***Authors note: Be grateful for this Chapter! It took me two hours to type, then I hade to re-type it and after that edit it AGAIN!!!
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Chapter 4: Mixed Emotions


Yaten sighed as he wandered around the streets of Osaka. Finally it was Saturday! No more school and no more Seiya. Yaten took in the sights around him. That way if he ever wanted to go anywhere he'd know where he was going. After about a half hour of wandering around aimlessly Yaten felt something nudge his leg. He looked down, thinking it was a dog, but got suprised when he saw a little red-haired girl.

"Excuse me, are you lost?" Yaten asked as he bent down to be in eye level with the small red-head.

The red-head just blinked at him. "Chibi chibi?"

"Do you have a mother?"

"Chibi?"

"Do you know where you live?"

"Chibi chibi?"

Yaten could see this was going nowhere. He picked the little girl up. "Let's just go back to my house for now. Maybe your face will show up on a milk carton or something." Yaten paused for a moment. "What's your name?"

"Your name! Your name!"

Yaten smiled. "So you can talk."

"Can talk!"

"My name's Yaten."

"My name's Chibi Chibi."

"That's cute. Let's go eat something at my house. You hungry?"

Chibi Chibi nodded. "Chibi!!"


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Seiya sighed as he layed back down on his bed. "When is he going to call!?"

Andy and Ryan were over at Seiya's house trying to figure out what to do, but so far all Seiya wanted to do was wait for Yaten to call.

"Seiya, does he even have your phone number?" Andy looked over at Seiya.

"Iie... but he could still look it up! He knows my dads name!"

"Why don't you look up his phone number." Ryan suggested. "You know his last name."

"Yeah, I could do that... I guess." Seiya went into his kitchen and got out a phone book. While he looked for Yaten's number he kept muttering. "I guess I can call him..."


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Yaten pushed open his front door. "I'm home!" As soon as Yaten yelled that he thought he shouldn't have. No one seemed to be coming though, so he figured it was safe. Yaten let out a sigh of relief. "So Chibs, you wanna eat?"

"Hello Yaten."

Yaten nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard a voice behind him. He turned around slowly and got suprised when he saw his mother. His mom and dad weren't divorced, but for some strange reason his mom would just disappear. It was usually only for a few weeks, but lately she's been disappearing for months.

"How did you know we were here? You left when we still lived in Hong Kong."

"Instinct, I guess... is that your daughter?" His mom, Herena, eyed Chibi Chibi. "Who's the lucky girl?"

Yaten looked down at Chibi Chibi. "She's not mine. She was lost, so I took her here."

"So you kidnapped her?"

"Iie! I just didn't want her wandering the streets alone. Anyone could grab her."

Herena's eyes widened slightly at Yaten's change in tone. "I suppose your father hasn't taught you any manners... not like he has any." She took out a cigarette and lit it. "You want one?"

"Iie. How long have you been here?"

"Two hours... I think. What's your daughters name?"

Yaten set Chibi Chibi down. "She's not my daughter."

"Yeah, well... what's her name?"

"Chibi Chibi. Do you want anything to eat?"

"Sure." Herena walked into the kitchen. She dropped her cigarette into the sink and ran water over it. Herena was very pretty, but sometimes her manners took away from her beauty. She had silver hair and green eyes like Yaten. The only difference was her hair was shorter than his and she was a women. Her face was also very pale, but that was probably because she was often sick. "What are we having?"

"I can order some pizza if you want." Yaten came into the kitchen and sat down by his mother. Herena shrugged. "How long are you staying this time?"

His mother shrugged again. "Doesn't matter. One day, one week... whenever I get bored."

"Hmm, whenever you get bored. Anything specific you want on your pizza?"

"Iie."

Chibi Chibi jumped up on Yaten's lap. "Iie, iie!"

Yaten smiled. 'Hopefully Chibi Chibi's mom won't find her for a while. She's good company.'


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Seiya slammed the phone book shut. "It's not in there!"

"Then why don't you try to look up his address on the computer." Andy suggested. "Computers never fail."

"Takes too long. I want to see him now!"

Ryan got up from sitting on the floor. "Come on, lets go for a walk. Maybe we'll bump into him."

Seiya shook his head, but got up anyway. "I doubt we'll see him, but lets go for a walk anyway. It's getting a bit stuffy in here."


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Yaten heard the doorbell ring and got up to get it. "That must be the pizza guy."

"Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!" Chibi Chibi jumped up and followed Yaten.

Herena got up too. "Let me pay for it."

Yaten turned around quickly. "Iie, you don't have to!" His mother was already past him though and paying the pizza guy. "Arigatou, but you didn't have to do that."

"I know... I don't know why I did. It must have been one of those 'mommy moments'."

"I guess-" Yaten froze as he heard a car door slam.

"Whats wrong? Is your father home?" Herena smiled. "Well finally. I thought I wasn't going to get to see him."

Herena knew Shinu beat up on Yaten. She was too caught up in herself to tell him to stop though. Plus Shinu constantly told her it was to get his attitude straight, and Yaten had a pretty bad attitude at times, so naturally she believed him.

"Chibi Chibi?" Chibi Chibi looked up at Yaten and cocked her head to one side. Yaten just sat still though as he looked towards the door.

Shinu walked into the kitchen. His eyes widened slightly when he saw Herena, but they soon softened... if that was possible. "Hi hun. Long time, no see."

"Yeah, well I was in town, so I figured I'd stop by. We bought pizza."

"I see. Yaten, get me coffee." Yaten stood quickly, almost knocking over the pizza box when he did. "What's wrong with you? Who's that girl?"

Yaten looked down at Chibi Chibi. 'I should have hid her...' "She's my friends sister. He wanted me to watch her." 'I can't tell him the real reason or he'll make me put her out on the street again.' Yaten was sure he'd get slapped for that. His dad could always tell when he was lying.

As expected, Shinu went up to Yaten and slapped him hard across the face. "You're a pathetic liar. Now get me coffee!" Yaten got up, poured the coffee, and gave it to his dad. "You can leave now."

Yaten nodded and picked up Chibi Chibi. "I'm going to go for a walk."

"Fine." Shinu waved at Yaten to go.

Yaten walked out the front door and put Chibi Chibi down. "Come on, let's go get some ice cream." He took Chibi Chibi's hand and started walking, but Chibi Chibi wouldn't move. "What's wrong Chibs?"

Chibi Chibi blinked a couple of times, then pointed to Yaten's face. "Chibi Chibi?"

"Oh," Yaten put his hand to his reddened cheek. "I'm ok. Although, I won't be fully healed until I get some ice cream! What do you think?"

"Hai, hai! Ice cream!"


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"Hey look!" Andy caught Seiya's arm.

"What?"

"Look across the street, near the ice cream shop."

Seiya turned his head slowly to the little shop. "Yaten! Hi Yaten!" Andy smiled at his good deed.

Yaten turned when he heard the sound of his name. 'Oh great! Why did you look, baka!' Yaten waved at them though.

Seiya dashed over immediately. "Hi Yaten! I missed you! You didn't call!"

"How could you miss me? You just saw me yesterday. I didn't call, because I don't have your phone number."

By then Andy and Ryan came to join them. Andy looked down at the little red-head clinging to Yaten's leg. "Cute kid. Is she your daughter?"

Yaten rolled his eyes. "Iie. She's just a little friend. Say hi Chibs."

Chibi Chibi studied Seiya, Andy, and Ryan. Once she finally figured thay were good she said hi. Then Chibi Chibi tugged on Yaten's pants. "Ice cream!"

"Oh yeah. Well it was nice seeing you Seiya. I guess i'll-"

"We were just going out for ice cream too!" Seiya cut in as Andy and Ryan nodded their heads in agreement. "We can all go together now!"

"Oh great!" Yaten smiled as he walked into the ice cream shop. 'Damn!' Chibi Chibi still held onto Yaten's leg as they walked in with Seiya, Andy, and Ryan. "What do you guys want? I'll order."

"I'll help!" Seiya volunteered.

"Oh no, you don't have to."

"I know, but I want to."

Andy picked up Chibi Chibi. "We'll go find a table. C'mon Ryan."

Seiya watched as Andy and Ryan walked away, carrying Chibi Chibi. "Ok, lets order!"


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"So," Herena looked over at Shinu. "How's it going with you and Yaten?"

"Fine."

"I find that hard to believe. Nothings ever 'fine' with you guys."

"Yeah, well, he's still got a lot to learn. So why'd you come back?"

"Got bored. No work. No money. No house."

"In otherwords, you needed a place to stay and cash to spend. And I was your only option."

"Iie, you weren't the only option. I could have done plenty of other things. I just needed a permanent place to stay while I did other things."

"So you don't need my money?"

"If you give, I'll take."

Shinu chuckled. "Yeah, yeah."


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Yaten and Seiya got back to the table and put five bowls or ice cream down on the table. They got Andy and Ryan mint chocolate chipe ice cream and Chibi Chibi a banana split. Yaten got plain vanilla ice cream and Seiya got chocolate ice cream with chocolate chips and sprinkles.

After about 5 minutes of silence Andy's head shot up. "Yaten, where's your sling?"

Yaten looked up. "What sling?"

"You broke your arm, remember? That's really not something someone would forget."

"Oh... I forgot."

"You forgot that your arm is broken?"

"Iie, I forgot the sling."

"How do you forget a sling?"

"I don't know. I just did. Why do you care anyway?"

"I just don't see how you can forget something that important."

"It's not that important. It's just a little sling." Yaten took a bite of his ice cream. "I'll live."

Seiya and Ryan stayed quiet as Andy continued. "Where is it?"

"Where is what?"

"The sling."

"In my car."

"Why is it there?"

"Because it is."

"Why?"

"Because that's where I put it! Now drop the conversation!"

Seiya swallowed. "Don't you want your arm to heal Yaten? Andy was only trying to help."

"I don't care." Yaten looked at his watch. "I have to go now." He grabbed Chibi Chibi and started walking out the door.

Seiya stood up. "I'll be back in a second guys." He then ran out the door to catch up with Yaten.

Ryan finished off his ice cream and looked up. "Where's he going?"

"Who knows... who cares."

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"Yaten! Yaten wait up!"

"What do you want Seiya?"

"Well, I wanted to ask you something."

Yaten stopped walking and Seiya almost crashed into him. "What?"

"Well," Seiya fiddled with his fingers a bit. "There's this thing coming up at school on Friday. I wanted to know if you wanted to go. It's... It's sort of a dance... but you don't have to dance if you don't want to. It's only two hours long and I'm not going with anybody and your not going with anybody. So I was wondering if you wanted to go with me?"

"Iie. I'll see you Monday." Yaten turned, but Seiya caught his arm.

"Why? It'll be fun."

"I don't want to go. Now let me go Seiya."

"Will you at least think about it? Please."

Yaten yanked his arm away. "Fine."

"Oh and one more thing..."

"What?"

Seiya winced at Yaten's tone. "Um, could you try not to forget to wear the sling. I want you to get better."

"Uh huh, sure."

Seiya smiled as Yaten walked off. 'Why is he like that?' He sighed. 'He's tough...'


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