Sweet, good feed back so far! Good reviews and a nice sum of readers considering that few people check this section. We seriously need a .hack//G.U section under games because people would actually check there!!! But we all know that might not happen so we'll just work here. Oh and before I get started, Ryou Misaki actually does look nearly the same as his character Haseo the only difference is that his hair isn't spiky and looks more like his hair style in the Xth form. Well enough talking and let's log into The World!

Hello Chika

Ryou sat at his desk staring out the window. He sighed as he stared across the court yard. He was in school. In fact the bell signaling the start of class hadn't even rung see as how other students were walking around talking to others. He wasn't in the mood to talk for he was still slightly depressed over Alkaid's absence from The World. The bell rang bringing his thoughts. All students stood behind their desk to greet their teacher before taking their seats.

"Good morning students" he said greeting them back. "I have an announcement to make" he paused waiting until the students gave him their undivided attention, except for Ryou's whose thoughts were elsewhere. "We have a new a new student joining us today" he waved his hand signaling the person in. Ryou looked from the corner of his eye to see that the new student was female about 5'1, she wore the same dark blue sailor uniform that all of the girls wore, which fit her quite well I might ad. She had messy chestnut hair that reached her shoulder framing her face well making her look kind of cute even more so that the matched her eyes.

"This is Miss Chika Kuramoto" he said introducing her to the class. Ryou's instantly snapped up upon recognizing the first name. If memory served him correctly the player behind Alkaid was named Chika. How ever on the other hand she never told him her last name. He looked the girl over once again. He noted some similarities between the two. The teacher continued on to say "she recently moved here from Sapporo, Hokkaido."

Ryou's ears perked up when he heard she recently moved. This was either god messing with him a very bad coincidence or…the player behind Alkaid. He tooks a look at her again this time imagining her in Alakid's clothing. The only true difference he could spot was the the hair color, but then again in the world anyone could be anything. Gaspard was a prime example.

The teacher surveyed the room before looking over in Ryou's direction noticing there was an empty desk next to him. "Why don't you take the seat next to Mr. Ryou Misaki" he said as he gestured over to the empty seat next to him. Ryou glared back at the teacher because they both knew Ryou didn't prefer the company of others seeing as how at some point the person felt uncomfortable around him due his personality of him to being cold to everyone along with his ice cold glares that seemed to peirce into one soul. Yet strangely he was number one on the list of guys the girls of the school wanted to date.

As the school year passed the seat infront and behind him were filled but the one at his side remained empty, until today as the the chestnut haired girl took her newly appointed seat. She smiled at him "hello nice to meet you Ryou." A whisper spread around the class seeing as noone had ever tried to talk to him, not even the girls. Yet suddenly this new girl Ryou said nothing as he looked the girl over once again. He made a grunt showing he wasn't interested. Her eyebrow twitched skightly along with her smile "in case you aren't aware of it, you're being very rude!" A hush fell over the crowd at Chika's latest outburst.

Even Ryou found himself speachless before the girl who met his glare. It wasn't that he didn't have anything to say. It was her voice. The sound of her voice was just like, hers. Ryou turned his head giving a muffled apology. Another whisper spread through the class seeing as the had never thought it possible for Ryou to even attemopt an apology. 'Just what about made him act so different' was the thought that everyone had running threw their minds.

The rest of the day proceeded as any other school day, except for their literature class. The book they were reviewing today Romance of the three kingdoms. Ryou never planned to be very active in class, ever. But today he had to test something. He raised his hand to answer a question he knew the answer too, thanks to Alakid constantly talking about it. But he purpousfully answered it wrong! And just as he expected the new girls hand shot up to correct his error. After that the class proceeded with both of them facing off answering each question the teacher threw at him.

The bell sounded signaling the start of the lunch period. Ryou watched as other around him shifted around the classroom to join their friends in conversation as they ate together. Seeing as how Ryou tended to ignore people no one actually tried to sit near him. Looking to his side he saw that the new girl remained unmoved as she took out her lunch. He noticed the slight smell of ramen and miso in the air.

He ate his lunch in peace taking brief glance to his side to look at the girl. When she finished her lunch she quietly packed up her things before leaving the room. Ryou watched her leave the room before he too left the room. The class momentarily fell silent as the watched him leave the room. Ryou had never left the room before. Even stranger the had all noticed Chika leave the room as well. They all came to a conclusion, the two were up to something. They sent out a small group of students to spy on the two.

Ryou walked down the hall, his target still within view, unaware that he himself was being followed. When he reached the end of the hall a few turns later a voice said "why are you following me?" He turned to see the 5'1 girl staring up at him arms crossed looking furious.

"I needed to ask you something important."

Chika's eyebrow gave a slight twitch "so all of a suddent Mr. I'm too good to talk to the new girls wants to talk!" She jabbed him in the chest with her inde finger. "Oh I see how it is, when some one want to talk to you they don't exist but you expect the whole world to stop when you want to ask a question?" She raised her fist as if to take a swing at him "why I 'outta-"

"What do honeysuckles symbolize" Ryou said cutting her off.

Chika's eyes widened at his words as her fist relaxed in the air before dropping to her side. "W…what did you say?" She took a step back a hand placed over her heart as if to ease it's now rapid beats.

"I said 'what do honeysuckles symbolize" Ryou said advancing closer to the poor girl, who took a step back.

"They mean 'devoted affection,' why?" A small blush reached Chika's cheeks as she continued to back away but her attempts were stopped when her back met the wall. She saw a small smirk reach her pursuers lips, she cringed in fear. "What do you want you freak!" She was summoning up all the courage she had within her to stand her ground when suddenly he started laughing. "What? What's so funny?!" she stared back at him her cheeks huffed out.

"You hadn't noticed have you?" Ryou said still slightly laughing.

"Noticed what?" she said still not catching on. She suddenly felt herself being pulled into a tight embrace. She squirmed in his arms "what the hell do you think you're doing? Let me go!"

"Not just yet" he whispered in her ear.

"W-what do you mean?!"

Ryou buried his head in the crook of her neck "you left my life once and I fought to bring you back…but you left my life again but this time I wasn't sure if I could bring you back. This time I couldn't just yell at it hack at and hope it would help me get you back. I thought I had lost you forever, my empress."

The words played through her mind over and over. There was only one person that could speak those words to her. But what sealed the deal was when he had called her 'his empress'. She was sure that neither of them was of royal decent so the only other conclusion was that this person knew that she had once been the demon palace empress of the game known as The World. Not even her closest friends from her previous school knew that. There were only two people that could know that, Haseo and Silabus. But Silabus was never told about the honeysuckle incident. That could only mean…

"H-Haseo…" she said in a faint voice so only he could here.

Ryou released her and smiled before saying "it's nice to see you again Alkaid."

Chika looked as if she was about to cry but in a flash he expression switched to rage as slapped his cheek. "You stupid jerk!"

Ryou rubbed his cheek and stared back at her huffing figure. "What did I do?!"

"You should have told me it was you! I thought some sicko was going to try to take advantage of me" she said stomping her foot.

Ryou motioned his hands to tell her to quite down as he looked around to see if anyone heard. "But it was kind of fun to see your expression."

"Fun?! That wasn't fun! What if I ended up breaking your arms and legs?!"

Ryou laughed again before giving a light smile "You're so cute when you're mad Chika." Chika blushed as she stared back at him as he turned to walk away trying to figure out why he'd call her by her real name and not just addressed her as Alkaid along with the fact he called her cute. She understood in second. He didn't want anyone to figure out that both the ex-terror of death who was also the arena emperor and the ex-demon palace empress went to their school. They'd never get a moment of peace.

Ryou looked back at her momentarily "are you coming or what?"

Chika gave a slight giggle "Yeah" Chika nodded at him with a small on her face. She rushed to catch up with him so they could walk back to class together.

TBC

2nd chapter over! But that doesn't mean the stories over! We can't just leave it like this! So I'm turning you over to the narrator!

Narrator: Haseo and Alkaid have found each other once again. But now they have found each other in the flesh as their human forms as Ryou Misaki and Chika Kuramoto. But they can't be happy just yet. Unknown to them those two spies heard nearly every word. Their identities on The World may have been compromised or they could still be safe. Find out on another episode of 'Meeting you on the other side' a .hack//G.U fanfic!