Meeting and Renewals

Chapter Six: In Disguise

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Silent Sage: Hi there!! Um…….you guys aren't mad for me taking so long with the fic are you? Sorry everyone. I had writers block for this fic, so I did another one. Lucky for me it gave me inspiration for my next chapter. So here goes.

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Misaki was sitting outside in the garden when Aya and Kei came outside. She was sitting on top of a Sakura tree. Her soft blue eyes looking out into the horizon.

"Misaki, are you alright?" Aya was underneath the branch staring at Misaki's figure.

Misaki looked down toward Kei and Aya. "Yes, I'm alright. I was just thinking." 

"Of what?" Kei lightly jumped on top of a tree branch and was now leaning back on a tree branch under Misaki's.

"Don't worry, it's nothing too lethal," Misaki smiled before jumping out of the tree and went behind a tree.

"Eh?" Aya blinked as she watched Misaki appear, except she looked just a 'little' bit different.

Misaki looked like a totally different person. She had jet black hair that reached her shoulders. She had chocolate brown eyes. She was still the same height, but was wearing a dark gray and black school uniform that reached just above her knees.

"Misaki what are you doing?" Aya crossed her arms, her eyes a stormy color now.

"Well, if I can't watch them as Misaki, I might as well watch them as a stranger. If they got into any trouble, I'd be there." Misaki was turned to walk away.

"Misaki," Aya had thrown something at Misaki. She caught it before it could hit her and looked down at it in surprise.

It was a medium sized black purse. Inside it contained a cell phone, some money, several credit cards, some band aids, and…….Hikaru.

"Just what a teenage girl needs in her when she's out, ne?" Aya smiled warmly, "Oh, and also, don't get yourself into trouble Misaki, I'd rather not have to pay another car repair bill from someone angry strange, 'kay?"

Misaki looked at Aya. Kei had jumped off the tree, and was standing beside her.

"Yes, thanks Aya." Misaki quickly walked out of the shrine's grounds and into the town.

Kei turned toward Aya. "Do you think we should follow her? I mean, Misaki could get hurt."

Aya shook her head and smiled, "No, that would definitely make her hate us. We'll sense her if Misaki's in danger, so no prob. Now come on," Aya reached up and grabbed Kei's ear, "while Misaki is gone, YOU are helping me clean and unpack the house."

"Wha!!!? Why isn't Misaki helping out?!"

"She's already done enough, now come on!"

Aya began to pull Kei along toward the house, on the way you could hear Kei swear in several languages.

//Misaki in disguise//

Misaki was walking around. 'Where is everyone,' Misaki was interrupted when she collided into someone, and landed on them with a 'THUMP'

"Owww," Misaki got up wearily and realized she was on top of the one person she didn't want to see her.

Misaki, in the past would fainted if she had been lying on top of Oujiro, in the middle of the street, but the present Misaki managed to bottle up her blush.

"I'm really sorry, it was my fault," Oujiro looked up to see Misaki, (who doesn't know that she is Misaki, at the time), staring at him.

She quickly got off of him and looked away murmuring her apology before walking away, but someone grabbed her arm before she could. It was Oujiro.

Oujiro couldn't help but grab the girl he had just met. He felt that he had known her from somewhere and instinctively grabbed her arm when she tried to run away.

"Would you like to come with me for something to drink, as my apology for bumping into you?" He smiled as he watched the girl, she reminded him so much of Misaki for some reason.

"A-alright," she said timidly, looking down. A thought then struck her 'I'm in disguise! I'm a complete idiot!' she mentally smacked herself.

Her mood did a 360'.

"Where should we go? Oh, I forgot, my name is Suzuhara Misa, but you can call me Misa." She started walking toward an ice cream parlor that was around the corner.

"Mihara Oujiro, but you can also call me Oujiro," he promptly followed, still slightly confused with his feelings, as he watched 'Misa'. 

They walked in silence, except for the sound of children laughing.

'Whoa! Major de ja vu. This is exactly what happened two years ago.' A major rush of sadness passed through her as she thought about their walk they had the day before she 'died.'

Oujiro, well……..he was also in his own world. 'Why, why, WHY, does she remind me so much of Misaki? Misa looks completely different from her. Misaki………why did you run away from me?" A glint of pain and sadness appeared in his eyes, only the most observant of people would have seen it. Unfortunately Misaki had seen it.

As Misa, "I'm alright, Oujiro-san?" She waved a slender hand in front of his face.

"Yes, yes, I'm alright. Just thinking that's all."

Misaki looked at Oujiro, curiosity bubbling inside of her.

They came up to the ice cream parlor. They each ordered a sundae, and sat down outside in the shade of a big umbrella.

"What were you thinking to make you look so sad?" Misa took a big bite of her ice cream, still watching Oujiro, waiting for his answer.

Oujiro shook his head slightly, "Just a bad memory."

"OUJIRO!!!!!!!!!!" Tamayo, appeared running at top speed, followed by the ever so faithful Kotaro.

Tamayo finally stopped, peering at the duo. "Eh, Oujiro, who is that?" She pointed a finger toward Misaki.

"My name is Suzuhara Misa. We had accidentally collided into each other, so Oujiro here treated me to ice cream as an apology."

Kotaro, who had managed to catch his breath while they were talking, peered curiously at Misa. He couldn't help but feel he had met her before, even if this was the first time they had met.

"You're not from around here, are you? You're uniform is different from ours, and I've seen the uniforms of the surrounding schools, and they look nothing like that."

"I just moved here, and all my other clothes were in boxes, this was the only thing I could fish out." She looked down at her attire. "Does it really look that bad?"

"Nononononono," Kotaro waved his hands in front of himself, "I didn't mean you look bad, it's just that you're uniform was different!"

Misaki chuckled lightly. Kotaro hadn't changed a bit when it came to girls.

"It's alright," Misaki said, getting up from where she sat and bowed.

"Thanks Oujiro for the ice cream, and it was a pleasure meeting you," she smiled at them. There was a mischievous glint in her eye.

"I'm sure we'll be meeting again soon," at that she walked down the pathway, and at that same moment a huge gust of wind appeared. Forcing Oujiro, Tamayo, and Kotaro to cover their eyes.

"Misa, wait up!" When the wind died Oujiro looked up to see the pathway where Misa had been walking, empty.

Tamayo walked beside Oujiro, followed by Kotaro.

"Kotaro, what did Misa mean when she said she'd see soon?

"I guess we'll find out soon," Kotaro looked at Tamayo with a small smile, "but I don't think she's here to hurt us or anything."

Oujiro remained silent. Still looking at where 'Misa' had disappeared.

'I really do hope we meet again……… Misaki.' Oujiro smiled softly before walking away. 

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Silent Sage: What'd you think of this chapter? Again, sorry. I didn't mean for it to take this long. Oh, if it wouldn't take too much time, do you think you could rank my fic from 1 being the lowest to 10, being the highest. Flames are accepted.