Piki-piki angel: Hey! Sorry it took me a long time! I was really busy with stuff… but I read your reviews every time I get them, I just don't have the time to type anymore, that's all! Thanks very much!
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Chapter two: A Secret!
All Sasuichi can see now was a blinding light. All he could hear were the cheers, the laughter, the gasps, and the whisperings. He heard them all. He couldn't move. It was as if his body has been chained tightly.
On the other hand, Chidori couldn't see anything, but the ground. Her head was spinning. It was as if she spun a hundred times, nonstop. She couldn't hear a thing. She couldn't hear the screams and the gasps.
Shino and Mitoshi were shocked. Their jaws were dropped and their eyes widened, locking it on the two who still didn't move. Sasuichi was lying flat on the ground while Chidori was on top of him and their lips were still touching. The pig, on the other hand, was staring at them, too, sweating, shocked, and his heart was pounding.
After the 20-second event, which seemed like an eternity for the two, Chidori finally got a hold of herself and pushed herself up, pushing Sasuichi on the dense ground. Chidori's face looked painful. She was gasping for air, sweating coldly, and her heart was pounding as well. Sasuichi, too, probably felt the same as her. Only HIS heart was pounding three times faster.
"This pig is sick!" Chidori said with vengeance as she stood up and pointed her finger at the pig.
"That's it!" Sasuichi went back to his feet and grabbed the small, black fat pig by its stomach. "I've had enough! This pig has got to die!"
Chidori became worried for the pig and decided to follow them when Sasuichi jumped out of the small bamboo fences with the poor pig clinging on his hand.
Following Sasuichi and the black pig, Chidori, Shino, and Mitoshi landed on a dark and cold cliff above the raging ocean. They could clearly hear the waves strongly hit the rocks just below them.
Sasuichi mercilessly stretched his right hand forward, holding the pig by its neck.
"You're such a bad luck!" Sasuichi shouted.
The pig looked down. When he saw the ocean and the spiky rocks, he became more nervous. He figured that maybe Sasuichi is going to throw there, which seemed to be the situation. The pig closed his eyes, hoping that it wouldn't hurt.
"Good bye, piggie!" Sasuichi shouted and was about to throw the pig, but Chidori held his forearm very tight.
"What are you trying to do!" Chidori angrily asked.
"He brought me bad luck! If you don't want me to throw him to the ocean, I can always eat this!" Sasuichi replied.
"Are you insane! This pig isn't responsible for what happened!"
The pig slowly opened its eyes to find that he was still being held by Sasuichi.
"Besides, you call what happened a bad luck! Well, sorry if I wasn't a good kisser!" Chidori yelled back at the boy and grabbed the pig.
She ran away from the crowd by the cliff, wanting to go home with the pig on her hand. It was dark but she didn't care. She didn't even look at where she was running at, even if her Kimono and her slippers make it harder for her to fun. It doesn't matter anyway, because tears were falling down from her eyes.
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The next day, Sasuichi woke up on his bed, still remembering the pig from last night. That night before he went to sleep, all he thought about was the pig and Chidori. He was wondering if Chidori was mad at him for saying those stuff. He really didn't mean those things that Chidori said, maybe she just got it all wrong.
His anger for the pig became stronger.
He went down the stairs and walked to the kitchen were he figured that's where the smell of noodles came from. Probably, his mother was cooking noodles.
When he arrived by the door of their kitchen, he felt the hot temperature from his mother's cooking. But still, the smell was delicious.
He sat at the chair near the table and threw his head to the table. Sakura turned back and looked at the boy, hearing the thud his head made.
"Sasuichi, what's the matter?" She asked, looking at the boy who was resting his head on the table.
"Mom," Sasuichi said, his head was still resting on the table. "Can I go for a walk after breakfast?"
"Um… sure thing. Just be sure you'd be back by lunch." Sakura reassured.
"Thank you."
An hour later, after eating his mother's noodles, Sasuichi went out of their house and walked like he was up all night. He was looking down, thinking about what happened last night.
Maybe I should apologize. But, it's not my fault anyway that she assumed that way! It's all because of that stupid pig! If ever I see the pig again, I'll-
From where Sasuichi was looking, he saw a familiar figure of a shadow. He slowly raised his head up only to see that Chidori was with the pig with a collar around its neck and a yellow lace tied on it, extending it to Chidori's hand.
Sasuichi couldn't believe everything that he just saw. How could she possibly be nice to the pig even if she knows that Sasuichi hated him so much?
She looked at Chidori but she only looked at the other direction, opposite to him, with a snobby face.
As much as Sasuichi wanted to run away and snob them back, he still walked towards the black pig and its owner and talk her.
"What are you doing!" Sasuichi furiously asked.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" Chidori calmly replied to him, still looking at an opposite direction.
"It looks to me that you are bringing bad luck with you!"
"Oh, shut up!" Chidori said and walked away with the pig.
Sasuichi tried to push his way through the crowd to catch up with Chidori who seemed to have an easy time running through the wild and hot crowd.
After a minute of pushing his way through the wild crowd, he decided to stop chasing Chidori in the hot and busy city. And even if he didn't have to chase her anymore and she was there, what could he have told her? He's not going to say sorry to her, anyway.
"Curse you, girls! Curse you!" Sasuichi shouted as he sat under the tree by the park.
Suddenly, a hand whacked his head with a great pressure.
"Hey!" Sasuichi angrily looked behind him and saw Mitoshi looking down at him with her hand on her waist.
"You know, if you like to impress my cousin, you should apologize to her." said Mitoshi.
"Impress? No way." Sasuichi replied and looked down on his foot.
But deep inside, the thought of apologizing to her was playing in his mind.
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Inside the ice cream store, Chidori sat at the table near the entrance and she was catching her breath. The pig, who was at the table, sat there and looked at his owner breathe.
"Running through this city is insane!" Chidori finally said, with only her right eye open.
"Why did you run through this city?" A voice said from behind her.
She looked behind and saw Shino standing before him with a big grin on his face.
"Um… a little bit."Chidori said.
Shino glided to the chair in front of Chidori and sat down.
"Of course that's crazy. Listen, have you heard about Sasuichi?" Shino said.
"I don't want to have anything to do with that guy!" Chidori said, closing her eyes, as if she didn't want to listen to what he was saying.
"No, no, I'm serious! He said they're going to move! To a farther city! Even HE didn't know where they would go! And the saddest part is, they won't come back for another 11 years…" Shino explained with his voice a little higher than the normal.
Chidori slowly opened her eyes and looked at Shino. She didn't want it to show, but her face looked gloomy.
"Why should I care…" Chidori said, petting the pig.
"You should care because they're going tonight!" Shino said.
Chidori looked up at Shino and looked at the wall clock behind him. It was only 12:00am.
"I don't care about him." Chidori said and stood up.
The pig jumped from the table down to the ground and followed his master who was on her way out the ice cream house. And for some reason, she was walking quite slowly.
Chidori walked to their house where his father was gardening their small garden by the gate.
Naruto looked behind him and saw Chidori who was looking sad and walking slow. Next, he shifted his eyes on the black pig following her which disturbed him ever since Chidori brought him home.
"Is there anything wrong?" Naruto asked Chidori from where he was standing.
Chidori didn't answer, but she shook her head while she was still walking slowly and looking at the ground. When she reached the door, she slid it open and walked in with the pig. She took off her sandals and placed it on the ground and then she walked in quietly.
She went directly to her room without even stopping by her mother's usual spot, the kitchen. In her room, she was lying there like a problematic father worrying about his bills. The black pig tried to cheer her up by rubbing his chubby cheeks on hers, but it didn't seem to work. She only let out a big sigh.
She was feeling really down because of what Shino said and her pig felt it. As much as he wanted to do something for Chidori, he couldn't. He would gladly pay her back by cheering her up, but it doesn't work. She was completely depressed.
She wondered why they would move and, with even a bigger question, why wouldn't Sasuichi tell her. What if he was supposed to tell her on their home last night, but they fought because of the pig and didn't get the chance to tell it to her?
With those questions on her mind, she dozed off to sleep.
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When Chidori woke up, it was already 6 in the afternoon. The moment she saw this, she jumped up from her bed and walked out of her room with the pig still running behind her.
She quickly ran down the stairs and slid her feet in her sandals and then ran out of the door in haste.
She was running to Sasuichi's house which was a little farther than Shino's house. After passing by a few blocks, that's when she wondered why her cousin, Mitoshi hasn't came back home. Was she with Sasuichi and Shino?
Getting lost in thought, she accidentally bumped on Shino. Good thing the pig evaded it when she fell on her butt.
"Shino!" Chidori screamed, looking up at Shino.
Shino stretched his right hand down for Chidori to reach. Chidori grabbed Shino's forearms and used it to stand up.
"Hey. Maybe you have forgotten, about Sasuichi, they're going to mo- " Shino didn't get to finish.
"I must tell him!" Chidori said, cutting off what Shino was saying.
"Huh?"
"If I don't… I might regret it forever…" Chidori whispered.
"Tell him what?" Shino curiously asked.
"I must tell him that I like him…!" Chidori said, with a few tears escaping from her eyes.
Upon hearing this, Shino's mouth curled. If he was trying not to cry, Chidori didn't care for now. She just wanted to talk to Sasuichi as of this moment.
"I w-w-was ab-bout to g-go to y-y-your house then I b-bumped into you…" Shino said, trying to hold back from bursting.
"Shino where is he?" Chiroi seriously asked.
Without saying a word, Shino ran, leaving Chidori behind. Chidori figured, maybe Shino wanted her to follow him.
They went to the park. It was 7 at that time and it was darker than before. Chidori hoped he would find Sasuichi, but he wasn't there. She ran around the park, thinking Sasuichi must have played a joke on her and hid.
"Sasuichi! Sasuichi, where are you!" Chidori furiously said and sat down at the bench.
Shino wasn't looking at Chidori.
Maybe he's pitying me now… Chidori told her self.
"Chidori!" A voice yelled.
Chidori looked at where it was coming from. It was Sasuichi. The pig stood up, too.
"Sasui-" Chidori was about to scream but Sasuichi was screaming something.
"Chidori, I'll save you from that evil black pig!"
"HUH!" Chidori's face grew puzzled.
Behind Sasuichi was Mitoshi, she was running behind him with a big smile on her face.
Then, Shino started laughing so hard, he almost cried.
"Where is it, where's the pig?" Sasuichi asked Chidori, looking at every direction.
"My pig is FINE!" Chidori said angrily,
Suddenly, Mitoshi joined Shino from laughing. Chidori and Sasuichi looked at them with a puzzled look on their face. They wondered to themselves why they were laughing.
"We'll confess!" Mitoshi and Shino said in unison.
"We set you up!" Shino said, laughing like there was no tomorrow, and was pointing his finger on them.
"W-W know… right, Sasuichi?" Chidori said, tapping Sasuichi.
"Now, why don't you say sorry to each other?" Mitoshi said, trying hard not to laugh.
Sasuichi looked at Chidori who was blushing.
"Look, I-I… I'm sorry." Sasuichi finally said. He wanted to say that for a long time.
Chidori was smiling and blushing, not because of what Sasuichi said, but because of what happened earlier. Sadly, she wasn't paying attention to what Sasuichi was saying.
If you tell anyone what I told you, I'll kill you, Shino! She told herself, looking at Sasuichi's lips move.
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Piki-piki angel: I apologize again for being late! Matta ne!