Author’s Notes:
Hello again!!!  I’m back!!  What will I write for this part????  I have no idea!!  I am NOT pushing you to read, you may just press back and forget about this.  AAAARRGHH!!!  I must search my brain…my creativity is escaping me!!!!  Where is it?  WHERE IS IT???!??!!????!??!?!??!??!?!  Geez…I AM crazy.  Please, enjoy…as long as there’s still a LITTLE bit of creativity left.

Mikagami sighed.  Yanagi.  Yanagi is…a lot.  Yanagi is kind.  Yanagi is nice.  Yanagi is lovely.  Yanagi is affectionate.  Yanagi is beautiful.  Yanagi is a resemblance to his sister.  Yet, Yanagi is Recca’s.  Her heart only belongs to Recca.  She only has Recca in her eyes.

However, that is what she wants.  What she needs.  What she demands.  Recca.  Recca, the Hokage ninja from 400 years ago.  Recca the flamecaster.  Recca, the owner of Yanagi Sakoshita.  Mikagami knew it.  He understood.  Yet, he was hurt.

He didn’t know why, and he never wanted to know why.  He felt that all the pain he had was enough.  True.  He had enough.  He didn’t need anymore painful experiences.  He didn’t need rejection.  He didn’t need to ask if he already knew the answer.

He wanted to get out.  He wanted to be released.  From all the pain.  From all the hurt.  From all the agonizing lost.  He wanted to start anew.  He wanted to stop.  He wanted to stop.  He had had enough.  For ever.  All the pain he had started to eat his heart.  All the hurt he had started to rip his soul.  All the lost he had started to devastate him completely.

He wanted to stop thinking about Yanagi Sakoshita.  He wanted to stop thinking about Mifuyu Mikagami’s death.  But, somehow, he didn’t want to forget.  He wanted to keep the memories.  Hell, he wanted so much!!  There’s no way for his wishes to be granted.  But they had to be granted.  They had to.  They just had to.
 

He sighed again.

“Oi, Mi-chan, are you alright?” Fuuko tapped his back.

“Huh?  Yeah.  Sure.” Mikagami answered dryly.

Fuuko kept quiet.  Well…she just realized that Mikagami had been staring to Yanagi.  Yeah, must be lovesick.  Poor guy…  He ain’t able to remove the feeling.  It just…stays there.  Same like her.  It’s all the same.  No difference.  No difference at all.

“Yanagi, eh?” she whispered after making sure Yanagi wasn’t near them.

He was silent.  That means “yes”.

“Oh.  Well then, what’ll you do?” said Fuuko.

“What are you talking about?”

“You’re in love with Yanagi, everyone can see that, baka.  Now what’re you gonna do since you can’t have her?” Fuuko retorted.  The smartest student couldn’t even figure out what she meant?  Sheesh.  The sky is falling down.  Pigs are flying.

Yet, he was silent again.  Fuuko scowled.  She was just trying to help!!  But she saw his expression.  Stoic.  Really poor guy.  She should be nicer to him.

“I’m sorry if you don’t wanna talk about it.  You don’t have to if you don’t want to,” she forced a smile.

“Thank you for understanding.” Mikagami answered.  And with that, he stood up, and left.
 

He was in his room, alone.  The lights were off.  The room was dark.  He sat on the bed, staring at the thing he held.  He held a picture.  A picture of Yanagi, no, Mifuyu.  Mifuyu.  Mifuyu.  NOT Yanagi.

“Mifuyu-neechan, please help me.”
 

Fuuko was also in her room, no, it was the girls room.  The boys got a room, but Mikagami preferred a private place.  No, she was NOT alone.  There were Yanagi, Ganko, and Kondo.  Yanagi was making the next series of Recca-Man while Ganko was playing with Kagerou’s make up kit.  Kondo was making fun of her master.

Mikagami is in love with Yanagi, she thought.  But he realizes that he will never have her, so he remains quiet.  Ahh…the popular love triangle.  Too bad Fuuko has NO interest in such things.  Yanagi would, but she is not Yanagi.  Fuuko is Fuuko.  When she loves, she loves.  When she stops loving, she lets go.  But not in her case at the moment.  She was in love with Raiha.  And she’s NEVER gonna stop loving him.

Well, since he tried to help Fuuko, Fuuko had to help him too!!  She’s a girl who’s thankful for help, and one who appreciates friendships.  That means Fuuko would help him.

“DONE!!” Yanagi proudly pronounced to no one in particular.  She held some paper in her right hand while the other hand held a book.  “Done!!  The new, REVISED, series of RECCAMAN!!!!  Reccaman And Friends!!!” She cheerfully hugged the stuff.

Fuuko sweatdropped.  Ganko grabbed the book and read it.  Ganko looked like a vampire.  Pale face (too much compact powder), pink lips (SHOCKING pink), red cheeks, blue and gold eyelids, long earrings, she looked like those Chinese zombies.

“Wow!!  Cool!!  Reccaman’s friends are so cool, Yanagi-neechan!!” Ganko grinned.

Fuuko sweatdropped again.  Aw, a vampire grinning.  Yuck…except this one had yellow hair and the size was a few times smaller than the normal, jumping, Chinese vampires.  But she wanted to see Yanagi’s newest masterpiece too.

“Let me see that!!” Fuuko jumped.  “Oh…Reccaman has a friend who’s sad…huh?  She’s…in love with this particular someone she was supposed to fight with?  Starcrossed lovers???  Romeo and Juliet all over again?????  Yanagi, what the HELL is this all about??!?!!?” Fuuko yelled.

Yanagi quickly covered it with her lying talent.  “Uh, Fuuko, I just watched Romeo and Juliet at the Couples Awards.  I thought it was very nice, so I got an inspiration and I came out with this!  Why are you so angry anyway?”

Fuuko blushed…Yanagi’s right…she was so sure Yanagi meant her and Raiha.  Yanagi knows nothing, and it better stay that way… “Sorry, sorry…I guess that was too much, ha?  I mean, I was just, you know me, I don’t like this kind of stuff…lovesick people…blech!!  No offense intended, but I just don’t like it, okay?”

Yanagi nodded.  She smirked in her head, “Yeah, right…” but instead, she said, “No harm done.  Anyways, I want to go to Recca-kun’s place to show him my masterpiece.  So, bye, you guys!!” Yanagi hopped away.

Ganko followed her, “Yanagi-neechan!  Wait for me!  I want to show Koganei-niichan my make up!!!!!!” She ran behind her, Kondo jumping up and down on her head.  Fuuko sweatdropped AGAIN, imagining Koganei’s comments.

She was left alone, and she had nothing to do.  Surely she couldn’t go to Recca’s room; Domon would crush her with his bear-hugs, saying, “Fuuko!!!  Are you okay??!!??!  I heard you were drunk????!!!!!”  Kagerou was in the big kitchen cooking…she’s the best cook ever.  She knows good food since 400 years ago.  She didn’t want to go to Uruha’s place, she had to see Raiha then, so…the one left was…Mi-chan.
 

Fuuko knocked on the door.

There was no answer.

Knock, knock.

Still the same.

Knock, knock, BANG!!

Okay, Fuuko’s ALSO very impatient, and she couldn’t survive being ignored.

STILL no answer.  Fuuko couldn’t take it anymore.  She slammed the door open, in other words, she broke the door.

“Hey, be careful with the door.  I don’t want to pay for it,” She could hear Mikagami’s voice.

FINALLY!!!  She heaved a sigh of relief.  Even though she couldn’t see a thing.  The room was dead dark, windows all closed.  “Geez, Mi-chan, what’re you trying to do here?  Practice to be blind?” uttered Fuuko.

“No.”

“Well??”

“Well what?”

“Well, have you figured out what’re you gonna do?”

“I have no intention of talking about this.”

“Well I do!  I changed my mind, and now you’re gonna tell me what I wanna know, okay?!  Now, tell we what’re you gonna do??!!!  I mean, if you keep feeling this way, you’re gonna get hurt even more!!” Fuuko exclaimed.

“It’s none of your business,” replied Mikagami solemnly.

“Sheesh, Mikagami!!  Don’t you understand???!!!  You HAVE to share!  You’ll get worse, you’ll get hurt.  I know you insist that you need nobody, you think you can survive yourself.  You’re still human, aren’t you?!  I know you’ve been hurt a lot, and you think letting someone close to you will hurt you again…but…” Fuuko was cut.

“You know nothing!  You don’t know the feeling of being betrayed!  Double crossed!!  You’d never understand!!  Do you know how painful it was?!  Left alone when you were only ten?!  Your own sister, murdered by your own teacher?!  By your own mentor?!  The one who you trusted all your life?!  The only one who cared about you?!!  You have never felt any lost all your life!!!” Mikagami bellowed.

Fuuko was shocked.  Mikagami…

“Go…gomen, Mikagami.  I…I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.  I’m sorry, honest.”

Mikagami continued his silent treatment.

“I just felt that you were acting like a child, who’d never learn.  Who would never forgive, nor let go.  Sorry.  I understand that you’re deeply hurt, but…you have friends, Mikagami.  You do, believe me.  We’re all your friends.  Sure, we get into little fights sometimes, but… You just have to understand, Mikagami.  You have to learn that opening your heart to us won’t do any harm.  You have to trust us.  I know…your feelings for Yanagi will remain unchanged.  But don’t let it become a barrier between you and her, no, you, and us.  You can learn to forgive, learn to understand, learn to love again.  You can’t turn back time.  C’mon, Mikagami.  You still have time.  You have a second chance.  Mifuyu wanted you to live, that’s why she died.  Not only that, she wanted you to live your life.  A life is a gift from God, and you may not waste it.  The past is the past.  You have to move on.  Forget all the bad memories.  Never reminisce, recollect, nor recall about the day that you became the ‘you’ now.  You have the good memoirs of your sister.  The times you spent together, you have to treasure them, Mikagami.  That way you can appreciate your gift, your life.  You can be glad you had Mifuyu.  You’ll be glad you know her.  Having her as a sister. Please…Mikagami.  You HAVE to move on.” Fuuko stopped, waiting for an answer.

She didn’t get it.  “Well, I’m sorry I wasted your time!!  I know, my blabbering was completely insane, wasn’t it?  So, I’ll get outta here and leave you alone again!!  Bye!!!” She obliged a smile, waved her hand, and turned her back, walking to the door.

“Wait.”
 

Author’s Notes:
Nah, that wasn’t so bad, was it?  Now I finally located my creative side of my brain!!  Yippee!!  Well anyways, this chapter is kinda short, bear with me.  Whew, it’s gonna be long, ha?  I thought we would only have three or four chapters, but I don’t think that’d be enough.  Still, I’m waiting for your comments!!

Now I’m having a BIG problem.  Softening Mikagami is SOOOOO hard!!!  I mean, I have to keep him in character, but it’s just too difficult!!!!  So, gomen nasai if Mikagami’s WAY too OOC.  I hope not, though.  I’m having more fanfic ideas sprouting, thanks to my creative side.  But I have to finish this first.  If I start with a new one, this would never be completed!!!!

Please, send me your comments to eternal.lover@mikagami.zzn.com !!  And I’m trying to make an FoR – RK – FY crossover.  Would someone help me?  Arigatou gozaimasu!!