Madoka and Hikaru


Madoka and Hikaru are like sisters, and have been that way since they were little girls. Make no mistake of picking on Hikaru, because Madoka will be there to protect her. When they were small, a mean little neiborhood boy snached a pendent necklace from Hikaru, putting her in tears. To get Hikaru's necklace back, Madoka staged a vigil outside the boy's house. She stood there through the rainy night. The boy was so bothered by the sight that he returned the item to Hikaru the next day- So devoted was Madoka to her only friend. When Hikaru grew up, she learned to be tough as nails just like Madoka. That could be seen in the first episode when she sneered at Kyousuke asking "Who are you looking at?" (to the gleeful chirp of the Kasuga twin sisters: "kakKOUII!" -she's so cool!) Her attitude was that of somebody thumbing her nose at the world. She strutted around the school yard like nothing could touch her; and when she was confronted by a group of teenage thugs that same afternoon, she dodged and fought with her book-bag with skill. Such was the infuence Madoka had on her. Hikaru's demeanor was almost a spitting image of Madoka's.

When Kyousuke came into their lives, Hikaru never imagined that there was anything but friendship between Modoka and him. There was several occations where she suspected of something or even broke into tears, but with a little reassurance from Kyousuke that the truth Hikaru saw was only her imagination, her frown and tears were wiped away. A split second later would find Kyousuke in a very strong embrace habitually forced upon him by Hikaru. "There is no way he could like Madoka more than me," Hikaru once said.

     book-bag attack
Madoka, not wanting to hurt Hikaru, engaged in a painful game of denial with Kyousuke. In a flashback, Madoka recalled when she was playing with Hikaru as a child. She had found a shamrock, and Hikaru wanted it too after seeing it. When Madoka ran away from Hikaru, Hikaru chased after her, fell down and cried. Madoka looked at the shamrock, and then decided to give it to Hikaru. More than once did Madoka gave away Kyousuke in this fashion. She ignored him, lied to him about having to help out at the pub she was working at, put the telephone out in the front yard of her house when she got tired of listening to Kyousuke's desperate rings. But in the end, she always gave up on the charade and acknowledged Kyousuke again. Even when she shared a tender moment with him,.she would quickly shrug away when Hikaru walked in. So would Kyousuke, for the same reason. Could things stay like this for long?

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