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~Shiori~

Chapter 4: Bad Dream

'Yato! Over here!'
'Yato... I-'

Beepp... beepp...

" ! " Yato woke up from his wierd dream. He rustle his messy hair. He knew that he always had the same dream every once a year.

"...I always want, to never remember that day anymore..."

"It's hooottt~ Hiyoriiinn~" Kofuku walk like an old drunk man because of the heat. It's only the second week of the summer, yet it's really too hot. "If you keep walking like that we never got to school." Hiyori kept walking in straight line, leaving Kofuku behind. "Hiyoriiinnn~" Kofuku whine even more when Hiyori tried to leave her. She gave a short sigh.

"Come on. It's just another short walk. Okay?" Hiyori gave her heart-warming smile. That kind of smile will always make anyone huggle or jump on Hiyori. Just what Kofuku did to her now.

"Hiyorin~ What date is today?"

"Hm?" She looked at her digital wrist watch "It's August 9th. Why?"

Kofuku looked down to the road and said something. Hiyori can only heard her in the beginning "I wonder if Yato-chan..." "Kofuku?"

Kofuku shook her head and turn back into her natural cheerful self "Let's go, Hiyorin!" Kofuku is smiling now. But earlier... Hiyorin knows, that Kofuku and Yato are hiding something.

"Hiyorin~ I just realize that you tied your hair. Are you trying to show your charm to Yato-chan~? Hmm~?" Kofuku teased her when they enter the school gate.

Hiyori's face light up bright red "N-no! I-it-it's summer and I got real sweaty!" Of course. Our little Hiyori is so cute when she tried to deny the facts.

"Ah, Yato-chan!" Hiyori jolt as soon Kofuku shout his name. Yato is walking inside the gate with his eyes focused on a small light novel he was reading. Wearing the summer uniform with his shirt untucked and tie loosely around his neck. His short sleeves are a little rolled up to show his upper quiet shaped arm muscle. Plus, his silk black hair is tied to a small low ponytail. Oh, summer is a great season indeed.

"Hm? Morning you two." Yato greet the two of them with a smile. But Hiyori felt it's not his same gentle smile. Yato walk ahead of them, he stopped when he's next to Hiyori.

He whisper something in her ear. Her face light up even before he got to talk. "Your hair style today is new. It's cuter." Then he left. Hiyori stone up without saying anything.

"Oh my Hiyoriinn~ You're steaming up~"

Since that morning, Hiyori's been spacing out in every subject the whole day.

First homeroom

"Iki-san! Iki-san! IKI-SAN! ANSWER THE QUESTION PLEASE!"

P.E (Physical Education)

"Iki-san! Look out the ball-!"

Lunchbreak

"Hiyoriinnn~ It's lunch~ Heeyyy~" Still no effect. Kofuku lost her patient and began to pull her cheeks. Hard. "oww! Oww! Ko-kofuku?!"

"Finally! What's with you?! You're the same as Yato-chan today! Spacing out all day long!" Hiyori never saw Kofuku that mad before. Well, once or twice but it's usually food-related.

"Eh? Yato is? How did you know?" Hiyori's face is full of curiosity. The opposite, Kofuku's face is smeared with sweat all over. "A-ah! I'm going to buy some Melon Bread! Bye-bye Hiyoriinn~"

And she flew off. "...I hate being left out."

School's finally over. Hiyori tidy up her stuff. She's not like herself today. Neither are Kofuku and Yato. Those two are childhood friends and there are a zone in their past that she cannot enter. But, she... She love Yato. She want to break the boundaries between them.

"Hiyorin? What's wrong?" Kofuku walk over her desk. She look up and gave a serious look to Kofuku. "Kofuku. You know where Yato is, right?"

Kofuku's eyes widened. "Why do you want to know?" The atmosphere between them become tense. It's the first time that they're surrounded by a tense aura when they talk.

"Please tell me. I beg you." She bow her head in front of Kofuku. It doesn't matter if she get laughed at. Yato's presence and smile now are the most important thing for her.

"Are you going to chase after him?"

"Yes. This time I won't run away." She kept her head down until, Kofuku hugged her and she fell to the floor. She felt her shoulder got wet. Is she crying? She didn't bother to check, but she wrap her arms around her for comfort. "Kofuku?"

"Hiyorin... I beg you... Please... You can't let Yato-chan got alone again... I know, that me and Kazu-chan are with him... but... I believe. You're the only one who can change Yato-chan back! I beg you..." Hiyori didn't fully understand what Kofuku said. All she know that, she need to find him and tell him what she felt.

"I understand. If I can made it or if I can't I'll always be with him. I love him. That's why." Hiyori's eyes become watery. Her tears falls down slowly to her cheeks.

"Hiyorin..."

Hiyori run across the street. She follow the instruction that Kofuku gave her. It's a vague place for a male high schooler to be at this time of hour. But, she only has this information to find him.

'You know the park next to the train station? I only have a rough guess, but. That's probably where Yato-chan are. There used to be a big pine tree and a cottage there. If you search now, you can still meet him.'

The station... She run pass through the railway as soon it's allowed. But she's not sure that it's the park that Kofuku mention. All she know, the nearest place to the station with lots of trees are the Natural Exhibition Museum.

"...Is it in the museum?" She told to herself. She saw there's a metal fence guarding the forest. It's a complete imposible for a person to pass. But wait... Behind the bushes...

"It's cut down? And it's in a size for adult to enter..." She squat down to get in to the forest. At first sight, she saw a big stump of cut down trees and a burnt down wood mansion. She's confuse... Kofuku said...

"Wait... She said, 'used to be' which means... This is the place...?" She gulped. Suddenly she heard the bushes make some noise. And it's definitely not the wind. The figure got more clear. It's the first person who she expect to come here.

A guy with silk black hair and bright blue cat-like eyes.

"Hiyori?"

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