Asada Miyu is NOT your average teen. Hyperactive is her life game and nothing can stop her from her constant sugar rush... except her dreaded pill that makes her seem anorexic, to her dismay. Now age 19 living in Japan for a whole year with her best friend Jyase Rardel and only enough pills to last HALF a year... how's she going to survive until her lost luggage arrives, which they promised it back within a few months due to difficulties? It's all written down in Asada Miyu ink in her head, but read to find out!
"And all goes to Hell!"
Laughter filled the Asada's living room as the horror movie played on the plasma screen. A tiny figure curled up on the couch was laughing hysterically and throwing popcorn at the TV while her friends watched. Watched her, of course.
"Ha ha!! Did you see that?! He shot the guy!!! Ha! He shot him!!! Ha ha ha! And he said "And all goes to Hell!" Ha ha!!" Popcorn flew across the room and bounced off of the flashing screen as she kicked her legs around, choking and spitting up popcorn.
Her friend Gen seated to her right pulled out her cell phone and dialed a seris of numbers, then put the phone to her ear. "Yes, hello? Doctor? Look, my friend is laughing hysterically and—No she's not on dru--… well, now that you mention it…"
Click!
"What the heck was that for?!" Her friend Jyase, seated to her left, exclaimed as he snatched the phone from her hand.
"I thought she was gonna die laughing!" Gen said and broke out into laughter herself.
They both turned to their friend, Miyu, who was still laughing.
"HA! She blew off his head! She actually blew off his friggin' head!!" Miyu gasped for air and clutched her stomach tightly, falling to the floor. She was lacking air and rolled around on the ground with no signs of calming down.
"Miyu! Oh, great, has she gone on another one of her… outbursts?" Miyu's mother entered the room and tried picking her daughter off of the ground. "Someone get her pill."
Instantly, Miyu's laughter ceased and she abruptly sat up, eyes quickly widening. "What?! Not my pill! No!!"
She got up and ran out on the room, into her bedroom and locked the door shut. Gen and Jyase was laughing as her mother went to go get her pill.
Miyu had ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. Want an easier term? She was very hyper because she was just born with it. And she disliked taking her pill to control her and get her to focus. Thus you meet what everyone that knows this about her as Kurenaimiyu. Or Red Miyu, which they associate as a loud and hyper and moody Miyu, whereas if she took the pill she was Aoimiyu, or Blue Miyu which meant she was calm and under control.
But you rarely saw Aoimiyu. That's because Miyu hated taking her pills. Her pills side effect was that if she ate them she would loose her appetite. Miyu was a small and fragile girl with barely any meat on her bones. She had taken the pill a lot when she was younger, but since two years ago she refused to take it because she said she could 'feel her backbone when she poked her stomach.' Basically, she felt as if she was anorexic. So she didn't take the pill as much as she could to she could eat, but sometimes she took the pill without even realizing it. Her mother would always find ways to slip it into her food or drinks. She usually hid it in a piece of cheese because Miyu loved cheese and always looked for it to eat.
At that particular moment, Miyu was in her room popping strips of cheese into her mouth.
"I'm really special 'cause there's only one of me! Lookit my smile I'm so damn happy other people are jealous of me! When I'm sad and lonely I like to sing this song, it cheers me up because I know I won't be sad for long oh oh oh I'm so happy I can barely breathe! Puppy dogs, sugar, frogs, kittens, baby teeth! Watch out all you mothers I'm happy it's hardcore, happier than a coupon for a $20—"
"KURENAIMIYU GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!!!"
Miyu dashed into the living room where her mother was. "NO! Never! …. Oh, wait, I am here…."
She dashed back out of the room and dived under the kitchen table, holding her bag of cheese close to her chest. "Nya! My cheese! You no touchy!"
Well, this was Miyu at age 14, anyway.
Currently, she was aged 19, and she was already in college. She had taken many of the AP classes in high school, so she was finishing up college in one year. But this year she was moving to Japan to finish college because she was chosen to be an exchanged student, unwillingly. She may have been Japanese but she enjoyed America a lot more because they had her favorite brand of cheese.
"Damnit!" Miyu growled as she grabbed her duffel bag and headed out of the airport to the shuttle. Her luggage got lost and was boarded on another airplane off to China be mistake, leaving her with no clothes except for a T-shirt, shorts, and a jacket in her duffel bag and the clothes she was wearing now. They promised the luggage to be back in a few months since it as loaded on a mail plane.
"Oh, c'mon, Miyu, it'll turn up. We're going to stay here for a whole year to might as well just buy some new clothes," Jyase said who had come along. Only the top students were allowed to come, and Jyase was one of them along with Miyu and about 10 other kids. Gen's scores weren't high enough so she had to stay back in America.
"But I had my mega stash of cheese in that suitcase!!" Miyu whined, frowning and crossing her arms over her chest as she sat down in the bus. Jyase took a seat next to her.
"It's not that bad, really. What's in your duffel bag?" said Jyase, taking out a piece of paper.
"I've got my toothbrush, tooth paste, a jacket, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, a hairbrush, some hair ties, sandals, an extra pair of shoes, a small stash of string cheese, my iPod, two mangas, and that's it."
Jyase wrote all of this down, and then suddenly looked up from his paper, his face a bit pale. "Um… anything else with you?" he asked a bit weakly, almost dreading the answer.
"Nope, that's it," Miyu said, grinning form ear to ear. A groaned was heard from Jyase and the shuttle took off.
"You mean you left the pills in the luggage?!" Jyase whispered frantically.
"No! Of course not! I left them at home!" Miyu corrected and pulled out her iPod.
Jyase sighed and pulled out a canister about the size of his hand. "Look, Miyu, I've only got enough pills here for you that will last about half a year. How are you going to get more?" Jyase and Gen always had a canister of pills for Miyu just in case.
"Well too bad!" Miyu replied proudly, and Jyase knew right away she was Kurenaimiyu.
"Look, you'll take the pill every other day, alright?" he compromised. Miyu turned up the volume on her iPod and pretended not to hear.
"…."
"Miyu?"
"…."
"Miyu!!"
"….I'm a little tea pot short and thin! Open the lid and put tea in! When the tea's all done you'll hear me roar! Tip me over and pour some more!" she sang happily, making everyone on the bus shout, "Shut up Miyu!!"
Miyu stuck out her tongue and continued to hum that song over and over again.
Two kids were going to be dropped off to one family, and they got to choose who to be with. Miyu and Jyase chose each other since Jyase was the only one with her pills and because they were friends.
Miyu and Jyase were being dropped off at the Kitamura's house, and they had an only child name Kazuya, who was 18. He was also in college, going to the same school as Jyase and Miyu, but he was a few months younger than them and turned 19 in September. It was now August.
"Hello my dears!" Mrs. Kitamura said with a heavy Japanese accent as she greeted Miyu and Jyase. Miyu held out her arms and hugged the tiny woman.
"Konnichiwa, Kitamura-san! Okurette gomen ne," Miyu replied cheerfully while apologizing for being a bit late, Jyase doing the same. He was unfamiliar to the Japanese culture and was grateful for once that Miyu was being dragged along with him.
"Daijoubuu daijoubuu Miyu-chan!" Mrs. Kitamura said, and brought them into the house. She had them set their things in the guest room and told them to come out into the living room when they were done packing, with broken English. Miyu and Jyase settled into the guest room, Miyu finished first with pretty much nothing to unpack.
"Are you going to tell Kitamura-san your luggage is in China somewhere?" Jyase asked. Miyu frowned and punched his arm. "Shut up! And not yet."
They headed downstairs to the living room when Miyu bumped into someone and fell to the floor hard on her bottom. The person she ran into was still standing.
"God! What the hell is a person doing right there?!" Miyu exclaimed, still on the floor.
"Well geez! What were you doing right there?!" came a harsh rude voice. Miyu growled and looked up to find a Japanese boy about her age with dark hair coming a bit over his eyes and to the top of his neck. Her had on a dark blue zip-up jacket with the zipper down and faded jeans. He was a towering 5'11" with cold eyes, from whatever part of his eyes Miyu could see.
"Hey! What the hell is your problem?!" Miyu shot back, standing up and getting right up in his face.
"What the hell is yours?! And who the hell are you?!" he spat. Jyase sighed and pried Miyu away from him, bowing in apology.
"Gomenasai, Kanojo wa baka desu," he said. The tall boy grunted and pushed past them.
"Just keep her away from me!" he said, but before he completely walked away Miyu broke away from Jyase and jumped onto the guy's back, tackling him to the ground.
"Hold it, buster! How come you speak such good English?!" she questioned. The boy struggled underneath her.
"You psycho! Get off of me!"
"Not until you tell me!"
"I went to school in America for 4 years straight when I was in 2nd to 6th grade! Now get off of me!!"
Miyu glared at him.
"Nani? Kazu!" Came the voice of Mrs. Kitamura. All three of the teens turned their heads to face her, and Miyu quickly jumped off of Kazu, who also pushed her off. Mrs. Kitamura began scolding him in Japanese and Kazu rolled his eyes while he walked over to her, arguing.
Miyu brushed herself of and stood beside Jyase.
"What're they saying?" Jyase asked.
"Well, Kitamura-san is scolding Kazu for being impolite to the guests, meaning me and you, and he's saying I started it, and she's saying she doesn't care because we are the guests and she wants him to treat us with respect and help us around and get along with us because we will be here for a whole year," Miyu summarized. Kazu sighed as he walked over to them both. He mumbled something to them without making eye contact.
"Kazu," his mother said warningly. Kazu mumbled again only a bit louder.
"Kazu!"
"Ok I'm sorry!" he practically screamed in Miyu's face. She smiled brightly and hugged him. "Forgiven!"
Kazu stared at her a bit shocked, but nodded and watched his mother leave the room smiling to go get her husband.
"Alright, Kazu? Correct?"
"Yes and don't think you're on good terms with me just because of a hug," he grumbled, sitting down on the couch.
"Well I know that but you just surrendered to me!!" Miyu laughed.
"You mean a midget, right?"
Miyu growled and flicked the side of his head. "I'm not a midget! I'm 5'2"!!" she exclaimed.
"5'11" here."
Miyu pouted and sat back on the couch with Kazu to her left and Jyase to her right.
"Um, well, anyway…. I'm Jyase Rardel and this is my best friend Miyu Asada…" Jyase introduced.
"You already know who I am," Kazu said and shook hands with Jyase. "So how come you're friends with a psycho midget?"
Miyu growled but put on a smile as Mr and mrs. Kitamura entered the living room.
"Welcome to our home, Jyaesu and Miyu," Mr. Kitamura said with a Japanese accent, pronouncing Jyase's name a bit wrong.
"Um, you can call me Jay," Jyase offered. Mr. Kitamura obviously knew more and better English than his wife and nodded.
"Jay, then. Both of you, welcome. You will be staying here for a year so get comfortable and do not feel shy, intimidated, or uncomfortable around any of us. We shall be like family during your time here in Japan."
Miyu bowed her head. "Arigato gozaimasu, Kitamura-san."
"I see you speak Japanese, Miyu-san?"
"Hai. I'm Japanese myself."
Mr. Kitamura's lips curved up into a small slightly wrinkled smile. "Then we shall teach you Japanese, you shall teach us English."
Miyu nodded. "Hai!"
Miyu and Jyase headed up to their rooms, Kazu following.
"So, Kazu," Miyu began, "know any good coffee houses?"
Kazu opened his mouth to speak but Jyase beat him to it. "Um, actually, I know a few so I can tae you there later, Miyu."
Kazu stared at them funny but shrugged it off. "So how old are you both?"
"19," Jyase said.
"Same," Miyu piped up, eating string cheese.
"I'm 18, turning 19 next month," Kazu said, shoving his hands into his pockets.
"Well anyway… I'm bored do you guys have Pucca in Japan?" Miyu said and walked downstairs. Kazu and Jyase followed her to the TV.
"Yes we have Pucca, it's in Japanese," Kazu replied.
"Don't tell her that!!! She'll be on this couch watching it for HOURS!" Jyase said, pulling Miyu up from the couch.
"Nooo! My Pucca!! She is my role model!!!" Miyu whined and tried going back to the TV, but Kazu dragged her out the door, leaving Jyase to the TV with a triumphant grin on his face.
"So," Kazu started, "it's around lunch time…. What do you like to eat?"
"CHEESE!" Miyu cried, causing a few people to stare.
"Shut up!" he growled.
"Oi, Kazu-kun!!"
Kazu and Miyu whipped around to find 3 tall Japanese boys coming towards them. Kazu waved and grinned. "Oi!"
They approached them and saw Miyu. "Gaarufureendo?" one of them asked.
Miyu frowned. "Yeah right! Like I'd be his girlfriend!" she said, getting their attention.
"You speak English, huh?" the second one said. Kazu shot Miyu a look.
"Um, she's an exchanged student from America staying at my house for a year…" he explained but was cut off by his friends.
"EH?! You get to have a cute chick at your place for a whole YEAR?! Invite us over more!"
Kazu rolled his eyes. "Sure, but you can have her, she's a psycho and ugly anyway."
At this, Miyu glared at him and walked over to stand next to the first one of his friends. "Geez! If you didn't want me around all you had to do was say so!"
Kazu was taken aback because he only meant it as a joke. "Look, I—"
"Nevermind! Tell Jyase I'll be gone for a while!" she interrupted and walked off with Kazu's friends. He growled and kicked up some dust. "Stupid girl!! It was only a joke! What's her problem?!" he shouted and stormed back home. When he got there, he saw Jyase laughing at the movie he was watching, Beat Kids.
"Hey! Where's Miyu?" Jyase asked. Kazu kicked off his shoes and flopped down on the couch angrily.
"She's out somewhere."
Jyase sat up and stared at Kazu. "ALONE?!"
"Yeah? So what?"
Jyase was flippin' out and he jumped up from his seat, grabbing at his hair frantically.
"What's eatin' you?" Kazu asked boredly. Jyase grabbed the collar of his shirt and lifted him up a bit.
"HOW THE HELL CAN YOU JUST LET HER GO ALONE LIKE THAT?! YOU'RE THE HOST!!!"
"Look, she got all worked up over a joke—"
"THAT'S BECAUSE SHE'S KURENAIMIYU RIGHT NOW!!!!"
"What the hell?? Red Miyu?"
"Yes!!" Jyase groaned and grabbed his jacket and slipped it on. "C'mon, we have to go get her now!!"
"I don't see what's the problem he—"
Jyase turned abruptly to Kazu, making him stop in his tracks.
"Miyu is NOT normal. She has ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. She didn't take her pill today so everything today you have witnessed over her was because of her disorder. She's known as Kurenaimiyu when she doesn't take her pill. That's when she's loud and hyper and VERY moody, and VERY sensitive! Only Aoimiyu is completely safe to be around, that's when she has taken her pill," he explained.
Immediately Kazu felt terrible. He didn't mean to offend her, he was just joking, but if he had known earlier, he wouldn't have done what he did.
"Hold on, she's off with my friends, I'll give them a call," he said, grabbing his cell phone and dialing his friend's number.
"I can't believe this! Let her go off with your friends?!" Jyase kept muttering.
"Moshi moshi?"
"Oi! Shinji! Kazu desu!"
"Oh! Konnichiwa!"
"Just put Miyu on the phone!"
"The foreign girl?"
"Yes!"
"Uhh…"
"Shinji…. What did you do to her?!"
"Eto… Kazu, don't take this harshly…"
"JUST TELL ME!"
"She ran away!!! Damnit that hurt my ear!"
Kazu froze and dropped his cell phone.