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Coldzero · (This post was last modified: 07-08-2012, 07:51 PM by Coldzero.)

Part 2: A New Life

A day passed by and Hiro had decided to leave Hikari at the orphanage for the day when her parents went and did their work for the day. Hikari's parents were peaceful people. They wouldn't get angry at most things, only if nature got harmed. They'd protest to the destruction of natural environments but they would always be ignored. Unfortunately, life is cruel and unforgiving in that way. There isn't a great deal of good in life and where there are small sparks of it, it's pushed aside and laughed at like Hikari's parent's were, though they never gave up their fight. They did gather few followers to their 'protect nature' cause but it wasn't enough for bigger jobs at stopping planets from being terraformed and such.

When Mason got news he got a visitor, he didn't know who to expect..kind of the fact that he was beating on some kid who tried to steal the little money he gets as an allowance from the orphanage. It wasn't much but he looked he looked after what he got. He got hold of a stick that was shaped in the form of a Y and he managed to make a slingshot toy out of it. He wouldn't shoot stones at people...most of the time. If he did, it was probably since he saw someone picking on someone else and got bully's attention the easy way - stone to the arse. In most cases, this ended up with a valiant charge from the bully...into Mason's shoe. Mason knew a little of martial arts but was too much of a hot head to use them. He most of the time swung his fist and stuffed people up the old fashioned way.

Back to Hikari. When he got news of his visitor..he stumbled away from the person he beat the crap out of and went ahead to see who it was. When he caught sight of Hikari again...his heart dropped to his feet and froze for a second. Hikari walked up to him and smiled in a shy way, also blushing at the same time. She was always nervous around Mason. Mason tried to speak but the words wouldn't come out. One of his friends came over and nudged him.

'Mason-san. Say something. Don't go soft!' Mason turned to him.

'Ye ye, I know what I'm doing...kinda.' His friend face palmed as Mason tuned back to Hikari.

'Yo Hikari. I..errr... didn't expect to see you again so soon.' As Mason started speaking, his friend wondered off to join with the other friends of his.

'Hai..its okay, Mason-san.' Said Hikari in a low voice.

'Woo! You spoke to me! I mean..Good to see you again' Mason smiled warmly at her while thinking what a fool he was right then. Hikari nodded and blushed.

'Have you noticed you blush quite a lot?' Asked Mason in a playful voice. Hikari looked away as she kept blushing.

'What I say? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you..if I did or something..' Hikari turned back to Mason and smiled at him.

'Hai.' she said softly. Mason turned around and started showing Hikari the playground.

'Err well standing around doing nothing isn't really cool I guess. We have swings over there, some bouncy cra...uhh stuff over there and...' Mason spun around to her and have her a delicate pink flower while smiling confidently. '...A flower here!' Hikari looked at it and smiled. Mason took it and put it into her hair carefully.

'Look at that! Pretty...uh.. not that you weren't before or anything like that 'cause you were and still are, right?' Mason sighed and face palmed. 'I'm such an dummy!' He thought to himself while Hikari looked at him with a kind of blank expression.

'Right..' Mason took her hand gently and pulled her along to the swings.

'This way to the swings!' shouted Mason playfully as Hikari followed him hastily. She had no choice since she was being pulled along. Mason helped her onto the swing and pushed her slowly at first. Hikari help onto the ropes and got scared at first but got use to the feel of the swing and enjoyed it. She started winging by herself while Mason when to the other swing.

'Check this out!' He ran up to the swing and jumped onto it, gripped the ropes and started swinging while standing on it. Hikari giggled at the sight while Mason gave a wide smile and thought to himself 'I'm awesome.' Just before he lost grip of the rope and fell on his arse.

'OU!' Explained Mason as he got up from the ground. Hikari stopped swinging and help over to him.

'Are you okay, Mason-san?' Hikari asked quietly.

'Ye ye. The ground is harder than my butt. Who knew?' said Mason as he started rubbing it. Hikari giggled and the bell was rung for lunch. All of the kids went inside to have lunch, including Mason and Hikari however, Mason couldn't sit still long enough to enjoy his food, on the account his ass was aching from the height he fell of the swing from.

A year passed and Hikari and Mason always managed to see each other. Mason got granted funds from Mr Shizen-no and was able to be sent to the same school as Hikari. Mason didn't live in the same house as Hikari though. Mason looked out for Hikari while at school. Beat the crap out of kids who picked on her, not the girls though but he just called then names and such. He'd sometimes get called into the office to explain is action against the other school mates and always answered with remarks such as 'They pissed me off so I sorted them out myself.' Each time he got punished for it. It wasn't a beating or anything. Instead, he was taught respect and made to follow rules. He'd either have help the cook or clean every of the boards in the school. He detested this since it took up time which could be used for seeing Hikari. After a few months in the new school, he was more disciplined and followed rules better. There was the occasional beating to some of the bullies around the place and Mason would get pulled out of trouble from other kids backing him up. Unfortunately, he got his arse kicked a few time since the school offered martial art lesson, for free up until a point. Hikari passed the point and was being funded the lessons by her parents. Her parents decided it would be okay for Mason to learn some of the moves from Hikari as well since they knew he wouldn't harm her. They took it slow and managed like that, even though Hikari would accidentally knock Mason to the floor with well executed moves. The most common one Mason learned was when the opponent throws a punch straight at him, to sidestep, grab the arm and help him along to the ground using his leg to stop his opponents balance. It worked well at some points but not against Hikari who was always better than him.

They were best friends. They were mostly together whenever they could be, regardless of situations or times. A year afterwards, Mason turned ten and was enjoying life on Planet Honshu. He met up with a young Corsair called Aaron. He didn't tell him his last name but Mason and Hikari didn't mind. Aaron had told them that he was with his uncle on some sort of business trip and Aaron couldn't be left alone on Crete. Aaron's parents were dead. His mother died from a sickness when he was only two years old. His father died on some mission that was too classified to be told to him. Not even his uncle, Rodrigo, knew. All Aaron said is when he catches his father's killer, he'd make him suffer. There was no further discussion on that topic. They spent time in the park, since that's where Rodrigo would leave Aaron. He trusted that Aaron wouldn't do anything foolish like run away or anything. He was left by himself and he seemed to meditate. Meditation at the age of fourteen? Aaron is a fencer as well as a marksman. His skill with a rapier and pistol aren't matched...thus far. He started training to use the weapons at the age of twelve. The only weapon he could carry around with him however was his training rapier. He could use it for defense if needed but he didn't have to. He just about always managed to talk his way out of situations.

After a few weeks, Aaron left back to Crete when his Uncle was finished. Mason and Hikari missed him. It wasn't long after that the Colonials had finished construction of stations in Tau-44 where a ship was gathering up the Colonials that were spread out across Sirius. Most of them went but some didn't. Mason didn't want to leave Hikari but had no choice in the matter. He was taken aboard an IMG Transport where he was taken back to Colonial civilization.

End Of Part 2

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