Chapter 14

Ahh... Summer... :) Since school ended for the summer, I have been feeling lazy lately... Oh well... I'll need all of my time for relaxing before my freshman (or freshwoman in my case ;))year starts! Everlasting will last for a few more chapters. About five more I think...

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Chapter name: Thoughts. Dreams. And Discovering

April 21 2033, 4:23 p.m.

A week had went and gone by. Finals were now even closer than ever, many students of New Townsville High were often in the school library or the city's main library to study for the finals.

Honoo had returned from her long visit at her aunt's, she was strangely unfazed by the huge amount of school work she had from her absence. Nevertheless, she caught up with her works and studies for the finals very quickly.

Hideaki sighed and rubbed his temple, his brain feel like it was going to overflow any minute. He slowly closed his eyes and began to drift off until he was complete asleep.

When he opened his eyes, the sight was breathtaking. Hideaki was in a beautiful meadow. Flowers of any kind were everywhere and the trees' leaves were a gorgeous shade of green. The sky cloudless and clear.

Hideaki blinked his eyes as he saw what he was wearing, a plain white button up t-shirt and white shorts. He then saw a soil path front of him, for some reason, he had an urge to follow it as if it would take him to somewhere even more beautiful.

He started to follow the soil path in front of him. It felt like hours when he arrived at a small hill with a single large cherry blossom tree. Hideaki walked to the cherry blossom tree which was in full bloom, but yet few petals from the flowers were falling. Soon someone else came to view.

Honoo.

She was sitting on a wood swing, watching the sunset. Her long red hair was glowing from the sunset and her strapless silver dress that stopped just above the knee was sparkling also from the sunset colors. Honoo seemed at peace as she silently watched the sunset.

"It's beautiful isn't it?" She murmured, turning her head around so she could see Hideaki leaning on the tree's bark. Hideaki was surprised to see her eyes weren't brown... It was ruby red. It was familiar, but he just couldn't think of who. He was pulled back to reality when Honoo stood up from the swing and walked to him. She was a few inches shorter than him, he could see that.

Honoo then crossed her arms and looked into his piercing chocolate brown eyes, "Can I ask you a question Hideaki?" She asked.

"Um sure, ask me anything" Hideaki replied.

She took a deep breath and released it to calm her nerves down. "How would you feel if your worst enemy is someone you're friends with?"

"What do you mean?" Hideaki asked.

"I meant that if the person you care about is someone who's supposed to be your enemy, how would you feel?" She said, looking down at her bare feet on the soft green grass.

"It depends on who that person is that I care so much about. Enemy or not, I will never do anything to hurt that person." He said. It seemed that it was the answer that Honoo was looking for because she was smiling.

"I see." Honoo said and then turned to the sunset. It's red-orange light was everywhere. Giving the meadow a dreamy look. "I remember this place. My father brought me here many years ago." She murmured.

Hideaki looked at the vast meadow in front of them. It was very stunning. He felt a small pressure on one of his cheeks, Honoo had kissed his cheek. Butterflies fluttered around in his stomach.

"Thank you." She said. "For everything." She smiled at him. Hideaki wasn't sure if it was of the heat or her eyes glowing beautifully in reflection of the sunset. What it was, he wasn't sure but he found himself gently took Honoo's hand into his own, his other hand was on her cheek. The butterflies in his stomach had multiplied to thousands now. Her eyes were wide in surprise. They started to lean in and this time they won't be interrupted by anyone.

Their lips now was centimeters apart, everything were perfect. When his lips finally lightly pressed into her lips. All was tranquil-

CRASH

"Wh-what?" Hideaki blinked his eyes open to see his black haired brother on his bedroom floor and the discarded stuff from the trash bin everywhere on the floor. "Tamotsu! What are you doing here? And why are you on the floor?" Hideaki asked.

Tamotsu only just groaned. He then pushed himself off the floor and stood. "Oh, it's nothing. I just tripped over the bin." He mumbled. "Mom says dinner's ready." He then walked out of the room, not bothering to clean the mess that he had made. Hideaki rolled his eyes, chuckling, he then followed his brother to downstairs.

April 21 2033, 5:12 p.m.

Deep in the woods, where a mansion was built there. A girl of sixteen years old with long scarlet red hair and striking red eyes to match was walking in one of the many hallways of the mansion, soon enough she arrived at a fairly large door. When the red-haired girl entered through the door, she was greeted by the musky old scent of books.

It was a large library, with books everywhere on the shelves. There were also few of those ladders that could help you to reach the books which was on the higher parts of the library.

The red-haired girl walked to one of the shelves and pulled out a old large green book. She then walked over to one of the comfy cushion chairs and sat down. The red haired girl opened the cover of the book, revealing many pictures inside. It was a scrapbook.

There were many pictures of the red haired girl and her family when she was young. Pictures of her parents when they were teenagers, pictures of the red haired girl when she was just a baby and pictures of her and her cousins.

When the red haired girl found a picture of her mother with her younger sister, she smiled at the sight. The sisters looked very different from each other. Since they weren't sisters by blood but by adoption, however they treated each other like they were sisters.

The red haired girl continued to look through the pictures, many of them were family pictures. Birthdays, Halloweens and Christmases. She started to tear up when she realized that there were so many pictures without her parents. The red haired girl sighed and closed the scrapbook.

"You miss them? Your parents I mean." A voice said from the door. The red haired turned to the door to see one of her cousins.

"Yeah, I miss them a lot." The red haired said. "Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I was never born."

"Blaze! You know that it would be chaos around here!" Her cousin said, her green eyes wide in shock. Blaze only chuckled.

"Calm down Briar. I know, but still." Blaze said. It was silent for a few minutes until her other cousin came in. Beauty.

"Come on! Dinner's here!" Beauty said. Blaze put the scrapbook back into the shelf where it was before. She then followed her cousins to the kitchen where the take-out pizza was.

April 21 2033, 11:23 p.m.

Temhota was now pacing forward and back on the carpet in the throne room. It had been days since Blaze escaped. He had to capture her again and take her Chemical Y before she got too powerful for the Hunters.

He sighed loudly. Temhota still couldn't understand how she was so hard to capture, let alone finding her. He heard the door opening and light footsteps. It was the little boy.

"Um si-sir?" The little boy stammered. "We found h-her and her cousins. They're in a ci-city called New Townsville in Ja-japan."

Temhota smirked. "Get Kouv' now." He said. As the little boy ran out of the room, Temhota walked back to his throne and sat on it. "Watch out Jojo. We're coming for you." He chuckled.