Hi! Well, I'm in LOVE with Angel Beats, and I've really been wanting to do a fic about it. So here is my shot at it, hope you guys like it! This first chapter is very short, but it'll start getting longer. And better. Hehe, trust me! :D
What does it mean to be reborn? Will I take on a whole new form, gain a new personality? Will I be happy? I suppose it's possible, but is it worth taking that risk? All the time I spent with my friends here, all the memories I made, will they ever come back? I won't remember them to miss them, but can I really leave knowing that I may never see them again? … Looking around, at the faces of some of those who'd been here with me in the past who-knows-how-long, I realized I would be okay. Otonashi, Kanade, Hinata, and Naoi… In the end, the love I felt for them was strong enough. I knew that we would find each other. Somehow, some way, we wouldn't let anything keep us apart. After all, they were like… they were like my family! And family is the most important thing to me… even in this life…
"Emiko Kaori, seat number three," The homeroom teacher blankly said, pointing to an empty chair near the wall by the window.
I'd always loved sitting by the window. It was beautiful outside; I loved to stare outside while in class. Who needs class anyways?
I sat my bag under my chair and kicked my feet up onto the railing of the back chair, crossing my ankles. Hey, may as well make myself at home, right? After all, I needed to be comfortable to come up with a plan. Slowly, I flipped open my notebook and began to scribble down names. Yuzuru Otonashi. Kanade Tachibana. Hideki Hinata. Masami Iwasawa.
They were the first ones I decided to find. I was praying that Otonashi, or whatever his name was in this life, had already found Kanade… I had faith in them to find each other. That would make finding everyone else so much easier, because I wouldn't be the only one convincing them of what had happened in the afterlife.
"Hey, Emiko, is it?" The boy sitting in front of me asked.
I looked up, only half interested. I wasn't really in the mood to talk, not while I was trying to figure out where to find my friends. He had long, dark reddish brown hair and brown eyes. He had a certain… confidence to him. No, it wasn't that he was confident, he was conceited. Yes, that was definitely it. I had already lost interest.
He turned more to look at me, and rested his arm on my desk causally. "The name's Riku Tamasine. I've been wanting to introduce myself since last year, but I was pretty shy," he said, not very shyly at all, if you ask me.
Riku looked at me, and grinned- no, smirked, a half smirk, trying to give a smoldering look. I merely stared at him, unamused and unfazed.
"You don't seem shy to me," was all I said before looking back down at my notebook and scribbling in possible countries they could be located in.
I didn't hear his reaction, nor did I see it, but after he when move his arm after a few seconds I looked back up at him agitatedly. "Is there something you want?" I asked, annoyed to be distracted from my concentration.
He pursed his lips and stared at me for a few moments. Then he merely shook his head and smiled. "You just remind me of someone. Someone that I had a dream about," he looked at me, then his face went red and he put his hands up in defense, shaking them along with his head rapidly. "N-Not that I had a dream about you, I don't even know you, that would be weird! I just meant, that, um…"
I rolled my eyes and thumped him hard in between the eyes. "If you're just gonna ramble on about creepy dreams you have about me, I'm not interested to hear it!" I said a little too loudly, because everybody in class turned to stare at us.
"Ms. Kaori, I will ask you once to keep it down before I remove you from your seat, okay?" The teacher warned.
"Yeah, okay, I'll shut up," I said with a sigh, slinking back into my chair. "Riku, leave me alone, okay? I have some planning to do." I continued quietly so that the rest of the class didn't hear me.
He raised an eyebrow questionably, but merely turned around.
I tapped my pencil against my chin a few times. How would I be able to find my friends? Were they even in the same country? What if they were reborn into some third world country that I would never be able to locate? GAH- THIS WAS SO HARD!
My concentration was once again broken when a note slid on my desk, from none other than Riku. Angrily, I unfolded the note and read it, expecting some kind of cheesy pick up line or something. Instead, what I read took me by surprise, and almost made me pee my pants from shock.
'Nice to see you again, Yurippe. Looks like I found you before you could find me. Hinata: 1 Yurippe:0'
