Resurfacing by Strawberry'd
Chapter Two: Pretty Lady
Yoh and Ayame walked out of the house and to the bus stop.
"Oji-san, why are we taking the bus?" she asked.
"I thought today was too nice a day to ride in a car. Isn't it pretty outside?" he answered.
"Hai, but walking is so slow!"
He laughed. "You'll get used to it."
She shrugged her shoulders cutely and saw something that interested her. A bubble tea stand.
"Oji-san, can we get some bubble tea?" she asked, pleading. It was her most favouritest thing in the whole wide world!
"Sure, why not?" Yoh smiled and walked over there.
"Hello, sir, and how are you?" the lady selling the bubble tea asked Ayame.
"I'm fine." She answered.
"What would you like?" the lady asked her.
"I want a… strawberry bubble tea!" Ayame announced.
"I'll have a mango one." Yoh said.
"Coming right up!" as she brought them their orders, she smiled at Yoh. He smiled back, uncertain why she was blinking so quickly.
He eyed her weirdly and walked away before she could do something else. Yoh came up to Ayame who was slurping her bubble tea with a big grin.
"Oji-san, I think she was flirting with you!" Ayame said.
He looked confused for a minute. "Who, the bubble tea lady?" he asked.
"Who else? We really need to get you a girlfriend oji-san!" Ayame had a look in her eyes that looked a lot like Hao's I'm-Planning-Something-Look.
Yoh smiled and ruffled her hair. "I don't need a girlfriend." He said. 'The only one I want, I can't have'
They two of them walked around the plaza, sipping their bubble teas when Ayame suddenly wanted to go to a toy shop on the other side of town. Yoh agreed and steered her in the direction of the subway.
"Here, we have to take the subway to the store." Yoh said.
"Ok" Ayame-chan nodded. She waited while Yoh paid for their tickets.
Yoh grinned as they go onto the subway. "There's a game oji-san and HoroHoro plays on the subway." He whispered to Ayame.
"Ooh! Does Ren-kun play too?" she asked.
"No." Yoh laughed. "He doesn't like it."
"So, whenever the door opens for more passengers, we get out and," Yoh couldn't finish because Ayame cut him off.
"If we get off at every stop, how are we going to get to Tokyo Toys?" she asked, saying the name of the toy store she wanted to go to.
He grinned. "'Cause you didn't let me finish! So we get out and then down the subway, all the other doors are open too so,"
"We go into those?" Ayame asked.
"Yup! It's a lot of fun." Yoh laughed. "I remember HoroHoro and I, we were doing that and he got back on the subway and it was our stop." He laughed some more. "He got lost so I had to go get him."
"That sounds like fun! Oh, look! The subway is stopping!" Ayame jumped up and down excited. "When do we get off, oji-san?" she asked.
"Right… now!" They ran out of the subway, dodging people and carts then jumped back into the subway a compartment from where they were originally.
"See how it works?" Yoh asked Ayame.
"Yep! Oh wait, it's stopping again!" Yoh and Ayame ran out again and back in.
The first compartment they were in was the first one, next to the control compartment, and then they ran down all the way to the last one. At least Ayame did.
"Ayame! Wait! This is our stop!" Yoh called after her but, in her excitement, she couldn't hear him.
"Oji-san?" Ayame looked around and couldn't see her oji-san. I wonder where he is… she thought.
She searched all the compartments, finding there was a door to connect each one. She walked slowly to the last compartment, double checking. Her otou-san taught her never to panic unless she absolutely knew that the world was going to end.
Now certain that he was not on that subway, Ayame began to panic. Sitting on a seat she curled up in a ball, hugging her legs. Not noticing a lady beside her, Ayame started to cry.
Yoh was panicking. He didn't have the education from Hao so he had panicked from the start. Yoh ran to the people selling the tickets and asked them where the next stop was.
"I'm sorry, sir. This was the next stop. When the subway halts, it will be in Yokohama."
Yoh's eyes grew wide. Oh no, he thought. Hao's going to kill me.
Then, remembered that, since Hao spoiled his little girl, she had a cell phone.
A little girl ofeight has a cell phone. He thought darkly. He didn't even have one since Manta gave him one for this 20th birthday. He was 22 now.
He whipped his out and looked at his speed dial. To his surprise, he saw Ayame: (03) 249 0736
Huh, Hao must have put that there when he was fiddling with my phone. He thought. Did he know that I was going to lose her? Or was he just being cautious?
Anna sat on the subway waiting to go to Yokohama for a good day's shopping. She sat in the last compartment reading a newspaper. Suddenly, she heard a girl sniffling. She turned. Frowning, Anna saw a little girl crying.
I didn't notice her come in, she thought.
"Hey, are you ok?" Anna asked, edging closing.
The girl lifted her head and Anna was taken back. She looked exactly like Yoh!
"I'm ok, but I lost my oji-san and I can't find him anywhere and I don't know where I'm going and I have no money and…" she burst into tears again.
BRINNNGGG!
The two girls were startled. Ayame chuckled nervously. "I forgot, I have a cell phone." She whispered.
Anna lifted an eyebrow.
The child picked the phone up and turned it on. "Moshi Moshi?"
"Ayame! Are you ok? Where are you? Are you hurt?" Yoh called into the phone.
"Oji-san! I'm ok, there's a pretty lady sitting here with me. I'm fine."
Anna blushed slightly at being called pretty.
"Can I speak to the pretty lady sitting next to you?" asked Yoh.
"Ok." Ayame answered.
Pulling the phone from her ear she held it to Anna. "Oji-san wants to talk to you." She said.
Anna took the phone cautiously.
"Hello?" she asked.
Anna heard silence. Then, "A-Anna?"
It was Yoh.
Note: I'm not that familiar with Japanese phone numbers, and someone told me that's how it looks like, so forgive me if I'm wrong.
kun is used for small children and mostly for males
End of Chapter Two
