Chihiro Hanagaki

Chapter 3

*Chihiro POV*

*Bang* 'Takemichi.' I never felt the pain of the bullet going through my skull. Instead, I could feel a breeze hit my face, and I heard the click of bicycle wheels. I opened my eyes to see long pink hair dancing in the wind. "Ikki?" I muttered. A much younger Hibiki looked back at me, "What's up?" I was able to go back in time!

I was beyond excited to be able to go back in time. Going off Hibiki's hair, I could tell I went back twelve years. She dyed her hair pink through middle school. I've known Hibiki Ito since we were in diapers. We still stayed in contact in our adulthood. Hibiki worked at the dojo we grew up training in. "Anybody home?" she laughed. I blinked a couple of times, feeling my face get hot, "Sorry! Where are we headed again?"

Hibiki focused back on the road, "To stop your brother from doing something stupid. Remember, you overheard them talking about going to beat up some second years at Shibuya Middle. You were the one who wanted to go. How could you forget?" If I were to tell her the truth, she probably wouldn't believe me. "Brain fart," I half laughed. Hibiki groaned, "Ugh, I hate when that happens." I didn't bother to change anything in the past before. My meddling could have prevented Takemichi from going back into the past.

What if Shinichiro never passed on his time-leaper powers to Takemichi? But why was I able to go back in time? I don't remember ever coming in contact with Shinichiro. I was also there when Takemichi met Hinata. He was sobbing, asking, 'How can I be strong?' If I remember correctly, I was trying to comfort him by rubbing his back.

*No Ones POV*

Hibiki and Chihiro arrived at Shibuya Middle to find Takemichi and his friends badly beaten. "Take!" she called as she jumped off Hibiki's bike. She rushed over to the kneeling teen, feeling the same concern she did back then. Hibiki casually dismounted her bike, "You guys okay?" Atsushi looked confused, "How did you know we'd be here?" Hibiki crossed her arms, "Chi overheard you idiots." Chihiro leveled Hibiki with a hard stare, to which she shrugged.

"Let me guess, Masaru told you he was the leader at this school." she surmised. Chihiro still thought it was stupid that Takemichi actually believed him. Masaru was always the type to grandstand in front of his younger cousins. "How did you know that?" Yamagisihi questioned. She leaned back on her thighs, sighing, "I overheard everything you guys said. You weren't exactly quiet." Chihiro was sure at one point they should have just got a megaphone with how loud they were being.

"Man, my face hurts." Makoto groaned. Hibiki snorted and Chihiro backhanded her stomach. The hit wasn't strong enough to hurt her, but just a warning. Hibiki was never one to show an appropriate tact. Hibiki frowned, clicking her tongue, "Fine." The two began helping the older boys up. None of them were happy to receive help from girls, but they weren't in any condition to argue. The group began the trek home.

Hibiki walked alongside them with her bike while Chihiro helped her brother walk. Chihiro wanted badly to tell her brother that she also got sent back in time. 'He went back in time like me. But how exactly do I go about telling him that? It's not like he knew what happened between me and Kakucho.' "You guys better not tell anyone I cried," Yamagishi warned. Atsushi hissed, "Quit your bitching!"

"You'd have some shitty friends if they went around telling everyone you cried like a bitch." Hibiki giggled. The boys grimaced at the pinkette ridiculed them. "Chi, she's doing it again." Takuya sighed. Chihiro slammed her foot into Hibiki's backside, making her stumble forward with a squeak. She whipped around, "What I'd do?!" "You're being an ass." she snapped back.

Chihiro was the only person Hibiki allowed to treat her this way. If anyone other than her were to call her out, she'd beat them into the pavement. Hibiki had long since mellowed out in her adult years. "It's not my fault they got their asses kicked," she grumbled. "Hibiki Ito!" she warned. The pinkette flinched after hearing her full name. She raised a hand up in surrender, "Okay. Okay. I'm sorry." The conversation soon changed to the topic of food. That was when Takemichi abruptly stopped moving. Chihiro glanced at her brother, "Take?"