A/N: My first fanfic! Made for me and my friend's enjoyment… so… everyone else, you don't have to like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, except my OC. Akiko belongs to my friend.
Just Visiting?
Chapter One:
Arrival
I yawned.
I was looking into the water. I hated it. Yet, I liked fishing.
I couldn't swim, that's the thing.
I twirled a piece of my short hair with my index finger.
It figured, you know?
I had a guy name. I had a guy look to me overall.
And… I was female.
You're a girl?!
Yeah, that's the response I got a lot from people.
I suppose my quiet feminine voice gives me away.
Of course, I was only quiet with strangers.
With friends… lets just say I'm not as quiet as you think.
I flinched as the thought of falling in the water entered my head.
I ignored it and looked over to my more feminine friend stood.
She was looking out in front of the boat. Her long white hair blew softly in the wind. She had crystal green eyes with a hint of gold in them. She had on her usual gothic Lolita dress on. Heh, she could have been a model. But what did she want to be?
"Model? Seriously? You're kidding? I want to be a marine biologist!"
That's what she said to my 'Model' comment.
I want some chocolate cake…
I saw the captain of the small dingy-like ship walk over to her, heh. I suppose I should go over and prevent her from having an awkward chat with him.
I stretched, and leaned on the railing again. I should let her suffer for at least a bit, right?
I thought of the island we were heading off to. Waffle Island?
Who names an island after a breakfast?
I like waffles with syrup… no butter. Though it makes the waffle softer…
Maybe strawberries on the side…
I looked over. Akiko was throwing me looks saying, help me or die later!
I grinned towards her and waved. Just to, you know, make her more mad at me later on. Heh.
I walked slowly towards them after a minute. I think I'll have scrambled eggs later…
I pulled down on my long sleeves. I wore a long-sleeved brown shirt.
Also a Grimm T-shirt over that which said:
I'm only wearing Black
until they invent
something Darker
I waved to them. Akiko gave me a thankful look and a look that said, I'll kill you later for taking so long to get here!
What was his name? Oh right.
"Hey, Captain Pascal! When do you think we'll arrive?" I said, sort of bored.
He looked over. He was an ugly looking dude. Creepy, really.
"Oh, Miss Nicholas. We'll be there shortly. Only a few more hours."
That's what he said yesterday.
"Say, Miss Nicholas, when is your birthday? If you don't mind I ask?"
But I do mind. Go bother someone who's interested.
"It's early winter."
I blocked him out after this. He seemed to go on about how lovely winter was.
"How about you Miss Akiko?"
She looked like she was going to groan with having to talk to him.
"Early Spring, sir."
He nodded. He ranted again. I'd like some chocolate covered strawberries…
Maybe some orange popsicles…
He seemed to speak again, "What would your favourite foods might be, ladies?"
Ladies? I qualify as one?
"Sushi. I love sushi." She smiled at that. She really did love sushi.
She was a Japanese wannabe. Not that it was uncommon.
"Anything dessert-like. I also like eggs, well, breakfast is my favourite meal besides dessert." I said quietly.
He nodded at both of our answers, "Well, you should both know, ALL the food on Waffle Island is good!"
Is he trying to sell the place, or what? Still though… food.
I could just drool. I love food. I really do.
"By the way, why are you too going to the island anyways?"
So I don't have to hear you rambling anymore… god…
"My cousin Akari is off to college. She wants to study animals or something. She asked if I could take care of her farm while she was gone." Akiko answered sweetly.
Oh, I know. She could just gag at having to put up with this conversation.
Pascal looked at her a bit surprised. "You? You look so fragile though! Ah well, you'll soon get used to it! It's good you brought a friend to help out!"
Oh joy, I have to help. Why did I agree to this?
Oh right. I have no money. No job. No skills. She was my roommate.
The only person who would put up with me and my endless stomach.
And my lazy ass ways, as well. She still wonders how I get out of hard labour though.
Let's just say I have my ways.
I smiled at her. She smiled back. Oh, I was gonna get it later, though. I knew it.
Well, I guess it was funny though. Pascal though she was frail and weak.
She was stronger than me! I fall over from a poke on the shoulder!
Literally. She did it once. I fell hard.
"And there's the island! It's such a peaceful place." Pascal ruined my train of thought.
Curse him…
CRACK.
T-Thunder!? I-I uhh…
"Whoa! It seems we're being pulled into the storm! It'd be best we head inside."
Inside… where it's safe… right? We-We w-won't crash, right?
I jumped at the sound of another crack of thunder; the lightening was our only light now.
Oh god…
I gripped onto Akiko's dress. I knew she'd complain later. It was an expensive dress.
Who wears expensive dresses when you're going to farm on a remote island though?
She patted my back. I knew she would. She knew I was scared.
She learned all of my fears when we moved in together.
We were almost in… I got in the doors, then…
"AKIKO!"
She slipped. She was… !
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- The Inn…
Akiko breathed heavily. She was weak. I felt bad. Real bad.
She hit her head on the railing as she slid on the wet deck.
Hm?
"What?"
The doctor sighed. He had on a lab looking coat. He had on glasses and he had long shiny black hair up in a pony-tail. He was quite pretty. At first glance you'd say he was female.
"I said, it would be best to let her rest by herself. You should go downstairs and eat something." Dr. Jin said.
I nodded my head and replied softly, "M'kay."
I was hungry.
I followed him downstairs. He was being nice for someone who had to be woken up at night during a typhoon to check up on a girl who hit her head.
"Have you to had a full examination yet?"
I shook my head, "No."
He adjusted his glasses, "Well, if you want to live here, you both will have to get one. Also, you have to input your information at the town hall to Gill."
I tilted my head. Gill? Really? That's a name?
"Gill?"
He nodded. We reached the bottom of the stairs. "Yes. He is the mayor's son."
I nodded. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do that. I mean really, Gill?
Sounds like a fish… well, fish do have gills…
"Well, you should stop by the clinic. That's the Meringue Clinic. I want to check up on your friend later. Also, I need to do the full examination of you both."
I nodded. Wait… he'll be doing the examination?
Not a girl? So a guy is… going to check me and my friend out?!
Hopefully it's not a naked thing… if it is… He is SO going to get it from Akiko… oh yes, he'll be glad he was a doctor to bandage himself up.
He was out the door by then. I looked over to the lady with the green dress and apron.
Carol? Connie? I'm not good with names…
"Um, ma'am?" I called to her.
"Hm? Oh, dear! Don't be shy! Call me Colleen. How's your friend?"
Colleen! Right!
"She'll be fine. She just needs rest. Could I ask you… could you spare a free meal for me? I mean, I just had to go through-"
"Oh, of course! It would be rude of me not to offer a meal for you!"
Yes. Score! Food!
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- The Morning… Akiko's Point of View…
Ugh. M-My head… it's throbbing…
Please tell me someone didn't drug me last night in an alley I happened to walk through to get to a manga store faster and had gotten beaten and raped and mugged.
Well, I could feel clothes on…
That's always a good sign…
"Akiko? You okay?"
Nick? What?
"Ugh… my head… could you get me some water?"
"M'kay! You know, you took a nasty hit on the head."
I did? What? WHO HIT ME?! WAS IT THAT GIRL WHO WORKS DOWN THE HALL? IF SHE DID, SHE IS SO-
"I mean, who wouldn't have a headache from hitting a metal railing?"
What? Railing? OH! I was on the ship.
Hahaha… I knew that, so knew that!
Yeah.
"Here! Some water! When you feel less ache-y, come down stairs, 'kay? We'll have breakfast!" I could imagine her drooling.
Nick always was a glutton. She had a serious love for food.
She practically ate everything back home.
I groaned. My head hurt! I so wanted to smack someone to let them feel what I felt!
Then again, that would be bad… unless it was the girl down the hall…
God, I HATED her. She made rumors about me at work! So many, everyone avoided me!
I wanted to let her die by Gaara's hands…
Gaara… HOTT guy from Naruto…
I tried to get up. I looked around. I was in a room. It had tacky wallpaper. Ick.
I swallowed down some of the water.
Ah. Well, that was sooo goood…uhhh!!!
Well, I'd better be going!
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Dowstairs…
"Akiko!" Nick ran over to me. Her smile brightened the room almost.
Everyone else (meaning strangers) seemed to have a happy one that I was okay.
"Hey… where's the food?" Nick nodded quickly and grabbed my whole arm.
She dragged me to a table of food.
"I was worried! You were out for awhile!"
I nodded along. Nick told me what happened between me getting hit and now.
What really creeped me out was having to do an examination. By a guy.
Wasn't there a female doctor?
I straightened out my dress. Then my hair. My hair was so tangled right now.
Nick yawned. "Well, Akiko. I guess we'd better get going! We've got a lot to do! I heard this girl Renee has been taking care of Akari's place till we got here!"
I sighed. Akari promised to get me TEN homemade pro looking cosplays AND TEN homemade pro looking lolita dresses if I looked after her farm.
Who could pass up that deal?
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Examination… Nick's Point of View…
Oh thank you merciful Lord and Master…
No naked-ness…
He asked us our height and weight and stuff. He let us measure ourselves behind a curtain. Thank God…
He was filling out a form and stuff. I wanted some ice cream… neapolitan…
"Hey… Nick?"
Hm? Akiko?
I looked over to her.
"What else do we have to do today?"
I looked up. Well, we got breakfast. We saw Dr. Jin again. He looked Akiko over to see if she was okay. We needed to do some town hall stuff.
"Level 1: Dr. Jin, complete. Level 2: Town Hall, loading… loading…"
Akiko laughed at my game reference.
"Well, it seems as though we are all done. You two may leave." The Doc said in his charming smooth boyish voice.
I love voices. It determined my thought on people.
Like his. I though he was pretty. He had a nice voice.
Not like that Pascal… creepy sailor voice… old sailor voice…
"Okay. Nick, let's go." I followed her.
"So Akiko, what are you gonna do about the town hall information? Are you going to give them your real name?"
She gave me a look. She patted her dress down and checked to see if her eyebrow piercing was still in place.
Yes, she has piercings. One on her eyebrow and one on her nose. Also on her ears.
I have some too. Two on both ears. And Snake bites.
You know, two on my lower lip? My brother convinced me to.
My snake bite piercings were like the rings ones. Not studs.
People ask me what it feels like to kiss someone with them.
How should I know? I've never…
I mean, I haven't…
I guess, a guy never asked…
Well, let's just say I've always been single.
"What ever do you mean?"
I smiled. "You know, you're real name?"
She frowned, "Well, I got my name changed legally, so it is my real name."
I still smiled. She was such a wannabe. She actually changed her name because of her fangirlie-ness with japanese stuff-zies.
We both entered the town hall. I saw a brown haired girl and an annoyed looking blonde.
A cute blonde. With a cute cowlick.
"Yes, hello! Welcome! I'm Elli, how may I help you?"
"Yes, I'm Akiko. This is Nicholas. We wanted to, well, our information... thing…?"
Elli jumped. "Oh yes! Of course! Gill there handles that information!"
That was Gill?! His name didn't give him justice … mercy…
Akiko was cool about it. She pulled on my sleeve, so I followed.
Gill looked up and gave us a blank stare.
"Hello. How are you? If you would sign these forms please." He said bluntly.
He said PLEASE! What a gentleman!
I looked at the form and started to fill it in:
Name: Nicholas L.
Location: Akari's Ranch
Description: Akiko's roommate. Comes from the city. Came to help Akiko take care of Akari's ranch.
Likes: Chocolate, Food, Sleeping
I looked over to Akiko:
Name: Akiko
Location: Akari's Ranch
Description: Akari's cousin. Came to take care of Akari's ranch. Came from the city. College student. Wants to be a marine biologist.
Likes: Lolita clothes, cosplays, japanese culture, games
I gave the cutie my form. He looked bored.
Akiko gave him her form. He still looked bored.
"Thank you for your time to fill out our form. Have a nice day." He said in a monotone voice. Like he had to rehearse it…
He flipped his hair back.
Oh… My… God…
HOW CUTE!!!
He took out a box. One side had female, the other, male.
He put in Akiko's in the female part…
And mine…
"Uhh, that's the wrong side…" I could feel my ears burning with embarrassment.
He jumped up slightly, by my feminine voice.
"You… you're female?"
Yep. That was the usual response.
Always.
Sometimes, I want to be acknowledged as a girl.
So that, maybe, a guy would actually ask me out, maybe?
Well, unless I wanted my bedhead of a mess hair to grow longer, I better keep dreaming
Chapter One: Complete
Yay. Done. Must… tell… friend I posted this now….
Man, I'm not very descriptive, am I?
It's just both their thoughts on stuff…