Farewell, Satoshi

By: CrYsTaLxAnGeL

Disclaimer: Nothing owned, nothing stolen.
Note: A Halloween fan fic from me, once more. Although I don't update much, since I do have a lot of homework since I entered high school, I still try to keep the people who read my fan fics happy! So, I hope you enjoy this!

Chapter 1

It was that time of year again. Where everywhere, you could see a lot of kids running around in their horrifying costumes, carrying pumpkin-faced bags and chanting, "Trick or treat!"

It was never a shock to them why this holiday is being kept alive until now. It was only of two reasons; one, kids love it and two, no one could refuse free candy. But everything was a fake. The costumes, the sound effects of laughing skeletons and even graveyards we see in front of someone's lawn. That was it. Everything was not real.

"Riku! Can you please get that box over there?" Shouted a long-haired brunette who wore a tiara with a pink fluffy dress and pink heels. She was carrying a box filled with candies and slowly placed them down near their front door. Following behind her was another brunette, although her hair was much shorter and she wore a plain blue shirt, a pair of gray Capri pants and black rubber shoes.

Riku heaved a sigh as she placed down the box of candies that she was carrying and wiped a sweat from her forehead, saying, "This is the last of 'em." She walked away from the box and slowly headed to the couch. She slumped on her back as she sat down and she quietly closed her eyes.

"Riku! This is no time for relaxing! Everyone's going to at Daisuke's house in 30 minutes and still you're not in your costume!" Yelled her twin sister, who had nothing in common with her, Harada Risa. Riku sighed in irritation and complained, "Oh come on, Risa. It's like what you said; it's still 30 minutes 'til they arrive. I can dress up in my outfit in just 10 minutes, so don't worry too much!"

"Riku, don't you get it!? This is the last time we'll be seeing Hiwatari-kun, since tomorrow he and his dad would be moving to America! We need to make his last night here in Japan special!" Yelled the angry princess. Riku sighed and gave up in defeat. "Okay, okay. But promise me you won't embarrass me in front of everybody, okay?"

"Embarrass you? How could I embarrass you?" Risa asked in demand. Riku shrugged and stood up from her seat and headed towards the steps of the stairs. "Just don't do anything that is related to me, okay?" And Riku continued on her way.

"Damn! That Riku can sure be a lot of pain sometimes! I wonder how we could've ever been related!" Risa murmured to herself angrily. She stomped off and headed towards the kitchen, preparing the cake that she had baked overnight for their departing friend, Hiwatari Satoshi. Satoshi wasn't anyone special to her, but since she found out that he was leaving, she felt a kind of pain in her chest that seemed to ache her immensely.

While upstairs, Riku was in her tub, blowing the suds in her hands and scrubbing them on her delicate skin. "Sometimes, Risa can sure be a real pain, even though she already knows it." Riku murmured in bubbles as she lowered her body, making only her eyes and nose visible in the surface. It was true that they always quarreled on small things like how long Risa takes her time in combing her hair or how ugly Riku would dress up on certain occasions.

After Riku had enough of her bath, she stood up and grabbed her towel. She pulled the plug below the tub and drained the suds from her bath tub. She then walked over to the mirror and watched herself carefully. "Maybe Risa and I… aren't so different." She whispered in a low tone. Although she loved her sister (well, most of the times), she didn't wanted to become like her or be mistaken for her. That's who she was, an individual.

Riku blow dried her hair and cleaned off the water from her body. She then took some lingerie from her closet and wore them on. She looked quietly at her closet, trying to remember where she had last placed her old witch costume. She browsed and browsed, but failed in her search. The only costume in her closet was... a dress. This could only be used, if she tried to be a princess in Halloween. And she did not want to be a frilly princess – especially in a party where all her classmates and friends could see her.

She had a little worry in her head now, but tried to resolve it. 'What if I just wear my regular clothes and tell them that I'm too mature to wear a silly costume.' But then, she visualized herself being the only person not to wear a costume. That'll be too embarrassing. And she didn't want to be the center of attention at the party.

"Shit," She started to panic a little. "Where the heck am I going to get a costume in…" She looked over her wall clock and saw that she only had "15 minutes!?" Hurriedly, Riku thought up of an idea. She ran over to her bed and grabbed her phone. Quickly, she pressed numbers and placed the phone over her ear. 'I just hope Ritsuko has another costume that I could borrow.'

Ring and ring the phone went… No one seemed to notice it. Riku prayed that Ritsuko was still in her house. 'Cause if she wasn't, she wouldn't have another costume to wear and would be forced to wear that violet-frilled dress. And if she was going to wear it, no one would have a second thought that she and Risa were really the same. And she really hated those kinds of comments.

'Hello?' Riku heard from the other side of the phone. Suddenly, her heart fluttered in happiness. "Hello!? Ritsuko? It's me, Riku! Hey, listen-"

'I'm not here right now, but you can leave me a message after the beep! Talk to 'ya later! Love, Ritsuko. BEEP,' Riku took of the phone from her ear and silently, she whispered to herself, "Oh no…"

Trying to find more solutions, Riku ran back to her closet and tried to improvise. Suddenly, a thought came to mind and she grabbed a black shirt, black jacket, black and red checkered skirt, black belt with silver buttons on them and black socks. She hurriedly wore them all and ran over to her dresser to find her eyeliner and make up kit. Obviously she didn't use her make up materials nor did she want to use 'em. It was just her parent's dilemma that she would become unladylike and won't be able to have a decent boyfriend.

She placed on her eyeliner and tried to match it with black lipstick. She glanced over her wall clock and saw that 8 minutes had already passed. Finishing up, she cleaned up her messes and switched off the lights in her room and ran down the stairs, just to find an angry sister. Riku looked at her with the same look and returned her sister's 'I told you to hurry' look, just to prevent a quarrel on the way to Daisuke's house.

Risa took off her stare and moved her head violently to the right, marching out of the door, carrying a bag on her hand which had contained the cake that she had baked. Riku shrugged off the idea that her sister was still mad and continued to finish off her costume. She ran over to the shoe rack and picked up black boots with spikes. "Perfect!" She shouted in success. But before she ran outside, she ran to the nearest mirror to check out her costume. As she was already contented, she ran outside, finding Risa a few feet ahead.

"MOM!" Shouted a red-haired boy. He ran in circles as he was already panicking. "I can't find my vampire fangs!" He ran from furniture to furniture, but couldn't find his fake teeth. A woman with tan colored hair sighed with his son's lack of memory and with his very childish, yet cute acts. She smiled and shouted back, "Have you checked your bed, my little Daisuke-chan?"

"Waa! I haven't! Thanks, mom!" Daisuke yelled in appreciation. He hurriedly ran in his room with his long cape flying from behind his neck. The woman Emiko, who was Daisuke's mom, sighed at how his son turned out to be. "Even though he knows he can be strong, he just doesn't choose to use it." And with that, she giggled.

DING DONG! The doorbell went.

The door opened and Emiko greeted their guests with a smile and a wonderful greeting, "Welcome! Please do come in, Daisuke's in his room looking for his little vampire fangs. Come in, we'll start the party in the living room."

"Risa! Would you hurry it up, please? We'll surely be even later than ever with the pace that you're keeping!" Riku shouted, a bit angered. Riku ran faster as Risa was getting farther and farther from her. "Riku, wait up!" She could hear her screaming from behind. As she saw that Daisuke's house was just a little more runs ahead, she decided to stop and wait up for her sister.

"Trick or treat!" Riku could hear from her left. She turned her look over to the house on her left and saw two little girls who were out in their outfits and celebrating their Halloweens. An old lady with a hunched back smiled at the girls and dropped pieces of candies on each of their bags. Riku heard the girls thanking the old woman and frolicked out of the lawn. But before they could finally walk out of the woman's lawn, the girl which seemed to be younger than the other smiled at the older one and gave one piece of candy to her. The older girl hugged the little one and they continued to walk out of the lawn.

Riku, after seeing the two, had a frown on her face. 'I wonder… If Risa and I…'

"Riku! Come on!" Risa yelled with a smile as she was finally able to catch up to her sister and grabbed her wrist, running towards Daisuke's house. Riku smiled, yet she still had a frown on her face and finished her thoughts;

'…Ever shared an experience like those two little girls.'