Disclaimer: yeah, yeah... see part 1...
Growing up in Seperate worlds - She lives in you
"Satoshi! I heard you let that theif steal from the Azumano museum! That isn't like you, you know... And I know that you are fixed on catching this man, but you aren't a Hikari anymore. Your name is Satoshi Hiwatari now and you are mine."
"Yes, father. I know," Satoshi replied calmly. But oh how he hated to be reminded of how he failed... there had been two darks! He had managed to somehow create a double of himself and it had overwhelmed poor little Satoshi. "I owe where I am now to you. Now if you'll excuse me--"
"Satoshi... don't leave. We need to talk - father to son--"
"No we don't."
"Oh, yes we do!" the man who adopted Satoshi demanded. "I don't remember your mother ever being this stubborn, Satoshi-kun! I'm only trying to be a good parent! Rio would have wanted you to be looked after - unless you want to go back to an orphanage like the one she dumped you in!"
Satoshi just bit his lip and was silent at this. No, he did not want to go back to that kind of place...but he also didn't like to think that he was 'dumped' in an orphanage. Of course; his 'father' didn't know the truth about Rio's death and presumed that because she was a busy 18 year old student who didn't have time for children and so she put Satoshi in an orphanage, then died shortly after of an illness. That was so wrong though...
"Please, father... I have to go," He said, abruptly changing the subject. But Sir Hiwatari carried on at this...
"You know, everytime I look at you - I see little university student Rio with her light blue hair, that serious blunt look and of course the blue but Japanese eyes she was so well known for. It's as if... even though she's gone... she lives in you, Satoshi."
Satoshi felt the autumn wind pick up his hair and brush his already cold face as he looked up at the skies, sadly. "But you should be grateful - Your mother wasn't given the time to graduate from University..." He remembered his 'father' saying to him the day he graduated. Satoshi suddenly felt himself momentarily lose his breath so he had to cough.
"Satoshi-kun!? Are you alright?"
"Yes," He said huskily "Yes, I'm fine. I'm going home now."
And with that, he walked off home to get some sleep for school the following morning.
"Did you see him?! Last night?! Some hot guy called Dark was on TV!"
"Some hot guy? More like the hot guy! Dark was so awesome! I could have fainted when I saw that handsome face! Eeeep! I didn't know that such an emo hairstyle could look so good!"
Satoshi sat in the classroom quietly surrounded by all this noise. He just twisted a biro pen in his hand as a relief from it all. "Great, so first he's a theif legend, now he's adored by all my silly fangirls..." he muttered to himself bitterly.
"I'm sooo happy that he got away with it! Someone that damn hot deserves all the art in the world!"
Satoshi suddenly felt the biro snap in his tightened fist. How dare they say that?! Did they ever once think about the poor guy the works of art were being stolen from?! The Hikari artworks were put out there to inspire, not as an excuse for some crazy fangirls to drool over someone stealing them!
He stormed outside threw the broken biro in the bin just as Riku was passing by. She noticed this and gave Satoshi a confused look. "Hiwatari-san, whats up? That was a school biro that you just broke! What do you have to say for yourself!?" He blanked her so she hit him hard over the head causing his glasses to fall onto the hard pavement and smash. Stupid girl. He would have hit her back two times harder, but since she was a girl, he didn't. At least this was a sure sign that she wasn't another of his fangirls...
"Oh, I'm so sorry!!! I didn't mean to-- here, let me help--"
"No. I'm fine," He forced a straight un-pained face. "And you are miss...?"
"Wow! To say you have an acute attention to detail, that's pretty dumb. My name is Miss Riku Harada - I've been in your class for the past 3 months now," She said, taking his arm and helping him to sit down on a bench with her because she presumed that he couldn't see. "Here, let me clean up your face a bit, I think some glass got in your eyes."
She took a tissue from her pocket and went to dab his eyes, but he took her hand and put it down by her side because he didn't want her to. "No, I already said I'm fine. It's nothing, miss Harada-" Wait! he thought. That's Risa's second name too... they must be twins. I remember her telling me about miss Riku. They do look alike.
"Oh, I'm sorry. You probably hate girls trying to look out for you, right Hiwatari-san? It must be stressing having all those fangirls... I bet it annoys you, does it not?"
"Umm, sometimes..." He said carefully, feeling quite awkward. He didn't know what else to say and he really didn't want to have a conversation.
"Well, I'm sure it does. I don't know why everyone is suddenly weirdly obsessed with this new guy... what's so good about... well, a good for nothing theif? Aftrer all; that's really all he is."
She understood. Maybe this young lady wasn't as stupid as he'd first thought...They both realised that his hand was still on hers and she blushed a little. He tried to force down an uneasy look but he couldn't stop it from showing on his face as he took his hand off hers.
"Sorry, Hiwatari-san..." She said, politley - realising that he was a little uncomfortable.
"Erm... It's nothing, really. I can easily get new glasses..." He said, kind of changing the reason of why she had apologised.
Risa stood to one side of the courtyard un-noticed, watching her sister and Satoshi. They looked very sweet together, that was for sure. But Risa wasn't having this. Her sister... with Satoshi?! Actually managing to talk to him?! Why, this was all happening so easily for Riku... who knows? Next she might even be kissing him! And Risa didn't like this thought so she just stamped her foot in anger and ran up to Takeshi.
"Look, Takeshi!" She said, blind with inner anger. "Wouldn't that be something to put in the school newspaper...?"
"WHAT???!!!" Riku screamed when she read the school papers the following day. "YOU FRAMED ME AND SATOSHI AS A COUPLE IN THE PAPERS!?"
"Sorry, sis! But you just looked so awesome together and I thought it'd be kawaii!" Risa squealed. Haha. The perfect get-back on both Satoshi and Riku... and after this... they would most probably keep as far away from one-another as possible.
Takeshi ran up to the twins and hugged Risa."Hallelulya, Risa!" He laughed. "This is the best-selling story for the school papers I've had in ages! Arigato!" Risa pushed him away but smiled and nodded to show that she was happy for him. Riku had stormed off by now and little red-haired Daisuke had ran after her for comfort like he was an agony aunt of some kind.
Satoshi had been quiet for most of the day and didn't say anything to Risa as usual. But when he finally managed to catch her alone next to the lockers, to Risa's suprise; he started to speak to her.
"Harada-san. About the story you gave to Takeshi-"
"No, no! Don't tell me off for that! I don't have time for an argument!" Risa interupted, angrily.
"Neither do I. Actually... I have to tell you, Harada-san - I am perfectly content with it."
She blinked. Satoshi... wanted to be framed as Riku's boyfriend?! "I... I'm sorry, but I don't understand..."
"You don't, do you? Well, I should have presumed you wouldn't - (since you never do...)" He sighed and ran his hand through his hair which Risa thought was a sign that he was nervous. "Over today, none of my fangirls have been bothering me. So... thankyou."
Thankyou.
Risa kind of froze at Satoshi's out of character words and didn't know what to say. It was supposed to embarrass him, not please him! She felt the colour being drained from her face as she stared at Satoshi, who by the way - was looking back at her. Was there any way of embarrassing this new Satoshi?! It had been so easy before... this had just reminded Risa how much he changed... she felt tears of defeat coming to her eyes so she just closed them tightly and said; "It's ok, jerk."
"Hmm... I'm glad you think so," He turned to walk off because he sensed her getting somewhat hurt by this conversation, although he didn't know why. "Oh and, Harada-san. If you wanted to hurt me... then you failed... but if you were out to get Miss Riku... then you won. I think you should see her. She's in the girls room crying right now."
Risa suddenly felt her heart sink even further. What had she done...? She'd only created a little rumor... just for fun... she never meant for it to get out of hand...
"Dark! Dark was on TV again! Soooo hot!" squealed Ritsuko. Then she glanced at Riku with a mean smirk spreading quickly across her face. "Much better than Riku's guy Hiwatari! Eep! Tons better! I mean, don't you agree, Risa? If you stand those two next to eachother, Dark and Satoshi I mean, then you'll see just how much more mature Dark is... Satoshi just looks cute in comparason. And we all like hawt guys! Not cute little rich guys!"
After months, that rumor was still going round... Risa just let out a sigh and was about to say something but she was interupted by another girl.
"No way! Satoshi's just as tall as Dark and looks at least 16! He's hawt and cute!! And when he get's to Dark's age, he'll be just as hawt only richer with blue eyes! If we're lucky - he'll even do his hair like Dark's and wear black gothic clothes!"
"Hiwatari-san already wears black clothes..." Risa stated, chewing her fingernails which was suprising since she liked so much to look after them.
"Really? How do you know? I only ever see him in school uniform... then the once I saw him out of school, he was wearing a shirt and tie..." Ritsuko said with a un-trusting feel to her voice.
"I saw him once at the beach and he was wearing black swim-shorts and no shirt!" giggled Satoshi's fangirl.
"Lier," Risa grunted. She feel like going all giggly over shirtless boys today, especially not Satoshi.
"No! He lives next to the coast in an apartment on his own! He's likely to spend his spare time on the beach!"
"He lives... on his own?" Risa asked although she'd already figured that he wouldn't be living in a family enviroment. No sisters... no brothers... no parents... boy, she thought No wonder he is such a un-sociable jerk...
"Hell, yeah! That's one of the reasons we all like him so much! So independant!"
"I'm going to get a drink..." Risa sighed, hopping off her chair.
"...I know that she's never been interested in Satoshi-kun but... don't you think Risa's been acting a little weird lately...?" Ritsuko asked the girl. She just shrugged and walked off, which wasn't much help at all.
"Oi! Risa!" Riku shouted as she passed her sister in the coridoor.
"Nee-Chan! Whats up? Are you ok?"
"No!" She cried. "No, I'm not... Thanks to your little joke, I can't get a dance for the year nine prom! The only person I can ask is Hiwatari-san - I don't love him... but I have no choise... all the other boys think I'm dating him and nobody wants me! Daisuke... doesn't... even LOOK at me!"
"And you care about Daisuke... why?" Risa felt very, very guilty deep down. She was now fully aware that she had ruined Riku's chances with all the guys... she just didn't want to lose to her..."Look - you don't have to ask Hiwatari-san-"
"Exactly... I don't have to... you have to ask him for me, Risa!" Riku said. Risa had a feeling that her sister was going to ask her that... but she did owe her. She owed her alot and so she was left with no other option but to accept. But Risa decided that; it was best to ask Satoshi in due course. There was no rush - as the prom was going to happen in the summer months.
Authors note
Heya peeps! Yes, you are probably confused as to why I submitted two chapters at a time this time. Well, I'm off to Germany! Woot! My first time out of the UK. I think it'll be awesome... but anyway! It means that I wont be updating after the next part it a while, okay?
Also, I'd like to answer some stuff :S
Suri - Don't worry, I've put lots of flashbacks in later on, so there will be plenty more of little Satoshi :)
Emey Troi - Krad shall come in a little later on as Satoshi gets to know Risa a bit more.
If anyone else has any other questions or points, just say! xx