p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"So it was really stupid. Foolish. Idiotic. And not useful at all! br /There was this thing that made the life uncertain for any girl at fourteen. Fiding her soulmate. The blond girl dreamed about it since she was four. Naru and others always sat together. The sun would shine and they would smile brightly and fantasise. What words could be possibly the first memorable dialogue between them and their future partners./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"Just like they did a few months ago. When her 14 year old life was still normal and nothing and no one tried to suck the energy from Tokyo for some evil witch./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"- You'll probably ask for directions to a place where your first date's going to be!/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-I wish for it to be something personal. Mused Naru while putting a hand under her chin and turning slowly to her best /-And You Usagi-chan?br /At this the blonde got dreamy. And replied loudly./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-When I get the words on my arms I'll just show them to him and then we'll share our first kiss! I'm shure that mine words will be soooo cool. The blonde wrapped her arms around her abdomen. It'll be perfect. I know it./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-Hmm. I don't know. You eat so much. Maybe your first meaningful conversation would be about food! That would be funny./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"Usagi got red. And actually she let that thought cross her mind before./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-Don't even say that. It'll be romantic for shure!/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"But Noriko just sniggered and whispered through barely open mouth./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-Yeah stomach to heart likely./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-Noriko!/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"Funny? That would be horrible Noriko! - explained Naru The one person standing by Usagi at all times. Nothing could ever change that. Of this the two friends were certain. Yet the chat went on and the two wanted to ask about soul mate real life stories from their junior high./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"But the group of girls switched to tests./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-I hate tests./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"- So you had better study. English one is next!/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"And the loud chatting and laughing and (fake) screaming got boys' attention/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-What are you talking about here?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"Oh luckily it was only Umino. And unluckily for Usagi. She really didn't want to talk about it with him. He was charmed with her too deeply to notice that Usagi had wanted nothing to do with him. Nothing but classmate relationship./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"This talk was a fortnight ago. But it still replayed itself in her head. Every information about soulmates did./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"And it was all so wrong. Because this could even end not being that person. There must be some doubt right? But no. Usagi even asked her father about it and Mokito, even miss Haruna… They all told her the same thing. There are no mistakes. But hers had to be one. There is no way. None in the world for her future boyfriend… she did not dare think further./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-Mom what happenes when you get your words?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-You get to know from them who your special other is. But sometimes it takes some time. Me and Papa could not find out until we went swimming with friends and saw each other's arms. And the dreamy look on her mother's face turned into a bit more realistic mother face./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"It happened 4 months after we found words engraved into our skin. Is there a reason you ask? Your arm itched last week during dinner… Do you want me to look?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"And at that moment Shingo had to burst in and yell/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-It's probably hives or... It may say"Study more meatball head"!/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-No! It does not!/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-Yeah, I forgot last friday it changed to "Are you stupid or…/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-Usagi don;t suffocate your brother! Honey what is going on in here!/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"And Usagi had to take her hand from Shingo's mouth. Her mother was positively surprised at that speed but still/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-Usagi let go of Shingo, Shingo don't lie so rudely./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"And hesistantly Usagi did and looked down. She knew Shingo enough. He had a mean proud of himself expression of the person who is about to tell a story of the day. But waited for Father to take the cloak off and walk towards them. Usagi heard the steps getting closer and braced her heart./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-What did Usagi get her marks so fast?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"Even father was interested./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"And Shingo had to share this amusing information. With shame Usagi waited for him to breathe again and control his laughter as he exclaimed./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-She did! And it's still changing. Last time it said "Study harder meatball head" and now it is calling sis stupid./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"From under her fringe Usagi saw the buffled looks from her parents before her mother gently spoke./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-Usagi…/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"And Usagi expected her to yell and say how she always told her to do so. Her soulmate thought her stupid. It did not matter what she felt towards him. Even when it was annoyment the words etched on her skin itched. So another rude remark was on its way. Tears slowly broke through her self resolve./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"-Usagi... And she cried openly now./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"Just as her mother wanted to embrace her daughter Usagi flinched away as she spotted that even her father was amused./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"I should have been better./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"But why him?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"And those thoughts were so unwelcome that she decidet to shake them away. And she run forward. Not hearing the "Usagi wait's" from her family she left home and run further the road, other people and pavement nothing but a blur. As she felt the sobbing wearing her down she stopped and found herself at the Arcade. Her arm stinging./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"Usagi span style="text-decoration: none;"chan? Hey, what's wrong Usagi chan?/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"-It was Mokito./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"So as he took her inside and offered free milkshake sample. Double chocolate with marshmallow rabbits./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"She took it without a second thought./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"Some time passed. It was minutes but when one's said the time feels like heavy stones rolling down the straight road. It's rolling/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"down a muddy hill so it was not really bothering her when Mokito served other customers and made jokes with them while keeping/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"an eye on her. And finally took time to talk to her after 20 minutes. She had finished her second milkshake somehow and realized/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"surprised that she has no idea when did Mokito actually switch the empty glass to a full one. She wasn't paying that much attention/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"and now felt slightly off because of this./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"Finally after having served every customer at the arcade Mokito approached her with a bright smile./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"-Feeling better?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"Silent nod was enough to make everyone who knew Usagi wonder so he did not stop there and inquired./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"-Was it school?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"And at this Usagi made a stupid mistake and grabbed her arms tightly and brought them in curling in herself. Her face showed signs/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"of being either frightened or in state of painful surrender./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"-So a mark then. First ones tend to be confusing. Some of them are really weird. Don't worry. It takes time for them to change into/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"something meaningful. Well It's not like if you have something stupid on your arm right now, that it would stay this way. Give it some/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"time./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"-But once he knows it will set. So watch it Matball head./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"-Mamoru./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"Mokito warned./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"- And Usagi just looked at him coldly and spat./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="text-decoration: none;"-It's all your f/spanspan style="text-decoration: none;"a/spanspan style="text-decoration: none;"ult./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"Instead of playing mind games she put on her childful side like an old armour./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"Showed him her tongue threw a coin to the tip bin on Mokito's corner with style and left the arcade./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="text-decoration: none;"Let him thin/spanspan style="text-decoration: none;"k/spanspan style="text-decoration: none;" what he will. /span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="text-decoration: none;"-Hey, Mamoru, d/spanspan style="text-decoration: none;"id you say something mean to her in front of someone?/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="text-decoration: none;"-Huh./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="text-decoration: none;"Mamoru actually looked kinda off. Meatballhead didn't usually just storm off like that. Not with that much focused willpower radiating /span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="text-decoration: none;"form her anyway. It was almost... graceful. Though truth to be told this term did not suit that kid./span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"She grabbed her arm maybe her soulmate was nearby and joined in the conversation you two had that one time?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"And Mamoru barely stopped himself from grabbing his own arm. It was not impossible but the possibility of him and her being... No,/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"too unlikely. So meatball head got someone? What he thought about Usagi was not emhis/em problem./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"-It's not my fault if he heard us argue and thought something not pleasant to her./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"And Usagi went home and talked to her Mother. It turns out that what you wrote with a marker or paint would appear on your/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"partner's too. Maybe it was time for a conversation./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"If his remarks show on her arm than… Hers would too!/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"Not like they did. But at least now she knew why her hands could not wash away the ink from her fingertips at times. He wrote/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"notes. A lot. Maybe he was a student too. He's probably the type to study a lot. Or he might already be working. What if he is an/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"English teacher? Usagi shudderred at the thought./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"em Let it not be a teacher, please. /em/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"let it not be a stupid know it all either... And she trully felt guilty for Umino's face flashing through her mind the moment she thought/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;"that. He was ok, but not a good match for her. She could not live with someone like him br /br / emNot him! Anyone but Umino!/em/p