Chapter 1, Part 1.
The day was fine with white bluish clouds filled the clear blue sky. It was a busy day in a normal busy city. Amongst the busy crowd, a girl with short silvery white hair was walking with her hands in her black trench coat's pockets. Her eyes were shadowed from within her silvery white strands that framed her face perfectly, giving her the mysterious look and the air of dangerous around her. Her mind was clouded with train of thoughts.
As she was walking, she suddenly bumped into a passerby. The girl didn't turn to look at the woman as she passed but at a very short moment, she muttered.
"Excuse me… Sorry." The girl said.
The girl kept on walking down the grey pavement without a glance back at the passerby before disappearing to a corner to her left. The woman blinked for a few moments at the girl's strange behavior, shrugging it off as she's in a hurry.
After a few minutes, the woman absentmindedly checked her pocket where her wallet usually is. Her eyes widened in horror and shocked – instantly stopped walking in the middle of the grey pavement to check – to discover her pocket's flat and her wallet's no where to be found in both all of her pockets and her handbag. She frantically tried to retrace her steps and remember where she'd been, but to no avail.
Mysteriously, she didn't even remember the mysterious girl whom she bumped earlier in the afternoon.
The girl's clouded mind didn't stop her from walking across the busy streets and turned to another corner to her left, entering a store that she's familiar with. A young boy no more than 20's with blonde hair and brown eyes looked up at from his work at her at the sound of her silent presence.
"Something happened? You looked a bit 'sour'." He asked, concerned of his new customer with a slightly worried tone.
The girl just smirked and shook her head, walking over to the young shopkeeper.
"It's nothing…. Got any new Sais?" she asked, looking through the glass counter where hand-held weapons were displayed.
The shopkeeper rolled his eyes in slight annoyance, knowing quite well of her usual orders.
"Well duh. You're the only one who ordered this kind of weapon in this century around here." He replied.
The girl smirked in amusement.
"Show them."
The boy searched his cupboards from behind his counter to back of the store. A few moments later, he came back with a familiar black rectangular case in his hand. He rested the case on the counter in front of her and opened it for her.
"Here. This one's made from the finest material. The handles were made of leather, mixed with a Goblin's horn. The blades were made of steel mixed with a meteorite rock, hence the black steel." He explained to her.
The girl looked at the pair with a grin of satisfaction, examining the blades with keen interest. The dark blades gleamed with might under the reflection from the light that came from the high windows and tested them skillfully with graceful movements of her hands.
"Nicely done…" she complimented.
The boy smiled of her kind words. He pondered for a moment and smiled wider.
"But… There's one other more… They were supposedly to be twins… Wait." he said, returning back to the back of the store. A few moments later, he returned with another similar black rectangular case in his hands. The girl looked up from her examination on the dark Sais in her hands to the new case that the shopkeeper rested on the counter, opening it for her to see.
"Here you go. Made of white, indestructible steel." He said, handing the new pair of Sais to the girl.
The girl studied the white blades in her hands with awe and amazement, looking back and forth at the two opposite pairs.
"Opposite to the other… Made for the other…. Destined for each other…." She whispered to herself, not letting her sight out of the two pairs.
"Handles made from a Unicorn's horn. No harm done and one of the finest blade ever made." He continued, reassuring her of the qualities of the blades of her liking.
Without wasting anytime, she pulled out a small but thick package from her trench coat and put it on the counter for the shopkeeper, signifying that she'd love to purchase the two Sais with high price.
"Here. Keep the change." She said, smirking watching the shopkeeper's slight irritated expression of her words.
"Sheesh… Acting all cool like that… Thanks!!" He said, keeping the cash from behind the counter for safe keeping.
The girl nodded in return, taking the blades and kept them inside her coat in several of places she could keep, leaving the cases.
"Pleasure is all mine." She replied.
She nodded again – this time as the sign of 'goodbye' – and left the store.