7 Years Old
"Look," a little boy whispers which got his friends attention, including a raven haired boy afar from them.
"The new neighbor has come,"
"Be a good girl here, okay?"
The woman pats a 7 years old girl's head, as the man lets go of her hand. The little being with bright smile fixed in her face nods and replies "I can still go to your house every day, right? Oh, oh, or you'll gonna visit me every day, right, uncle, auntie?"
"…" both the man and woman look at each other, gives her a long silence then says "Umm, of course we'll visit you once in a week. Every time we're having some free time," they smile.
The wide smile turns slightly off to hear that, unsure to their words "Promise?"
They nod with a smile and once again pat her head "Promise,"
"Ugghhh…" a little brunette turns the door knob in difficulty. She doesn't realize that someone has been watching her since she walked alone with a big backback.
Click.
Her head tilts up to see a blond boy that successfully open her apartment "Thank you and nice to meet you, Mister foreigner," she smiles brightly to him.
"Foreigner?" the blond suddenly says in confusion and not interested with the little girl "I'm Japanese and for more information I'm your neighbor. If you want to meet the other children, go to the field. Now please excuse me, I gotta go," not long after saying it, he walks past her that nods with large 'O' shaped mouth.
"What a nice boy," she murmurs while still wondering about the boy's puffy eyes.
"Hi," the brunette has already gone to the field then she walks to the crowd of children. They greets her back "What's your name?"
"Mikan Sakura. Just call me Mikan" she replies with wide smile before someone caught her eyes "Who's he? Why is he alone at the corner? I'll call him-"
"Don't!" one of the little girls forbid her "He's scary. You shouldn't talk to him." hearing that words just making her more curious to talk to that person.
She's boring. After playing sand with the children, she decides to walk around the apartment. Her new living place to be exact. So she good-byes them and steps out of the field. Not long after that, before she even notices it herself, she's already standing at the park. Actually it's the back yard of the apartment, that's why there're so many trees there. When her eyes enjoy the scene, suddenly her ears catch something. Someone's crying voice. As if her steps guide her, she finally stands behind the crying person. Looking at the blond hair, she guesses him as her neighbor that helps her before.
"Are you okay?" she asks, making the sobbing stops. The crying person still covers his face between his knees "Who are you? What are you going to do? Tell anyone that I'm a cry baby? Then go! Go tell them!" he yells angrily.
"Why should I?" she sits beside the boy who is still hiding his face "I just want to know what is bothering you. You can tell me if you don't mind. Maybe, just maybe, I can make you feel better."
"….." a long silence thrown by him when she's still waiting a couple minute for him to speak. Knowing that he won't speak anything, she finally gets up from the grass "That's okay if you don't want to tell me, if that can make you better," he can tell she's smiling while caressing his back. He doesn't even know why he feels warmer now.
"Natsume's parents and my daddy has just passed away a few weeks ago," the little girl stuns by the sudden speech then decided to sit back next to him. "I just think that it's all the company's fault," he stops and continues "But, what I worry the most is Natsume's feeling. I just lost my daddy and everything seems like crazy. What about him that has lost both of his parents?" after saying it, he sobs again. The little girl caresses his hair now "You truly are a good person. I don't know who is Natsume, but I'm sure he knows that it's not your daddy's or the company's fault. It's all God's will called destiny. The difference is how long someone could get rid of the sadness."
Between his knees, his eyes get bigger to hear that words. It's like a wind blow in the middle of hot summer "B-but, Natsume hardly speaks lately."
"Don't worry," she gets up from her seat once again "I'll search for that Natsume. You'll just wait here, okay?" then she runs to the person she thought he is.
"Are you Natsume?"
The sitting person quickly rises his head to see someone that has called his name "What do you want? If you want to mock the death of my parents, I don't have time for you," after saying it, he gets up.
"W-wait! I didn't want to mock you or anything," he glares to the girl because she pulls his shirt "Oh, sorry," she easily lets go of her grip as if it's not a big deal. But, it is a big deal for him.
"You are that new kid, right? I don't have any intention to know you better so-,"
"I said wait, didn't I?" She pulls his shirt again, now in purpose, making the boy glares at her again. "You are the blond boy's best friend, right?"
"You mean Ruka? Oh, you wanna ask my help to get Ruka's heart?" now it's the girl time to glare at him "How dare you saying it when you're the one that didn't talk to him?" she says, slightly angry.
"What do you mean?"
"Do you think after losing your parents, you're the only one that gets hurt?" now she pulls him in the hand. Forcing him to walk to the back yard with her.
"Let me go you crazy girl!"
"You don't even know that your best friend is worrying you. He keeps asking it himself why you didn't want to talk to him,"
He gives her a long silence as they're getting nearer to the back yard "It's not that I didn't want to talk to him," silent again "I just don't know what to say after the sudden death of my parents. I don't even know why I can talk to you now,"
The girl smiles silently to hear that "Did you hear that, Mister blond?" then her empty hand reaches the crying boy's hand "If you two are truly friends, go ahead tell each other about your feeling," her words making the blond boy raises his crying face and stares at her big brown eyes, together with his best friend.
This is the beginning of their relationship.
Hotaruyuzuka is back! I should do the disclaimer this time, shouldn't I?
"I don't own Higuchi Tachibana-sensei's Gakuen Alice. Also, I don't own Nickelodeon's All Grown Up for the title,"
Do you know All Grown Up cartoon? How about Rugrats? Where there are a lot of baby in the cartoon and their friendship last until they enter school life. That's why I made this fic. I don't know my sudden obsession about this kind of story. Yeah, I admit this fic is so similar to my 'just childhood friend or' fic. The difference is there is Ruka in there! So for those who's missing him, this one is for you :DD
So, please enjoy this fic too. Forgive me for the mistakes in there. I also don't mind some beta-reading : )