide. Trust her adoptive parents to have a room, a humongous one at that, for every month and season… When she reached the bottom, cold water was

suddenly thrown at her head. Looking up, she noted a bucket (no duh, what did she expect, a snake?) that was held by a smallish pale hand. Following the hand that connected to an arm, to a torso, then up

to a face, she realized who it was.

"Ma-Ru-Cho!"

"Love you Runo!' Marucho yelled as he started running.

Runo got up and grabbed a towel before she started running, "I'm going to get you!"

"Nuh-uh," her adoptive brother yelled as he ran out of the room and began down the hall. Runo growled, willing her legs to move faster. As she came to a four-way in the hall, she plowed to a stop. When had

Marucho gotten faster than her especially since he was half her height? Giving another growl, she walked to the center and looked in all direction, hoping for some clue as to where Marucho had gone. Rolling

her eyes as she stomped her foot, she turned to the left and headed toward her personal bathroom. Reaching the door that said "RUNO'S SPA" and was splatter painted with turquoise, aqua, light yellow, and

a pearl-like white she sighed. Pushing the door open she smiled as a cool breeze swept across her wet body. Walking into what had previously been just her bathroom; she couldn't help but let a small smile

run across her face. Wrapping the previously forgotten towel around her shoulders so that it hung to her body, she headed to the hot tub she had insisted on having installed… Regardless of how much money

her adoptive parents had, Runo refused to have a humungous room only for a single toilet to be placed dead center… It made her feel uncomfortable and at the same time like she was being watched. Runo

shivered at the thought as she reached the edge of the hot tub. Turning the jets and heat on, she dropped her towel and cautiously slid into the heating water. A sigh escaped from her lips as she sat down,

the heating water warming her cooler skin.

"Im'a have to make sure to get back at Marucho for this. He knows I still get lost in the halls… Curse his genius brain and strangely faster than me legs," Runo murmured to herself as she enjoyed the water.

Closing her eyes for a moment, she tried to remember everything that had happened since Marucho's family adopted her. Julie's and Billy's families had both decided to buy another home in the city so that

their kids would be closer to their friends. Cho was on a retreat in China, learning from the monks the sacred and ancient ways of the Sun warrior. Alice had decided that she wanted to stay permanently and

had asked her grandfather to allow her to stay until she felt that she was ready to leave. Shun, well, he was still Shun. Ninja and all. Dan had surprisingly passed the last few weeks of school with flying colors,

freeing him from any summer school commitments and military school threats. His parents were just as happy to have him out of the house most of the time like a normal teenager since it gave them tons of

alone time. Sinking further into the water, she tried to imagine what the gang was doing right this moment.

"Miss Runo?" a voice sounded over an intercom in the corner.

"Yes?" Runo replied, turning off the hot tub and slowly getting out.

"Well, Miss," the woman seemed to hesitate.

"What is it?" Runo asked again, patting down her body with a fluffy bright orange towel.

"You're boyfriend Dan is here… He says he has to tell you something," the woman replied.

"Tell him I'll be uh, in the third kitchen… The one Marucho likes so much," Runo countered, pulling a pair of jean shorts over her bikini bottoms and a tank top over top. What could Dan have to tell her that was

so important?


SORRY! See above for reasons… Please do review, I'm feeling really down in the dumps today…