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Just to make things clearer, I use "…" when people talk, and '…' when people think.

DISCLAIMER: I'm not Miho Obana, so I don't own Kodomo no Omocha and its characters, I only own Mary Jane.

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3 months ago…

It was eight p.m., Akito had finished his karate training, he now mastered his wrist, he mastered his life, he was a winner. Everything was going the best. There were no cars in the street, but the traffic lights were red, he stopped. A young American girl, walking next to him, ignored the lights and went on. Then, suddenly, a motorcycle without lights. Akito saw it already over the girl: a jump, a push and he found his body on hers, on the other side of the street.

"Good boy, good boy" the doctor patted a confused Akito on his shoulder. In his ears he still could hear the ambulance alarm. Some excoriations, lots of bruises, but he was well.

Mary Jane, instead, had a big cerebral commotion.

They both had to pass the night in the hospital. He had to talk with the police; she was under control, because she hasn't awakened yet.

The following morning, when Akito went seeing her she was still sleeping, but doctors said it was good for her. He quietly sat next to her, watching at her. She wasn't tall, and she was very thin, she had spots on her little pale face, a French nose, straight gold-brown short hair. She had a defenseless air with her closed eyes.

During that long night (they hadn't found the pirate yet) Akito was told her life story. A sad story, another tragedy: how could have it been, that he always found itself in the strangest situations of life? The girl was an orphan from the age of three: her parents died in a car accident (when he heard it his first thought was"she's lucky she's not the cause of their death"). The girl lived with her grandparents in a little house in the outskirts, her grandfather was alcoholic, and her grandma lived on her work of disable assistance. Mary Jane had only one big passion, karate: she already was a brown belt and trained everyday, with extraordinary perseverance. She had taken part in a few tournaments, and she had always won. Akito admired her ability, but he also felt himself happy for his results. In the United States he had a lot of free time: although English learning was difficult, school was lighter than in Japan, and he need to do something not to feel homesick. He never admitted it, but his karate successes were almost due to Sana, to his desire to see her and to be good for her.

'Sana…'

"Who…where am I? Who are you?" a weak American voice interrupted his dreams.

"Ah, you woke up, I'm Hayama Akito"

"Hello Akito, can I call you by name, I'm Mary Jane Rogers, but, what happened, why am I here?"

"You had an accident, but you are OK now" Akito slightly smiled.

'Handsome boy, very nice eyes' thought Mary Jane.

Akito called for a nurse and went out of the hospital room.

When he was admitted in (after the controls) the nurse had told Mary Jane he had saved her. Mary Jane was smiling: 'So, he's my hero…hmm…'

"Are you OK? I'm going" said Akito.

"OK but please return tomorrow" her face was so tender asking that… Akito couldn't help answering "Of course" even if he didn't felt like this.

"And…thank' you very much" added the girl.

The following day Akito returned, that girl seemed to need his presence and after all he promised…

Two days after Mary Jane could return home. Akito had visited her every day and every time she had made him promise to return. Once he found her weeping, but when she saw him she stopped it and said: "You always seem to be in a huff with someone, you look sad, Akito, but when I see you I feel happy!". Akito Hayama making someone feel happy?

The day she had to leave the hospital she told Akito she loved him. For the first time in his life Akito knew exactly what he wanted but couldn't find the words to say it. 'She is so little and weak…I don't want to hurt her'.

"See you at the karate gym" he answered, leaving a sad Mary Jane.

He saw her the following day. She was already training to regain her fit; he came in with his kata, which now suited perfectly. He was really handsome. She approached him and said: "Akito, you didn't answered me yesterday, I love you, you made me feel happy for the first time… would you like to become my boyfriend"

"Err…but" 'I already have a girlfriend and I love her'. He thought the last sentence but he didn't say it: 'do I really have a girlfriend?' he hadn't heard Sana from that day of November and after all she had never said him she loved him since that day in the nursery… He felt himself terribly unsure. Then he looked at Mary Jane, her face was really sad, could him be able to make her suffer to? Another pound on his heart? 'But I don't love her as she loves me, I love Sana!'. And yet he couldn't bear it…and then, three months go by quickly…

"OK"

"You sure?"

"Yes"

Mary Jane didn't ask him if he really loved her, she didn't ask herself about his expressionless face: she was too happy.

A new began for them. Mary Jane was happy, always happy. Akito wasn't happy and he wasn't witty, he was in fact very gloomy, he never smiled at her, rarely he put an arm around her shoulders (only if she asked him) and he never attempted to kiss her (she never dared to ask him, she thought he was shy and that Japanese maybe were more reserved in this kind of things) (Akito!). With him Mary Jane felt protected, she could read a sorrow in his eyes that made him nearer to her. She could tell him everything, he was good at listening, his advices were brief but always to the point.

Akito dared not to phone Sana, but he impatiently waited a call from her… what was the reason of her silence?

Meanwhile he went out with Mary Jane. Poor girl, what a sad life she had had! He felt he wasn't the right boy to make her happy: she needs someone who could love only her. 'Sana…', he'd like she to be there, understanding everything with a look in his eyes, comforting him without knowing how good she was at it… he didn't want to acknowledge it but he dreamed about her every night.

Did you like second chapter? Not very long I know, but I prefer to write often than to write a lot and then nothing… Do you like my characters? I'm waiting for flames… do you think I'm cruel with Sana and Akito? It's only to make them happier in the future…