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I would have updated sooner but I was all caught up in my artwork . Well here is the second chappy! FYI Hino's parents are my own interpretation of them! Read and review 3

"I'm home!"

Hino stretched her long legs and arms as she slipped her shoes off in the front entrance of her home. It has only been a few months but it sure felt like forever since she has seen the inside of this house. Closing her eyes she took in the familiar scent and what came with. Silence.

"Eh? Hello?"

Cautiously taking step by step she called into the seemingly empty house. 'Something doesn't seem...'

"WELCOME HOME MY SUNSHINE FLOWER!"

Surprised by the sudden attack of her sparkle-eyed mother, and the several colorful paper pieces flying around, Hino collapsed onto her behind. In the process of being scarred for life, the umbrella stand sitting too close to the scene of the crime (waaaayy too close) came tumbling down onto Hino's very own head. Thus causing her to temporarily, well hopefully temporary, black out.

Finally coming too Hino slowly opened her eyes. Only to immediately experience regret. There, pacing back and forth, was her mother. The woman that was called Mother looked alot like Hino. Or as people put it, HIno looked alot like her mother. She had the same semi-red hair that she kept quite long. She was always into the tradition side of things and mostly wore a kimono where ever she had went. There were, of course, the rare times that she would be lounging around in some modern clothes. Today was not that day. As well as having her mothers slick hair Hino also shared her eyes. Both mother and daughter had the same innocent look deep in their eyes. Her father could never reject such eyes and, as he would put it, that would be his demise.

"Oh, the humanity! What have I done?! THE HORROR!"

Attempting to not make a sound Hino watched the scene before her.

'Why are they MY family...'

Her father patted her mother softly trying to calm her just a bit. Hino was more like her father in the personality department. Timid, friendly and most times vapid. Though her sudden change in grudge holding was all her own. Knowing her father, he couldn't be mad even if he had wanted to. He kept his dark hair short as well as his dark beard. He took pride in keeping it trimmed and well looking. He was a business man, surprisingly enough, and always looked his sharpest.

"Now now dear, it was nothing but an accident. She will awake soon, i promise."

Slamming into him her mother ranted on,

"DON'T YOU SEE?! I've killed our daughter! Murder!"

Just to up the dramatics she slightly fainted onto Hinos' father. Having been fed up with her mothers dramatics once again, she rose from the couch she had resided.

Sweat dropping from the current situation Hino took action to calm her hysterical mother.

"Oh mother, look.."

She spun around twice to make extra sure her mother was watching.

"I am perfectly fine, there is no need to be so... uuh... worried."

Settling on a word that would least upset her mother she smiled brightly. Suddenly she was captured in a bear hug and taken to the ground. In an attempt to save her life, HIno looked to her father for help, but all she saw was his greedy smile and mocking laugh as he returned to his study.

'My family...'

It's quite. Finally. It was such a busy and loud day once she had returned home. More than usual actually. But of course she understood why. Her mother was not accustomed to letting Hino be away from her for too long.

'Even though this was her idea..'

Sighing she pushed herself from her bed to collect the glass of milk she had poured to calm herself.

'Hopefully tomorrow goes better.'

Once again throwing herself onto her small bed Hino stared at her ceiling. Pondering about how it would feel to see everyone once again. As she imagined how happy she would be tomorrow, the darkness of slumber slowly fell upon her eyes.

"Tsuki...mori..kun.."

"I'm off!"

Hino waved her goodbyes to her family and began her walk to school. As she did so a small smile crossed her lips and she gripped her violin case tighter. Finally, the day was here. Finally she got to play in those magnificent practice rooms. Finally her friends would be around her. Finally, she would get revenge on Tsukimori Len.

Today was a perfect one for revenge. She knew it was a bit shallow and too girly for her to even bother with, but she got up extra early this morning just to make sure everything was perfect. He had called her dull. DULL. HA of all things. Besides the obvious fact of beating him at his own game of violins, she would as well show him how UNDULL she really was.

'If that's even a word...eh oh well.'

That morning she had thrown her hair into what she believed was the prefect, undull, high pony tail. After growing her hair out for a bit it still looked long and full even in its current pulled up state. She had made sure that her school uniform hugged her form and showed all the right curves. And had even double checked herself in the mirror before leaving.

Before Hino had realized she came upon the academy. Eyes wandered around watching all the students excitedly form groups of old and new friends. It wasn't long before her eyes landed on a tall man with green hair. Throwing her arm into the air knowing exactly who it was she attempted to get his attention.

"Hihara-senp-"

That's when she noticed something different. Something... familiar. Something...

"KYAAA!"

There attached to Hiharas' arm was none other than Hinos' female companion Shoko. Both lovers looked over at the sudden, and shocking, scream. This resulted in being met with Hinos' giant grin and blushed face, hands still covering her mouth from her failed assassination of the scream.

"Wha, when, how, what?!"

Slowly approaching Hino, as to not frighten her further, they both his toothy side smile, Hihara began to explain how he had come to confess his feelings to his timid love and how she had surprisingly returned them. Through the summer they had been on several dates and became close.

While she was ecstatic for the two a sudden thought ran through her mind. Just like that last day of school, she saw a scared and alone Shoko. Surrounded by an evil Hihara, attempting to corrupt her!

"NO!"

Interrupting his story the sudden blur of Hino over took Shoko. Hihara turned, confused and what he said to make her shout at him. There HIno was, once again, holding a poor Shoko in defense mode.

"You prevy old man! How dare you!"

Not being able to contain his sweatdrop Hihara sighed at what he was witnessing. A crying Hino clutching to his girlfriend in such a desperate manner.

"...not this again."

...

'How sad...' Hino silently thought to herself. 'Everyone got separated from each other this year.' Not taking her eyes off the entrance to the classroom she hoped with everything she had that one of her friends would suddenly walk in and she wouldn't be alone this year.

'That's it, class is about to start and not one!'

She sighed to herself laying her head on her desk silenty giving up.

'This suuuuuckks'

"Eehhhhhhh"

"Hey, are you alright?"

Hearing the unfamiliar voice Hino, still in depressed mode, slid her head over to see who it had belonged to.

Sitting next to her was a dark haired boy with a kind smile on his face and worry in his eyes. Blinking her depression away she blushed at how this cute stranger saw her being mopey.

"Anoo, hai..."

She gave the best smile she could.

"I was just thinking how sad it was that i had gotten separated from my friends."

The handsome stranger smiled so sweetly it made her heart skip a bit.

"Now's your chance to make new friends then!"

Seeing his optimism and cheerfulness made Hino giggle to herself.

"Hai hai, you're right! I'm Kahoko Hino by the way."

Hino extended her hand and greeted him with a kind smile.

'A friend! Thank goodness..'

Taking her hand he greeted her as well.

"Ituski Toshihiro."

'Maybe this class won't be so bad afterall..'

As class started Hino took this time to study her new friend. He was tall and had strong broad shoulders. His hair was a beautiful black, it was long enough to be slightly over his eyes. His long lashes helped cover his dark brown eyes while he looked down to take notes. Hino had always been a sucker for brown eyes, brown eyes that were staring right back at her...

'CRAP I've been found out!'

Turning away with a small blush embarrassment took over. Yet should couldn't stop herself from one last look. Her golden eyes once again clashed with his brown ones, only this time it came with a warm gentle smile. As if it was contagious she smiled right on back to him.

Class went on for what seemed like forever. Eating up time like a dessert. Soon enough lunch time had rolled around and Hino decided to take hers up to the roof. Some peace and quite was much needed. Especially after that embarrassing moment she was caught sizing up Toshihiro-kun. Taking step by step up to the top floor she hadn't realized another sound other than her own in the hallway.

"Kaho-chan!"

Spinning around on her heel at hearing her name being called by a familiar voice, Hino faced down at the said person.

"Shoko-chan..."

Once depressed and embarrassed eyes lit up at the sight of her young friend and a smile formed on her lips. It was a smile only for Shoko. A gently loving smile that Hino missed doing as much as Shoko had missed seein git. Upon greeting each other excitedly the two pair made their way up to the roof to eat together. Ah nothing like talking the embarrassment out with Shoko. Nothing would make her feel better right now, and Hino was grateful she had run into her just now.

"Ahh I'm glad there was someone so nice in your class Kaho-chan."

Sitting together in the warm wind Hino had told her about her encounter with Itsuki, as well as him catching her in the act of staring him down. Upon hearing about the situation Shoko gave a smile and giggled at her friends embarrassment that, of course, only Hino could cause herself.

"Haai haaaai!"

Hino beamed from talking about her new friend, when suddenly a mischievous grin appeared on Shokos' face. It was very unlike her and Hino knew that teasing was to come of this grin. Shoko was still her shy self around most people, but had opened up to Hino and for that she was grateful to have such a true friend. Hino knew the real Shoko, which she would admit she enjoyed better than the old version. She had helped her grow into a young woman who, still at times became extremely timid, could talk to another person without a panic attack of shyness.

"Sooo, do you like him?"

Stunned by the sudden question Hino shed away as if the statement had wanted to hurt her. With a shocked look on her face she replied in a very guilty like manner.

"EEEHHH?! Shoko-chan! Pffft not even! I just met him! I mean there is no such thing as love at first sight! Right?! HAHAHA love. Pffffttttttt."

"Ano Kaho-chan, i didn't mention love..."

Shoko's words fell short and got lost in the guitly laugh coming from her friend. Giving up on the statement she sat there and enjoyed her friends company.

"Ano Kaho-chan, gomen but i have to do some stuff in the classroom before lunch break is over."

Coming out of her state of denying Hino smiled as Shoko warmly.

"Ah that's alright, I am happy we ran into each other though! Lets eat lunch together every day!"

Hino thrust her fist into the air making Shoko laugh in the process.

"Hai hai!"

Waving goodbye to her, Hino started to clean up her lunch box. It sure was a big relief to see Shoko. She had just seen her that morning but after the long summer without her it was nice to run into a familiar person. And of course she would see her in the practice rooms after school sometimes but Hino still felt all giddy about the thought of being with her friends everyday. She was, in fact, so giddy with joy and deep in thought that Hino had hardly payed attention to her surroundings. Mindlessly she opened the door to the academy and directly bumped into something hard yet warm. Being caught off guard, on both ends, Hino started to fall backwards only to be caught by her wrist from the mysterious person she ran into.

"Etttooo"

Looking up to thank and apologize to her savior she froze. There, holding onto her wrist, was a young blue haired boy. Time froze as the wind blew his hair over his eyes ever so slightly, causing Hino to blush a deep crimson under his golden, shocked stare.

'Nooo...Noo..no..NO!'

Closing her eyes tight as if trying to wake from a dream she could still feel the warmth of his hand around her wrist. Then came his deep, raspy voice that sent shivers through her entire body.

"Kahoko Hino.."

"...Tsukimori-kun."

Kooonnichiwa! There you have it, the second chappy(: I hope you have enjoyed reading it as much as i have enjoyed writting it!

Special thanks to my first reviewer!

KayJayy- Arigato bunny! I am glad you liked my story so far! I hope to hear what you would possibly like to see out of this story as well as your opinion(: