Hey, guys, I'm back, I'm going to be busy from now until school starts (stupid violin auditions…) so the updates may have to wait a little while longer from now on. Sorry about this! And, by the way, I'm going to mix in just a little bit of Japanese. I personally think that it's sometimes annoying, but, yeah. It's just natural P

Disclaimer: I do not own Fullmoon Wo Sagashite or any of its characters. I do own this story and plot.

Chapter II: Remember the Past

"…and then, the bunny plushy came to life, and it was Meroko. She disappeared with you, and she became a tenshi. She led me to you, and I found you holding that feather, probably one that she gave you. And I found you alive, and you…know what happened, uh, next…" Mitsuki's already-hoarse voice trailed off. She was thinking about the day he had not known who she was at all, and how she ran away crying. "Takuto…you okay?" she suddenly asked with concern.

Takuto didn't reply. He hadn't moved a muscle throughout the entire narration, and he still did not move in any way. He sat there, staring at them with unseeing eyes, arms crossed across his chest, face blank and stony, growing more so with each minute of the story.

"Oh! Mitsuki-chan, I have to go. I have another patient to attend to, and…" Wakaouji trailed off, noticing Mitsuki waving her hand in front of Takuto's face in an attempt to get him to respond. He hurried out of the room and shut the door.

Takuto slowly got up and out of the bed. Mitsuki backed away hurriedly, and after a good deal of thinking, he said to Mitsuki, "You don't really expect me to believe that…do you? It's just a fairy tale…just a fairy tale. If I died, then why am I alive right now?"

Mitsuki's bottom lip trembled and her voice quavered slightly as she replied, "That's the part only Meroko knows. You two, well, sort of disappeared after the Last Concert. That's what everyone's calling it now…GYAAAAAAAH! Meroko, don't do that, baka!" she suddenly screamed, flapping her arms wildly in search of Meroko.

Ouch! Mitsuki, don't hit me, Mitsuki heard in her mind. Mitsuki felt something under her hand and she tugged on Meroko's arm, trying to make her visible to Takuto. He was staring at Mitsuki like she went crazy.

"Who are you talking to?" he asked, looking around warily. He poked whatever was in Mitsuki's hand cautiously and recoiled when he felt something solid there. "Yaaaaagh! What was THAT!" he yelled, looking at the now-visible swirling fog clasped tightly in her hand.

"Meroko, can't you become visible to us humans?" Mitsuki sighed as she pulled the tenshi to where Takuto was standing.

Meroko nodded. "Yes, I can, but not fully. I'll just be a vague outline to them, unless Takuto remembers me, that is," she added quickly. Takuto just stared at the mist and fog, now solidifying into a solid form.

Izumi flew in, and upon seeing Takuto and Mitsuki, Takuto's mouth hanging open, looking quite stupid, and Mitsuki trying to pull Meroko over, he started to laugh. Mitsuki looked up at him in surprise; both because he was now a tenshi (in case you don't know or somehow haven't figured out yet, 'tenshi' means 'angel') and because it wasn't a cold, humorless laugh that she was accustomed to; it was genuine, happy and filled with life.

"Izumi-kun! I thought you were a Shinigami! Why are you an angel, what happened, where's Jonathon, and—Mmmmhffff!"

Mitsuki was cut off from her oceans of questions when Izumi placed his hand over her mouth and lifted her into the air. Takuto just stared, mouth even wider now. He saw Mitsuki being lifted up by swirling mists and fog, and then he noticed another figure in the room, suddenly there.

"Uh…excuse me, are you 'Meroko'?" he asked the pink-haired figure, poking her out of curiosity.

Meroko jumped and screamed, "Yaaaaaaaaaaah! Don't do that, Takuto!" and flew to the opposite side of the room. Izumi looked at Takuto, accidentally dropping Mitsuki onto Takuto, where her face turned beet red and his face turned slightly pink.

"You can see us, Takuto?" he asked. He waited for a response for a couple minutes, then he turned to Meroko.

"Well, he can see me, but that's because he remembers me as an angel…he doesn't know that you're an angel, so…"

Takuto watched as Meroko talked to the swirling fog, now also solidifying into some human shape. He held Mitsuki tighter without meaning to, making Mitsuki splutter and gasp for air after a while, her face going even more red, if possible, with a tinge of blue, pulling at him to try to get him to loosen from his now-death-grip-hug-type-thing on her.

Takuto immediately loosened his grip, muttering an apology.

"Izumi-kun, this is Takuto…"

"I know that, duh! During his Shinigami time…"

"So? Now he's human, so I thought I'd introduce you to him…"

"Why, so I can be friends with him!" Izumi yelled, his face expression comical.

Mitsuki slid out of Takuto's lap and grabbed Izumi. "Hey, Izumi-kun, why are you an angel now? I thought you were a Shinigami," she said, trying to pull Izumi down from the hovering state he was in.

"Gah, stop that! Okay, long time no see, Mi-ki, now let go of me!" he yelled. He said, "Portupiri!" and both he and Meroko vanished.

Takuto looked to Mitsuki. "I think I believe you now." He couldn't explain the feeling, but he was somewhat…attached…to her. He decided to not mention it to her.

Takuto went to Mitsuki's high school to apply for enrollment there. He was missing for two years, and he rarely went to school before because of his throat and because he was in Route L., so he put himself in the same grade as Mitsuki was in.

After winter break, Takuto went to school with Mitsuki, and as soon as he walked into the classroom, the squeals of overexcited girls reached him. Takuto stopped dead; there were so many girls, it looked like half the school was there.

"He is so cute!"

"Wow, is this the new guy? He's cute!"

"I'm going to ask him out to the New Year's dance!"

"Omigosh! Look, it's Takuto! The cutest guy in Japan!"

"Can I have your autograph?"

"Do you have a girlfriend?" (Takuto went red.)

"Do you want to go out with me?"

Mitsuki walked in behind Takuto, also hearing the squeals. They were loud. Takuto was so red in the face that he looked like a beet head. Mitsuki grabbed Takuto's hand to pull him to their homeroom when she was jumped by half the girls. They pummeled her and they were all yelling angrily.

"Get off of my Takuto!"

"What are you doing? Takuto's my cutie pie!"

"Get off of him!"

"You'll pay for that, you know! He's MINE!"

This went on for some time, until Takuto couldn't take it anymore. He yelled, "Stop it!" and the girls immediately left Mitsuki, clinging onto Takuto, where their many screams of "Go out with me!" began again (yeah, poor guy, huh?). Takuto shot a sideways glance at Mitsuki and saw her covered with bruises, scratches, and welts, her head lolled to one side from a harsh beating on her neck. She was also unconscious.

As soon as Takuto took a step, all the girls crowded in front of him, blocking him off from Mitsuki. He yelled angrily, "Get out of the way, you stupid, stuck-up snobs!"

The girls all jumped out of the way as Takuto walked as fast as he could to Mitsuki. The girls then started gossiping about who the brown-haired thirteen-year-old was, and why Takuto cared about her so much.

Takuto picked her up gently, and, hugging her tightly to his chest to prevent another massacre on her, strode briskly to the health room.

All the girls that had jumped him before started to disperse, and many of them were worried that Takuto already had a girlfriend and that he liked Mitsuki. Half of them vowed that nothing was going to stand in their way from Takuto.

Nothing.

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Yeah, poor Takuto, huh? It's his first day there and he's already being mobbed by all those girls. Well, I would, too, but I wouldn't attack Mitsuki.

Well, anyways, hope you liked this chapter, it'll be one of the last I write before the school year starts.