A minute ago I had a cut on my neck, holes on my body, dirt that came from the bottom of their shoes, the Pkers, as they kicked me. I looked horrible. Keyword: looked. Now I was as good as new. Then I saw it, the image of the Pkers. Water welled up in my eyes, both in real life and in ‘The World.’ My character started to cry. Under this beautiful scenery where the sky had so many shades like orange, red, pink, with water running to the Venice like music making things so soothing and carefree, I was crying. I noticed I was near a public area so I stopped my crying and tried to move on. I went down to the magic shop and saw an alleyway. So I walked over down it. I saw a set of boxes and sat on one of them, looking at the scenery. Again the two Pkers came to mind. I made a “GUU!” sound as tears welled up again. This time none saw this pitiful sight. I was pitiful and in real life, water from my eyes welled up and fell onto the ground and in my hair. I didn’t know how to mute the microphone so my cries were heard in the game. “Are you alright?” I heard a boys voice say.

“I’m …okay.” I said in between sobs.

“You don’t look like it, so why are you crying?”

I looked around and saw him sitting on a box next to me. He had green hair, green eyes, and green clothes. The only thing was that wasn’t green was red triangles on his cheeks.

“Like you care!” You cried out, I started to hit the boxes and then I inched more to the left; to him. I hit the box he was sitting on, and then started to hit HIM! Then, before I knew it, he had his arm around my back. Almost…hugging me! I looked up with tears rolling down.

“Tell me.” I stopped as soon as he said that, tears stopped, fists stopped, sadness stopped.

“I..I was..Pked.” I muttered under my breath almost emotionless. The boy spoke up, “So you were killed!”

“Yeah.”

“That’s horrible!”

“..Yeah..”

He smiled and stood up. I made Sunshine stand also.

“Look.” he turned my character and I was greeted by the sun of Mac Anu.

“No matter how much you go through the sun will always be here. There are things like that, bad, but you also meet good people in life and in The World too. Believe me, although my first friend wasn’t like that, I do know the pain of your character being killed. I’m not strong, I started playing yesterday.. you?”

“Five hours ago”

“Oh so just recently.”

“Yeah.” I wondered if her meant being Pked?“I may not be strong but I can still talk to you. We can grow stronger together. So…um..do you…”“Wanna be friends?”“Yeah!”

“Sure. Help me see the world in a light that I haven’t seen. Be my friend.” But right now I don’t know if I can trust really…ANYBODY. But he seems nice…but..so did THEY. I don’t know. I don’t know, I really don’t know! I guess I’ll watch him, make sure he won’t turn on me like THEM. So yeah. I’ll be his friend.

He held out his hand, and I stared at him. He smiled then I smiled back. I grabbed his hand

YOU NOW HAVE KITE’S MEMBER ADDRESS appeared on my screen, and he should have gotten mine. For some reason I thought my meeting with Kite would lead to something horrible. Maybe my dream was right. Kite was level 1 so I knew he couldn’t hurt me. If he tried I’d fight back. We were the same level, same class, so I still might lose also. This was his second day, my first. He may have more items. Oh well, I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. But I wanted a test for him. Before I informed him I looked at the clock in real life. 8:00. I’ve been online that long? Oh yeah, I was crying for a long time. I turned back to my computer and my character came to life

“I… wanna go to an area?” Kite looked at me and asked “Where?” I jumped.

“I don’t know anywhere except..that place.” I thought. He noticed my silence and said “Want me to choose?” I nodded. He walked back toward the Chaos Gate and I followed. He went up to the gate and put in the words D Wonderful Her First Love. I liked the words. Kite spoke up, “I found these words on the Bbs, or Bulletion Board System, and they were a level 1 field, and that’s perfect for us.” I nodded as Kite and I warped into a grassy field with pink and blue in the sky. Boulders with hawks flying in a circle, probably waiting for someone to die. Still it was pretty. Kite showed no signs of betrayal so I trusted him. We ran around the field getting in fights with monsters and then healing each other. When we beat the last of the monsters, we went inside the dungeon. We were working in perfect unison, spells, attacks, healing, the works. We were a perfect pair. As we came to the Gott statue, Kite’s funny face became dark and gloomy.

“What’s the matter?”

“Orca…”

“Hmm?” Kite looked at me, his eyes filling with water, and then started to cry.

“W-What’s the matter?!” I dragged him to a nearby pillar with a skull as bottom. I had him sit on the skull as I sat on the ground next to him.

“Ah..will you tell me why your crying?”

“I’m…OK.” He said it so small and silent I had to read the log to see what he said. I remembered this conversation, just reversed.

“You don’t look like it. So why are you crying?”

“Like you care.” I stood up and picked him off the skeletin and hugged him.

“Tell me.” He stopped crying but still looked like he could go back at any moment.

“My friend…Orca…is in a…” He stopped speaking and started to hyperventalate. Whatever happened to his friend must have been bad. I urged him on, patting his back.

“He’s in a…in a..COMA!” Kite's sudden outburst took me a while to process in my brain.

“A coma? How?”

“You won’t believe me.”

“I will believe you.” Thought I have to admit, I did suspect that he was a PK, but his smile, hug, friendship, and tears made me believe in him, but I did want to suspect him.

“We were..erm..were friends in real life..Orca and I…he invited me to come and play this game…Yesterday we went to a dungeon. When we got to the Gott Statue, and then we ran out..We got sorta teleported..and then Orca…he..”

“Fell into a coma.” I finshed.

“Yeah..” I stared at him and the hugged him.

“I’m sorry.” I said under my breath. Kite looked up and said, “We should get back to town. It’s 10:00 in real life now.”

“Yeah.” I smiled. We ran the way we came and got out of the dungeon. We used the warp command for the first time, instead of being forced back. We came back to the City of Water, Mac Anu. We nodded at each other.

“Well, I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“Well I don’t know if you go to school or not in real life, Sunshine, but I’m transferring to a closer school where I live tomorrow.”“Uh! Okay, well I go to school too so don’t worry ‘bout me getting angry!”

“OK…well..bye..for now.” He waved and logged out.

“I wonder where he lives..”

“Yeah..for now.” I logged out seeing a ray of lights surround me. The computer told me to take my goggles off so I did and then shut down the computer. I changed into my pajamas the walked over to my bed, avoiding objects like comics and video games along the way. I crawled into my flurry bed and went to sleep.

I was walking in darkness again but this time I didn’t close my eyes. “I won’t try to hide the darkness in my eyes because I’ll always find a light! After I said that a ball of light appeared, A girl in white emerged from it. She looked pretty; long white wavy hair, blue eyes, white skin, but she didn’t look…alive in my sense.

“Hello.” The girl said

“H-H-Hello.” I stammered.

“Here, take it.” She hanged me twin blades just like my character had.

“You will go through even more trouble then today, but if you stay as you are, you may just make it, when that times come we may meet again but this time in the ‘The World’ then in your dream.”

“Huh? How..uh..I don’t.. know what going on?” She started at me.

“Your last dream was what will become of you.” I gasped. My last dream was dying at the hands of a red wand.

“So I’ll..die?”

“You will.” I roll to the ground, hands near my eyes wide open. I was shocked. I started to shiver as a tear slid down my face.

“But you will live” I did a ‘what the fuck?’ face.

“You will.”

I woke up again, sweat all over me and tears streaking my face. I saw my mom and screamed, “What are you doing in here?!”

“You were screaming in your sleep. I was worried.” Mom replied.

“Don’t worry ‘bout me!” She stood up, tossing some of my treasures in out directions to reach the door again. She turned and asked, “Do you want some breakfast?” I looked at the clock, ‘5:00’ I thought. I grabbed a pop tart out of the cabinet, put it in the toaster, and waited.

“Hmhmhmhmhmhmhmmhmmmmmmm” I hummed until it popped out and scared the bejeevies out of me. I grabbed it while running out the door. My hands burned, I jumped into my mom’s passenger seat as I waited for her to open the navy blue door to the Dodge. It took us 10 minutes to get to my school. I waved goodbye to my mom and walked along the gravel path. My long blonde hair whished and whirled around my face. My blue eyes half open half closed from the wind. My pink jacket waving against the wind. I reached the purple, gold and white cafeteria, and looked at the normal table my friends and I sat at. Toyah was sitting in the upper middle listening to her ipod and reading a book. She wore her hair just like always; black buns on each side. She wore he black jacket, and normal pants. Ciera, one of my other friends was sitting to the left, ralking to David, another of our friends. Ciera had her hair up in a ponytail and wore a blue tank top and some regular jeans. Katie sat to the right reading a manga. She had her hair down and was wearing a black top and green capris I sat down at the lower middle greeting everyone. I was bored, quite frankly, and five mins later I was out the door.

Ah! First period. Never had any thoughts of it except that my teacher here was my fourth period teacher also. This was our third day with the seating chart newly changed. I slowly walked to my desk and in a few minutes after the bell rang. I could hear life coming from the door as boys and girls rushed in gathering their books and sitting at their respected spots. Mr. Jones, or Jones as I like to call him, turned to the class saying, “We have a new student today.” The kids didn’t show an ounce of attention, but I was wide eyed and had my mouth open. Austin, the kid that sat behind me gave me a “WTF?” stare. The door opened and I couldn’t believe my eyes. A boy about 14, 15 walked in, but that didn’t surprise me. What did surprise me was his beauty, he had short, chestnut brown hair that looked so silky that I wanted to run my finger through it, azure blue eyes, just like mine that looked like they were sparkling, and to top it all off, he was skinny and about 4’8”, around my size. He wasn’t tall, but if he was, I wouldn’t be up to talking distance. The kids’ only comment was that he was short, who cares? I like him. What caught me off guard was this;

“Tell them your name.” The god like boy said “Kite Esuza.” I gasped and if it were possible, my mouth was so gapped open I thought it would touch the floor. Even so, he sounded like Kite from ‘The World!” I looked around and no one was even looking at him. The teacher muttered, “Now, where will you sit?” I smiled. I had an empty seat, and the only besides mine was in the first row back, which is reserved for the banished kids. Mr. Jones spoke up, “Let’s see you’ll sit…next to Sunshine. Sunshine raise your hand.” I jumped and rose my hand, smiling. Kite saw me and had his mouth wide open. Is he Kite? He walked over and stared at me. Of course, I stared at him too. Some kids took notice and whispered. He sat down and Mr. Jones got on with the lesson. Adverbs, who cares? Kite. I care. As the teacher spoke I kept thinking, “Is he Kite?” over and over. I turned my head slowly and saw Kite looking at me. We quickly turned away. I didn’t see his cheeks, but mine were beet red. I made an “eep.” Then Mr. Jones heard me.

“Sunshine, read question six.”

I was on the page but I had to scan it first.

“Um..the (best bestest) thing about the book is the sheriff.” Some kids laughed.

“Wrong number six, Sunshine.” I blushed even deeper as some kids laughed, I read the actuall six this time. I watched the teacher read for about..um three seconds? I looked at Kite again and once again our eyes met. We did that about six times I think until we had to get our English books out.

“Sunshine, will you share your book with Kite?” Mr. Jones said. I uttered a yeah as I grabbed my book. I came back and was greeted with Kite’s eyes.

“They really are beautiful.” I gasped and turned red again. I laid the book out and turned the pages to 178. I held the book out and felt something also, Kite’s fingers. I gasped and blushed REALLY dark red. I looked down, but man his hand! His Hand! Oh my god! OHMYGOD! Oh my gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood! Anyway, I got through it.

Second period was science and Kite was walking with me to class. I asked him for his schedule, and he had all my classes. What a long day. My seat is also empty in all my classes. What a mystery! So he’ll be sitting next to me ALL DAY! We walked in, and of course Kite had to sit next to me. But now I had to be wary. Ciera has the class with me. C.C burst into the room running over to me the instant she saw me.

“Whooooooos thaaaaaaaaaat?” Apparently she had chocolate this morning. She was looking at Kite. I blushed and she, to my unfortunate fate, noticed.

“Is..He..Your..Boyfriend!?” I opened my eyes wide and flailed my arms around

“N-NO! I-I-It’s not like that!”

“SURE it is.” Ciera was sarcastic, I knew it. Anyway she ran back to her seat only to come back in 4 seconds saying, “I can’t find my book.” Luckily, I had my book, and I had to share with Kite and Ciera. Anyway, that period we breezed through.

“So..is he?” Ciera asked while walking with Kite and I. She had the same 3rd period as well. I told Kite go through the boy’s door and then walk into the dance room. It took him longer then expected to find it. Ciera an I were wondering where he was, when he finally walked in.

“Sorry! I was walking around and I thought one room was the dance room, but it was the undressing room! And then I went into the bathroom. And I almost went into the girl’s room. I swear some girls look like guys!” Kite said with some bruises.

“So I take you found out that was the girls boom when a girl hit you?” I replied.

“Yeaha. I’m traumatized!” Kite muttered. Ciera was laughing up a storm. No, like a hyena. Kite gave a ‘WTF’ stare. We waved our arms saying “Nothing.” And laughed.

“Well anyway you have to go to the clothes exchange since you have no P.E clothes.”

“Ah! OK!” Kite said running away.

“He’s so cute, like a baby…Right?” Ciera said nudging me with her elbow.

“Wh-What’s that suppose to mean!?”

“YOU LIKE HIM!” Ciera said dramatically, pointing a finger at me.

“N-No! Anyway let’s go get changed” Ciera and I were two stalls away and shared backpack lockers. We walked away, talking about how we want to hug emos, like we always do and walked out the door. Damn. I hate swimming so much. Well I like to swim but I’m not exactly the best. And another thing was that we had to wear swimsuits, in front of people, in front of Kite. Now I feared buying two piece swimsuits. But wait, I’ve worn swimsuits in front of guys, well, my guy friends, so why am I so worried about Kite? Hmm..Oh who cares. I walked over to Ciera. She chose her red bathing suit with blue flowers. I wore a pink and blue polka dot swimsuit, it came with a skirt. Everytime I wear this the girls always look at me and think I’m cute. Someone even thought I was eight years old. And my teacher, on the first day of swimming gave me candy. Do I look that young? Dammit! Our pool is very big and very crammed today. And it’s CO-LD. DAMN! We walked out and saw Kite running over to us. Ciera turned around and started to laugh.

“What?!” I asked

“You guys..hah..are like a..hee..little children couple!” Kite and I got mad and hit her.

“DO WE LOOK THAT YOUNG?”

“No..well…not Kite…your bodies are underdeveloped.” Kite and I blushed.

“HOW SO?”

“Your chest, for instance Sunshine, you’re the flattest in the whole class?”

“Wha-What does that matter?” I was deep red in the cheeks.

“And yet you still get asked out-”

“DON’T SAY ANOTHER WORD OR I WILL TELL KITE ABOUT THE HYPER-INCIDENT!!”

“Uh-ahem! And Kite, you don’t have a six pack, you guys are the prefect couple, flat in the chest area!”

“Grr..” I replied, shaking a fist. We heard the bell and ran to the teacher

“Ciera, Block 1. Sunshine, Block 2, Kite, Block 3!”

WHAT THE FK? KITE IS STANDING NEXT TO ME?! OH MY GOD!!

Ciera smiled at me, I stuck out my tongue at her as my reply.

“Jesse Black, Block 4.” OH GOD! Jesse is this kid at my school that hits on me, even though her has a girlfriend. I think he’s a lolicon.

AND HE’S STANDING NEXT TO KITE! OH GOD! Kite stared at me at me and said, “You alright?” I was deep red, of course he’d notice.

“Your face is all red and you have a murderous look on your face.” Kite concluded.

“I’m fine! Don’t worry ‘bout me!” Honestly, I was worried. I HATE Jesse! He’s always on my team and I hate it. He tries to show-off! Grr I hate those show off types! I like people that are kind, sensitive and help others

“Everyone! Into positions!” The P.E. teacher yelled.

I whispered, “Watch me get into position.” Kite nodded and mimicked what I did. The teacher blew on her whistle. We dove in. Jesse was showing off again. As I swam, my head to tilted to the right, and Kite’s was tilted to the left. We swam almost next to each other, as if the buoy wasn’t in between us. Ciera got to the other end before us and was watching, she’s the best swimmer. Kite and I were doing the butterfly stroke and finally reached the end. I was greeted with a smirk and a nudge from Ciera. Jesse walked over.

“Did you see me Sunshine?” I spoke up.

“No!” I was surprised because Kite said it with me at the same time. We glared at Jesse. Who was now looking at Kite. He mad an angry face and walked off,

“Who’s he?” Kite asked.

“Jesse Gonzales. He has a crush on Sunshine. She hates his guts.” Ciera informed Kite.

“I see. So why do you hate him?”

“He’s a womanizing, show off jerk.” I grunted and made an angry face.

“Oh well-” Kite’s sentence was cut of by the bell. We took notice and jogged off to the locker rooms. I hurriedly put on my clothes and rushed to Ciera’s locker to get my backpack. I ran off saying “See ya!” Ciera blinked and got back to changing/ I ran to the front of the gym to be greeted by the only person, besides me outside, Kite. He walked over and said, “Wow you sure do change fast!”

“I could say the same thing to you.” Ciera ran out and saw the two of us.

“Lovers chat!” We turned and saw her.

“Shut up!” We looked at each other and blushed. A few seconds later we said goodbye to Ciera, who had late lunch. I told Kite that I sat at the same area everyday. As we got into line to get lunch, “The foods always the same so don’t except much.” I had forgotten something as we reached the food window.

“Hello!” My mom works at this stall.

“H-Hi mom. Mom noticed a boy standing next to me and giggled as she gave Kite his lunch. “Bye Sunshine, and your boyfriend too!” I blushed as I marched off with Kite.

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At lunch, our usual table had everyone. Toyah was standing near Katie, who was sitting in her seat, reading a book. I said “Yo!” They tilted their heads and raised one hand.

“Hi!” They said in unison. I replied putting my hand up. Kite looked confused.

“Who’s that?” Katie asked.

“Hi! My name’s Kite! I just transferred here today and I’m friends with Sunshine.”

“Oh…ok!” Toyah said.

“It’s nice to meet you!” Katie said.

I thank god they aren’t like Ciera.

Toyah, Katie, Kite and I, after lunch, walked to 4th period, which is theater arts or drama, my favorite class. As soon as I walked in I screamed, “ZO MY GOD FLYING COOKIES OF DOOM!”

Toyah said “bamyoon!” While Katie put her hands on her head and looked embarrassed. One of my friends, Matt, screamed “Nin Nin!” Kite walked over to Mr. Jones again to ask where he would sit, which was next to me. I walked over to Dilin, Matt’s best friend, and said “The cake is a lie!” Dilin replied, “Or is it?” Making me gasp and walked to my seat. Toyah sat diagonally from me so we joked a lot. Katie sat far away so we had to walk over to her and normally Mr. Jones would tell us to go back to our own seats, but we did it anyway. I made Kite join in all of our random conversations, theater arts lets you do basically anything you want. I annoy Mr. Jones because I see him for two periods. Class ended with a walk and a short goodbye with Katie and Toyah, and I random sentence or two.

5th period wasn’t that far away from 4th. After my favorite class, came my most hated class. It’s not the teacher, or the work that makes me miffed, it’s the kids. I actually get picked on in that class. I have no friends in that class so I never have any fun. Except now I have Kite with me. Today is ‘fun Friday,’ which really isn’t all that fun in this class. Kite did his normal intro and sat next to me again. I’m the queen of empty seats. We watched the simpsons in an episode of road rage. This time I felt like I could laugh. I never laughed in this class in fear of getting picked on. When I laughed, kids turned around getting ready to pick on me, Kite spoke up in an normal voice, “Go back to watching the video. Everyone turned back. At the end of the video everyone talked, which I never did, I got picked on.

“Sunshine? What are you doing?” a girl asked. This always happens, they ask me a question, and then in turn make fun of me for the answer. If I didn’t answer, they’d make fun of me more. I was about to speak when Kite spoke up.

“She’s talking to me.” He answered. The girl turned around and looked frustrated. The boy behind me started to make sounds and make fun of my name. Kite turned around and looked the boy straight in the face.

“Please. What are you a first grader?” The boy stopped. Some other children started to tap and say my name very suddenly.

“Such children you all are.” Kite yelled out. For the rest of the period they did not pick on me. I smiled.

“Thank you Kite.”

“No problem.”

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6th period finally. Kite walked next to me like always. It’s math now, my worst subject. I stepped in and sat down as Kite introduced himself and took his seat next to me., the seat queen. Mr. Delaplain passed out papers. I gave Kite one and passed the pile back Ugh. What the heck? How do you do this? Could I just write down fish and get away with this? I looked over at Kite’s paper. Whoa! He’s smart. He got half the paper done! Kite looked over and asked, “Need help?”

“Y-Yes!” I felt embarrassed getting help from a transfer student but, well I guess my blonde hair doesn’t lie. I am stupid.

“See you put a squared next to X to elimanate the two.”

“Oh! I get it now! Thank you so much Kite!” He helped me for more then half the paper, but it made sense! I’m glad I have a study buddy now!

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The final bell, the bell of salvation. Kids ran out of the doors. Some walking, couples walking with a kiss, some jumped around hyper. The just silent halls erupted with sounds. Ciera was in the distance. I grabbed Kite’s hand and ran away. Mom drives me to school, but I have to walk home.

“Where do you live?” I asked.

“Eastview drive.” I gasped.

“So do I! What number?”

“4879?” He lives across the street from me.

“I live in 4739”

“Let’s walk home!” Kite suggested.

“Sure!” I practically jumped as I held his hand.

First and foremost my review thanks.

WriterFaerie: Are you happy that there’s SunshinexKite moments? And of course I put you in my story! I didn’t like the playing thing either. I felt so loud.

Kite Of The Azure Flames: Eeecuse me for a moment. SQUEE! You have Kite’s name! Ahem. Thank you. I love to descble characters, it’s so much fun. I won’t give up if people flame me, I’ll kill ‘em. And you are right, everyone deserves to let free their imagination.

NotAnOrdinaryGirl624: Thank you for saying that my characters rawks. Sunshine is my name and I feel happy! People like my .hack character. I am pretty random a lot. I will keep writing this! Thank you!

The Master MJ: I try to make my stories long, and I was already planning to make Kite go to my school. Is this okay? Thank you for your support!

Iceredrose: Thank you for reading!! And I’m writing more, much to Toyah’s dismay, she takes a long time typing.

End of Thanks.

BTW Although I haven’t reveled it in my story, I’m having Kite’s astrology sign be a Taurus. I’m using that to my advantage because I’m a Capricorn, and they are a perfect match, star wise. It took me a while to write this because it’s sooo long! I hope I didn’t bore you. Anyway, I’ll have chapter 3 up soon! As always, All flames must have constructive critsism. No “0 u suk.” Must use details!