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Chapter Five: Old Flames Ignite

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After Hatsumi's arrival in Tokyo, Japan, her family welcomed her home with sympathy. There, for a few hours she spent time with Akane and Hikaru talking about the wonderful sights of Paris, until it was late and time for all of them to go to bed. Then morning arrived…

"Uggghh…" Hatsumi groaned, getting out of her bed. She hastily fixed her hair so she could see herself in the mirror. "I look horrible!" Hatsumi groaned again, trying to fix her face.

"MORNING HATSUMI!" Akane screeched from her bunk bed. Hatsumi jumped up in startled surprise.

"Mornin' Akane…" Hatsumi groaned again.

"GIRLS! Since I hear both of you are already up, you wouldn't mind taking out the trash and dropping something off for me?" Mrs. Narita announced loudly from the kitchen.

"Well, that's my cue to go back to bed!" Akane laughed, plopping back down on her bed and falling asleep again.

"But-b-but Akane, we both have to do it…" Hatsumi whimpered.

"C'mon big sis… I promise next time I will help you…" Akane whispered before drifting off to dreamland.

"Fine… I won't forget this!" Hatsumi replied, taking a suitable shirt and jeans out of her closet. She finally had to take out a whole bunch of shirts until she could decide on one that matched with her jeans well. It was a mild yellow short-sleeved with a hood shirt that had 3 white stripes and 2 navy blue stripes together in a consecutive pattern in the middle. She wore this with her new ripped jeans, with small rips on both knees and on one back pocket.

"Now the shoes…" Hatsumi said to herself. She looked in the closet until she could find her black striped Adidas. Then after putting them on, she rolled up the bottom of her jeans so that it rested at ankle length, giving her that tomboyish look. Then finally, she went back to her mirror and fixed her hair into two messy small ponytails on each side of her head, fastened with two purple hair elastics that had two yellow balls on them. Then she gently fixed the forehead area of her hair so that some short strands would hang down. Finally, she was finished.

"Mom? What's for breakfast?" Hatsumi asked, walking out of her room and closing the door behind her, remembering that Akane was sleeping.

"It's pancakes sweetie. Would you like yours stuffed with blueberries, strawberries or chocolate chips?" Mrs. Narita asked.

"Could I please have one with chocolate chips, and one with strawberries?" Hatsumi answered.

"Sure it's alright. It'll be ready in 5 minutes." Mrs. Narita replied.

Hatsumi walked over to the kitchen table and sat down. Shortly, five minutes later, her pancakes came.

"Dish ish reawy good!" Hatsumi said, with her mouth full of her chocolate chip pancake.

"I'm glad you think so dear. Now when you're done, could you please drop these bags off at the Netsuke's? It's just full of old movies for their children. Hikaru doesn't want these anymore, and Akane will take the trash out when she gets up." Mrs. Narita replied with a cheerful smile on her face.

"Sure thing Mom." Hatsumi replied. Fifteen minutes later, Hatsumi gobbled up the rest of the pancakes, wiped her mouth with a napkin and washed it down with orange juice. Then she cleaned up her plate and washed the utensils. Finally, she finished, grabbed the bags and opened the door.

"Be right back Mom!" Hatsumi yelled out before shutting the door.

"Man… this is heavy! It feels like a body is in these!" Hatsumi said to herself, lagging the bags behind. She walked up to the elevators and pressed the 'up' button. The light never came on, so she assumed it was busy. She waited… and waited… Five minutes later, nothing. She gave up, and took the stairs instead. She went all the way up to the 6th floor and rang the doorbell.

"Hatsumi! Welcome back! Oh dear, thanks for delivering the bags! Tell your mom many thanks! Bye!" Mrs. Netsuke replied, taking the bags Hatsumi was carrying and giving her a heartwarming hug before saying her goodbyes and closing her door.

"Bye!" Hatsumi said, waving to Mrs. Netsuke, closing the door. Now what do I do? Hatsumi thought to herself. I hear the roof is beautiful at early mornings. Hatsumi looked at her watch. Perfect, I've got a couple more minutes until I return to Mom. I think I'll go watch the sun rise. Hatsumi concluded. She then began walking up the stairs to the roof.

After a time that seemed neverending, she finally reached the roof. She took a few more steps outside, breathing in the fresh mist air of morning. Ahh… now this is peaceful. Hatsumi thought to herself.

CLICK. SQUEEAK. CLICK.

"Huh?" Hatsumi turned around, only to find those familiar sharp piercing blue eyes…

RYOKI TACHIBANA! Hatsumi thought to herself, in shock.

"Oh! Hi Hatsumi! Good morning!" Ryoki said sweetly, with a smile that bared all his pearly white teeth.

"U-u-h Oh hi Ryoki. How are you?" Hatsumi asked, being as polite she could. After all this was Ryoki Tachibana, the meanest, cruelest human being on the planet, next to his mother of course.

"Good. Are you enjoying your life?" Ryoki asked.

"It's ok I guess… and you?" Hatsumi replied. 'Is he actually being nice to me!' Hatsumi thought.

"Good. My mother wanted me to go to Pre-Med. So I did. I'm a doctor now." Ryoki sweetly said.

"You seem… different. Did you get a haircut or something?" Hatsumi asked.

"No. Ohhh… I think I know… my personality got a little tweaking. Couldn't you tell?" Ryoki answered. 'Oh my God, he's so different! He's actually nice now!'

"Wow! Unbelievable! I mean, it was good before, not that it wasn't, I mean... no wait, I mean that's good, not that I'm implying anything, and I'm not being rude actuall-"

"Hatsumi, I know. Don't worry." Ryoki interrupted, sweetly, flashing that pearly white smile again.

Hatsumi's heart started beating faster. TUMP THUMP. TUMP THUMP… Oh my god! Not again! She quickly looked down at her watch. Oh shoot. "Uh, Ryoki, sorry for being rude, but I have to go, my mom's expecting me. Sorry, but it was great talking to you… bye." Hatsumi quickly said.

"It's alright. Just to let you know, my mom passed this building on to me, so I'm in charge. You don't have to worry about getting in trouble with her… heh, she's just an old teabag that lady… but neither do you have to worry about your family because of me. Don't worry, I'm not that…evil." Ryoki said with some hesitation on the last word.

"O….k… thanks. Bye!" Hatsumi chirped, before running off to the stairway door and going downstairs…

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"Hatsumi, I don't see why we can't go to that new coffee shop that opened up around the corner. C'mon what's the problem sis?" Akane whined.

"First I'm out of shopping money. Two, coffee's bad for you. Three, we're supposed to go home now!" Hatsumi replied.

"C'mon sis! It'll only take two minutes! I won't have coffee, just a cool ice shake or something pleeease! I'm begging you! I have some cash please?" Akane whined again.

"Fine! Make it quick!" Hatsumi groaned. Then she felt a sudden pull and jolt, as Akane had grabbed her arm and was pulling her towards the coffee shop. Why do I get the feeling I'm going to regret this? Hatsumi wondered.

"HATSUMI! Can I have fifty cents please?" Akane asked.

"Sure… here ya go…" Hatsumi replied, giving Akane the fifty cents asked.

"Ok thanks! OH MY GOD! HI AZUSA! HOW ARE YOU? OH MY GOSH I'VE SEEN YOU IN 'DRACO BLADE', 'FIGHTING HEARTS' AND 'FIRE FLIGHT' YOU WERE AWESOME!" Akane exclaimed to the older man next to her.

'Did… she just say… Azusa?' Hatsumi gulped. She stood there wide-eyed and absolutely shocked.

"Hey, Akane. Thanks! Those were fun to play in. Oh hey Hatsumi! How are ya doing?" Azusa said, flashing his ever-so-hot-gorgeous smile.

"Huh? OH! Hi Azusa…" Hatsumi exclaimed and then all the colour drained from her face. Fear was in her eyes. Apparently she hadn't figured out her feelings for Azusa yet, but she'd thought she would just leave them alone and move on. Far, far, away. Unfortunately, it seemed they had came back to haunt her.

"Heh… guess you're not used to me being a really famous actor, huh? I told you I would be BIG. HUGE. ENORMOUS! I'm A STAR!" Azusa said excitedly, with starry eyes.

"Very funny Azusa. Oh shoot. Akane! You ready? We have to go. I'm sorry Azusa, you sort of caught us at a bad time, and hopefully we'll see you again later. Sorry. Bye!" Hatsumi said, leaving with Akane at the door.

"Ok. Bye!" Azusa said.

"OH MY GOD! IT'S AZUSA! AAAAHHHH! OVER HERE! AZUSA ODAGIRI! AAAHHH!" A girl screamed. Two seconds later, about a million hundred girls came running towards Azusa, who was now outside the coffee shop. There was a huge rumble as he turned around to the screams and calls of his name coming from…a herd of stampeding fan girls!

"OH SHIIIITTT! NOT THEM AGAIN!" Azusa cried out, before running off to his limo that was parked on the street nearby. Fortunately he was quick and was able to get in the limo safely and drive away from the crazy fanatics. 'PHEW! That was too close! So Hatsumi's back again… perfect, now my plan is all set… the only thing I need now, is… Hatsumi.'

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Hey Guys, just wanted to thank you all again for your reviews. Now, as deathsentence wanted me to do...:

HollyWriter: Thanks for your comments, especially about spacing my story all out so it's easier to read. I thank you so much for actually helping me improvise! Now about Shinogu… I like him too because he's a really cool guy. However you can totally expect him everywhere in this fic. And umm.. the cursing thing in public loudly? Well I do that A LOT (Well since I'm deaf I can't hear my voice and well, it's hard to keep it at a good tone) and well I just wound up embarrassing myself everytime I talk too loudly in public. It's good you like it too in this fic.

Dawbygirl: I know you wanted Ryoki and I know I promised you. Well… he's here, and believe me, he'll be everywhere:)