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Epilogue A : Just a Dream?

Rukawa woke up with a start as the powerful beam of the sun shone thorugh a crack on the curtain. It fell directly on his cold azure blue eyes that stared on the blank ceiling. Beads of sweat formed on his forehead as his breathing rate increased. The maid came with a knock on the door.

"Sir Kaede, you're late for your basketball practice this morning."

Rukawa sighed heavily as he dragged himself our of his precious bed and into the bathroom to take a quick shower. He felt his body relax as the last bit of water slipped through his bady.

'What a strange dream....'

He faced the mirror and scowled at his own reflection. The dream was not really making the best of his mood this day. In his dream he was a complete moron. And that girl? He, actually kissed a girl? Sweet Jesus...Then he touched his cheeks, the one that was slapped incredible hard by that wretched of a woman. It appeared to be real though...

'It feels real too...'

After a hasty breakfast, he stepped out of his seven-story mansion to find that the butler had already fetched his beloved bicycle from the repair shop. He rode on and on still thinking about that girl. Her skin was so soft, her lips were cherry pink. He had kissed those lips. It felt so good, indeed.

He gave himself a mental slap. "Baka!" he muttered to himself. But he really couldn't seem to forget about that dream...

"It's so real..." he whispered as he went on his way.

The soft warm wind rustled through the trees making him sleepy. His head started to drop and soon after he was snoring, his bike wobbled clumsily.

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz."

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz."

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz."

BANG!

"Huh?" Rukawa woke with a start. He was lying faced down, the impact of the crash must have thrown him a few feet away. He glanced at his bicycle, all battered and broken, 'Looks like it needs another trip to the repair shop.' He sighed once more. He had gotten up early just for this and now he---wait a minute...he suddenly had a feeling of deja vu. 'Has this happened before?' He asked himself. After a while, he looked around, his accidents happen all the time so there was nothing to be worried about. He decided to leave his poor bicycle on the corner and started to jog towards the basketball court when----

"WHOOOOOSH!"

"PLAG!"

"OUCH!"

Rukawa felt his ribs crack and he quickly got up ready to show this guy who he's messing with. His cold eyes darted to the figure still sprawled on the cold pavement...

'NANI!?'

'It's a GIRL!'

"Gomen na sai..." she apologized to him, bowing courteously. "I was in a hurry...Are you hurt?" Rukawa stared at her, 'She's---

"Is there something on my face?" She said, pointing at her face. "Why are you staring at me like that?"

'God...She's real! She's real!' His thoughts frantic.

"Ahem....Don't you know that it's rude to stare???" she raised an eyebrow.

"Hey, aren't you supposed to say anything? This is the part when you should asked my name, y'know?" she pressed some more.

'Its really a deja vu....'

"I can't believe it!'

"BAKA!!!!" she shouted, and then quickly skated off,leaving Rukawa in his confused thoughts.

"Oh my God....this can't be. Girl in my dreams? Definitely not! Now stop torturing yourself! She won't appear again, ever!"

After a minute of pondering his thoughts, Rukawa quickly resumed his jogging as his mind went back to basketball practice. He reached the court with still an hour to practice, he started doing some basic moves to complex moves.

~After 30 minutes~

Rukawa was wiping his face full of sweat with his towel. He was starting to feel better. " See she's nowhere to be seen..." His towel was already soaked so there's not much use in it now. He tossed the towel on one side and picked the ball up with only one hand. He started dribbling it....fast.....faster... "I was wrong to worry...if he was the girl in my dreams, by now all her pesky kids are---

"YAAAYY!!!!"

"YIPEEEE!!!"

"YAAYEEE!!!"

Rukawa stopped at his tracks. He was surrounded by about 20 little kindergarten kids. He was concentrating so much that he hadn't notice them pile in. All the kids were screaming, cheering, jumping up and down, making Rukawa dizzy all of a sudden. "What the hell-"

All the children stopped screaming when they noticed the towering man was annoyed with their noise. Rukawa eyes' flared, he eyed all the kids who looked like ants under a giant. "Kami-sama...."

"Go away." said Rukawa in his most dangerous voice, matched with his deadly stare. "I don't want to see her....no kindergarten teacher!!!"

The poor kindergarten students' lips quivered, their eyes started to water, some were already sniffing.......................

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

It was a disaster! Rukawa felt his eardrums explode because of the noise. The ground was vibrating, the court was shaking, all 20 kids with super powered lungs were crying and wailing. "What the hell-" Rukawa thought, covering his ears from the unbearable torture. "Please....Noooo...Don't let her appear....please nooooo..."

"PUUREEEEET"

Aaaah...finally silence.....no cries....no voices.... All the pesky kids stopped crying at last!

"Ms. Miyaru"

" Oh my-"

Rukawa turned and came faced to faced with the "alien girl". He was dumbfounded once again. "She-again?"

"You-again?" Miyaru's eyes widened, unable to believe that she had another encountered with the "weird guy".

No one said anything for at least 10 seconds. Both of them were staring at each others' blue eyes, waiting for someone to speak up. 30 seconds. Rukawa was still frozen. "She's real!!! Why? How?" Miyaru was thinking. 40 seconds. 50 seconds. 1 minute.

"What's wrong with you?! Are you mute or something?!" Miyaru finally exploded. "I know I don't know you so I should not care but at least say something!!!"

"......"

Miyaru sighed heavily. She noticed the ball on pavement, she picked it and aimed it at the hoop.

"WHOOSH"

Shoot. "Not bad" Rukawa thought taking his eyes off her for the first time since they met. "Just like in my dream..."

"See...I can play too, y'know. So now, are you going to say anything to me?" she queried.

"Who are you?"

"Miyaru Sakeshito from Tamiyano High School" she answered, pleased that she finally was able to hear his voice.

"......" "She's real...Miyaru....Oh God, I'm not falling for her, am I?"

"Anything else?"

"......"

"Aren't you, at least, going to apologized to my kids?" she pointed at the children cowardly hiding behind their teacher.

"Her kids?!?!?!" Rukawa thought, shocked. "But she's still a high school student.......how........"

"You're staring at me again!!" she warned, raising her eyebrows.

"Eeer...your kids?" He questioned, curious. "They're so plenty, how could she be their only mother?" He was silenty counting the shaking children when Miyaru burst out laughing.

"......" He was shocked for the second time and waited for her to stop. He couldn't help noticing that she had a cute way of laughing. It was soft and full of humor. It seems like their were feathers falling above her, with bells ringing. Rukawa felt like smiling at this girl, but decided not too. That would look weird. Finally she stopped laughing. " I could enjoy this but....maybe I shouldn't count on it too much. After all, its only a dream...."

"T-There not my kids kids. I just got used to calling them that." she explained wiping the tears in her eyes.

"......." "Oh yeah, I forgot...."

"By the way, what's your name?"

"...Rukawa...Rukawa Kaede from Shohoku Hlgh School."

"Mmmm, I see." She looked thoughtful. " So your part of the basketball team, eh?"

Rukawa nodded. "She doesn't know me?"

"Okay, I'll see you sometime then. Kae-kun." she said, blowing her whistle. Like a shepherd, she gathered all of her sheep (children) and lined them up. "Kae-kun....I missed that..."

Rukawa watched as the children followed everything she said and formed a straight line. Miyaru was in front.

"Alright, class say bye-bye to Mr. Rukawa.

There was a scattered murmur of good-bye, everyone still cautious and scared. They started to go near Miyaru.

"Nah, don't be scared. He ain't gonna bite, y'know. " she looks apologetically at Rukawa. " Bye, Kae-kun!!!"

".....bye"

"See..He won't bite." Miyaru said sweetly to her students. "C'mon"

"GOOOOD-BYYEE, Mr. RUUKAWAAA" they chorused.

"......" Rukawa was not going to reply but Miyaru turned and nodded at him, smiling so sweetly.

"....bye" Smiles lit up from each of the children's' faces.

"Alright, let's march going to school!!!" Miyaru commanded pointing at the Kinder Garden School just across the street.

"YAAAY!!" As all the pesky kids started to sing and march towards their school, Miyaru stayed behind the line.

"You still haven't apologized to my kids...." she whispered.

"Their not yours.." "Should I tell her? Nah, she'd think I'm crazy...."

She just smiled, hurrying to her children who were about to cross the streets.

"Finally...peace" Rukawa sighed, then resumed playing but he can't seem to concentrate anymore. He glanced at the clock and it showed that he has only 30 minutes to wash up and go to school.

"I'm not seeing that girl anymore." He said firmly to himself, his head pounding.

"Not anymore.....Besides it's only a dream. Maybe she's different in real life, who knows?"

"If she's really the ONE, we shall see each other again...in the meantime my career comes first."

~Owari~

^______^

"......Miyaru."