A/N: I'm experimenting with my writing by writing this Clannad/Armored Core crossover. I don't know how it will turn out but here goes. (This takes place during AC4 in Japan)

For those who don't know what Clannad or Armored Core 4 is search it up on the internet. It will help you to better understand the story I am attempting to write.

A few AC4 terms for you so you don't have to waste time googling.

NEXT - next generation of Armored Core. These units are superior to their predecessors in almost every way and were used in the Nation Dismantlement War to gain control of the world.

Linx - Names given to the pilots of the NEXT units. These are people with in-born psychic abilities that allow them to sync with their NEXT units and control and use them as an extention of their bodies. Due to the incredibly large amount of stress it puts on a normal human's mind and body, Linxs are the only ones who can pilot NEXTs effectively and safely.

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I hate this world.

It's full of all the memories I want to forget about.

Go to school everyday, chat with friends, come home to a deranged mother who doesn't even recognize me half the time, and then head off to my "job".

My mind wonders as I walk to school on an unusually cool morning.

Will something eventually change doing this?

Stop at a crossroad.

Will that day come?

As I continue walking I notice that sakura trees are blooming.

Isn't it a little late for sakuras this time of year?

Someone is standing off to the side.

A girl?

She's standing on the side of the dirt path. She has the same uniform as me, but I've never seen her before. That much I can tell from looking at her from where I am.

A new student?

As I walk past her I stop and glance casually over at her. She has her eyes shut tight as if she is trying to muster up the confidence to say something. Shiny, shoulder-length brown hair. Definitely not someone I've seen or met before.

Yet I can feel a calm, almost friendly aura emanating from her presence.

Suddenly she nods quickly to herself. "Sweet bean bread!" She says softly but clearly, with a kind of timid confidence that I never knew anyone could muster.

This takes me by surprise, as the girl sounds as if she was ordering something from a restaurant or something of the sort. I began to feel rather awkward standing behind her.

"Do you like this school?" She asks.

Is she talking to me?

"I really really love it." She continues before I can answer. Is she talking to me? No. It sounds more like she talking to someone in her heart, as she's not looking at me but towards the ground (she probably hasn't even noticed me yet). "But nothing can stay unchanged."

A girl I've never met before. Something that is unusual since the Pax Economica order was passed; everyone lived in colony-like dome cities.

Brown eyes...

"Fun things... happy things..." She continues to speak to that someone in her heart, gripping the handle of her schoolbag tightly as the words escape her lips.

A deceased lover? I've seen many of those kinds of people. The women who'd lost their husbands, boyfriends, and fiancees to the six dominant corporations that now ruled the world.

And me.

I've killed a lot of people doing my "jobs". Most of them are corporate soldiers or terrorists, but I know myself that those are people too. Husbands and sons; brothers and uncles. Sometimes I really hate myself for doing it, but I'm doing it for the better of this world.

"They all can't possibly stay unchanged." She says as tilts her head towards the sky. "Even so, can you keep on loving this place?"

I look at her and then down at the ground. Nothing can stay unchanged forever, I repeat those words to myself mentally.

"Just find them." I hear my words spill from my mouth, as if it were a reflex.

She finally looks up and turns around to face me. The wind blows through her hair, surrounding the two of us in flower petals making her look even more beautiful before me than before.

"Just find new fun and happy things." I say in my normally casual tone.

She simply stares and blinks cutely at me as I say this. Its not like me to compliment women, but it just feels different when I look at her.

"C'mon," I say stuffing my hands into my pockets, trying to ignore that thought, "lets get going."

She utters a soft "huh" and jogs quickly to my side as the two of us walk to school.

Together we start to walk up the long... long... uphill climb...

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A/N: Well that's the first chapter comment and review... Like i said before this is a writing experiment, i will update it further if anyone is interested in reading this crossover.