Kenji sighed. "You are my friend. I don't want you feeling the way you are used to feeling. You most likely can bash in a few skulls but I'm there for you in the background. Except if a guy goes flying. Then you'll know he was talking trash and it pissed me off." He said with a grin. "I don't want you to feel like everyone thinks you are strange. You aren't. Not to me. Not to Hoshi." He said softly. Chuckling a bit. "It will be a big deal to me. You are a friend and I don't care if the whole world knows it. You shouldn't have to feel like this school will be like the others. It won't. It'll be different this time Yukiko. I promise." He said. "You don't have to take care of yourself alone anymore...you have friends to help carry the load. Thats what friends do. They stick up for each other." He was glad she appreciated the sentiment. Despite knowing she could take care of herself the feeling stayed...he was going to do his best for her not to feel like she had at other schools.<br/><br/>"Just little things. She mostly said that there was stuff she couldn't say. She told me how you were treated growing up. How you one day became comfortable with who you are and didn't care what others outside your close circle thought. She told me you weren't home and she didn't know where you were. That you disappeared. She said she didn't worry about you because you are smart and take care of yourself." He looked at her. "The part I don't get based on what she said is..." He paused for a moment. "...why when you didn't seem to like me at all...my nickname for you bothered you at all." He looked at her. "Because from how you acted and what she said...my nickname for you shouldn't have bothered you because I wasn't part of your close circle. Least it didn't appear that way to me. It seemed more like you and Hoshi got along. To be honest I thought you flat out disliked me and thought me stupid. You talked to me sometimes like I was." He said thoughtfully. Shrugging a bit. "Its all in the past and rough start or not we're good friends now. So it doesn't really matter."<br/><br/>He started eating. "I wasn't any better than the kids you knew growing up. Instead of trying to get to know you...I was trying to push you away. I wasn't sure how to handle the way you challenged me. You interacted with me differently from how people usually did. It was different and at the same time I liked that you challenged me despite the fact I reacted in the wrong way to it. Anyways...thats all in the past. It won't be that way ever again. From now on I won't push away...I'll pull close. Keep you in my inner circle and hopefully be in yours." He said with a smile. "It took talking with your mom to realize that I wasn't being fair. That I was being a jerk just because I didn't know how to handle the reality there was more out there than could be explained by science. I was in the wrong and so I needed to make things right. We didn't really talk about much after that. Kinda took off to find you."<br/><br/>He rubbed the back of his head. "I woke up with the strangest feeling this morning. A bad feeling and it became stronger when I was thinking of you. So I left to find you. I went to your house first. Thats how the talking came about. I was trying to get her to tell me if you were home. I just had this strong need to find you. I just knew something was wrong. So when she finally said you weren't home I left to go find you. Drove around for hours until we met up. The rest you already know because we were on that hill together. It was just strange. This overwhelming need and desire to find you even though I felt at the time you hated me and thought me stupid. I didn't care...I wanted to start over. Make things right. Show I wasn't a stupid jerk...even though I sure was acting like one." He shook his head. "I'm just glad it all worked out. That we started over fresh." He said. Smiling afterwards.<br/><br/>He continued eating. It was delicious food and he loved coming here. He didn't really care she was practically inhaling the food. She had said she was starving after all. He laughed at her answer before she went back to eating. "I can understand that." He continued eating. Finding it amusing that she could eat so much food. Then again she hadn't eaten for almost twenty-four hours. It was only natural she was so hungry.