Hello everyone! I thought I try my hand with this story, please let me know how it is. I do plan to keep events like in the show, but I will be adding my own spin off chapters. This chapter in particular is just to help my character make her appearance before we start getting to more of the story line!
Rating will apply for language and scenes later on in the story.
Again reviews will be greatly appreciated!
Japan 1978
Hazel eyes watched as numerous men went back and forth from the moving van to her new home. An eggshell white painted two story home, four windows facing the street as cars drove past. A balcony was centered above the front door as the window doors were being covered on the inside with blue curtains. She could hear the sounds of her mother and father giving orders as she sat patiently on her luggage.
Looking around she saw numerous building across the street, with a few trees spaced out from each other down the sidewalk. She looked back at her house, as the white wall that sealed off most of the space that belonged to her new home had only a large opening with a few men looking at it. The young girl could over hear them talking about putting a gate there. The wall seemed to extend down the block as she saw the roof of the building next to them.
Holding a medium sized yellow ball in front of her she bounced it up and down. She sighed as she placed the ball in her lap. The color and brightness of it clashing with her knee long dark blue school dress that had two black button down the center of the neck hole. In a new place that seemed so foreign to her, her little seven year old body shook a bit.
"Come now Ivy," her eyes looking up at the woman approaching her. She was wearing a tailor made navy blue pencil skirt with a white button up tucked in. Her black heels clicking along the paved sidewalk. Hazel met hazel as she kneeled before the child. "There's nothing to worry about." She reassured the child.
Placing a well manicured hand on her daughter's head she messed up her mid-back long black blue hair as she watched her fuss. "But I don't want to go to a new school, I want my old friends." She told her mother honestly.
"Well we can't go back for awhile sweetie, once you make new friends here I'm sure you'll like it." Her mother smiled at her, "now why don't you go play with your ball in the yard?" She offered.
"No!" Ivy yelled as she ran from her mother, her black shoes tapped with each step as she felt the warm tears drip from her eyes. She knew this wasn't what she wanted, she wanted to be home and she knew her friend knew the same.
Eyes closed, she felt herself stop for a second as she feel back. Her yellow ball falling out of her hands as it bounced, Ivy sat on her knees as she wiped her eyes as she continued to cry.
"Oh no! Are you ok sweetie?" " the voice of an unfamiliar woman asked, looking past her tears she saw a woman with golden hair that looked to be in a bun that came to nape of her neck. Her green eyes looked to be pools of kindness, she watched her hand reached into the pocket of her purple coat that appeared to come down to her hips. The woman checked the pockets of her blue jeans as she pulled out a pink handkerchief, as she helped wipe away Ivy's tears. "You're ok."
Ivy could feel her tears stop as she nodded her head. "Ivy don't run off like that!" she heard her mother run up from behind her, as she stood on her feet. "I'm so sorry, she's just a bit upset."
"I can see that," the woman looked towards the vans. "Did you just move here?" she asked.
Ivy could hear both women talk as she looked around for her ball. She knew it had it before she ran into the blonde haired woman. "Looking for this?" a boy asked. Ivy saw her yellow ball in the hands of another new person. The boy appeared to be about her age, but he was a little bit taller than her. His green eyes were bright, as he smiled at her, he was wearing a white collared shirt with black suspenders that almost blended into his black slacks. His dark hair looked to be a bit spiky. She took the ball from his light tan hands.
"Thank you," she said to the boy. The woman continued their conversation, "my name is Ivy, what's yours?"
"Jotaro," he told her.
"Do you want to be my friend?" Ivy asked, as she saw him nod his head.
"Sure!"
"Well look at this?" Ivy heard her mom, "see Ivy, I told you you would make new friends." Her mom patted her head, "Ivy would you like to go play with your new friend?"
"Can I?" Ivy's eyes lit up.
"Yes, Mrs. Kujo and her son live next to us." her mother told her. "Your father and I still have a lot of stuff to get done, but I'll come for you later."
Japan 1985
"Ivy!" her mother called for her, as she was up in her room. "Hurry up you don't want to be late!" Ivy had her hair in front of her, as she brushed the ends of it before throwing it back, the blue black locks reached past her hips a bit. Grabbing a small blue jar, she unscrewed the top off and dipped her finger in the white cream before rubbing it to her face.
"I'm almost ready!"
She adjusted the collar of her purple middy blouse, and tightened the red ribbon that was at the base of the blouse. Her matching purple skirt came down to her knees, as she left her room before running down the stairs. Ivy grabbed her black book bag that was at the base of the stairs as she slipped on her black school flats before securing them with the buckles on each shoe.
"I'm leaving mom!" Ivy shouted, as she heard her mother's heels clicked against the wood floor. "When will you and dad be back?" she asked as she saw her mother wearing her usual work outfit, there were a couple bags of luggage by the front door as they were preparing to leave for their business trip.
The woman looked upon her daughter, 14 and she had the looks of a heart breaker. She had a slim heart shape face, and was already starting to grow into her woman body. Her daughter reminded her of herself at her age, her beauty matched her intelligence. She was a very proud mother.
"Next week, I already told Holy about our trip and if you need to she said you're more than welcome to stay there if you want to." her mother told her. She and Jotaro's mom had became good friends since they had moved to Japan seven years ago. "You sure you'll be ok while we're gone?" her mom asked her.
Ivy nodded her head, "don't worry mom I'll be ok, I'll probably just come home after school and grab some stuff and stay there till you get back." she told her mom as she walked up and gave her a hug. "Give dad a hug for me, I love you guys." she told her mom as she heard her dad upstairs getting ready to leave.
Running her hand along the top of her daughters head, "we love you too Ivy, we'll see you when you get back." Turning towards the door, Ivy opened the door as she ran out of her house.
"Ivy!" she heard her father call out from the window as she saw his black hair was gelled back. He appeared to be putting on a tie as the collar of his white shirt were up. "Have a good day at school!" her father waved at her.
"Thanks dad, I love you!" she waved back at her dad, as she pushed open the metal gate door, before carefully closing it as she ran down the sidewalk. "I hope I didn't keep him waiting," Ivy said to herself as she could see Jotaro appear from the open gate of his home. "Jojo!"
He turned to look at her, "wake up late again?" he asked her. There a look in his green eyes, a look that always seem to make her heart flutter a bit. He was much taller than her by over a foot, as she only stood to about five feet herself.
Ivy shook her head, "no." she answered him as she saw he was wearing a new black gakuran along with a new pair of black straight leg pants. "Did your mom get your new clothes?" she asked him. He nodded his head, before adjusting his hat. "But you still wear that hat, you know you'll be in trouble again if you continue to wear it." she told him. It had a few buttons on it that she knew the teachers at their school had given him a hard time about.
"Like I care," he told her. They both walked their usual path as they came to the staircase. The trees were in bloom as hundreds of white petals were littered among the steps. "Your parents leave today, don't they?"
"Yea, they're going back to America for a business trip but they should be back by next week." she told him. "Do you mind if I stay with you and your mom until they return?" she asked.
"You don't need to ask." she mentally slapped herself for asking. They had been close friends since the day she moved to Japan, even being able to go to the same school together since then.
Ivy giggled, "no I guess not. Hey Jojo….do you want to skip today?" Jotaro looked over at her, but didn't answer her."What?" she asked as they both stopped they could see a few other students walk past them as they were whispering.
"It's not like you to want to skip," he told her.
Ivy shrugged her shoulders, "honestly I didn't feel like going to school today, but I don't want to skip alone."
"Give me a break," she heard Jotaro speak. "So what did you have in mind?"
"Don't know yet, do you just want to walk around the city?" she asked. As they both headed in the opposite direction of their school and walked along. Once they were a good few feet away, Ivy reached into her school bag and grabbed a red rectangular package and a silver zippo. She pulled out a cigarette, as she lit it. Taking in a breath before exhaling.
"Since when do you smoke?" Jotaro asked her, as she handed it to him. He took a couple of drags before handing it back.
"For awhile now, just never told you." she answered him, "but then again you never told me when you started either." she joked.
They had walked around the city for a couple of hours, as they had finally came to a stop at a nearby park close to her home. Jotaro had left to go do something as Ivy looked at herself in the reflection of the pond, it was time to practice a bit.
"Lady Chaos," she whispered a name as she saw a figure appear behind her it looked similar to her but it appeared to be a dark shade of blue. A few locks of hair appeared from beneath the hood, almost the same length as Ivy as it was wearing a revealing style of armor, wearing what appeared to be a purple clock over it covering its face.
"Let's try this," Ivy said as she saw a koi fish swimming in the pond. Placing her hand quietly, the figure followed as it it mimicked the same movement above the ko she focused as a circular orb appeared around the koi. Both Ivy and the figure lifted their hand higher as they turned their palm towards the sky as she could see the koi was trapped in the circle trying to swim in the water that was inside. "Doing good so far." she said.
Hearing footsteps Lady Chaos disappeared, as the barrier around the koi disappeared and it fell back into the water. "What are you doing?" Jotaro asked, as Ivy stood up.
"Nothing just looking at the fish." she told him. "Want to go hangout at my place?" she asked, as he didn't reply. Ivy took it as a yes as they left the park.
Walking down the familiar sidewalk, they stopped at the metal gate to Ivy's home. Grabbing her key, Ivy undid the lock to the gate as she pushed it open, as they both entered inside before shutting it. "Did they already leave?" Jotaro asked.
"Probably sometime after I left," she said as she unlocked the front door and saw the bags of luggage that were there in the morning were gone. "Yea they're probably on their way to America." she spoke. "Do you want anything to drink or something?" she asked. Ivy saw Jotaro shake his head, as he walked towards the living room.
She followed him, as she watched him undo a couple of buttons on his school jacket to reveal the dark shirt he was wearing underneath along with an triangular pattern belt that alternated colors. Jotaro sat down the the blue couch as he placed his feet on the dark brown coffee table.
Ivy came up to him and slapped his shoulder, "how many do I have to tell you, don't put your feet on the coffee table." she said as she walked over the box TV that was sitting on a TV stand. She turned it on, as a commercial was playing. Sitting next to Jotaro she put her feet up on the coffee table as well as she felt him look over at her. "Don't give me that look," she told him.
They were a few minutes into a detective show, until something came on. "Breaking news today," a woman's voice spoke. As it showed an image of a plane, Ivy's eyes could see the words 'Plane Crash' in bold red letters "We interrupt all programs, a Soul Winds plane heading towards the Chicago International Airport today has been confirmed to have crashed this morning. At this moment there have been news on what caused the crash, however," Ivy's heart dropped as she stood up from her seat.
She could see the front end of the plane had been destroyed with only the back end barely remaining. "The death toll is continuing to increase, those who know those who may have been aboard the plane to please call the airline." Ivy ran to the phone that was next to the TV as she frantically searched for the travel papers she had seen there the other day.
Jotaro got up as he approached Ivy as she pulled out a piece of paper and began entering the numbers, she could hear the phone ring until it sounded like someone picked up. "Soul Winds Airlines," a man spoke.
"I'm calling about the plane crash that happened, I need to know if my parents were onboard that flight." Ivy said in a shaky voice. She held out hope, numerous planes from that airlines went to America, maybe her parents were delayed or maybe it wasn't there flight. "There names are Byron and Iris Layne. I need to know if they're ok." she said. Ivy's heart felt like it was going to beat out of her chest.
"We did have a Byron Layne and Iris Layne check in," the man spoke as she could hear clicking. He went silent as Ivy felt like she was going to pass out. "I'm so sorry, but they were both on that flight that had crashed."
Ivy could feel a tear run down her cheek. "Are they ok? Did they make it?"
The man on the other side of the line was silent. "I'm not suppose to discuss this anymore, but I have to tell you. Miss...I'm very sorry for your lose." Ivy hung up the phone after she heard those words. She stood there silently like a statue, as Jotaro saw her turn towards him with her head down.
Just a few hours ago, she hugged her mom. Just a few hours ago she had told her mother and father she loved them. She already pictured her family coming home by this time next week. But that was no more.
"Ivy," he spoke her name as she wrapped her arms around him and began sobbing. He felt her whole body shake.
"They're gone Jotaro, they're gone!" she shouted as she continued to cry. He felt bad for her, as he placed his hand on her head. "My mom and dad are dead!"
One week later…
Rain.
She didn't know when it started raining or how long she had been standing in the rain. Her black dress clung to her body like plastic wrap as the ends of her hair dripped water. Ivy could feel tiny streams of rain fall down the side of her face.
Standing before the marble headstone she saw her mother and father's name engraved in it as numerous bouquets of flowers lay before it. The cold rain seemed to blend with her warm tears, her family was gone. Her heart was in unbearable pain.
Ivy felt the rain stop but could hear it hit the ground around her, looking to her side she saw Mrs. Kujo standing next to her holding a large umbrella over both of them. She was wearing a long black dress as she pulled out a white handkerchief and wiped Ivy's face. "You'll catch a cold if you're not careful." She told Ivy as she saw how puffy her eyes were. She could see the pain in her hazelnut eyes.
Ivy stood silent, "Ivy, why don't you come and stay with Jotaro and I?" She asked.
She was shocked but shook her head. "No Mrs. Kujo I couldn't do that, I don't want to be a bother to you to." Ivy told her, realizing that she didn't have anyone anymore to come home to.
Holy patted the girls drenched back, "nonsense. We have an extra bedroom you can stay in. Besides I want to make sure you're safe." She reassured Ivy as she pulled the teenager toward her.
Ivy hugged Holy as she felt the tears return once again. Her kindness knew no bounds, as they both walked away from the tombstone towards their home.
So I hope you guys liked this chapter, again this is a starting chapter to help introduce my OC, Ivy Layne who has stand abilities that I will get into more detail with later. Thanks again for reading, updates will be slow I do work full time so I can only writ in my free time.
