A/N: HAHAHAHA!!! I think that some of my readers hate me now! Ah wells! I
really don't care if they do or not. I don't live with ya and that's all
that matters right? So, I hope you read my weird apology letter. I wasn't
really apologizing, just making sure you all understood my side of
thoughts. I really am glad that my only two responses for my apologies,
Invisible Cheese Girl and Dana actually said something. Well, I'm improving
my story and this chapter is going to be the last in the flashbacks. And,
now that I'm realizing that Hitomi too is soooooo perfect, now I am
changing it so she has some minor faults and a few major ones as well.
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Chapter X: Maniac
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Hats flew and everyone yelled happily. Colors of blue and gold mingled as we all cheered. Nakami held me as I scream with joy. My high school days are over. The chair behind me is empty, with a frame and a colorful lei sitting there. A respective blue robe was folded under it and his cap laid neatly next to the picture. I frowned at the sad little memorial of him. Nobody wanted to put something there for him and the people who did care about him forgot. It was like he was fading away and nobody cared. Nakami's mother gave me a cheerful hug and a shoved a small tissue paper wrapped gift into my hands.
"Congratulations Hitomi! I'm so proud of you and you aren't even my daughter." she said with a warm smile and turned to her daughter. Nozomi was very beautiful. Her long satin black hair was tied back into a soft and curly ponytail that trailed to the back of her knees. Shimmering blue eyes, filled with youth looked around happily with a childlike innocence to them. But with those happy eyes were gray flecks of sadness and a lonely heart.
Nakami's father had left abruptly when some cloaked men appeared at their door and demanded for him to come with them. She hadn't seen him until when Nakami was about four years old. He had appeared at their doorstep bloody and beaten and hid with them for a while until someone assassinated him as they walked down the street. There was something he had been trying to tell them about them trying to find a keeper and he knew where the keeper was. So he told them to leave Tokyo until Nakami was about in the middle of her high school years. And her mother stayed faithful to the love she had for her lover and she raised Nakami to be strong and independent.
Nozomi looked to me and smiled. "Well, aren't you going to open your present? It cost a pretty penny though." she said with a grin and I blushed.
"Oh yeah! Okay!" I spit out and slowly tear off the orange tissue. Inside lay a large black box of an obsidian plastic. Placing the box onto my raised knee, I pull up the top. The top slightly creeks open from my hand and I behold a soft black bundle of cloth. There is a soft shimmer to it and it seems almost magical. Glints of pinks, blues, yellows and deep greens twinkle to me like millions of bright stars in the night sky.
"Don't pull it all the way out until you get home. I don't want it to be ruined. And don't wear it until it feels right to." she says and hugs a happy Nakami who is currently putting on her new necklace. I grin and look for my parents who are still trying to get their way to me. My brother frowns with his arms folded. He always hates being away from Emily but it'll be of some good for him. He is looking so old now. His short brunette hair is cut short and sweeps his brows nicely. He looks to me with frustrated gray eyes.
"I can't believe I'm missing a date with Emily to go to a stupid graduation for my stupid sister." he says crossly, earning a smack upside the head by my mother.
"You need to start learning to respect your sister Mamoru." she said, giving me a smile. "We're going to Yobayushi's tonight to celebrate."
I jump and cheer. "Yahoo! We're going to Yobayushi's! Let's go!" I say, hurriedly picking up all of my things and we go to the car.
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"Mr. Konbinwo-san. My name is Hitomi Kanzaki and I am applying for a job at your office." she said with a small bow. The man looked up to her. He was a very business-looking man, about the age of thirty or twenty-eight at the least. He could have been very handsome if he kept up on himself but it looks like the business is all that matters to him. Leaning back on his chair, he looked Hitomi over.
"Hai Ms. Kanzaki. Your resume is very well written out. And you seem like a very business going person." he said with a slight glance at the resume. He didn't actually read it and sat it on his desk "There is a secretarial position open and you can start tomarrow."
"M-M-Mr. Konbinwo-san! Isn't there more things I have to talk to you with? You're just going to flatly give me a job without a proper interview?" she stammered. He shook his head casually and stood out of his chair.
"If you wear a shorter skirt tomorrow, I'll even give you a good representative job." he said and folded his arms.
"You can't be serious." she said with an open mouth and flushed cheeks.
Leaning on the desk, he continued. "It's a very good job actually. Thrice the pay, half the work, and shorter and more flexible hours. You will have to have some business trips but that is paid for by the company and you ride in first class. What do you say?" he said.
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My day has been shit. I decided to take the freaking job and now I'm wearing a stupid navy blue skit that is halfway from my knees and my hips. While walking to work, I've received lewd catcalls and honks from passersby and one man actually followed me halfway to work. Luckily Nakami came by and decided to drive me to work with her because if I had to walk any farther, that man would have probably cornered me and raped me. Damn work.
Nakami had got this job a few months before me. She said it was a really good and easy job if you were liked by the boss. It's not just that I was liked, he basically told me to look like a business whore. This is all just so very great. Right after I left my interview and was at home, Van ranted on and on about how rude he was and how he would have murdered him with his bare hands if he was there. He basically was mouthing his protective death threats to me. I thought it was kind of cute though. He's like a puppy with his favorite person. If anyone gets close to me on a romantic attempt, then he'll foam and rip them to shreds.
I am currently sitting at my stupid little desk answering stupid calls from stupid people. "This job blows. I wonder what it would be like if I was a secretary" I say and slump on my chair. My bangs weave away from my face and my nicely tight bun is pressed hard against my head. My hair is totally going to screw up but I don't have to impress anybody except for my boss eh?
Speaking of the devil, Nakami, his closest worker, comes up to me. She wears a blatant look of worry as she stops at my desk. I sit up slowly and sigh. "Did Mr. Jack-myself-off-thinking-of-my-workers ask you over here?" I ask with a smug smile. She nods and sighs as well.
"He's asked for a meeting about your job. I think he wants to give you another raise or something." she says as she folds her arms. I smooth out my hair and put my computer on standby. I'm an electricity freak but I think it's less work for the little hamsters in wheels. Don't ask me why.
"Jeez, what is he going to do now? Ask me to pose nude for him for his kinky little female employee calendar?" I ask sarcastically. Nakami shakes her head and leaves to her office. I shrug this off and fix my unbelievably short skirt. Why do I have this shitty thing anyway? A ten- year-old could wear this!
I head over to his blurred glass door. "As soon as I get home, I'm so going to throw this crappy thing into the trash." I mutter as I knock lightly on the door. It opens slowly and my boss looks to me uninterested. "Um. you asked for me sir." I say shyly.
He nods and smirks. "Come in." he says.
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"I am so going to quit Nakami and there's nothing you can do about it!" I yell as I shove my small assortment of personal things into my box. It's late after hours and we are the only ones there.
She huffs at me and folds her arms. "Don't think that just because he came onto you that it gives you an excuse to run away from everything." she reprimands me. I'm not running away, I just believe that I shouldn't stay in an office building where my horny boss practically rapes me in his office! I yell this to her and Nakami rolls her eyes.
"You didn't have to wear the skirt you know. You could have just been a normal desk clerk and he wouldn't have come onto you like that, looking like a whore." she says. She glares to me with fiery red eyes. The way she looks like Van is creepy and the thought of him looking at me like so scares me. I gasp and look down.
She continues to lecture me. "But you never can be satisfied with being normal. NOOO, you have to be oh so special. But sometimes you have to learn that with being special, you have more things you have to worry about." she says and gives a frustrated sigh.
Continuing to look down, I smile. "I guess I can't be happy with normal life huh?" I sniff and look to her with tear-filled eyes. "I have to always be the special one that everyone depends on. And when they do, I always let them down. And I hurt the ones I truly love. I can't take this job anymore. I may be a coward but I really need to run away. A break from it all will be good for me." I say. Leaving my box I slowly walk outside to my car.
"Van. Please help me. I can't be here anymore. I want to be with you. Please.." I say as I cry against the steering wheel. A warm glowing pair of arms embrace me and I can smell the fields. They crisp scent of freshly cut grass and pine fills the car and clears up my clogged nose.
"Hitomi..." whispers the voice of my phantom savior. I turn to him and I meet a pair of sad ruby eyes. Shaking my head, I bury my face into his chest and clung onto the warm green of the shirt. "Aishiteru..." I hear and the warm embrace starts to fade. The car regains the fresh smell of new car. Falling against the back of the seat, I hug it and cry hysterically.
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A/N: So. I swear that I'm almost done with the flashbacks so you all can be happy and read my weird little story. I hope you all forgive me and if you don't, I guess that's just too bad eh? Well, I hope you all like the Goo Goo Dolls because the next chapter has the title from one of their coolest songs, so there. Well, I love you all! Bye!!!
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Chapter X: Maniac
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Hats flew and everyone yelled happily. Colors of blue and gold mingled as we all cheered. Nakami held me as I scream with joy. My high school days are over. The chair behind me is empty, with a frame and a colorful lei sitting there. A respective blue robe was folded under it and his cap laid neatly next to the picture. I frowned at the sad little memorial of him. Nobody wanted to put something there for him and the people who did care about him forgot. It was like he was fading away and nobody cared. Nakami's mother gave me a cheerful hug and a shoved a small tissue paper wrapped gift into my hands.
"Congratulations Hitomi! I'm so proud of you and you aren't even my daughter." she said with a warm smile and turned to her daughter. Nozomi was very beautiful. Her long satin black hair was tied back into a soft and curly ponytail that trailed to the back of her knees. Shimmering blue eyes, filled with youth looked around happily with a childlike innocence to them. But with those happy eyes were gray flecks of sadness and a lonely heart.
Nakami's father had left abruptly when some cloaked men appeared at their door and demanded for him to come with them. She hadn't seen him until when Nakami was about four years old. He had appeared at their doorstep bloody and beaten and hid with them for a while until someone assassinated him as they walked down the street. There was something he had been trying to tell them about them trying to find a keeper and he knew where the keeper was. So he told them to leave Tokyo until Nakami was about in the middle of her high school years. And her mother stayed faithful to the love she had for her lover and she raised Nakami to be strong and independent.
Nozomi looked to me and smiled. "Well, aren't you going to open your present? It cost a pretty penny though." she said with a grin and I blushed.
"Oh yeah! Okay!" I spit out and slowly tear off the orange tissue. Inside lay a large black box of an obsidian plastic. Placing the box onto my raised knee, I pull up the top. The top slightly creeks open from my hand and I behold a soft black bundle of cloth. There is a soft shimmer to it and it seems almost magical. Glints of pinks, blues, yellows and deep greens twinkle to me like millions of bright stars in the night sky.
"Don't pull it all the way out until you get home. I don't want it to be ruined. And don't wear it until it feels right to." she says and hugs a happy Nakami who is currently putting on her new necklace. I grin and look for my parents who are still trying to get their way to me. My brother frowns with his arms folded. He always hates being away from Emily but it'll be of some good for him. He is looking so old now. His short brunette hair is cut short and sweeps his brows nicely. He looks to me with frustrated gray eyes.
"I can't believe I'm missing a date with Emily to go to a stupid graduation for my stupid sister." he says crossly, earning a smack upside the head by my mother.
"You need to start learning to respect your sister Mamoru." she said, giving me a smile. "We're going to Yobayushi's tonight to celebrate."
I jump and cheer. "Yahoo! We're going to Yobayushi's! Let's go!" I say, hurriedly picking up all of my things and we go to the car.
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"Mr. Konbinwo-san. My name is Hitomi Kanzaki and I am applying for a job at your office." she said with a small bow. The man looked up to her. He was a very business-looking man, about the age of thirty or twenty-eight at the least. He could have been very handsome if he kept up on himself but it looks like the business is all that matters to him. Leaning back on his chair, he looked Hitomi over.
"Hai Ms. Kanzaki. Your resume is very well written out. And you seem like a very business going person." he said with a slight glance at the resume. He didn't actually read it and sat it on his desk "There is a secretarial position open and you can start tomarrow."
"M-M-Mr. Konbinwo-san! Isn't there more things I have to talk to you with? You're just going to flatly give me a job without a proper interview?" she stammered. He shook his head casually and stood out of his chair.
"If you wear a shorter skirt tomorrow, I'll even give you a good representative job." he said and folded his arms.
"You can't be serious." she said with an open mouth and flushed cheeks.
Leaning on the desk, he continued. "It's a very good job actually. Thrice the pay, half the work, and shorter and more flexible hours. You will have to have some business trips but that is paid for by the company and you ride in first class. What do you say?" he said.
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My day has been shit. I decided to take the freaking job and now I'm wearing a stupid navy blue skit that is halfway from my knees and my hips. While walking to work, I've received lewd catcalls and honks from passersby and one man actually followed me halfway to work. Luckily Nakami came by and decided to drive me to work with her because if I had to walk any farther, that man would have probably cornered me and raped me. Damn work.
Nakami had got this job a few months before me. She said it was a really good and easy job if you were liked by the boss. It's not just that I was liked, he basically told me to look like a business whore. This is all just so very great. Right after I left my interview and was at home, Van ranted on and on about how rude he was and how he would have murdered him with his bare hands if he was there. He basically was mouthing his protective death threats to me. I thought it was kind of cute though. He's like a puppy with his favorite person. If anyone gets close to me on a romantic attempt, then he'll foam and rip them to shreds.
I am currently sitting at my stupid little desk answering stupid calls from stupid people. "This job blows. I wonder what it would be like if I was a secretary" I say and slump on my chair. My bangs weave away from my face and my nicely tight bun is pressed hard against my head. My hair is totally going to screw up but I don't have to impress anybody except for my boss eh?
Speaking of the devil, Nakami, his closest worker, comes up to me. She wears a blatant look of worry as she stops at my desk. I sit up slowly and sigh. "Did Mr. Jack-myself-off-thinking-of-my-workers ask you over here?" I ask with a smug smile. She nods and sighs as well.
"He's asked for a meeting about your job. I think he wants to give you another raise or something." she says as she folds her arms. I smooth out my hair and put my computer on standby. I'm an electricity freak but I think it's less work for the little hamsters in wheels. Don't ask me why.
"Jeez, what is he going to do now? Ask me to pose nude for him for his kinky little female employee calendar?" I ask sarcastically. Nakami shakes her head and leaves to her office. I shrug this off and fix my unbelievably short skirt. Why do I have this shitty thing anyway? A ten- year-old could wear this!
I head over to his blurred glass door. "As soon as I get home, I'm so going to throw this crappy thing into the trash." I mutter as I knock lightly on the door. It opens slowly and my boss looks to me uninterested. "Um. you asked for me sir." I say shyly.
He nods and smirks. "Come in." he says.
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"I am so going to quit Nakami and there's nothing you can do about it!" I yell as I shove my small assortment of personal things into my box. It's late after hours and we are the only ones there.
She huffs at me and folds her arms. "Don't think that just because he came onto you that it gives you an excuse to run away from everything." she reprimands me. I'm not running away, I just believe that I shouldn't stay in an office building where my horny boss practically rapes me in his office! I yell this to her and Nakami rolls her eyes.
"You didn't have to wear the skirt you know. You could have just been a normal desk clerk and he wouldn't have come onto you like that, looking like a whore." she says. She glares to me with fiery red eyes. The way she looks like Van is creepy and the thought of him looking at me like so scares me. I gasp and look down.
She continues to lecture me. "But you never can be satisfied with being normal. NOOO, you have to be oh so special. But sometimes you have to learn that with being special, you have more things you have to worry about." she says and gives a frustrated sigh.
Continuing to look down, I smile. "I guess I can't be happy with normal life huh?" I sniff and look to her with tear-filled eyes. "I have to always be the special one that everyone depends on. And when they do, I always let them down. And I hurt the ones I truly love. I can't take this job anymore. I may be a coward but I really need to run away. A break from it all will be good for me." I say. Leaving my box I slowly walk outside to my car.
"Van. Please help me. I can't be here anymore. I want to be with you. Please.." I say as I cry against the steering wheel. A warm glowing pair of arms embrace me and I can smell the fields. They crisp scent of freshly cut grass and pine fills the car and clears up my clogged nose.
"Hitomi..." whispers the voice of my phantom savior. I turn to him and I meet a pair of sad ruby eyes. Shaking my head, I bury my face into his chest and clung onto the warm green of the shirt. "Aishiteru..." I hear and the warm embrace starts to fade. The car regains the fresh smell of new car. Falling against the back of the seat, I hug it and cry hysterically.
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A/N: So. I swear that I'm almost done with the flashbacks so you all can be happy and read my weird little story. I hope you all forgive me and if you don't, I guess that's just too bad eh? Well, I hope you all like the Goo Goo Dolls because the next chapter has the title from one of their coolest songs, so there. Well, I love you all! Bye!!!
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