A/N

I was dusting off my previous stories and this is the first one. So, now that I know how things work with stories like this, I have to warn some people that this is angsty story and maybe a little OOC.

Also, maybe some grammar/spelling mistakes too, since I didn't beta it.

When I finished it, I thought of making a sequel to this, less angsty and more mystery (if you read the end you'll maybe know why) but I began writting other stories so there is no sequel, and also no time either.

Anyway, on to the story


Ch.1

She smiled, turning her head slowly away from his, as she pushed a goodnight kiss on his cheek. He was already asleep in her embrace. Natsuki smiled and turned her back, receiving a hug from behind by her lover. He didn't want to waste any chance of touching this emerald eyed beauty.

"I'm glad having you by my side Takeda", she whispered. Hearing her, the dark haired guy responded with a kiss in her right ear and then on the exposed milky skin on her shoulder...It was summer and they could barely handle the heat, let alone too much clothing, leaving the two lovers with little fabric on them during night. He was wearing only his boxers, leaving his well trained upper body exposed to his girlfriend while Natsuki was on her bra and underwear. When they moved there he was making a living out of being a teacher of a very old Japanese karate technique. His profession now was very different than what he used to do back at Fuuka city.

After a few minutes he was fast asleep. Natsuki knew that, she had learned the way his breathing went when he was awake and when could hear it next to her ear. The Wolf-girl (as Nao calls her sometimes), on the other hand had difficulites falling asleep. She had to lay on her bed for at least an hour, concentrating hard, trying to let go of her thoughts so she could finally close her eyes...

-"You know what they say about people that fall asleep hard huh?" Natsuki recalled in the dark silent room that one day her energetic orange haired friend had told her.

"Wh-What!?" Emerald eyes responded by widening, waiting nervously for the answer.

"It's because they're missing something" Mai stated playfully smiling, not being aware that her friend wasn't taking this whole joke very well.

"Or so-me-one..." she added making the wolfie even more angry.

"STOP THAT ALREADY Mai! This can't even be remotely true, i'm dating a very loving and supporting guy."

"Moooo... i know that Natsuki, i was just saying what i heard once" the feisty girl said while patting Natsuki on the head like she would do to a pet.

-"Natsuki really loves Takedooo NEEE NA-TSU-KIIII?" A cat girl said on a loud voice adding her two cents on the whole conversation.

-"SSHHH there neko girl,we are at a public place...!People are jerks, they are bothered by loud noises!" The fourth redhead person of their company added, with a sarcastic and malice tone ,while they were all taking their walk at the park. "Despite, true love doesn't exist, only carnal needs for reproduction. People are just like animals, no emotions involved while on a relationship!"

Mikoto gave her redhead friend a very inquiring and shocked gaze. Partly because she couldn't understand completely, but yet she knew that being in a relationship means loving your significant other.

"NAOO you sure can be so a mean!" The shortest girl replied... "Hey Natsuki, tell Nao she's wrong! Explain her what love really is!" She procedded looking at the bluenette who was starting to feel gloomy about this whole conversation and now was staring at the floor... that feeling of emptiness stroke the loner girl again... and again,each time something like that was mentioned...

"H-HOW should I KNOW?!" Natsuki screamed!

Her friends' eyes windened, even Nao's...

"Heeehh Natsukiii... but you're with your lovely-dovey husband for 4 years you should know that." Nao said giving her a devious smirk. "Doesn't he do his "job" very well?"

"THAT'S ENOUGH you guys!" The energetic orange haired interapted. "We're here to have fun, so stop it with all these personal questions already!"

The friends were kinda shocked because they didn't hear Mai shouting often, so they knew they really had to drop it. She surely had an effect of them, they respected her (even Nao,without showing it of course) but sometimes they knew better than to push her anger button.

Back at the dark room Natsuki was recalling that day. She smiled for her friends, but also that feeling was with her again. Sadness filled her eyes. '...Why am i feeling this way without ANY LEGIT REASON?..' She shouted in her own thoughts. 'IS IT REALLY that I'am missing someone?But WHO?!' She kept on wondering, pushing her nerves even more, trying to find the solution. Suddenly she felt uncomfortable with Takeda's -still hugging her- touch and pulled away slowly.

'Maybe i AM missing someone...yes, EHHH YES...that whould be my mom of course, the way she dissapeared and her unexplained death after that!YES she certainly IS...' she thought ,like she was trying to convince herself,even though something was still missing. It was like a set of puzzle pieces and the main piece was missing. She wasn't shocked though, with all that memory loss of hers, it was natural.

After that accident 4 years ago her memory had become very poor. It seemed as she had totally forgotten a lot of events from her life in Fuuka, others were very blurry, while the worst one was that a whole year was lost completely. The second year of high-school was totally erased.

An accident happened in the laboratory of Fuuka City where she used to work after she graduated from high school. Natsuki was an assistant of a scientist there. She was bringing him , by riding her bike, all of the materials he needed for his experiments and inventions . Takeda,who already had a crush on her during school, got a job there as well, because of his great ideas for new machines. He was very handy and smart . People were always saying how he could be an excellent scientist! Girls were infatuated, but he only had eyes for one particular lone bluennete. She was special, and it wasn't just her stunning beauty or her emerald eyes. Her strong character, the determination and passion behind those eyes got him stuck. As much as he tried,he didn't have any luck with her during school though...

'...I don't remember what caused the explosion, but all i know is that after that,I lost my memory and got fired. I didn't have any money and Takeda was the only one that i know now from my old town.I didn't have friends nor family there anyway, but even if i did there's a possibility that i forgot...' Natsuki stated internally. Her black haired boyfriend told her that she had noone back there anyway and there was nothing special she forgot about after the accident.

As she begun to finally fall asleep a very quick thought, as quick as a lightning, came by her mind. It was a very melancholic note,a sad one, this thought of Fuuka...

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