These are thoughts

"These are conversations"

And these are story teller

Hello my beloved readers, sorry for being late. I caught a cold and now I have to deal with exams too. Here's a new chapter though. Enjoy! PS: I've tried(in my dreams), but I still don't own One Piece.

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On the day of the wedding, everyone was dressed up and generally happy. Hitomi asked her best friend to be the maid of honor. I got to be Kai's best man (screw you Kai, screw you). Kai was wearing a white tuxedo while I wore a black one. We stood at the altar, opposite of the blue dressed maid, and waited for Hitomi. The wait was totally worth it as she appeared looking like a princess straight out of a fairy tale. The way Kai's jaw dropped made me wish I had a camera.

Kai finally managed to regain his composure when Hitomi reached the altar. The priest read them the vows while tying a red string connecting the two's pinkies. They both said "yes" and tie the string to each other's ring fingers. Finally, they shared a kiss. Then everyone roared in celebration.

After the ceremony, the newly wed were struck together through the string for the rest of the day. So, they spend the wedding party right next to each other.

There were people dancing, eating, drinking, and crying. Those fan boys can make a new freaking river with their tears.

I enjoyed the party too, even though I had to stick close to the couple due to the amount of my fan girls attending the party. Being asked to dance by twenty four girls is twenty four times more than enough.

I am sooo going to get you back for this Kai. I swear. Wait, since those two are stuck together for the night, maybe I can get him in the plan too. Kahahahaha, Itami is going to have fun interrogating you.

I made sure that the two didn't themselves drunk and followed them when they left. Noticing my behavior, Kai asked:

"Ryuki, what's up? You're acting kinda weird man."

"Hmm? Really?" I replied.

"Just a bit. Are you ok?" Hitomi inquired.

"Yeah, I'm perfectly fine. I need a favor from you two though." I said.

"I need you two to come with me for a bit. It's something I need to show you two in private." I answered mysteriously.

Kai and Hitomi exchanged a look before shrugging and agreed.

I led them to a small, secluded cabin just outside of the village. Once they were inside, I locked the door with a padlock so neither of them can escape. The cabin had absolutely nothing in it, not even a window. The only source of light was the lantern I was holding, which I carefully put down and turned to the couple:

"Alright, there should be no one to interrupt or overheard us here."

"What is this "thing" that you would need such privacy?" Kai questioned?

"I'll tell you, but first, you guys need to listen to me and stay calm." I said, "You see, for as long as I can remember, I've always been able to see these people that I called Strangers. The Strangers are everywhere but no one but me can see them. I just found out the reason for that a few days ago when a certain Stranger came up to me."

I shot a look at the fog that slipped through the crack under the door and formed into Itami.

"This Stranger told me they were ghosts." I paused for dramatic effect, "And that her name was Itami."

Immediately, Hitomi paled. She had understood what I was saying. And apparently, so did Kai.

"Dude, you do realize you're talking crazy right? Ghost doesn't exist." He scowled at me.

"Ryuki, are you sure you're ok?" Hitomi asked me.

My eye twitched. Itami warned me that they might deny that ghost could exist, but to think I was crazy? That's a little bit…

"I'm fine. I'm perfectly fine." I said.

"Then why are you making up stories about dead people?" Kai asked.

"I am not making up stories." I replied.

We kept talking back and forth, with Kai claiming I was crazy, Hitomi asking if I'm really ok, and me just trying to get them to accept the truth. That went on for quite a while, and everyone was getting more and more agitated. Finally, Kai snapped.

"Dude, I don't know what the hell is wrong with you right now, but you need to see a doctor. I'm, we're, not gonna waste more of our time on this. We're leaving." Kai growled at me.

He turned around and tried to open the door. However, he couldn't do anything to the padlock with only one hand free. Hitomi stood right next to him, kept looking back and sending me worried glances.

Honestly, I felt really frustrated. And the laughing fit that Itami was having did not help the matter at all. I decided to just give up on convincing them and just proceed to showing them the actual ghost. I turned to Itami and said:

"It doesn't look like they're going to believe me unless they see you. So, let's just get on with the plan."

Itami stopped laughing. Slowly, she turned to me and gave me a smile.

"You know, meeting you have been the best thing that happened to me for the past one and a half decade." She hugged me, "Thank you, for keeping me entertained, and for giving me this chance. Thank you and farewell."

I blacked out.

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When I woke up, I was on my bed, in my room. I felt really tired, like I haven't move for a long time.

That's odd. How did I ended up at home? Did Kai and Hitomi get me home somehow? Or did Itami walk home as me? Wait, but didn't she had to move on right after she met Hitomi? Ugh, ow. My head hurts. I'll just figure that out when I meet those two.

I got up and cleaned up. After I got myself some food, I went and look for the two newlyweds. Since those two moved out to a new house after the wedding, I decided to look there. I found them in their backyard, just sitting and talking to each other.

I knocked on their fence gate to get their attention. They both stood up really fast when they see me. Kai almost ran to me. He opened the gate and invited me in. I complied.

I stood awkwardly in front of the two for some time, not knowing how to start the conversation. In the end, I gathered my courage and spoke:

"Hey guys. Um…about yesterday…" I tried

"Yesterday?" Kai cut in "You were still asleep yesterday. D'you mean the night before?"

That shut me up.

The night before? I slept for a whole day? Holy! What the hell? Did getting possessed take that much energy? Oh wow. Damn. I need to look for more information on this.

Despite my internal thought process, I continued.

"Right. The night before. About that…" I tried again.

My sentence was cut off this time as Hitomi literally went flying into my arms. She body tackled me. Even though I was completely surprised, I still managed to keep both of us from falling on the ground.

"RYUKI! YOU'RE OK!" She examined me all over, "Oh gods, you wouldn't wake up! I was so worry! Everyone was!"

"Yeah. We were really worry man. No matter what we tried, you just wouldn't wake up." Kai scowled "I had to lug you back on my shoulder. And you're not that light man. Seriously, your muscles feels and weight like freaking rocks!"

"Since you told us that the whole "thing" was supposed to be a secret, we had to tell your parents you tripped and hit your head." Hitomi said "But you can figure that out later. Now I'm just glad you're Ok."

I was speechless in Hitomi bear hug. I had expected disdain or awkwardness, or hell, even disgust. But not genuine worries like this. Maybe I didn't give these two enough credit.

"Umm, excuse me, but what exactly happened that night?" I asked.

"You don't remember?" Kai asked, incredulous.

"Well, no. I remember telling Itami to get on with the plan and you two trying to escape and that's it." I answered, not telling them about the hug for some reason.

"Alright." Kai took the answer with a strange face.

Apparently, after I blacked out (I don't faint), Itami possess me as planned. The possession itself was too disturbing to go into details, according to Kai. So, no information there. Anyway, Hitomi was able to see Itami herself, and that convinced them about the existence of her ghost. Itami talked to Hitomi, asked many question about her life and just generally being the worrywart of a mother that she is. Then, to my delight, she interrogated Kai. After she was satisfied, she gave the two her blessing. Then move on.

Hitomi and left behind crying into Kai's arms. Until Itami was completely gone and I fall down like a log that is. There was an oddly dreadful aura that seemed to come out of me. Kai took his chance and approached my still form. My body was cold, and my breathing was so soft they thought I was dead.

So, they quickly took the key from my pocket, open the lock with combined effort, and, I paraphrase, "lug" me back. They called the doctor. He said I was in perfect health and should wake up soon. However, I slept for a whole day.

"But now you're awake. I'm really glad." Hitomi said, still refusing to let go of me.

"Sooooooo, about the whole "thing" though." I drawled.

"About that…Um…Hahhhh." Kai signed, "I'm sorry I doubted you."

"What?" I was startled.

"I mean, I know you would never make such a prank, and definitely not on such an important day." Kai said, "But I've never seen a ghost before…"

"Strangers, I call them Strangers." I cut in. "Besides being covered in fog and technically not existing, they're just like your everyday people."

"Right…Strangers." Kai said, "Anyway, I've never seen one before. So, I couldn't really believe you on the spot. And I yelled at you and called you crazy and every too. And I'm sorry for that."

"Me too, Ryuki." Hitomi chimed in, "I'm sorry I doubted you too."

Honestly, I did not expect them to apologize when I came here. I was expecting them to inquire about what and how I can see the Strangers. Though, this is good too.

"It's Ok. I don't mind." I responded, "I didn't expect neither of you two to believe me immediately, so no harm no foul."

"Thank you." Hitomi replied. "You're a really good friend. You know that?"

"Do I?" I teased, "Yeah, of course I do."

At the end of the day, everything came through for all of us and we stayed friends. That was all I asked for. So right now, life was good. Life was very good.

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Ryuki: LOLOLOL. I can't believe you actually did that. XD

Me: SHUT UP DAMMIT. DAM YOU WORD. DAM YOU CODING PROCESS. T.T

Ryuki: lol. Sorry everyone for Haru's embarrassing mistake. We did not expect that to happen at all.

Me: T.T My grand entry.

Ryuki: Well, Haru is out of commission for now. So, thank you to "dameg" and "Aliahra" for pointing that problem out for us. We have fixed the problem and will try to update again as soon as possible.

Me: sob sob sob

Ryuki: Oh. WILL YOU QUIT IT ALREADY?!