Me: Tadaa! New Chapter!

Everyone: ~throws confetti~

Hikari: ~emo corner~

Me: ohhh...right...this is a sad chapter...

Everyone: ~turns gloomy~

Kasumi: Amulet Misty does not own Pokemon! WAAHHHH!

Nozomi: 3 ~sniff~

Haruka: 2 ~sob~

Yumomi: 1 ~cries~

Everyone : Let's roll!!! ~breaks down in tears~

Chapter 8 – Regaining Light

"Hikari-chan?" Kengo said cautiously. He wasn't sure whether Hikari would want to talk to him at the moment but he couldn't bear to see the tears that were coming from her.

She looked dreadful. Her usually carefully styled hair was in a mess and she looked quite pale. She was curled up like a ball, hugging her knees. Her face was glistening with tears, her eyes showing nothing but sorrow.

Hikari was startled to hear someone call out her name; she didn't think anyone would find her here. She had forgotten that Kengo knew this was the place where she came when she was upset. It was their secret place. She stared up at him for a moment and tried to wipe away the tears, but they just kept coming down.

Kengo walked slowly towards Hikari and sat down beside her on the soft grass.

"Please don't cry Hikari-chan," Kengo said.

Hikari shook her head. She couldn't stop. She just couldn't. She didn't want Shinji as a boyfriend anymore. She hated him, and yet, she didn't. She was confused about her feelings.

"Remember when we first found this place?" Kengo asked suddenly, hoping that maybe a memory of them playing together might cheer her up.

She pondered about it for a while, and then nodded. She did remember.

~Flashback~

A small version of the present Hikari was running around the park. She was trying to catch a butterfly which was trying to flutter away from Hikari. She wasn't watching where she was going and bumped into someone.

"Ouch!" she cried.

"Hikari-chan?" asked a small boy with brown hair who was presently licking his ice cream.

"Oh it's Kengo-kun. Sorry I bumped into you," she said. She stared at his ice cream. "Where did you get that?"

"My mummy bought it for me," he said and licked his ice cream once again.

"I want some!" little Hikari cried.

"Nope," Kengo said.

"But I want some!" she cried again.

'It's mine!" he said, puffing up indignantly and licking his ice cream again.

Suddenly, Hikari made to tackle him and Kengo just managed to move out of the way. He started running.

"Can't catch me!" he taunted.

Hikari sped off after him. They ran all around the park. Kengo was getting tired by now and Hikari had almost caught up with him. He was still running when he suddenly stopped. He spotted something in the bushes. It was something shiny. He bent over to look at it and saw that it was just a coin. He was just about to start running again when he felt himself falling forward.

"Gotcha!" giggled Hikari who had finally managed to tackle him.

"Waaaah," Kengo cried as they both tumbled forward.

Hikari blinked and looked around. She was sitting on something soft and they were in a small clearing.

"Hikari-chaaaaan!" someone said from beneath her.

She looked down in surprise and giggled. She was sitting on top of Kengo who was flailing his arms in vein. She hopped of him and started laughing.

"Wahh that hurts!" he cried.

"Sorry," Hikari said giggling.

Kengo looked grumpy and looked around.

"Where are we?" he asked Hikari.

"I don't know," she said cheerfully.

"Are we lost?" he asked her in a worried voice.

"No, we came from that way," she said pointing to a direction where the bushes looked slightly crumpled.

"Oh good, because my mummy told me I have to go to see her later so I'm not allowed to be lost," he told Hikari.

"Oh okay," Hikari said. She looked around again. "Hey! I bet no-one has ever been here!"

"Really?" Kengo asked her.

"Yeah!" she said looking around excitedly. "We can make it our secret hide-out!"

"Secwet hidout?" Kengo asked confused.

"No. It's Secret Hide-out. My mummy was watching a movie with ninja people and they had a secret-hideout. My mummy told me that it's a place where no-one else will find unless you tell them." She nodded looking very knowledgeable, well, as knowledgeable as a five-year old could look.

"Wow!" Kengo cried, his eyes widening in delight at the thought of having a place where no one but him (and Hikari) would know. "Let's do it!"

"Okay," Hikari said. "We have to make a pinky promise that we won't tell anyone."

Kengo nodded vigorously. They curled their pinkys together and shook them once.

"Okay I want to go and tell my mummy now!!!" Kengo said.

"Nooo!" Hikari said. "You can't tell anyone!!!!"

She tackled Kengo again.

~End of Flaskback~

Hikari let out a small laugh. She managed to stop crying.

"Yeah, you didn't understand the concept of promises back then,"she said

"Well I didn't tell anyone about this place," Kengo said.

Hikari's face faltered.

"I….I told Shinji-kun about this place," said Hikari very quietly.

Kengo looked at Hikari with surprise and disappointment on his face. Hikari looked down.

"It's okay," Kengo said in an even more quite voice.

"Shinji-kun……" Hikari said, as a tear trickled down her face.

Kengo wasn't really sure what to say next…

Shinji is a jerk, you should be glad to get rid of him. He doesn't deserve you. Take me instead!

So instead he said, "I'm Sorry." He was sorry that he didn't do enough to protect Hikari. He was sorry that Shinji hurt her. He was sorry that he let Shinji take her away in the first place.

Hikai gave him a weak sort of smile, "You don't have anything to be sorry for." Kengo didn't do anything wrong, it was Shinji that hurt her. She had tried so hard to be a good girlfriend to Shinji. She thought she had succeeded too, but evidently she wasn't even close.

'It's my fault," she said sadly. "I shouldn't have thought that I was good enough for him." She looked down, staring at her feet.

"Or maybe he just wasn't right for me," she added as an after-thought.

"No, it's not your fault," Kengo said now standing up. "You're the best person there is, Hikari-chan. He just couldn't see that."

She turned back to look at him and saw that his face held a sort of determined-expression. She stared at him for a while.

"Really?" She finally asked him. It sounded childish. Like a child asking to make sure there were no monsters under his bed....afraid…

"Definitely!" he said smiling at her. "You're kind, caring, pretty and cute, brilliant at contests, of course, not as good as me." He joked.

She let out a small laugh.

Kengo was doing his best to cheer her up. She shouldn't be sad anymore, because everyone would worry. Everyone else liked her for who she was.

She stood up too and smiled at him cheerfully. "Thank you!"

Then she hugged him.

"Thank you, Kengo-kun," she repeated.

"You're welcome," he said, a small smile appearing on Kengo's face as he hugged her too.

Hikari felt warm in Kengo's arms. It felt nice and warm.

Crack.

"AHHH!" someone cried.

Hikari and Kengo jumped apart and looked around wildy.

They saw their group of friends jumbled up on the floor. Haruka seemed to have fallen first and the others were on top of one another.

"Ouch! Get off!" Haruka cried.

"Hey! That's my foot!" Satoshi shouted.

Then they all seemed to realize Hikari and Kengo staring at them.

"Oh, hi! What a pleasant surprise! What a coincidence meeting in a place like this!" Kasumi said nervously.

"Yeah, what are you guys doing here?" Yumomi said sweat-dropping.

The rest of them were looking at Hikari in fright. Kengo was embarrassed but he found it sort of funny though Hikari looked as if she was going to explode.

"Were you guys spying on us?" she demanded.

"Of course not," Shuu said flipping his hair in an attempt to appear calm. "Like Kasumi-san said, we just happened to be here."

"Do you expect me to believe that?" Hikari snapped.

"Look,' said Nozomi. "We were all looking for you and we were worried."

"-and we saw Kengo-kun talking to you and we thought we shouldn't interrupt," Yumomi added.

Hikari's expression softened. Her friends had been worried about her which is the reason why she doesn't want to be sad anymore, right?

"Thanks you guys!" she said giving all of them a big hug. She felt so happy that she had all her friends.

Kengo watched her. Hikari finally looked like her old self. The Hikari that always shined. Her eyes were sparkling with happiness again and she was glowing. She looked over her shoulder at Kengo who didn't join the hug. She smiled at him and he smiled back.

Then a sudden thought occurred to her.

"Wait. How did you guys find this place?" she asked as the hug broke apart, looking suspiciously and the group.

"Oh Kengo-kun told me a long time ago," Kasumi told her.

Hikari turned to Kengo with a look of annoyance on her face.

"Hey you said you didn't tell anyone!" she cried. Her face turning red with slight anger.

"Ah...hehe…must have slipped my mine," he mumbled backing away slowly then breaking into a run.

"Get back here!" she cried, half-angry and half-laughing.

She ran towards him and tackled him

Me: YAY! Everyone's happy again! Haha the introduction was so weird and random xD

Hikari: haha yeah....

Me: So that's the end! Now you all will have to imagine what happens next :D

Everyone: SAY WHAT!?!?!

Me: Fine! I'll make a sequel!

Everyone: 0_0

Me: Or I'll just continue the story here?

Everyone: Yeah!

Me: ~turns to readers~ What do you think?

Everyone: REVIEW!!!