No, No, No!

Anonymous; I wasn't offended really! I am quite happy you are reading this story anyway and it makes me even happier that you kept reading and made a review after your first. Trust me, I believe I kinda put Haku in there out of random too just to keep her out of the story line for a while, but I took your suggestion quite well and I understand how you were thinking. No need to apologize. C:

Thanks for all the reviews!

School.

Ugh…

Where had Neru's weekend gone to so quickly? I swear it was just Sunday morning.. The poor blonde tried to muster into her thoughts though an excruciating headache became a sudden brain firewall.

"Oi..Neru." A slightly hushed voice whispered into her bedroom as she could hear her door being cracked. Someone had entered, but she recognized that voice to be her mother's.

"Hi Mom..I'll get up." Neru lifted herself unstably to a sitting up position. Her mother's lips twitched to a heartfelt smile. Neru couldn't help but examine how beautiful her mother was. Long, honey blonde locks of hair that cascaded down her back and cerulean blue eyes with caring, maturity, and occasional stubbornness.

Neru loved her mother, but it was sometimes too hard to explain how both blondes were even related in anyway. Such how their disagreements always ended with verbal fighting and someone crying…It just wasn't the relationship that a mother and daughter should have.

Lily was the name of her mother, quite pretty and it fit her well, but sometimes Neru wondered if Lily truly was her birth mother. She had learned that her father wasn't around; he left as soon as she was born. So it was always just Lily to be her protector, and she was thankful for it.

As her mother exited her room, she began to undress of her pajamas and get on her school uniform. Much like every other girl in Neru's school, she wore one of those skimpy skirts she was given. Why were guys such perverts?

Neru slid into the golden colored skirt before slipping into a white button up. She looped a tie that matched the color of her skirt around her neck, tying and pulling it firmly together professionally. Lastly to finish her wardrobe was a black jacket that she buttoned up halfway.

Neru never spent most of her time on her hair, it was just a simple side ponytail, and if she was lazy, she would leave it out the entire day. Today wasn't one of those days to laze, so she pulled it up. She was tired and just wanted to crawl back to the comfort of her bed, but I suppose school somewhat mattered to a certain extent.

Neru glanced at her appearance in the mirror, but couldn't help but feel a little..exposed with her bare legs and no leggings at least. A growl escaped her lips when her face scrunched up to a distasteful expression.

Shoving through her drawer, she managed to pull out a pair of black, thigh-high leggings. Neru stretched them on walked down the steps with her bag in hand. Brushing into the kitchen she noticed her mother sipping a mug full of coffee with a disgruntled expression.

"What's wrong, Mom?" Neru called her mother out while moving the kettle over onto the stove. Lily looked up from the tiles of the kitchen floor to meet her daughters golden gaze. Lily couldn't help but admire how her daughter had grown up, but then again feel pity for the past Neru held that she didn't even know about.

Lily knew Neru's past..It was quite sad and it had to do with the same way she had gotten the girl, but she would never tell Neru such horrible past of her life. The only noise that reverberated in the kitchen was the high pitched whistling of the kettle that demanded attention.

Lily reached over and moved the kettle off the hot stove and pulled out a mug, pouring the scalding water into it for her daughter. Neru couldn't help but shoot daggers at her mother whose back was now to her. Why was her mother ignoring such an innocent question?

"Mom. What's. Wrong." Neru hissed and crossed her arms. Lily turned with an angered expression. "Why do you want to know so bad, Neru? Don't you have school to be getting to?" Lily responded defensively. Neru was slightly scalded by her mother's words but kept her glare up.

"What are you so afraid of answering such an innocent and simple question?" She retorted. Lily tapped her yellow painted nails against the marble countertop. "I'm fine." Lily lied and Neru only cut the conversation by turning her back on her mother and beginning to dip a peppermint teabag into the heated water.

Neru sipped and walked over to sit on the couch. Her mother was so defensive, but I suppose that's where Neru learned it from. Her bravery, courage, and loyalty had all come from Lily, but some bad antics came from Lily too. Bad as in; Disrespectful, Defensive, and foul tongued.

Wait….Where's Haku? Neru's eyes stopped looking as gloomy as she began to think about her best friend's whereabouts. She hadn't heard anything from her since the dispute they had and she ran out in the middle of the night. This worried Neru..

What if someone kidnapped her? Neru's thoughts were taking a negative route until she stopped them immediately as if putting up a road block. Haku was dating Akaito, so she should be perfectly fine! Even Neru's thoughts were becoming defensive on the note of Haku hiding a relationship from her.

Before Neru knew it, she had demolished her mug of tea. When walking to the sink and placing her mug in, her mother stopped her from leaving the kitchen by the grab of the wrist. Neru turned to look her mother in the eyes; Cerulean meeting Golden.

"Neru..I love you, alright? Please don't be mad with me, Okay?" Lily smiled at Neru and pulled her into a hug. Neru was surprised but eventually wrapped her arms around her mother and buried her head into her shoulder. It was only occasional when Lily and Neru ever got close enough to each other to actually hug.

"I love you too, Mom.." Neru whispered into her shoulder, though it was muffled. She released herself with a lopsided smile. "I got to get to school, remember? I'll see you later on." She smiled and bid her mother farewell. She slipped into bright, neon yellow, Airwalk brand sneakers before exiting her comfort place and out to the open world.

While walking, she couldn't help but notice Len walking opposite sidewalk of her, almost as if her mirror image, though he and Rin were the true twins here. "Ne! Neru!" Len called out her name. No matter how much she just wanted to respond, she decided not to only because he simply expected her understand his situation and take it lightly and forgive him.

Ignoring him might do the trick. Neru pretended to not hear and paced a little faster. Len, being the blunt yet very smart person he is, crossed the street and began to walk beside her. "Oi. Did you hear me?" He pressed on the subject matter a little further.

"Maybe I'm not in the mood to talk. Ever thought about it?" She hissed and gave him a cross expression. He shuddered but continued his probing. "What's got you pissed?"

"You do." She responded sourly

"What exactly did I do?"

"Ignored me for 3 years"

"I thought you were over that!"

"Well you thought wrong, piss off."

"Neru! Come one stop being a-.."

Len stopped himself from saying something truly hurtful to the golden haired blonde that stood solid beside him. "Stop being a what? Spit it out since you want to be even worse to me." Neru crossed her arms and spat. Her hair blew with the wind current but she stood without a faltering stance; her position was very powerful. Len gulped, she was all too intimidating.

"Being well…A bitch. You are kind of being a bitch Neru." He came clean out with what exactly he wanted to say. What? He couldn't find another word to explain that she was being a rather bitchy. She froze for a moment, her face was drained of all emotion and her hands dropped to her sides.

"Fuck off." Regaining posture, she hissed at him and began to walk away. "Stay as fucking far away from me as you possibly can. You know what can happen if you don't." She threatened and walked away.

She wasn't going to feel regret or pity. It was like this because of Len; he ignored her and forced this timeline upon himself. Neru's stomach churned in a regretful feeling making her feel worse about what she had done. Oh well, it's for Len's own good. Maybe he would stop trying to gain friendship with her now…But Neru just couldn't help but feel that she did something wrong…

I'm back from Jamaica, a week there sure was fun. Well for now her y'all go. There is going to be fights and Len is going to be romantic. Sorry if he seems a little Spice but not fully xD Well Nothing really different, but I am starting 2 new stories../shot

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