Chapter 3
Neptune took me almost everywhere, we went to different arcades, a few restaurants and the park she brought me down to the park again, she decided that since it was a nice day, that we go and spend some more time in the park. I couldn't blame her though, the park was a nice place and their were no storm clouds in sight, we sat down near the bench close to the lake,
"Hey, Hikan?" she said with a concerned look,
"Yeah?" I replied, looking at her
"Why are you not smiling? Are you not having fun with me..." she said with sad eyes
"No, I'm having fun, It's hard for me to express emotions from time to time." I said, she looked at me in the eyes,
"Why?" she replied while holding my hands,
"I... can't say, it'll kill the mood." I replied,
"I still want to know." this girl doesn't give up, but I guess I can tell her,
"Alright, but don't say I didn't warn you." I said, this is gonna kill the mood so fast
"Hikan... *hic* I'm... so sorry." Neptune said while clinging to me, she was crying and my shirt was becoming drenched in tears,
"I warned you... I said that it would kill the mood." I told her what happened to me in the past, about me being a "mistake" of being born, I never learned how to express emotions, so I always thought that I didn't have too.
"Hikan... I'm so sorry." she said, she also looked up at me with her puffy purple eyes,
"Don't worry, we're here to have fun, and that's what we're going to do." I said, giving her a pat on the head,
"*sniff*... yeah." she gave me a smile to signal that she's okay,
"Now, what else is there to-"
"There you are, Nep-Nep!" I heard a voice say, I turned around to see a girl, she had strawberry blonde hair, she also had a black head piece with a heart on it, big orange eyes, a marshmallow colored sweater with her shoulders exposed, a belt with the same heart symbol like her headpiece, a red checkered skirt and some marshmallow colored boots, she was also pretty "big" in another area, but I can't even force myself to say it, and she apparently knew Neptune,
"Compa! I missed you!" Neptune said running into her arms,
"So, I guess you two know each other." I stated, walking up to the girl called "Compa" "I'm Hikan, nice to meet you." I stuck out my hand
"Nice to meet you too!" she said with a smile and shook my hand. "were you the one taking care of Nep-Nep?" she asked
"You mean Neptune? I guess you can say that." I said,
"That's good at least, Nep-Nep, you know you're not supposed to go to far from your nurse!" she scolded,
"Sorry, I was just hungry for pudding and since you said you couldn't make any, I decided to go and find some myself." Neptune said as she stuck her tongue out
"You need to be more careful, you may have not fully recovered from falling out of the sky and-"
"Wait, fell out of the sky? What are you talking about?" I interrupted, they both looked at me,
"oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that, Well I kinda, sorta fell from the sky." Neptune said, she's just teasing me right?
"yeah, that's how me and Nep-Nep met." Compa said, they both planned this right?
"I also apparently lost my memory." Neptune also added, joke's over right?
"Uhh, it's a joke right?" I said, "it seems a little hard to believe, to be honest."
"I know that, but it's true! C'mon Hikan you have to believe me!" Neptune yelled and clung onto me again.
"Hey! get off of me!" I yelled in surprise, she does this way to often
"Not until you say you believe me!" she yelled back
"Alright, I believe you! So stop clinging to me like that!" I said, trying to pull Neptune off of me, Compa just smiled
"You two sure get along great!" she said,
All three of us stayed in the park almost the whole day, just messing around and having fun, I showed Neptune how to fish, because apparently she never went fishing before, but I guess since she lost her memory I kinda understand why, anyway, it was nighttime when we were walking back to Compa's house, that's where Neptune lives, besides I couldn't let two girls walk home by themselves in the dark, especially with that biker guy walking about, I hope I don't run into him on my way back home, also Neptune fell asleep, so I had to carry her back, she barely weighed anything at all too, which kind of surprised me, due to all the food she eats, while I was thinking, Compa tugged on my arm,
"Hikan, thank you for taking care of Nep-Nep for me." she said,
"I didn't even mean too, she kinda followed me back to my house, because it was too dark to go back to your house, I guess." I replied and Compa smiled at me, Neptune also tightened her grip and snuggled up next to me even more,
"Nep-Nep seems to be really happy being with you too!" Compa said excited,
"Yeah, she does." I said with a smile, she might be the change I needed too, as we were talking Compa pointed to a house and said that it was her's. We went inside and I sat Neptune down on the couch,
"Hikan, are you staying here for tonight?" Compa asked,
"Unfortunately, no, I need to get back home myself." I said, Compa frowned
"Aww, that's too bad, I'm sure Nep-Nep would love if you stayed." she replied
"Don't worry, I'll be back tomorrow." I reassured her, her frown turned into a smile
"Okay! I'll see you tomorrow then!" she said
"Yeah. See ya tomorrow." I turned towards the door, but I was stopped by someone grabbing my hand, I turned around to see it was Neptune, she was smiling and blushing,
"Hikan, are you sure you don't want to stay the night?" she said, she was still half-asleep, I could tell
"Neptune, I would love too, but I need to get back home, but I promise I'll be up here tomorrow." I told her, she got up and hugged me,
"I'll see you tomorrow then." she stated before falling back onto the couch again, I ain't gonna lie, this girl can be childish and a tease, but at times like this, she can be really cute.
I walked towards the door again, opened it, and walked out of the house, and started towards my own house, Neptune... that girl is something different alright, but she has fun with me and I have fun with her, not only that, she can make me smile, something I never thought I could do again. Maybe it's a good thing that I met her, she could possibly fill my life with the things I never had a chance to start with. As I was thinking to myself, I immediatly snapped back to reality, due to a certain smell, that smell... could it be... a fire?
"...!" No. No. No. I rushed over towards my house, when I turned the corner, there was a sight to see, my house was on fire, the flames were huge, there was nothing I could do to stop it, Then a sudden pain came into my head, that pain soon became a throbbing headache, I fell to my knees clutching my throbbing skull, this was the worst pain I ever felt, I started to see images, fire. Fire everywhere, as far as the eye could see, fire. this pain was too much,
"AGGH!" I yelled a scream in pain, what was going on?! I can't take this anymore?! Someone help!
I heard footsteps behind me, I tried my best to standup, but couldn't, all I could do was sit there, the footsteps stopped behind me and I felt two hands on my shoulders, they forced me to turn around and hold me in place, it was two bikers that had the same jackets as the one biker had on that one day, but that same biker walked up in front of me, they must all be in a gang or something.
"Told you, you messed up kid." the biker in front of me said, he pulled out a lead pipe "Now it's time for revenge!" he yelled and smacked me upside the head with it, the pain in my head, combined with the blunt hit from the lead pipe, I thought I was going to die, he kept smacking me everywhere with the lead pipe, I felt every part of me being broken at once, this pain I was something no-one should ever feel. I felt blood trickle down my head, this was the worst.
"Hey! What's going on over there!" I heard a voice yell
"Shit! Boss that's the cops, Screw the kid we're out!" the two goons released their hold on me and ran off, the "Boss" also ran off with them, leaving me alone in a bloody mess.
"Fire! call a Firetruck and an ambulance! Hurry!" one of the cops said, my hearing and vision became fuzzy, all i heard was "Everything's gonna be alright." and I felt someone lift me up, I also heard sirens in the distance, soon a fire truck came up and started putting the fire out, and paramedics came up to me and started working on me, before I was put into the ambulance, I swore that I saw someone up on a building smiling, but I ended up passing out.
A/N: welp, that was a long chapter, but this chapter was used to advance Nep and Hikan's relationship a bit and to introduce Compa, also this takes place in Re;Birth 1, if any of you are wondering, and also, yes this will be a Harem story, but i wanted to ask if you guys like longer chapters like this or shorter chapters? let me know, either by review or PM, that's all i got to say, and i hope to see ya in the next chapter!
