Maku laid down in his bed, and was thinking while resting against his pillows.
'Stupid weird idiots living here... Why'd Fox have to bring them here? Fox, it's all his fault!'
Maku fell asleep after a while...
(Maku's Point of view)
Where am I?
What is this place?
I'll go sit over there on that bench...
Where is the closest person?
Hmmph... Shadows? What are they? Are they humans? I'll ask where am I? What is this place?
I hear voices coming from the shadows... I get up, now I walked over to the shadow people who are walking by this bench.
I hear them...
They're speaking...
I'll listen...
"So, when will the attack be?" The shorter one asked the taller one.
What the? They're going to attack?
"Soon... But we're going to talk once we walk by here... I sense someone's presense..." The tall one says, and the other one nods.
So, this ain't a dream...
I'm dead?
They walked through me...
I'm doing that cool soul walk out of body thing...
Shall I follow them?
Or shall I stay?
I'll follow them.
"Do you still feel them?" The shorter one asks.
"Yeah..."
Freak it, stop feeling me... NOW!
I'm listening to them...
They're walking faster.
Maybe if I speak to them they'll hear me?
The taller one stopped walking.
"What's the matter?" The short one says.
"Continue walking." The tall one says.
The short nods, and moves on.
Hmm, maybe I can talk to the tall one?
"Hey you." I said.
Hey, he's attacking me with ENERGY?
I'm jumping out of the way, but it's chasing me!
DARNIT!
I need a breather.
NO!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
IIIIIIIIII'MMMMMMMMMMMM DYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!
D...d...d...dar...arn...
Maku woke up, stood up.
"Owwww..." Maku said in intense pain, then he fell down forward onto the street.
"I'm... alive..."
"Maku, sweetie, are you in here?" Mikiko said, opening her youngest child's door, walking in.
"Maku?"
Mikiko sat down on the edge of Maku's bed, and gently shook him...
One thing, he was gone though.
"Huh?" Mikiko got up, and headed into the sitting room, where Akifuru was.
"Mama, have you seen Maku? I thought he layed down?" Mikiko asked her mother.
"No... He went out with his friends." Akifuru answered. "IF he's not in his room?"
"Friends? What friends?" Mikiko asked, tilting her head. "Which ones? And without Shi and Fox?"
"He... probably had to turn in a school report." Akifuru said, rocking in her chair. "And he didn't tell you because of the business meeting."
"Hmm..." Mikiko had a really bad feeling something was wrong.
"MOM!" Hijo called from the front room.
"Just a minute, Hijo!"
(Maku's Point of view)
I'm awake?
I'm standing up!
The pain's gone though.
That means I'm dead?
I'm on a mountain.
There's a person over there.
They better not beat the freak outta me.
I walk over.
"Hi?"
She looked at me, why she didn't she say anything?
FREAK IT! Why didn't she answer me or say anything!
Hmm...
She has beautiful red hair... and a nice mask on her face...
"I SAID 'HI'." I told her.
"Hi." She said.
"By the way, who are you?"
"Call me 'M'."
"M?" I ask. "Just call me 'B'." I told her, thinking of my middle name.
Maku Bobonourmis Shinomuto - that is my full name.
But I'm not telling her that, because she didn't tell me hers.
We started talking to each another, and throwing rocks off and making words and symbols on the ground, then we were laughing.
Then she kissed me.