A New Friend

After practice, Valic ran over to his friends "Hey, guys" he said once he got to them "How 'bout we go get something to eat after I change?" they all agreed and watched Valic run off to the locker room. Once Valic walked inside we went to his locker and got out his clothes then walked over to the showers. After a few minutes he got out, dried off, changed and started walking to the exit. "Hey, Valic, come on or we're leaving with out you!" yelled Maruku off in the distance. Valic started running off towards his friends. "Oh, I almost forgot!" said Kiki once Valic caught up to them "I want you all to meet an old friend of mine, he's back in my dorm room, he might want to get something to eat as well."

So every one followed Kiki to her dorm room and as she opened the door, they all heard a yell of excitement. "KIKI, YOUR BACK!" yelled Hideki jumping into Kiki's arms. "Hi, Hideki, I wanted you to meet my new friends!" said Kiki turning to let Hideki see her friends. "This is, Serena, Kaori, Maruku and Valic!" she said pointing to each person when she said their names. "Hi, I'm Hideki!" said Hideki giving a slight wave to every one "I'm Kiki's childhood friend." "Cool, how did you two meet?" asked Serena who looked really interested in Kiki's friend. "He'll tell you all about it while we eat" said Kiki "I'm really hungry," Kiki's stomach started to grumble. Every one laughed and they all started walking down stairs. "Hey, Hideki" started Kaori "It takes about thirty minutes to get to the pizzeria, could we use your teleport thing?" "Oh, sure, I totally forgot about it!" Serena, Valic and Maruku looked at each other confused. "Here, every one grab hands" instructed Hideki.

They all grabbed each other's hands and waited. Valic, Serena and Maruku looked as if they were going to laugh at the stupid idea. But then all of the sudden their feet left the ground, their heads started spinning and they felt like they were going through a small pipe. Kiki quickly went unconscious, Kaori was trying her hardest to stay awake, Valic was also trying very hard to stay awake, Serena had already went unconscious and Maruku was perfectly fine and he had no clue why the others were having such a hard time. Hideki looked at Maruku wondering how in the world a human could with stand the intense power of teleporting.

Then as soon as it came the feeling stopped and they were back on the ground. "What the heck was that?" asked Valic falling to his knees in pain and gripping his head. Kiki and Serena fell to the ground unconscious, Maruku stood above Valic like nothing had happened. "Once I get these guys awake, we can go eat!" said Hideki "But I think we should get a cab next time." Hideki leaned over Kiki, laid his hands on her forehead and then let go. Then he moved over to Serena and did the same thing. "I'll go get us a table," said Maruku leaving every one to Hideki. "I'll come too," said Kaori standing up to follow Maruku "Come on Valic, your coming too." The three walked off with Valic being dragged behind by Kaori, Hideki grinned and leaned back on his arms. "Hideki?" asked Serena who had just woken up. "Oh, I see you woke up, that was fast," said Hideki looking down at Serena. "What happened?" asked Serena rubbing her head. "I'll tell you all when we get inside, now we are just waiting on Kiki, who takes a while to wake up," said Hideki standing up and holding out a hand to Serena. Serena took Hideki's hand and she stood up, it wasn't long when she started to stumble and she fell.

Hideki grabbed her in his arms and they both fell to the ground with Hideki on the bottom "Careful, you don't want to get hurt." "Thank you" said Serena quickly getting off. "What are you guys doing?" said Kiki who had just woken up and was looking at her two friends. "I fell and he caught me," said Serena starting to go bright red, Hideki sat up to see that Kiki was looking a little strange. "Oh, okay!" said Kiki, smiling her wide smile and standing up "lets go get something to eat, okay?" She helped Serena up and started to walk off. Hideki got up and followed right behind.

"Over here, guys!" said Kaori who was sitting on the far end of the pizzeria with Maruku and Valic. Kiki, Serena and Hideki went over to where they were and sat down. Serena sat next to Maruku and Kiki sat in between Hideki and Valic. A waitress came over to the table were they were and took every one's orders. "Hideki, can you tell us how you did that thing now?" asked Kaori. "You mean teleporting?" said Hideki "yeah, I can tell you guys now." Every one got a little closer, except for Kiki who already knew every thing. "I'm going to the bathroom, I'll be right back" she said getting up and walking to the restroom's.

"Okay, I'll start from the beginning, how I met Kiki" started Hideki "You see, I'm an angel and when I was little I would visit this little garden every afternoon. One day I was walking around the garden and I heard some one crying. I looked to see who it was and I saw a little girl curled up in a ball under a large sunflower. I went up to this girl and I asked her why she was crying. She said that her father was hurting her and that she was scared and came here to hide. I felt really sorry for her and I sat down next to her. I asked for her name and she said it was Kiki." The whole group gasped "Kiki was hurt?" asked Valic. "Yes and that's not all," Hideki went on.

"You see, when an angel meets a person in trouble we automatically become their guardian angel. So now I was her guardian angel and I had to watch over her for the rest of her life. So, when I heard her father was hurting her, I had to step in and get her away from him. When Kiki wasn't home I went to her father and made him confess to the police. After that I followed Kiki to each one of her foster homes to make sure she was okay. I haven't seen her latest home yet, all I know is that it's a permanent home." "Okay I understand why you two are so close, but you said that you needed to stay and hide for some time, why?" asked Kaori. "Well, me and Kiki met when we were only about five years old" started Hideki.

"When I was born my parents made a deal with a really powerful family of angels and they made an arranged marriage between the daughter, of said family, and me. I grew up knowing who my wife was going to be and I never knew what real love was. But as the years went by I finely realized that I loved Kiki like a little sister and I never want to leave her side. And so now I know that I can't marry the person that I've been assigned to marry. So I'm hiding from her and the rest of heaven." "I get it now, you know you can trust Kiki not to say anything and at the same time you can watch over her!" said Maruku under standing what Hideki was trying to say.

After a few minutes Kiki came back and every one's food was served. "So were are you going to stay while your hiding?" asked Valic with a mouth full of pizza. "I'm staying in Kiki's dorm room," replied Hideki a little grossed out by the sight of chewed up food. Valic froze, dropped his pizza and stared at Hideki. "I don't think that is the best idea," said Serena finely jumping into the conversation. "But, it's the only place I can stay, you all are the only one's that know I'm here and Kiki is the only one that has a dorm room to herself." "I think it should be okay if he stays with Kiki," said Kaori, every one was shocked. "WHY WOULD IT BE OKAY IF HE…" started Valic and pointed at Hideki "...SLEPPED IN KIKI'S ROOM!" "Sounds to me like your jealous," said Hideki with a smirk "I'M NOT JEALOUS," he screamed "IT'S JUST NOT RIGHT!" Maruku slapped his head, he grabbed Valic's ear and dragged him to another table "Sit," he said and he patted Valic like a puppy. Valic groaned in not only humiliation but in frustration as well. "As I was saying, I think it would be best if Hideki stayed with Kiki because one, she is the only one with her own room and if he stayed with Valic and Maruku it would be very cramped, two, because no one would expect that Kiki would be hiding something," said Kaori then took a breath "and three, because it would be a chance for them to bond a little more."

Valic looked disgusted at what Kaori just said, Maruku looked at him and shook his head "What a perverted little mind you have, Valic" he smirked. Maruku knew that Valic had a small crush on Kiki and liked to pick on him, so did Hideki but in a completely different way then Maruku did. All the girls giggled at Maruku, Hideki grinned and Valic went in an uproar. "I HAVE A PERVERTED MIND?" he yelled standing up from his chair "YOU'RE THE ONE THAT THINKS I'M THINKING THAT!" "That doesn't even make sense," said Maruku turning to the others and completely ignoring Valic.

Once every one got finished and things settled down a little, they left the pizzeria. "Well, what do you guys want to do now?" asked Serena "It's 8:00 now and curfew isn't till 9:00." "How about we get some home work done?" said Kaori. No one wanted to do any homework but they knew that they had to do it. They walked through the large doorway that leads to the inside of the school. "Well, I'm going to take Kaori's advice and do my homework," said Maruku and he walked up the staircase and turned the corner and went out of sight. "I guess I might as well go too," said Kaori "Serena, you coming?" "I'll be there in a minute, I want to look around a little," replied Serena and she walked off farther down the hall and disappearing into the shadows. Kaori shrugged and walked up the stairs to her dorm room. The only ones that were left was Hideki, Kiki and Valic "Well, um…" started Valic not sure if he should ask Kiki if she wanted to study with him or not. Kiki yawned "I think I'm going to finish my homework tomorrow," said Kiki "I'm going to bed." Hideki's face lit up; it was the perfect timing to pick on Valic.

"Well, I'll walk you to your room, then," said Valic not even noticing Hideki's reaction. "Okie!" said Kiki and she walked up the staircase, Valic was half way up when Kiki looked down and smiled at him, his face went red "Come on lover boy" smirked Hideki who was standing right behind Valic. Once Valic, Kiki and Hideki reached dorm room Kiki unlocked the door and let her and Hideki in. "Oh, I only got one bed, so we're going to have to share it," said Kiki not knowing that what she was saying was not only inappropriate but also a little awkward. "HOLD ON THERE!" yelled Valic "THERE AIN'T NO WAY THAT GUY'S SHARING A BED WITH YOU!" Some of the other student had woken up and was looking to see what all the noise was about. "Would you shut up!" said Hideki covering Valic's mouth "You're going to wake every one up!"

Kiki was taking out her pajamas when she saw that Valic and Hideki were still talking "You're still here Valic?" she asked. Valic tried to respond but Hideki's hand was muffling up his words. "Well, you can come in if you want, I'm going to go take a shower and change, I'll be right back" she said and she walked into the bathroom. Valic's face went bright cheery red "Woah, Maruku's right, you really are perverted!" Said Hideki as he was pushing Valic away from the door "See ya tomorrow!" she said and closed the door on Valic. Valic was so angry and embarrassed that he couldn't stand it, by now all the students in the hall had come out to see what was happening and even some from other floors were watching. Valic had no choice, he had to go back to his room and forget about the whole thing. He walked into his room and he was surprised to see that Kaori was there. "OH COME ON!" yelled Valic, Maruku slapped his head "I'm helping her with her homework genius," he said. "Oh, It's okay!" said Kaori standing up "I think I know how to do it now, thanks!" she picked up her books and walked out of the room. "I'm guessing by all the noise out side that you lost your temper?" asked Maruku smirking. Valic didn't even answer; he just jumped into bed and fell asleep.

On the first floor Serena was still wondering the halls, stopping only to look at some of the pictures on the wall. When Serena went up to the last picture in the hall she gasped it was a picture of a boy with gray mid length hair and was wearing nothing but gray and black. He had piercing black eyes and a crow resting on his hand. It was taken about 200 years ago and was a picture of Mark.

(A/N:) Well now we know why Hideki's here and how him and Kiki met I thought it was such a cute story, don't you? anyways I thought it was funny how Valic's being VERY protective of Kiki. Um, not much else to tell you... so just read the next chapter!

Peace out,

Kirie