Hey there! I made my goal! 5 reviews per chapter! Yays! This is really turning out to be a fun fanfiction... sighs dreamily... hehe... oh! And before I forget, the song that Umi's cell phone played in the last chapter is the Rayearth theme song for the second season! Ain't that cool? I'm in love with it! I sing it everywhere I go, shower, basketball, softball, air plane... it's kinda sad if you thing about it... oh well! And also this is gonna be a two part chapter, so this is only part one... tee hee... the reason I'm only putting one up right now is cause I haven't finished the other part yet, but I just wanted to post this anyway... Alright then! With no more delays! Special thanks you's go to...

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Chapter 6

A blue haired girl silently walked to school in the chilly fall morning. 'I wonder if Hikaru's gonna come to school today...?'
She though about Hikaru for a second, what had that phone call been about? She couldn't manage the fact of Hikaru keeping her pain all to herself... It really did hurt...

Umi shook her head; Hikaru's gonna make it through this... whatever this is...

"Sempai!" Umi's head jerked up to see a girl with brown hair running towards her. Umi greeted her with a smile.

"Hey Rika-san, what's up?" Umi asked after the girl caught her breath.

Rika looked up to her a worried expression written on her face. "I-it's Shidou-san... she was crying at the school gates..."

"W-what?" Umi wasn't really looking for an answer, she quickly dashed past the younger girl, who didn't even have a chance to respond.

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"Hikaruuu!" Umi called through the herd of students. She looked around desperately trying to find her friend. "Hikaruuuu!"

She gasped when her gaze turned upon her friend. Hikaru was over in the courtyard, sitting on the table, hands clasped to her face.
'...Hikaru...?' Umi ran over to her friend, dodging people all the while. No one was in the courtyard, just around the door and gateway. Umi slowed as she neared her sobbing friend, "Hikaru?" Umi asked quietly trying not to surprise her if she hasn't heard her. She stopped in front of the sobbing girl, Umi bit her lip, trying to find the courage to say something. She put her hand on Hikaru's shoulder, careful not to scare her. "...Hik..."

Hikaru slowly lifted her head from her knees. Umi felt her insides churn, Hikaru was a mess.

Hikaru's hair was out of it's usual braid and was lose and untamed. Her eyes where really red from crying, and had dark circles under them. Her whole body was a mess, slouched and shaky.

"H-hey... Umi..." Hikaru tried to smile, but couldn't find it in her. She looked back down at the ground, and watched the leaves swirl and twirl in the air."Oh... gosh," Umi sat next to her, keeping her hand on her shoulder, afraid to let go. "What happened Hikaru...?" Umi finally asked after moments of silents, not really caring that they where tardy and were now mising their first class.

Hikaru's only response was more tears. She clasped her hands to her face, and her shoulders shook violently. Umi pulled her tightly into her arms.

'Hikaru...'

"What happened?" Umi whispered not letting go of Hikaru as she wept in Umi's arms. "What was that phone call about...?"

Hikaru screamed as a response. "It's not fair!"

Umi jumped, "what isn't fair?"

Hikaru sobbed harder than ever, she wept histaricly, shaking and trembling uncontrollably. She shook her head in response, refusing to let it out.
Umi's eyebrows furrowed, 'please tell me Hikaru...' She tightened her grip on Hikaru protectively. Umi sighed she was going to get this out of her.

"Come on Hikaru... Please tell me..."

Hikaru nodded but then sobbed even harder. "It... it's Hikari!" she screamed in Umi's arms.

'What...?'

Umi couldn't hide her alarm at the sound of something happening to Hikaru's dog. "What happened?"

Hikaru screamed and cried to the fullest in her last sentence. "Hikari... he was slaughtered!"

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Hikaru dashed down the street, tears streaming down her face.

"Hikari... Hikari...!"

She turned at the corner and reached the kendo school, she gasped at the crowd of people and reporters surrounding the place.

"W-what's...?" she panicked as some reporters turned to her and surrounded her, asking questions.

"Miss, do you have any idea of who might have killed your--"

"What?" Hikaru pushed through the reporters and avoided the cameras. "Satoru!"

Satoru turned to the crying girl, his face pale as a ghost. "H...Hikaru..."

Hikaru was pulled into a tight embrace by her eldest brother. "S... Satoru?" Hikaru was totally confused, what was going on? "Satoru... what happened?" Hikaru couldn't afford distractions. Then it hit her, she looked around wildly. "Where is Hikari!" Hikaru demanded, keeping her voice steady. "Where is my friend...?"

Satoru avoided eye contact, she was alarmed and confused. There was something horribly wrong...

"What's wrong! What's going on!" she looked up at her eldest brother, he kept his gaze elsewhere. Satoru stopped in front of the school. He finally looked down at her, eyes solemn. He kneeled down to look her in the eyes, he held her shoulders tightly, but not too hard.

"Hikaru..." he sighed eyes regretting. "Whatever happens... you must stay calm and listen to me..."

Something over his shoulder caught her eye. She looked over his Satoru's shoulder. She shrieked in horror at the site.Over the fence on the sidewalk was the color red, dark red blood. She struggled to get out of her brothers grasp. "Satoru! Let me go!" she screamed.

Satoru kept his grip and tried to calm her. "Please, Hikaru! Calm down!" he commanded in a loud, but calm voice.

Hikaru lost control of herself, she screamed while she still struggled. "No! Let me go!"

She finally got free of her brothers grasp. She ran to the fence and easily jumped the six foot wall. She ran over to the concrete the blood was eternally stained. She fell to her knees before the spot and cradled herself in her arms. "...n-no..." she whispered in mental shock. "No... this... can't b-be..." she rocked back in forth slowly, suddenly feeling cold as ice. But... it wasn't sadness that engulfed her... it was anger, hatred...

Revenge...

"Hikari!"

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"Hikaru..." Umi whispered to the shaking girl in her arms. Someone slaughtered Hikaru's dog... her friend... who would do such a thing?

Umi was tugged out of her thoughts as Hikaru moved in her arms. She pulled herself up and out of Umi's arms. "I...I'm alright... Umi..." she weakly wiped off some of her tears, which were immediately replaced by new ones. She laughed bitterly. "I guess... I just needed to vent..."

Umi hesitantly let go of her. "Do... do you have any idea who... who did it?"

Hikaru twitched, gasping slightly. "I..." she lowered her head, bangs covering her eyes. "Al I know is..."

Umi watched her intently.

"All I know... is that..." Hikaru lifted her head, not looking at Umi. Her eyes glowed with vengeance. "Al I know is that someone... someone killed my dog... my friend..."

I'll find who did it... even if I have to put matters into my own hands...

Umi didn't take her eyes off Hikaru. "You shouldn't be at school." Umi said rising to her feet. She held her hand out to Hikaru offering to help her up.

"I'm okay, so don't worry." Hikaru responded as innocently as she could manage. She accepted Umi's hand and pulled herself up. Then let go of Umi's hand only to find Umi still holding it.

"You're in no condition to be here..." Umi said with a frown on her face.

Hikaru shock her head, "I'm okay! Honest!"

"But..." Umi protested, she trailed off then sighed. She took Hikaru's hand to which she was still holding, clasped both her hands around it lovingly. "I know I've told you this before. Back when we were in Cephiro... but there's nothing more meaningless than one of Hikaru's 'I'm alright's'..."

Hikaru still wasn't convinced, "come on Umi, I'm alright. And besides, we have to visit Fuu after school remember?"

Umi thought for a moment, she didn't like how Hikaru brought Fuu into the conversation just to... Oh fine... whatever...

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Hikaru and Umi walked down the hallway, talking about anything that came to mind. Which would at the moment be school work."I didn't do y homework last night because of everything..." Hikaru said miserably. Umi patted her on the shoulder trying to comfort her.

"It's okay Hikaru, I'm sure Miss Ruzeen will forgive you." (A/N tee hee... points/spoilers for anyone who recognizes this!) Umi stated, feeling better about the day.

Hikaru nodded slowly, "I sure hope so..."

"We alredy missed one class... so... right now..." Umi thought for a moment. "We have our tutor right now." Umi looked at her cell phone which was in her light pink uniform skirt pocket. "We've only missed five minutes of it."

Umi and Hikaru put their stuff in their locker and grabbed their books and rushed to the small room.

Hikaru opened the door to the small, dim lit room. "Hello Miss Ruz-"

A woman with a tall pony tail tied by a thick red ribbon sat tapping her pencil on the desk. She looked up at the two gapping girls with dark brown eyes.

She stood up, looking curiously at them. She had a long slender body, and a soft figure. Her hair hanging down past her waist, and naturally curled at the end. "What's wrong?" she asked.

"I...it can't b-be..." She choked out.

The woman cocked an eyebrow at Hikaru's stuttering. "Oh, I'm sorry, let me introduce myself." she pulled some lose hair behind her ear. "I am your substitute for today, is seems for some unknown reason Miss Ruzeen was unable to be here today." she giggled then bowed, "I am P-"

"Presea..." Hikaru whispered as did Umi, who hadn't moved or said anything for this whole time. "How...?"

"How did you know?"
Umi raised her eyebrows. "You d-don't...remember?"

"Hmm?" Presea shrugged it off, then a mischievous grin crossed her face. "Now... since you were late..." she turned to the desk and opened the drawer, pulling out a dog leash. "What would make a fitting punishment?" she dropped the leash and started skipping around the room. "Should I stretch out your mouths to see how far I can make 'em stretch! Or should I chase you around the room to see how fast you can run!"

Hikaru and Umi sweat dropped, definitely Presea...

"Ah... P-Presea...?" Presea came out of her little fanticy, she looked at Hikaru.

"Yes?" she asked plainly. Hikaru looked heart broken.

"...You really don't remember us do you?" she asked quietly, trying not to cry.

"What are you talking about?" Umi sensed the honesty in Presea's voice.

She truly didn't remember.

Presea looked to the clock on her desk, she clapped her hands together loudly. "Well now, I suppose we should get started with your lesson."

She sat down at her desk and motioned for them to take their seats at the small round table.

"...Preasa..."

What's going on...?

Umi and Hikaru sat down in their seats silently, both pondering. "Miss Ruzeen had mentioned that you two are most lively..." she said taking out her schedule, she sighed.

"Oh well... it can't be helped..." she took out a red pen and wrote something down on her notes. "Please take out the homework that was assigned Friday."

Umi took out hers and held it out to her, Presea took it.

"Arigotou Ryuuzaki-san." she smiled, then looked to a silent Hikaru. "What about you Shidou-san?" she asked.

Hikaru fidgeted, and scuffed her feet back and forth under the table. "I... ah... didn't ave time to work on it..." she said looking at the ground.

"I see..."

"Ah... but I can finish it!" Hikaru looked up apologetically. "I... well... I can make up for it..." she dug into her uniform skirt pocket, and pulled out a small piece of candy. She held it out to Presea.

Presea gasped, she slowly reached her hand out to accept the candy. The moment her hand touched the candy, her eyes glazed over...

"I'm so sorry... I guess I don't have any money with me right now..." said a short girl with tears brimming at the sides of her beautiful ruby eyes. "I must have left my wallet back at Tokyo Tower..."

Presea felt her heart throb at the sight of a legendary Magic Knight worrying about the balance for the weapons.

"All I have is this piece of candy..." Hikaru said quietly. "I'm sorry..."

Presea smiled kindly, eyes glistening. Hikaru...

Presea's eyes fluttered open to bleary images of two girls hovering over her. Her eyes finally became focused.

"Presea! Presea are you okay?" Hikaru asked worriedly. "You fainted all of the sudd-!"

"HIKARU!" Presea cried hugging the surprised and blushing girl

"P...Presea?" Hikaru asked eyes wide.

Umi was equally surprised, but caught on quicker. "You... remember?"

Presea nodded silently, she buried her head in Hikaru's arms. Abruptly, the sounds of sobs were heard; Presea was crying. "I'm so sorry..."

"What?"

She looked up at Hikaru then to Umi. "The weapons I made for you brought nothing but grief and misery for the three of you." Something clicked in Presea's mind, she looked around the room.

"What is it Presea?" Hikaru asked, tilting her head to the side, looking "super deformed".

"Where's Fuu?" she asked looking from Hikaru to Umi.

"You mean you don't remember?" Hikaru asked, Presea shook her head. "What about being substitute? Or anything else like that?"

Presea stared at her. "Um... what are you talking about?"

"In answer to your question..." Umi was in turn to answer her question. "Fuu's... in the hospital..."

To be continued in part two! R/R please!