Chapter 2

Hello comrades, welcome to the second chapter of my story and I hope you all enjoyed, I want to explain some things that were brought to me: Yes, Delf was destroyed by the dragon, but was repaired as a wedding present (in my story), next, Saito won't just get away with pulling out a sword on a train, that comes later. Anyway, I do not own The Familiar of Zero, enjoy.

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"Saito," his wife asks. "What was on that piece of paper you just gave her?" she asks jealously as the pair walks out of the store.

"Nothing, nothing," he replies a little defensively, "I just gave her my home address and home phone number so she can contact me if the thugs come by again."

"Phone number?" she asks, "what is that Saito?" she says still questioning him.

"It's nothing Louise," he tells his beloved nothing but the truth, most of the time. "A phone is something you use to talk to someone even far away.

"I don't get it," his wife says, earning her husband a complementary facepalm. "What?" she says noticing her husband's display. "I'm not stupid!" she yells at him.

"I'm just realizing how long it's going to take to get you to this world" he says still burying his face in his palms. "I'm glad I brought you here, but this is going to be trouble" he admits.

"Well I'll do what I can" she says lovingly looking into his eyes, she slowly gets on her tip-toes and gives him a kiss on the lips.

"SAITO?!" a male voice calls out from behind the married pair. "What the hell was that? Where the hell have you been?! It's been two years!" the male figure then runs up and gives Saito a hug.

"H-Hayate?!" Saito returns the hug in full, "Hey man! I thought I'd never see you again! How have you been?" Saito answers energetically hugging the man back, while Louise looks at the boys, awestruck.

"Saito, who is this" his wife inquires, still shocked on the amount of PDA coming off the two men in front of her.

"This is my good friend Hayate Mariko from school," he informs her, jovially, still hugging his friend. "We've been friends ever since I was a small child." Louise opens her mouth to respond when Hayate cuts her off first.

"Saito, we're good friends, and I've known you for a long time right," Saito nods his head, wondering where this is going, "I know you have terrible luck with women, what the hell were you doing making out with her," his friend questions him. Saito opens his mouth to come up with something, knowing his friend would never believe he got married, when his wife drops the "bomb."

"Nice to meet you Hayate-san, I'm Hiraga Louise, Saito's wife," she says with an open sense of proudness, Saito's jaw hits the floor and he turns to his friend.

"Ah yes of course, Saito's wife," Hayate starts with a calm demeanor, he then turns and punches Saito in the gut as hard as he can,

"What the hell do you think you're doing jackass! You are gone for two years, come back, and say you're married?! Dude, I'm not into you like that but I missed you almost as much as your parents!" He barks while Saito is still regaining his breath, with Louise helping him up, Saito starts to think.

"It's been bugging the back of my mind ever since we got back from Halkeginia, I was wanting to put it off until later, but I have to face my family, they won't just up and forget two years of me going missing." He sits in silence, while getting a quizzical look from Hayate, who in turn is getting a death glare from Louise.

"Louise, calm down," he says to his wife before his friend blows up, "I deserved that, I didn't take into consideration about how my loved ones were affected by my time with you," he tells his wife.

He turns to his friend, whose face he still can't read, "Hayate come with me, I will explain everything to you as well as my parents at my house. Hayate just nods.

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Walking back in silence for around ten minutes, Hayate finally speaks up, "Saito do you know what happened to your family?" he asks his friend.

Hearing this, Saito can't help but feel a little worried, but then his friend speaks up again, "nothing fatal happened to your family, they're fine," hearing that, he relaxes. "Your 'disappearance' nearly destroyed your mom, she completely shut down" he says, making Saito hang his head, desolated. "It took her a full year to even sort of cope with you being gone, she still isn't right" he says before Saito interjects.

"I never meant for what happened to happen," he trails off, looking at his wife who is starting to tear at that statement, "but I wouldn't have changed it if I had a choice." She visibly perks at that part, so he continues, "I enjoyed my time, I met Louise and fell in love, she made me work for it, but I'm glad I did." He says not telling a single lie to his friend.

"How can you say that," his friend barks, "do we not matter enough for a phone call? Do we not matter enough for a letter? What you are saying is: pushing your mother into depression was worth it?" His friend says accusingly.

Saito was going to defend himself, but then it clarifies for him, "I barely thought about my family at all." He thinks, realizing his friend had hit home.

"You're right Hayate, I was intractable, and didn't think enough of my family, but I did NOT, ignore you all on purpose." Saito defends himself. By this time, they had stopped walking and were now bickering in the streets.

"What do you mean?!" his friend, now feeling offended and degraded asks, "you had time to find a wife," purposely spitting acid on the wife part, "but you couldn't find a phone to contact us, your mother almost took her own life you moron." His friend finalizes his point.

"I-I-I didn't know, Hayate please forgive me," Saito says almost wanting to break down, but doesn't, keeping composure in front of his friend. Louise pats her husband's back.

"Hayate-san, please wait for Saito to explain himself at his house, you will learn it's my fault, please don't hate Saito." She says almost begging, not wanting her husband to lose his best friend because of her.

"Alright," Hayate finally gives in, "I will give you the benefit of the doubt because we are such good friends," he says, even if a little callously. "I'm still only being this cold because if this is true, Saito got a girlfriend before I did."

"Thank you Hayate-san," Louise says brightly.

"Please, call me Hayate."

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Thanks for reading as always, I hope you like it. Please bear with me, I try to add good vocabulary, but it is sometimes hard to come up with other ways to put: "He says," or "He states." I'm trying and I hope you don't have too many complaints. Please review, leave what you thought and what I could improve on, I can take it, I changed my writing style because I got a review saying it would be easier to read, I do read your reviews, thanks again. Stay beautiful 3