Chapter 2
The pick-up truck arrived in front of the house, just to drop of the rest of my aunt's stuff. All of mine stuff at my house had already been brought to the house when we first got there. Trust me, there was not much when you live in an apartment, the biggest item I had was my bike. "Alright," yelled my aunt at the movers, "Move the couch into the front room, oh, please be carful with that. Wait! Where's the picture that I had?" running off to yell at the workers. I sat on the front steps of the house, inhaled, and exhaled. I never thought that air could smell so good. The smell of flowers and a fresh rain filled the air, so much better than the smell of an active city.
It's only been a few days in the town of Hinamizawa that I lived here. But I can already tell I'll enjoy this so much better than that crammed apartment. I haven't really brought myself too actually to look around the village. It looked liked a small village from the hillside. Maybe it won't take a long time to bike around the town; I think I'll try to biking around a little. "Hey Aunty Yukari, you mind if I look around Hinamizawa, I want to bike around a little?" I yelled to my aunt questioning. "Yeah, get out of the house, look around a little, but just get back at the house by dinner time. Dinner's at 7pm, alright?"
Nodding, I got on my bike, and started to pedal down the main road, surrounded by trees. Five minutes in, I was still surrounded by vegetation, I started to wonder, is their any people in this village? I did see other houses but there weren't any people inside, or on the road, no cars, no other bikes, and no pedestrians. Were they all hiding, or is everyone outside? My brain went back to what Kazuko had said to my aunt and I, what did she mean, by a 'incidence'? Why didn't she tell us about it, was it that gruesome, I wonder? As I rack my brain of ways that someone could be 'incidence', I also think of ways that I could find out what happened. I continue to pedal, looking up into the blue sky, not a single cloud, "Isn't that amazing." I think to myself. A mid-summers breeze blows the trees as they sway, back and forth.
I look back at the road to see where I'm going, then out of the side of the road a boy walks into the side of the street. It seems that he didn't notice me because I'm only a few yards away and I was heading straight towards him! A direct hit! We clash into each other, my bike thrown into the street. "Hey," I yelled rubbing my aching head, "Watch where you're going, will ya? Be happy I wasn't a car or something!" The guy looked up at me with ocean eyes, which were filled with irritation. "Me, you were the one going full speed and on the vehicle! I'm just the victim! So how about you watch where you're going?" He was around my age, maybe a little older, with wavy hair to match his eyes. "Wait, you not from around here, are you?" he asked, getting up, and giving me a stable hand to help myself up with. "How can you tell, you a physic or something?" I replied, still shaking. As I brushed the dust off myself, he grabbed my bike and wheeled it to me. "Well your cloths, the way you talk, and I don't recognize you. Whatcha name, little girl?" he asked in a joking fashion as if I new him.
"My name is Suki Amano, and yes I am new here. I moved here from…"
"The city." The boy finished my sentence, "Don't worry it's by the way you talk, I'm not a stalker, or anything. The same thing as last time, your cloths, the way you talk, and I don't recognize you."
I raised my eyebrow at him in a questioning fashion.
"My name is Yukio. It's nice to meet you 'Suki Amano'," said Yukio. "Let me guess, you live in that big house down the road? I knew the people who lived in that house, great family."
Wait did he just say family? I thought it was only a husband and wife, a family means that that there must have been a kid! Maybe he knows what happened at that place that 'Kaz' refused to tell me. "Wait, there was a family there?" I questioned, if I go straight into the question 'Was there a murder at that house, or something?' I'll get a similar response to the question, gotta ease into the question, Suki. "Well, yeah. There was a kid our age, forgot his name thought." Acting surprise, I said next, "Really, cause when I first got there no one was there. I mean when my aunt and I were buying the house, aren't the owners suppose to be their also?" He replied, "Well yeah, I think, I've never really bought a house though." Yukio laughed, then I laughed along with him, this would be a good time to ask about the 'incidence'. "Hey Yukio, you know what happened there? I heard there was an accident there where it caused the parent to be missing."
"No" his reply was quick, and had another meaning to it, it was a shun. "Sorry, I'm not to sure I only knew them, I didn't know their personal life."
That reply was too fast, it seemed he was trying to avoid my question. Now I was more curious than before! A look of disappointment rushed over my face, I think I made it a little too obvious thought. "I'm really sorry thought, I just I didn't know them well enough. If you like thought," he started "I can show you around Hinamizawa. Telling by the way you hit me, you don't know your way around here." Had completely forgotten about that, a grin spread across my face, "Alright, take me away. Still that was half your fault!" And with that, I think I had my first friend in Hinamizawa! Still I don't like the way that he answered my question, but I'll find out what happened there!