Chapter 2: An Unexpected Encounter
Now that Project D is finished I don't really have any goals except to beat Takumi and his 86. I decided to go out for a drive, my brother didn't seem to mind since he's been pasted to his computer for hours each day which doesn't really bother me. I took out my FD, now with a new look and performance, I drove through Akagi's winding roads on the downhill and stopped by a diner to get something to eat. 'I should've eaten before I left' I thought to myself while I parked my car. Then I noticed a black FD that looks exactly like Kyoko's, 'It's probably just a coincidence.', I thought as I got out of my car. It turns out that it wasn't as a familiar figure rose out of the black vehicle, it was Kyoko.
She seemed to have noticed me immediately because she quickly ran towards me after closing the door and locking her car. "Wow, fancy meeting you here, Keisuke-san.", she said with a rather unusually cheerful tone. She seemed to be really happy to see me again because her eyes were staring at me intently. "Yeah, what are the odds of that?", I replied with my usual indifferent manner of speaking.
"Hey, Project D's been long finished with it's conquest of Japan, right?" she eagerly asked me. "Yeah, we're done racing with every team out there.", was my rather monotonous reply. Her face seemed to beam with joy when I said that, I think I have an idea of where this is going.
"Since you don't have to worry about racing for Project D anymore, ummm, that means that you can start dating again, right?", she hesitantly asked with slight fear clearly written across her smooth, white face. "I guess you could say that.", I replied with a bit of reluctance myself. Her eyes widened for a brief moment and asked, "Is that so? Then, we can ummm start dating now, right?". I was taken aback by her question, she's really serious about wanting to be with me, huh?
"Uhh, sure.", I blurted out, it was all I could say at that awkward moment. Now that I took the time to look at it more closely, she looked very attractive in her denim outfit and the sun seemed to give her a slight glow. Looking at her seemed to have a weird effect on me. Weird but strangely familiar.
"Hey hey, now that we're here, we can go out on a date right now!", she said with a very happy voice. "Uh, I suppose so.", was my answer, it was pretty damn awkward for me to be acting like this, it was like a nagging feeling on the back of my head. We made our way into the diner and sat down on our table. She asked me about our expeditions after the Lan Evo drivers and I told her about Ibaraki and our opponents there, as well as all the other places we went to.
She was listening intently to my stories while keeping her eyes locked on my face which slightly unnerved me, she was also pretty amazed at our wins which, under different circumstances, would've fed my confidence. We continued swapping stories with each other while drinking iced tea. Looks like this'll be a long day…