This story took time 6 months after Yukiteru Amano from the second world saved Yuno Gasai from the third world and I also took some moments in Mirai Nikki Redial.

Thank you for Chippen Kitten as the first reviewer. I will try my best not to disappoint you so here is the next chapter.

English is not my first language so I'm sorry for the grammatical errors.

This chapter is Yuno's Point of View.

CHAPTER 2: THE TRIGGER

Yuno's POV

I saw him almost every night.

A boy around my age with black hair. His smile. His voice. His silhouette. His shadows. His blurry face that made me confused. I felt that I knew him the most, that he is the most important person in my life yet sadly and mysteriously, I barely knew anything about him.

Have we met before?

Why do you always come in my dreams?

Are you trying to say something? If yes, say it.

Tell me your name.

Please …

"Who … are … you …?" I mumbled in my sleep. "Uh …."

I grimaced, hearing the blaring of my phone alarm. Lazily I reached it to turn it off.

Same dream again?

Realizing that I would be late for school, I quickly prepared myself and went to the kitchen.

"Mama, if the snooze alarm rings many times, please come and wake me up," I said before biting the toast bread for my breakfast.

"Oh, didn't you say yesterday that you'd wake up by yourself?" She smiled while carrying some plates.

I pouted.

"Morning, Yuno," Papa greeted me before drinking his hot coffee.

"Morning, Papa."

"Yuno-chan, you look tired. Did you sleep well?" Mama questioned worriedly.

"Not really. It's about … just a weird dream."

"Same again?"

I nodded.

Papa and Mama eyed me with concern. For the first times I dreamed about it, I told them. I also asked them if I saw a boy with black hair around my age. (I felt difficult to describe him clearly so they always asked me to forget about it. I did it. But for a few days)

Getting ready for school, I ran to the door. "Ittekimas!"

I ran as fast as I could as I didn't want them wait for me too long. My friends. The tomboy Hinata Hino and her side kick, Mao Nonosaka.

"You're late, Yuno-cchi," Hinata waved her hand.

"Come on! Come on!" Mao encouraged me, standing behind her.

"Sorry to keep you waiting," I said.

"Well, I'm fine but … tardies go straight on the record for honor students, you know?" Hinata grinned as three of us started running.

"That's right! It'd be nice if we could bounce earlier before our grades start to sag." Mao's words made Hinata and me stunned, while our cheeks getting a bit red.

"Why were you looking at me when you said that?!" Hinata screamed while trying to cover Mao's eyes with her hand from looking at her breast area.

Mao laughed, "Yaaah, I can't see!"

I shyly ran, leaving them, that's their morning ritual, and I didn't want to hear more. It was too embarrassing.

"Those two are being too noisy first thing in the morning." Kousaka said, joining us and seeing the two girls with the corner of his eyes.

"Morning, Kousaka-kun," I greeted him.

"Morning."

"What you're running late too?" Hinata asked.

"I'm different from you, guys. I had morning practice." He lifted one of his foot to show his shoes. "Check out these new shoes, you ugly cows! Looking at them move! Dazzling, right?"

Seeing his brand new shoes made the girls want to do something to him.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Kousaka yelled as Hinata and Mao made his shoes dirty by trying to step on it over and over again. "Stop that! These are very expensive!"

I smiled, seeing their antics.

Life was great. Every day was like a blessing to me.

Some people said the ordinary life was boring. But for me, it was happiness. An ordinary student. Very ordinary friends. Ordinary school life. But somehow, there was a part of me that wasn't ordinary at all.

"Again?" Hinata grinned as there were some closed letters in my locker. Love letters, to be exact.

My friends said that I was the most popular student in this school, Umesato Middle School, no, even the students from other schools knew me, making me wonder how they did.

"Didn't you want to read them?" she asked again.

"Hm … no!" I closed my locker. "I don't want."

Before entering my class, I went to the comfort room to wash my hands. I looked at myself in front of mirror and smiled. I was ready for study today.

I was about to go to my class. But when walking in front of the art room that was more quite, a boy came to me. Seeing his face, it looked like he was the upperclassman of mine.

"Can I help you, senpai?" I questioned innocently, standing in front of him.

"Gasai-san. I like you a lot. Please, be my girlfriend!" He also showed me a red rose.

I was speechless. A soft blushes came to my cheeks. Although confession was something that I got almost every school day, the tension never ceased.

I was about to say a polite rejection (I was accustomed for this) but suddenly the sound of the bell shocked us.

Phew. It looked like I had a very good reason to leave now.

"I think we should go to our classes," I smiled uneasily.

"But I really want an answer now," he insisted, looking at my eyes dauntingly.

I swallowed hard. This was the impatient and intimidating one. A chance taker too. Confession right before the class started. I knew he did it purposely.

"Then, I'm sorry. It's no." I made it apologetically, and quickly, as requested.

I saw hurt and pain in his eyes. But then again, like usual, I was adapted for this.

"May I pass now, senpai?" I asked politely. Although I rejected him, I still respected him.

He gave me a way to continue walking.

"Thank you." I bowed a little.

Entering the class, I saw Hinata and Mao eyed me bitterly.

"I think 1-0 at this morning?" the tomboy chirped.

I smiled sadly. "You know I never mean to hurt somebody."

"I know."

The first subject was English, but before the study was started, the teacher checked all his students. A small growl escaped from his mouth as he saw an empty chair placed on the back side.

A male student should sit there at this time. A silver haired one.

"He skips the class again," he mumbled. "I'll tell the principal to warn his parents."

This wasn't the first time Aru Akise got a warning. Other teachers had called his parents for a couple times. But it looked like they were unsuccessful.

"What an annoying new kid," Kosaka groaned.

"At least, he was far smarter than you," Hinata grinned, emphasizing the word of 'smarter' wittingly.

"Oh shut up!" he snarled.

"His last scores even almost threatened Yuno-cchi's position." I giggled at Hinata's comments. "Don't worry, Yuno-cchi. You're still the best!"

Talking about a new kid, I remembered that Aru Akise was entering this school roughly 6 months ago. He said to us that he moved to this city because his parents bought a new house and decided to stay here. Since his scores from his previous school were great, any school could accept him, but he chose Umesato Middle School.

His parents asked why he did it whereas there were two schools nearer to his home, but he insisted without giving a clear reason to the point that they thought this could be about a girl, maybe his crush.

Well, they thought they could see the girl that their son wanted to see every school day, but in fact he always skipped classes, not to mention he also did skip classes too in his previous school, making them wonder if the reason was not about a girl.

FLASHBACK

I remember when he entered this class for the first time. Actually, a new student was the last thing that I ever thought about friends. So when the teacher asked him to introduce himself, I didn't really pay attention. I was taking a note from my journal, then looking the sky from the windows, lost in thoughts, before I felt someone staring at me.

I thought this could be one of my classmates, so my eyes were wandering the class and suddenly stuck when I met the ones with the same color of mine. Thulian. The new student's.

Seeing that I was staring back at him, he didn't decide to look away, just looking at my eyes boldly. Just around 5 seconds our eyes met and finally he gave a small smile, I lowered my head as I felt my cheeks a bit burnt. This was my first time for seeing the male's eyes for more than 2 seconds. Not to mention that he was good looking too (even my female classmates confirmed this later).

END FLASHBACK

Just a week after he moved to this school, all students in this school knew him as a detective-in-training, cooperating with the police. He helped them (this could be his best reason for skipping classes), respectfully making him as 'the detective boy'. It automatically encouraged some students to ask him for help, like looking for the missing pets or cellphones (even some girls asked him to stalk their crushes or boyfriends!).

I heard from Hinata that the detective boy was only interested with crimes or kinda so the chance could be slim if they asked him to stalk someone related to lovey dovey stuffs. Well, except for Moe Wakaba's request.

When today school was over, I was the last ones still in the class.

"Yuno, do you wanna drop by an okonomiyaki shop on the way home?" One of my female classmates asked me.

"Sorry, I'll pass. I have some things I need to do," I said, leaving my class.

I admitted that I almost never wanted to go home with other people (walking home with Hinata, Mao, and Kosaka was a rare occasion) … for a very secretive reason.

I arrived the old building and entered it. My heart was beating so quickly after running for some miles and also because of my eagerness. Silently I went upstairs before walking toward the balcony. I smiled as I saw a telescope placed there.

Although I understood that what I was doing was strange (I had even tried to stop myself many times), I could not prevent it. This was kind of my daily routine.

From the telescope, my eyes stopped wandering as they met what I desired to see the most.

Yukiteru Amano, the boy from my class, walking home with his girlfriend, Moe Wakaba.

I nearly cried happily, seeing him. It was around 6 months ago when I first started peeping like this for 1 reason only: he really did look the same as the boy in my dream.

6 months ago, I was involved in the unexplained explosion incident at Sakurami Middle School. I couldn't remember what happened. But I felt someone saved me there and I thought he was the one that always came in my dreams. Strangely after that, I started restoring my relationship with my parents, which was on the verge of breaking down.

After Yukiteru Amano was too far away from my sight and other buildings covered him, I sighed with regret. How could a weird dream lead me to do this?

Suddenly a sound of pedaling bike caught my ears. Far below the balcony, I saw a boy with silver hair riding his bike and a child siting on the passenger seat coming to this building fast.

Oh no!

It was not the first time they caught me. In fact, from the first day of Aru Akise entered Umesato Middle School - after the school was over - he found me doing this.

I still remembered when it happened.

FLASHBACK

Using binoculars, I was too lost in happiness when paying attention to Yukiteru Amano walking home with his girlfriend, from the roof top of my school building … until his unexpectedly voice was heard not far behind me.

"… such a weird hobby … for an honor student like you, Gasai-san."

The binoculars in my hands almost fell to the floor, hearing that male voice chuckling.

My hands started shaking as sweat came to my head and neck. I turned around my body and saw a silver haired boy leaning against the fence, hands on his dark grey pants' pockets. His scrutinizing eyes met my nervous ones.

"W-What are you doing here?" I asked shakily as I put my binoculars behind my back, trying to hide it from him. "Umm … mmm …." Since I didn't listen to his introduction in our class (and I forgot his name written on the blackboard), all I knew about him was a nameless new kid.

"I could ask the same question to you." He smiled warmly, taking a small journal from the pocket of his white short sleeved shirt (he also wore his trademark purple jacket) before straightening his body and walking to me slowly. "Yuno Gasai, right?"

"… yes …" Strangely, I froze on my spot while on the contrary, my heart yelled at me to run away from him. Did I really let him get too close to me? And where did this fear come from? Wait, fear? Fear or shyness?

He opened his journal and reading steadily, " … a top-notch student at Umesato Middle School. The most popular student with having many fanboys and fangirls. Even 90% of male students here claim you're the most beautiful girl at this school." He chuckled, his amaranth eyes staring at me with unconcealed approval. "Well, I think they are inevitably right."

I almost forgot how to breathe as I couldn't control the blushes on my face, seeing him describing me from his small book. Even though he just read it based on the facts (I silently admired his perfectly controllable emotion), I felt like he was complimenting me. At least, his last sentence proved it.

He closed his journal, putting it back to his pocket and then pushing his hands into the side pockets of his pants. He stopped when he was right in front of me. His height somehow intimidated me.

"Any explanation for this stalking, Gasai-san?"

"I-I should go now." I smiled uneasily. Better I left before it got worse. What was that?! The first time I stalked someone was also the first time someone caught me.

"Why are you so in hurry suddenly?" He tilted his head curiously.

"I have something to do. Well, don't you have it now?"

"I do." He pulled his right hand from his pocket, extending it in front of me. "Since I saw you didn't pay attention when I introduced myself in front of the class, I'd like to make it just for you. My name is Aru Akise. Nice to meet you, the class representative, Miss Yuno Gasai. Or should I call you … the alpha female at Umesato Middle School?"

I didn't dare to see his eyes (because I didn't want to make myself silly by blushing hard) so I was just staring at his hand.

Should we shake hands?

"Here you are, Yuno-cchi!" Hinata's calling almost made my heart jumped. She walked to me but her eyes on the new kid. "Why are you here, Akise?" Then she eyed me, then went back to Akise. "What's going on, you two?" Seeing Akise's hand still extending, she chuckled. "Are you trying to flirt with our class representative? Back off, Newbie! This is your first school day. It's too early for you."

Then Hinata and me walked together to the door, leaving him alone (his hand now was back on his pocket).

END FLASHBACK

I thought I would never been caught again as I tried to play safer, but unluckily for me, he always (read: always) found me. It seemed I wasn't the only one as the stalker here.

"This is as far as you go, Gasai-san!" Aru Akise yelled, stopping his bike roughly as entering the building.

"This is as far as you go, Yuno-oneechan!" The child named Reisuke Houjou, his assistant, chirped happily.

"You've been caught red handed stalking."

"Yeah!"

I ran, avoiding them. "I'm not a stalker! Didn't I say I don't plan on doing anything to him?!"

" 'Please help me. It seems my boyfriend has a stalker.' That's what Wakaba-san requested of us." He said, running on the first floor. "Behave yourself, Gasai-san. It has been 6 months."

I pouted. Moe Wakaba. It was hard to believe she was surprisingly sharp for a very decent girl.

"Be an elite and don't miss!" The kid named Reisuke was ready to attack me with his weird toys. "Arresting net!"

The trap stuff was flying towards me, but I was more agile to evade it.

I couldn't afford to get held up here. I didn't want to face the interrogation, especially from those scrutinizing eyes of the detective-boy over there.

X X X

The next day ….

At the roof top of the abandoned building after school, I stood with my binoculars in my hands as my eyes were checking on my surroundings.

I had even changed the place. They wouldn't come this far, right?

I saw nobody here, except me, and thankfully, the quietness confirmed it too.

Alright, perfect situation for sta … ahem … seeing Yukiteru Amano walking home.

I was about to start but wait! Seeing two suspicious cardboards not far behind me, I felt something would be up.

"There she is!" Suddenly Aru Akise showed himself from inside the cardboard, as his little assistant showed from another cardboard, successfully surprising me.

"Found you, oneechan!"

"Not again!" I uttered desperately, avoiding them as they started chasing me.

It was unfortunate the lift was out of order so I needed to use the stairs. Worriedly, I eyed the window and realized I was on the eighth floor.

Running huh?

I had imagined how far I should run. It wasn't that I was afraid to get tired, but long distance way meant bigger chance they could catch me.

I turned around and saw Aru Akise just a few meters behind me.

"No way !" I turned my head to the front. I was so closed to the stairs. Unexpectedly, just three paces on the stairs, I could not control my feet anymore.

I closed my eyes as I felt like I was flying. Then at the next second, I felt my head and body hit the floor as the awful pain came with it.

"Gasai-san!" Aru Akise shouted, shocked as he stopped on the top of the stairs.

I opened my eyes, hissing to suppress the pain. My hands shakily tried to lift my weak body but they didn't success as my sight was just starting blurring.

"Yuno!"

I just heard his voice near me as I closed my eyes.

Wait? Did he just call me by my first name? I must heard wrong.

I felt like he lifted my body. Bridal style.

Then I heard he was talking to his little assistant, but I didn't really pay attention to it.

My tears couldn't be held anymore because of the pain and also … regret.

'That boy' always came to my dream.

Any stalking that I did was just one purpose only.

I just wished I knew him.

He must be someone important for me.

But why … why did my parents ask me to forget about him?

Why did Aru Akise make this uneasy?

Why was trying to find the truth so difficult and it couldn't be done openedly so I should try with a weird way?

It didn't make any sense for me. It seemed I was forbidden to know it from the first time.

What a strange world.

Weird.

Crazy.

WHAT'S CRAZY IS THIS WORLD THAT REFUSES TO LET ME BE WITH YOU!

Wait! Who said that? My own voice? My own heart?

But before I started to think further, blackness consumed me completedly.

X X X

A/N: Next chapter was about Aru's POV.`