Otonashi's P.O.V.

I run down the street, chasing after the girl that I fell in love with in the after life. My fingers brush gently on the ends of her beautiful white hair.

'Her hair is shorter than before.' I think as I touch her hair 'She must've cut it when she returned...'

"Kanade!" I cry over the noise of the busy street. She turns around, and looks shocked to see me standing behind her.

"O-Otonashi!" She said, her eyes wide "Is that really you?"

I grab her hand and pull her in for a hug. "I missed you, Kanade."

"I missed you too, Otonashi." She wraps her arms around me, and I wish that we could stay like that forever. People start to stare at us after we passed five minutes without moving.

"When did you come back, Otonashi?" Kanade asks as we sit down in chairs on the outside patio of a Starbucks.

"Long after everyone else left." I say, and look down at the Jones soda that is placed before me. "It wasn't easy, that's for sure..."

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to leave you like that. It's just that when you told me that you loved me, I...I was just so happy." She starts to blush.

"I know, and it's okay, I don't blame you, really!" I smile.

"Ototnashi, if you don't mind me asking... How'd you find yours? Your happiness?" Kanade asks.

"Well it was hard and lonesome." I say. "But I thought of my sister, and how I made her happy before she of everyone else, and how I helped make them happy before they disappeared, and that somehow made me happy. And after a long time of being alone, and 'not having a reason to be happy', I finaly thought about that and...Poof! I was back here."

"Did you...um, did you go to your sister's grave when you returned?"

I focus my attention back to my soda. "Yes." I'm normally not up to talking about my sister, because it makes me think of how I died, and how she died. It also reminds me of how I got my memories back, and it's hard to think about Naoi and Yurippe... "That was one of the first things that I did when I came back."

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mention your sister, I know it's hard for you."

"No no, it's okay." I say. "Say, have you seen anyone else? I think that it's time to do our promise."

"Promise?"

"Yeah, when we said that we would find each other when we came back here."

"Oh. Oh, yeah! That's right! But anyway, no I haven't, but I think that I might have seen Hinata playing Baseball in one of the fields not that far from here."

"Shall we go and see?" I hold out my arm for here."

"Lets." She smiles and takes my arm as we walk out of Starbucks. We walk down the busy street that's over-flowing with families coming in and out of stores with bags in their hands, and little kids chasing each other down the street, playing tag. We stop at a bus station, and sit on the bench. Kanade rests her head on my shoulder, and I hold her hand, and she squeezes mine, letting me know that she's holding mine as well. When the bus comes, I pay for our tickets, and we find seats in the middle of the bus.

"Maybe Hinata knows where some others are?" I ask, just to break the awkward silence between us.

"Maybe, I don't know. I can't wait to see them again, though. And if we find the band, they have to play for us!" Kanade smiled.

This is the first time that I've seen her act like this. Back in the after life, she seemed mysterious, and didn't show a lot of emotions, but now that we're back in the real world, she's new. It's like a new beginning, because it is.

Kanade's POV

Even though I'm thrilled to be with Otonashi again, I cant help but sense a gap between us. Like how we were seperated for years, he was in the after life, and I was, and am, still in the real world. I'm nervous that I'll lose him, or leave him like how I did in the after life. I don't want that to happen again, I do't want to lose Otonashi again. I decided that don't want to be all secretive and quiet like how I was back in the after life.

I want to be different. I don't want to be alone any more.

"Are you alright?" Otonashi asks me.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I smile. I must've looked like my old self, always staring off into space, and always looking like I'm mad at someone.

"Are you sure?" His big, beautiful orange eyes look at me with a serious look. It's like he can tell how I'm feeling.

"Yeah, it's just that, I want to be, and am trying to be different. I don't want to be that same depressing-looking girl that I was back in the after life. I'm going to change." I admit. I'll feel really quilty if I don't tell him, and he'll want me to tell him how I'm feeling.

"Kanade, you don't have to change, or be different. You know that I'll still love you."

"I know, but maybe it's for the better good? Right? Anyway, press the button, this is going to be our stop."

We get off the bus and walk down a few alley's and come on to a side-walk. Across the street from us, we see some teenagers playing Baseball. And one player looks awefully familiar.

"Is that...?" I ask.

'That's him alright. We found Hinata." Otonashi nods his head. I watch the blue-haired boy as he plays the game.

We walk across the street, and sit on some bleachers.

"Shouldn't we go and get him?" I say.

'In a minute, let him finish first."

Hinata hits the ball, but it flies through a near by window from a house.

"Way to go, Hinata!" Another pink-haired boy from the team said.

"Go fetch the ball!"

Hinata runs to the house and knocks on the door.

"Now we really should let him be." Otonashi says.

"Why?"

"Because he's going to meet Yui. I was there when she left, and Hinata said that they would meet again by him playing a game of Baseball,and he'll acidently throw his ball through her window, and he'll knock on her door, and that's how they'll meet. I was there when he proposed to her. He said that he would marry her even if she cant have any children, and that he would marry her even if she cant move or walk because of her sickness, he said that he would still marry her. And I thinnk that that was something, considering they used to try and kill each other (Even though it's not possible to die in the after life.) So let's just let them be for now, and we'll come back to him later. Okay?" Otonashi said.

"Okay."

We got up and walked across the street to a park, and sat down on the grass. We sat there in peaceful silence, and hold hands as we watch all the parents waking on the path, and their kids running around and round the trees.

I look at the Baseball field and remember the game that I did when I was enemies with Otonashi, Yurippe, and the others. Everything that happened back in the after life seems like a life time ago, and It was.