DISCLAIMER: Again, the characters in this story are not mine.

AN: Hello!!! I am so sorry for the long wait! I got some kind of writer's block for writing this chapter. Anyway, here goes! Oh and the phrases enclosed by asterisks are memories.

I'll be there

Chapter 3

By green goddess

"RRRIIINNNGGG!!!"

The school bell had finally rung.

"Okay, class. No homework for today but there will be a quiz about the Tokugawa period. So study hard!" said Ms. Kanoukute to her students who were starting to get up sleepily for they were dead bored about the topic they just studied.

Fuuko, being one of those students, was so happy because it was already Friday and the next two days were weekends. And later after school, the gang was going to meet at the schoolgate and go together to the ice cream parlor two blocks away.

So, she got out of her seat and and grabbed her bag and sped out of the classroom.

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Mikagami was the first one to arrive at the schoolgate. He was always a very punctual person no matter what.

While waiting, Tokiya leaned on the wall near the gate. He closed his eyes for a minute or two until he heard Fuuko's voice.

"Mi-chan!" she called out.

As he looked at her figure running towards him, he remembered something again.

*Tokiya-chan!*

"Mi-chan!"

He snapped out of his own world. He looked at Fuuko who was already in front of him.

"Are you alright? You've been gazing at nothingness these past few days."

Tokiya sweatdropped. Then he said nervously," Ah…I-it's nothing! Besides why do you care?"



"Hmph! I forgot you were from Antarctica." Fuuko looked away from him with an angry look on her face.

"Hn." Tokiya chuckled.

He found Fuuko's reaction quite funny.

And at the same time he remembered something.

***FLASHBACK****

"What's so funny?" a little girl said to a little boy.

"He He!" the boy laughed. "It's just because you look so…so different and a bit more girlish than usual!"

The reason why he was laughing was because the girl was wearing a pink dress with white stockings and brown shoes and her hair was in two braids.

"Hmph! So what?" The girl glared at him.

"Hey, don't get mad! I was just kidding!" the boy said nervously. "Besides, I hate to admit it, but you look pretty!"

The girl lost all her anger.

She blinked a few times.

Then she blushed.

"Well, he he!"

"Ha ha!"

And they laughed all the way and forgot about everything.

****END FLASHBACK****

"What? What's so funny?" Fuuko asked Tokiya who was gazing at her with an amused look on his face and was smiling as if he was stifling laughter.

"Nothing! Is it wrong to smile for no reason?"

"Grrr….!"

Fuuko was simply annoyed by Tokiya's responses. She glared at him and looked away again.

"Hey, what's with that expression of yours? Did I make you angry again?"

"Hmph!"

Tokiya sighed. Then he said something that was totally not him.

"Okay! I'm sorry for making you mad. I didn't mean to. Besides…you don't look pretty when you're mad…"

Though Tokiya said the last sentence too softly, Fuuko heard it.

Her eyes widened…

Then she had a whiff of another memory…

*****FLASHBACK****

"Stop crying already!" a boy said as he consoled a little girl who was sobbing. "It's okay! Don't worry about it!"

"But…but!" the girl cried.

The boy hugged the girl. Then he pulled back and looked at her eyes.

"Stop crying. Please… you're my best friend and it hurts me if you cry! Besides… you don't look all that pretty if you cry!"

The girl smiled.

"Thank you…"

The boy smiled back.

****END FLASHBACK****

"What…" Fuuko was blushing as she asked Tokiya what he had said.

"N-nothing!" Tokiya, as well, was blushing.

They didn't know what to do…but, luckily, the others had finally arrived.

"Hello! Been waiting long?" asked Recca when he reached them.

"No."

"Yes."

Both had replied at the same time. Then both kept quiet again.

"We are so sorry for the long wait! Domon-san had detention today, so he can't come with us." Yanagi explained while she was panting. Obviously, the two were in a hurry.

"It's okay! It's okay!" Fuuko said waving her hand as if shoving their pardons away. "Anyway, let's just go!"

The others nodded to her.

Yanagi and Recca was in front of the other two. They started walking out the gate and started talking to each other.

Fuuko then looked to the direction of Tokiya. She still remembered what he had said earlier but soon forgot about it. She walked towards him and took his hand.

"What the---!"

Tokiya was taken aback.

"C'mon!" Fuuko said to him. "Look! Yanagi and Recca are already far from us! Let's hurry!"

And before he could answer, they were already running and catching up to the couple many meters away from them.

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A/N: Just to let you know, this will be the second to the last chapter because I'm already writing the sequel to this story! This story, if you haven't noticed is not actually romantic, but the sequel is gonna be the romantic and mushy stuff between Tokiya and Fuuko. So wait for the sequel!

Anyway, my thanks to all the reviewers and to Star of Recca who gave the birthday of Fuuko. I'm gonna use her birthday for the sequel!

Okay, see you in the next chapter and sequel! Oh, and please review!!!

Thanks!!!