6. Im Here! (1/2)

author's note: thanks for

the reviews! now time for more kiyota and arika moments!

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chapter 6: i'm here!

dream sequence

"let me go!

hanase!" a young arika cried as a bully grabbed by the arm

demanding for her pocket money. "i will not give them to you, you

bully!" young arika spat.

"that's right, so let her

go!" a young kiyota demanded towering the bully. the bully stared at kiyota

and snarled at him. kiyota smirked and said, "so i see... you want a fight

eh?"

with that kiyota punched the

bully in the face and in the stomach. the bully ran off crying for his mommy.

young kiyota approached the crying arika, and said, "nee don't cry

arika-chan!" with that he wiped the tears of arika.

"kiyota-kun..." arika

replied looking at kiyota. kiyota grinned to her and exclaimed, "don't

worry now arika-chan, i'm here!"

"i'm here...."

"i'm here...."

end of dream sequence

he watched her as she lay sleeping

there on the bed. he had to call his sister to come over in order for someone to

change arika's clothes. her sister told him to keep watch on arika, for she was

burning with fever and since no ones around except for shinichi, he had to stay

making sure that arika will be fine.

shinichi sighed as he put down a

bowl of noodles in front of kiyota. "nee-chan always comes home crying...

she never tells me why, demo i know that she's not happy in kainan."

shinichi replied seating beside kiyota.

"not happy in kainan? she's

very smart, students and teachers praises her because she's a genius in

science!" kiyota exclaimed in disbelief. "that's what you think,

that's because you don't know what's the truth!" arika replied. shinichi

and kiyota turned their heads at her. she was awake already.

shinichi grinned and exclaimed,

"nee-chan you're awake!" arika smiled at her young

other and

replied, "i'm fine now shinichi...anou... kiyota and i need to talk, can

you go down for awhile?" shinichi hugged arika and replied, "hai! i'm

glad you're okay now." with that shinichi left the room.

arika carefully sat erected from

the bed, kiyota helped her saying, "you scared me back there arika, what

happened?" arika looked at him and replied, "if i tell you, would you

believe me?" kiyota nod his head. arika sighed and shook her head.

"what? common arika, don't you

trust me?" kiyota exclaimed. arika exclaimed tears streaming from her eyes

again, "can you blame me if i don't? do you really think i'm happy in

kainan?! teachers may praise me, students may look up to me... that's because

i'm good in science but another than that, they think i'm a loser! a dirt

bag!"

kiyota grabbed arika by the

shoulder and demanded, "what make you think that arika? jin looks up to

you, according to you, you're an amazing girl and i believe that! what make you

think that you're a dirt bag arika?"

arika jerked off crying,

"because i am!" kiyota frowned and exclaimed, "back there arika,

you told me that ria..." he was cut off by arika saying, "yes ria made

me look like a dirt bag! i'm one of ria's dog who has to beg for mercy upon her

feet in order to live and survive in kainan. she always treat me like trash,

always yanking my hair, scaring me if i don't do this and that she'll embarrass

me in front of all the students of kainan!"

she paused for a second and

demanded, "tell me kiyota, why do you think i ended like that in the rain?

tell me, common tell me?" kiyota looked down and exclaimed, "i-i don't

know..." arika made a laugh and exclaimed, "of course how would you

know, you're one of those people who didn't see how ria is, how the real ria

is."

"she did that because you were

hers and she thinks i'm flirting with you, but you see i'm not and did she

believed that? i don't think so, so she dragged me off and soiled me with mud

and warned me to stay away from you. you kiyota nobunaga!" arika cried

looking at kiyota with anger at her eyes. kiyota didn't looked up and didn't

said anything.

arika sighed and replied, "i

knew it, you won't believe me, but that's the truth. so from now on, stay away

from me and i'll stay away from you. i regret agreeing to be your tutor, you can

leave me now kiyota... thanks for your kindness."

kiyota stood up without looking at

arika and went off. as kiyota left the room, arika hung her head low and cried.

kiyota didn't believed her, why would he, after all, she is no one... no one at

all...

the very next day, kainan

grounds

arika scrubbed her eyes, it was

very difficult to see without her glasses. she carefully walked among the school

grounds so that she won't trip. last night, all of her dreams of being with

kiyota, making friends with him were all washed away in the rain and soiled in

mud. kiyota hates her now, like the rest of the students of kainan.

"well, well, well, ain't it

the dirt bag arika fujisawa!" ria exclaimed with a raised eye

ow. she was

wearing he cheer leading uniform. meai and tanya snickered at the sight of

arika. arika ignored them and continued walking.

ria frowned and grab arika by the

arm saying, "don't you dare ignore me like that you dirt bag!" with

that she pushed arika to the floor. in near tears, arika asked, "what do

you want?" ria smiled and said, "you know what i want"

"i'm staying away from him

okay? he'll never approach me ever again, he'll loath me the way you loath me

too! are you satisfied with that?" arika exclaimed standing up to her

feet.

slap!

a hard slap landed on arika's right

cheek. ria smirked and exclaimed, "actually i'm not yet that satisfied dirt

bag!" with that meai handed ria a paper. "this is my assignment for

history this coming friday. i want that finished before, you got that dirt

bag?"

as arika reached for the paper a

voice cried, "don't you dare take that arika fujisawa!" arika turned

around and there stood kiyota nobunaga with jin souichiro. ria went pale and