A New Interference
A New Interference
Chapter 4 just finished! I really wasn't sure how I would start this chapter after how I ended it in chapter 3, I always knew the direction I wanted it to head because I knew what I wanted the ending to be, but I wasn't sure how to get to that from the Begininng of chapter 4. Well please enjoy and Please Read and Review once more.
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"Arigatou, it's really beautiful even after all this time. Are you sure you don't want to keep it though? After all, Hitomi did give it to Van, and I'm not really Hitomi, I'm sure it must mean a lot to him," she said.
"No, I want you to have it. I'm not really Van either, besides, I'm sure Van would've wanted Hitomi to have it back someday too..." he trails off.
She puts it around her neck and thanks him. "You know, this pendant used to be mine in this life as well? It's the same pendant I had as a little girl, but I never thought to look for it after Jinpachi tossed it over the window and I made him fall. Now that I have it back with me again, it reminds me of how much I really loved it," a smiles lights her entire face.
He looks at her smiling face and is glad, because giving her the pendant really seemed to have made her happy. They then walk back home, all the while smiling at each other from time to time in the light of the setting sun in front of them. Alice fingers the pink pendant on the necklace around her neck. She gazes at the soft pink glow of the pendant and has a flashback. "Here, keep this," Hitomi hands the necklace to Van. They hug and Van lifts his energist in the air and a pillar of light descends to take Hitomi back to the "Maboroshi no Tsuki". "I'll never forget you, even if I become an old lady (obaachan)!" She then has another vision, this time of an older Hitomi over the Earth. She looks over and sees that she's talking to Van. "Hitomi, I've missed you..." Van says.
"I have too, Van, but don't worry, we'll see each other again... This time we'll be together, I know we are fated to meet again... Even if it's not in this life..." Hitomi tells him with a smile on her face.
"Hitomi..." Van starts, but the pendant is still in his hands and it starts to give off a pink light. "I-!" he starts to say, but they both fade away before he can finish. "Eh!?" she breaks out of the vision. "What was that? That memory... It was Hitomi's when she died, the last time she spoke with Van... What was he trying to say?" she asks herself. She looks down at the pendant palmed in her hand. "What was he trying to tell me?" Next day, everything is back to normal. All the big drama is over with. Enju and Jinpachi are talking with each other a lot now, they seemed to have some connection between them. Enju couldn't be happier. As for Alice and Rin, they starting to spend more time together and get to know each other as well. In no time, the group has become closer and tighter since the last string of events. "So, how are things going with Ogura-kun?" Alice asked slyly. "Eh!? What kind of question is that? We're just hanging out with each other and talking, that's all," she said, but a smile played the edges of her lips.
"Hmm, 'Just hanging out' she says," Alice replied, repeating Enju's words under her breath.
"What did you say?" she asks.
"Nothing, nothing! This is great though, you guys are getting well together these days. He seems to be over the drama we had a while ago. I'm glad" she tells Enju.
"Hmm, you seem to be getting along well with a certain someone yourself." Enju said a bit questioningly, peering over to where the two guys were sitting.
"Cut that out Enju!" she turns slightly pink and looks over to Rin and Jinpachi herself. "He's just my friend, besides, their really nothing going on between us, we just enjoy each others company." she said, trying to convince herself.
Enju eyes her strangely. "Enjoy each others company? Who does she think she's fooling!? What kind of a line is that!?" "Well that's too bad. He seems to like you, it'll really upset him," she said jokingly. "EH! What are you talking about now!? Don't play like that..." she stares into her obento. "We're just friends after all. He's always so nice to me, looking out for me, like a good friend..." "Mmm, and exactly who are you talking about?" she questions. "I didn't say a name, but by the position you're eyes were and you're words I can guess." "Eh! Don't do that to me Enju-kun (Sakura calls Issei Enju-kun, and I just like the way it sounds)." she blushes even more deeply this time, her mind flashing back to her vision of Hitomi and Van. "Seriously though, who are you trying to kid? I can tell by your red cheeks exactly what you're thinking." she said matter-of-factly. "I don't think it's a one-way thing either. He always looks at you like he wants to tell you something..." they both turn to take another glimpse of the guys, Jinpachi has spotted them and motions for them to come sit with them. Rin turns his head and catches sight of Alice, he just looks at her, his face has an unreadable expression on it, very intense, as if contemplating whether to say something or not. Alice's mind flashs back to the memorie of Van trying to tell Hitomi something. "Hitomi... I-!" Her heart jumps to her throat and she averts her gaze. "Darn you Enju! Putting ideas in my head and making me so uncomfortable!" They both start walking towards the two guys with their lunches.
"Yo, so what were you girls talking about over there?" Jinpachi asks, taking a bit into his lunch and chewing. "Better not be about us, or I'll get mad!" "Gee, how didja know?" Enju said teasingly, she laughs. "Very funny." he said back. "So did you guys hear about the new exchange students? I hear they are going to be in our class, they just love sticking people in our homeroom." "Really?" Enju spoke up, "Who are they, do you know yet?" "All I know is that their a boy and girl, brother and sister, twins actually." "Sugoi... I've never met twins before," she says, "I guess since Alice is our class president she'll have the liberty of showing them around. How strange, so many new students transfer in one year." "Maybe it's not a coincidence, maybe someone is playing with us like this for some reason," Rin suggested in a semi-serious voice. Everyone gives him "what-are-you-talking-about" looks and he quickly shuts up with his bibble-babble. "Neh, Rin, want to come over and do homework together again? It goes so much faster when two people work together," Alice said. "Sure." Enju leans in and whispers into Alice's ear, "Since when do you two study together? Sounds awfully cozy!" Alice then stomps on her foot under the table and she asks why she had to go and do that for. "Do what?" Rin asked eyeing them strangely now. "Eh!? Nothing, Nothing!" Alice said, Enju's words repeating in her mind. "There's a fair next week right?" Enju piped in, "Jinpachi, want to go with me?" He says yes and then turns to Alice and Rin, asking them if they wanted to join them. "They really sound like a couple now... It's good though, they look happy together. It makes me a tad bit lonely though, that they're spending so much time together and I've been spending a lot of my time with Rin... We don't do too much as a group together anymore..." Alice thought. "I want to go, we don't spend enough time as a whole group anymore now that Enju and Jinpachi hog each others attention so much." They both blush at this and say the same of her and Rin, which makes her blush. After school they walk back together as always, Rin follows Alice to her apartment instead of going back to his because they're going to study together. When they open the door they are surprised. Inside the living room are two kids their age, one boy, and one girl, they are sitting opposite of Alice's mother. "Okkasan, who are these people?" "Don't you remember? I told you long ago, we we're going to have exchange students staying with us. This is Sakamoto Ken and Sakamoto Chiyo, they are in you're grade and are faternal twins." "Nice to meet you," they both said. Ken turned to look at Alice and smiled at her. He had brown hair and green eyes like hers. Chiyo on the other hand, had blue-gray eyes and blond hair. She strangely resembled Enju in a way, almost as if she could have been her older sister (Does anyone get what I'm implying here? Probably not, I'll get to it later). "Please be nice and show them around school tomorrow," her mother said and left the room in search of more futons and pillows for the two. "I'm Alice, this is Kobayashi Rin, he lives next door to us. He's here to study with me, maybe you should join us so you know what type of material we'll be going over tomorrow at school." "Alright, let's go Chiyo." They move to the kitchen. They finish their homework and show the work to both Chiyo and Ken so they could become acquinted with it. After they finished they started to talk. "So where are you two from?" Rin asks. "We're from a place that's far off in the sky, where we come from, there are legends and myths of dragons and monsters, and wishes can come true..." Ken said in a low tone voice. "What was that you said?" Alice asked. "Let's just say from where we come from the moon is absolutely gorgeous." Chiyo answered. "Hmm, strange people, but they seem Ok. The weirdest thing is... I REALLY can't remember Okkasan mentioning this at all, probably because I had so much on my mind these past few months, but still it's hard to forget something big like this..." Alice's face contorted in a troubled look. Rin glanced at her and noticed her expression and was about to ask her what was wrong when Ken beat him to it. "It's nothing really, just some thoughts that's all," "Well if you have troubles, don't feel shy about coming to me with them. I like talking to you, you're face and eyes are very angelic, very beautiful." he said with a hint of seduction. Alice and Rin are shocked and she turns beet-red. "Now, now, Oniichan (he'll be the older twin), do you always have to charm girls like that? You're making her uncomfortable by being so forward." Chiyo told him, she turns to Alice and whispers in her ears, "when he meets a girl he likes he always flatters and flirts around with her." Alice becomes even more red and Rin has a pissed of expression on. "Why that little sneaky bastard!" Rin thought. "What does he think he's doing?" "Anyways, we would really like to start unpacking and take a shower." she turns back to Alice. "You guys are staying in the guest room, so our rooms will be linked throught the bathroom the rooms share." Alice said, "if you need anything just yell for me in the next room Ok?" They nodded and moved toward the room to unpack and get ready for shower. "Don't they seem a tad strange to you?" Rin asked suspicously. "Well they definately give off strange vibes, and I really don't remember Okkasan saying we were going to take care of exchange students, I must be out of it," she told him. "I'm going to head home now too, but before I go..." Rin stopped and thought about his words, "be careful about the Ken guy, he seems like a pervert." "Huh? Are you worried about me? I can take care of myself." "Just saying is all, but if he tries anything just call for me from the balcony and I'll come, Ok?" Rin said seriously. "That guy seriously grinds my nerves." "Eh...? What's got him so riled up and worried for? Could he be jealous about Sakamoto-kun's comment? Nah, what am I thinking... Darn you ENJU!!! Putting all these ideas into my head!" She escorts him to the door and starts to undress for shower in her room. "Still, what a strange situation... Sakamoto Ken, what did he mean by that comment? His sister seems to say that he likes me... I wonder if he really does, and could I like him if that were the case? He's so outgoing, along with his sister, they aren't afraid to say anything in front of anyone, even in embarassing situations like this afternoon. She climbs into the bathroom and locks the door and heads into the shower. "Hmm, it would be really strange since we'll be living together. I can't quite figure out why Rin hates him so much. Maybe because he seems to be a lady charmer? He's not bad looking, I guess..." She steps out of the shower and begins to towel off, her short wet hair clinging to the sides of her face. Suddenly the knob on the other side of the bathroom begins to twist, but Alice doesn't notice as she's preoccupied with her thoughts. "Wonder what would Enju say..." Suddenly the door opens and Ken is standing in the doorway with nothing but a little towel to cover his body. Alice turns around to this new sound that came into the bathroom and turned around. "AHHHH!" Alice screams and runs into her room trying to cover as much of her body as she could, but she has to take a little time to unlock her door (let's just say she locked the wrong door). "Hmph, my Alice, you are quite easily shaken aren't you?" Ken said to himself in the bathroom staring at her door, "so timid over a little show of skin. Alice... or should I say Hitomi?"
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So, what do you think? I started off not know what to write for this fic so it may seem a little meaningless and with too much dialogue at the begininng, but now I know where the next chapter is going so it should be better than this. E-mail me with questions at: foolishchild5@aol.com
A Reminder on the Characters...
Kanzaki Hitomi is Sakaguchi Alice (Arisu)
Van de Fanel is Kobayashi Rin (Ring)
Allen Schezar is Ogura Jinpachi
Millerna ? is Nishikiori Enju (OK, so the original name was Nishikiori Issei, but that was a guy, so I'm changing it. His past life name was, Enju, and YES he was a women reborn as a MAN!)
(writing) - things in parentheses are my notes and thoughts
writing - words in italics are what the characters thinking or flashbacks
Disclaimer: I don't own Escaflowne or anything of Please Save My Earth for that matter.
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A Few Authors Notes
