Chapter 2, Looking Back

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Hi again!! Here's the second chapter of the story.I was wondering...do you think the title suits?Do you think the story is going along fine? I hope so (sniff)…Thanks goes out to Hydra-Star for giving me support (squeals)

OK, here it is:

Back in the Shi Jin Tenchi Sho…

Tatara looked sober and depressed, that is really unlike him everyday. He would glare and snarl at people who would just try to talk to him. So, the others were getting pretty worried. "He just needs adjusting to, that's all." Subaru assured, being the only remaining female in the Byakko Seishi, asides from their miko, Suzuno.

Although he denied any feelings he felt fro Suzuno, his green-depth eyes betrayed any emotion that he meant to hide. But that didn't stop there. Every night, he would go outside on the white snowy ground and stare at the hopeless sky, wishing and asking the Gods-especially Byakko- that they would turn back on their decision and bring Suzuno back, to the arms where she truly belongs. The stars, with their reassuring light, now seems the only reason that he had kept the notion that one day…just one day, she will be back.

But day after day, that pale flicker of light deep inside his heart wretched with pain begins to dim and diminish, until he had finally given up the hope and believes that his miko had found happiness…and so should he too.

In the meantime, though, he will rely on that hope-how little it may be- that it wouldn't end up like that.

Suddenly, faint footsteps sounded from behind him that shook Tatara out of his thoughts. He turned around reluctantly and saw Subaru, clutching a woolen blanket with a worried expression her face. Afraid that his emotions might be given away, he quickly turned back to the sight he was looking at before. It was too late. "What do you want?" he asked aggressively.

"Don't take this thing so hard on yourself, Tatara. It was not your fault." At this, he snorted. Subaru ignored him "All things take time. It won't be long 'till she comes back, you know." Silence stretched between the two friends as each decided what to say or what to do. It seems they were finally lost for words. Finally deciding that actions speak louder than words, Subaru draped the woolen blanket she was holding along Tatara's broad back and left, leaving only a sigh that echoed in the air. As long as she was gone, Tatara reached behind him and clutched the blanket within his fist. Since when did I last experience comfort after Suzuno's loss? He wondered and begun to realize something he had never thought about: love is not only true and forgiving, it is also patient.

"Hey imp!"

"Who are you calling imp???"

"Well, obviously. Who else…imp!!!"

"Shut the hell up!"

"Do you really think I will listen to a girl like you?!"

"You better…'cuz I'm gonna have to pulverize you!"

"Oh…yeah?"

"Yeah!!"

"Here we go again…" Suzuno sighed as she rubbed her left arm, which was aching with pain from a hard soccer ball shot. Who wouldn't be when your so-called arrogant, be-atch captain ordered you to be on the net??? Talk about power-manipulator. In shorts and a medium-sized shirt, Suzuno looked out-of-place as she tried to see herself as one of the girls in her school: without success. At 15-years old, who would've thought that simple Suzuno Oosugi would actually have a lover 5 years her age? And besides that, he is not even true; just a fictional character in a book his father had warned her not to read. Beneath all that doubt though, the pain of the parting they had experienced left a big gaping at the bottom of her heart that swallowed every emotion she felt, leaving it empty and deserted…

WHACKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Suzuno!!!"

"Oh man…"

Struggling to get up, Suzuno whirled around just in time to see a soccer ball lodged inside the net. Oh shucks………….a goal she gritted her teeth as she began to brace herself for the final blow:

"SUZUNO OOSUGI!!!"

It was Rei. The captain who is so self-centered and foolish that can't even distinguish the difference between the words blue and blew. "What the hell were you doing, letting that goal in????" Suzuno stared at her captain warily and replied, "I'm sorry, okay?" Rei rolled her eyes and began to leave…"Oh yeah, penalty kick. Don't blow it." She rolled up the last sentence with much agitation that Suzuno actually shivered.

The other team's captain, Kenshin (a guy by the way) smirked at the prepared Suzuno at the net. This is one hell of a piece of cake he thought as he swung his leg to launch the soccer ball to his opponent's net. It went up…up…up…down…down…into…

"What kind of a kick was that??"

"That was nasty, man."

"Are you a wimp? Hitting a girl???"

Author's Note: If you are wondering if I went off-topic? You're wrong. If you think I ended this chapter so that I could lose you? You're wrong…again.

I actually planned this setting; so that you'll know why Suzuno came into that situation (oops…) didn't mean to spoil it, people. Also please give me some feedback on what you think about the chapter. Was it…? I don't know. What do you think?? Once again, Hydra-Star (did I spell that correctly?) thank you!!!