Ohayo gozaimasu!!!!!!! Sorry it took me so long to write the next chapter, I've ben busy studying for stuff an just got carried away with time….thanks for the comments and I swear this chapter will be better than my last one! Well! Until next time!! Tanoshimu!!!

Ride 2

"Kyuko! It's time to go now!" Kino says while tying his ATs." Why do they make these so hard to put on! Kyu- oh…there you are…. lets go!" Kino stands up and Kyuko jumps into his bag as they bolt out the door. Kino takes off in the usual blur of speed, heading towards Ikki's home to see if he wants to walk with him to school.
"Ikki? Are you home?" Kino stops and Kyuko jumps out of his bag landing on the floor and walks to the front door by himself.
" Yeah! I'm coming! Let me just finish getting ready!" Ikki popped his head out the window for a second a black smudge on his cheek and he looked like he hadn't slept in days.
" aah….you got something on your face" Kino pointed at his cheek and Ikki wiped it and looked at his hand.
"Thanks! Now…I'll be out in a minute! Come in and wait!" with that he went back into his room.
"um…o…k…" hesitantly Kino walked up to the front door and looked down at Kyuko who was sniffing at it. He sighed and hung his head down, knocking softly on the door, he scooped up Kyuko who made a small yip.
Ringo opened up the door." Who is it? Oh…you're…. Um…one of…Ikki's friends? Right?"
" y-yea…my name's Kinorian Kanior….just call me Kino though….." crap! I thought Ikki would answer the door…she is kinda pretty though!
"Hi there Kino! I'm Ringo! Um…why are you staring at me like that? Do I have something on my face?!" Ringo started wiping her face trying to clean whatever she thought was on it.

"N-no! No…it's just…. never mind….is Ikki ready yet?" I hope he's done! I hope he's done! I hope he's done!!! I wana get out of here!!

"oh, hold on I'll go get him!" Ringo took off running towards Ikki's room.
"Is she with Ikki?" Kino looks down at Kyuko and Kyuko just stares up at him, tilting his head to the side.

"Ikki? Kino is waiting for you….are you done with…what are you doing?" Ringo knocked in Ikki's door and opened it slightly to peek at what he was doing. Ikki was sitting on the floor working on his ATs, which had broken during the last race. Ikki stood up, wiped the grease and oil off his hands and face, grabbed his bag and went to his door. Ringo eeped and closed the door again as Ikki opened it acting as if she hadn't seen anything.
"So…what where you doing in there Ikki?" Ringo fake looked past him as if curious as to what he was doing.
"I was just fixing my ATs…again…I broke off the front wheel, so I had to replace it." He walked past her and headed for the front door, to where Kino was playing with Kyuko. Kino looked up and stood, grabbing Kyuko and putting him back inside his bag.
"You ready to go?" Kino asked smiling at Ikki as if it had ben a long time since they've talked.
" Yeah. Um… aren't you going to get in trouble for bringing a pet to school?" Ikki pet Kyuko and Kyuko licked his hand.

"Nah, Kyuko's a good boy, aren't ya?" Kyuko barked in response to the statement and they both walked out of the house, heading in the usual direction towards the school.

After classes were over Kino waited for Ikki to come out, along with Ikki's other friends, along with Kazuma and Onigiri. Ringo hiding in her corner ready to stalk him as usual. Kyoko walked around in circles while Kino watched him bored, revving his ATs once in a while. A few minutes later Ikki ran out of the building, and towards Onigiri and Kazuma. Disappointed Kino grabbed Kyuko and rode away on his ATs, looking for something to do. Suddenly a boy with an eye patch and an orange straight jacket, dragging what looked like hooks at the end of bandages flew past him, Kino looked confused, but not seeing what was in front of him, he crashed into a wall.

"Ow…who was that?" getting up and wiping dirt off his clothes he turned around and went looking for the boy in the strange orange clothes. He was lead back to Ikki and his group, who were now wearing black jackets and at least trying to learn to ride ATs while the boy in the orange jacket stood there laughing at all of them. Kino just watched from a distance, unknowing that someone was watching him.

"Teams…. who needs to be a part of one…they just slow you down…" Kino rode away on his ATs unknowing of where he was gonna go, still unaware to the person following him. The sun went down and Kino was still riding slowly in circles around the city, taking in the sites, and looking over his shoulder now and again.

" Kyuko….do you ever get the feeling your being watched?" Kino looked down at Kyuko who was running beside him and Kyuko barked in response. They shrugged off the feeling and kept moving.

"heheh…simple boy….doesn't even know I'm here yet…" a cloaked figure with silenced ATs rode at a distance, watching him. suddenly Kino stopped, a parts war race was going on and he decided to watch. Soon enough he saw it was Ikki and his group racing against some strangers in yellow outfits, and on a fence no less. Ikki's team seamed like they were loosing until a girl wearing a school swimsuit, a bad blonde wig, and a hat jumped into the race.

"is that Ringo?" Kino thought as he shrugged and kept watching the race. The figure that was following him earlier decided to make its approach now. He got close enough to him and covered his mouth with a large hand.

"stay silent….listen to me, and do exactly as I say." Kino could do nothing except agree, and nodded looking with his eyes for any reflection of who was holding him.

"Good…now…take these ATs…and ride them…" the figure threw down some ATs on the ground, an eerily dark black shoe, with blood red wheels, an insignia on the side of each AT but it was too dark to see what it said. Kino nodded and the figure let him go, he turned around but it was gone. He bent down, undid his ATs and put on the ones that were left by the mysterious person.

" That was weird…why would someone force me to use brand new ATs…." Kino shrugged and looked up to see the rest of the race, but it was over by then. He stood up and lightly pressed down on his new ATs, instantly riding away at high speed, way faster than his old ones.

"Wonder how fast these can go!" Kino leaned all his weight on the ATs, and the wheels started to glow as sparks flew from them he sped off and an uncountable speed, nothing but a blur as he passed by, dragging massive amounts of wind behind him, his eyes widened as he saw the pool, he was moving too fast to stop in time so he hoped he could jump it. He went to jump but he was too late, he closed his eyes and got ready for the rush of water, but it never came, he opened up his eyes, looked down and saw he was gliding over the water, looking back the water was splitting behind him into a trail of waves. He tried stopping, thinking it would take a while due to the speed he would need a lot of space, but he stopped instantly, knocking him off balance and all the water came crashing down on him.

"like the moon who controls the sea, you bend the water to your will…" a voice, the same voice that had talked to him before now spoke out of sight. Standing up and shaking off the water, Kino looked around to see where it was coming from.

"who are you? Where are you?" a shadowy figure stepped out from the darkness, the person was wearing a large cloak over it so it couldn't be seen, then the figure lowered the hood revealing the face of the stranger.

COMMENT TIME: sorry I had to end it there, but I should have more time to write the next chapter soon!! I hope I don't take too long with that one either! Well until next time! Sayonara!!