If you're like me, you can't stand the fact of Hitomi and Van never seeing each other again...but that is all going to change. And just another thing...I forgot if Hitomi had a dad or a brother so just Hitomi's mom is her. And I do have a tendancy to "..." a lot, so bear with it

Nowhere...
By Alexandra
Chapter One: All is Lost
6/16/01

" Hitomi! We're going back to the hotel! Haven't you gazed at the Eiffel Tower enough?" Ms. Kanzaki said.
" All right," Hitomi said. " Paris has been everything I ever dreamed of, why leave it's most treasured landmark after an hour of visiting it?"
" Hitomi!"
Hitomi shrugged and followed her mother to the bus stop, but paused and looked again, " Van...you'd love Paris..." she thought.
" HITOMI KANZAKI!" Ms. Kanzaki shouted.
Hitomi's face suddenly turned blood red, " Uhh..coming Mother!"
" Hitomi, I have no idea what has gotten into you, ever since that day you disapeered, you've acted so strangely, and now..."
Hitomi cut her mother off, " Just tell her, I mean all mothers understand about boys, don't they, and besides, she doesn't need to know the whole story. It will be the only way to get her off my case!"
" Mom, I have a boyfriend," Hitomi muttered.
Ms. Kanzaki turned to Hitomi, " What did you say?"
" I have a boyfriend," Hitomi said strongly.
Ms. Kanzaki's face turned from a stern look to a smile, " So who's the lucky guy?"
" You understand?" Hitomi said in shock. " This is the woman who won't even let me watch Rated R movies, and she is all right with me having a boyfriend," she thought.
" Hitomi you don't need to be embarresed, I used to see boys behind your grandmother's back all the time, so tell me his name!" Ms. Kanzaki said anxiously.
" Van Slanzar de Fanel."
" What's his name again? Is he French? Where did you meet a French boy? You haven't been out of my sight for a minute on this trip," Ms. Kanzaki asked.
" He's not French, I met him back home," Hitomi's face turned red again.
Ms. Kanzaki finally got the idea, remembering her past, she let this slide, " It's not everyday a boy thinks my beautiful baby is attractive, Hitomi deserves this," she thought. " Hitomi, the bus is waiting for us.
The two women then boarded the bus that would arrive at " L'Hotel de Paris" and sat down.
Hitomi looked at her mother that kept smiling. " Why are you smiling?" she whispered.
Ms. Kanzaki let out a cheerful giggle. " Oh nothing Hitomi!"
Hitomi then put her head against the window. " Van, is it one of those days, one of those days when I can't think I can think of anything else except you?"
The bus stopped, and Hitomi lost track of thought.
" Hitomi, c'mon and get out of the bus," Ms. Kanzaki said.
" Al-All right," Hitomi said.

...In Fanelia...

Two men sat in the Fanelia throne room, one a man in his mid-thirties, dressed in robes of purple and blue, and one teenage boy, dressed in a drawstring red shirt and tan cotton pants.
" So, King Van, what do you think of this logo for the new Fanelia theme park," the man said putting a canvas into the young king's face.
Van rolled his eyes, " You know Neumann, we just got done with rebuilding Fanelia, and now we're going to build a theme park to increase it's popularity?"
The new advisor put his head down and dropped the canvas on the red carpet. " This is the only way we can rebuild Fanelia's economy, things aren't like they used to be."
" You don't think I don't know that? I'm 17 years old now, I'm not like the other guys my age and when ever I go near them they go on their knees and bow to me. What have I really done?" Van asked.
" Man, this is a hard question, SAVE GAEA!" Neumann said.
" I did not do that by myself, they should bow to Hitomi, not me, she helped save Gaea, she was the vision that saved Gaea, she helped me see the light, she has done too much," Van said, getting off of his throne.
" Van, take it easy, remember this is the best for your people," Neumann said.
Van looked at the fallen canvas and bent down to study it, " it will be fine, just fine," he said, reading the theme park's name: Promised Land.
Van then walked out of the throne room, slamming the door.
" What has gotten into the king?" Neumann said.
" And you think it is so easy," a voice said.
Neumann drew his sword, " who's there, reveal yourself and you shall get a quick death."
A man with long blond hair with a puffy shirt, a blue waistcoat, and shiny brown boots came out of the decorative red curtains surrounding one of the many windows in the throne room.
" Allen Schezar!" Neumann said hesitentsly, dropping onto his knees to honor his presence.
" No need for that, get up and listen to me," the Asturian knight said as he came up to Neumann. " Van is going through a lot, do you think he'll ever be the great king as his father was?" Allen said, now only inches away from Neumann's face.
" Sir, he has potential-"
" Van has great potential, but do you think people look at him like a normal person, being the hero that he is now?" Allen took the advisor to a window that showed a great deal of Fanelia. " Look!" Two pairs of eyes were focused on the scene.
Van was walking up to a group of teenage boys playing basketball.
" Oh my god, Lord Van is coming toward us!" one of the boys said.
" Hey guys, may I-" Van said but then was interuppted by the hoard of people coming around him. " I've got to get out of here," Van thought and walked through the parted sea of people.
" Leave him be," Allen said.

...In Paris...

Hitomi sat on her bed watching TV in the hotel room her mom and her shared, " Mom, why couldn't we pay an extra $35 for TV Japan? I'd like to watch something that I could understand!"
" Hitomi, it will strengthen your French tongue, and then you'll become an expert speaker just like me!" Ms. Kanzaki said while brushing her hair in the bathroom.
" Even if I try to speak French, it sounds like 22 month old," Hitomi said.
Ms. Kanzaki came out of the bathroom and put her coat on. " Hitomi, I don't want you going anywhere while I'm out, Paris can be dangerous city if you don't know the language well. I'll be at the Academie de Lourdes."
" Why are you going there?" Hitomi asked.
" Hitomi, the real reason why we're in Paris is that we're moving here."
Hitomi froze. " Why?"
Ms. Kanzaki sat down. " Hitomi, the memories that we have in Japan haunt me every night. Especially in that house, and what your father had done to us, it's too hard for me to stay there any longer. We're going to have a better life here, and free of all those memories." Ms. Kanzaki then hugged her daughter and walked to the door. " Hitomi believe me, you will not regret this decision." She then closed the door.
Hitomi was still frozen, reality still fresh and new in her mind, and still she was trying to block it from even sinking in. But it could not be helped, she loved Paris, she loved every minute of it, but adjusting to a new country, and leaving behind Yukari, her grandmother's grave, the track where she and Van first met. " And with this on my head, why am I not crying? Any normal girl would, and I'm not." Hitomi than laid onto the bed and fell asleep.

BOOM!!!!
Hitomi woke up immediately. She than ran up to the window overlooking Paris. Everything in her view was fine, but in her mind, it was not.
She ran down to the lobby and was looking for some sort of clue on what happened. All she saw were shocked faces. She went to the lobby desk and asked what had happened. Of course the man had no idea what Hitomi was saying, so he gave her a puzzled look.
"That was stupid," Hitomi thought, " like he knows Japanese." So Hitomi tried with all her skills to say: Je ne parle pas francais, je parle Japonese."
The lobby guy than caught drift of it but didn't know what to do about the situation. Here you have a Japanese tourist who can't speak French very well and not much people in France know Japanese. Hitomi than tried in her best English: What happened?
The lobby guy than got what she was saying before, " Lourdes Academy was bombed, all I know."
Hitomi then fainted.

So guys, I tried my best with the French, after all my French teacher, Ms. Tosto still didn't cover a lot of things than the Spanish class did. I hope you guys enjoyed it!
And the theme park idea, I just thought that would be funny, Fanelia relying on nothing but a theme park to bring back the economy. =)