A/N: Hello :D Anyway, this is the current plot so don't get confused! Presently, both Kotori and Honoka are in love with Umi. Umi seems to be falling for Honoka, in lieu with their previous life, whereby Umi and Honoka, who's a guy, were together. All that's left is for Umi to choose between Honoka and Kotori. Confusing? Nope, not really XD. I'm trying to work out how to pull other pairings in without making the plot too complicated to follow...so yea.

Oh yeah, Reviews are appreciated! :)

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People often scoff at the thought of reincarnation.

"That's just a belief stemmed from Buddhism right?"

That's what everyone would say when she tried telling people that reincarnation was not just a mere belief. At least, not in Minami Kotori's case.

She didn't know any other word to describe what it was except maybe the words "Beginning a new life".

She hadn't thought it was possible at first. But after putting one and three together when she was in middle school, she realised that she was the epitome of reincarnation, or rather, a reincarnated person.

For as long as she could remember, she had had memories of her past life in a certain city town but she couldn't figure out where it was. Nor did she know the cause of her apparent death. She recalled that she was the princess of the current King and there seemed to be a conflict between her family and anther family who's competing for the throne.

One would think that it's pretty "cool" to retain the memories of your past life but that wasn't the case for Kotori.

Back in her past life, she'd known most of the members of μ's. Honoka and Umi were no exception. They were childhood friends even though all three of them were from different lineages. Unfortunately, history seemed to have repeated itself. Back then, she was also in love with the blue haired girl and Honoka, who was a boy, (She still didn't understand why Honoka's a girl now) had gotten together with Umi.

Imagine the inner turmoil in the greyish-brown-haired girl now.

Oh, Kotori was confused and troubled in the beginning when she discovered her feelings for her childhood friend. But as the memories of her past life gets stronger, her love for the other girl grew stronger as well.

Often she wondered if she hadn't had these memories, would things change? Would she still fall in love with her best friend? The answer had come immediately to her.

No. She would still fall for Umi even without having past memories of her falling for her best friend.

Now that she realised that Honoka is in love with Umi, it brought another set of problems.

Is Umi better suited for Honoka?

Or rather, is Honoka better suited for Umi?

Would Umi like Honoka more?

That thought only served to depress the girl more.

The insecurity had stemmed from the past memories she had. In their previous lives, Honoka's feelings were reciprocated. Kotori knew that she shouldn't be so pessimistic but she couldn't help but feel that she was going to be heartbroken again.

Furthermore, even though Honoka's a female now, it still doesn't change the fact that she was a boy in their previous life. The attraction certainly wasn't unnatural. Unlike hers.

Ever since she was young, Kotori have been captivated by the shy and quiet blue-haired girl. She often had dreams and fantasies of her – she didn't know that they were just her past memories then – and didn't realise that a girl falling for another girl was unnatural until she was in middle school.

Ever since she discovered her true feelings for her best friend, she'd painstakingly hidden the forbidden feelings deep inside her.

It was only recently that her feelings started to become too much for her. The overflowing love she felt for the other girl made her heart ache whenever she saw her.

She didn't know what to do anymore.

Of course, she couldn't tell anyone about all of these. Not only was the love she had for Umi unnatural and sinful, no one else knew that she'd retained memories of her past life.

Not even Honoka.

Not even Umi.

"Hey, Umi-chan."

"Yes?" The bluenete muttered absently.

"Do you wanna hang out?" Honoka finally worked up the courage to ask his beautiful childhood friend.

"Mmm…Sure," Umi said, "What about Kotori?"

"W-Well…" Honoka stuttered a little.

Umi blinked, and smiled as understanding crossed her mind, "Just the two of us huh?" she smirked.

Honoka blushed lightly and looked away.

How cute. Umi thought to herself as she looked at him. She hadn't realised it at first but now that had taken a closer look at him, the ginger- haired boy had grown. Not just in terms of physical height. Sure, he's taller now but his shoulders are broader and his hair was longer than before as well. He'd combed his hair back, styling it to give it a more "wild" and "cool" look as the ends of his hair stuck out a little, the tail of his hair reached further down his neck, almost reaching the shoulder. His sapphire blue eyes were still the same as ever, so deep that it could almost suck her down to the depths of the ocean. Her eyes slowly drifted down to his nose before it stopped at his lips. His lips. Soft looking lips. For a second, she wondered how it would feel like to press her lips against the ginger-haired boy's lips. If only –

"Umi-chan…?"

Umi snapped out of her thoughts immediately and it was her turn to blush when Honoka had caught her staring at his lips.

"W-We should get going then. The day is short." Umi said hastily as she started to walk away from Honoka, trying to shake off her embarrassment. What was that? Why did I…? Umi was starting to get a little confused.

"Yea, you're right." The boy decided as he ran to Umi's side, catching up to her, the ends of his mouth curled into a smile as he secretly thought, Maybe I shouldn't have interrupted her…

"Where are we going?" Umi asked, shaking her head mentally, trying to drive the image of Honoka's lips away from her mind.

Honoka pondered for a while, "I don't know…How about we just take a walk down the field near the castle and just spend time together?"

"Sounds like a plan," Umi said teasingly, nudging the boy.

The ginger-haired boy started to smirk and said, "Should we get going then?"

"Lead the way."

"Umi-chan, Umi-chan!" a loud and familiar voice called out.

Umi mumbled something incoherently under her breath, trying to ignore the loud voice that was currently preventing her from her beauty sleep. For once, she was having a rather peaceful and nice dream.

"Hey, Umi-chan! Wake up! The rest would be here in a few minutes!" the voice persisted on.

Irritated, the bluenete opened her eyes slowly, only to look directly into someone's sapphire blue orbs.

Her eyes widened in shock as she immediately scurried backwards with a squeal, her face for some reason, reddened considerably.

"H-Honoka?" Umi stammered. Why's her f-face so up close…?

"You finally woke up." The ginger-haired girl stated, "We didn't want to disturb you since you looked like you were really tired but…" the girl trailed off and shrugged apologetically.

"I-It's fine…" Umi stuttered, still reeling in shock. Why am I stuttering?

"You…okay?" Honoka frowned slightly, "Your face is red. Did you catch a fever or cold?"

"N-No." Umi said, avoiding Honoka's gaze. Why am I avoiding her eyes?

Suddenly, she remembered. She remembered her dream. She remembered the entrancing sapphire blue eyes…

"Umi-chan, what's wrong?" Honoka tried again, when she saw that her childhood friend was now frozen at the spot, her face flushed.

"N-Nothing." Umi muttered quickly. Too quickly. Her heart started to beat quicker for reasons, unknown to her. Nonetheless, sensing that the other girl didn't want to let her know, Honoka stopped asking. Instead, she walked up towards the bluenete and extended her hand out.

Hesitantly at first, Umi reached out and Honoka grabbed her hand.

Her hand is so warm…Umi thought unconsciously as she let her best friend pull her up from the ground.

On the other hand, Kotori was silently watching the exchange between the two, her heart felt as if it was being stabbed by a knife. She saw how Umi was reacting weirdly towards Honoka and also noticed that Umi was blushing more than usual. Sure, Umi was often embarrassed but this time, Kotori felt that the blush was different than usual. It felt more of a blush after seeing or being with one's crush. She also noticed the look that Umi was giving Honoka. Whether she knew it or not, Umi was staring intently into Honoka's eyes when the ginger-haired offered her hand to help her up, as if mesmerised by the depth of the other girl's blue eyes.

She couldn't describe with words the hollowness and emptiness she was feeling inside of her. All she knew was that she had to control herself and bury the feelings deep inside her. She can never let anyone know about her feelings and she wouldn't want it to affect club activities as well.

Unbeknownst to Kotori, there was someone else watching her watching the whole exchange between the two girls in front of her. Nozomi sighed inwardly and shook her head slightly.

This might get messy. The purple head thought as she saw the hurt and pained look in Kotori's eyes. It broke her heart to see the always lively and cheerful Kotori being hurt and resigned. She would have to talk to the younger girl later, she decided.

Fortunately, a shout broke Kotori's depressing thoughts.

"Hey, guys! Sorry we're a little late!"

All four girls including Nozomi, turned around and saw the rest of the μ's waving at them. Eri was the one who was shouting just now.

Taking in an agonised and deep breath, Kotori put up an invisible mask as she smiled brightly at them, "Good Morning, guys!"

A/N: Chapter two done!

Major Mike Powell III: Thanks~ :) Hope that this chapter gives you an idea what's gonna happen for the next few chapters. Umi's gonna dream more drea- oops. I mean, dream about her past life more often and it would be terrible if a memory suddenly seize her all of the sudden right? ;) I have no idea how good or bad this would turn out so yea :)