Author's Note: Hello everyone! I am IrisRaylene and this is my very first fanfiction! \^o^/ I'm a really big fan of the whole Toshokan Sensou series and was so excited to read all of the other fanfictions here. Seriously, I think I read every story on this site... There are some really interesting and cute stories here! And I really wanted to contribute to that, so here I am. I also wanted to write something kind of…original. I decided pretty early on that I wanted to write about all of the characters after the end of the fourth book. But then I had a really hard time keeping everyone in character and it was hard to make the story seem likeable. So the main characters ended up being my own creations. Please don't worry, all of your favorite characters (and pairings) will definitely be in the story, it just might take me another chapter or two to get there. If you could give me and my story a chance, that would be wonderful.
Keeping that in mind, I hope that you all like this story as much as I do. And if you could be so kind as to take the time to read, rate, and review, I would very much appreciate it. So, without further ado, here is my first chapter. Enjoy!
Oh yeah, I don't own any part of Toshokan Sensou. I'm just a fan.
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Aki:
"Aki, listen to me. You are, under no circumstance or situation, to ever set foot on the Kanto Library Base. Never ever. At all."
"Why not?"
"Because…because if you do….then really terrible things will happen."
"Terrible things? What kind?"
"Just….really terrible things. That isn't the point. The point is, you can't ever go there. Do you understand?"
"I guess so…."
*sigh* "This is for your own good, Aki. I just don't want anything got happen to you."
"Okay, I'll stay away."
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"Ryuu, I'm bored."
"Good for you."
"We should do something fun!"
"We should finish our homework before getting distracted and leaving it to the very last minute of the last day of summer break."
"You're boring. I hope you know that."
I was laying on the floor of my childhood friend Ryuu's room, trying to decide on the perfect start-of-summer adventure. I was already in my first year of high school, and Ryuu was in his second. And what had I done that was memorable and dramatic and adventurous? Absolutely nothing. I needed to do something exciting and this felt like the perfect day for it. It was warm and sunny. We had no clubs or sports. Homework didn't have to be done for weeks (even though Ryuu was working on his already). Mom and Dad were going to be busy at work all day with meetings.
That was it! I had the best idea ever. The greatest adventure that we could do with relative ease in under a day.
"Ryuu!" I shouted, jumping up off the floor and towards my friend, nailing him in the back. "I just thought of something perfect! It'll be really fun!"
"What?" He asked through clenched teeth, erasing the jagged line on his paper that appeared when I jumped into his back.
"Let's sneak into the Library Base!"
Ryuu's pencil snapped in half with a loud crack.
"You want to what now?" He asked slowly. "I'm going to assume that I must have terribly misheard you, because there is no way that even you are stupid enough to think that sneaking onto a semi-militarized base full of people who are well trained in using guns and using them against intruders could possibly be a good idea. Please tell me that I just heard you wrong and you actually suggested something normal and less dangerous, like going to the amusement park, sneaking into the movie theater, or even exploring the woods in the middle of the night, looking for a nice bear to wrestle."
"Why, you don't think I can do it?" I asked. "The sneaking in thing, not bear wrestling."
"I don't think anyone can." Ryuu pointed out. "It's a really, really bad idea, Aki. You'll just get yourself killed. Also, didn't your Dad forbid you from ever going to the Base?"
"He did indeed. And that, my friend, is why we have to sneak. Also, I didn't exactly plan on telling him what I was doing." Ryuu sighed.
"Aki, it can't be done."
"Not even by you?" That sparked his interest. He was actually considering it now. Ryuu was well-known for being good at just about anything and everything. Nicknamed Mr. Perfect since elementary school, if Ryuu couldn't do it, then it couldn't be done. And that's all there was to it.
"Well…I mean….maybe I could….if I had more time to plan…..and a map….then it might…."
"Would it help if I said I could find us some Defense Force uniforms?"
"Seriously? You can get us uniforms? Like, the actual uniforms?" I nodded. "Then…in that case, this might actually be doable."
"So you'll come?"
"Let me ask you this." Ryuu spun his chair around, taking his full attention away from homework for the first time. "Do you absolutely positively have to do this?" I nodded again. "And you're going to go no matter what I say, aren't you?"
"It would be a lot more fun if you came along, but yeah, I'm going no matter what." I admitted.
"Then," he let out an exhausted sort of sigh. "I'll come with you. But only on two conditions. The first is that, while we are there, you have to do everything I say. No acting on your own, no running wild through the base. You stay with me and stay out of trouble. And two, we have to be home before dinner in case any of our parents start to wonder what's up. Okay?"
"Okay!" I hugged my friend, so excited I might die right there. "I'll go get the uniforms! Meet me at the café across the street in an hour!"
"Wait, why can't we just take care of that here….." I was already climbing out the window of his room when he said that, so it was a little late. Besides, this was an adventure; there was no time to waste!
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Ryuu:
This was a terrible idea. So incomparably stupid and dangerous that I couldn't believe I had actually agreed to it. Why had I agreed to it? This was so unlike me. I was supposed to be the mature and responsible one. And here I was, getting swept up in Aki's stupid schemes all over again.
She'd left right after telling me to meet her at the café, so I had no choice but to head down there and hope she wouldn't do anything stupid on her way over. Then again, she wasn't exactly known for thinking things through all the way.
"That idiot…" I muttered.
"Wow, you even insult me when you're alone. I don't know how to feel about that." I turned around to find Aki, already in her Defense Force uniform. "Oh yeah, what do you think? How do I look?"
"You look…like a Defense Force member." She actually pulled it off quite well, though I imagine part of that was due to her unusual height. Aki was also lucky enough to have already had shorter hair and good posture. Now if we could just keep her in the background, we might actually get away with all of this.
No wait, why was I getting excited? I definitely wasn't going to enjoy this. I was not going to take pleasure in breaking so many rules sneaking into the Kanto Library Base. This was still a terrible idea.
"Here's your uniform Ryuu!" Aki was grinning. "Hurry up and change!" I sighed, yet again.
Don't enjoy this, Ryuu. Don't get excited. Don't let Aki's incurable, adventure-loving optimism get to you. No matter what, this is still a terrible idea.
A really terrible idea.
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A Final Author Note: Hey guys, this is it for the first chapter. It wasn't quite as...exciting as I wanted it to be, but fear not, the second will be better than the first. Anyway, if you could kindly rate and review. I hope you enjoyed reading and that you'll come back for more. See you next time!
Love, IrisRaylene
