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A/N: I am so sorry for not writing this sooner. I got serious writers block. I tried writing this a couple of times but it wasn't turning out like I wanted it to. So now with out further a due here's the next chapter of 'Friendship's power'.
One week later.
Not much happened over the week. Matt got reacquainted with his old room and Max found out that he didn't like Matt's dad. Mr. Ishida blamed Max for Matt's disappearance so Max just tried to avoid him. But it was hard for Max to do this since Max had to stay at Matt's residence. That was a large change for him. He wasn't used to being in other peoples houses and now he was staying in Matt's house. Max would have been sent back to Okinawa where his parents were but the police couldn't find any info on Max's existence. Actually they couldn't find anything on Matt either. When Matt disappeared a year ago, so did his record. And the record of his father reporting his missing, disappeared from their computers not long after that. The police tried to get more info out of the boys of their whereabouts over the last year but Matt and Max refused to speak about anything along that subject.
That day when they were getting out of jail. The man in the suit explained some rules that restricted them from practically everything. Matt wasn't aloud out of the house for a week. After that he wasn't aloud out unless someone went with him. He would be aloud to go to school in a week of his return and in the same grade as his peers but some of his friends will have to volunteer to help him catch up on work and teach him everything that he had missed. Tai was the first to volunteer. But Joe and Izzy were given the roles. Tai pouted but got over it as soon as he saw that a soccer game was on TV.
He wouldn't be aloud outside when it's dark until two months has past and then only with a friend. After a year he would have all his rights back.
Max would be intending school a week after Matt would and he would have to be sent to a private school. But he would be going to a high school and be placed in grade twelve. He will be aloud out side after two weeks and then he will have to visit a patrol officer at five every evening. And that would go on until his twentieth birthday which Max said was January 10th.
Matt already knew that but it was some time until that. It was only September 15th. Sunday. The next day Matt would be going back to school and would be visited by Izzy for the first time to get him caught up. They didn't come to his apartment over the week because Matt was angry with them for calling 911. So they stayed clear of him for the time. Matt was still angry but knew he had to restrain his anger… for the time.
Right now Matt sat on the couch in the living room changing the channels looking for something good to watch even though he had already been through them thirteen and a half time.
Max was in Matt's room. He was looking around it to see if there was something that could ease his boredom. Matt's room was pretty small. A small twin bed was against the wall on the opposite side of the room then the door. His dresser was about a foot and a half away from the bed and against the opposite wall from the bed. He had a small night table with two drawers beside his bed and above it was a small window.
Max didn't see anything that could be used to help his boredom. He then sat on the bed. He felt something dig into him and stood up. Something was under the covers. He pulled the covers down and saw a small metallic object lying there. A harmonica. He picked it up and shouted, "Hey Matt. You into music?"
"Yeah. I guess. Why?" He heard Matt answer back.
"Come here." Max once again took a seat on the bed and no sooner as he did, Matt was at the door.
"So. Was sup?" Max showed Matt the harmonica in his hands.
"Oh. Yeah. That's just something that I got a long time ago." Matt walked towards Max and sat on the bed.
"You play often?"
"Sometimes. I mean I used to."
"'Used to? Why not now?"
Matt shrugged his shoulders, "Well… I hadn't had it for a time. That day when I saw Massar's guys for the first time I didn't have it on me so I hadn't used it for over a year. And lately I haven't felt like playing." Max was about to say something but then the doorbell rang. Both boys looked up.
"Should we leave it?" Asked Matt.
"Nah. I'll get it. If you want." Matt nodded.
"I really don't feel like talking to anyone right now." And with that Max stood up and walked out of the bedroom.
When he got to the door he looked out the peek hole. "Well hello my friend." Max said quietly from the other side of the door. He then opened up the door and saw the bushy haired boy that Matt had referred to as Tai.
"Oh. It's you." Tai looked at the older boy now feeling even more uncomfortable then he was before.
"Um, hi." He said. He saw that Max wasn't about to say anything so he went on. "I was just walking by and I'd thought I'd see how Matt was doing." Max just stood there, making Tai feel as uncomfortable as possible. "So… can I see him?"
"No." Max said as he started to shut the door.
Tai stopped the door and said, "Why can't I see him?"
"I said so."
"I need to talk to him. So let me."
"Why should I?"
"If you don't then I could just come back later and have Mr. Ishida let me in."
Max thought about this then turned and said, "Hey Matt. One of your nuisances- I mean friends is at the door."
"So?"
"Get your ass out here." Max said dully.
Matt walked out of his room and down the hall to the door. As he passed Max he whispered, "To bad it isn't Massar." He then walked out side on the hallway balcony and shut the door behind him.
Matt stood there and glared at Tai. There was an awkward silence for a moment as Tai searched for the right thing to say. Then he said, "How are you?"
"Fine." Matt answered harshly.
Another awkward silence filled the air as Tai shrunk back in his shoes. "Well…" Tai started in an attempt to stop the silence. "Matt, I'm sorry…"
"Not as much as I am."
"Don't act like that. What happened to you? Look at yourself. Your not acting like you used to. I mean you used to be understanding, now your just keep acting like a jerk."
"Tai. You just put me in a load of shit. I can't even leave my house. I can't do anything. There is this car down on the street that has two suited men in it that sat out there for the past week. My house is bugged. Do you have any idea what that can do to a person? Why didn't you just give me a break and let me leave like I was planning."
"Because I didn't want to loose you. No one wanted to. We didn't know if you were dead. We didn't know if you were hurt. We didn't even know if you were on this planet. What did you expect me to do? Just sit back and watch me best friend walk out of my life forever."
Matt didn't really know how to answer this. Tai was right he guessed. It would be hard to watch something like that. But it would be for the best, right? After all he didn't want to see all his friends and family be put in danger. And he didn't want to be brought back to Massar's society.
Matt turned and walked towards the bars that prevented people form falling of the balcony, and then he leaned on them. He put his hands to his face and just stood there. It was about a second before Tai joined him and looked at the view that was in front of him.
"Tai," Matt said after a moment. "You don't understand."
"Well make me understand then."
"I can't. It's too complicated. I don't even understand fully and I lived it. It's just that everything went all wrong and now I'm trying to fix it but everything is preventing me from doing that."
"Matt… a week ago-in the alley-I saw you do something…. Something that I have never seen before. I mean it was amazing. The light and the-the-the… I don't know. It was like magic."
"It was… but I can't tell you anything about it. It's better if you know as little as possible."
Tai then looked at Matt hard. "What do you mean? It was magic? But why can't you tell me more? Why won't you just tell everyone? Give us the smallest hint of where you were."
"I can't Tai. I just can't."
"But why?"
"Tai," Matt turned to look at Tai. "Did you ever here the saying 'ignorance is bliss'?"
"Um-yeah. Why?"
"Because some things are best left unknown." Matt looked out into the sky as Tai tried to figure out what was stopping Matt from saying where he was. Tai never got the chance to find out why because Matt spoke again. "Well, I should go in. See you tomorrow at school Tai."
Matt started walking inside but then Tai said, "We still friends?"
Matt looked at Tai… then gave him a grin. "Yeah… Bye."
"Bye Matt." And with that Matt went in side.
The next day would be Matt's first day at school in more then a year. He didn't really want to go that day. The moment he heard his alarm clock come on he hit the snooze button. He was about to fall back to sleep when he heard. "Matt! Don't even think of going back to sleep!" Max shouted from the other room. He cracked his eye and looked at the clock. 7:30. He groaned and got to his feet. He looked through his drawers for some cloths that he could wear.
After a moment of searching he took out a pare of blue jeans and a green no sleeve turtle neck then headed towards the bathroom that his room was attached to.
After his shower he went out to the kitchen to get something to eat. Max was sitting at the table eating some cereal. Matt walked over and got some cereal too, then sat on the other side of the table from Max.
"What time does your school start?" Max asked.
"8:30." Matt simply stated.
"You sound upset. Is it because you have to go to school and I don't?"
"Shut up Max. By the way, you're going next week."
"Yeah… seven days, 168 hours, after you start." Matt glared at him and Max just gave him an innocent smile.
Matt sighed and decided to change the subject. "So. How long have you been up?"
Max shrugged, "I don't know. Couple hours. I was up when your father was getting ready. We talked…"
"Oh god, save us all." Matt interrupted.
"Actually it was good. Your father doesn't hate me as much. He just doesn't trust me now. He told me some things you did when you were a baby."
Matt stood up, "Well look at the time. I have to be going. Don't forget to clean up after your done eating." Matt grabbed his bag and headed out the door. As he exited the house he looked at his watch. It read 8:05. It takes him ten minutes to walk to school. then he started walking.
"We have a knew student today, class. This is Ishida Yamato." Mr. Yuugo (the teacher) said to the class as Matt walked in to his first class of jr. high. Matt politely bowed to the class. "You may take your seat now." Matt walked to the desk by the back and next to the window. Matt took out a book and placed it on his desk, ready to write in. "Now, today we will be working with degrees of a circle…" Matt didn't really understand what the teacher was talking about. It was like listening to someone talking a different language. You feel like if you just listen hard enough that maybe you will understand it but you don't. Then you try remembering certain words to only forget it minutes later.
It seemed hopeless. The teacher was just talking in this different language and he tried writing it all down but Mr. Yuugo was talking to fast and, right now anyways, wasn't putting anything on the board so Matt took the chance to look at his peers. He noticed that Sora was in the class. He saw that she was trying to avoid looking at him. She must still feel awkward from what happened a week ago.
Matt looked to another student that was sitting at the desk next to him. It was a female with long straight brown hair. Matt noticed her look at him once but she quickly looked the other way. Matt didn't understand why she did this but decided to ignore it for the time and looked back at Mr. Yuugo.
He still wasn't making sense even though the others understood him. He then started drawing a circle on the board and put little dashes all around the circle's edges. This language wasn't something that he could understand on his own.
"Do you need help?" The girl that sat beside him whispered.
"No. I'm ok. Thanks" He lied. I'll get the help after school.
"You shouldn't lie." Matt looked at her, confusion written on his face.
"How'd you know I was lying?"
"I have my ways." Was all she said before looking back at Mr. Yuugo in the front of the class?
That's weird. Usually no one knows when I lie. The only people that know when he lies are Tai and Max. Not even his father knows when does.
Matt let out a frustrated sigh, "I can't get this!" He looked back at the math that was spread out in front of him. He was sitting at the kitchen table under the chandelier, which was the only light on in the house. It was late and Izzy sat on the opposite side of the table trying to help Matt understand the Math sheet he was given that day.
"How could you not understand it? The circumference of a circle is 360 degrees and if you take pie and…"
"Slow down. I don't even know what pie is. Last time I checked it had apples in it." Izzy found it extra hard explaining this. He knew it would be hard but Matt had been gone to long and every time Izzy tried to explain something he found that Matt didn't understand something else. He wasn't getting anywhere with this.
"Well pie is a number that is used in math. It's 3.1415926. Actually the number never stops so you only have to remember 3.14."
"How do you know that's pie?"
"I just do."
"So why do we need pie to find the degrees in a circle. If we already know that there are 360 degrees?"
"We don't need to find the degrees of a circle…"
"Then why do we need pie?"
"To find the radius, diameter and circumference of a circle."
"What's that?"
Izzy sighed and said, "This is getting us any where. Maybe Tai would have been able to teach you this better then I can." Matt was really feeling dumb now. He knew that Izzy was feeling frustrated and he couldn't help because he didn't understand any of this. He wanted to quite this but he couldn't. He started looking over the homework to see if this foreign language had some kind on translator on it but it didn't.
Matt looked up at Izzy. The red head was searching through a binder that he had brought to help him teach Matt. Izzy was looking for a demonstration to give Matt. Matt looked at him waiting for the small genius to come up with something.
"Hmmm." Izzy said suddenly as if he got an idea. He looked up and started scanning the kitchen that they were in. Obviously he didn't see anything that he wanted to see. "Hey Matt?"
"Yeah…" He asked trying to figure out what was on the other kids mind.
"Do you have any string?"
"Huh? What for?"
"You'll see."
"Um- how about thread?"
"That will do too." Matt stood up and walked to his room. He came back a moment later with thread. He handed it to Izzy. Izzy took it and grabbed a recently empty glass that was in front of him. He then stretched the thread across the open part of the glass then said, "See this? This is thread is the diameter of the glass. It's the line that goes on a direct root from one side of the glass to the other. Understand?"
"I think so." Matt said looking hard at the thread over the glass.
"Well say that the thread is four inches that means that the diameter is four inches." Matt listened intently for this was the first time that these words that every one kept mentioning made sense.
Matt was walking to school the next day. He couldn't believe he was able to understood every thing last night. Izzy was right. He did miss a lot of school. Izzy said that that was only one thing that he wasn't there for and that there were lots still to be taught. But Matt wasn't concerned with that just yet. He had other worries. He had to find a loophole in getting away from very one. He had to find a way to get out of this city. Tai was right though. If it were TK or Tai that were in his place then he would do what ever he could to keep them to stay but it isn't and Matt knew that staying there wouldn't give him anything but bad luck. He would be brought back to Massar's society and so would Max and they would never be free and his friends would get hurt. He still had some time to figure it out but it would eventually run out.
Max said that it would be best just to stay low for a while. Act as if he has no attentions on leaving until the time. Since Matt's house has been bugged Max and Matt have to discuss this by writing to each other. And it seems to be working. At least the cops don't go barging in there and arrests them again for breaking their 'probation'.
Matt looked up and saw he was at his school. Kids were in the yard just standing around talking or walking in or out of the school. He saw a few kids walking towards him. There were four of them. They looked as if they were older then him. He remembered that Tai said they were on the football team and to look out for them. They like to challenge knew kids. Tai said that they started this last year. And with how they were walking it looked as if they wanted to challenge him.
Matt knew better then to look afraid of them so he walked towards them. They all stopped walked in the center of the schools front yard. The four guys stood in a row. The one on the far left has light brown hair that is combed back and held with gel. He has blue eyes and is buff like the other guys.
The guy beside him has hair that hangs loose around his head. He also has light brown hair but even lighter then the other guy and dark brown eyes.
The guy beside him has black hair. His bangs hang over his left eye, even more so then Matt. But his hair is cut like an upside down bowl. He has hazel eyes and thick eyebrows that are narrowed.
The last guy is like a smaller version of the guy with black hair except he has blue eyes.
The four guys stared angrily at Matt and Matt gave them no satisfaction by showing he was scared. He just hid the feeling behind a wall and returned the stare.
After a moment the guy on the with hazel eyes stepped forward, "So you're the new kid, huh?"
"Yeah… what's it mean to you?" Matt didn't even faze as the older boy walked up to Matt to demonstrate the size difference.
"It means that I have some things to point out to you. Number one, see there." He pointed to the guy on the far left. "That's Benny. And him." He pointed to the guy beside Benny. "That's Jie. And I'm Reo. And that guy, who kinda looks like me, is my younger bro. He's Roku. We own this school. It belongs to us. You won't get in our way and if we tell you to do something then you will do it. Or we will bring on consequences. Got that."
"Yeah… all except the part about me being your bitch." Suddenly the school grounds grew quiet and the guys in front of him grew surprised.
"What do you think you are? Some kind of rebel?"
"Yeah. And if you want someone to do something for you… don't look my way." And then Matt walked past him. The guy grabbed his arm as he was passing.
Matt stopped and looked at Reo. "You just got yourself a knew enemy. Be proud." Reo let Matt go and then he walked off.
Benny was the first to speak. "Why didn't we beat him for that?"
Reo looked at Matt's retreating form and smiled, "Because good things… take time."
And yet again sorry it took so long. And I hope you liked the chapter. Parts may seem like they do not have anything to do with the story but they do trust me with that. One more thing. Please review. I need reviews. They either give me ambition to write so I need reviews. Arigato. ^_^