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He started to think about the things they used to do while chasing Akari and what he felt . During that moment in time, it was a habit of akari and i to exchange little bits of knowledge

we learned from books and watching tv as we returned home.

little bits of knowledge that we

thought were important things such as the speed flower petals fell at, the age of the universe or

the temperature silver melted at .

it was as if we were a pair of squirrels desperately preparing for

our winter hibernation, or perhaps we were travellers sailing the seas ,

trying to learn astrology so

that we could gather the starlight scattered around the world. for some reason, we had seriously

thought these little bits of knowledge were going to be essential in our future lives.

yes. that was why both akari and i knew so much. we knew what position the stars were in

during the seasons, or in which direction and brightness jupiter must be at before it was visible

to the ***** eye .

we even knew why the sky was blue, why the earth had seasons,

when did the

neanderthals disappear and the names of the species that became extinct during the cambrian

period.

we were both extremely fascinated by everything that was much bigger and far away

from us. but for me, i've forgotten most of it all. all i know is that they were bits of knowledge

that i once knew were the truth to me.

from the moment i first met akari until the moment we separated i thought we were both

alike ,

that was around three years between elementary four and six. both of our fathers relocated

a lot due to work and we had both arrived at the same elementary school in tokyo.

i had moved

to tokyo from nagano when i was in elementary three and akari moved from shizuoka while she

was in elementary four.

Even now i remember how tense and nervous she looked as she stood in front of the blackboard on her first day at school.

she stood there hands clasped neatly together

in front of her as the spring light shone through the classroom windows on her, casting a shadow

from her shoulder up all the way to her long hair.

Her lips were nervously pursed together bright

red, her unblinking eyes wide open as her line of sight was fixed onto a single spot before her.

she reminded me of my own expression when i have arrived a year ago and immediately i felt we were closer to each other.

i think i was the one that spoke to her first and we quickly got along.

Akari was the only one who had the same strong opinions as i did about how students who

were brought up in setagaya seemed more mature,

how hard it was to breathe within the crowds

at the station, how surprisingly unpleasant tap water tasted. to us, they were all problems.

we were small and were prone to falling ill so we preferred staying in the library than being in

the playgrounds and that was why physical education classes were very unpleasant for us.

Both

akari and i were like adults who preferred to enjoy having a conversation with someone or to

read a book.

At the time my father was working at a bank and we were living in a company

owned apartment and , perhaps it was the same for akari which was why we went the same way

back home.

Naturally as if we needed each other, we always spent our breaks and after school

time together.

Of course, we were teased by many of our classmates a lot. now that i look back,

the way

they acted and the things they said to us were really just something kids commonly do but at that time ,

i couldn't really handle those situations very well and every time something happened,

i was hurt. the need we had for each other grew stronger because of that.

one day, something happened. i had gone to the toilet and was on my way back to the

classroom when i saw akari standing alone in front of the blackboard.

on the board there

was a drawing of an umbrella with both akari and my own name written underneath (that

could be considered harassment now i think about it),

while her classmates were standing afar

murmuring to each other, staring at akari. she had gone up to the blackboard trying to stop their harassment but was probably too embarrassed and had stopped half way.

I grew stiff at

the sight of her standing like that and without a word I walked into the classroom, grabbed the

duster and quickly wiped off the drawing .

I didn't know why but I grabbed Akari's hand and we ran out of the classroom.

We could hear the voices behind us getting excited but we ignored

them and continued running.

Even I couldn't believe how bold I was to do what I did but I

remembered how the softness of Akari's hand made my heart throb so hard,

I was almost dizzy

and for the first time, I felt there was nothing in the world to be afraid of.

I was sure many more

bad things were still to come in the rest of our lives but no matter what it was , whether it was