All right, and I'm back. I've been working on a video for a while so this chapter took a little longer than usual. But I really am enjoying this. I hope that you guys like my story too. Oh, and thanks to the people who reviewed. AnemoneKurosaki, thanks a lot for the feedback. I appreciate it. :D You other people didn't review (shame on you) but here I am writing anyway. *shrugs* I'm too nice. XD Oh, and the whole hunger thing later on comes from a writed called GrimmGray. He's (or she's) extremely funny and I highly suggest that you read his-her stories. :D

Okay, on with the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own, but Oh!Great does and he is genius for coming up with Agito. XD

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"Cutting it a little close aren't we." My Mom said, you could hear the amusement in her voice.

"Yeah, sorry I lost track of time. Oh!" I said, then looked behind me. "You guys can come in if you want."

"Wow!" Ikki gasped. "She actually has manners."

"A thank you would be sufficient, Itsuki-san." I growled, my eye twitching.

"Aw, I told you to call me Ikki." He whined, pouting at my glare.

"Well, I see you've made some friends." My Mom piped in from behind me.

I turned back around and pulled Kazu and Ikki with.

"Mom, this is Kazu." I introduced, gritting my teeth at the snicker from Ikki.

"Hi, nice to meet you." Kazu said, shaking my Mom's hand.

"Hello, it's nice to meet you as well. I'm Julia's Mom." She answered back, smiling.

"And this is-" I started.

"I'm Ikki." He said, stressing the nickname. "Nice to meet you."

She smiled, saying hi to him as well. Then she turned to me, still smiling cheerfully, and I shrunk back some.

"H-hey Mom, sorry for being home a little late." I grimaced, her smile was scaring me now.

"Oh is that so. I said you cut it close, you weren't late." She answered, the scary look disappearing.

I sighed in relief and turned to Kazu and Ikki.

"Thanks for getting me home, do you want to practice again tomorrow?" I asked, biting my lip.

Ikki looked surprised. They probably wouldn't want to after all… I can be annoying and loud I guess. His answer surprised me.

"We have school tomorrow, but we'll hang with you afterwards." He shrugged, smiling as my expression lifted.

Kazu smiled at me as well. I blushed and looked down.

"Thanks, then same place after school?" I asked.

"Yeah." Ikki answered.

"Sounds good." Kazu agreed.

"Okay." I said nonchalantly, grinning. "See you tomorrow then."

I waved, they waved back and took off on their ATs. Then I turned to my Mom.

"I'm gonna go to bed, practicing was really tiring today." I sighed, smiling and holding out my hands for a hug.

"Night Julia, I love you." She whispered in my ear as I hugged her.

"Thanks." I said.

Then ran upstairs. I squealed and giggled when I was out of hearing range.

"I get to hang out with them again." I whispered to myself, liking the sound of that.

'Yeah, but you might not be cut out for this.' Jewels answered, wincing as I stretched.

"Yeah, you might be right. It's been a while since I've done gymnastics…" I trailed off, frowning. "But it'll get better, right? I might have to lose some weight, but hey that's okay."

'I guess, but this is gonna hurt like hell in the morning.' Jewels groaned.

'I'm sure you're right.' I answered.

After a quick shower to get rid of the sweat I collapsed into bed.

'We're certainly going to sleep well though.' Jewels said, yawning.

I hummed in agreement and fell asleep relatively quickly.

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"My head hurts." I groaned as I woke up.

'No kidding, did you sleep on a rock or something.' Jewels answered, grimacing.

'Practice.' We both said, answering the question at the same time.

'Wow, I told you.' Jewels said smugly.

I glared at her and got on the floor. My muscles, my head, my entire body groaned in protest. I could also tell that it was really early in the morning. Yeah, I have a tendency to wake up at random times of the night. I used to just call Heather, but… Well, I can't anymore.

'It's time to stretch, God I haven't done this in months. This is going to hurt so bad.' I moaned to myself.

'Just get it over with.' Jewels answered, we both grimaced.

"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow…" I yelped as I leaned forward to stretch my legs. "Damn it, this hurts!"

'Oh stop whining. It'll feel better in a minute.' She answered, scoffing at my childish outburst.

"No." I snapped, stalking to my bed and sitting down. "I won't do it."

'You have to or it's going to hurt even more.' She answered.

"I don't care." I whined, glaring at my lap. "I don't wanna."

'Oh, get over it!' She yelled, then took over and sat me down on the floor.

'You turdface!' I screamed at her from inside my mind. 'I would slap you if I had a hand.'

"Well you don't." She answered. "Besides, you'd be slapping yourself, that's counterproductive."

It felt weird to hear her when she was outside instead of me. It was very unsettling.

'Fine, I'll do it. Can you stop controlling now? It feels weird.' I said, I felt trapped.

"Okay, fine. But you'd better do it." She said.

'O-okay.' I stuttered, then breathed a sigh of relief when I was in control again. "You shouldn't do that, you know it scares me." I mumbled, playing with my hands.

'Well you'd better hop to it, or I'm going to do it again.' She answered, humor in her voice.

"Fine." I grumbled.

"DAMN IT THAT HURTS!" I yelled.

Needless to say, I did stretch.

Then I went back to sleep.

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"What time is it?" I mumbled, grabbing my phone from under my pillow.

'Only 7:00, you suck at sleeping in late.' Jewels grouched.

That's another difference between us. I don't need much sleep, and I actually have some insomnia problems. But Jewels on the other hand loves to sleep. If it was up to her we'd be cats. But I digress.

"Yeah, well…. I'm not a cat. I don't plan on becoming one, and I'm not an anime character with ears and a tail. So leave it be!" I yelled at her.

'Psh, fine." She grumbled, turning away from me.

"Although it would be funny if you had a tail then instead of like slapping someone you just whipped your tail around and were all like, 'I tailed you, hear me roar!' " I laughed. "You have to admit that's a funny thought."

"Yeah, sure." She snorted, then started giving me the silent treatment.

"You're so immature." I muttered.

She didn't answer for a moment, then a look a passed across her face.

'Hey, I just remembered something. We still haven't figured out who that blue-haired guy is yet.' She gasped.

"Oh you're right!" I gasped back. "Well, I need some breakfast before I do anything. So yeah."

'What're you gonna have?' Jewels asked as I walked down the stairs.

I shrugged.

"A cookie."

'Wow, that's healthy.' She deadpanned.

"I know right?" I exclaimed, choosing to ignore the sarcasm.

As I grabbed a cookie out of my secret stash (my Mom would never buy sugar, are you kidding me) Jewels stared at it.

'You know, I heard this saying once that if the cookie is bigger than your head you never ask the calorie count.' She mumbled, in awe of the amazing cookie.

I paused for a minute.

"Then don't ask." I answered, pulling the plastic wrapper off of the huge, m&m cookie.

'Well, I don't like following rules.' She stated smugly. 'Wait, don't we have school?'

I paused in my nibbling.

"Not until tomorrow." I shrugged. "My Mom's giving me some time to get used to this first." I muttered, walking over to the cupboard and taking out my favorite green mug.

'You have everything ready?' She asked.

I sighed.

"I guess so, now let me get my hot chocolate woman." I growled.

Geez, I don't know what was up with me. I mean, I'm not the type to be so grumpy in the morning. I'm a pretty big morning person.

'Man, what's up with you this morning?' Jewels asked, frowning at my grumpiness.

I almost laughed at the irony of the parallel thoughts. Oh wait, she is my thoughts. Never mind, just scratch that last statement.

"That's what I'd like to know…" I mumbled back.

A few minutes later I'd grabbed my bag and set it on the table, also grabbing my ATs and some socks.

'It's raining." Was all my alter-ego said.

I walked over to the window, pressing a hand to the cold window-pane. Water-droplets streamed down the glass, my body-heat making a cloud spread from the finger-tips pressed against it.ß

"You're right. I guess that I won't be practicing for now. Or maybe I'll go out later…" I muttered. "That explains my sudden craving for hot chocolate."

Jewels snorted.

'Well, while we have some down time we have some things to get done.' She said.

"Like what?" I yawned.

I absolutely love rain you see, but it tends to make me extremely tired. Like I should go curl up in a corner… I'm not a cat. I swear. But either way, I usually finish particular things that I've been putting off for a while when it rains. There's not much else to do after all.

'Hm, well for starters we can actually pick out some decent style clothes for you at school." Jewels said, inwardly nodding.

"Uhh, yeah. About that. You see, in the school I'll be going to, we have to wear…"

I was abruptly cut off by a change of mood. 'DON'T. EVEN. SAY IT.' Jewels cawed, you'd think she was that Ikki kid or something. Well, aside from being me… but like inside my head and…Wow, that makes me sound really mental…Anyway.

"Uniforms." I finished with an inward smirk.

'Screw this.' Jewels muttered, going back to her corner of the mind.

"Emo freak." I grumbled.

'Oh shut it, you crusty old Panda.' Jewels growled.

"What if I don't feel like it?" I spat at her choice of words.

Sometimes Jewels will get really touchy, but usually only when she's mad. After all fashion is a touchy subject for her. Not that I understand why… well maybe my girliness was locked up with my anger in her. Eh, that would explain my lack of feminine charm, anyway.

'Sucks for you.' She said, staring idly at her fingernails.

"That's not very nice." I answered.

"You're not very nice." Jewels answered back, looking annoyed now.

"I'm perfectly nice!" I yelled.

"No you're not, you're stupid and a coward and you always run away from everything." She snapped.

I missed the shocked look when tears clouded my eyes.

"No I don't!" I screamed at her, almost crying, but then just turned away.

"Well I'm going to go do some research, leave me alone." I muttered, it was like slamming a door and running off in your mind.

Jewels didn't say anything.

I frowned but chose to ignore it.

In the end, I didn't end up doing anything. I decided to go ATing in the rain, yes I did tell my mom. Besides, she thinks that I'm going practicing with Ikki again too. Which I need to remember… Eh, well, we can always hope. Besides, rain always makes me feel better.

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I really dislike silence. I'm not entirely sure why, but I guess that it gives me large amounts of time to think… and that just…. irritates me. Right now all I could hear was the rain. The streets of the city weren't all that busy because most people were inside hiding from the rain. Unlike me, I'm a little weird… But you probably already know that. So it was just a big, quiet, pattering landscape of rain. There were the whirring motors of cars that passed by and just as quickly disappeared, and there were the lights of stores that shimmered through the curtain of hazy droplets. My ATs splashed up water as I meandered down the streets. I wasn't heading anywhere, and I wasn't in a hurry. So I just… wandered. Jewels had been quiet for hours now, it was probably around lunch actually. Which would explain the sudden loud growling of my stomach. Like really, what was this, stomach suicide? I mean, I know it wants food but does it have to commit suicide? With that lovely image of my stomach eating itself in mind, I went to go find some lunch… Cannabalism. Ew. Anyway, I still have like a hundred dollars from saving up for ATs so I've got plenty of money.

"Well would you look at that, lucky." I said, there was a restaurant just up the street called, 'Fuji'.

I shrugged and skated up to it. Jewels would probably have a hemorrhage if she knew I was going out in public looking like a wet dog, but I don't care what she has to say anyway of course. My hair was soaked and my clothes were practically hanging off of me under the weight of the water. My ATs just looked shiny like they always did. Hehe… Shiny… Either way though, the soaking wet look suited me (can you hear the sarcasm in my voice). With my combat boots on I probably looked like I'd just been through a war or something. Sadly it was nothing so epic, with a slight hop and the press of a button my wheels slid back into my shoes. I found out about this useful little trait when I finished reading the manual.

"Hello, how many are with you today?" The lady at the counter asked, she gave me a weird look at the soaked clothes but chose to ignore it.

"Just me, thanks." I answered, smiling.

The feeling of water sliding down my arms felt a little weird.

"Would you like a booth or a table miss. Or you can sit at the bar if you'd like." She practically sang back politely.

"I'll just sit at the bar, thank you." I mumbled back. "Can you point me to the bathroom by the way?"

"Sure, it's down there and you just turn right at the sign." She grinned and I nodded blinking away the after-effects of the blinding smile.

The restaurant was a nice place. All stainless steel and glass tables and marble counters. The food is probably expensive, but it doesn't really matter. I've got plenty of cash with me for one person.

"Oh, bathroom. Yes, I need you." I mumbled at the door.

Once again my weird words were answered with a deafening silence. I made a face at that silence. Jewels was still ignoring me, normally she'd yell at me for saying something so weird. But you know what? Whatever, she had no right to say any of that crap anyway. Right back at square one, (I've been trying to ignore being sad for hours now) I decided to put the thought out of my mind and went into the large stall for crippled people. Hahaha, crippled people. When the door was locked I pulled off my gray t-shirt and rung it out over the toilet (yeah we don't need the crippled people to fall). Then when it was about as dry as I could get it I put it back on. I did the same thing with my pants and underclothes. Then walked back out of the bathroom stall. I washed my hands and face and made sure that my wallet and stuff was still dry. Of course it was, it was in a plastic bag. I'm not stupid. There were some of those electric hand-dryers on the wall and dried off my hands and then my pants as best I could. When I was about as dry as I could be (which was not very dry by the way, I was cold as hell) I walked back out to the restaurant.

Well I least I look sort of acceptable now.' I thought as a heavy shiver ran through my body.

It was so cold!

"Hello, is there anything I can get you?" The bartender asked as I sat down.

I smiled and asked for a hot chocolate, a head-ache was starting and hot chocolate always helps when I get headaches. As I drank my Hot Chocolate I slowly started feeling tired. With a slight shake of my head I woke back up. Huh, well I had been out just roaming around for like… wow. Like five hours. 7:00 to 12:00, I had left maybe ten minutes after seven and haven't gotten out of the rain since. Huh, I'll be lucky if I don't catch a cold…

I looked up as someone sat down next to me. Oh my God. I looked back down at the table quickly. It was Mr. Swear with the blue hair, and now that I noticed he had an eye-patch over his right eye. (AN: AHHH INVOLUNTARY RHYME)

"Can I have the usual?" He said.

My eyes widened at his low, rumbly voice. It was shocking to hear out of someone that was my height. I mean, you don't see too many thirteen-year-olds running around out there who are four foot eight, maybe seven. No not really. Or in my case… a saddening case of four foot six. Oh well… I'm still waiting for my growth spurt to happen. I'm sure it will. Hopefully… Maybe… Or maybe he isn't even my age and he has a better excuse.

"The usual?" I suddenly asked, I wanted to take back those words the second I said them by the way he looked over at me.

It was like… he was worried about something, but also really really utterly pissed. Huh, I wonder what he would have to be worried about, but I'm more worried for my life at the second.

"The fuck, why do you fucking care?" He snapped.

I winced at the choice of words.

"Still a bad mouth clearly." I muttered.

"Yeah, you got a fucking problem with that?" He growled.

I would be more worried for my life… but let's just say that I'm short a few nuts and bolts in the head and it doesn't even process that I should be.

"Yeah, I do." I snapped.

"Fucking deal with it then." He snapped back.

I rolled my eyes and leaned my elbow on the table, turning towards him.

"But it's more fun to be rude." I said, taking a sip from my hot chocolate. "This stuff is really good by the way." I told the bartender.

He smiled at me.

"Thanks." He answered.

"My pleasure." I said, then turned back to blue-hair. "Sorry for knocking you over the other day. I was in a hurry." I apologized.

He glared at me. I stared straight back into his eyes calmly.

"Fucking bitch." He answered, looking away from my eyes and glaring at the table.

"Pfft." I snorted, smothering a giggle.

"What the fuck is so funny." He cussed indigently.

"Sorry, sorry." I choked out, still trying to keep a cap on my laughter. "It's just your face- it's funny!"

I finally lost it and started laughing hysterically, almost falling out of my seat.

"What the fuck is so funny about my fucking face?" He growled angrily.

I just laughed harder.

"Y-you look like a little kid- pfft- throwing a tantrum." I coughed, calming down.

"The fuck? She's beyond repair." He deadpanned.

"J-Julia, what's your name?" I asked, blinking away the tears of mirth.

"Why should I fucking tell you, you fucking jack-ass?" He snapped.

"Because I told you mine, and will you PLEASE stop swearing." I coughed again, but this time is was the real gut-wrenching, hack-up-a-lung cough. "Sorry about that." I wheezed. "Now tell me!"

"It's Agito you fucker. Why don't you cough out your fucking lung while you're at it."

"I would but that sounds painful." I said back, he reminded me of Jewels in a way.

He acted immature in a similar way. But he was also very prone to mood swings and didn't like it when things didn't go his way.

"Stupid fucking idiot." Agito muttered, looking over at the clock on the wall. "Shit." He cussed. "Here's your money." He told the bartender, then got up.

I put down my money and followed him.

"What the fuck are you doing?" He hissed as I followed him out.

"Leaving, I have people to meet." I hissed back, my good mood going and my normal mood replacing it. "Thanks for passing the time." I said aloofly, then flipped my ATs open when we were outside the store.

"You AT?" He muttered.

"Yeah." I said. "Got a problem with it?"

"Can you even stand on those things?" He asked, insulting me, flipping his ATs out as well.

"Yes." I said, then a heavy shiver ran through me and I slid some. "But apparently not right now." I blinked, grabbing the fence.

My knees started to turn to jelly though, and it was feeling cold.

"Of course not, stupid fucking girl."

I went to answer him, but started coughing instead.

"Is it really cold?" I asked when my fit had passed.

"No." He answered. "Fuck, why are you asking me?"

"B-because you're the only one here…" I trailed off, his face was getting blurry. "I…need to go." I muttered, pushing myself off of the fence.

My legs were barely holding me up at this point.

"Wait, I'll help you." A different voice said.

I looked back, his eye-patch had switched. And suddenly Agito was acting nice.

'Jewels, help!' I yelled in my mind.

Something was really wrong because it was suddenly too cold. Even though it wasn't raining anymore. My legs gave out and nice Agito ran forward and grabbed me, dragging my limp body over to a bench.

'Julia?' I heard a voice echo weakly in my mind.

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AHHHHH! CLIFFHANGER! I HAVE DONE IT! WHAT IS WITH AGITO! AND IS JEWELS BACK? WHAT HAPPENED TO HER? AHHH I AM AWESOME! ADMIT IT! Okay, sorry bout that spazz there. But I actually finished the chapter. I am so excited. I hope that you guys are too, this one took me forever to finish. I had to have the help of the glorious gostumpie, one of my best friends. You should look her up she has to be one of the funniest writers I know. Her stories are definitely worth reading. Okay, see you very soon. Oh, and I know that a lot happened in this chapter. I'm sorry if it's confusing. I really did try, but it was hard to do and I had to rewrite half of it because I screwed it up. So sorry about any confusion!

~iloveme26