The beginning: Black Rose bloom
Chapter one: The encounter
I was in this dream again.
Despite the countless time I shunned this memory away from my head, it always came back alive to haunt. No matter how many time I rejected to remember, the memory itself compelled me to see the missing pieces in my past. Faint heartbeat started to pound vigorously against my chest stronger as I heard the familiar voice in my slumber again.
In the room filled with dancing flames, there stood a boy and a girl. He was clinging on the window with his left hand while she was starring hopelessly at the ground. The boy was me.
"Hurry, take my hand!" A younger self, nothing more than twelve year-old drew his right hand to lend to support the dark-magenta haired girl on the floor who was at about his age.
"You have to go without me. I can't move anymore. I don't have anymore strength to escape." the girl croaked miserably in realization; her body was limp, covered with scratches and bruises additionally with few stains of blood. The tears flooded her face when she looked at the boy above her beyond shocked. He shook his head hard in denial and open his mouth again.
"No you can't! We promised we will runaway together. Please!!" he pleaded desperately, trying to reach longer to her. Crystal droplets oozed out from his abject eyes who yearned for her to be with him. The girl nodded reluctantly to her friend's cry. She slowly reached his hand, then finally captured it after several minutes. She smiled ambiguously by the touch of his hand, and so was he, who made her see that it was never too late. It was like a new fairy tale story; a boy and a girl escapes from what it seems like a dungeon and live happily ever after.
But not everything ended happily ever after.
"There they are!! Put out the fire! Now!!" Both startled at the enraged voice. From my point of view, it seemed that man was the scientist by judging from his outfit - foggy goggle on his forehead and also a white coat loosely clinging on his shoulder. He ran through the fire quickly and without damaged, he pulled the girl away. I was in disbelief and in anger as the man shouted "Capture the other experiment!" I couldn't do anything but just to watch the flashbacks of my missing pieces. She tried to break free from his grasp, but failed.
"Yusei!" she cried as their hands were separated again. "Run!" her voice shouted her last request for him, though it was obvious that I was going to oppose her again. She didn't try to free for she was already knew she would be captured for good.
"No!" both the twelve year old self and the current me shouted. I tried to ran to them, but the scene only vanished, leaving me to tremble at the scene. I could still hear her voice in distant.
"Yusei."
"Yusei!"
"Yusei!!!" My eyes finally shot up to see a worried face of Martha. I sat up to look where I was in and obviously in my room. "Are you okay, son? You are sweating!" her voice grew more urgent and afraid. I slowly touched my forehead to find how much I sweated in a single dream. I gasped when I realized my body was still trembling with fear.
"Take a shower and come to the dinning."
"So..." Martha began, trying to find something, looking at the other direction, avoiding my gaze. "You had that nightmare again didn't you?" I stopped drinking and looked at the table blankly, pretending I didn't hear. "Or is it a different one? Tell me." she asked quietly.
"Yeah, but now, it's just much more clearer. That's it." I said to her briefly since she already knew. Her lips curved into smile when she began to break the awkward atmosphere.
"So that lovely girl you always appear in your head your lover?" she laughed with enthusiasm. I just couldn't help but frown at her sentence. Martha was always positive and rather really nosy at many time. She just kept asking when she knew what my answer is.
"How many time do I have to tell you, no." my voice became grumpy. A sigh of exasperation slipped my mouth.
"Fine, fine. I won't start with the whole thing again." she gave up...not. "Or was she your girlfriend?" she sparkled while I was disgusted again by her rather has-to-be-gone-curiosity.
"I can't believe that women nowadays are too dense to see the answer. It's no." my irritation grew stronger and I decided to change the subject into a more serious direction.
"This time, that girl and me was escaping from an old building. There was fire in the room too." I told her, trying to remember the exact details. "I was already on the window when she was on the floor. She was a lot more damaged than I was and she claimed that she couldn't make it." I spoke. Martha turned grim and carefully listened. "I convinced her it wasn't too late and I held her hands tightly for her to climb up the window along with me." I glanced at Martha's expression; her face was still serious, but not her mouth - it was grinning upward. I began to become more turbulent afterward.
"Then, a man who looked like a scientist entered the scene and captured her. The end." I added quickly to ruin her imagination. I finally smiled when her grin turned upside down. It was too funny to just observe her face.
"That's it? You have to be joking!" Martha was enraged, probably because there wasn't any 'romance' in it. I didn't know why my foster parent had to be centered around things that was too good to be true. Her name should have been "Martha the Romance daydreamer".
"We should get going now, Martha. I don't want to be late for my first day and you don't want to be late for your first day of teaching. Let's go." With that, I put the dishes in the sink and grabbed my bag. Martha on the other hand followed me from behind and locked the door once we were outside.
As Martha and I entered the room filled with commotion and excitement, she cleared her throat and everyone took their seat. "Hello everyone, my name is Martha and I will be your homeroom teacher until next year. Please welcome your new student, Fudo Yusei." she started cheerfully. I took a step forward to see everyone looking at me.
"Hi my name is Fudo Yusei. I am new at Domino High School. I hope I will not be any trouble to all of you." I finished, but decided to add another sentence since it was too short. "If you have any question, please ask."
Everyone's hand shot up in the air immediately. Martha chose the green haired boy who seemed energetic and fun to be with. "Hi! I'm Rua. What's the yellow mark on your face?" he asked the wrong question to me. Martha got startled a little bit but I already made an answer for it.
"It is my birthmark." I lied smoothly, hearing Martha's sigh of relief. The mark on my face was more than just a unique marks. Martha pointed to another student who seemed exactly like the boy Rua, but somewhat different.
"What's your name?" Martha talked to the pig-tailed girl.
"I'm Ruka, a twin sister of Rua. I hope we will be a great friends!" the girl started vibrantly. Her kind voice made me welcomed here already.
"Why did you came to this school?"
"I came here since Martha accepted a job as a teacher here. So I came with her." I replied simply, with her. Some students started to whisper something from my answer. Probably just mocking me.
"So, Ms. Martha is your parent?"
"No, she is my guardian." I replied again. The whisper began to transform into a conversasion. Martha obscured the disturbence by glaring at them. She pointed to the next student.I glanced at Martha to see why her eyes were widely open and shaking.
I looked at where she was pointing. I finally knew what she meant.
A long dark-magenta waved a little; her brown eyes pure es ever and her skin white and flawless. She was exactly like the girl from my dream. It can't be-no, it's impossible. Everything seemed so sureal all of a sudden. If she was actually the girl from my dream...it seemed so sureal. Could she really be the girl from my past?
"I'm Izayoi Aki. This is my question for you." her voice was harsh and somehow soft. Our eyes met each other and frozed momentarily.
"Have we met before?"
Hi, thank you for reading. Please R&R. This is my first ever fanfiction on Yugioh 5ds so don't blame me if it's not good.
- Black Seraphidian