Hey guys! Hope you liked the first chapter, though it was longer than it should have been but oh well. I had lots of fun writing it! So sorry for the wait…I had writers block which is weird considering I already have most of the story down on paper; I think it's cause I have to move around, add, and change things…but anyways, here's chapter 2, hope you like it!

Disclaimer: No matter how much I wish I did, I do not own Chihayafuru at all…Yuki Suetsugu-sensei does.

"Chi—"

I shot my hand forward, aiming to get the pairing card of my favorite poem. My hand was almost on it to knock it away when it came to a stop all of a sudden. I tried to move it but it was just frozen I couldn't move it at all; because of this my opponent took my sudden forced hesitation as an opportunity and took the Chihaya card away; my special card.

'What's going on? Why did my hand suddenly stop?' I thought in confusion. I looked up to see my opponent but he or she was no longer there. My opponent was gone.

"Huh," I said "that's weird where'd he go" I was then finally able to move my hand again though I don't understand why it stopped earlier, what's going on here?

Apparently I was so focused on my hand that when I looked down to put the cards away they disappeared as well. I quickly stood up and finally started to look around my surroundings. It was dark and foggy looking, how I was able to play karuta or even see the cards was beyond me. I then noticed that I was wearing a simple sleeveless white flowing dress with thin spagetti straps that reached down to my knees. I looked down and saw that I was barefoot as well.

"Why would I wear this to play karuta?" I then started to look around the place looking for a way out or to see if someone else was here. Everything looked the same; it was like I was going nowhere and was just walking in place, 'its kinda eerie looking.'

After a short while I saw a dot of blue in the distance, I ran to it to see what it was; as I was getting closer, the blue dot got bigger and bigger until a figure started to form. It was a person! The person looked like a guy from the back, he looked like he was taller than me by a few centimeters; five or six more from the looks of it, the blue that I saw was his t-shirt. It was kind of hard to tell but he was wearing black sweatpants and was barefoot too. He was walking away from me, unaware of my presence.

'Who is that?' As I got closer, I saw that his hair was dark and disheveled and that he looked lean but kind of muscular. 'W-Wait a minute' I thought 'is that who I think it is?!' I went up behind him and gently took hold of his shirt. He stopped walking but his back still faced me.

"A-Arata, Is that you?" I said to the person. He slightly turned towards me and I saw familiar deep blue almond shaped eyes behind dark glasses. 'It is him! I'm so glad…' I thought in relief. I looked at him in the eyes and was shocked to see that his eyes looked cold. 'Why do his eyes look so… cold?' I asked myself as I let go of his shirt and placed my hand on his shoulder "Um Arata, is something wrong?" I asked with concern in my voice.

He gave me a slight glare and jerked his shoulder slightly and made my hand let go. He started to walk away from me into the darkness that was up ahead. "Arata wait!"

He just kept on walking, like he didn't hear me. "Arata please wait! What's wrong?" I asked him as I ran up to him to quickly catch up with him. When I was next to him, he finally stopped walking and turned towards me. He looked at me with a cold, emotionless expression on his face, I looked at him in the eyes and they were a dark blue. I was...terrified.

"Can't you take a hint?" he said to me with a glare.

"Eh? W-What are you—"

"Leave me alone Chihaya." Arata said with a voice as cold as ice. It scared me stiff and I swallowed an unknown lump in my throat. He started walking again and disappeared into the darkness. He was gone.

"Arata wait!" I shouted nearly at the top of my lungs as I started running towards the darkness for him with tears forming in my eyes. When I was almost there I suddenly tripped and I somehow wasn't able to get up, all I heard was a clinking sound. I turned to look at my feet to see that shackles were on my ankles. I struggled and struggled, but they wouldn't budge at all. I gave up on struggling and looked towards the darkness; where Arata disappeared to. The tears started to stream down, I left heartbroken, frustrated, scared, and confused.

Chihaya...

The shackles around my ankles disappeared and I slowly got up. 'what's going on?'

Chihaya...

The dark and eerie fog disappeared as well and it quickly lit up around me. I looked around and saw Arata...with a kind smile on his face. He wordlessly went up to me and wipped my tears away that I forgot I've had.

CHIHAYA!

"CHIHAYA WAKE UP ALREADY!"

"HUH, W-WHOA!" I exclaimed, falling out of my bed. I rubbed my head and saw my older sister Chitose standing at my door, her arms were folded and she wore an annoyed expression plastered on her face.

"Geez you're annoying to wake up sometimes you know that?" She told me as she closed the door and walked over to my closet.

"Sorry about that...um what are you doing here Onee-chan?" I slowly got up and looked at her confused as she got grabbed some of my clothes.

"Checking on you and choosing an outfit for you of course." She told me while skimming through my many pretty hand-me-downs.

"huh?"

"You've got visitors; your karuta club members. From the looks of it, you guys are going to be heading out." she said as she walked over to me and handed me my clothes. She then walked back to my closet, grabbed black heeled boots. "Now come on get dressed, you don't want to keep them waiting right?"

"Uh yeah...thanks onee-chan. By the way why did you choose my clothes just now?" I asked while looking at her then to my clothing.

"Huh? oh, I was just bored I guess so I wanted to kill some time. Besides you're going out so you need to look...presentable at least. Remember our promise about when your going to head out?"

"Yeah...thank you onee-chan."

"Don't mention it, now hop to it and get dressed already. I'll let them know you're getting ready and i'm leaving after that."

"Okay,thank you and good-bye!" I said as my sister stepped out of my room closing the door behind her. I quickly brushed my hair and teeth, got dressed, and looked at myself in the mirror. I wore a white turtle neck long sleeved shirt, light pink skinny jeans with white duds on the front and back pockets, and white socks. I liked the outfit my sister chose, I usually like what she chooses for me to wear, since she's a model she has good taste in clothes. I do too but her sense is a bit better since she gets to wear the latest clothes. I prefer daddy bear but these clothes that onee-chan gave me are a nice second. I walked over to my little Daddy Bear box and took out my new necklace that I bought at the Daddy Bear store last week. I nodded at my appearance, grabbed my boots, and left my room.

Once I arrived at the living room I was greeted by my friends with bright smiles on their faces.

"Ah, Chihaya-chan good morning." said Kana-chan, getting her coat on.

"morning Kana-chan. So um...where are we going exactly?" I said as I was getting my coat from the hanger.

"Man Ayase, are you that forgetful?!" porky said with annoyance clear in his voice.

"huh?"

"Chihaya-chan, today we are going to the train station."

"U-Um...W-what for...?" I stuttered for some reason and I didn't know why...or did I?

"We are going to see someone who is coming over here. We need to leave now though, he's almost here." Taichi informed me as he was getting his jacket on. I nodded at Taichi and we went for the door, got our shoes on and left for the station. As we were headed there, gettting closer and closer, my chest hurt more and more. When we got to the station we sat down at a bench and waited; my stomach was doing flips at this point 'Why am I so nervous all of a sudden? Hopefully I calm down soon...' As I sat I was thinking about the dream I had. At first It was a nightmare but it turned into a dream at the end...I wonder what it could mean?

"Chihaya the trains' here, come on hurry up!" Taichi said getting up along with the others.

"Ah, ok!" I got up and walked over quickly with the others. As I was going over there, there was numberous people and I ended up bumping into many. Strangely, as I got closer to my friends; my chest was hurting and my stomach started to do flips again. When I was finally able to get to see my friends I was frozen on the spot and the world around me dissapeared except for one person. That person was smiling at me warmly. He walked over to me and said something, probably hello.

My mouth opened and said an autoble yet nervous sounding "Hi...A-Arata."

Arata looked at me, still smiling warmly at me. My heart was beating faster and my face felt warm. "How are you Chihaya?"

How was it guys? Sorry for the long hiatus! I'm sorry so to make it up i'll push myself and update before or at christmas! sound good? Well hope you like it and please review guys! Once more, sorry for the long wait!