CHAPTER 2 SALUTATIONS

Ju-san had woken up early and began walking around the town he visited a shop called Tuskins book trade home to every book under the sun. he tried to open the door but it was locked and when he looked through the window of the shop he looked at all the books and whined a bit. "man that sucks right when I thought I could get the latest book of the rangers apprentice".

He then began to walk around town looking at stores hes never seen before and browsing around weapon shops multiple times. After words he then found a dust shop called from dust till dawn he walked in and grabbed an issue of the latest weapons monthly and bought two red dust crystals.

After words he had walked around for a bit more and as he was turning toward a corner someone had crashed into him making them both land on the floor. "ouch ouch ouch" Ju-san said then as he looked down on the person he had landed on he saw a somewhat clueless look upon the green eyes that gazed on him. He had landed on a girl with emerald green eyes a light red orange hair with a pink bow wearing a long sleeve shirt with a skirt and black leggings.

Finally noticing where Ju-sans hand had been his face turned bright red and he stood up quickly half expecting the girl on the ground to get up and slap him. But as he stood there she had done nothing she simply sat up and looked at him. "s-sorry about that here want me to help you up" Ju-san said slowly reaching a hand toward her.

"yes thank you I would appreciate that very much" the girl said grabbing his hand and getting lifted up. "u-um miss are you ok are you hurt any where?" asked Ju-san, "no I feel wonderful thank you for asking" replied the girl. 'man this girl is weird….then again I cant say much about myself either' Ju-san thought to him self.

Then suddenly the green eyed girl darted her eyes behind Ju-san looking at two soldiers running toward them. "oh no they caught up to me already" said the girl but as ju-san heard what she had said he then without a second thought grabbed her hand leading her to a near by ally way.

'man I just know this is a bad idea' he thought to himself then after they had escaped the ally they turned to another corner and saw a long line of people waiting in front of a store. Ju-san then moved into the middle of the line cutting in front of multiple people hearing shouts like "hey no cutting" and "get into the back of the line". "sorry just need to get to the other side of you guys im not cutting" Ju-san said and as they got to the other side the wall of the store blocked there way and of they turned back the two soldiers would most likely see them.

He then pulled out his black cloak from his bag and put it on with the hood and placed his mask on his face. He then hugged the girl and rapped her around the cloak with him surprisingly they both had fit. He hadn't noticed before but it seemed the girl was about a head shorter than he was and looking passed the line of people he saw the two soldiers looking around trying to find them. They then ran off and the coast was clear for them.

Sighing Ju-san thought 'now why in the hell did I do this for' he then uncovered the front of his cloak and saw the girl hugging him back. "w-when did you h-hey you can let go now there gone" Ju-san said with a blushing face. The girl looked up at him and said "my apologize and thank you for helping me" then let go.

They walked back over to the other side and the girl stopped him and stretched her hand out to him "hello my name is penny what is yours" she said. Slowing shaking her hand he said "ju-san so penny why were those guys chasing you anyhow". "oh them don't worry they are nice people they just want to keep me safe they don't think im ready to protect myself yet" penny had said. Then looking at her Ju-san smiled and said "you know I can see why as well. But still that doesn't explain why you were running away from them".

Penny frowned a bit and said "well you see they do want to protect me but I decided to go out and explore the town. Ive never actually explored this place before so I wanted to see this all for myself without anyone accompanying. There are a lot of people here it's so lively I love it so many new things to explore it's so sensational isn't it".

Ju-san then opened his mouth to speak but closed it as he thought 'I guess this girl and I are no different after all'. Suddenly he saw penny lean in on her tip toes staring at Ju-san saying "so ju-san why did you help me out back there without knowing the reason for it".

He then began scratching his head and thought for a moment and said "you know im not really sure myself. I guess you could say im here for the same reason as you to explore". "hmmm" penny said and just kept looking at Ju-san and then said "you know you seem a bit scary but you remind me of someone". "hehehe I get that a lot" ju-san said "sooooo penny you uh want to you know….hang out I mean we are both practically here for the same reason. And I thought we could look around the town as you know….friends"

Penny then just stared at him a bit wide eyed and Ju-san couldn't think of whether to take that as a shocked expression a confused expression or a clueless. Blushing he then said "I-I mean if its alright with you its only just a suggestion but you don-". "Did you call me friend?" Penny said interrupting Ju-san. "I uh no-yeah I mean yeah I called you friend why do you ask" Ju-san said, then penny grabbed his hand and said "then….i would love to go "hang out" with you".

Ju-san then began to blush a bit as her saw her smile he then scratched his cheek and said "s-so uh where do you want to go". Penny then looked around and looked at the store where the line had been. The sign read 'old and new electronics store grand opening' penny then grabbed Ju-sans hand and dragged him over to the end of the line and said "lets go here the hasn't opened yet and by looking at the size of it the line should be down instantly".

'um ok seems like she knows what she's doing so I guess I can just go along with it' Ju-san thought. Then as the sign of the store said open and the doors started splitting the line began to shrink faster than Ju-san had thought. Then realizing penny was still holding his hand she bolted to the door and passed everyone brining us to the back section of the store.

Breathing heavily Ju-san said "penny please warn me when u will do that you, your a lot stronger than I had thought of you to be". Then noticing she wasn't listening he walked next to her to see what she was looking at. She was looking at a pair of head phones she had on but Ju-san noticed he couldn't hear anything out of them. looking at a button near penny he pushed it and her expression changed to a curious surprise as the music that was playing was fireflies by owl city.

She looked at Ju-san quickly taking off the headphones and said "hey Ju-san try it try it its amazing see". Smiling Ju-san put on the head phones and saw her face give off a curious expression and he put thumbs up to her giving her a brighter smile. 'man these headphones are actually good quality but im sure there out of my price range' he then took off the headphones and the both of them had explored the store. They began looking at phones scrolls computers and holographic screens, then finally noticing a booth with multiple people in line they walked over and saw that it was a drawing to see who would get the newest scrolls and one free gift of whatever item in the store.

Looking at penny who seemed eager to try it they both walked up to the booth and Ju-san said "yes excuse me we would like to try out for this drawing thing". The booth manager then smiled and said "oh what a cute couple yes yes here you are just draw a piece of paper from this box here and if the alarm goes off you win". 'couple? Hmm she's got the wrong Idea but hey might as well take advantage of that' Ju-san thought.

'couple? I wonder what that means hmm ill ask ju-san about it later' penny thought. They then both put there hands in the box and Ju-san pulled out a loser ticket. Then waiting for penny to pull hers out she slowly pulled it out and grabbed a winner ticket. Then red alarms began blaring out and kept announcing winner winner winner!.

The booth manager smiled and said "looks like our cute couple here has just won two scrolls and a free ticket for 2 items in the store of whatever they like. Give our winners a round of applause people". Then hearing the applause penny wasn't sure what to do and Ju-san patted her head and said "well looks like your on a convenient streak of luck. First me now this awesome right".

Penny smiled and said nothing then after getting there 2 scroll cases they got two free headphones penny tried them on again. Frowning she said "strange no music is coming out hey Ju-san why isn't there any music coming out of these".

Laughing a bit Ju-san said "here let me see it what kind of music do you want to listen to". Penny thought and quickly said "the one that those headphones were playing earlier". He then began downloading the song and showed penny what to do if she wanted to listen to music. She then tried it and smiled to the melody of the music. Ju-san then grabbed her scroll and took a picture of her with both his and her scroll. She looked confused then Ju-san took a picture of himself with the scrolls as well.

"hey penny come here next to me, now grab your scroll up and point it at us" Ju-san said and penny did as told. Ju-san then put his up and said "now aim the camera at us and smile" they both did and took a picture. Ju-san then set that picture of both of them as a wallpaper for both scrolls and put his picture as penny's first contact and penny's picture as his first contact.

Smiling he said "there now whenever you want to call me just click that image alright" he said giving back her scroll. Then suddenly hugging Ju-san penny said "thank you Ju-san no one has ever done this for me before". Ju-san still smiled then felt a crushing pain around his waist realizing it was from the hug "ouch penny….your crushing …..me" he said. Penny then let go embarrassed and Ju-san laughed a bit then looking at his clock he saw that it was almost three thirty. "oh crap sorry penny I got to go I'm going to be late" said Ju-san as he tried to run off.

Stopped midway by penny gabbing his hand she said "Ju-san…please don't leave we were having so much fun". Ju-san stared at her looking at her sad expression and feeling bad for her he walked up and kissed her forehead saying "im sorry but I have to go. But don't worry any time you need me just call and ill come hangout with you ok".

Penny nodded and Ju-san smiled running off and waving goodbye then as Ju-san was lost in sight penny remembered something. 'oh I forgot to ask him what that lady meant by a couple' she thought.