Eevee: Finally I am here with chapter 6! So enjoy it!
Chapter 6 - Kouji knows
"Where am I?" Izumi asked, a little dazed. She walked on until she spotted two children about 5 years younger than her standing, a distance away from her.
'Why must you leave?' The girl asked with tears in her eyes.
"That's me!" Izumi murmured anxiously as she strained her ears in order to hear what the two kids were talking about.
'I am sorry, but my dad...' the other kid said.
'Promise me you'll contact me. Please take this bandana with you,' Little- Izumi sobbed, handing the kid a blue bandana with yellow stripes.
'Thanks, Xiao Quan. I want you to have this as well,' He handed Izumi a necklace with a picture of both of them, 'Promise me that you'll wait for me till I come back!'
Little-Izumi took it and kissed him on the cheek. 'I love you,' She whispered and ran away, crying.
'Wait!' Izumi cried and tried to run after little Izumi. However she found herself getting falling back even further until she couldn't see little Izumi any more...
"Hey wait!" Izumi shouted.
"WAIT!" Izumi shouted. She looked around and found that she was on her bed.
"Just a dream," Izumi sighed, wiping away her sweat.
"Damn it! I am going to be late for school!" Izumi cursed and rushed off almost immediately after changing.
***
"Yo, Izumi!" Kouichi smiled.
"Hi..." Izumi forced a smile. She was still thinking about her dream this morning. 'It was me when I was still in China.' Izumi thought, 'and that guy was my first crush... Yuan Hui Er'
"What are you thinking about, Izumi?" Kouichi asked worriedly, looking at Izumi's serious expression.
"It's... nothing," Izumi said, 'Forget about him already! He's such a heartless guy!' One part of her said.
'I can't...' Izumi argued.
'You already have Kouichi!'
'But. I am supposed to wait for Hui Er till he comes back! I've promised! If he know that I am going out with Kouichi, he'll be angry with me!'
'Oh man Izumi. Look here, he might have gone back to China and look for you once! But now that you're in Japan, he won't find you there anymore! He'll be angry and might have forgotten about you! So why do you need to wait for him anymore?'
'...' Izumi was speechless.
"Yo Izumi... Are you all right?" Kouichi asked, concerned.
"Huh?" Izumi snapped out of her thought and shrugged.
Kouichi took off his jacket and draped it on Izumi.
Izumi stared at Kouichi in astonishment.
"You were shivering. Don't catch a cold!" Kouichi smiled.
"Thank you..." Izumi said, hugging the jacket tightly.
"Let's go to school then," Kouichi squeezed Izumi's hand gently.
Izumi leaned over and gave a small but warm kiss on Kouichi's lips.
"Err... Kouichi... Thanks" Izumi smiled.
Kouichi looked at her, confused.
"Never mind... Let's go!" Izumi said cheerfully and dragged Kouichi down the road.
'Thank you Kouichi, I've made my decision' Izumi thought, hugging a bewildered Kouichi's hand.
*** Classroom
"It's just one day and the king and queen already walked to school." Yumi joked.
"Holding hands," Akira added with a smirk. Almost the whole class laughed.
Both Kouichi and Izumi blushed furiously and let go of each other's hands immediately.
"It's not what all of you think, we were just..." Izumi started.
"Don't have to argue, Izumi. It's already an open secret." Lika giggled.
"WHAT! But I thought..." Izumi paused and glared at Takuya Kanbara who was whistling innocently at the back of the classroom.
"KANBARA!" Izumi shouted at the top of her voice and ran towards Takuya.
"Aiya!" Takuya yelped as Izumi hit his head with a mallet VERY hard, "What is that for?" Takuya argued as he rocked about, he's going to faint anytime.
"You deserved it!" Izumi said, breathing deeply as if she was going to explode anytime.
"Hold it, Izumi!" Kouichi caught Izumi's hand before she could hit a dying Takuya again.
Takuya took his chance and decided to push his luck, he banged into Izumi and. Izumi stumbled and fell on Kouichi...Which they both fell onto the floor their lips touching each other.
Izumi and Kouichi stood up, blushing even furiously, and the whole class started roaring with laughter. Izumi gave Takuya a DEATH glare. Not wanting to die so soon, Takuya ignored her glare.
Kouji just sat on his seat, arms crossed, and face expressionless.
********* Break
"TAKUYA KANBARA! YOU ARE SOOOOOOOO DEAD!!!" Izumi shouted as she ran around the whole school chasing after Takuya as soon as the bell rang for break.
"What happened?" Kouichi asked as he went out of the classroom seeing Takuya and Izumi running full speed.
"Can't you see? Izumi is chasing after Takuya all over the place, I'll follow them before she murders Takuya." Jun Pei answered as he ran clumsily to follow them.
"Wait for me, Jun Pei!" Kouichi shouted after him and started running as well.
*** They were running near the school pond when.
"Come back here, Takuya!" Izumi shouted as Takuya ran even faster. Izumi was very close behind him, JunPei was close behind Izumi and Kouichi was close behind JunPei.
"Help me Kouichi!" Takuya shouted.
"Come back here, Takuya!" Izumi shouted.
"Izumi, wait for me!" JunPei shouted.
"Watch out Takuya!" Kouichi shouted.
Takuya stumbled over a rock and fell right inside the pond. However, before he fell, he grabbed Izumi's arm and Izumi grabbed JunPei's leg and JunPei grabbed Kouichi's shoe. And. They fell into the school pond together.
"Ah. Ah. Ah. Choo!!!!!!!!" All of them sneezed at once, it was WINTER!
"This. (*)Choo! . is all. (*)Choo! Your. (*)Ah. FAULT! (*)CHOO!" Izumi shouted at Takuya as she sneezed even louder every time she tried to speak a word.
****** After school
"Are you going home now, Kouichi?" Izumi asked.
"I got basketball practice. Sorry" Kouichi apologized.
"Oh." Izumi sighed in disappointment, "I guess I'll be going now, Bye!"
"Izumi, wait," Kouichi called.
"Yeah," Izumi turned.
"Take my jacket," Kouichi threw his jacket and she caught it, "Don't catch a cold!"
"Thanks." Izumi waved as Kouichi went to join his other teammates.
Izumi was walking in a dark alley when a few girls stopped her.
"What do you want, Kiyo, Kira and Kazuha?" Izumi asked coldly.
"What do you think?" Kiyo asked.
Izumi closed her eyes and remained silent.
"Stop acting as if you don't know!" Kira shouted.
"And if I really don't know?" Izumi asked, smirking.
"Then we'll tell you," Kazuha said as she stormed forward and slapped Izumi on the face.
"Get it?" Kiyo asked.
"No," Izumi replied, placing her hand on the part where Kazhu had slapped her.
Kiyo, Kira and Kazuha started hitting Izumi but Izumi didn't shout nor did she retaliate. She was on the ground, bleeding.
"Izumi, why don't you retaliate?" Kira stopped hitting her and asked.
"Not until I know why you guys are hitting me," Izumi answered.
"You still deny it?" Kazuha shouted.
"You took Kouji from me!" Kiyo said, "Takuya from Kira and Kouichi from Kahuza!"
"Yes, I am dating Kouichi but what had it got to do with Kouji and Takuya?" Izumi asked, "Takuya asked you to the dance, Kira!"
"He did ask me! But. that whole 2 hours, he kept talking about you," Kira replied.
"That I don't know. Why don't you ask Takuya yourself," Izumi replied curtly, "What about you, Kiyo?"
"I saw you talking to Kouji that day, I know you told him not to go out with me, right?" Kiyo asked.
"No I didn't. In fact." Izumi argued but was silenced by Kiyo stepping on her head.
"Liar!" Kiyo shouted as she kicked Izumi in her stomach.
Kiyo, Kira and Kazuha started kicking Izumi. Izumi started sobbing, 'I won't retaliate. I have to explain to them!'
Suddenly Kiyo, Kira and Kazuha stopped hitting her and ran away.
Izumi tried to see why they stopped hitting her but her eyes were too tired to even open.
She could feel herself being carried, she caught a glimpse of that person and muttered, "Hui Er."
*Kouji's POV*
I heard Izumi calling Hui Er before she fainted in my arms.
'Why is she calling my past name?' I thought as I walked towards a nearby park, 'my name is Yuan Hui Er when I was back then in China, but how did she know?'
I sat on the bench and rested Izumi's head on my lap. I cleaned away her blood on her face. She was hurt really badly. I pushed her hair behind her ears and was surprised to see that she looked like my first crush, Xiao Quan.
I saw a necklace falling out of Izumi's pocket and took it out. I gasped as I saw a picture of two kids standing beside each other, smiling.
That guy is. me
*Izumi's POV*
I opened my eyes and saw Kouji's surprised look, like he was trying to hide something from me. I found myself resting on his lap and stood up immediately, blushing. Suddenly a sharp pain came to me.
Kouji immediately stood up and ordered me to sit down and I did.
He took off my right shoe and sock. He pressed gently on my ankle and again a sharp pain came. I yelped and tugged my leg away.
"You sprained your ankle, let me dress it up for you," Kouji said.
I let Kouji touched my ankle and he pressed on the spot again. I yelped again.
"Sorry," Kouji apologized and took out a blue bandana with dark-yellow stripes at the sides and started bandaging my wound with it.
Wait. I saw that bandana before. It's from my dream. I gave it to Hui Er when he was about to leave.
It can't be. It can't be.
"Where did you get that bandana?" I asked.
*Kouji's POV*
"Where did you get that bandana?" Izumi asked me.
"Err. I bought it a few days ago but it doesn't fit me, so I don't use it," I lied, Izumi can't find out about my past, she'll be angry with me for not keeping my promise, "Why?"
Izumi looked convinced and smiled, "I think it will look nice on you though! Anyway Thank you."
She said thank you. when I didn't keep my promise. What if she found out about this.? She'll hate me forever! I can't let her find out!
"Why didn't you retaliate?" I asked, changing the subject.
"Cause they are my friends," Izumi replied curtly.
"If they are your friends they won't hurt you!" I argued.
"May be you're right." Izumi said, looking at the floor.
"What are friends for anyway?" I asked, " I don't find a need for them."
"You think you don't need friends huh, Kouji?" Izumi asked looking up at him, "Then you're absolutely wrong, very wrong."
She looked at me and said, "Everybody needs a friend, one or more. Friends are people you can trust! I don't know your background but having friends is a very happy thing!"
"What if you have to keep moving in and out of town because of your father's job?" I challenged, "What's the use of having friends when you know you are going to leave them as soon as you have them."
Izumi remained silent. I stood up and almost walked away when Izumi said, "If it's like that. It's even more important to cherish your friends and the times you had together!"
I looked at her and signaled to go on.
"If you know that you are leaving. You should spend more time with your friends and cherish all the time you have with them!"
I looked at her and remained silent, "Maybe you're right." I whispered, conceding defeat.
Izumi smiled and held out her hand and asked, "Kouji. can you be my friend?"
I looked at her and I felt guilty. She is asking me to be her friend. But should I?
'Shake her hand!' One part of my mind said.
'You can't! You betrayed her trust!' Another said.
'As long she never finds out, you are fine!'
Before I could even answer, Izumi shook my hand and smiled as she stood up, "I should be going home now, or else my mother would be worried."
She walked a few steps before she fell down. I went to help her up.
She accepted my assistance, and managed to stand up.
"I'll send you home," I offered.
What was I thinking?
"Ok," Izumi accepted my offer with a shrug and we started walking out of the park.
I looked at Izumi, she looked happy.
.Until she finds out.
*****
Eevee: That's the end for chapter 2 and once again, I am giving credits to JueLei and Geraldine for helping me edit this chapter! Thank you!
Preview for next chapter : Getting used of making new friends Just another chapter that is somehow boring. But just read it! It's good!
Chapter 6 - Kouji knows
"Where am I?" Izumi asked, a little dazed. She walked on until she spotted two children about 5 years younger than her standing, a distance away from her.
'Why must you leave?' The girl asked with tears in her eyes.
"That's me!" Izumi murmured anxiously as she strained her ears in order to hear what the two kids were talking about.
'I am sorry, but my dad...' the other kid said.
'Promise me you'll contact me. Please take this bandana with you,' Little- Izumi sobbed, handing the kid a blue bandana with yellow stripes.
'Thanks, Xiao Quan. I want you to have this as well,' He handed Izumi a necklace with a picture of both of them, 'Promise me that you'll wait for me till I come back!'
Little-Izumi took it and kissed him on the cheek. 'I love you,' She whispered and ran away, crying.
'Wait!' Izumi cried and tried to run after little Izumi. However she found herself getting falling back even further until she couldn't see little Izumi any more...
"Hey wait!" Izumi shouted.
"WAIT!" Izumi shouted. She looked around and found that she was on her bed.
"Just a dream," Izumi sighed, wiping away her sweat.
"Damn it! I am going to be late for school!" Izumi cursed and rushed off almost immediately after changing.
***
"Yo, Izumi!" Kouichi smiled.
"Hi..." Izumi forced a smile. She was still thinking about her dream this morning. 'It was me when I was still in China.' Izumi thought, 'and that guy was my first crush... Yuan Hui Er'
"What are you thinking about, Izumi?" Kouichi asked worriedly, looking at Izumi's serious expression.
"It's... nothing," Izumi said, 'Forget about him already! He's such a heartless guy!' One part of her said.
'I can't...' Izumi argued.
'You already have Kouichi!'
'But. I am supposed to wait for Hui Er till he comes back! I've promised! If he know that I am going out with Kouichi, he'll be angry with me!'
'Oh man Izumi. Look here, he might have gone back to China and look for you once! But now that you're in Japan, he won't find you there anymore! He'll be angry and might have forgotten about you! So why do you need to wait for him anymore?'
'...' Izumi was speechless.
"Yo Izumi... Are you all right?" Kouichi asked, concerned.
"Huh?" Izumi snapped out of her thought and shrugged.
Kouichi took off his jacket and draped it on Izumi.
Izumi stared at Kouichi in astonishment.
"You were shivering. Don't catch a cold!" Kouichi smiled.
"Thank you..." Izumi said, hugging the jacket tightly.
"Let's go to school then," Kouichi squeezed Izumi's hand gently.
Izumi leaned over and gave a small but warm kiss on Kouichi's lips.
"Err... Kouichi... Thanks" Izumi smiled.
Kouichi looked at her, confused.
"Never mind... Let's go!" Izumi said cheerfully and dragged Kouichi down the road.
'Thank you Kouichi, I've made my decision' Izumi thought, hugging a bewildered Kouichi's hand.
*** Classroom
"It's just one day and the king and queen already walked to school." Yumi joked.
"Holding hands," Akira added with a smirk. Almost the whole class laughed.
Both Kouichi and Izumi blushed furiously and let go of each other's hands immediately.
"It's not what all of you think, we were just..." Izumi started.
"Don't have to argue, Izumi. It's already an open secret." Lika giggled.
"WHAT! But I thought..." Izumi paused and glared at Takuya Kanbara who was whistling innocently at the back of the classroom.
"KANBARA!" Izumi shouted at the top of her voice and ran towards Takuya.
"Aiya!" Takuya yelped as Izumi hit his head with a mallet VERY hard, "What is that for?" Takuya argued as he rocked about, he's going to faint anytime.
"You deserved it!" Izumi said, breathing deeply as if she was going to explode anytime.
"Hold it, Izumi!" Kouichi caught Izumi's hand before she could hit a dying Takuya again.
Takuya took his chance and decided to push his luck, he banged into Izumi and. Izumi stumbled and fell on Kouichi...Which they both fell onto the floor their lips touching each other.
Izumi and Kouichi stood up, blushing even furiously, and the whole class started roaring with laughter. Izumi gave Takuya a DEATH glare. Not wanting to die so soon, Takuya ignored her glare.
Kouji just sat on his seat, arms crossed, and face expressionless.
********* Break
"TAKUYA KANBARA! YOU ARE SOOOOOOOO DEAD!!!" Izumi shouted as she ran around the whole school chasing after Takuya as soon as the bell rang for break.
"What happened?" Kouichi asked as he went out of the classroom seeing Takuya and Izumi running full speed.
"Can't you see? Izumi is chasing after Takuya all over the place, I'll follow them before she murders Takuya." Jun Pei answered as he ran clumsily to follow them.
"Wait for me, Jun Pei!" Kouichi shouted after him and started running as well.
*** They were running near the school pond when.
"Come back here, Takuya!" Izumi shouted as Takuya ran even faster. Izumi was very close behind him, JunPei was close behind Izumi and Kouichi was close behind JunPei.
"Help me Kouichi!" Takuya shouted.
"Come back here, Takuya!" Izumi shouted.
"Izumi, wait for me!" JunPei shouted.
"Watch out Takuya!" Kouichi shouted.
Takuya stumbled over a rock and fell right inside the pond. However, before he fell, he grabbed Izumi's arm and Izumi grabbed JunPei's leg and JunPei grabbed Kouichi's shoe. And. They fell into the school pond together.
"Ah. Ah. Ah. Choo!!!!!!!!" All of them sneezed at once, it was WINTER!
"This. (*)Choo! . is all. (*)Choo! Your. (*)Ah. FAULT! (*)CHOO!" Izumi shouted at Takuya as she sneezed even louder every time she tried to speak a word.
****** After school
"Are you going home now, Kouichi?" Izumi asked.
"I got basketball practice. Sorry" Kouichi apologized.
"Oh." Izumi sighed in disappointment, "I guess I'll be going now, Bye!"
"Izumi, wait," Kouichi called.
"Yeah," Izumi turned.
"Take my jacket," Kouichi threw his jacket and she caught it, "Don't catch a cold!"
"Thanks." Izumi waved as Kouichi went to join his other teammates.
Izumi was walking in a dark alley when a few girls stopped her.
"What do you want, Kiyo, Kira and Kazuha?" Izumi asked coldly.
"What do you think?" Kiyo asked.
Izumi closed her eyes and remained silent.
"Stop acting as if you don't know!" Kira shouted.
"And if I really don't know?" Izumi asked, smirking.
"Then we'll tell you," Kazuha said as she stormed forward and slapped Izumi on the face.
"Get it?" Kiyo asked.
"No," Izumi replied, placing her hand on the part where Kazhu had slapped her.
Kiyo, Kira and Kazuha started hitting Izumi but Izumi didn't shout nor did she retaliate. She was on the ground, bleeding.
"Izumi, why don't you retaliate?" Kira stopped hitting her and asked.
"Not until I know why you guys are hitting me," Izumi answered.
"You still deny it?" Kazuha shouted.
"You took Kouji from me!" Kiyo said, "Takuya from Kira and Kouichi from Kahuza!"
"Yes, I am dating Kouichi but what had it got to do with Kouji and Takuya?" Izumi asked, "Takuya asked you to the dance, Kira!"
"He did ask me! But. that whole 2 hours, he kept talking about you," Kira replied.
"That I don't know. Why don't you ask Takuya yourself," Izumi replied curtly, "What about you, Kiyo?"
"I saw you talking to Kouji that day, I know you told him not to go out with me, right?" Kiyo asked.
"No I didn't. In fact." Izumi argued but was silenced by Kiyo stepping on her head.
"Liar!" Kiyo shouted as she kicked Izumi in her stomach.
Kiyo, Kira and Kazuha started kicking Izumi. Izumi started sobbing, 'I won't retaliate. I have to explain to them!'
Suddenly Kiyo, Kira and Kazuha stopped hitting her and ran away.
Izumi tried to see why they stopped hitting her but her eyes were too tired to even open.
She could feel herself being carried, she caught a glimpse of that person and muttered, "Hui Er."
*Kouji's POV*
I heard Izumi calling Hui Er before she fainted in my arms.
'Why is she calling my past name?' I thought as I walked towards a nearby park, 'my name is Yuan Hui Er when I was back then in China, but how did she know?'
I sat on the bench and rested Izumi's head on my lap. I cleaned away her blood on her face. She was hurt really badly. I pushed her hair behind her ears and was surprised to see that she looked like my first crush, Xiao Quan.
I saw a necklace falling out of Izumi's pocket and took it out. I gasped as I saw a picture of two kids standing beside each other, smiling.
That guy is. me
*Izumi's POV*
I opened my eyes and saw Kouji's surprised look, like he was trying to hide something from me. I found myself resting on his lap and stood up immediately, blushing. Suddenly a sharp pain came to me.
Kouji immediately stood up and ordered me to sit down and I did.
He took off my right shoe and sock. He pressed gently on my ankle and again a sharp pain came. I yelped and tugged my leg away.
"You sprained your ankle, let me dress it up for you," Kouji said.
I let Kouji touched my ankle and he pressed on the spot again. I yelped again.
"Sorry," Kouji apologized and took out a blue bandana with dark-yellow stripes at the sides and started bandaging my wound with it.
Wait. I saw that bandana before. It's from my dream. I gave it to Hui Er when he was about to leave.
It can't be. It can't be.
"Where did you get that bandana?" I asked.
*Kouji's POV*
"Where did you get that bandana?" Izumi asked me.
"Err. I bought it a few days ago but it doesn't fit me, so I don't use it," I lied, Izumi can't find out about my past, she'll be angry with me for not keeping my promise, "Why?"
Izumi looked convinced and smiled, "I think it will look nice on you though! Anyway Thank you."
She said thank you. when I didn't keep my promise. What if she found out about this.? She'll hate me forever! I can't let her find out!
"Why didn't you retaliate?" I asked, changing the subject.
"Cause they are my friends," Izumi replied curtly.
"If they are your friends they won't hurt you!" I argued.
"May be you're right." Izumi said, looking at the floor.
"What are friends for anyway?" I asked, " I don't find a need for them."
"You think you don't need friends huh, Kouji?" Izumi asked looking up at him, "Then you're absolutely wrong, very wrong."
She looked at me and said, "Everybody needs a friend, one or more. Friends are people you can trust! I don't know your background but having friends is a very happy thing!"
"What if you have to keep moving in and out of town because of your father's job?" I challenged, "What's the use of having friends when you know you are going to leave them as soon as you have them."
Izumi remained silent. I stood up and almost walked away when Izumi said, "If it's like that. It's even more important to cherish your friends and the times you had together!"
I looked at her and signaled to go on.
"If you know that you are leaving. You should spend more time with your friends and cherish all the time you have with them!"
I looked at her and remained silent, "Maybe you're right." I whispered, conceding defeat.
Izumi smiled and held out her hand and asked, "Kouji. can you be my friend?"
I looked at her and I felt guilty. She is asking me to be her friend. But should I?
'Shake her hand!' One part of my mind said.
'You can't! You betrayed her trust!' Another said.
'As long she never finds out, you are fine!'
Before I could even answer, Izumi shook my hand and smiled as she stood up, "I should be going home now, or else my mother would be worried."
She walked a few steps before she fell down. I went to help her up.
She accepted my assistance, and managed to stand up.
"I'll send you home," I offered.
What was I thinking?
"Ok," Izumi accepted my offer with a shrug and we started walking out of the park.
I looked at Izumi, she looked happy.
.Until she finds out.
*****
Eevee: That's the end for chapter 2 and once again, I am giving credits to JueLei and Geraldine for helping me edit this chapter! Thank you!
Preview for next chapter : Getting used of making new friends Just another chapter that is somehow boring. But just read it! It's good!