Doggy Poo's Opening

I'm not very good at rewriting so if this chapter sucks… I'm sorry. My author's notes were really bad ass too, but unfortunately if I rewrite them they'll suck ass so I've decided to write new notes. The chapter will also be different as well although it'll leave off in the same place and the plot will be the same. Now the original first chapter was perfect, the only reason I have to rewrite it is because when I was posting the second chapter I accidentally replaced the first chapter with the second. Anyhow, in the original first chapter author's notes I talked about a demon possessed moth, a bad dream I had, and about how I was a tengu. Also I said that my editor Poop would write something. Well, I've decided to talk about a jumping spider and my not so glorious attempt to kill it. So, I was hanging out at my mom's work and she said I could use one of the spare computers if I wanted to. I went to turn it on and I noticed that a small spider was on the escape button. So I got a paper towel and was going to kill it when suddenly it jumped. I went to kill it again and again it jumped. This happened three times until it jumped out of site. That jumping spider still roams my mom's work's halls. People say that they can still here his little footsteps as he jumps up and down. You know… I use to hate jumping spiders, but now I think they're kinda cute. I should give him a name. I know, how about Hubert? Yeah… Hubert is the greatest name ever. Hubert was evidently a servant of God… unlike the moth. Well, I've taken up enough of your time with my story so here's the fanfic.

Disclaimer: I don't own Crescent Moon. If I did Mitsuru would've kissed Mahiru in the first volume.

Chapter One: Fate's Intervention

" Auntie, he hasn't visited us at all so why should we visit him?" Mahiru whined.

" He's your brother and it's his birthday," her aunt said.

"He's been in America for four years. That's four birthdays that we haven't been to," Mahiru protested.

Her aunt gave her 'the look' and Mahiru knew she had lost. Mahiru looked through the car window out at the scenery. Her and her aunt had left the pretty houses and neatly arranged houses far behind. The streets were now littered with beer cans and every wall and sign was covered from head to toe in spray paint. Mahiru decided to try once more to change her aunt's mind.

" Oh my gosh! I think that big strong man is stabbing that poor defenseless girl. Hey! Two people are going at it in an ally… and they're both male. This is where my big brother works?"

" Mahiru I get the point. To walk these streets would be suicide. Keep in mind that your brother is a probation officer and that he works at the juvenile facility about a mile out of this city. He also lives on the nice side of the this city." Mahiru's aunt let out a sigh.

" Kyle lives in a bar. Does that scream safe to you?" Mahiru said determined to get her aunt to turn around.

" We're going so stop trying to change my mind. It's not going to happen." These words shut Mahiru up.

She continued to look out the window. They' were almost out of the city. The juvenile facility was actually only a hundred yards away from the city and Mahiru could now see its looming walls. It was like a broken palace overlooking a fallen kingdom. Mahiru had gotten little sleep the night before and she was unable to stop her eyelids from drooping shut as she was whisked away into the dream world.

Mahiru was normally a happy go-lucky girl except for when it came to her brother. She blamed him for abandoning her once he was old enough. Mahiru had been five when her parents had past away. Legal custody of her and her brother was given to their aunt. Kyle was unable to bear staying in Osaka; everything reminded him of their parents. So he asked their aunt if he could go to a boarding school in Tokyo and their aunt, having sympathy, arranged it. He left as soon as the summer ended. He returned to Osaka for his last year of school and when he graduated he made plans to go to America. When she had heard the news, Mahiru refused to let her brother explain; he never even got to say good-bye. He had tried to contact Mahiru, but she was so furious that she refused to respond. Instead her aunt did. It had been four years since they had last talked.

"Mahiru wake up!" Mahiru's aunt called as she got out of the car and opened the passenger door, which Mahiru had been leaning on; thus making the now awake Mahiru to plop unto the parking lot pavement.

Mahiru was surprised at how tight the security was. One of the guards even unwrapped the presents that Mahiru and her aunt had brought for Kyle. Mahiru winced as they slowly tore her painstakingly wrapped gift. Once they were done, a guard came to escort them to the right hallway. The three passed through several gates and corridors. They finally came to the gate, which sealed off the facility from the nicely organized offices. This is where their guard left them.

As they passed through the gate Mahiru could see that there was an intersection in the middle of the hall. When they began their long walk down the hall, Mahiru noticed that by each office door there was a slim gold plaque that had the name of the probation officer and their intern engraved in it.

Mahiru was too preoccupied with reading the names to see the boy a head of her. Collision was inevitable and so they collided. Papers and presents flew up into the air to take a quick flight before scattering on the ground.

"Ouchie," Mahiru whimpered as her aunt collected the presents.

" Mahiru why don't you help this kind young man with his papers while I go and find Kyle's office." At the mention of Kyle's name the boy looked up from collecting papers and somehow managed to give the two an even eviler scowl.

Mahiru's aunt ignored the scowl as she continued down the hall. Mahiru began to collect the papers, but couldn't stand the silence so she said, " My name's Mahiru. What's yours?"

The boy only gave her an evil stare. It was evident that he wished to have no conversation with Mahiru. The two of them were through collecting papers and the boy began to head in the direction of the gate. Mahiru couldn't let him leave without getting his name. So, she made a threat that even if she wanted to carry it out she couldn't.

" Tell me your name or I'll follow you to where ever you're going."

The boy turned around with a smug smile on his face. " Fine then woman. You can follow me to my prison cell."

It was at this point that Mahiru noticed that he was wearing a juvenile prisoner's sweat suit. Mahiru still refused to let him go with out a name and she was about to begin to follow him until a voice hollered from the end of the hall. " His name's Mitsuru."

Mahiru stopped dead in her tracks. Even though it had been four years she knew that the voice belonged to none other than her brother. She turned around and there he stood; still the same goofy blonde headed boy that she cared so much about. All her hatred that she harbored for him began to melt away and she ran into his outstretched arms, taking warmth in his embrace.

" I'm sorry that I never gave you the chance to explain why you abandoned me," Mahiru said, tears welling in her eyes.

" Mahiru, I didn't abandon you. I was eighteen and it was time for me to support myself," Kyle said in his raspy voice.

" You didn't have to go all the way to America," Mahiru argued.

" Someone offered me a job here and I had no job lined up in Japan so I decided to take it. Now that that's settled I have something to ask you, but let's go into my office first."

Mahiru followed her brother to his office and on their way through the door, Mahiru noticed that only Kyle's name was on the plaque.

" Kyle who's your intern and why isn't their name on the plaque?"

" Well, Mahiru I have no intern, which brings me to the question. Will you be my intern?"

Mahiru couldn't believe it. Her brother wanted her to be his intern. Overwhelmed, Mahiru couldn't help, but faint.

Doggy Poo's Closing

Wow! I think the rewritten first chapter might be better then the original, however, the original notes were still better then the rewrite. For some reason it takes longer to rewrite a chapter than to write a new chapter. I stayed up really late so I could have it posted in a day. I even took a shower at 11 o'clock last night. Estimated time of sleep was 1 o'clock. That just proves how much I care about my fanfic. Well in the original chapter's endnotes I begged people to review so I'll do the same in the rewrite. Please review. Even if you hated it, review. I'm a tough girl I can take it. I mean I had to clean up cat throw up today. Yep, my cat threw up in three different spaces. Damn her. My reward for doing so is that my sister's boyfriend is installing a swamp cooler in our house. Thank God. It's like a sauna 24/7 in here. For some reason this is the hottest summer I have ever had in my fourteen years of life. We just moved into this house about a year and a half ago, which is why we didn't have cooler and it was winter when we moved in so we saw no reason for getting one. Also last summer was tolerable so we did without one, but this summer it was so hot that my parents caved in and got a swamp cooler…yay! Victory is mine. Also I'm really excited because my big brother is coming to visit in August. You see I hardly ever get to talk to him and he didn't live with us when I was growing up because he had already moved out. Yep, my parents are old.

Even though my brother is bringing his girlfriend I don't mind because I haven't seen him in like four years. His name isn't Kyle… it's Jeffery or Jeff. Um… excuse me for a second there are noises coming from my closet……………………(looking in closet)………….. what do you know it's my cat! Damn you Callie! I'm just kidding… I love her. I also love my sister's cat, Oatmeal. Okay, his real name is Spanky, but I nicknamed him Oatmeal. Well, I suppose I've taken up enough of your time… bye.