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Chapter 2; Concealing yet deceiving

We ate dinner happily, but Kido seemed quite distracted. Even while we cooked she seemed lost in thought, and wouldn't even look at me as I cooked by her side. She usually watched to make sure I did everything properly, but now she was looking intently at her hands. I felt kind of bad that stealing her thoughts crossed my mind, but she was making it very hard not to when she almost stabbed herself with a skewer, and again made my curiosity difficult to contain when she wasn't paying attention to the food, almost burning it. I had known Kido since I met her at the orphanage, and I don't think I've ever seen her this way. The frown on her face as she attempted to eat the negima on her plate was actually kind of cute, until she almost stabbed herself in the face with the skewer; again.

'Damn it Kido, stop making this damned eye power hard to control!'

Her hair curtained her face, kind of like vines hanging down from some trees in the forest, and I had to fight the part of me that wanted to put her hair behind her ear. The guys that did that in movies usually kissed the girl right after, and no matter how much I loved Kido, I don't really know if it is THAT kind of love.

"What if it is?" The little voice inside my head whispered.

I was honestly shocked by the comment, especially since I was the one questioning myself. Did I like Kido in that way? I looked at her again, absorbing what she looked like, how much she has changed since the first day I met her. Her hair was certainly much longer, and it was nice to actually SEE her most of the time now. Yah, she was always there; but with our eyes out of control I didn't see much of her. I just heard her.

I saw her face when I first heard her thoughts so long ago at the orphanage. How I poked her cheek to make sure I wasn't going crazier than I already was, to make sure someone was really there. Her tear stricken face, her pink nose, her red eyes looking into mine; not in the sense that she was crying red, but her irises were actually blood red. Those depressing thoughts that taunted me replaced with questions, wondering if this was really happening. She was just like Kano and I, she was different. I hated to put it this way, but she was a monster; just like us. I could hear it in her depressing thoughts before I even saw her red eyes, because what normal child would think that way?

I don't remember much of her train of thoughts when we were kids. It was so long ago and I heard the thoughts of every single person that I passed every day until I finally got control over my eyes. Just thinking about the buzzing noise that was once the words going through every single mind of the population of our city was giving me a headache.

I noticed after a while that I was still staring at Kido, and she still didn't notice that I was staring at her. I don't think anyone else really noticed either; Konoha was eating his leaning tower of negima, Hibiya was using his empty skewers to make something, Momo was scolding him about it, Kano was snickering and teasing Momo about acting like a mom to Hibiya, Mary was happily eating at her own pace (at least until Konoha finished and started staring at her food), Shintaro was glaring at his phone, and Ene was probably annoying him, which would explain the glaring.

Nobody seemed to notice how out of it Kido was, but I didn't feel like pointing it out or bothering her, so I just looked down at my own food; which had remained untouched. I didn't realize that I was thinking so much of Kido that I hadn't even touched my food.

I began to eat, looking at my family around me. Although we were not connected by blood, they were still my family. I smiled as Hibiya finished building a house out of Konoha's empty skewers and heard Mary's giggle of delight. She clapped and tried to get Kido's attention, but she was still so out of it that she it took a while to get her to look up from her plate.

For that short instance she looked up, we locked eyes. I saw her face flush pink before she looked down again, and I felt my face heating up too. I knew that I liked Kido more than the other girls, but I had always figured it was because I knew her much longer.

"I know this girl, but I don't. I feel like I should at least attempt to get to know the real her. She has been in my life for so long, but I have no idea who she is. How should I find out more about her?"

For an instant, I heard a couple of voices playing in my head, and I had no idea where they were coming from until I heard Kano gasp in front of me.

I looked up at everyone around me, their voices were silent, but the voices echoing in my head, once jumbled up and confusing said, "His eyes…"

I realized it all too late, but my eyes were glowing red. Although everyone's thoughts seemed set on me, and only me, a single person's remain unchanged. A single voice remained undisturbed in thought. I turned to Kido and heard her telling herself to stop thinking that way. I continued to stare at her, waiting for her distraction to be revealed. The last thought I heard before she looked up at me, and her inner self became a jumble of panic and fear was one name.

"Kousuke…"

That is it for this chapter, sorry for posting so late! I didn't have internet connection for a long time. Next chapter coming as soon as possible!