The Love that Transcends a Thousand Years

--By sukishippo

Disclaimer: I do not own Hikaru no Go, but Yumi Hotta does. Sad….

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Chapter 4:

"Touya!" Hikaru exclaimed as he suddenly sat up straight, his sleepiness gone, when he noticed that it was the real Akira who was in front of him.

Hikaru's sudden action caused Akira to take a step back quickly, as to prevent from colliding with Hikaru's head. But as he moved back, he felt Hikaru's warm breath on his cheek, causing him to blush sightly. Akira quickly composed himself and focused back onto Hikaru's face.

"What have you been dreaming about?" Akira asked. He couldn't help himself but to ask Hikaru what his dream was about. He was curious to know why Hikaru had called him by his first name in his dream.

"Errr…nooothing in particular……haha……" Hikaru laughed uncomfortably as he tried to avoid Akira's eyes. Hikaru couldn't help but lie as it isn't an everyday thing to do to tell your friend that you had a dream about him/her.

Akira could clearly see that Hikaru was lying but did not expose him. He then sat down beside Hikaru and opened the bento that his mother had made for him.

"What do you have there today?" Hikaru inquired. This is because Akira's mother, Touya san, always makes different kinds of delicious food everyday. Even Hikaru, who self pro-claimed that he only love ramen, was enticed by the food, and would occasionally find chances to take a bite from it.

"Why do you ask?" Akira said while looking at him with suspicion in his eyes, as he knows from previous encounters that Hikaru would try to steal his food.

"Well…I am just asking. You don't need to be so mean about it" Hikaru pouted while looking longingly at Akira's bento. 'It is prawn Tempura!!! How I wish I can eat it!!!'

Hikaru then forced himself to look way and took a magnetic Go board and his bento out from his bag.

"Well, we should continue our previous game." Hikaru said as he placed the stones out onto the board from his memory.

"Ok." Akira said as he got into his game mood (I can't find a better way to say it :p) as he leave his bento aside.

Soon their bentos lay forgotten as they continued playing their game with fervour.

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"I lose again!!! By yet another one moku!!!" Hikaru cried out as he waved his arms in frustration.

Akira was still looking at the board, analysing the game with his full concentration, when Hikaru noticed Akira's abandoned bento.

'Time to get back at him.' Hikaru thought with a smirk on his face as his hand shot out quickly and grabbed a Tempura from Akira's bento.

"Got it!" Hikaru yelled in triumph as he managed to steal the food and jumped out from the bench, away from Akira.

Akira was snapped back from his deep thought by Hikaru's loud exclamation, and managed to see Hikaru standing a few steps away from him eating His Tempura.

"Why you!!!" Akira yelled angrily as he took off from the bench and started chasing Hikaru around to try to get his revenge.

Soon, they flopped down on the bench with tiredness as they could not run anymore. They looked at each other for a moment and started to laugh at their childishness.

"Ha ha ha!!! We are really acting like a bunch of young kids." Hikaru said with laughter in his eyes as he faced Akira.

Akira just looked at Hikaru's face and smiled, when he noticed Hikaru's flushed face.

'What rosy cheek! Very delectable! How I want a bite from it…' Akira thought as he stared at Hikaru's face.

'NOOO!!!! I cannot think like this again. Hikaru's just a friend!!!' Akira reprimanded himself.

'But do you really think so?'

Akira felt a twinge in his heart as he knew that the answer was there a long time ago.

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Hikaru looked at Akira and noticed that he was spacing out. Hikaru tried to get his attention by waving his hand in front of Akira's face.

"Hey Akira! Earth to Akira!" Hikaru practically yelled at Akira's ear after his failed attempt to get his attention.

Akira got out from his thoughts to notice that Hikaru was leaning very close to him, which caused him to blush and his feelings all mixed up again. 'I really need to get away from Hikaru now, he is really messing me and my brain up.'

Akira stood up abruptly which caused Hikaru to move back quickly.

"I err… just remembered that I still have something to do. It's really important… so ya…bye!" Akira said as he walked briskly away. Too occupied to get away, Akira left his unpacked bento and a befuddled Hikaru behind.

'Did I done something wrong?' Hikaru thought with a frown on his forehead as he started to pack Akira's and his bento up.

"Arghh!!! Forget it, I really don't know what he is thinking sometimes." Hikaru said exasperatedly.

Almost immediately, he grinned evilly as he looked at Akira's bento and said: "But, I do know I can have delicious food for free!"

Hikaru picked up a tempura and popped it in his mouth with a satisfied smile. "Hhmmm! It really is delicious, too bad for Akira."

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Hikaru had gotten home straight after school, sick and tired, as he suddenly had a tremendous headache since his break was over.

He slowly put his bag down and walked towards the phone.

He barely had the strength to call the Go Association to inform them that he would not be doing any Go tutoring this day as he was sick, but call he must, as it is his duty and job to do so.

After informing the Association, Hikaru then used the last of his energy to get to his room, and flung himself onto his bed before falling into unconsciousness.

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'Hikaru, Hikaru… can you hear me?'

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Author's Note:

Hehe, it is really evil of me to leave you all in suspense… or not… (As maybe some of you might had already guess who is talking at the end.)

Also, did you realise that I kept writing about food!!! I guess I was hungry while writing this chapter ( I want to eat Jap food!!!). And in the end made Hikaru looked and sounded like a glutton:p ( when I reread this chap, I realised that Hikaru's character in this chap is similar to someone's else. Can you guess? Bingo! It is Kurata's! NOOOO!!!!! Hikaru's image!!!).

Anyway, I am so sorry for the late chapter!!!(but the longest I had written!). I had a huge pile of work and tests to do during the past few weeks and the coming weeks ahead (Argg frantically pulling out my hair in stress.). I don't know when I will be able to post up the next chapter, just to let you all know, it will be slow, I guess… but I will definitely write it out (nodding my head in determination), I will

The next chap will be interesting as it will set the story to its right track (or throw it out of proportion) as it will cause a total change in setting. I think I have the rough idea of what to write, but I neeed timmmeee!!!! I'll try to write asap. (Sorry 'bout complaining :p).

O, and plz review!!! Thanks!