Here's the seventh chapter. Will Yuri and Hinata find the hypnosis guy? We'll see. Enjoy. ^-^

Ch.7

"Okay you guys stay here while I go around the park and search for the guy," Yuri said as she huffed away.

And that was the last I heard of her from that moment on. Because I convinced her that I was tired to move on, Yuri left me and Miku with the picnic basket filled with food. I guess I'm being such an unbearable ass to her. Oh well.

Miku and I sat down on a picnic table. I noticed Miku peeking inside the basket like a little girl who's hungry for candy.

"And what do you think you're doing?" I said.

Miku took out a sandwich and took a bite. "Getting some food."

I pulled the basket away from her. "Hey! You do realize that this food is all we're going to get until Yurippe decides to buy us more. We need to conserve as much as we can."

Miku nodded as she chewed. By God, even when she's eating she looked beautiful. Once she was done with her sandwich, she smiled.

"By the way, I don't even know your name," she said.

"Uh...Hinata," I said.

"Hinata. I'll try to remember that," Miku giggled.

Cute!

"And what's the other girl's name?" Miku said.

"Her real name is Yuri but I call her Yurippe," I said.

"Why's that?"

"Because...well, she has the same name as my mom, and I find it weird for me to call her that. So I added something extra to her name to make me feel more at ease."

Miku giggled. "That's cute!"

You're cute.

"Anyway, what are you guys up to? Searching for friends?" she said.

I rubbed the back of my head. "Well, not really. We're searching for strangers."

Miku raised an eyebrow. "Strangers? But they're everywhere."

"Well, yeah but..." I sighed. "We're looking for people we saw in our dreams."

Miku blinked. "In your dreams?"

"Yeah. I know it sounds like we're crazy and all but...I gotta admit it's a bit strange. I mean, Yurippe and I had the same dreams with the same people. Don't you find that a bit strange?"

"Yes indeed."

"And so what Yurippe thought of doing is to find every person in our dreams and see what's going on. That's basically how we met each other, through a mere coincidence."

"How peculiar."

"The problem is that the people can be anywhere around the world, you know. I guess I'm interested to find them but, I'm not desperate to go to the other side of the world to find them. Yurippe actually looks serious about finding them, however. So, it might not be a good idea for you to come along and get dragged to places you never want to be in."

Miku giggled. "It's fine. I like to have myself an adventure. This seems fun plus I'm able to help out others."

"But we're strangers. Everyone we find, if we find anyone, will be complete strangers. Are you okay with that?"

"Yep! Strangers do become friends in time, right?"

I looked at Miku. She didn't seemed shocked or confused or anything. She was smiling with her cheeks pink from happiness. She looked like the person who wanted to help others as much as she can even if they're strangers. I mean, she accepted both me and Yuri in an instant. I wonder what's her past about.

Miku raised an eyebrow and giggled. "Hinata, what are you looking at me for? Am I really that pretty?"

I blinked away from her and blushed. I turned myself away, trying to ignore whatever she said. Miku only giggled.

"Do you think we should go find Yuri?" Miku said.

I looked around. It was getting late and Yuri hasn't shown herself. I hope she was alright.

"Looks that way," I said as I got up from the picnic table. Miku followed my lead.

"She really took a long time just to find Naoi. He was behind us all this time," Miku said as she grabbed the picnic basket.

"I know- wait, what?!" I said as I turned around to Miku who pointed behind her towards a guy with dark green hair performing more of his hypnosis ability.

"He was there this whole time?!"

Miku nodded. "Pretty much."

"And you didn't say anything?"

"I was suppose to?"

I face palmed. "You were suppose to be our guide!"

Miku flinched. "I'm sorry."

I sighed. I looked at Miku. The poor girl. I didn't mean to shout at her.

"Anyway, can you call him over here?" I said.

"Sure!" Miku turned around and shouted, "Naoi! Hey! Over here!"

I looked towards the guy who turned around from his performance, leaving the person he was attending hypnotized. "Hey Miku!" he waved. Realizing he left the person unattended, he hit the person's head to wake him up and then walked over to us. "Hey there. Long time no see."

Miku smiled. "I've seen you plenty of times. You're the one who hasn't seen me."

"Stalker."

"Might be."

The two laughed for a while before realizing that I was here. The guy looked at me, and I looked back at him.

"That guy," he said.

Miku giggled. "Yep. It's 'that guy'."

"We met again," I said.

The guy smirked. "You want me to make you cry again?"

I huffed. "I did not cry."

"Of course not."

"Whatever."

Then I realized something. Yuri wasn't here.

"I'm going to call someone, okay? You two stay and chat or something," I said as I pulled out my phone and dialed Yuri's number. It ran a couple of times before Yuri answered.

"Hello?" she said.

"Hey Yurippe. It's Hinata. I got something to tell you," I said.

"What is it?"

"We found the guy."

"Where the hell was he?!"

"He was behind us."

Silence.

"And you didn't fucking tell me?! Do you know how many times I went around this stupid park?!" Yuri yelled, almost making my ear drum burst.

"I'm sorry, okay? Anyway, just some back," I said.

"Easy for you to say. Bye."

With that, we both hanged up. I turned back around towards Miku and the guy who were laughing among each other.

"I still don't understand why no one told me before," Yuri growled once she reached us. She looked pretty exhausted. I felt bad for her.

"I can take the blame, Yuri," Miku raised her hand. "I was the one who knew about Naoi. Hinata didn't know anything."

I looked at Miku. Was she defending me?

Yuri sighed. "It doesn't matter anyway. But I did lose half of my life time doing something not worth my while." She turned to the guy. "You..."

The guy raised an eyebrow. "Me?"

"What's your name?"

"Ayato Naoi."

"I'm Yuri and that's Hinata..."

"And Miku," I added.

Miku smiled to me.

"I already knew Miku. She's like my assistant," Naoi said. "But what I don't understand is why I'm being kept here. I have a job to do, you know."

"Naoi, this is serious. Have you seen us before?" Yuri said.

Naoi hesitated. "What do you mean? I never seen you guys before. Well, except for the blue guy. I hypnotized him earlier."

I huffed.

"That's not what I meant," Yuri said. "What I meant was if you saw us before in your lifetime. Don't you get some sort of feeling that you seen us before somewhere?"

Naoi rubbed his chin. "If I seen you guys before? Hmm..." He thought for a while. "I do remember telling Hinata that he looked familiar, but I thought it was only because I've seen him down the streets. But now that I think about it...I think I've seen the both of you more than just one time, but I can't remember where."

"From your dreams," Yuri said.

"Dreams?"

"I'm pretty sure you have had some weird dreams, right? Dreams about being with other people that were so real to you. Am I right? Your dreams usually revolve around the idea of not vanishing away."

Naoi hesitated. "H-how did you know?"

"You're not the only one who can read minds," I said, looking away.

"Ignore Hinata," Yuri said. "None of us can read minds. It's just that the both of us have had those same dreams you've been having. It's like we're all connected to each other. It's not a coincidence anymore since both Hinata and I have seen each other in our dreams even if we haven't seen each other at all before in our lives. And now you claimed that you also dreamed the same dreams."

I turned back around to see Naoi's shocked face.

"So, we're going to have to search for everyone we seen in our dreams and get together," Yuri continued. "We need to know exactly what's going on. There's something behind our dreams that we don't know, and I'm guessing that if everyone's here, we can figure that out. So, Naoi..." Yuri stretched out her hand to him. "Join us."

Naoi looked uncertain. I can't blame him. No one would want to join some girl with magenta hair just 'cause.

"We don't have all the time in the world for you to decide," Yuri said. "Join us or we'll leave. I'm sure you want to know what's going on."

Naoi bit his lip and sighed. "Fine." He shook Yuri's hand. "I'll join."

Yuri smiled. "I knew you would. I know everything I said might sound crazy, but it's all true. I mean, we have the same dreams as you do. We can tell you exactly what happened in each dream. That's no coincidence."

"I get it. But then, how are we going to find the others?"

"We're going to have to go around the world till the end of our lives," I said.

Naoi jerked his head to me. "What?! You're kidding, right?!"

I shrugged.

"It doesn't really matter where we go or how long it'll take us, we're going to find everyone no matter what," Yuri said. "It's Operation: One To All."

Miku giggled as Naoi sweat dropped. I knew what he was thinking: 'She even has a name for it?'

Naoi sighed. "Okay, okay. So, I can identify you guys as familiar but not Miku. Why is she here?"

Because she can.

"That's also something I ask myself," Yuri said, turning to Miku. "You're not needed in this operation."

Is it just me or does no one want cute Miku around? I want her.

Miku placed her hands together and pleaded. "Please! I want to help you guys. I really do."

"Well, you failed on your first try," Yuri said.

"I know I did but please. Allow me to help you guys. I'm pretty sure I know all the people you're looking for. I am well known throughout Tokyo, you know. I'm pretty sure I know the people you're trying to find."

"I'm not sure..."

"Yurippe, let her come with us, okay?" I said. "She looks serious about helping us. Give her a chance."

Yuri raised an eyebrow. She had the face of someone who was planning something evil, but it could only be me.

"Fine. But she's your responsibility. If anything happens to her, it'll be your fault," Yuri said.

This girl...

"F-fine," I said.

"I'll try not to cause you any trouble, Hinata," Miku said with her cute eyes looking at me.

"Alright now! Let's have a few minutes of searching the park before we have a rest," Yuri said.

"And then we can go home," Naoi said.

"I didn't say anything about going home."

"Huh?"

"No one's going home until we find everyone."

"What?!"

I know, Naoi. It's Yuri's way of torture. But I was surprised Miku didn't even reacted.

Yuri grinned and pointed onward. "Alright. Let's go!"

And that was it. They were able to find Naoi, a new member of the small group. And now Miku's Hinata's responsibility. I wonder how that will go.

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