Hey, whats up? It took awhile for me to come up with a good idea for this chapter. It's just like any normal day thing for them in this chapter. The action will probably start in the next chapter.

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Chapter 5: Nothing Seems Efficient

"Hayate, why don't you have a day off today," Kaoru smiles cheerily.

"Are you sure sir? I took almost the whole day two days ago with a break to pick up Himeno from school," Hayate asked.

"Wait. You took the break to pick up Himeno?"

Hayate was really sure Kei had told Kaoru about the break. 'If Kei didn't tell him, I'll strangle the light out of him until his leafe dissipates.'

"I thought Kei, my brother, told you."

Kaoru looks directly at the ceiling with his index finger to his chin, trying to remember that one time. "Kei, huh?"

Flashback-~~~~~ (In the flashback, it is set in the middle of Kaoru and Kei's conversation.)

"Mr. Awayuki," Kei turns his head to the man. " Just call me Kaoru. You and I are adults here."

"Well, actually I'm sixteen."

Even though Kaoru and Kei knew each other since the battle, he never knew Kei's real age.

"Wow, you look older for your age. Nnnot a the bad way."

"Yeah I know what you mean." Kei turns his back to him saying, "Remember, Hayate is on a break to pick up Himeno from school."

"Okay, but why? Himeno can walk home on her own."

Kei turns around smiling as he places his hand on his hip. "I know but, how else are we going to get that blue headed idiot to confess?"

Just as that, Kei turns back around and walk away.

End of Flashback-~~~~~~~~~~

"Sir?" Hayate didn't know what to do at the moment. His boss kept looking off into space and a hard concentrating look. It just didn't look right to him. The guy looked like he really had to go to the bathroom.

"Oh yeah now I remember,' Kaoru pops out of concentration, "He did say you'll be taking a break."

'You're lucky light boy,' Hayate said meanly in his head.

"It's Saturday Hayate. Why don't you hang out with Himeno," Kaoru winked.

"Sssir?" Hayate's face blew up into dark crimson.

"She and Yayoi will be hanging out. I thought that...well..."

"IIII don't know where this is going," Hayate stutters.

"Well, what's wrong just hanging out with her?"

"Well, I uh..."

Kaoru smiled gently and laid his hand on the Wind Knight's shoulder. "Hayate... you are one of the greatest people I've met. I never saw a boy to care for my daughter as much as you do. You're the first person that actually made her put on a real smile. Hayate, if you love Himeno that much... I accept it. You don't have to ask me to be with her."

Hayate exposes a serene smile. "Thank you sir." It took a minute for him to process the words in his brain. "Wait, what? How did...?

"We all saw Hayate. In front of everyone, your the one that leaned down, confessed, and kissed her like the prince in Snow White."

He was stunned. When he told her how he felt and planted a kiss; he forgot that everyone was watching.

"By the way Hayate. Since you're going to be hanging out with Himeno, you might as well know where she's going today."

"Wwhere is she going?" Hayate shivered at the thought. 'Himeno maybe the girl I'm chasing after (secretly), but since she's strong and has a quirky personality. I don't want to think where she might go.'

"The mall."

"BAM BAM BAM BAM"

'I'm so stupid, stupid, stupid! Why would I ever think that Himeno goes to bad places,' Hayate thinks while slamming his head against the wall, really hard. "BAM BAM BAM" (AN:I know Hayate was never this dramatic, but he started to become a little dramatic at the very end of the series. I just wanted to see him do that... lol XD.)

Sweat drops on the side of Kaoru's head."BAM BAM BAM"

"Hayate? Are you alright?"

"BAM BAM" He stops before banging any harder. Hayate lingers his head on the wall, letting his hands droop his hands down to his sides..

"I'm fine now."

"Uh...okay." More sweat drop appear.

Hayate lifts his head up leaving a dent in the wall. Two corners of Hayate's head begin to ache excruciatingly. Lifting his hand to his forehead, he smooths his hand over a large bump. "Gah."

"Hayate are you okay, there's an awfully large bruise on your head." Karou pointed to his own forehead. "Man, I shouldn't have done that,"Hayate spat out to himself while looking in a mirror; only to see a shade of blue and purple in the dead center of his forehead.

"Oooh that's a pretty bad bruise you got there, Hayate. You want me to get some ice for it?"

"If you insist. Is that alright?"

"Sure, you have done a lot of things for me. I don't mind just getting you ice."

Kaoru walks out the door. "I'll be back in a minute." He pops his head in the doorway.

"Okay."

"Don't hurt yourself while I'm gone."

Hayate chuckles. "I'll make sure of that."

Kaoru smiles cheekily and zips his head out of the door way.

Hayate sits in the purple couch that was across the hanging mirror on the wall. He touches the soar spot. "Tch!" 'If I'm going to freak, I better not bang my head against a hard object to concluded it.'

He leans his head carefull, laying it on the top part of the couch. 'God, I'm so pathetic...'

"Dad, tell me why Hayate is coming with me to the mall again."

Himeno follows her father into the kitchen, with a stern look, but also with crimson cheeks.

"Like I said earlier, I think you and Hayate should spend sometime together," Kaoru says opening up a big freezer he stopped in front of. He takes a scoop as Himeno gives him a plastic bag to put the ice in.

"Hayate and I spend enough time together as it is," Himeno whales out, blushing darker than her hair color.

"What!" Kaoru drops the bag and scoop. "You and Hayate are already dating? Boohoo why do you have to hide secrets from your loving father!" He slumps to his knees and bear hugs Himeno at her stomach.

"Nnnno that's not what I meant!"

"Then what do you mean," he says sharply, fixing the glasses position on the bridge of his nose.

"Uh..." Himeno couldn't help but to let her whole body turn light pink.

"Uh...just as friends?"

"Hmm...," he studies her face closely. Her sweat was dropping furiously and she looked like she was nervous.

"Okay." Kaoru gets back on his feet and continues to scoop ice.

'Phew... that was close. I thought he was going to figure out how I feel.'

Kaoru look over his shoulder,"But don't get the idea that I don't know how you feel about him."

'Did he just read my mind?'

"Himeno?"

She couldn't move, from the thought that her dad could read minds.

"..."

"Himeno..."

"Yeahhh?"

"If you don't want me to spill your secret. Don't go all mute like that on me."

Himeno popps back into the real world. "What kind of dad are you to tell someone that I love Hayate for going all quiet?"

"Pfft, I don't think I'll need too if you keep shouting it out like that."

Himeno steams out; her heart races like a mustang (the type of horse).

Kaoru shoves the scoop back into the freezer and closes the big door.

He takes her by the arm and starts dragging her out the door and down the hallway. Himeno did eat a lot that morning, so she was really heavy to drag, even her father, older and bigger, could barely drag her. But he was using all his strength. That's why he was at least able to make it at the end of the hall that led to the kitchen."C'mon Himeno, don't be like that," Kaoru whines.

"Fine."

Then Himeno uses the arm he's grab a hold of and starts to drag him down the hall easily; opposite of how he drags her.

"Where are we taking this ice to?"

"Reception room number five," Kaoru moans as his lower back slides against the marble floor tiles.

"Why do you need ice for? Are your pretty much writing novels again?"

"Yeah, but Hayate is the one that needs that ice."

"Oh...why?"

Kaoru giggles,"You'll see."

"Huh what's so funny?"

"You'll find out as soon as we go through that door."

"Huh?" Himeno looked down at her dad while she opened the door to reception room five. "Look, Himeno."

Himeno looks up and immediately freezes on the spot, mouth hanging wide open. Hayate, holding a mirror in his hand, rubs the dark bruise on his forehead. He catches the glance of Himeno in the corner of his eye and drops the mirror; his mouth went agape too.

Kaoru scrambles to his feet. "Now Himeno, don't over rea-"

"Ahahahaha!" Himeno held her stomach with tears coming out of her eyes; she points Hayate in this manner.

"Hahaha what happened to you?"

"Now Himeno..." Kaoru waves his hands at her.

"Hahaha, did something hit you?"

Veins began to pop up on Hayate's head. "For you information, I hit my head against the wall."

"Pfft...Why, to knock yourself out because of how your face looks?"

"What wrong with my face?"

"Haha, it looks like this all the time." Himeno made a stern look and went right back to laughing.

"Grr." The harder she laughed, the angrier he got. Then he remembers the time when they first met.

"Ha...when you first met me, you couldn't take your eyes off of me."

Himeno stops laughing in shock, only to see a sly smile on Hayate's face.

"Wwwhat! I did no such thing!"

"Sure...I guess you didn't gaze at me for a long period of time, while you were on top of me after you jump out of that bush."

"Gah! You still remember all of that?"

Hayate stands up from the couch. "So you admit that your were checking me out."

"Nnnno!I..uh..GAH!" She couldn't resist Hayate's pure smile.

All of a sudden, sparkles circled around his face in Himeno's vision. Her body heat rises over it's limits, and blood blasts out of her nostrils. She couldn't control herself, the shine was too much for her.

"Himeno," Kaoru asks.

She perks out of daydreaming, then realizes that blood was all over her shirt. "Ah crap!" Himeno slaps her hand over her bleeding nose. She walks over to Hayate, shoves the ice into Hayate's chest and turns away. "Yyyou better be ready in thirty minutes. Try to find something to cover that bruise," Himeno says, pinching her nose to stop the flow of blood. "Huh?"

"Himeno, you might want to use a tissue," Kaoru holds out a green Kleenex tissue box.

"I'm fine. I'll go to the bathroom and clean up."

She opens the door and walks right out without slamming it really hard. She was partially flustered and mad. Flustered that she was gazing at Hayate too long and mad that Hayate was right about her checking him out on their first collision. 'Dang it, why is he always the one that wins the fight. But he did look funny with that big ol' bruise on his forehead.'

She roamed the halls, looking for her bedroom doors. "Only if this place had a map..," Himeno says under her breath.

Going down the halls, up the stairs, through some more halls, she finally finds her room within seven minutes and forty two seconds ( AN:I just felt like I wanted the time to be more specific.)

'Finally, all that running got me back here.'

'Very amusing.'

'Huh, Michiko? Where did you come from? It has been a long time.'

Himeno undoes the buttons of her white and bloody, collared shirt. She raises her arms over her head and pulls the shirt in an upward motion, sliding it off of her arms and onto the floor.

'Yes it has my dear. Quite a while.'

Hemino opens her closet door and starts to fling cloths onto her bed.

'Michiko, how can you see what I'm doing? And you never told me who you are.'

'I'm you, Himeno.'

'Huh? You're me?'

'Pretty much.'

'But wait... how come you have a different name?'

'To tell the difference.'

'Of what?'

She goes through her pile of clothing, throwing the ones she doesn't want to wear back in her closet.

'So there will be no confusion between you and me. Himeno, I am your feelings.'

'Wow, to me, that's confusing.' Himeno winks out a purple shirt, she shakes her head no and tosses it back.

'I'll explain. I am all your emotions. I help at times when it comes to sadness and anger; so the sadness and anger do not over develop. I was given the power to speak to you after you were able to become Pretear on your own'

Himeno draws out her yellow and blue outfit.

'What happens if the sadness and anger over develop... *Gasp* I could turn into the Princess of Disaster!' Himeno pulls the hair on up from her scalp.

'Very true. If sadness and anger develop over their limit, they will take over all the emotions and will turn it something into a nasty and evil thing.'

'So, what your saying is, if I feel too much of the negative feelings, it'll take over you and might turn me something evil.' She lies her finger on her lip after fiddling with her skirt.

'Close, but no. Once I become taken over, I'll turn into something evil and fight against the heart I belong to.'

'So in every Pretear, its different.' Himeno finishes slipping on her long red sock on her left foot.

'No, every Pretear is the same. But you are different from other Pretears. The Legendary White Pretear will be different. White Pretears are highly rare. Which will make their powers separate and different from all the others.'

'That's very odd.' Himeno slips her shoes onto her size eight feet.

'I never thought that a White Pretear would be any different from any other Pretear. So does that mean I'm special?'

She wipps her blue and yellow top off the hanger on her bed, slides it on, and pulls it over sides. 'Sure, you can say that.'

Himeno rubs the back of her head,"Hahaha, that's so cool!"

"KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK"

"Hey Tulip-head, I need to ask you something." Of course it had to be Hayate. The only person Himeno wished that didn't knock on her door at that exact moment.

"What do yah want," Himeno says loudly to the door.

"If you open this door I can ask you."

Himeno grunts, she really didn't want to talk to him while she was still having a conversation with herself inside her head (AN: I just wanted it to sound funny, that's all.)

'Sorry Michiko.'

'No, no it's fine. As long as you get hooked up with him. Tehehaha.'

'Haha, very funny.'

Fully dressed, Himeno creeks open one of the double doors. Creaking the door, she becomes face to face with Hayate's chest. Himeno tilts her head in an awkward position,"What do you want," she asks brutally.

"Do you have to ask it that way," Hayate snarls. "Yes, just to agitate you," Himeno grins playfully.

"You are really something."

"Yeah, yeah." Himeno slides open the entirely. "So...really what do need Hayate?"

He points to his purplish forehead. "I need help to conceal this bruise."

"Why are you coming to me?"

"I barely know anyone else besides your father, stepmother, and Mr. Tanaka."

'Great, it had to be me to help.'

"What do you want me to do about it?"

"Grr." Hayate was losing his pactience in her. "Stop asking twenty questions and help me."

"Hmm..." 'Why do I do things to annoy him? Is it because I'm too afraid to confess?'

"Hey, don't space out, out of nowhere," Hayate poked Himeno's forehead with his index finger. "Ahh," Himeno blinked her eyes doubly. "You didn't have to do that," Himeno bawls out loudly.

Hayate lights up a smirk of amusement. Himeno's temperature goes up once again. It was not just because it was Hayate smiling, he looked handsome with a smile on as well! Red all over, she was getting ready to blow again. She swiftly turns around, to where her back faced him.

"C..c..an you please sop smiling?"

"...Why does it bother you?"

"Yes it does... so will you please stop?"

"Nope..."

Himeno growled in her throat, loud enough for Hayate to hear.

"If you stop stalling and help me with this bruise, I just maybe will stop bothering you and stop calling you tulip-head, you tulip-head."

Sweat drops on the side of her head, she was not going to get through this easily. She peers over her shoulder,"Fine, come in. I'll think of something."

Sorry for such a long wait. School started not too long ago last month, so I'm even more busier than ever. I can only get to my computer more than I should during school nights. But you know, writing fanfics is the way in keeping me happy. I love Anime/Manga sooo much... /

And my apologies for not ending this chapter properly. I was working on it so long. I just wanted to move on to working on the next chapter. Soo...

God Bless! ;)

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