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The end of school bell rang and all the students raced out of school to their respective lives. While all the school left only the few students for detention remained.
Fuuko Kirisawa groaned. She knew because she was thinking about Ganko and did not want to come to class looking upset was the reason she came to class late. But there was no way she was going to tell the teacher that! The day everyone saw her cry was the day she became as feminine as Yanagi!
And that day would never come she had decided to herself. She looked bored out the window knowing she was here with the rest of the school delinquents for another hour.
Time seemed to be dragging on by the second. She felt her frustration rise. She had to get home. Any day now.... any day her mother would return from her business trip like she promised a week ago. She had not given her a date or anything like that as her 'business' seemed to be temperamental in such things. Fuuko had her hopes up everyday waiting for her mother. And everyday those hopes would be dashed to pieces. She regretted showing her mom how independent she was, because now she considered that Fuuko was old enough to take care of herself at home.
She grit her teeth. What type of mother leaves her daughter to grow up on her own? And sees her daughter about 3 days a month?! Obviously her own mother. She loved her mother, but she could be so air headed at times...
As she was growing up she saw Recca's dad more than she saw her own mother. No wonder she had turned out so... violent. Now that Recca had a full time mother (thought there were things they still had to figure out, like her time curse), Fuuko could not help but feel resentful. She knew she should not, but it hurt her to see that Recca now had everything she wanted.
A mother, a father, a new brother (since Koganei moved in with them.) and a great partner. Why did he get everything and she got the bad hand of fate? All that and she STILL had not bested him in a fight. Not once. Thinking of all these things of Recca for a while now had made her want to at least do one of those things since she did not think having a full family, siblings and a great partner was possible for her. She at least wanted to beat Recca just once.
She had no desire to make him her Ninja at all. It was just something she HAD to do. She had to beat him to make her feel better about herself.
Was she a horrible person for thinking badly of her longest childhood friend? Why had she become resentful for Recca having it all and her having nothing. She must be... a terrible person..
She thought to herself. Why was she thinking this off herself right now? Why was she putting herself down? Because she was feeling down about herself... she was treating her friend's badly. It was not right, it just was not right.
And that out burst in the library today? Agh, Mi-chan was an arrogant bastard, but he did not deserve to be humiliated in front of all his fan girls_ bah they'll get her back for it somehow a little later anyway, no need to apologize.
Finally the teacher dismissed them after a light lecture which she was not really paying attention to.
Fuuko dragged herself out of the school and trudged home. She sighed heavily. Maybe tomorrow she would not fight Recca. It did not seem fair to Yanagi if she kept attacking her beloved boyfriend. She needed a break from al the worrying.
"You're out of school awfully late Monkey."
An extremely familiar voice came from behind. Fuuko snapped her head around.
"What are you doing here?!" she said much more in her usual loud character.
"Don't have to be so loud Monkey. I did wait for you after all, you should be honoured." he stated in that calm cool collected way he was about everything adding with it, a dash of arrogance.
Fuuko just stood there for a while. Mostly from recovering from the absurd idea of him standing there after waiting for her. Had the world turned upside down?
He had to have a reason for being there other than just waiting for her.
She looked at him in her usual defiant way, hands on her hips.
"So, just what did you want Mi-chan?" she asked with a funny suspicion in her eyes. She assumed he wanted an apology for her out burst earlier today. She seemed more herself now than recently.
"Just thought I'd walk you home." he said as if it meant nothing. Her jaw almost hit the floor. She started to look around to see if anyone was there. If any of Mi-chan's fan girls were in the vicinity she would have already been assassinated or something like that. They would go ballistic!
"eh? Mi-chan are you feeling ok?!" she said as if she thought he had lost his marbles.
Mikagami could not help but smile. She seemed to be acting herself again. She must have gotten over her fowl mood.
He acted like he did not care about any of them... and true most the time he did not, but he was not stupid. He could tell when a woman was hurting, he was not like Domon. Thank goodness, he thought to himself. Perhaps it was his duty to be here right now. He could not really give her an answer to why he was here at the moment, because actually it puzzled him as well.
He knew he had not treated her the best since they knew each other, but she was STILL a female, though unlike a female like Yanagi... was still classified as one.
He could slowly feel his guilt slowly rise when he thought about how he had treated her since their first few meetings. Mifiyu would be TRULY disappointed.
I did not come here to save you slugs...
... Monkey,
... seems I'm the zoo keeper
And the rest of the insults. The list could not be put on one page, even in fine print. After the months after the Urubotousatsujin he realized he had lost the respect he had gained for her fighting abilities and her character. He realized normal life had got in the way of seeing her for who she and the rest of the Hokage really was.
He noticed her jaw still on the ground from the shock of him going to walk her home. He almost rolled his eyes.
Tch, she was still a Monkey though, he was not going to take that comment back.
"Will you pick your face off the ground and lets get going? I've got better places to be." he sighed in annoyance and just flicked his hair aside a little, his usual trade mark. For most girls it would drive them to giggles but to Fuuko.
"Gosh you really are an arrogant jerk." she could not help but say with sarcastic grin on her face and with out further questions to what he was doing there, and why in the world was he walking her home. There was no need to ask, he probably would not tell her anyway.
They both left that day forgetting to apologize to each other about what they had said to each other that day.
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(Sounds like and end of chapter but it's too short to end the chapter here, so I'm gonna keep going!)
For the next two weeks Mikagami consistently walked Fuuko home. On two occasions he had been seen walking with her to school. This had probably caused the biggest scandal in the school's history. Strangely no one really had attacked or threatened Fuuko's life... yet.
Neither one of them had talked about why they regularly walked each other from and to school. When they were at school they did not spend more than a few moments in each other's presence. After the first two days it was like habit. They talked about meaningless things, and Fuuko would put up with Mikagami's arrogant attitude and he would put up with her being a monkey.
And for those few weeks, Fuuko had forgotten her desire to defeat Recca. Her pride could wait.
*Flash back*
We've done this for 10 years...
... I've beaten everyone we know except you, It shames me!
--
That was the former reason for wanting to beat Recca, her pride.
But after a while. The frustration of not being able to beat Recca had made her feel bad about herself. It had added to the worthlessness she felt about herself. Sure trying to beat him senseless did relieve some stress, but recently it had began to loose it's appeal.
A person with worth was not lonely like her. If she felt good about herself, maybe she would feel like she was worth something. That was her reasoning at the time. But now she was not so sure. Beating Recca, sure everyone in school would definitely know about it and probably even congratulate her. But... but would feeling good about herself... stop the loneliness?
Would it bring her mother home?
Would it bring Ganko back?
No, of course not.
Fighting Recca and wanting to beat him was just something she used to give her life a little bit of meaning to make her feel a bit better. A reason to get out of bed, a reason to go to school. Maybe even a reason to keep training, to better herself.
She let out a huge sigh.
She rested on her hands on the table.
Why was she thinking so much?
Had losing Ganko triggered so many thoughts about herself and who she was?
She remembered the exact moment she had taken Ganko in. When she had defeated Katashiro Reiran in Kurei's Mansion... after hearing Ganko's story of loneliness. Immediately she knew how the girl felt. True her mother had not died, but she was still very alone. She understood that being alone made you want to try anything not to be alone, or anything to block out the feeling. That's why she forgave the girl so quickly even though she had tried to take her own life.
She shook her head fast.
"Just stop it Fuuko-chan."
You can't keep doing this to yourself, alienating yourself from the people who really care about you just because you're a little jealous of their happiness.
"Stop what?" asked a soft voice. Fuuko turned around immediately.
"Yanagi? Oh, how are you?" She could not help but feel a little shaky around Yanagi at the moment. It was the first time she had really talked to Yanagi with out running off some where in two weeks.
"Oh, fine fine, I'm actually here to check how you are going, I haven't talked to you in a while. Is everything alright Fuuko?" she asked kindly as she took a seat next to Fuuko.
Fuuko forced a smile.
"Of course everything is fine! Fuuko-chan's always fine!" she said a little too forced. Yanagi smiled a little. She could tell that Fuuko was hiding SOMETHING, but she did not know if it was safe to pursue it. She was sure it had something to do with Ganko. Yanagi was not stupid, she knew how much Fuuko loved Ganko. Fuuko was like Ganko's mother or older sister. Ganko had often said that Fuuko smelt and felt like her mother.
Yanagi may be naive and innocent, but she could see when her friend was upset. She seemed to be happier now a days though, maybe what everyone said was true, were Mikagami-sempai and Fuuko really a couple? Could she ask something like that? Knowing Fuuko she'd go crazy if she was wrong... or even right.
"No Yanagi, me and Mi-chan are not a thing, I know that's what you want to ask, I think I've heard that question at least 20 times today." she stated. Yanagi smiled.
"But you two look so cute together." she joked a little. She could not help but notice Fuuko's cheeks flush a tiny bit. She got up as the bell went for the next class.
"Don't be silly Yanagi, who would want to date that arrogant jerk. Anyway I got to go to class, see yah!" she waved and walked off. Fuuko suddenly felt stupid for saying 'who would want to date him' when she realized, the whole female population of school plus more, was probably the answer to that.
"Stupid..."
She left the thought behind and continued to class.
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Another week continued with out the Recca vs Fuuko insanities. She seemed to be on break or something concluded most of the school population and the scowls from females towards Fuuko seemed to end as their friendship had seemed harmless to most. Why would gorgeous, smart and elegant Mikagami Tokiya date the
loud tomboy Fuuko Kirisawa anyway???
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Their walks continued without much disturbance from the female population of Tokyo. Their time together was relatively harmless, besides the fact the two insulting the crap out of each other all the way home and to school. They seemed to enjoy it, so none of the Hokage questioned it. No one dared ask what could, or would form out of this unconventional friendship in fear of any physical damage.
One day while the two walked towards Fuuko's house, they noticed a car parked at the front. Now usually going to someone's house this was not an unusual thing. Fuuko stood there for a moment her eyes went up in surprise. Elation was brought her face. Mikagami realized that something was obviously up and waited for an explanation, But to Mikagami's surprise Fuuko started to hurry to her house, she barely turned to him to explain. She was unusually genuinely happy as she pulled him along towards the house.
"Come on Mi-chan! Hurry up!" she chimed in an unusually innocent voice. Mikagami was confused and also irratated that she was dragging him along like this. He did not like getting her grubby hands stretching his shirt.
"What are you doing Monkey?! This is my clothes you happen to be stretching!" he snapped back at her. Typical Mikagami. But this time she did not even seem to notice his insult which was sort of surprising.
"My mom must be home! Hurry up!"
For the first time Mikagami saw Fuuko in the same light Yanagi, even if it was just for a moment. The look on her face showed him how truly happy she was. There was a look of sweet excitement on herself. It was like as if a miracle had just happened. Yes her mother was home. Her point being??
He paused, it suddenly dawned on him, she had never mentioned anything about her parents or family. He had never seen a car or any sign of life coming from her house when they got there either. She had never let him in the house before so he did not know what was inside. Though he knew that she had no siblings at all, and he had never met any of her relatives or seen any life come from her house. She seemed to have enough life in her to cover up that there was no life in the house at all till now.
She did not seemed to care at all when he stepped into her house. She raced in without taking her shoes off and she dropped her school bag with out thinking.
Geez, the Monkey must be really excited, he thought to himself as he took his shoes and put his school bag down in the living room. He then followed the girls through out the house not really knowing what was going on. All he knew was that he was watching this girl grow more and more excited. She was calling out for her mother repeatedly. Something he had never really had the pleasure of doing since he was very young.
"Mom! Mom! I'm home!" she called out. She went into the main room to try find her.
"Mom!"
Suddenly the two stopped in the dining room. Fuuko stopped in her tracks, the look on her face told Mikagami she did not expect this.
"Oh!" Two people, a man and a woman sat in a room. One was a man dressed ina black and the other she had recognized as one of her mother's friend's from America, one of the people she showed a picture of as her mother's best friend in the business.
"Oh, hi, I'm Fuuko Kirisawa, would you happen to know where my mom is?" she asked still excited. It had not dawned on her that the woman had been crying. The puffiness of her eyes gave it away.
Mikagami noticed it instantly. He had a feeling that this was not going to be good at all.
The man in the black suit stood slowly. He looked at the woman who sat in the chair and handed her a tissue. He then looked seriously at Fuuko.
"Fuuko Kirisawa, Keiko Kirisawa's daughter I believe..."
Fuuko felt her heat beat fasten. What was this? Who were these people, where was her mother? Who was this lady crying? What... what was going on. Mom?!
"Y-yes. Where's my mom!" Fuuko demanded.
The man paused for a moment.
Fuuko's attention was fully on him this moment. She did not seem to be breathing. It was like her heart had stopped for a second... a second that felt like eternity. She felt her eyes begin to sting as she anticipated the next sentence.
Mikagami stood there just as still. He... predicted the next sentence word for word correctly... much to his dismay.
"I'm sorry Miss Fuuko... but your mother is dead..."
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thank you to everyone who reviewed so soon. I was really surprised i got a response so soon. I'm so happy, it's one of the frits things i've put on the net. the first anime thing i've ever written and all, so i'm happy with the response! :) So i'll definitely keep going on this story. I'll definitely finish it! it's fun and very hard to write.
Anyone who's interestted in Final fantasy VII fan fiction i've got a long one there called 'What if Her smile was gone'. I'm rather proud of this one and got REALLY REALLY good reviews, pretty good for my first fan fiction ever, please give it a shot! Its mainly about Cloud, Yuffie, Aeris and Tifa.
IT! :P
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The end of school bell rang and all the students raced out of school to their respective lives. While all the school left only the few students for detention remained.
Fuuko Kirisawa groaned. She knew because she was thinking about Ganko and did not want to come to class looking upset was the reason she came to class late. But there was no way she was going to tell the teacher that! The day everyone saw her cry was the day she became as feminine as Yanagi!
And that day would never come she had decided to herself. She looked bored out the window knowing she was here with the rest of the school delinquents for another hour.
Time seemed to be dragging on by the second. She felt her frustration rise. She had to get home. Any day now.... any day her mother would return from her business trip like she promised a week ago. She had not given her a date or anything like that as her 'business' seemed to be temperamental in such things. Fuuko had her hopes up everyday waiting for her mother. And everyday those hopes would be dashed to pieces. She regretted showing her mom how independent she was, because now she considered that Fuuko was old enough to take care of herself at home.
She grit her teeth. What type of mother leaves her daughter to grow up on her own? And sees her daughter about 3 days a month?! Obviously her own mother. She loved her mother, but she could be so air headed at times...
As she was growing up she saw Recca's dad more than she saw her own mother. No wonder she had turned out so... violent. Now that Recca had a full time mother (thought there were things they still had to figure out, like her time curse), Fuuko could not help but feel resentful. She knew she should not, but it hurt her to see that Recca now had everything she wanted.
A mother, a father, a new brother (since Koganei moved in with them.) and a great partner. Why did he get everything and she got the bad hand of fate? All that and she STILL had not bested him in a fight. Not once. Thinking of all these things of Recca for a while now had made her want to at least do one of those things since she did not think having a full family, siblings and a great partner was possible for her. She at least wanted to beat Recca just once.
She had no desire to make him her Ninja at all. It was just something she HAD to do. She had to beat him to make her feel better about herself.
Was she a horrible person for thinking badly of her longest childhood friend? Why had she become resentful for Recca having it all and her having nothing. She must be... a terrible person..
She thought to herself. Why was she thinking this off herself right now? Why was she putting herself down? Because she was feeling down about herself... she was treating her friend's badly. It was not right, it just was not right.
And that out burst in the library today? Agh, Mi-chan was an arrogant bastard, but he did not deserve to be humiliated in front of all his fan girls_ bah they'll get her back for it somehow a little later anyway, no need to apologize.
Finally the teacher dismissed them after a light lecture which she was not really paying attention to.
Fuuko dragged herself out of the school and trudged home. She sighed heavily. Maybe tomorrow she would not fight Recca. It did not seem fair to Yanagi if she kept attacking her beloved boyfriend. She needed a break from al the worrying.
"You're out of school awfully late Monkey."
An extremely familiar voice came from behind. Fuuko snapped her head around.
"What are you doing here?!" she said much more in her usual loud character.
"Don't have to be so loud Monkey. I did wait for you after all, you should be honoured." he stated in that calm cool collected way he was about everything adding with it, a dash of arrogance.
Fuuko just stood there for a while. Mostly from recovering from the absurd idea of him standing there after waiting for her. Had the world turned upside down?
He had to have a reason for being there other than just waiting for her.
She looked at him in her usual defiant way, hands on her hips.
"So, just what did you want Mi-chan?" she asked with a funny suspicion in her eyes. She assumed he wanted an apology for her out burst earlier today. She seemed more herself now than recently.
"Just thought I'd walk you home." he said as if it meant nothing. Her jaw almost hit the floor. She started to look around to see if anyone was there. If any of Mi-chan's fan girls were in the vicinity she would have already been assassinated or something like that. They would go ballistic!
"eh? Mi-chan are you feeling ok?!" she said as if she thought he had lost his marbles.
Mikagami could not help but smile. She seemed to be acting herself again. She must have gotten over her fowl mood.
He acted like he did not care about any of them... and true most the time he did not, but he was not stupid. He could tell when a woman was hurting, he was not like Domon. Thank goodness, he thought to himself. Perhaps it was his duty to be here right now. He could not really give her an answer to why he was here at the moment, because actually it puzzled him as well.
He knew he had not treated her the best since they knew each other, but she was STILL a female, though unlike a female like Yanagi... was still classified as one.
He could slowly feel his guilt slowly rise when he thought about how he had treated her since their first few meetings. Mifiyu would be TRULY disappointed.
I did not come here to save you slugs...
... Monkey,
... seems I'm the zoo keeper
And the rest of the insults. The list could not be put on one page, even in fine print. After the months after the Urubotousatsujin he realized he had lost the respect he had gained for her fighting abilities and her character. He realized normal life had got in the way of seeing her for who she and the rest of the Hokage really was.
He noticed her jaw still on the ground from the shock of him going to walk her home. He almost rolled his eyes.
Tch, she was still a Monkey though, he was not going to take that comment back.
"Will you pick your face off the ground and lets get going? I've got better places to be." he sighed in annoyance and just flicked his hair aside a little, his usual trade mark. For most girls it would drive them to giggles but to Fuuko.
"Gosh you really are an arrogant jerk." she could not help but say with sarcastic grin on her face and with out further questions to what he was doing there, and why in the world was he walking her home. There was no need to ask, he probably would not tell her anyway.
They both left that day forgetting to apologize to each other about what they had said to each other that day.
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(Sounds like and end of chapter but it's too short to end the chapter here, so I'm gonna keep going!)
For the next two weeks Mikagami consistently walked Fuuko home. On two occasions he had been seen walking with her to school. This had probably caused the biggest scandal in the school's history. Strangely no one really had attacked or threatened Fuuko's life... yet.
Neither one of them had talked about why they regularly walked each other from and to school. When they were at school they did not spend more than a few moments in each other's presence. After the first two days it was like habit. They talked about meaningless things, and Fuuko would put up with Mikagami's arrogant attitude and he would put up with her being a monkey.
And for those few weeks, Fuuko had forgotten her desire to defeat Recca. Her pride could wait.
*Flash back*
We've done this for 10 years...
... I've beaten everyone we know except you, It shames me!
--
That was the former reason for wanting to beat Recca, her pride.
But after a while. The frustration of not being able to beat Recca had made her feel bad about herself. It had added to the worthlessness she felt about herself. Sure trying to beat him senseless did relieve some stress, but recently it had began to loose it's appeal.
A person with worth was not lonely like her. If she felt good about herself, maybe she would feel like she was worth something. That was her reasoning at the time. But now she was not so sure. Beating Recca, sure everyone in school would definitely know about it and probably even congratulate her. But... but would feeling good about herself... stop the loneliness?
Would it bring her mother home?
Would it bring Ganko back?
No, of course not.
Fighting Recca and wanting to beat him was just something she used to give her life a little bit of meaning to make her feel a bit better. A reason to get out of bed, a reason to go to school. Maybe even a reason to keep training, to better herself.
She let out a huge sigh.
She rested on her hands on the table.
Why was she thinking so much?
Had losing Ganko triggered so many thoughts about herself and who she was?
She remembered the exact moment she had taken Ganko in. When she had defeated Katashiro Reiran in Kurei's Mansion... after hearing Ganko's story of loneliness. Immediately she knew how the girl felt. True her mother had not died, but she was still very alone. She understood that being alone made you want to try anything not to be alone, or anything to block out the feeling. That's why she forgave the girl so quickly even though she had tried to take her own life.
She shook her head fast.
"Just stop it Fuuko-chan."
You can't keep doing this to yourself, alienating yourself from the people who really care about you just because you're a little jealous of their happiness.
"Stop what?" asked a soft voice. Fuuko turned around immediately.
"Yanagi? Oh, how are you?" She could not help but feel a little shaky around Yanagi at the moment. It was the first time she had really talked to Yanagi with out running off some where in two weeks.
"Oh, fine fine, I'm actually here to check how you are going, I haven't talked to you in a while. Is everything alright Fuuko?" she asked kindly as she took a seat next to Fuuko.
Fuuko forced a smile.
"Of course everything is fine! Fuuko-chan's always fine!" she said a little too forced. Yanagi smiled a little. She could tell that Fuuko was hiding SOMETHING, but she did not know if it was safe to pursue it. She was sure it had something to do with Ganko. Yanagi was not stupid, she knew how much Fuuko loved Ganko. Fuuko was like Ganko's mother or older sister. Ganko had often said that Fuuko smelt and felt like her mother.
Yanagi may be naive and innocent, but she could see when her friend was upset. She seemed to be happier now a days though, maybe what everyone said was true, were Mikagami-sempai and Fuuko really a couple? Could she ask something like that? Knowing Fuuko she'd go crazy if she was wrong... or even right.
"No Yanagi, me and Mi-chan are not a thing, I know that's what you want to ask, I think I've heard that question at least 20 times today." she stated. Yanagi smiled.
"But you two look so cute together." she joked a little. She could not help but notice Fuuko's cheeks flush a tiny bit. She got up as the bell went for the next class.
"Don't be silly Yanagi, who would want to date that arrogant jerk. Anyway I got to go to class, see yah!" she waved and walked off. Fuuko suddenly felt stupid for saying 'who would want to date him' when she realized, the whole female population of school plus more, was probably the answer to that.
"Stupid..."
She left the thought behind and continued to class.
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Another week continued with out the Recca vs Fuuko insanities. She seemed to be on break or something concluded most of the school population and the scowls from females towards Fuuko seemed to end as their friendship had seemed harmless to most. Why would gorgeous, smart and elegant Mikagami Tokiya date the
loud tomboy Fuuko Kirisawa anyway???
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Their walks continued without much disturbance from the female population of Tokyo. Their time together was relatively harmless, besides the fact the two insulting the crap out of each other all the way home and to school. They seemed to enjoy it, so none of the Hokage questioned it. No one dared ask what could, or would form out of this unconventional friendship in fear of any physical damage.
One day while the two walked towards Fuuko's house, they noticed a car parked at the front. Now usually going to someone's house this was not an unusual thing. Fuuko stood there for a moment her eyes went up in surprise. Elation was brought her face. Mikagami realized that something was obviously up and waited for an explanation, But to Mikagami's surprise Fuuko started to hurry to her house, she barely turned to him to explain. She was unusually genuinely happy as she pulled him along towards the house.
"Come on Mi-chan! Hurry up!" she chimed in an unusually innocent voice. Mikagami was confused and also irratated that she was dragging him along like this. He did not like getting her grubby hands stretching his shirt.
"What are you doing Monkey?! This is my clothes you happen to be stretching!" he snapped back at her. Typical Mikagami. But this time she did not even seem to notice his insult which was sort of surprising.
"My mom must be home! Hurry up!"
For the first time Mikagami saw Fuuko in the same light Yanagi, even if it was just for a moment. The look on her face showed him how truly happy she was. There was a look of sweet excitement on herself. It was like as if a miracle had just happened. Yes her mother was home. Her point being??
He paused, it suddenly dawned on him, she had never mentioned anything about her parents or family. He had never seen a car or any sign of life coming from her house when they got there either. She had never let him in the house before so he did not know what was inside. Though he knew that she had no siblings at all, and he had never met any of her relatives or seen any life come from her house. She seemed to have enough life in her to cover up that there was no life in the house at all till now.
She did not seemed to care at all when he stepped into her house. She raced in without taking her shoes off and she dropped her school bag with out thinking.
Geez, the Monkey must be really excited, he thought to himself as he took his shoes and put his school bag down in the living room. He then followed the girls through out the house not really knowing what was going on. All he knew was that he was watching this girl grow more and more excited. She was calling out for her mother repeatedly. Something he had never really had the pleasure of doing since he was very young.
"Mom! Mom! I'm home!" she called out. She went into the main room to try find her.
"Mom!"
Suddenly the two stopped in the dining room. Fuuko stopped in her tracks, the look on her face told Mikagami she did not expect this.
"Oh!" Two people, a man and a woman sat in a room. One was a man dressed ina black and the other she had recognized as one of her mother's friend's from America, one of the people she showed a picture of as her mother's best friend in the business.
"Oh, hi, I'm Fuuko Kirisawa, would you happen to know where my mom is?" she asked still excited. It had not dawned on her that the woman had been crying. The puffiness of her eyes gave it away.
Mikagami noticed it instantly. He had a feeling that this was not going to be good at all.
The man in the black suit stood slowly. He looked at the woman who sat in the chair and handed her a tissue. He then looked seriously at Fuuko.
"Fuuko Kirisawa, Keiko Kirisawa's daughter I believe..."
Fuuko felt her heat beat fasten. What was this? Who were these people, where was her mother? Who was this lady crying? What... what was going on. Mom?!
"Y-yes. Where's my mom!" Fuuko demanded.
The man paused for a moment.
Fuuko's attention was fully on him this moment. She did not seem to be breathing. It was like her heart had stopped for a second... a second that felt like eternity. She felt her eyes begin to sting as she anticipated the next sentence.
Mikagami stood there just as still. He... predicted the next sentence word for word correctly... much to his dismay.
"I'm sorry Miss Fuuko... but your mother is dead..."
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thank you to everyone who reviewed so soon. I was really surprised i got a response so soon. I'm so happy, it's one of the frits things i've put on the net. the first anime thing i've ever written and all, so i'm happy with the response! :) So i'll definitely keep going on this story. I'll definitely finish it! it's fun and very hard to write.
Anyone who's interestted in Final fantasy VII fan fiction i've got a long one there called 'What if Her smile was gone'. I'm rather proud of this one and got REALLY REALLY good reviews, pretty good for my first fan fiction ever, please give it a shot! Its mainly about Cloud, Yuffie, Aeris and Tifa.