Chapter 8

Time passes by and its lunch break for Yagami High school as the bell rang. Tails who just finished his half day at school letting out his sigh. Why? Well, after the introduction he just had earlier, it seems that he had a lot of fans from the girls at his class. Oh, and also, he got a lot of rival by the boys as well.

'Oh dear, I just entered a first day of school and now I get a lot of commotion. What worse could it be?'

As Tails thoughts about it, Yakumo and Sarah approached the young fox while carrying the bento for him. "Ano…Tails-san, how do you feel?"

Tails try to regain his composure back to answered, "Well, the truth is, I never have this kind of accident before in my world back then. It's kinda…well…a new experience for me, I guess." After he said that, he remembered the promise he made with Mikoto-senpai. He stood up from his chair while leaving his bag behind. "By the way, Yakumo-san, Sarah-san, do you mind if you girls accompany me? I got meeting to accomplish."

"Hai, Tails-san. We don't mind at all."

"Me too! We're your friends, after all!" Sarah replied as well

"Arigatou, minna."

Sooner later, they went out from the class and went to class 3-D, where Tails have to meet Mikoto for the invitation she gave to him. On their way, they talked each other as usual. One topic caught his interest in particular.

"A school athletics competition?"

"Hai. They said that they want to make this event. But they haven't decided on what date that is. Will you participate, Tails-san?"

Tails thought for a second, "Why not? It sounds a lot of fun to me! What about you, Yakumo-san?"

"Well, I might want to participate if you…join as well." She blushed.

This part of Yakumo was caught Sarah's attention as well, 'Oh, Yakumo-chan. You always blushed when you talked in front of him. I can smell love here.'

When they reach their destination, they were greeted by their senpai, or more precisely, their class president, Hanai Haruki.

"Ya-Yakumo-san, what brings you here, all of sudden?" Hanai asked haltingly.

"We-well, you see, we're here to meet Mikoto-senpai because Tails wants to meet her." Yakumo answered his question timidly.

Hanai turned his glances towards Tails and remembered the incident he had with him yesterday. He can feel the humiliation through his entire body, and of course the jealousy he had for being with Yakumo all the time. As he started to say something, Tails interrupted him. "Hanai-senpai, if you want a rematch, I remind you that this is not the right time, okay? And please forgive me about yesterday. I can feel the humiliation from you." He bowed at Hanai.

His action makes Hanai feel pity and stunned. He knows that Tails wasn't used his full power against him, because if he does, he might not be in this school today. This entire incident was immediately being cut off by someone's voice. It was Mikoto's voice. "Oi, Hanai, don't harass at him! After all, he did beat you fair and square, okay?"

"B-but, Mikoto, I still feel a humiliation co-"

"That's enough, Hanai! You started first towards him. He didn't do anything wrong from the start, okay?" Mikoto scolded at her childhood friend.

"H-hai, I guess you're right…" He feels defeated.

"Well then, hello, Tails-san! I'm very sorry for what Hanai did to you yesterday." She turned her glances towards Tails.

As usual, Tails shook his head lightly, "It's okay. I kinda used to it. He does have the right to suspect on me. Hehehe…"

"Man, you're too polite for your own good." Mikoto whined at Tails.

"Well, what can I say? It's my old habit from the beginning. Anyway, I came down here as a promise. Did you have something to talk about?" Tails asked

"Oh, that's right. I forgot about it. Well, what I want to talk about is…"

(Several minutes later)

Tails and his friends are on their way back to their classroom after the meeting he had with Mikoto. "Ano…Tails-san?" Yakumo started to asked on him.

"Hmm, what is it, Yakumo-san?"

"Your face seems happy after that meeting you had."

"Is that so? What I can say, I'm just very excited after I heard it from her." Tails said cheerfully.

"Well, I understand your feeling. After all, what she said back then, it really does making you happy." Sarah added.

"Hmm, I guess it did." Tails said while let out his smile

Flashback

"You see, Tails-san, when I was training at the dojo about two days ago, I saw something very unique that similar to you." Mikoto asked in enthusiasm.

"Unique? What do you mean by that, Mikoto-senpai?" Tails asked curiously

"If I remember, there was a cat standing in front of the dojo, watching me. Her fur was purple and she wore a cloth." Mikoto answered.

"C'mon, Miko-chan! Surely that it was just of your imagination? I kinda hard to believe that kind of thing exists." Her friend, Eri said in disbelieve.

"Urusai! I saw that thing with my own eyes, ok? And I was talking to Tails, not you, blonde!" Mikoto yelled at her best friend.

When Tails heard about a purple cat, his expression turned into serious one, 'A purple cat? Could it be Blaze? Did she just travel and went to this place as well? I'm better find out.' He started to ask her. "I think what Mikoto-senpai saw back then probably my friend. Because talking animal in this place were unusual for you guys such as me, I can probably assumed that it was my friend you saw."

"You sure? When I tried to approach her, she suddenly vanishes into thin air and was nowhere to be found. And I just wonder, did she have something in her mind from watching my training?"

Tails reassure her friend explanation, "That's definitely my friend. If you saw her doing like that, it's because that she has personality similar to Yakumo-san. And she's often afraid nears a people that she didn't know about it. But don't worry; she has kind heart and not bad person I can assure you."

Mikoto was glad that what she saw back then wasn't her imagination at all. She turned her glances towards Eri and mocked at her, "Hahaha! Sucks you up, Eri-chan! I told you it wasn't my imagination!"

'Urusai naa! Don't mock at me, Miko-chan!" She yelled back at her.

Tails try to calm down the situation, but knowing that these girls won't stop arguing each other, he decided to leave and say his thanks to Mikoto, "Thank you for the information, Mikoto-senpai! It seems that I wasn't alone here after all."

"No sweat! After all, you are Yakumo's friend!" Mikoto replied at him cheerfully.

End of Flashback

Tails was glad that his friend, Blaze, was also in this world as well. He thought that he would be alone here. Nevertheless, this is good news for this young fox to handle. Now that Blaze was here, he can finally relax a little for not being alone. Well, even if she didn't here from the beginning, he has friends from this world supporting him from the back. And he was glad.

After the class is over, Yakumo and Sarah told Tails that they have part-time to do and let Tails to go home first. Tails understand their activities and decided to go out first. But little did they know that Tails wasn't planning on going home first.

Tails decided to search for his friend, Blaze. He began his search on the top of the buildings because Blaze often to stay in higher place. He search for her one by another, but he didn't find anything. As the sun beginning to set, Tails try to figure some place that Blaze usually stands. 'Hmm, maybe I should search at the park nearby. She sometimes stands there watching the sky.'

And so Tails try to search at the park nearby the Yagami district. And his instinct was right. He found a purple cat standing on the middle of the park. The cat senses his presence and turned her body around to meet the young fox face-to-face.

"Hello, Tails. I never thought that you would be here in this place." The purple cat said curiously.

"Same goes for you. It's been awhile, hasn't it? Blaze the cat, no, Blaze the Phoenix."

To be Continued