Sangai Mi-To Shourai

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Chapter 1-Tears and Joy

That voice…She thought; it sounded so familiar but she could not recognize it. Her sadness vanished and flared up in anger because she hated being called little.

"Listen, I don't know who you are! But I am not little, and I have a name! It's Miharu Endoh! So if you're going to call me something; call me by my name!" She shouted and looked him in the eye; her warm blue eyes were filled with fire. The poor man who was on the end of this didn't seem to register that she was angry. He was calmly listening to her vent and a few minutes after Miharu had stopped, he put his hand on her shoulder as a friendly gesture.

"Miharu was it? Will you tell me what's wrong? I hate seeing people so upset…" He answered softly. Miharu turned slightly with her bangs covering her eyes and said after a few more sniffles:

"Alright…It all happened earlier today. My stupid Koi, Matt, thought it would be funny to take me to a Japanese garden, where we co-incidentally run into some guy who called himself Akemi!" She started ranting again making the man blink, that didn't really help, he thought, why would a name tick her off like that?

"Why would this 'Akemi' cause you so much pain?" The man cautiously pressed on, speaking in a low, concerned voice. Miharu looked up to the sky and slowly looked down again before answering:

"A…Ak…Akemi was like a brother to me. He was one of 3 other friends I had. One day I witnessed them all get murdered, and my sister almost get killed. Ma…Matt should know better then to play with my feelings like that; I just don't understand." Miharu added and let her tears fall freely once again, feeling as if nothing was going to go right.

"I know just how you feel…I lost 4 of my best friends in a situation like that. I haven't acted the same since, no one yelling 'SANAKO!' anymore because I would replace the Shampoo with Pink hair dye." He clenched his fists before continuing, "But I've learned that all things aren't what they seem. I doubt your Koi would do that to you and now he must be worried sick. Allow me, Sanako Arisgawa to escort you back to your hotel!" Sanako said in false cheeriness, hoping this would make Miharu feel better. He stood up brushed himself off and held out a hand to Miharu in hopes she would take it.

"Alright…if you insist; could you please take me to 'Le Zénith', I'm going to the concert there." She took his hand and this is when she could take a good look at his face and gasped. He had pitch black hair that went down to the middle of his back and was tied in a low ponytail; his eyes were coloured Emerald green and showed that he had been through a lot. Miharu thought 'Same as mine…could it be? It must be!' She started crying again but it was not from sadness, they were tears of joy.

Sanako did not realize this and had a 'Deer caught in headlight's' look. 'What did he do now? Was it something he said? Michiyo always said he was bad with girls' feelings.' He was cut short of his thinking when the girl he was trying to help shouted:

"Sana-kun!" and enveloped him in a hug and then Sanako understood. He didn't know how Miharu from their old adventures was alive; technically it should be impossible since she was killed in that explosion Kalixomon created. But all he knew now is that he didn't want this moment to end, and finally returned the hug and struggled to let those tears falls; however in the end they did.

With Michiyo

The concert was about to begin and Michiyo still hadn't seen a sign of Matt or Miharu! What was going on? She thought with a bitter smile. She was here at the concert with Willis to surprise her little sister and her boyfriend. But she hadn't seen any sign of them since they arrived and that was an hour ago.

"Willis! Michiyo! Wait up!" We both turned around and saw a pale skinned, Matt, his eyes were just filled with worry and regret.

"Yes?" Willis said breaking the silence they had maintained for that hour once he caught up.

"Miharu's missing…" He said before getting cut off by a very angry Michiyo with a very surprised Willis, slowly edging away.

"What do you mean she's missing! How can she be missing when she's supposed to be with you! Don't tell me you're-" Michiyo was cut off when Willis, coming out of shock whispered, "Let him explain." She grudging complied.

"I knew she loved to look at the Sakura blossoms, so I took her to a small Japanese garden that was just filled with them. She seemed ecstatic at first, but when the gardener came and introduced himself, she got angry and started yelling at me saying I had no regard for her feelings. It's all very confusing, and soon after I chased after her, but I lost her, and that was 7 hours ago!" Matt looked like he was having a panic attack and he probably was. All they could do was try to comfort the lost boy before he completely lost it.

Miharu, where are you? Michiyo said looking at the sky before settling her gaze on Matt.

"Oh my god! Matt!" Michiyo shouted as he started to fall off the area they were in and onto the floor…

Back with Miharu

"We better head to that concert hall now, we're going to be late as it is. One more late on my shift and I'm fired." Sanako said with a regretful sigh and started heading to the parking lot where his car was parked.

"Yeah, guess your right." They both hurried up to the car, which was a black 2005 Ford Mustang. Miharu entered the passenger side and Sanako went to the driver's side, input the ignition, and sped off.

"I'm sure we both want to know how each others survived, but I don't think this is a good time. Don't you?" Sanako shouted a little while after, when nearing their destination, 'Le Zénith'. Miharu had to agree, even though she did not want to, she had to; for Matt and the chance to apologize for the way she was acting.

"Yeah, I know, but the curiousity is killing me, man." She said after a while of silence. "Well did you know 75 of cats are killed from curiousity?" He said to try and lighten the mood, and put on his cheerful smile to boot.

Miharu smirked at his response and quickly said back, "Well did you know with 90 of those cases, satisfaction brought them back?" Then they laughed, it had been too long since they could joke like this, badly I may add, but it was a relief never-the-less.

They entered the building and walked up the manager of the concert hall, "Ah, Monsieur Arisgawa, just on time, and you are?" The manager said looking at Miharu, who just flashed her badge. The usher's eye's widened, and Sanako just looked at the Usher confused.

"Arisgawa, take Mademoiselle Endoh to see her boyfriend backstage, s'il vous plait." Sanako's eyes widened at the statement, and then looked at Miharu who was smirking, clearly enjoying the look on his face. Yes, it was just like the old times, only without a psychotic digimon messing things up.

Sanako took her up toward the back stage, and once the manager was out of earshot, practically shouted, "Why didn't you tell me Matt Ishida is your Koi!" it took all he had to restrain it for that long, so Miharu wondered what he would have said if he'd waited until he had seen Matt.

She laughed slightly, "You never asked and I did think you would've figured it out."

"Well, you should know me well enough by now to know that I am the densest person in the world!" He said back in mock-defense.

Their mock-fight was delayed when they were interrupted by an angry yell.

"-It's all very confusing, and soon after I chased after her, but I lost her, and that was 7 hours ago!"

Miharu ran up toward the voice, recognizing it. She saw him standing up, she saw the lost look in his eyes, and she saw him start to fall. So with quick-thinking Miharu ran up and quickly caught him, soon after, she lost her balance but was quickly gained it when Sanako stopped her from falling too. Miharu smiled sheepishly, thanked him and entered Matt's room where she put him down onto the couch. She sat on a chair just staring at him. Sanako, Willis and Michiyo were in the room too but Sanako quickly excused himself to do his duties as an Usher.

After 5 minutes Miharu seemingly woke from her zombied state and quickly said, "He's not going to wake up soon…and the concert's going to start soon too…" And quickly left the room to do who knows what.

"I hope she knows what she's doing…" Willis muttered and Michiyo nodded in agreement.

"Knows what who's doing?" Matt said eyes squinting under the bright lights. He seemed forget at that moment that Miharu was gone.

"Umm, Miharu, as for what she's doing, we honestly don't know. She just left and went to who knows where. The concert should be starting soon so we're assuming she's going to stall it somehow-" Michiyo was cut off when the announcer spoke.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of all ages. Matt Ishida will be delayed for now, but his girlfriend, Miharu Endoh will be taking his place as lead singer and will be singing a few songs of hers' until he arrives." Mutters and polite clapping could barely be heard over the boo's this received.

"Oh my god! What is she doing? She doesn't even know how to sing!" Matt began to panic and worry again.

"Shut up Matt, you've never heard her sing so just listen" Miharu's sister said finally fed up with him.

Music started to play and the booing couldn't be heard over the music

Anata no kage wa hohoemi utsushite
namida no shizuku sono mama kakushiteru
daishi no kibou minamo no atashi no
ienai koto no kodokusa shitteru
hashiri dashita nara mirai wa sou kotae akeru tobira.

"Can I see her on stage from back stage?" He asked. Willis and Matt nodded and took him to the area where he could see her. Her hair was up in a high ponytail and her blue eyes were sparkling with determination.

EMOTION kitto kono sora wa yume no katachi
tokimeku kono kodou hibiiteru
EMOTION sotto kasanetai anata no yume
shizuka ni ne wa tojite dakishimeru

She was wearingan outfit much like Stellar's from Gundam Seed Destiny. It is a light blue dress, one side has a sleeve, the other has half a sleeve. Then there is a darker blue piece of cloth on her skirt.

chiisana kizu rizumu ni tokashite
anata ni akuru honto no MELODY wo
shizukana yoru ni kagami de utsuseba
kanashii kurai watashi wa anata
furikaere nakute kinou tada hitori yureru omoi

The spotlight was coloured pink and red. Other warm colours such as orange and some purples reflected like an outer circle around her. By this time the booing had stopped and people were cheering Miharu on.

EMOTION kitto mamoru kara ima wo kakete
hikari to kage dakara dekiru koto

She danced around the stage gracefully at the small break in music.

RELATION motto tsutaetai kano kimochi wo
sunao ni unare kuru kotoba dake
RELATION soko ni arowareta shinjitsu dake
kawarazu kagayaite ite hoshii

When she started singing again, people started joining in doing the little parts they knew.

EMOTION kitto kono sora wa yume no katachi
tokimeku kono kodou hibiiteru
EMOTION sotto kasanetai anata no yume
shizuka ni ne wa tojite dakishimeru

She gave a small bow as the song finished and looked at Matt, who was clearly in shock, this caused her to giggle and looked out into the clapping/cheering audience again and found Sanako. He was cheering loudest of all. Miharu waved at him and he cheered even louder.

With on last bow she walked off stage, exhilarated from her first performance.