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"Look, it's your girlfriend."
Isamu rolls his eyes exaggeratedly. But didn't bother to correct his friend. That boy chooses to go after the said girl. Only to be ditched, again. Sayaka, knowing she being followed, turn sharply on the closest dark alley.
'Wait. Did she just running away from me?'
After trailing the girl for a while, he stopped.
'Think, Isamu. Where would she go?'
He thought, finding the girl lead him into a wild goose chase.
He sighed loudly.
The boy couldn't spare more energy to indulge her in an hide and seek game. There would be a graduation exam in a month, after all.
And since he barely kept up with his peer, there were many things he should do. He still wanna stay on the program.
Speaking of which... Didn't her mom say she was sick this morning when he going to pick her up?
Yet, this afternoon she looked as healthy as she could be.
Is she actually playing truant?
But this close to the exam... If not for her declaration to be the fastest kunoichi alive, he would think that the girl was planning to flunk her exam. Their grades weren't that far apart, after all.
'Well, she's not a toddler.'
He thought, turning around.
'She didn't need any babysitter.'
And she even goes out her way to avoid him.
Resolved to ignore his childhood friend strangeness, he comes back to the park. His friends, which hasn't go from their area park, seeing him oddly.
As if they know something that he didn't.
Few hours after that, Sayaka's mom showed in front of his door. Panicked face, asking about her daughter were about with stuttered breath.
It seems, she hasn't come back even though it was hours after dusk. They couldn't even find her in their neighborhood.
'What! It's impossible!' he thought for himself. Following his friend's mother outside, closing the door behind them. Joining the search party immediately.
It was almost midnight when they found her in the woods a few meters from the Hokage Monument. Curling to herself, tear stain in her cheek. For some reason, Isamu thinks his childhood friend looked like she witnessed something terrible. But looking around, he couldn't find any clue. The wood just looked as normal as ever.
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