A/N: Thanks for the reviews. (Or rather, review. I only got one. xP Oh well!) OK, the last chapter was a little bland, as with not much dialogue and more explaining, and it was pretty short. -; Sorry! This chapter will be pretty long (and surprising; Miki becomes rather different now that she has friends), as it covers a large period of time. Oh, and I forgot to mention this; this happens a few months after .hack/dusk (aka .hack/legend of the twilight). I'm kinda going with the manga version of it, as the anime and manga are so different! So Rena and Shugo live in the same house. Thank you again!

Chapter 2; The Plan in action

Shugo was ready. Tired, stifling a yawn, but ready. He had stayed up pretty late last night. He played the world till 7 pm, ate dinner, then went to his room to make sure he knew what to say and thought of alot of things. At 30 minutes till 1 am, he fell asleep.

So now, he leaned against the school wall, waiting for her to come, fallowed by some bullies in her area. He saw it every day. Them almost stalking her was a normal sight. He tapped his foot. He knew she'd come. Any second now. Aaaany second now. Really.

Sure enough, Miki turned the corner like she did every morning, doodling in her sketchbook. And, like every morning, 2 guys that were 2 times the size they should be to be normal weight fallowed her by a foot, yelling insults. A few kids snickered. Shugo waited impatiently for them to get closer, and for them to yell a longer insult. (He had told himself he should interrupt them when they yelled a long one.)

The giant bullies then yelled their longest insult. "You know you and your sister are just--" "Stop!" Shugo yelled. 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' he thought. 'No time to turn back now though.' "Why, is she your girlfriend? Hey, everyone, Kunisaki likes Hirabu!" the boys yelled. Miki had turned around now, and was watching the bullies and Shugo. Shugo blushed. "Do not! I just don't think it's right that you just make fun of her!" The bullies weren't listening. They were making kissing noises and laughing. Almost all of the rest of the kids where giggling or laughing too. It seemed like no one was watching or listening to him anymore. (Truthfully, Miki was the only one watching and listening.)

Shugo sighed, and a second later the bell rang. Everyone began walking inside (most still snickering about Shugo and Miki). Shugo wondered if the plan worked. As he was walking inside, someone tapped his shoulder. He turned around. It was Miki. "Thanks." she said, smiling. She didn't smile much, so Shugo hadn't seen how she looked smiling before. She was pretty. (He also hadn't ever heard her talk to him. But that wasn't on is mind.) "You're welcome." he said, smiling as well. "We better get to class though." Miki nodded. "Bye. " she said, and walked off to her class. Shugo knew that it must have worked.

5 weeks (and 3 days) later...

"Hiya Shugo! Hiya Rena!" Miki said to her friends. She had changed alot since Shugo protected her that time. She talked more. She wasn't as quiet. She stood up for herself and had more attitude. She smiled MUCH more, and she had friends. She had wanted friends since 2nd grade; that's when her only friend transferredthe USA and she was left alone.

"Heya Miki." they said. Rena and Shugo stood leaning on the wall. Shugo actually saw the difference as if it were a blinder. He could barely keep himself from forgetting the plan. He had asked himself a million times what the plan was in his head. Shugo knew he couldn't forget. Just because she was hot with her ice-blue eyes and bobbed black-brown hair and---don't get distracted. Not distracted? Heh, like that'll ever happen.

"Hey, it's Hirabu and her boyfriend!" Someone yelled. "And there's his ickle sister!" Miki had her back to them but already knew who it was. (Shugo and Rena knew who it was to, but they where facing him.) She turned around. "Shut up, Benjiko!" she yelled. Benjiko was the same bully that made fun of her that fateful day. And his friend Akiko, but he was currently home sick. (Supposedly; they all knew he was playing hooky.) She then turned back to Rena and Shugo, ignoring the fact her comment caused him to yell profanitys at the top of his voice angrily and flip them off before leaving.

"So, what's going on with you?" she asked cheerfully. "Eh, not much." Shugo answered. "But I was wondering if you wanted to come over to my house on Saturday." He had kinda blurted the last part out; Rena didn't know yet that he was going to invite her. Rena looked at him funny, then asked, "Miki, can I talk to Shugo for a minute?" "Uh, sure!" she said, kind of confused. Rena pulled him around a corner and talked to him.

"Why didn't you tell me you're inviting her over on Saturday!" she whispered. Shugo sweatdropped. "I kind of forgot." Rena sweatdropped as well. "OK, next question. WHY are you inviting her over on Saturday?" she said, looking at him like he was inviting her over to kidnap her. "Remember last month? When I told you about Miki and Yuki and stuff?" he said. Rena nodded. "And you said talking to her was a bad idea because it's too plain, yeah." "Well I plan to try to get her to log in then." "What!" she whispered loudly. "It is the plan." "She's not going to even get near the controllers! She'll run off screaming!" "Will not!" "Will too! One time I said 'The World' (I was talking about our boring social studies lesson) and she said she had to go and ran in the bathroom. She she came out 10 minutes later, her eyes were red like she had been crying!" "I'll tell her it's for her sister!" "Good luck getting her not to hide in your closet." Rena said, and walked back to Miki.

"We're back!" Rena said. Shugo slipped around the corner and went back to were they where. "Glad you are, cause I got my answer Shugo." Miki said. "I'll come, sure!" Shugo smiled. "Ok, you'll come at 2?" He asked. "AM or PM?" she said, giggling. "Pm." he said, kind of embarrassed. Just then the bell rang and the threesome went inside.

A/N: Chapter 2 was right there folks. Warning; next chapter might be short, might be long. Depends on if I add in the log-in or not! Heh. So until the next chapter, buh-bye! (And please review!)