Chapter II - Time to tell the truth.

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Yuma shot up from his bed and shouted Astral's name, tears still running down his face. His sister and gran burst into the room. "Yuma are you alright?!" Akari said, her voice panicked her eyes widened when she saw her brother crying and when she was about to pull him into an embrace Haru stopped her and kindly asked Akari to leave while she talked to Yuma.

"What's wrong, honey?" Haru asked her crying grandson, which only resulted in the teen crying even more. Panicked Haru tightened her hold on Yuma and started to pat his head and make calming 'shoosh' noises in attempt to calm him down.

"H-h-he's gone gran!" Yuma cried.

"Who's gone, Yuma?"

"ASTRAL!" Yuma sobbed out as he began to cry even harder. Haru sighed, but she never once let go of the shaking form in her arms.

"Who is Astral, Yuma?" There was a pause as Yuma tried to quieten his sobs but failed. "Yuma if you tell me who the 'Astral' is then I can try to find him for you so you can be happy again." Haru said, trying to reason with Yuma to tell her who Astral was and why he was so important to Yuma.

"Y-you won't f-f-find him."Yuma said, still trying to calm his tears away.

"And why's that?" Haru asked, her eyes softened with sympathy for her grandson.

"'Cause he's went back to the Astral world and I'll never get to see him again." He cried, again. Haru looked at Yuma who seemed to be having an internal war with himself on weather he should tell his gran everything or to carry on crying helplessly.

After a moment of silence Haru spoke up. "Yuma what is 'the astral world'? And who is Astral?" There was no reply. Yuma just sat on his bed looking at his grandmother, trying to decide what he should do. He wanted to tell Haru everything; about Astral; about the Astral world. About how he felt towards the astral being.

Yuma looked up at his grandmother and made a gesture for her to sit on the bed, indicating that he was going to tell her everything. Haru nodded and did as instructed. "First of all you need to promise me that you will listen to everything that I have to say and you have to leave all questions till the end." Haru nodded, agreeing to Yuma's conditions. He took a deep breath and thought about how he was going to tell Haru everything without sounding like a mad man.

After Yuma had explained everything he looked up at his grandmother who was just sitting there, giving her mind a chance to absorb everything that her grandson had just told her and the major confession that she thought that would follow it. A moment of silence passed and Yuma was getting worried; what if Haru didn't believe him? What if she didn't understand his feelings towards the astral being?

When Yuma finally worked up the courage to lift his head and take on the consequences of telling his grandmother, he was surprised by the sight that greeted them. Haru was just sitting there, smiling her face showing no judgement of her grandchild. "Look, Yuma. I know you and were you are active and have an imagination I know that you could never have made something like that up..." Haru took Yuma's hand and squeezed it gently, her facial expression was soft and caring and her eyes were no different. "And, Yuma. I think that you should tell this 'Astral' your true feelings."

Yuma's head shot up, his eyes wide as dinner plates. How did she know about how he felt for Astral? Was he that obvious about it? Is that why Astral hasn't came back to visit him? Because Yuma was too a vinous with his feelings and even the dense astral being noticed and got creeped out but he never told Yuma.

The sight caused Haru to chuckle at the teen's reaction. "Woman's intuition, honey." She reassured Yuma as she saw how his expression darkened. Haru gave her grandson a pat on the back as she stood up and began walking out of the room. When she was standing in the door frame she turned round and gave Yuma one more reassuring smile. "Just tell him and I'm sure that he will understand. You never know; he might like you back." And with that Haru left Yuma in the room to think things over.

"Tell him how I feel, huh?" Yuma said aloud as he fell back down onto his bed. He didn't really do anything after that. He just kinda laid there staring at the ceiling giving what Haru said some serious thought. "Would that even work? No, screw that. Would he even want to see me?" The thought of Astral turning him down and turning him away scared Yuma.

At first it was sheer fear that was ruling Yuma's thoughts until he thought of one important hurdle that he'd have to overcome if he wanted to see Astral again and tell him how he felt; how was he going to get to the Astral World?

When he wondered that Yuma was blinded by the flash of a bright light and once the the light had subsided Yuma dared to take a peek at what had caused the flash, or rather, what came with the flash of light. When he looked up Yuma's shot open wide as standing in the middle of the room was a teenage girl, Yuma would have guessed that she was his age. She had long white hair, red demon like eyes, she also had the same markings that an astral being would have. She was a tall, big built figure. She wore some sort of roman styled dress.

"You. Are you Yuma Tsukumo?" The woman said in a harsh tone that set Yuma aback at first.

"Yes"

"You want to see Astral, right?" Her tone was less harsh but still didn't show any signs of weakness or sympathy for Yuma.

"Yeah."

"Then you better get your ass in gear and get ready 'cuz if your quick enough I'll take you to the Astral World." Yuma's eyes shined like real rubies when he heard the woman's proposal.

"I have some questions." The teen looked at Yuma with an annoyed look but gave him a slight nod of the head telling him to ask away. "Who are you and how can you go to the Astral World?"

"Those are reasonable questions" she said nodding her head. That was when she dropped the hard act and her eyes softened and her voice softened as well as she answered Yuma's question. "My name is Kira Sarutobi. My mother is an Astrak Being and my father is a human so that makes me a half cast. We live in the Astral World due to my mother's high position there of advisor to the current ruler." She smiled brightly. "Sorry 'bout the whole 'tough ass' act. I don't really get along with humans or astral beings. But you see alright."

Yuma returned the bright smile. "Well as you already know. I'm Yuma Tsukumo. I'm full human and I live with my grandmother and sister" Yuma held out his hand. Kira just looked at it in curiosity. Yuma laughed and took her hand and put it in his and then he shook them, Kira gave Yuma another look of curiosity. "It's a thing you do when you are introducing yourself to someone."

"Oh. I thought you were trying to challenge me to a fight because, no offence, but I could kick your ass, little man." Kira smirked. They both burst out into laughter. Yuma was glad that he was finally feeling happy. He made a new friend and he was getting to go see Astral. "Right, so if you're ready let's go." Yuma enthusiastically nodded his head. Kira outstretched her hand. "Hold on tight." And with that they burst into flames and left Earth.

Kira: Hellz yeah! Finally I'm in the picture! :3

Me: *Sighs* Yeah, yeah. Just remember who the real main characters are here okay?

Kira: I know.

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