~Author's Note~ Well, I have decided to make my author's note at the beginning of the story that way the end will be dramatic ^_^

Ummm. it is kinda depressing but I realized that my next chapter is sorta the turning point /middle of the story and well. the rest of it goes downhill to the end after that. So sad =(

Anyways on to my comments to you, my readers who leave me reviews and comments (hehe). You guys make me feel very special. [pic] (I now have 2 pages on my review page-thingy. Kewlio!)

"lacking motivation" - I like when I've been mentioned too... hehe...

"Wizard" - thanks for loving my story

"azure-chan" - thanks for writing the longest, most cutiest review! Also thanks for opening up your mind about the story, it means a lot to me! ^-^

"ice blue eyes" - lol! I didn't even know they made G.I.Joe movies - unlucky you. And I hope you got the email by now.

"Goddess of Darkness"- thanks for reviewing another one of my stories (-she reviewed the little story that I am trying to revise now because it is so confusing and weird-)

"Tenshi-Chikyuu"- =) I don't think I am that great but thanks anyways for your comment. Plus I believe that the most important thing about a story (besides it's theme) is that it is filled with emotions and that the audience is able to connect with the characters and feel these emotions. That is why must of my works have tons of emotions, especially my poems and this one original story that I started on (which are all sadly now on fictionpress.com). Infact, I thought this story lacked in emotion and I was beginning to wonder if my works were better with less emotion. Your comment made me change my thoughts and realize that this story really does have a lot of emotions. Thanks!

"key"- for Hiiro not being the assassin but rather his father in this story comes from *drum roll please* GW episode zero - where Odin Lowe (Hiiro's semi father figure) is also an assassin. Yep. I am not that original. Hehe.

Now on to the story... yay!

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Have you ever wished that you could live up in space?

The space colonies must be a wonderful places to live. I wish I could live up in those colonies. I wonder... Did people even go out into space before the colonies? Or is dreaming of living and being in outerspace a new thing? No, it can't be a new thing or else, how did they get the colonies up there? Someone must have dreamed even before me about living in space.

I wonder how long people have been dreaming about going up into space and living there. It must have been a really, really, really long time.

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It was an incredibly hot day when I decided I wanted to go swimming.

Well, it was more like Shingo decided he WANTED to go swimming and convinced me to come with.

He put on his adorable swim trunks that my mom had gotten from the Clarence section. They had little trains on them, which looked completely different from trains I saw on the elevated train tracks in our city. The ones that my mom always went on to get to work. I put on my way new pink bathing suit, that mom and me went all around the city looking for near the beginning of the summer.

Now that I think about it, mom probably took me shopping that day to get my mind off of Makoto being gone. But even if that was the reason, getting a new bathing suit was better then wearing that really old one that I had, with all those stains on it.

Shingo and I put on other street clothes, since it was a 20 minute walk to the lakefront and started to head out.

Most of the walk there was actually running, since Shingo was so excited and couldn't stand the slow pace that I was going at.

I then would have to run after him because, as mom always told me, "Who fault would it be if something were to happen to him?"

It, of course, would be my fault if something did because it would mean that I wasn't watching him close enough. So I always had to be watching him, even though I never saw any reason why I had to. Nothing would happen to him.

~*~

God the lake was beautiful. It was always beautiful. Even in the middle of winter, when it was frozen solid, it was beautiful.

Thousands of people had to be on the beach. Some swimming, others watching their kids swim. Some sun tanning, others were playing volleyball. Even more were just jogging or rollerblading by. Tons of people.

In this giant crowd, Shingo and me found a little place to set our stuff down. I placed mom's huge beach bag down and took out our huge beach towels. We then took off our street clothes and raced towards the water.

In our young age, we never worried about people stealing our stuff like our parents always worried. Who would want to steal our stuff anyways? Besides, they never did. Never once did anyone ever steal any of our stuff while I was growing up. Maybe that is why that early day of August was such a shock to me, I mean, why would anyone want to steal anything? Much more a child?

Shingo and me, along with other kids swimming around, played the usual games.

Marco polo.

Water tag.

Aqua Racing.

After about an hour and a half, I grew tired and left my brother in the water.

Much to my surprise, there was Hiiro and his father setting up their beach stuff.

"Hey Hiiro! Hiiro's dad! What's up?"

"Our apartment is way to hot! Hasn't anyone ever heard of air-conditioning here?" Hiiro's dad grumbled to himself.

Me and Hiiro didn't even bother answering him, much less listening to him and turned our eyes towards the water.

"Lets go in, Hii. The water is really nice and as long as we don't go past the lifeguard's boat, we can do whatever and have tons of fun."

"Sure..."

"Race ya."

~*~

I won that race, and all the other races I tried to make Hiiro join me in back then. He never was one for games I suppose. Even in the water, he never joined in with the other kids. Instead he swam around, practicing things he called a breast stroke and a back stroke and a... butterfly was it?

Boring.

Soon I grew tired of the water again and went back towards my beach towel. I sat down on it and decided to sun tan, a thing Minako loved to do.

Even more boring.

I then was about to call Shingo and head back home but Hiiro came up beside me. He sat down and we both stared of into the sky. The sun was high above us and there was not a cloud in sight.

"I have never seen a lake before. It reminds me of the ocean though, except there are no salt and less fishes in a lake. An ocean is bigger too. Way bigger. And the waves can be really rough and uncontrollable," Hiiro stated this in a voice that seemed to be in another world. Maybe he was thinking about his past or a place he use to love seeing.

"Hmmm... I have never seen the ocean before. Only this beautiful lake."

"You should sometime."

"Hiiro, where did you live before you came here?"

"Many places. I once lived in a place that had never heard of a lake or even an ocean before. Once I even lived somewhere that had to create fake rain and snow because there was no such thing as real water there."

"You mean one of those space colonies?"

"Yes."

"What are they like? I only see a picture of them twice, when I was at school. And also when someone on the street points them out to me in the dark. But they just look like stars... big stunning stars." My face was glancing up to the sky, hoping to see one of those famous space colonies. Even though I knew it was impossible because the colonies were too small to be clearly seen from Earth. Plus it was daylight. I was just a stupid, silly girl wishing to see the impossible.

"They aren't that beautiful, or at least the inside of them aren't. They are over crowded and filled with poor people. The governments, the people of Earth, not even the rich people who live on the colonies, take good care of the them.. That is why so many people on the colonies always want to break away from the Earth, kill of the rich living there and start their own government..."

I just sat there, listening to him ramble on about something I didn't understand. He looked so serious. It must have been a subject that he had many strong beliefs about. If only I understood what he was talking about. But of course, I didn't want to look stupid so naturally, I pretended that I did.

"...Understand what I am saying Usagi?"

"Of course, everyone knows that." I just waved his question, and drowned out all the other useless information he continued to tell me.

~*~

God, was this the most boringest thing anyone had ever told me. It was even more boring then those lectures that teachers gave at school. I was just about to either fall asleep or scream at the top of my lungs...

Luckily, Shingo come to my rescue.

"Hey sis, I am tired. Can we go home? Pleassssseeee." He made his cute little face that he always made when he was begging and whining for something. His lips made the little pout and his eyes got big and glosses. How could I say no? Much less, how could Hiiro not get mad at me for leaving and not listening to the rest of what he had to say?

So I grabbed all of our beach towels and put back on my street clothes and gave Hiiro a wave good-bye and then ran passed Hiiro's father shouting bye as we jogged by. I must have done all that in less then half a minutes.

~*~

I didn't realize it till half way home from the beach that I never did actually learn where Hiiro had lived.

I just shrugged it off. Assuming that when he said many places, he meant everywhere and everyplace.

I wonder what it is like to have live everywhere?

Space most be the bestest place to live though.

You know, he never really answered my question about what the colonies are like either. He only told me what the government and society thought about the colonies. Nothing useful for a daydreamer like me.

If only I could visit space someday. I wish...

... I wish even now that I could live up in space...

...on one of those stunning stars...