Chapter II : CHASING THE ANGEL

"Whoa, whoa, Akira, cool down!"

Tora was jumping backwards step by step as Akira chased him with a grin on his face. This kind of grin is always not a good sign, Tora said in mind while choking his own saliva. He only throws it if he has a desire or plans revenge.

"You are the one who must be cool down, Tora," Akira replied calmly. He made his steps slower. Tora was still jumping backwards wildly and finally hit the wall with his back. He was cornered.

"I-If I am permitted to ask, wh-why do you chase me, Akira-kun? Did I do somethin' bad to you?" As knowledge, Akira's wrath could be very frightening in some circumstances. While asking, Tora wondered what mistake he had done to Akira. The answers came to him easily, but gave him no relief at all. Lectured Akira all day, forced him to meet some girls he wasn't even excited, ordered him to water the plants…

"I don't even think that you've made a mistake, Tora," Akira's smirk became wider. "I want to thank you."

"Ha?" Tora didn't trust his hearing. "Thank you for what if I'm permitted to know?"

"Always permitted, Tora. For…" How to say it? For ordering him to water the plants? It sounds silly. "For letting me meet my angel." Ha! It sounded even more stupid!

"Yo-your angel?" Tora wondered if his ears became dull or Akira was getting fever. The didn't-care-about-women-at-all Akira could say 'my angel'?

"Umm, yeah, I can't say like that for now. Not yet. But soon, she'll be my angel," Akira said confidently, causing a birth of oh-so-wide-mouthed Tora and therefore a mosquito flied successfully through Tora's throat. He tried desperately to cough it out.

"Wow," said Tora with a blue face. "Wow."

"What 'wow'?"

"You finally have found a girl?" Tora asked, suddenly held on the situation. "Really?"

Akira nodded vividly. Tora followed him nodding as thought, how great a love could change his manner so much. "So, who's this lucky girl?"

"I… I myself haven't known her name," Akira answered shamefully. Tora cocked his eyebrow.

"Haven't known?" Tora asked in unbelief. "After two years you've studied here?"

"That's the problem," Akira sighed as he pulled someone's chair and sat down. "I think… she is new…"

"Wait, wait, wait," Tora cut his sentence. "Can you tell me the complete story? Why do you have to thank me?"

So Akira explained it. He told everything because he was sure Tora could help. After he finished his story, Tora nodded with an expert style.

"Exciting, very exciting."

"Did Yukimura tell you the name?" Akira questioned hopefully.

"Mmm," Tora frowned as he struggled to dig in his memory. "N-no, I think he didn't…"

"Oh," Akira replied cheerless. Tora grasped his comrade's left shoulder.

"Don't worry. I'll ask the information about her to Yukimura. I can tell you after school."

"Really?" Akira's face became bright again. "I'll wait for it!"

The bell rang. Akira walked back to his seat gladly. Tora stared at him half-unbelieving. Until yesterday Akira did still stubbornly refuse making relationship with a girl and today he'd changed so drastically!

"Tokito?"

Akira and Tora were sitting at a spot near the school garden. Akira frowned as he read a piece of paper Tora had just given to him. Tora nodded. On that paper, written all data about the playing-violin girl, much more than Akira ever expected.

"Birthday… a month after now. Ha! She's 2 years younger than me…!" Akira widened his eyes in surprise, suddenly felt very old.

"Not exactly 2 years, only a year and few months," said Tora while following his best friend reading the data.

"In 2-B, made friends with Kosuke and… who?! Suzaku? Huff…" Akira exhaled tiredly.

"Yeah, Suzaku was whom she sat with in her first school day," Tora told Akira what Yukimura had told him. Some additional data, Yukimura said, not very important but occasionally could help much. Tora was confused actually, how Yukimura could get all data he wanted, as if he had many spies around him. Or perhaps indeed. Tora knew that Yukimura and some students made a secret group who called themself 'Sanada Gang'. Kosuke was one of them.

"Hobbies… playing musical instrument-absolutely-and… dreaming?" Akira narrowed his eyes as he read that. "What's the meaning of 'dreaming'?"

"Dreaming is… dreaming. Just dreaming," Tora looked curious as he explained. "When you are sleeping you will have a dream, such a picture of your under-mind which…"

"Hey, hey! I'm a second grade student of high school! Not an elementary student! You don't need to explain it," Akira cut off Tora's sentence.

"Yeah, but… Weren't you the one who asked it?" Tora protested,

"I mean…" Akira said in a very patient tone. "She loves dreaming… dreaming isn't a common thing as a hobby. So, what I mean is why she likes dreaming?"

"How could I know?" Tora raised his shoulders. "Many people like dreaming. Dreaming isn't bad. Daydreaming is. With dreaming we can know what to do, we can know the purpose of our life," Tora said, suddenly became very wise.

"Yeah," Akira nodded and continued reading. "Perhaps she is heading to her future… her dream…"

"Quite romantic, eh?" Tora showed a teasing grin. "She is possibly dreaming about a prince charming. Many girls do it, right? Usually you'll say they are idiot… But for this one, you wanna be her prince charming, don't you?"

"Nope!" Akira shrieked spontaneously, his face turned red. "Besides, I'm sure she's not."

"Not what? Not dreaming about a prince charming or not an idiot girl?"

"Both."

"Hey, you wanna be her… umm… boyfriend, right? You aren't looking for an anti-lovey-dovey woman, are you? If you do, it's very absurd then," Tora frowned.

"I-I mean… 'Dreaming' here is not about it. I… yeah… wanna make friend with her but…" Akira answered nervously.

"Who said 'my angel' thing in the last break time?" Tora teased him for his shameful answer. "I know you, Akira-kun, we had been friends even before we entered high school. You've never been interested with woman before now. But I think you have a special feelin' through this girl."

"Perhaps," Akira answered, suddenly became unsure. "When I saw her for the first time, I knew immediately that she is not an ordinary girl… not like common girls…"

"Hoo…" Tora raised one of his eyebrows. "You've met her only once, right? And see how much you understand her… care about her! You make me wanna see this girl. She sounds wonderful."

"Yeah," Akira nodded. "I can't help thinkin' about the sound of her violin."

"Great!" Tora said as he stood up suddenly. Akira jumped in surprise.

"Hey, why?"

"I am your comrade, bro," Tora smiled wickedly. Akira narrowed his eyes in suspect. "I'll help you getting this girl."

"You've been helping me a lot, Tora," Akira laughed, but Tora shook his head as said,

"Nope, nope. This is… we can call it your first love, right? So… we have to make a plan."

"Plan?" Akira asked in misunderstanding.

"Plan, Akira-kun, a plan! I'd tried to find a girl for you for so long but then you could find her by yourself! And totally in love with her! So…"

"Don't say that I'm totally in love or what," Akira said while his face was gettin' redden. "I've just seen her once…"

"So," Tora continued speaking, ignoring Akira's words. "A plan is needed to help you make friend with her soon! A plan called-what's good?-ah, Chasing the Angel plan!"

"What…" Akira gapped his jaw down. What another clumsy idea it was! Tora seemed more vividly of this problem than Akira himself.

"I supposed, Tora, we don't need to…"

"We've decided!" Tora grabbed his bag. "I'll help you! Trust me!"

Akira couldn't help smiling. Tora was a good friend at all. He thought about Akira's problem as if it was his. Akira supposed that was what he probably needed: colourful days with love and friends.

A/N: Finally it's continued! I almost thought not to continue this story, because the reviews aren't much, so I thought the readers don't love this story and I didn't need to be so egoistic writing an unadorable fic. If Flay didn't tell me to think about the readers who want me to write more (even though there are only a few), perhaps this story will end up at the first chap. And, as always, I apologize for my terrible grammar and another clumsy idea. Really, I was shy when I re-read the story. It's a so so so very very OC and wild! How could Akira-kun fell for Tokito-chan? In the manga, what happened is 180 degrees different! I suck, geez… R&R!