Heeey. A/N! Wow, got the ch. 2 within a few hours! :D

Haseo: Pffft. Why do i have to appear IRL(in real life)?

Twilgiht: Cus, I made it that way.

Haseo: Dumbas-

Twilight: Shut up emo.

HAsoe: ...lX

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IRL, Hayami Resident

Akira Hayami

"Jeez. Stupid Computer."

I slapped my hand against the side and turned it off. I wasn't about to get one again after that.

I left the computer, running my hand throw my hair. As I walked out, I slipped my shoes on, and locked the door. I also locked the gate and began to jog.

As I jogged I didn't notice the sound of a bike wheel whirring. Suddenly, a bike comes out of nowhere, and I'm nearly run over.

"Oh! I'm sorry, are you ok?!"

That voice…"Tomo-chan?"

"…Akira? Why do you still call me that?!"

I stood up, because I had thrown myself against the ground to dodge Tomonari's bike.

"What're you doing way out here?" "I'm not that far from my house dummy. I just went out jogging after some lag on my computer." "Lag? For What?"

I blushed. I had yet to tell anyone from before that I had started playing The World again.

I watched as Tomonari tilted his head, giving me a questioning look.

"W-well…I was on a website Tomo-chan. It was loading really slowly. I got pissed off, turned it off, and deciude to jog." "That's just like you."

I rolled my eyes before saying, "Why're you here?" "Got bored with playing, so I decided to go out." "Playing?" "The World, of course!" "You didn't quit you mean?" "Of course not! I just wanted to go out for a bit." "oh…Hey?"

Tomonari looked at me before giving me another questioning look. "What?"

I breathed in deeply, before saying, "Is The World anything like it was before?" He gave a quick pause to think, then answering, "A bit. Mac Anu is still the first Root Town you go to. And (Delta) Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground, Hulle Granz Cathedral."

"Hum. Ok then…" "Are you thinking about playing again?"

I stood silently, making it look like I was thinking. Though, it was obvious what my answer was. "Sure!"

"Awesome. Lets meet some time. How about…Hulle Granz?" "Sure."

I smiled at him, and then jogged off. As I glanced back, I saw Tomonari-kun riding off in the opposite direction, towards my house. I decided to continue jogging, and passed by my old high school. I paused to look at it before I heard shoots that sounded like arrows.

I pushed the gate, and it swung in. "Is there someone here?" I said aloud to myself.

I opened the club door where the shooting noises were coming from. I heard A twang of a bow string, and saw a dark brown haired boy in the archery club shooting range. He kept putting an arrow on the bow string, and shooting it.

I slowly walked in and boy's eyes shifted to me.

"Why are you trespassing?"

I flinched at his cold tone. "I just heard someone, and decided to come on. You have a problem with that?!"

I guess my tone was pretty rude, because the boy put his bow and arrow done and walked towards me. "What the hell is with that tone?!"

"Don't you swear at me! Stupid Kid!"

"Hey! Misaki!"

"So your names Misaki huh?"

I placed my elbow on his head. I was still a foot taler then him. "Akira? What're you doing here?" "Tomo-chan!"

I pulled my elbow off the little twerp. "I'm here to take Misaki Home. You know…Misaki, you really shouldn't be rude to Akira. She's a really important person."

"Whatever." "Don't bother, Tomo-Chan. This little brat needs to learn a lesson or two!"

"We-well…Misaki! Your dad was wondering why you went this far out of Tokyo." "I was visiting someone and decided to check out the archery range over here." "Ahem. Did Everyone forget I was here?"

The other two jumped at my voice and I shook my head. 'Both seem to get lost in thought…' I said to myself silently, before walking over to Tomonari.

"Tomo-Chan." "Yeah…?" "My cars in the shop so will you drive me somewhere?" "Uh…I was going to drive Misaki…back to Tokyo." "Doesn't matter. Where I need to go is up that way anyway." "…Sure then."

Misaki sniffed, obviously angry that I was coming. The three of us then left the Archery range, and headed towards Tomonari's house, which was 3 blocks from mine.

When we arrived at his house, I waited for Tomonari to back out before getting in the back seat.

We headed towards Tokyo.

About two hours later, We were in Tokyo, and I was staring at the tall apartment building just inside of Tokyo's main district, Tokyo Square. Beside me was Misaki, and I heard Tomonari yell a goodbye as he left.

I still couldn't believe Aki lived in the same Apartment building as that…Brat!

Suddenly, Misaki was walking ahead of me, his hands in his pockets. He called to a girl outside of the building, who was shaking nervously. "Chigusa!" "Gah!...Ryou?"

I walked slowly behind them, my arms behind my head. The girl-Chigusa- noticed me and began to bow, but I said, "What do you think I am, a 30 year old woman?!"

She flinched a little, and I felt a little sorry I had been so firm on her. Instead of saying sorry, I just bite my lip and said, "I need to go now."

I passed the two, both of them staring after me. I pretended that I didn't notice them staring at me and walked up the stairs towards Aki's Apartment. When I got there, I banged on the door loudly, and there was a noise like a crash. Some thumping noises, and the door swung in.

"Akira?!" "Well, that was a nice entrance!" I laughed. Aki blushed and little and let me come in. He then noticed two people down the hall and called to them. "Hey, Ryou!" "Oh, hey Aki!" I glanced towards the person he was calling to and…well We both gasped with surprise. "Aki? You know that brat-Twit?!" "Eh? Do you two know each other?"

"I met her today, when Tomonari came to pick me up…" "I met him when I was checking out my old high school!"

Chigusa was looked from me to Misaki and then said, "I should probably be going now…" She rushed off higher up, with Misaki reaching out towards her retreating back. "Jeez." He sighed and left to his own apartment, while I watched.

"Um…Well, Why don't we go in?" Aki suggested, a bit embarrassed by the look on his face. "Sure."

I follow him slowly, slipping my shoes off and leaving them in front of the door. "So...um…Why'd you come?"

"Duh, I wanted to see you! Its been almost a year since we last saw each other!"

My face felt hot for some reason, and Aki was blushing. "U-um…ok. But…"

SLAM.

The door slammed open and two people stepped in. One was a girl that was familiar to me—I couldn't be sure though, a lot of people look the same in Tokyo—and a Boy. Whom also looked familiar, but I knew exactly who he was. "Hino-san." "Ah, Hayami." "Stop forgetting the stupid honorific already."

"Be quiet." I glared at the girl, who flipped her long, dark hair over her shoulder, as if to spite me. All it did was make me more pissed off at the stupid twit. The phone rang and Aki said, "I'll just go and answer that…" He backed off and into the kitchen on his apartment where his phone was. Though, I stood where i was glaring at the girl. "Hayami, please stop glaring at Reiko-Chan." "Of course you put the stupid honorific on her name but not mine. Idiot."

I turned and walked into Aki's kitchen, were he was saying into the phone, "Sure, Kaoru. Come on over whenever you feel like it." "Huh?" Aki turned his head to look at me and waved his hand to mean: Be quiet. "Ok. Bye." He hanged up and turned back to me. "What is it?"

"Hino-san and his little 'friend' are waiting." "Oh. Uh, Akira. About that…Hino-san works at CC Corp now, so I asked him to come over so I could ask him about that AI we met up with when we went into that area with Atoli."

"…" "Are you angry?" "…Whatever. It doesn't really matter, ya know? Anyway. Are you going to ask him why Atoli got all strange too?"

Aki stared at me for a little bit before shaking his head. "Why not?" "Well, Even if I did, I don't think he'd tell me." I scowled, and he forced a smile.

"This feels…" "A bit like before?" "…Yeah."

I turned to go back to the other room when I heard the twit's voice and Chigusa's—I think that was her name— voice.

"Chigusa!"

"Reiko!"

Did no one use Honorifics anymore?!

"Hey…What're you doing here, Chigusa?" Aki said from ahead of me. "Oh, Aki. I…came to say sorry to Akira."

"No need." I walked into the room, my hands behind my head. This girl…She had the same air of in-confidence as Atoli did.

"Of Course!"

"…Ok. Reiko, I'm going back to my apartment to go back in." "Ok, Hino will contact you when He gets back to the main building."

"Um wait? Chigusa, the way you said that…" "Hm?" "Do you…play…'The World?'"

She looked at me, shocked for a few seconds, before nodding.

"I'm called A-" "Now, now Chigusa. Shouldn't you be heading back now?" She looked shocked at Hino, as I did as well.

"O-ok."

She left, leaving the four of us there. "Aki-san. You contacted…Elk correct?" "More like he contacted me, but yeah."

"He is coming over, right?" "Yeah?" "Well. We need to speak with him after word. Now, tell us about this AI you met."

"Err…Akira? Why don't YOU tell him about it."

I glanced at him, surprised. The other two looked at me, as if surprised I had been there too.

"Um, ok. The girl…She looked a lot like Aura…Except her dress was all black and-" "How do YOU know Aura?!"

Reiko had stood up, and was glaring into my face.

"W-Well…" "Reiko-chan. Don't get in Akira-domo's face."

'Domo?'

"Now, continue." I nodded slowly.

"Well, her dress appeared to be like Aura's, along with her shawl. Though, the most noticeable difference about her was that she was missing the Infinity Brooch. She also had platinum-lavender hair. Her eyes were red though…and the iris went black when she attacked us."

"Us?"

"Errr. Me and Aki."

Hino narrowed his eyes for a moment before closing them and nodding. "Ok."

I shifted from my spot against the wall to looking into Hino's face. "Hino-san, why do you need to know that?"

"…"

I watched him for a bit before knock on the door.

"Oh, that must be Kaoru."

Aki passed me and the other two and opened the door. There stood Kaoru, with semi-long hair and dull looking eyes. "Aki…"

"Hey Kaoru. Its been…a long time since I saw you last."

Kaoru looked down at his feet before Hino said something.

Whatever it was made Kaoru look up and stare at him, surprised. Neither me nor Aki heard what Hino said—Both of us were spacing out at that moment.

"…You're…?" "Yes."

Of course, from spacing out, I asked loudly, "What?"

Kaoru noticed me and said faintly, "…You're here too…Akira…"

I forced a smile at him, but he didn't notice my lip twitching.

"Well. Kaoru, Reiko. We need to leave for a bit to talk alone."

Then, they left.

And I'm left thinking, 'Well, bye to you too!'

IRL, Aki's Apartment

Aki Hiyomoto

"Well…" "Delete them." "Huh?"

I stared at Akira. I didn't understand, what she meant by Delete them.

"Our PCs. We're going to make NEW ones."

"Why?"

"Hino-san…He knows who our PCs are. We need to make new ones because of that."

"I hardly think that's a reason."

"Tch. Listen, if he knows our PCs then he'll U.S.E. U.S. Like Lios did."

"But we have nothing."

"But we do."

"…huh?"

"We have information."

I stared at her for a second, before I realized she was right, we had A LOT of information we could tell Hino.

"Ok. Lets do it."

I went to my room, with Akira behind me. I booted up my terminal and went to my account. I ended it. Then, Akira did was well. "Now. Lets make new ones!"

'Huh?'

"and Hino-san will never know!" "Ur, ok?"

And we made new accounts.