Pachi. Silent. Pachi. Silent.

The both of them were playing Igo. Sai was paying full attention, but Hikaru seems to be distracted. He just simply put a stone on the board and went on day dreaming.

"Hey! Pay attention! You are losing! Do you know that?" Sai finally can't stand it and start to mumble.

"Sai…have you ever thought of what will you do when you are an adult?" Hikaru suddenly pop out this question with two big puppy eyes that made him looks like he is searching for his true identity.

"Well, I have thought of that before." Sai folded his hand and close his eyes, seems to be going into the past again.

"When I was still a little kid, I already had my ambition. I wanted to be the emperor's tutor, teaching him how to play go, teaching him how to conquer a kingdom without shredding too much blood on the soil. And I finally made it." Sai open his eyes and felt like it was still yesterday, where he had fun playing Go with the King and princess although the princess is not patient enough to play a whole game.

"Then, are you interested in having a work at here?" Hikaru asked. His eyes were full of mischievous but poor Sai didn't notice it and fell into deep thoughts.

"I don't know…I think I am having fun staying in your house and helping your mum out. Isn't it great?" Sai asked.

"No! It is not great for me! You just keep on nagging me until I finally surrender! I must kick you out of the house!" Thought Hikaru in his heart. He wanted a wonderful holiday with no nagging from both of his mother and Sai. As for his mother, he is so sure that she will be very busy when Sai has left for work. And as for Sai, he will have to work, work and work till 5 p.m. in the evening, exhausted. No one will nag him by that time. Hikaru had a little evil smile on his face. Of course, Sai still haven't notice that danger is approaching him quickly.

"But don't you think that you have to pay rent?"

"What rent?" Sai asked.

"Why, of course the rent that you are staying in here, having our food and so on."

"But, I thought it was sponsored by you!" argued Sai.

"Since when did I say that? I can't remember saying that though." Having an evil smile on his face, Sai finally knew that he was in trouble.

"What do you want me to do?" Sai sighed. He should have known that this is coming.

"Easy. Go out, take a newspaper and find a job." Hikaru lay down on his bed and used his hand to cushion his head.

"But, I can't! I don't even know what job is suitable for me!" Sai pleaded.

"You just have to live through it." Hikaru answered with a very sarcastic way.

"You are evil. Hikaru." Sai mumbled under his breath with his lips becoming a duck beak.

Seeing Sai so unhappy about it, Hikaru was feeling quiet guilty also. So, his sat up and looked at the poor guy.

He sighed. Then he brushed his hair to the back and say it with a very unwilling tone.

"I will find a job for you."

"But I rather stay at home helping your mother." Sai looked at Hikaru with a very sad look, with two watery eyes.

"No." Hikaru rejected. Are you kidding! Letting you staying in the house whole day, I won't have any of my own luxury time!

Hikaru thought in heart.

"Sometimes I really want to become a ghost again and hear what you are thinking about." Sai sighed again.

His word knock Hikaru out from his thought and Hikaru quickly gave him a very innocent smile to indicate that he was not thinking anything evil.

"Ok, then it is done. Come on, let's go and have some dinner." Hikaru pulled Sai out of the room and dragged him to downstairs to have their lovely dinner.

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"Hey! I finally got a job for you!" Hikaru was holding a pamphlet on his hand and waving it to Sai.

Sai was sitting in the room, looking at the board blankly. He seems to be in deep thoughts.

"Hey. Can you hear me? I said that I have found a job for you!" Hikaru stuck his big face in front of Sai and cried out loud.

"Yes. Of course I have heard what you were shouting about. I am thinking. Go away. I need some silence." Sai shooed away Hikaru and went into deep thoughts again.

Hikaru was not very happy with him ignored. So, he moved away the Igo board and sat in front of Sai with his eyes open as wide as a cow's eyes.

"Ok. What do you want?" Sai sighed and surrender to Hikaru's stubbornness.

"I said I got a job for you. My friend's brother is going to open a cake shop and he needs a worker now. It will be great because this cake shop is just a few streets away from our house and I have tried the cake at there! It is totally delicious! Further more, they are providing you lunch also." Hikaru was smiling away when he explained this to Sai. Inside his heart, he was yelling "Freedom! Freedom! "

"It seems to be a very interesting job. But just now I have told your mother about me going out having a job and she insisted that she is going to find a job for me and she got one for me within an hour." Sai told Hikaru and he is not surprise to see Hikaru's face suddenly turned into a sour pickle.

"Why did you tell her? I thought that this is supposed to be planned secretly!"

"She asked. And I answered. It was that easy." Sai quickly defended himself.

Hikaru was so mad; he didn't even bother to ask Sai any thing more. He went back to his room and slammed the door behind him.

During dinner, Hikaru was still in the bad mood and didn't talk to Sai through out the whole dinner.

Mrs. Shindou can feel that something was wrong, but she didn't dare to say anything and as for Mr. Shindou, he was still the usual 'Happy-Go-Lucky" father that laughed through out the dinner although nobody was laughing at his bad joke.

XXX

Day past by, Sai and Hikaru seemed to be missing out each other every minute. The first minute Sai was in the kitchen, Hikaru was out of the kitchen and went upstairs. When Hikaru entered the house, Sai just went out to send something to the aunties in the neighborhood.

This phenomenon gets serious when Sai started to work. They barely see each other and they barely even talked even though they met each other. It looks like there is a big crack in their friendship already.

XXX

It was a beautiful morning. Hikaru woke up early and was prepared to go to school. When he went into the kitchen, he saw Sai sitting at the table, having his breakfast.

Hikaru ignored Sai and treat him as an invisible man. He walked right past him and took a slice of bread and spread some jam on it. He then sat at the opposite seat of Sai, still ignoring Sai.

Sai was feeling quite bad about Hikaru ignoring him. What did he do until Hikaru become so mad? He was not sure about it. He was too afraid to asked Hikaru especially when he saw Hikaru's flaming eyes.

Hikaru actually was mad at Sai for a few days only. After that, he had already forgives him. Just that he was not happy that after a bunch of hard work, Sai just threw it at his face and declined his offer. But he is still giving Sai the sour face because his friend was not happy with him and the result was that his coupon for having free deserts was taken away. And his friend told him that he had to find another guy to replace Sai.

Luckily, in his class, there was a girl who was willing to help him out and she took Sai's place immediately.

There was a rumor that his friend's brother was a big handsome guy and he is lucky that this girl is an opportunist that quickly asked for that job just to be with the guy.

"Mum. I am going to the institution today. I got some discussion today. I maybe have dinner at there." Hikaru took another slice of bread and told his mum.

He notice that Sai's facial expression change a little bit when he said the institution.

Maybe he is not happy that I didn't take him to there after such a long time. Hikaru thought. And he took no more effort to examine more. He took his beg and flunk it to the back and rushed to the door way greeting good bye to his mother.

"Will he get mad?" Sai asked Mrs. Shindou after Hikaru left the house.

"I hope he won't." Mrs. Shindou gave Sai a pitiful look and went back to her work.

Sai sighed but he just has to face it.

XXX

"Congratulation that you have successfully score your exam! I am so happy for you!" Waya patted Hikaru's back when they were on their way to the institution.

"Yeah. I am also happy for you too. The institution seems to be very quiet without you buzzing around." Smiled Isumi.

"Hey! I am not a busy body ok? I am just curious. You know? CURIOUS!" Hikaru fight back and repeated the word curious to make it clear that he is not a busy body.

"Ok. Whatever! But because you were not here these few days, that Toya guy seems to be very boring." Waya cut in.

"Haha! Of course! I am his only rival and I am the one who can defeat him!" Hikaru's nose was getting higher and higher until Waya suddenly knock his head with a fist.

"Aww! What did you do that for?" Hikaru rubbed his painful head and stared at Waya.

Waya just looked away with a cool face and said "Nothing. Just to bring you back to reality."

They laugh and chat through out the short journey. Before they stepped into the institution, Isumi suddenly open his mouth and said "Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you the latest news happening in the institution!"

"What happen?" Hikaru's busy body attitude is forming slowly.

"There was one guy who came to our institution a few days ago. He is now holding the post of the salesman at the souvenir store." Waya continued.

They stepped into the institution and Isumi continued the story.

"The first day he came, he nearly flooded the whole institution with girls! The girls were screaming away and hoping that he will serve them. And this phenomenon lasted for a few days already!" Isumi was having a hard time getting himself to the lift. The girls were pushing him away and shouting "I love you! Look here!"

"Well, since Isumi is drifted away by the girls, let me tell you the rest of the story." Waya and Hikaru was standing at the door not going in to suffer the smell of those perfumes and shouting.

"Well, this lead to a problem. One of the girls boy friend was not delighted that his girl friend was leaving him because of a stupid salesman, so he challenged him." Waya took Hikaru to the side because the girls were getting wilder as time goes by.

"The man requested that this salesman have to answer a few hard IQ question and he succeeded. But the man was still not satisfied, and he requested for an Igo match. The salesman agreed with a smile and they had a game. It was totally amazing you know? The man was defeated within minutes! It was a miracle!" Waya was waving his hand all around to show how excited he was about this game.

"Nothing interesting for me! Maybe the boyfriend is just a moron." Hikaru doesn't seem to be very interested with it.

"But the man was the sixth grade! It was totally amazing!"

"Really?" Hikaru now seems to be very interested with this guy already.

"Can I see him?" Hikaru pulled Waya's T-shirt.

"Can't you see the crowd? It will be amazing if we can get near him." Waya took back his T-shirt from Hikaru's hand and stood up, looks like he is going to war.

"Where are you going?" Hikaru looked up and asked.

"Where else? To the elevator! Come on, follow me closely." Waya put out his first step and squeeze himself through a fat girl who is bumping him away.

"Aw! Watch it!" Hikaru yelled out of pain because there was another girl's high heel sandals stepped on him. Aw, it really hurts…

"Why the authorities didn't chase all these crazy women away? They are driving me nuts!" Hikaru dogged another big fat hand from slamming his head to the wall and asked.

"The authorities were having a meeting about this. Is either this guy is leaving or the girls are forbid to step into the institution again." Waya squeeze himself through another big breast girl which he thinks that it is a fake one…

"Well, I hope that the guy is leaving. Of course, after he had a game with me!" Hikaru closed his nose with a thick handkerchief to prevent those deadly gas kill him before he can get off from there.

"Whatever! As if you can win while you are always loosing to the good old Toya." Waya teased him and he then successfully arrive to the elevator and pushed the button straight away.

And all of a sudden, they saw the salesman stood up. He is a tall man. He is HANDSOME! No wonder the girls are so crazy about him! The girls were giggling and shouting. And the man seems to be having a problem handling everyone of them.

"Please, be in order. You all are not helping me much by doing this." The man's eye brow were mounted together and asking the fans to go away or to be in order.

When Hikaru heard the voice, he knew who he was. He quickly stuck his head up and yelled: "SAI!"

Sai turned his head and saw Hikaru. His eyes were shimmering with sadness and as if he is going to cry. In his big purple eyes, it was saying "Save me!"

"Oh! I forgot to tell you. I saw him before in your house right?" Waya looked at the stunning Hikaru and added this sentence.

Hikaru looked at Waya with awe. What the heck is filling Waya's head? He should have known that this is his so call 'tutor'!

Hikaru can feel that streams of killing eye sight looking at him. And he can feel that he is going to have a very hard time now.

"Oh why is this happening to me?" Hikaru slap his head and moaned.

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Ahaha…another chapter up after a two long moths. I am sorry if this chapter is not that interesting. My head is a bit stuck up during the process. well, I got the opportunity to finish this chapter is because I am having my holiday now. The life in the new school is HECTIC! The competition at there is also high! I can't believe this! Sighed…have to strive harder cause my result weren't that good…have to do better at the end of the term. So, wish me luck! Thanks if you are willing to write a review for me!