Author's note
This is my first fan fiction ever, so please bear with me! I apologize for any stupid typos and/or grammar/spelling mistakes. Ummm I don't really know what to do . If anybody bothers to read this I LUV YOU aneleven better if you rate and reveiw *wink wink* so...I think that's it for now. Enjoy!
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It was hot. But then, it's always hot in Southern California during summer time, and it was that type of hot that required yummy food. So, Aria was perched on her kitchen counter eating fresh strawberries and drinking lemonade.
Aria looked out the window smiling at the beautiful day outside. The sky was a perfect, cloudless blue. 'Ah. Sky blue, just like Fai's eyes.' She thought, laughing at herself because of the sentiment. It was just a manga for goodness sake, but she couldn't help feeling like she new all the characters and honestly, her love of Tsubasa was getting a little excessive. Syaoran, Sakura, Kurogane, and Fai, oh yes, and Mokona too; she loved them all and now after finally finishing the series, she didn't really know what to do with her life, especially now that both her parents and brother were out of town and she was left with the house to herself. I mean, one can only read so many post series fanfics.
"God, I'm hopeless", the teen mutters, musing over her own obsessiveness. Aria hops down from the counter (she as always preferred to sit on top of things, rather than properly in a chair) and went back upstairs to her bedroom, she always felt safest there and, with everyone gone, she was starting to get a little jumpy. 'I don't know why they let me stay, she thought, sure I'm responsible, and I'm 16 for crying out loud. I'm just so paranoid. My imagination is waaay to hyperactive for this to be good for my health.' She sighed petting her cat, who was taking advantage of the sunny day by sunbathing on Aria's bed.
"I mean what if Fei Wang appeared out of no where." she asked her cat, "Or, I dunno, what it I get robbed, or...a ghost starts haunting the house." she says. Her cat mews skeptically, as if she was amused at her owner's skittishness.
"Yea, that last one was pretty silly wasn't it?" She says, petting her cat and sitting down on an unoccupied potion of he bed.
"My parents must be crazy." she sighs.
It was her parents twentieth anniversary, and they had wanted to do something special. So they booked two tickets for a tour of Europe, leaving Aria and her brother to fend for themselves. And then her brother jumps of to scout camp leaving Aria all by her lonesome. Sure her next door neighbor would come and check on her every night, but for the rest of the day, She is left all alone, except when she went out to do something. And Aria, being young and hyperactive was starting to be annoyed by the fact that she couldn't really do much and had to clean and cook for herself. Now that was annoying. When her friends found out she was going to stay home alone, they begged and begged her to orchestrate some party, but Aria didn't want to. She was looking forward to time alone, but now, only four days in to the fifteen day trip, she was beginning to think maybe a party wouldn't be so bad.
She picked up her cat and made her way downstairs again, maybe she'd watch some anime, or go creep on Facebook, that sounded fun. Her cat squirmed in her arms, wanting to be let go. She seemed jumpy, almost as if she felt something was off. As soon as Aria put her down she scrambled under the big couch in the living room, causing Aria to frown, this was unusual behavior for her normally friendly, carefree cat.
Aria paused in front of the big hall mirror examining herself. She was short for her age, but had a nice build from taking ballet classes. Her dark hair framed her pale face in unruly curls and the ends of her short hair barely scraped her shoulders. She felt that her eyes were her best feature, big and nearly emerald green, she loved them, but they had a tendency to unnerve people, being so big and green. Someone had once told her that she felt like Aria looked inside people, not just at them. This made little sense to Aria, but she like the sound of it. She liked to think she could look like Sakura if her hair was lighter and less curly.
She made her way down to the computer and went to iTunes to play some music, having music on always made her feel better. She scrolled through her playlist. Obscure pop, top 40 songs, vocaloid, K-pop, J-pop, fun(period), some older songs, random songs, songs from animes, more K-pop, the soundtrack from Wicked, Yuki Kajiura, and more top 40. Giving up on selecting a specific songs she set it on shuffle and let the computer chose for her. It was one of her favorite songs, one about love and life and depression and stuff, but it was so pretty, the haunting melody filling the room, filling all the nooks and crannies of the house with the singer's sad longing. Leaving no room for startling noises to emerge.
After searching the web for a bit, the restlessness that had been causing her to keep moving around her house all day came up again and Aria decided to go out back.
Her backyard was awesome. One of her mother's best friends was a landscape artist and had done their yard a while back. There was a rock path looping around the yard from the back porch, through flower beds and a meadow. The vibrant colors of the blooms popping from the yard as if something of a slightly surrealistic painting. But the main attraction of the yard was the giant Japanese cherry tree in the very center of the yard. As a little kid Aria had loved this tree because of it's beautiful, powder pink flowers and it's amazing climb-ability. Now she still loved the tree because of that, but now it was awesome because it was a Sakura tree. So iconically Japanese and Aria had one in her back yard.
Her cat started mewing loudly from underneath the couch. 'I wonder if something's wrong?' Aria wondered going over to try and retrieve. The cat from under the couch, but as she was trying to get the cat out, the animal ran out from under the couch now bounding to hide in the laundry room.
"The heck..." Aria says, "I don't get it. She's never like this, she's always-" Aria stops, looking out the back window,seeing something that looks...off. Opening the sliding door to step outside, Aria is hit with an out of place gust of wind. And the off is becoming more noticeable. Aria hears a loud burst of static then the music cuts off. The air seams to be bending, above the cherry tree a glob of space forming, spiraling down from above the tree, the very space seams to be contorting. She's never seen anything like this. Time seams to slow as her eyes widen, rooted to the spot. Her mind rushing over what this could be, searching the reaches of her brain; for an explanation, something,anything to explain this. 'Aliens, terrorists, zombies...noo, a space-time anomaly, time travelers.' She gasps. 'Could It be...' The globule has reached the ground. Material swirling around showing glimpses of colors. Blue, black, and some brown. Aria stands frozen to he spot, knees threatening to buckle, three figures appear from the air. Two taller ones and one shorter Aria barely has time to take in: bright blue eyes, garnet red, a mess of blonde hair, determined amber eyes, a perpetual scowl, and a suspicious white pork bun. 'No, no way, no way in hell. This can't be happening, it can't IT CAN'T.' She feels herself slipping out of conscience. The chances of this happening, one in like a gazillion. No this shouldn't even exist. The world fades to black and Aria falls to the ground muttering, "Hitsuzen, my ass.". Right before she possible receives a dangerous injury and slips entirely into subconsciousness she could have sworn that she was caught by a strong pair of arms.
"What did she say?" a gruff voice asks
"Well I dunno Kurgy, but it sounded a lot like 'Hitsuzen something"