So hey, this shall be my new story. It begans pretty much after the japanese anime ended. It will start slow but believe me, there will be laughs, cries, and shocks like never before, hopefully. Well enjoy.

Mikado stared up into the beautiful blue sky. He closed his eyes and let the sun warm him after the school's air conditioned rooms chill. He felt amazing, especially with school ending today, and summer break starting officially tomorrow.

He looked around looking for his best friend, Anri, who he was not so secretly in love with. She was what really helped him those long months ago during the gang wars, her and his best friend Kida. He missed Kida a lot. Although he did have Anri, he found himself feeling lonely a lot.

"Mikado!" He looked up and smiled as he saw Anri running toward him and waving. He stood and walked toward her. He had tried, since Kida had left, to forward their relationship. At any mention of a relationship beyond friendship she would sputter some excuse of homework or having some other thing to do and would run off. After many a doomed tries, he just stopped. She calmed, and she had again let him get close, but not too close.

"Anri, isn't it the most beautiful day? What a wonderful start to the summer."

She looked up, letting the sun warm her face just as he had. He watched her. He loved the way her skin shown in the light. Mikado would love to run his hands over her smooth skin, but he knew she would bolt, so he kept his hands to himself.

"This summer will be very…pleasing." She said turning and walking toward Russian Sushi, their favorite food spot. He followed her, trying, and failing, not to watch the swing of her hips, which had filled out very nicely in the last couple of months.

The turned to each other and smiled as they heard Simon's loud voice over the clamor of the city, announcing some knew special the restaurant was having. Anri had smiled more and had shown much more…emotion with all the trouble passed. Mikado loved her smile, and tried every chance he had to make her show her perfect teeth.

"Ah, Anri and Mikado, my best customers, and the famous love birds." Ever since the TV incident had sold them as the cutest couple in Ikebukuro, Simon had continued to call them love birds. As usual both of them blushed and rushed past him into the restaurant.

They sat at a booth in the back, sitting across from each other. Simon brought then their usual sushi and drinks then left them for the other customers.

"What shall we do for the first night of summer?" Mikado asked through a mouthful of food.

Unlike him, she finished her mouthful then spoke. "I think we should go see a movie."

"Like a date?" he said smiling but when he looked up she was staring at her plate looking like she was about to flee as usual at these types of comments. "I'm sorry, please I was just kidding." She seemed somewhat relieved and began to eat again.

He also continued eating, thinking of all the things they could do this summer. He had thought about going to see his family back in his hometown. Though, without him here, Anri would be all alone except for Celty, who was usually busy with her business of delivering different things.

They finished eating and started to walk to the park. They had decided to hang out there today; to relax and enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer. They sat down by the small pond and watched the koi idly swim around. Watching the fish made Mikado drowsy. Anri on the other hand was riveted by them. He knew that she could sit here all day and watch them.

"How about we get you a fish tank this summer, since you love the koi so much?" She looked at him with the biggest smile he had ever seen on her. She launched herself at him, hugging him and exclaiming what an amazing friend he was.

She went back to watching the fish. It was such an amazing transformation that had happened to the excluded quite girl. She was happier than ever and smiling and he had fallen that much more in love with her.

She did have episodes where she would ignore him at school for days, and never answer his calls or texts. He would grow so worried he wouldn't even sleep. He had even sat outside her door once when it went on for over a week. She had acted as if she didn't even see him there when she walked to school the next morning. He would follow and not bother her, feeling a tad bit better knowing she was safe. Well, physically safe.

He shivered at the thought of another one of those episodes happening soon, especially with school being over. He would have nothing to somewhat curb his mind from her if only for a little while. Mikado glanced over at her smiling face, asking himself, like so many other times, what had caused all those episodes.

He jumped out of his deep thoughts as his phone began to ring. He opened it to find a text message from Kida. They had kept in contact, talking nearly every day. They had grown closer since the many incidents that nearly broke them all apart.

He quickly read the message. The surge of joy swept him to his feet and he grabbed Anri's hand, also pulling her up.

"What is your problem, I thought we were going to watch the fish today?" She pouted and he nearly forgot the text to give her what she wanted. Then, as he had so many times before, he marveled at how much she had changed.

"Don't complain, they will be here all summer. But trust me, you would rather do this." He smiled pulling her, then he started running.

Okay so i obviously wasn't trying to keep that last thing a secret. You guys can guess what happens next. I would love your review to say YAY or NAY on this one. Well Hope you enjoyed it.

~~JAMES OUT