Sakuchii: DORYA! ^^

Aiko: Ehem, wasn't this supposed to come later?

Sakuchii: Eh? Did I say something like that? O.o

Yukiko: Yes, you actually did... but whatever! GRANNN! The Disclaimer... NOW!

Hiroto: Sakuchii doesn't own Inazuma Eleven or the charas on it... she only owns her OC's and all the other OC's belong to their rightful owners.

AikoxYukiko: Enjoy the chapter! ^^


Chapter Seven: As the Sun Burns Red

On that night, Pika couldn't sleep very well. Her head hurt, as if someone was trying to break into her subconsciousness and she tried her best to stop this person. All this stuggling made it impossible for her to fall asleep. "STOP THAT!" Pika finally shouted in anger while opening eyes and standing up. To her surprise, she saw no one next to her, expect for Meiko who was in deep sleep.

The kimono wearing ghost sighed and was about to turn to her other rib, but suddenly she felt a dangerous aura not far away from the Raimon teams camp. The aura, it was different from the earlier one, but Pika still recognized this hot yet cold, dark yet shiny aura. It was the same aura that she had felt when ever the Okazaki twins were present. Pika's eyes suddenly glazed and then she stood up. With her determined eyes burning, she headed towards the strange aura. What ever it shall be, she would definitely find it out.

"So, you're the "unique" person called Pika, huh?" Pika suddenly heard a dark voice behind her wishpering and her eyes widened in shock. She rapidly turned around. "Why- How can you see me?" the shocked ghost asked and the teal haired adult female smirked happily while playing with her bangs.

"How... you ask..." she finally said while imitating Pika with her question. There then was a silence for a while, but soon the female spoke again, "That's because I'm, at least what people always call me - an ESPER." Pika's eyes glanzed after hearing her words. An Esper? Now she really was in a deep shit.

-OO-

Yoko awoke when she heard a loud scream. At least she thought of hearing one, but when she looked around, the girl didn't see anyone. To her suprise, though, she heard a faint voice's speaking somewhere near her. Yoko slowly stood up from her sleeping bag which was placed between Haruka and Shizuka, and slowly tiptoed away while making sure that she didn't wake up anyone.

When the danger or waking someone up was over, Yoko sighed of relieve after what she continued walking normally. As she followed the faint voice's, she soon found herself in the woods. Since Yoko's eyes had slowly got used to the daek, she could already recongnize the outlines of the people who were having a talk in the middle of the woods.

Just as Yoko was close enough to hear the guys propeply, her clothes got suddenly stuck in the tree branshes. "ACK!" accidentaly slipped out of the girls mouth, but she close it fast. Still, the other people had already heard her.

"Someone's coming!" Yoko heard one of them, a male voice saying and she quickly hid behind the tree, hoping that they hadn't noticed her yet. The red-head felt her heart beating stronger and her breathing fastening when she heard steps coming closer to her.

Just as the person was almost at the tree behind was Yoko was hiding, the steps suddenly stopped. At that very moment Yoko gulped loudly. She was so scared that she completely forgot to breath.

"Sleepwalking, Kimi-chan?" a really familiar voice suddenly asked and Yoko's eyes widened in shock. Overwhelmed with happiness and other feelings Yoko gulped all her tears away and happily turned to see the person, while smiling widely.

"Hi- Hi- HIROTO! And no I'm not!" she first stammered all excited and then pouted angrily and the red haired boyt who was now standing before her while smiling at the girl.

"It's been a while, hasn't it Kimi-chan." Hiroto said with a smile on his face, and Yoko felt as if a knife was stabbed right trough her chest. Why was he being so formal, why was he calling her by a -chan ending. He had never ever called her like that.

"It surely has, and I really missed you." Yoko said while sighing the first words and keeping her tears away with the last ones. Her head was filled with all short of feelings and she couldn't think clearly anymore, but the girl was still happy with one certain thing more than anything. After so many years, she was finally able to meet the person whom she loved the most.

"Um, what are doing here? And wasn't there someone else with you?" Yoko finally asked, as she remember just how strange the situation was. Why in the world Hiroto was doing in the middle of the woods, more over with someone.

"What do you mean "someone" I was here alone." Hiroto smiled with a basic smile of his and Yoko found this rather strange. She was sure that there had been someone else too. Was Hiroto hiding something from her, was there something that he didn't want her to know. Maybe, just maybe it was somehow related to why Ruuyji too had been acting so strange.

"As for what I was doing here," the red haired boy continued after a short pause. "I was here waiting for you," Yoko couldn't believe her ears. There's no way in the whole world that he had been waiting for her. How had he known that she would come there. It was clearly a lie.

But still, somewhere inside of her, Yoko wanted to believe Hiroto. She wanted, that those sweet and kind words of his were true, that he had really been waiting for her. No one else, only her!

The redhead turned to look at Hiroto and the boy flashed her a sweet smile. Yoko's heart skipped a beat and her cheeks turned tomato red. This person standing right before her... He was the one she loved the most in this world.

"Say, Kimi-chan..." Hiroto suddenly spoke and Yoko glanced at him. When their eyes met, the girl quickly turned her glance away and tried to calm herself down. "Ye... Yes?" she stammered between her breaths and Hiroto chuckled at her reaction.

"Would you come with me for a while? There's something that I want to show you." the boy smiled sweetily while reaching his hand towards Yoko. The hazel eyed girl doubted for a moment, but then took Hiroto's hand while smiling with a light crimson covering her face.

-OO-

"Usagi... USAGI!" Usagi suddenly heard a voice calling her and turned around. Vanilla who was walking together with her also stopped and the girls then turned around, facing now the person who had just called for them.

"Ice-sama." the girl's greeted The Hunters captain and at the same time bowed. The third girl glanced at them and then crossed her arms.

"Do you know where Crystal, Phlox or Gran are? I'm trying to find even one of them, but there's no one here. Only those failure captains, tulip head and the arrogant one." Ice pouted in anger. Vanilla and Usagi glanced at each other and then turned to Ice.

"If you are looking for Crystal and Phlox, they are probably with themat the moment." Usagi spoke first and Vanilla continued after a short pause. "As for Gran-sama. If I remember right, he mentioned something about going to meet with Phlox and Crystal-sama." the brown haired girl said and Ice's pupils got as thin as cat's. What was that person thinking? Why was he doing this all behind her back? Wasn't it his plan to reveal those traitors to Raimon?

"Umm... Ice-sama?" Vanilla mumbled and Ice finally returned back to this world. She turned at Usagi and Vanilla while rasing her eyebrows.

"Can we go now? We still need to feed Suzuki twins and Kageyama's." Usagi continued and Ice closed her eyes. Then she raised her hand, as a sign of them beinf free to go. The duo bowed deep and then walked away from Ice.

The Hunters captain, who now had been left alone, sighed deeply and then strolled away while cursing a certain red haired captain of Genessis.

-OO-

"Are we there yet? Can I now open my eyes?" Yoko, who's eyes were covered by Hiroto's hands, asked as the couple stopped for a moment. She was little scared but at the same time very excited as Hiroto had told her that he would show something really cool to her.

"Just a little more... We'll be soon there." the red head whisperered into Yoko's ears and then told her to take few more steps. After that, Yoko felt as the boy took his hand from before her eyes. "Now..." his sweet voice told.

The red haired girl opened her eyes and the sight before her completely caught her in surprise. They were standing on the roof of an old building and the seeting red sun was shining at them. "Do you remember this place?" Hiroto asked and Yoko nodded while tears flowed down her cheeks. Of course she remembered it. She would never forget this place.

When they had been little kids, they had often visited the place to stare at the setting red sun. In that place, it had always been just the two of them... only she and he.

"It's beautiful! Just like always," Yoko finally smiled after they had been staring at the sun almost half and hour. Hiroto nodded while closing his eyes. "And so are you," he said and Yoko's eyes widened in shock. What on earth had he meant by that? The red haired girls cheeks started to burn hot red. Had he REALLY meant that?

"Th-Tha-Thanks!" Yoko stammered and Hiroto turned to her while smiling widely. This made Yoko's heart to skip a beat - or even two - and her face was heating up like a hot pot. Maybe she should use this moment to...? Yoko nodded to her own thoughts and took a deep breath.

"Hiroto you know," the redhead started mumbling and the boy, who was sitting next to her, turned his head towards her. "Yes?" he asked.

There was a moment of silence between the two of them as Yoko kept gathering all her courage to tell Hiroto those words that she had kept inside of her for many years. "I..." the girl finally said while covering her face with her hands. "I have always liked you!" Yoko finally got to say and she felt relieved to the extreme. Finally... Finally she was able to tell her hidden feelings to the person she loved the most.

...

But, was that really the best thing to do? Was this really the right moment to tell her feelings to him? Yoko turned to face Hiroto, and his answer was revealed right away.

The green eyed boy was staring at Yoko with frightened and shocked expression as his face darkened. For a moment Yoko believed that his eyes had no color anymore. It was like he was a completely different person. This person wasn't the Hiroto that she knew.

"We better go now, it's getting late." the red haired male said with deep tone as he stood up and turned away from Yoko. The hazel eyed girl felt her eyes watering and in panic she stood up.

"Hiroto, I...!"

"Let's GO!" Hiroto interrupted her explanation with commanding tone. Yoko backed off in disbelieve as tears flowed down her cheeks. Was it over? Was their friendship now over, and all that because off her stupid question? No it couldn't be... because... because... if so, then she wouldn't be able to take it. If so, then it would had been better for her not to say anything.

While snobbing and hiccupping out loud, Yoko followed Hiroto, who wouldn't even bother to turn to her.

...

Somewhere in the shadows, two figured where following as Hiroto led Yoko to where the rest of the Raimon team were. The two figures had dark faces and they eyes were burning from anger.

"What the fuck is that wicked minded person thinking?" one of the figures cursed while squeezing her fist hard. The other one put her hand on the former ones shoulder and tried to calm the person down.

When they both were finally calm, they borth turned to Hiroto and Yoko, "You will hear about this, Baka Hiro." the latter person spoke and then, after a quick moment the two of them were gone.

~ In The Morning ~

As the sun slowly rose, the Raimon team finally managed to wake up. Most of them were alert after a good night sleep, but some of them weren't. Tachimukai - for example - had seen some kind of nightmares, so he had had really anxious night.

Also Haruka, Yomi and Megane also seemed really tired as well as Yoko - but we already now her reasons. Everyone of them had bags under their eyes, and Yoko's eyes were red, as if she had been crying...

And to Meiko's surprise, even Pika seemed somehow different. The cute and kind, maybe sometimes little over reacting ghost seemed to be more down than anyone else. She was quiet as usually, but it was slightly different from her usual quieteness.

"What wrong with everyone, you seem to be really down?" Meiko suddenly heard Aiko's voice and turned to the indigo haired girl who slowly walked towards Meiko and the others, while making sure that her plastered leg didn't touch the ground.

"Okazaki's!" Everyone said at the same time, some of them saying Aiko and Yukiko. The older one waited for a while and then smiled. "Come on, why so grumpy? Smile everyone, you need to smile!" she told everyone while trying to cheer them up.

"My, my... Now here's one cheerful one present." the all suddenly heard an unknown voice speaking. Then a bright light appeared and soon two figures were standing before the Raimon team. One of them was very well known to everyone - Hiroto, but the other one - a female with pale skin, silver colored waist lenght hair and black eyes - was a total stranger.

"Hiroto! What are you doing here?" Endou spoke in disbelieve and the red head flashed him a kind smile. Then his eyes met with Yoko's hazel ones and Hiroto's face immediately turned expressionless and cold.

"Hi..ro..to.." Meiko heard Yoko whispering with shocked eyes and then the redhaired girl lowered her head. What Yoko didn't notice was that Meiko was still staring at her. But, how did Yoko know this person called Hiroto? What exactly was their relationship?

"Me?" Hiroto asked while smirking darkly and then he turned to look at Ice - the other female - who was stading next to him. The female smirked and turned to the Raimon team. "We're here to reveal the traitor among you guys." Ice blunted out and everyone's eyes widened in shock. How could this be... there's a traitor on the team?

Ice smirked self-counsiously when she saw the whole team in total confusion. She then turned to look at a certain person on the team. The person was staring back at Ice with his/her eyes burning from anger, which made Ice even more happy, on the harsh way of course. Because now, she was finally able to ruin Crystal's plan.

Pika who was hiding behind Meiko watched closely as Hiroto and Ice talked to Raimon team. At the same time she remebered Bird's - the female who had visited last night words. Only two things were going trought her head. "Operation Ice Cover, failed. Operation Akayuki, START!"


Aiko: I can't tell that is it night or morning or evening or what! O.o''

Sakuchii: Please don't mind it... Also sorry for not using very much Oc's in this chapter! I promise that more will appear in next chapter!

Yukiko: DRAMA! Now who are those traitors? Can you already guess? :D

Sakuchii: This all shall be revealed in the next chapter of As The Sun Burns Red!

~ deshii