Her Chuujitsu Chapter 2: Boss, a hamtaro fanfic

Boss

"Boss-kun, there's something you should know," she spoke softly as soon as he entered her front lawn. He hadn't even said "Hey" before she started speaking, her voice barely over a whisper.

Boss tentatively approached her. "You can tell me anything, Bijou-chan," he reassured. A small smile spread across her pale lips. She rocked her swing slightly, listening to the night's breeze before she responded.

"If you're sure, Boss-kun…"

"Anything, Bijou-chan! You needn't keep anything from me!"

She stopped her swing and looked at him with sharp, emerald eyes. "I know how much you care for me, Boss-kun, and that it is not friendship you look for with me."

Boss felt the breath get sucked out of him. Subconsciously, his eyes widened and sweat started beading up all around his body. Panicked thoughts raced through his brain: How did she know? Does she love me back?

However, before he could possibly go into a further state of hyperventilation, Bijou stood up and came to Boss. She put both her hands on his shoulders, telling him to soothe himself.

"…Truly, Boss-kun, I believe that you can have any girl you desire! You're a wonderful Ham-Human! You are independent, you're funny, witty…Do you see what I'm getting at?"

Boss, numb at her touch, nodded very slowly.

"…However…"

He should have been expecting this. Why wasn't he surprised that she would say this?

An orange and white image flashed through his mind as she said the last word…

"My heart…That is to say, I lo--I …care for…someone else," she stammered. Boss could see how much she was restraining the tears.

"It's Hamtaro, isn't it, Bijou-chan?" Boss snorted. Bijou let go of him and turned away, nodding her head.

"Was it that obvious?"

Boss gave no answer to this. He just looked at the night sky, the trees, the grass, anything but her, with disgust on his face. Bijou sat back down on her swing.

"I…am glad you figured out it was Hamtaro-san," she said softly. "It's because of him I am talking to you right now."

Boss looked worriedly at her. "What did he do? Did he say something to you, Bijou-chan?" he asked, fists clenched.

"Boss-kun…please, just let me finish?" Her voice was a meek plea. Boss's anger was instantly replaced by apprehension.

"Ok then…this isn't easy to say…" She looked at him carefully before continuing. "He doesn't take my words seriously. I told him, several times, about my feelings, but he counters with how he loves all his friends, too, and sometimes I wonder whether he can be that naïve, or if he is really ignoring what I have to say."

"It couldn't be that he's ignoring, you, Bijou-chan…"

"But if he really did have any feelings towards me, he'd do something, say something, anything that say to me he and I are more than just friends. And Boss-kun, you don't know how much I care for him…how much I love him…"

"Bijou-chan, what are you saying?"

"I'm leaving, Boss-kun," she blurted out. She put her hands on her mouth, but the words had already been spoken. She looked at him apologetically, but he just stared at her in disbelief.

"Bijou-chan, surely he can't cause you so much pain!"

"Boss-kun, I thought you would understand."

He couldn't get any sleep that night, and how could he?

I'm leaving, Boss-kun…

I'm leaving…

Leaving…

Was it really possible to care for someone that much? Did it really hurt her so much every time she saw Hamtaro and knew that he could never return her feelings? Could love truly be that strong?

He kept his hands clasped under his head as he lay on his bed and stared up at his ceiling. How could he rest knowing that Bijou was packing her bags at the moment?

He kept mumbling curses at Hamtaro. His naïveté was cute sometimes, but it was no excuse to continually misjudge Bijou's feelings…

Before he knew it, his alarm clock started buzzing. He felt his weight drop to the pits of his stomach.

Today was one day he knew Bijou was definitely not going to be on the bus today.

It was raining, but his thoughts were too anxious to care. At his mother's urging, he threw an umbrella into his backpack incase the rain got severe.

As he walked past her house, he stopped short, seeing her soaking in the rain. To any passer-by, she would've looked normal: she donned her blue and white school uniform and all she had as any means of luggage was a backpack around her shoulder. She kept her head down, letting herself be overcome by the pouring water.

"Bijou-chan," Boss breathed as he saw her standing there, an air of melancholy surrounding her.

She looked up, as if surprised to see him there. "Konichiwa, Boss-kun," she spoke at long last.

"I have an umbrella in my bag if you'd like one," he explained, but she shook her head.

"I…want to feel the rain, since it will be my last rainstorm in Japan."

The heavy feeling in Boss's stomach returned immediately. "Where are you going?" unaware to him, his voice was a hoarse whisper.

She looked away from him and shrugged. "I'm going abroad, to northern France, I think. My family has a summer house there."

That explained why she wasn't bringing too much luggage.

"Didn't your parents wonder why you were leaving?"

"I told them I was having trouble with my schoolwork and that I would be more comfortable in France," she explained. "My ride should arrive in about twenty minutes or so."

Boss finally asked the question that the two of them had been hesitant to ask:

"So, Bijou-chan, is this goodbye?"

Bijou looked up at him, once again, her eyes startled. "Please don't say it like that, Boss-kun!"

But Boss shook his head, knowing her real answer to the question. He came closer to her, kissed her cheek, and ruffled her hair gently.

"Goodbye, Bijou-chan," he whispered. Bijou's eyes shook with tears, but all Boss could do was walk away, trying to make sure she wouldn't see his tears.

"Hey, Boss-san!"

Boss didn't look up to see the source of that voice. How could he face Hamtaro today? Not now, not when Bijou was probably getting into a car and driving way from the two of them forever!

He could feel the weight of Hamtaro's stare, and he was about to ask what Hamtaro was staring at when Hamtaro spoke.

"You and Bijou-chan are strange. Aren't you getting wet from the rain?"

What? He saw Bijou today? Didn't he care about why she was crying, or why she looked so miserable?

This caused Boss to give Hamtaro a stare of utter revulsion.

"You saw her today?"

"Yeah. She's getting a ride to school today. That's why she's not with me."

How could he be so stupid? She wasn't getting a ride. He had to tell Hamtaro, before he found out when Bijou didn't chow up to school…

"Hamtaro," he was surprised at the way his voice sounded, "how can you be so foolish?"

"Boss-san?" His voice sounded sincerely….clueless. How could he not figure it out?

"She's not going to school, Hamtaro-san."

"Why?"

Because of you! His mind repeated over and over again.

"She's leaving." There. He said it. He didn't care anyway. If Bijou's ride was on time, then she should left a few minutes ago.

"Bo--what!"

When Boss saw the confusion in Hamtaro's eyes, he knew that Hamtaro had some depth of care for Bijou, but Bijou needed more than just some depth.

"Hamtaro, she's leaving." He felt tears swell up his eyes. "And if I'm not mistaken, her ride should have picked her up five minutes ago."

And then Hamtaro became a racing, orange and white blur. He knew that Hamtaro would do this. He would do it for anyone.

But after a few moments of waiting, Boss forgot about the school bus and went to Bijou's house to pick up the mess Bijou left here in Japan.

When Boss returned to the front of Bijou's house, he just saw him, standing there numbly. Was he upset? It was a little late now to show any care.

"She left, didn't she?" The look Hamtaro gave him in response was one Boss thought Hamtaro would never possess.

"Where did she go?"

Would Bijou want him to know? Probably now. So going against his better judgment, he lied.

"I don't know, Hamtaro-san-" but Hamtaro didn't let him finish speaking.

"LIAR! Tell me where she went NOW!"

Boss responded with yet another lie. "She didn't tell me, Hamtaro-san…"

Hamtaro, however, looked adamant. "I'll follow her. I have to. I'm the one to protect her. She needs me there. I have to be there for her."

"Hamtaro-san, don't act crazy."

"I HAVE TO FOLLOW HER! BIJOU! WAIT! I'LL FIND YOU, WAIT!"

Why was Hamtaro acting like he cared all of a sudden when all he did was not take Bijou seriously?

"I'LL FOLLOW YOU, BIJOU! JUST PLEASE, WAIT!"

Boss had to stop this. "Hamtaro-san, she left because of you."

Hamtaro's screams ceased immediately. Hamtaro's cold glare sent shivers all over Boss's body.

"What did you just say?"

Five years later

Could it be?

The past five years, never forgetting the night Bijou told him everything. Never forgetting the memory of her soaked body, telling him how she wanted to feel her last rainstorm in Japan.

Everyday, he thought of her. He thought of her when he told all their other friends where Bijou really was after days without seeing their French friend. He thought of her every time he went on a swing. He thought of her every time he saw someone cry. He thought of her in his dreams. He thought of her every time it rained.

Where she had been for the past half decade, no one knew. She hadn't sent word to any of the Ham-Humans. All they knew was that she was in northern France. What else did she tell them?

But now, he saw a Ham-Human standing before her old house. This Ham-Human had hair so remarkably snow like, so pure and white, that he recognized at first glance.

He sprinted like a rabbit to her figure, and he didn't even care that Hamtaro was there. All he saw was Bijou.

Bijou.

As he approached her, he couldn't help but notice that there was some color back in her cheeks. Her hair had grown a few inches. She stood with dignity. She wasn't the lonesome Ham-Human she left as.

"Bijou-chan!" he felt his heart pound against his ribs with excitement. As soon as he got near enough, he engulfed her in his hug. She even smelled the same.

"Hello, Boss-kun." Was that a smile on her face? He had forgotten how beautiful she looked when she smiled.

But the moment was interrupted when little Bijou addressed Hamtaro. "Father, who is she?"

To this, Boss looked up at Bijou nervously. She couldn't handle not having Hamtaro love her back, so how was she supposed to survive this?

"Just an old…friend, sweetie."

Friend? Boss learned over the past five years how much Hamtaro really considered Bijou a 'friend'.

Boss felt Bijou break away from him. She kneeled down to the little girl's level.

"You know, you still haven't told me who you are."

"Bijou-" Hamtaro tried to cut her off, before Bijou could learn the name of the child.

"I was named after the only woman my father ever loved!" Little Bijou looked so proud of her name, but Hamtaro wasn't sure if Bijou was ready to hear the name just yet.

"Oh, really?" Bijou's voice suddenly became so meek.

"Yeah, my name's Bijou!"

The two male Ham-Humans watched Adult Bijou's face go from sullen to surprised to realization and then to apathy in the span of a few seconds. That Bijou was always a smart girl.

She stood up, refusing to look at Hamtaro while Hamtaro glanced nervously from little Bijou to the adult one.

"But who are you, ma'am?" little Bijou asked as Bijou turned her back to the father and daughter. "Are you a friend of my father and Uncle Boss?" she asked, trying to get any sort of response out of the new adult.

For such a small girl, the little Bijou was incredibly persistent. Just like her father, now that Bijou thought about it.

"Boss-san, please take my daughter back to the clubhouse," Hamtaro said.

Although Boss thought against it, he nodded anyway. But little Bijou backed away when Boss came near her and she instead went closer to the adult Bijou.

"Uncle Boss called you Bijou!" the little girl exclaimed. "Are you Bijou?"

Bijou gave no answer to this. Boss tried to take little Bijou away, but she incessantly backed away from him.

"Hair as white as snow and green eyes that sparkle like dew drops on grass!" the little girl exclaimed as she got a good look at the Adult Bijou.

"You're the girl daddy talks about! You are Bijou!"

Bijou bit her lip and tried to remain as quiet as she could.

"Bijou," Hamtaro said sternly, "go with your uncle now-"

"-but daddy! This is the girl you love!"

But the Adult Bijou's response to this was to scream, "No I am NOT!" and then she ran away.

I do not own Hamtaro.