Here's Chapter 9! Sorry it was a day late. Read and enjoy! ^-^

Ch. 9

For some reason, a white rabbit was in front of me. It took a few hops before it transformed into a white deer. It looked at me and began to fly away, transforming itself to a cloud. It grew a strange face and began rain blood. Some if it got in my mouth, but it tasted sweet like candy. It was all so strange.

"Tomoya."

A distant voice was heard but from where?

"Tomoya."

"Stop..." I groaned and tried to cover my eyes. Suddenly, I felt myself being shaken. "Stop..."

"Tomoya."

Then the sound of a bell ran through my ears.

"Stop!" I jumped a bit and felt my eyes slowly open. A table was in front of me, the smell of books lingered in my nose, and I felt my head resting against something. I groaned a bit and turned my head over to what I was resting on. Gorgeous purple eyes stared down at me. I stared back for a while until i came back to my senses and jumped away.

"Kotomi? What are you-" Then I looked down at her hands that held a book. I began to remember. "Oh damn. Did I sleep on you? I did, didn't I?"

Kotomi nodded.

"Damn, I'm sorry, Kotomi. I didn't mean to sleep on you. I'm sorry," I said.

"It's okay," Kotomi whispered. She stood up and began to pick her things up.

"No, it's not okay. You gave me food, and I just slept on you."

Kotomi placed both cushions underneath the table as well as her books. She took her shoes and socks from a book-case and began to put them on.

"It's okay," she said.

"It's not okay, Kotomi. I was rude to you for doing that even though you gave me food. Please let me make it up to you," I said.

Kotomi fixed herself up and looked at me. "It's okay."

I frowned. I felt like she was sad. Poor Kotomi.

"Come on. Please let me make it up to you," I pleaded.

Kotomi walked ahead as I followed her out of the library. She said nothing, so I decided to keep quiet.

We walked out to the gate since it was time to go home now and just stood there.

"Kotomi..." I whispered.

She kept her eye contact in front of her. "Would you walk with me to my house?"

I looked over at her, and she looked back. Might as well. "Sure. Let's go."

And so our walk began. It was a quiet walk, too quiet really, much more quiet than my walk with Nagisa. Plus, I didn't know where Kotomi lived. I found myself to follow where instead of actually walking with her.

At some point, we passed the street where Nagisa lived, and I felt like turning away and run to her house. But I still need to talk with Kotomi because I owe it to her. I'll come back soon, Nagisa. Hang on.

The surprising thing I found out was that Kotomi, Nagisa, and I lived really close to each other. What a small world this is.

We soon reached a lonely, white house at the end of the street with a beautiful lawn and a white, metal fence.

"Thank you, Tomoya," Kotomi finally spoke.

"No problem. I did told you that I had to make it up to you," I said.

Kotomi nodded, opened the fence's door and walked in. She left the door opened just a bit and turned around to me. "Would you like to come in?"

"Uh...actually, I can't. I have to see someone else," I said.

Kotomi stared at me, but her eyes seemed to dance around.

"I promise I'll visit you some day," I said. I didn't want to hurt her feelings, that's for sure.

"See you later," she said.

I was actually caught off guard. She just dismissed me. Did I really hurt her?

"Kotomi, I-"

Kotomi closed the fence and waved to me. "Good bye." Then she walked into her house and let me standing alone.

After haven been sorta ditched by Kotomi, I began to walk alone towards Nagisa's house. For some reason, the way that Kotomi acted, the way she talked, the way her eyes stared at me and have the ability to talk to me with them, it all felt like I've felt this sensation before as if I've seen her before. But it couldn't be possible because I've never seen her before or so I thought. Maybe it was someone else I'm thinking about but something about Kotomi made me feel like I've met someone like her before. Oh well.

Because I've been thinking about Kotomi for too long, I never realized when I was in front of a house with a white, wooden fence, a nice lawn with a small pathway leading up to the house's door. Being dark outside, I could see lights coming from inside the house.

So I was here. Do I just go in? There's a fence, so I tried to open it, but it didn't budge. I knocked and waited for a while. No response. I looked around to see if there was some sort of handle to open the fence, but there was nothing. The last option for me was to yell, and I was about to do that until my eye caught sight of a button next to the fence's door. I hesitated for a bit from how stupid I was for not seeing it there, and decided to press it.

Suddenly, the door opened a bit. It was peculiar but pretty interesting. I slowly entered and walked down the pathway. Before I reached the door, I could see in the house through the screen door. There was a woman holding a tray of bread. She saw me and urged me to come in.

I slid open the door and instantly, the smell of delicious bread reached my nose. Before my very eyes, shelves upon shelves of different varieties of bread gave off a lovely aroma. Compared to the outside air, the air in here was very welcoming and warm.

"Welcome," the woman said as she placed down the tray on a shelve. She smiled to me. Then she became familiar. She was Nagisa's sister/mom.

"Hello," I said.

"Aren't you the nice guy who saved my daughter?"

"Yeah. My name's..." My voice trailed off when I realized something. Holy shit. This was Nagisa's mom! She's super young!

"Your name is?" she said as she raised an eyebrow. I shook my head and repeated myself.

"Sorry. My name's Tomoya."

"Well, Tomoya. My name's Sanae Furukawa. Please don't hesitate to call me by my first name."

I examined her. I still couldn't believe it.

"Thank you very much for saving my daughter," Sanae said and picked up the tray she had earlier and shoved it to me. "Would you like some bread?"

I smiled awkwardly. "I didn't really came here for bread. But since you offered, I'll take one bite."

I picked up one bread which looked like a polka-dotted cookie. It looked good enough to eat, so I took a bite...

"It's my new creation. I believe I'll call them Skittles," Sanae said.

Oh God...this tastes like...

"Do you want me to be honest with you about it?" I asked.

"Yes, of course! Doesn't it have a unique taste?"

"The taste is very unique but not in a good way."

"W-what?"

"The taste is hard to pinpoint exactly. I can't even say if it's good or just strange, but it's not even good. You haven't sold these, have-"

"No wonder they haven't sold out! They're simply awful!" Sanae cried and ran away from the house.

"Hey wait!" I called out as I saw her run out from the fence and down the street. Great. I made Nagisa's mom cry. I'm going to hell.

"You dumbass!"

Suddenly, a man charged up to me and pushed me against a wall.

"You know, you could've just said they were good! Don't you know it's rude to tell someone something's not good after they offered you! It's a damn free bread, fro crying out loud!"

The man in front of my face, I could never forget, was Nagisa's "lovely" dad.

"Well, she told me to be honest with her. You wanted me to lie?" I said.

"That's what most people do, so you better change that attitude of yours and be a sport!"

"Okay, okay! Now I know. Can you let me go?"

Mr. Furukawa let me go and shook his head at me. I held my chest from where he had pushed me.

"Hey, aren't you that guy who took my daughter to the nurse earlier today?" he asked.

"Yeah. I came to see if she's okay," I said.

"Well," the dad crossed his arms over his chest, "she's fine. She just needs to rest, and she'll be fine." He gave me a glare. "Don't expect her to be calling out your name though...what's your name, anyway?"

"Tomoya." I can't believe I told him.

"Yeah. Nagisa's not going to be calling out your name "Oh Tomoya! Tomoya!" Psh! Get real, kid."

I sighed. "I didn't come here to know if she was calling my name or not. I came here to see if she was okay and-" I took out the papers from my suitcase and handed them to Mr. Furukawa. "-I brought her the assignments she missed from last class."

The dad grabbed the papers and looked at them "The school expects for Nagisa to make up work? How disgusting." He rolled up the papers and threw them on the counter behind him. "Well, now I gotta go get my wife back. You better head back home, kid. You wouldn't want your folks to worry about you."

With that, Mr. Furukawa stuck a piece of the Skittles bread in his mouth and rushed out, mumbling out, "I love you, baby!"

I felt myself sweatdrop. These are some very strange parents, but they seem decent enough. They care about Nagisa as any parents should. I wished I had parents like that.

Tomoya feels like he met Kotomi before but it can't be true, can it? And poor Sanae had her heart broken but never fear, Akio's here! Anyway, let's just hope Nagisa's alright. Please review, comment, and favorite for more chapters. Thank you. ^-^