Summary: Omegaverse. AU Asami Ryuichi x Takaba Akihito. Middle schooler Aki finds out his classification. And that the world is not what it seems.
Somewhat checked and corrected by: Soyoraite
Warnings: M for future chapters. Vulgar language in future chappies~
Enjoy.
Chapter 1: Frozen
"…It is a worldwide known fact that among the three classes, Alphas are the leader; the dominant and are mostly given the best in education and job choices. While Beta's who are in the middle don't get as much chances, but are still very well respected. And lastly, Omegas; they are very rare existence. They are not as strong compared to the other two, however they are more well known for being creative (art, music, food, handcrafts, and etc.); moreover, they are said to be the most angelic/beautiful in appearance. Ever since an epidemic hit 100 years ago, omegas almost became extinct. It was not until 87 years ago that Omegas began to slowly resurface. Ever since the first Omega's resurface, many countries developed a plan to help 'restore' the omega class. Which leads to now what everyone refer to as the 'Omega Restoration Project'.
The O.R.P is a program for only omegas. Where each country would gather all their omegas to educate and care for, individually. Each omega will be given a luxurious room and one-on-one tutor to learn and become their very best. Once an omega has reached his or her age, they have a choice of choosing from a selection of elite Alphas as their soulmate."
Many oohs and ahs filled the auditorium from what the school principal said. Giggles, laughter and whispers filled room. Girls and guys teasing each other, and some saying how they want to be an Omega so they can marry an Alpha. Is a known fact, Alphas would take Betas as partners but only the most successful Alphas were able to get Omegas.
Akihito was getting annoyed by all the chitter chat yapping around. He wanted to get this over with so he could go to Mitsuwa in time for their time sale. It is rare that they had a guess speaker coming to their school, because they are not from a wealthy area. I mean, who comes here to a country side to talk about stuff they learned in 4th and 5th grade of elementary?
The noise in the room got louder and louder. Girls and guys making random guesses who they think are Omegas in their class.
Akihito heard his name mentioned a few times from his classmates, but didn't say anything to retaliate or voice his annoyance.
"Be silent please, we are gonna have a speaker from O.R.P to speak with us." The principal said trying to calm the crowd of adolescent kids while drying his sweat with his handkerchief.
Everyone quieted up once the person walked up the podium. She wore a white lab coat over her sky-blue dress shirt tucked under a tight pen skirt. Anyone who saw her, would say she's a beauty with class and brains. She stated their purpose here was to help conduct the classification test. And if anyone who are tested to be Omegas they'd get the privilege to live in Tokyo where their private Academy for Omegas are located. Lastly, before the students left the auditorium, she reminded everyone that only a handful of omegas can be found in hundreds. After wishing everyone luck, she left with other men and women clad in white coats.
After, the dramatic announcement, everyone was directed to return to their classroom. Before they were let home, their homeroom teacher hand out a paper form for their parents' signature.
'Such a waste of my time' he thought, crunching the paper in his school bag, rushing out his class to get to the time sale.
Thankfully, Akihito was on time for the time sale. He was able to by a box eggs (6 count) for 100 yen, and shimeji mushrooms each packet for 50 yen. Cabbage was on sale for cheap, Half a head for 300 yen. After getting the veggies, Takaba walk to the meat section. He had trouble selecting the meat. Meat in today's dinner is the main. Beef slices were cheaper but compared to pork slices it had more quantity. The difference between them was 105 yen. In the end he chose pork. Pork has almost twice the quantity, Takaba reasoned, and it feeds more. Takaba is the middle child of the family, both a younger sister and an older brother. His brother, Haruhito is a 2nd year in their local High school, Classification: Beta. His sister Natsuki is age 4, attending pre-school that is a block away from Haruhito's school. Both parents are often out for work, and they only to come home at night. So Akihito took it upon himself to be the one in charge of food making, grocery shopping for his family. While Haruhito has the responsibility of taking care of Natsuki and some minimum chores around the house.
Taking his steps towards the cash register ladies, something came to his mind. He forgotten another ingredient. DAIKON. Going back to the veggie section, he grabbed the white gigantic carrot. After paying for the groceries, Aki head home quickly to make dinner.
His siblings were home ahead of him. When he entered, they greeted "お帰りなさいOkaerinasai," and in returned he said "ただいま～tadaima."
Note: Takaba family lives in a traditional house where it's mostly wood, tatami and sliding doors.
It took him an hour to get dinner ready. Bowls, plates, chopsticks were set up. They were having nabe hot pot tonight. Four people ate, while two bowls were left untouched. Their parents are late tonight, usually they'd be home half an hour ago, bathed and are having dinner with them. It was only until after 15 minutes into their dinner, their parents came home. Everyone exchanged greetings. After their bath, they also joined the rest of their family for dinner.
Dinner ended fast. His grandfather Nobuyuki left the table first, to sit in front of his wife's altar to talk to her. It has become an everyday habit for him to do so, and the whole family too do that from time to time. After dinner his mom, Satsuki, did the dishes while his father Nobuhito, relax in front of the T.V drinking a can of beer.
After his mom finished the dishes, he returned to his room to retrieve the crumbled up paper from his school bag. Casually handing it to his mom, "here."
His mom eyed it for a moment then it finally hit her that her Aki was at the age where they can find out his classification. Walking back to her and her husbands' room she pulled out their hanko (family stamp) to stamp and sign it.
"Here you go" she said returning the paper to him. Aki ran back to his room to put away the paper.
"No running in the wooden floor," his grandfather said turning his head to Aki's direction as loud thumps disappeared across the small hall.
"What that all about?" he questioned his daughter in law.
"Oh, it seems like it's for his classification test."
"Oh." Nobuyuki stayed silent for a moment, and looked at a distant from where Aki disappeared to. Smiling nostalgically, he said "right, he is in the age." Chuckling lightly, he said "He's looking more and more like my mother."
Nobuhito who was in the living room could hear his wife and fathers' small conversation. "You mean like grandmother?"
"Yes," Nobuyuki answered turning his head to his son's figure.
Nobuhito 'hmn'd' in response trying to remember how his grandma looked like.
"Secchan," Nobuhito said in endearment, "may you go get our family Album?" It was only during these times Nobuhito would use her nickname he gave her. It's only when he was too lazy to get something. His plead was successful, Secchan went back into the room to get an old photo album.
Handing him the album, she said "I'm only getting you the album, because it on the way of putting back the hanko." But really she never took the hanko out of the room.
By this time, Nobuyuki walked to his son's side, to allow better looking at the pictures. The pictures looked aged, black and white was the only options then. Not many options were available with technology back then. But fortunately, the Takaba family in the past ran a Photo shop. Hence they had a lot of monochrome photos. Going through the pages, Nobuhito searched for his grandmother's face. Three people crowed to an album searching. "Here she is," Nobuyuki said pointing to 5x6 picture. The picture showed a couple together, arm in arm. The man was wearing a dark suit with round glasses and small pipe in his mouth. While the women was wearing a one piece satin western dress with lace covering her neck to her arms. She had a feathered hat on while her free hand held a parasol.
She was beautiful, light colored hair and eyes that easily catches attention. "Your Grandmother was half Japanese, quartered English and Russian." Nobuyuki said. "She used to have slightly blond hair, but they soon turned white," he said in reminisce.
Satsuki and Nobuhito started at the picture again, somewhat agreeing that his grandmother and his middle child does looking eerily alike.
Satsuki asked, "What classification was she?"
"Omega."
The mention of omega made everyone awkward. Not knowing what to say in response, the topic was soon dropped when Nobuyuki took the album and returned to his own room.
….
Back to Akihito. Once Akihito ran back to his room, he stuffed the paper in his school bag carelessly. He was gonna take the classification test the day after tomorrow. Like anyone in his age, he is curious about his classification. For sure he is gonna be a Beta, he always said to himself. It was only normal that he would, because both his grandparents, parents and brother are Betas. Going back to what was said in the auditorium, all Akihito thought was that he pitied Omegas. All the special treatment, attending private academy, luxurious rooms and one-on-one lectures made Akihito felt like as if its prison. He felt like there is no individualism and freedom in it. Akihito is a free-spirited growing teen, he likes to be needed by his family (meals), it allows him to be have the choice to do what he wants. Taking away his will is like asking him to die. When he thinks about if he were to be forced into a perfect curriculum it is definitely not his cup of tea.
…..RYUICHI LOVES HIS STUBBORN KITTY…..
Morning came, he woke up as usual, made breakfast and packed lunch for everyone (except grandpa~). He walked to school. Natsuki and Haruhito's school are in the opposite direction from his, so sometimes he gets lonely. Upon reaching near school, he sees his classmate and friends. They walked in the school ground together saying the usual. 'Why don't you hang out with us afterschool?' and his answer would always be 'I need to cook dinner' or 'grocery shopping/time sale.' But because of his over-caring for family tendencies, he was given several nicknames like 'Aki-mommy'. But what he is mostly called is 'Aki-chan3`, yes with the 3(heart).
Once class started their homeroom had gathered everybody's signed paper thingy collect. The day gone by like normally, but all the first year were in fact excited for tomorrow.
The next day, he arrived a bit early than usual. From outside his school many medical mini-vans gathered. From the vehicles, men and women clad in a white lab coat walked out.
It is rare to see a lot cars near and in their school parking lot, but seeing that many people helping with the classification tests somehow made Akihito's stomach queasy, yet warm.
All students were gathered in their homeroom. They were divided by genders once they walked to the Auditorium.
The Auditorium was split in half. Each side to each gender. After being split up by genders, the boys were again slit up to make three lines. As they were standing in lines, each was given a colored number sticker. His was white and number 99. After receiving a sticker, everyone was then given a clip board with their number on it. They had to fill in basic stuff like, full name, address, B.O.D, blood type (if known) and etc. They only had to fill in the first page, other three pages behind are to be fill by people in the white coats.
Akihito was getting bored and somewhat hungry for standing in line for what felt like hours. They were not allowed to eat or snack on anything (water only). Drinking too much water made him use the toilet twice already.
Finally when it was his turn, he was told to take off his shoes to weigh himself. A man took his clip board, while the other read the results. The same things were repeated but on different check points. They were like basic health checkup of weight, height, measurement. Finding those process to be pointless, Akihito grunted in frustration (but mainly due to hunger.) As he went into the last check point, he had to give a blood and urine test. The results were due in 2 weeks. The result were said to be confidential to the public (unless the students announce it themselves), and are mailed to their family once the results are out.
Walking home, all Akihito thought was how the testing feels pointless, while feverously eating away melon bread.
…..
The mailed results came as promised. He was too nervous to open it on the spot. 'I'll wait for dad and mom to come home to open it.' With that decided, he left the envelope on top of their living room table. After leaving the envelope, he got on with his day normally. He made bentou and breakfast. Giving two portions to Haruhito, he walked out. Like normal he could see his school from a distance. His friends greeted him and did so in return.
By the time they reached to their homeroom (early), other classmates are already there to chat about their result. Before he knew it, the class has divided themselves in to three. Alpha, Beta and not known yet. As soon as he sat on his desk, many classmates of his gathered to him asking his classification.
"I'm sorry, I haven't checked it yet" or "I was too nervous to see the results myself" was what he'd answer when people ask him. And they in turn would be even more curious or say he's 'stingy' for hiding the truth.
The whole day was like that. Alpha this. Beta that. There has not been one person that proclaimed themselves as an Omega. Well that lady did say, only a few in hundreds. Leaving the omega subject out, school was like any other day except for it was a little bit more rowdy.
He walked straight home today. Today he didn't need to go shopping, because today is their monthly annual Yakiniku night. The whole family would drive out to their neighboring Yakiniku restaurant to eat.
Upon coming home he saw his father's bicycle. He was home early than expected. 'Is mom home too?', he wondered. Letting himself in, he said tadaima. No one heard him so he walked to the living room.
"oh, Okaerinasai~" his grandfather greeted.
"Tadaima, is dad home already?"
"Yeah, because he heard you got your results back."
"What about mom?"
"She's on her way home right now."
"Ok."
"Have you seen your results?"
"No, not yet."
"Ok, good. We plan to look at it together at dinner."
"yeah, that sounds good."
"Tadaima" two voice said consecutively from the 玄関genkan (where they take off and put on shoes).
"Okaeri~" both his grandfather and him sang.
Today's a good day. Akihito decided. They were gonna have Yakiniku. His results are in. He might get お年玉 (otoshidama-pocket money that is given in special occasions like New Years and birthdays)from both his parents and grandpa because he remembered Haruhito received it when he had his results. It's my lucky day~.
It was not his lucky day. Everything was going on just fine before they read his results. His mom came home not so long after Haru and Natsu came home. They were all fighting to get in the 風呂furo bath. All the men in house got in together to save time, while his mom shared one with Natsuki. They arrived at the yakiniku place at 7, getting their own private room. They ate their fill before Nobuyuki pulled out Akihito's results. Both his parents and grandpa gave him his otoshidama, while his brother gave him a book on photography. Natsuki gave him a halo made of almost dried up flowers. Putting it on his head, she clapped her hands silly while giggling. She gave him a kiss on the cheek before she sat herself down. Nobuyuki looked at his grandchildren in endearment, before he coughed for attention.
All eyes were on the elder man now, he hand the envelope to Akihito. "Open it Aki." Akihito looked at the envelope, his hands were nervous with sweat and excitement. He couldn't bring himself to rip it open. "Sorry, grandpa. Please open it for me…" He finally voiced looking the opposite direction of the results. Seeing that his grandson was too nervous, he opened the envelope.
Unraveling the paper, the elder man eyes search for the result. Papers dropped abruptly, Nobuhito picked up the papers eyeing it before he too dropped the papers. Father and son stood together frozen. Satsuki then brought it to herself to read the results, she was stunned wordless. She too froze, but unlike the other two she didn't drop any papers. She just hand the results to her eldest son. Haruhito took the paper from his mom in confusion. Not only had his grandfather froze, both his parents are also frozen. The results must be daunting he thought. Shortly after, Haru followed his procedures' example and froze after seeing the results.
Akihito couldn't believe his eyes. One after one, his family froze due to his results. Is it that bad? Is my result bad? He couldn't help himself from thinking overdramatically. Natsuki who sat there also witness her whole family become frozen. She picked up the results reading it. She then hand it to her 2nd older brother saying "Onii-chan~, it says Omega."
つづく
Chapter one ends here. I know I have two other Finders FF I'm workin' on, but again I couldn't stop myself. Once the idea is in my head I had to write~~. Haha. Tell me what ya think. I know the summary sucks and I had to use spell check so many freakin' times. For example: Aj=hahah, when its simply supposed to be hahaha. EPIC FAIL.
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