Chapter 2: Introductions to faces from the past

Author's note:

Well here we are again, sorry for taking my time with this chapter but some things came up which took precedence over my time. Anyway I have taken some liberties in making Riki a much more confident individual but if you have an issue with this please let me know. I hope you enjoy the next part of this story, sorry for the short length but I didn't want to try and cram the next part into this chapter as well. I shall also be doing a fiction on "A Certain Magical Index" at the same time as this so if you want updates for this to be regular please do review, follow etc, it really helps motivate to get more out there.

Until next time everyone.

Update:

Right so I have a break right now and suddenly remembered that I was writing things. That being said I have gone over my stories and reformatted them hopefully making them more readable and now that I have finished a chapter on my other story I want to turn my attention back to this one. So with any luck expect a couple of chapters on this one in the coming month, I forgot how much I enjoyed writing this and reading back over it I'm still reasonably pleased with it. So with that said onwards!

Story start:

Light broke through the cracks in the curtains and danced upon her face beckoning her to awake from her sleeping state. Kurugaya slowly came to and began to haul herself out of bed, she may be one of the most academic and active people within her school but that didn't make getting up any easier. This morning, however, more than any other morning she had motivation to get up, it was a weekend and the hole within her memory had finally been filled. Today was the day she would be reintroduced to the Little Busters and finally get to spend time with Riki without the impending collapse of a dream to worry about.

Sitting on the edge of her bed Kurugaya leaned over and turned on some music to listen to whilst going about her morning routine. She tried to find a new artist every week to broaden her music taste and this week she had been pleasantly surprised by what was presented by English acoustic guitarist and singer/songwriter Jon Gomm. She stood up to go and have her shower, get changed and prepare for the day ahead, her music probably was too loud but it was highly unlikely that anyone would be brave enough to confront her on the matter.

Once she was ready she stopped her CD and left her dorm room, she had agreed to meet Riki outside the boys dorm before meeting up with everyone else at the baseball field. As she approached there meeting point her heart began to race, she had accepted the fact that she loved Riki but after either lacking the understanding or existence of her own emotions for so long this was all very strange and new to her.


Riki was standing just outside the boy's dorm, he may have grown a lot more confident since the events of the illusion world but he was still nervous at the prospect of revealing his relationship to all of his friends. Although he remembered Kurugaya's dream loop no one else had and Riki had not felt the need to enlighten everyone with the fact that he and Kurugaya had dated for a time…. well one day…. well a day that looped multiple times but the point still remained.

He looked up from his feet and his heart rate spiked as he noticed Kurugaya walking over towards him, he flashed her a smile as she arrived and as if on queue her face turned a shade of crimson only for Riki's to take on a similar colour as her obvious beauty sank in. Of course most male's eyes would be drawn straight to her chest but putting that aside her long black hair fell graciously down her back with a single lock being twined with a golden ribbon trailing down the front of her body which in itself could only be described as having been sculpted to perfection and he couldn't help but being captivated by her striking violet eyes. She was simply perfect and what's more she was his, how, Riki would probably never understand but he wasn't going to spend too long questioning it either.

"Hey child" Kurugaya said in way of greeting, a slightly mischievous smile gracing her lips.

Riki sighed "you know I'm not sure who should be embarrassed by that, the implications of that statement would make it appear that you are dating a child," he replied mimicking her mischievous look at which point they both let out a small chuckle. "Well then", he continued, taking her hand, "shall we?"

Kurugaya's face once again took on a shade of crimson but she let off a genuine smile nonetheless and replied, "Of course, it'll be good to meet everyone again finally."

He smiled back at her saying "Now that I think about it, would you please try refrain terrorising Kyousuke or Kengo too much within our fighting competitions? Masato has such a tiny brain it's unlikely he'll remember but those two may start giving you a wide berth if you're not careful."

"I'll take it into consideration," she stated, laughing slightly at the thought of the almighty Kyousuke trembling before her.


The light banter between them carried on like this as they made their way out to the field where everyone was waiting for them. Kurugaya was feeling incredibly happy, an emotion that she had only uncovered by being around these people known as the Little Busters, it would be great to finally meet them all again.

As they walked over the mound into the field everyone rushed in to greet them all of them smiling kindly and trying to talk to her at the same time, well except for Kengo, Masato and Kyousuke who of course were far above this response but they still smiled in acknowledgement. The result of everyone talking at once of course was an indecipherable noise aside from the occasional high pitch "Wafffuuu!" escaping from Kud chan.

Finally Kyousuke intervened noticing the slightly overwhelmed look upon Kurugaya's face he simply walked to the centre of the group and raised his hand causing everyone to fall silent. Once again he looked over at Kurugaya and Riki and his eyes suddenly widened in shock.

"You two do realise you're holding hands right?" He said slowly.

The couple looked at each other before letting out a laugh

"No Kyousuke this perfectly obvious situation did not once occur to either of us" Kurugaya managed to get out after calming down a little.

Kyousuke frowned a little "But why?" he questioned.

Riki simply looked at him and said with a smirk "Seriously Kyousuke you should probably leave the idiotic comments to Masato, the lack of intelligence suits him better." A dissatisfied grumble could be heard from Masato but before it could go on Riki continued, "but seeing as none of you seem to have caught on yet" he pulled Kurugaya closer to him wrapping his arm around her waist "We're dating."

This time the reply was unified "EEEHHHHHH!"