A/N: well then I hope your in for another big surprise coz this chapter is a bit shocking (or not, I'm actually guessing). So here it is, my latest and just newly updated chapter... chapter 8: good mornings. ENJOY!

Disclaimer: I don't.

Chapter 8: good mornings

Misao slowly opened her eyes as soon as both Soujiro and his friend had left the room. She saw how he had looked at her before he left, he looked real worried and he's face was no longer smiling like how it was used to be but with a sadder expression. She curled her body up onto the bed as thoughts and questions started popping out of her mind, she remembered how he had looked, as he was asleep, he looked so peaceful that he looked just like a child and for that short moment she was able to look closely onto each detailed parts of his face. She buried her face on a pillow as she had recalled it all, how he had looked at her before leaving and on how he had slept the whole night sitting beside the bed just to look after her, she blushed as she tried to remembered both, and if that wasn't shocking enough for her it had suddenly crossed her mind that just last night they have had there first kiss, the kiss that she had been trying to avoid her whole life just so she can have her first with Aoshi. It had happened almost in an instant, one minute they were running and then the next they find themselves looking at each other's eyes and mouth pressed on each other's lips, it shocked her and she knew that it had shocked him as well. It was something that matters a lot to her and she had always dreamed about how it would happen, and in her dreams it was always Aoshi that she had shared it with but it had never occurred to her that she would be doing it with Soujiro. Her mind was in a great deal of debating; her thoughts all in shambles and questions kept ringing in her head.

"Were just friends... were just friends" she said repeating it over and over again.

Then with a quick movement she pulled the pillow out of her face and then she started to stomp her feet on the bed, waving her hands onto the air sending one pillow to fly up onto the air hitting the wooden door, it went on for about five minutes and when she had stopped stomping and throwing things on the air as she turned to look on the side of her bed she then suddenly find herself looking at a young girl with pigtails tied in a bright yellow ribbon. The girl was only at the age of four and she was giggling and smiling at Misao as if she was watching a cartoon show. Misao slowly pulled herself up and sat on the corner of the bed looking at the small girl with a wide smile.

"How long have you been watching me here?" Misao asked with a warm and friendly tone.

"Long enough to see you stomping your feet and wiggling them on the air" she said giggling.

"Well you see..." Misao started trying to find the exact words to say next...

"I was just practicing my swimming techniques," she said scratching the back of her neck as she turned to look at the girl with a wide grin.

"You're funny." she said giggling again.

"Well then I'm happy to have made a girl like you smile" Misao said lifting the girl up beside her.

The little girl smiled...

"What you got there?" Misao asked peering onto the little girls back.

"These flowers are for you," the girl said smiling.

"I picked them at my mothers garden just this morning" she said proudly.

"Thank you, there beautiful" Misao said as the little girl handed her the bouquet of fresh picked flowers.

"What certain occasions are we celebrating then?" Misao asked...

The girl started to think...

Uhmmm...

"Because your not sick anymore" The girl said smiling from ear to ear.

"Last night when you were here... your face look like these *_*

"But today you look like these ^_^

"Soujiro-san looked worried when he saw you and he did not sleep, that is why today his face looks like these @_@

Both of them were laughing about how the girl made all those faces. Misao looked at the little girl and tapped her on the head...

"You're a great kid"

"You too" she beamed.

"What's your name?" Misao asked bending over to look at the child's face.

"Shin Mori"

Misao felt a stab on her heart, and suddenly silence took over the once cheerful atmosphere that had started to form on the two ladies. The little girl looked at Misao with a sad face...

"Why? Is it ugly?" she asked pouting

"No" she answered waving her head along with the words.

"Its great!" she said looking at the girl with a warm and cheerful smile.

"Yay!"

"Shin Mori" Misao whispered...

It was a name that sounded almost like the name she had once known, the name Aoshi Shinomori...

A/N: isn't she just adorable... well I thought that it would be good to have a sweet little girl added in the story, and the thing is that she almost had the same name as Aoshi has, which will lead me to my next chapter to come. Hope you enjoyed and R&R okay.

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