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As soon as Maria was in an alley she jumped and began to increase in altitude until she was out of sight. She pulled out her green phone that Yukimi had given her such a long time ago, oh the trials they went through together, and for her birthday the blonde had it upgraded so now it had a keyboard and more memory. She texted Hanabasa, asking if Miharu was there.

A few minutes later she had a reply, Miharu wasn't there. Sighing she closed her phone and pocketed it. A few minutes later she landed on the branch of a tree and stood in the shadow of the leaves, eyes scanning the area around her silently until the uneasy feeling she had soothed over. The only sounds were the wind and animals that scampered about. Then she floated to the ground, her sneakers crunching the grass as she took off.

Maria came to a playground and slowed to a regular walk as she passed children and parents alike. Only when passing a group of picnic tables was her attention she called. She pretended not to hear and kept walking, she had things to do.

The sun was just beginning to set when Maria got back to Hanabasa's house. Yoite was seated in the recliner, reading one of the many books Hanabasa had lying around.

"Hey, did I just miss Miharu?" Maria asked, sitting down across from him on the floral sofa. He nodded, "By fifteen minutes actually. He's upset about going to summer school."

"Great, just great," She mumbled, getting up and going to the kitchen to heat up the rice Hanabasa had left for them. Yoite marked his page with a book mark that Hanabasa had given him before pouring each of then a glass of tea (The cups were still in the dishwasher.) then took out the instant ramen as Maria started to boil a kettle of water.

"Outside or inside?" Yoite asked, referring to where they should eat.

"Outside."

Yoite went to get two folding chairs from the storage closet and a small wood table often used outside. After everything was ready they carried the food and drinks out to the table and sat down in the chairs to eat. Yoite looked out at the 'garden', Hanabasa had given Maria permission to plant one in the backyard. Hanabasa hadn't had any idea about her ability with plants. Now the garden was crawling with exotic colored flowers and near the back were a few trees where a hammock was hung between two of the trees. There was also a small path made with some flat, huge stones Hanabasa had found in the shed. Most of the myriad of plants had come from Maria's old house (The Flower House), which was crawling in unheard of plants; she even had potted plants in her room here.

They continued to eat in silence before Yoite broke it, annoyed, "Find all you needed for the day?" Maria had a guilty smile on her face, "Sorry and I didn't read all of it…just the parts with Miharu."

"You could have asked."

"I just wanted to know if he was angry at me."

"Read his thoughts then."

"He was in a bad mood. I do have morals."

"…Since when?"

"Well since I don't read Hanabasa's anymore, mostly after a night with Tobari, to many emotions and thoughts. Maria shuddered at the very thought of listening to it again and Yoite couldn't help but shudder a little also. Sometimes it was horrible to be a mind reader.

"So what's going on tomorrow?" Yoite asked his mind reading friend.

Maria smiled, glad for a change in topic, "Well Hanabasa will be gone to make necessary preparations, Raimei and Gau will be at Kouichi's, Yukimi is meeting with his editor, Miharu has to go shopping with Auntie, and Tobari has planned a lesson for us."

The Kira user nodded his head at the news, it was silent for another minute before Maria suddenly asked, "Have you noticed anything strange?"

"No, nothing, why?" Yoite asked, staring at her with his dark blue eyes, wanting for the hundredth time to be able to read her mind. Life would be so much simpler but all he got was, "Never mind, probably my imagination."

Raingirl: I AM SO SORRY! I had chapter 4 and 5 all written and was about to post when i realized THERES NO CHAPTER 3! After realizing this I just didn't want to bother for awhile but I feel so bad! Here's another chapter and ch. 4 and 5 should be posted right after this one.

Sorry again!