Part 2

Izzy kissed Sora's cheek tenderly and left the note for her on the pillow. It was simple and to the point saying he had gone out for a run with Jyou and would be back in an hour or so.

He left the house and jogged to the park arriving there in ten minutes. He saw a blue haired man sitting on a bench, waiting patiently.

"Hey Jyou," Izzy called out as he neared him.

"Hey, Izzy?" Jyou replied pausing for a moment when he saw his friend. "What happened to you?"

"Huh? Oh, it's nothing," Izzy said as he tentatively touched his injury with two fingers. He quickly withdrew his hand. "Are we going to run?" Izzy demanded when Jyou stayed sitting.

"Yeah, of course." They jogged in silence for a few minutes before Jyou's curiosity got the best of him.

"If it's nothing then there isn't any problem telling me how it happened," Jyou told Izzy, knowing that if Izzy really didn't want to make a big deal about it he would quickly explain it and shove it aside. Izzy frowned before answering.

"If you must know, I was hit."

"By who?" Jyou demanded protectively.

"Sora. Come on Jyou, it's over and done with, it doesn't matter."

Jyou sighed and let the matter drop though questions pounded in his head. Why had Sora hit Izzy? Why did Izzy seem so insistent on avoiding the matter?

He decided in the silence that followed that Sora must have hit him on accident, maybe thinking Izzy was an intruder, and that it was a one-time incident.

Izzy was also sure that it was a one-time incident, though he didn't voice it to Jyou. If Jyou knew that Izzy was dwelling on it then it was more then nothing.