Mirai- Story from the future

Yumi pushed a long strand of her dark hair, over her shoulder. She was really bored. She shifted the documents from one hand to another. She hated paper-work. She looked around, trying to come up with a sort of distraction, to keep her away from the dreaded work. She thought back to when she graduated from high school. She had left all her friends behind. But that was years ago. Since then, she had gone to Japan, her home-country, to carry on her studies of the martial arts. It was what she had wanted to do, then. But her interests lay somewhere else. She had left Japan, and gone back to uni, there to study in law school, to be a lawyer.

She fingered her pen. Why had she decided to be a lawyer? She didn't know. She had just decided, somewhat impulsively. She did like her job, just not the paper-work, which actually, took up quite a bit of her job.

The phone rang, interrupting her thoughts. She picked it up, grateful for a distraction. 'Moshi moshi?' she said.

'Huh? Yumi, is that you?'

The voice sounded familiar. Who was it? She had heard it before. Then it clicked. How could she forget?

'Jeremie?'

'Phew. I had thought that I had hacked into the wrong number. Hello Yumi, I haven't heard from you in ages. How are you?'

'Fine, you?'

'I'm well. It didn't take me long to hack into your files, to find each of your numbers, though I was scared that the computer may have done an error.'

'What? Other numbers? Which other people?'

'Odd and Ulrich of course!'

'Odd?….Ulrich? wow. Why? We haven't seen, or spoken to each other in ages, not since we graduated.'

'I know, I just had an idea, what if we had a mini reunion, between us, and we could go down to the lab, into Lyoko, just like old times?'

'Jeremie, You deleted Lyoko, remember?'

'Actually, no. I found it yesterday, in an old folder. It looks like I only deleted X.A.N.A. Funny, eh?'

'Yeah, funny. Well, when do we meet up?'

'Next week. Meet on Monday about 12 o'clock, outside the school.'

'Wow, Jeremie, you've really planned this!'

'I know, I deserve a break from this job. I invited Aelita, that is if she wanted to come. I'm sure she won't.' Jeremie sniffed down the phone. 'Well, I've got to go, I need to pack, before mi flight to France, it's in a day, you know, and I need to pack all of my computer equipment. Bye, Yumi.'

'Bye, Jeremie, See you on Monday.' She hung up. 'Woah.' Was all she could say. Was she ready to see Ulrich again? Would he bring Sissy? Would Aelita come? All these questions swam round her head.

Well, despite all these things, she was ready to go anyway. She needed a break from the paper-work, even though she hadn't even started it.

She smiled and got up. It was time to go shopping.

Odd lay on his couch. Kiwi, his old dog sat on his lap. He had had Kiwi for years now, and the poor dog was now a qualified doggie OAP. Odd smiled at that.

His small apartment was a mess. He couldn't bother to clean up, he would do it later, but with him, later meant never. If things got so messy, he would just ignore it, or call in a maid for the day. No, he had not grown up a bit, since he had left high school. He was still the lazy-pig Odd, who had a stomach the size of Europe. He laughed. He had just got a phone call from Jeremie. Of course he would go. He had just lost another job, and a break was what he needed.

It wasn't that he was bad at his jobs, he just seemed to repel his bosses. They did not like his laziness, or his lack of motivation, except for his great motivation for food of course. And strangely, after all of his food-consumption, he did not put on an ounce of weight. Not that he cared of course.

He got up, and fetched a piece of pizza from the fridge, and began to chew. Kiwi stared at it longingly.

'Nuh uh, you're on a diet, remember? It's what the doctor said.'

The old dog stalked off, apparently in a mood with his owner. Odd chuckled. Well, more food for him then!

Ulrich Stern placed his hands behind his head. Reunion, huh? He'd have to ask Sissy. Would she want to come? After all, she DID find out about Lyoko, but then, she was never really a part of the gang.

But, she'd whine if he went without her. Would Yumi be there? What would he say? Was he ready himself to see her? He didn't know. But he would still come. He hadn't seen Odd for a very long time. He wondered how he'd been. And Jeremie. Their conversation had been brief, so he had been unable to talk to Jeremie properly.

'Hi, Ullyrickie!' Sissy walked into the room, using her pet name for him, loudly, and sat on his lap. 'Guess what happened today, Ully!'

Ulrich sighed inwardly. He would have to ask her soon, he just hoped his fiancée won't screw it up.

There you go, hope ya liked it.

Ooohhh! What happened between Yumi and Ulrich all those years back? Will Sissy come, and FIANCEE? What? Stay tuned! And please review! This is my first Code Lyoko Fic, so I wanna know if I did ok…

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