This could be the second last chapter to this story.

Hitomi: *squeal like the girls in the dub* Yay! Yay! Yay!

Me: I mean, who does that.

Hitomi: ME! *hyper*


Hitomi pulled. She battered the wind and rain. But she didn't let go. At last, after 5 long minutes, Toramaru was dragged to safety on the shore.

Hitomi shook Toramaru. "Toramaru! Are you okay?"

Toramaru was unconscious.

Later Hitomi took him to her home.

Toramaru lay on the couch with a blanket over him. The sweet aroma of hot chocolate drifted in the air. He started to regain consciousness.

He could hear voices. He didn't dare open his eyes.

"Who is this, Harmony?" A cutting voice pierced the silence. It was a boy, about 15, and his voice reminded him of Hitomi.

Hitomi gasped as if someone plunged a knife into her. "Don't call me that!" she gasped.

"Who is this, Harmony?" The cutting voice asked again, this time demandingly.

"Why should I tell you?"

"Then tell me why you've brought him here!" The voice said furiously.

"No!"

"No what?" The voice had a dangerous glint to it now.

"Just. Plain. NO!" Hitomi shouted.

"And why is that?"

"Why should I tell! Why should I tell when you've done so much terrible things to me! Ever since last year, you've been like this! You've… you've put a curse on me! You made everyone who used to be my friend stay away from me!"

The other voice grunted and a door slammed.

Toramaru could hear the soft sobbing noise of Hitomi.

He opened his eyes. "Hitomi."

Hitomi glanced up tearfully. "You're awake!" She dashed into the kitchen and emerged with a mug of hot chocolate. "Here. Have a sip."

Toramaru drank it in one gulp. "Hitomi? I heard everything."

Hitomi gasped. "You… did?" she asked.

Toramaru nodded. "The person who whipped you was your brother, wasn't it? The one just now?"

Hitomi burst into tears. "Yes, it's him," she said between sobs.

She took a deep breath. "Just one and a half years ago, my brother joined a soccer team called… do you know it… Team Garshield."

She smiled when she heard him gasp. "You know of it, then. There he took on the name Fox. The goalkeeper. I assume you've seen him?"

Toramaru nodded. So that's why she looked so familiar. She was the goalie's sister.

"I knew he was going to play Inazuma Japan, so the day he finished playing, I went up to him and asked if he won.

"Big mistake. He took off his belt and whipped me over my eye. He's been so mean to me ever since." Her voice wavered a little.

"When we were smaller, when my name used to be Harmony, he made me a milkshake like the one you made me the other day. The one with my initials."

Toramaru stared.

Hitomi noticed. "What?"

"Hitomi," Toramaru whispered, almost half daringly. "Look into the mirror."

Hitomi looked confused but she spun around.

In the mirror was a girl she hardly recognized. She looked like Hitomi – but her eyes – they were both emerald green. BOTH emerald green. And none of them had a scar running over it.

Hitomi gasped with amazement and her eyes widened. "Toramaru? Is this really true?"

Toramaru nodded proudly. "Spin around, Hitomi. Let me see you like this."

Hitomi spun around again.

Toramaru nodded approvingly. "That's the way you ought to look."

"Sorry for slapping you," Hitomi said, ashamed.

Toramaru gave her a smile that made her heart melt. "All that matters, is that you can be your true self again."

"Thank you, Toramaru. Thanks for everything." Her voice was muffled as she hugged Toramaru tightly, her face buried in his shoulder.


Okay, so this might be a complicated concept to grasp, since it's not in the story, but the reason her scar was gone and her eye turned green again was that when she cried (in the last chapter) she forgave all the boys who had been mean to her before, and as the scar was created because she wouldn't forgive her brother, the scar didn't go away before. Now that she forgave, her scar kinda got washed away by her tears of forgiveness.

Nice chappie?

Cheers,

HarmonySoundown (and that means me!)