Tatsu looked outside the window from his desk during English class and saw a cloudless sky with the sun blazing down on the school garden. The English room was hot, muggy and Tatsu wanted badly to open the window to let the nice breeze he could see making the grass sway. He looked at the clock which told him that class would be over in five minutes. His teacher was wrapping up his lecture about literary devices when he reminded the class that they had two more weeks left before they had to hand in their final assignment.
The assignment was to create a short story incorporating realistic and unrealistic concepts with development of the protagonist. Tatsu was now in the panic stage. He hadn't even started it and it was assigned at mid-term. He tried to complete it but he didn't have the imagination. He concluded that there was no source of creativity inside of him and now that it was the second last week of school there was no time to be sitting at home doing school work.
Tatsu is a 16 year old male that plays on the highschool soccer team and on the Tokyo's civic soccer team. He prefers hanging with his friends instead of doing school work. Tatsu is average height with a slim built, has dark blue hair, hazel eyes but where's green contact lenses.
Suddenly the bell rang and Tatsu along with his class rushed out the door eager to get home or hang with some friends. "Hey Tat! Ready for the big game today?" Tatsu looked behind him and saw his pal, Kenji. Kenji was the new transfer student who was finishing his first of two years in Japan. He was from France and was the typical hottie. Tatsu was envious of Kenji because all the cute girls flocked to him like he was a magnet. "No, Kyoto is going to dominate us." Tatsu replied.
"What 'appened to votre confidence," asked Kenji.
"What did you say."
"Sorry, I guess my accent is too overpowering."
"Whatever. Hey listen, I gotta go research a bit at the library for that English assignment before the game and I need some hel..." Tatsu was interrupted he saw Kenji flirting with a girl named Chikya.
"Oh, did you say something?" asked Kenji.
"Nothing," Tatsu replied and he headed towards the local library.
On the way to the library Tatsu wondered if he was ever going to be able to finish this horrible assignment. As he looked around he saw people shopping, eating on the patios of cafés, little flower gardens here and there and sighed. Everything to him lately seemed so boring and dull. The sad thing was that Tatsu had a small burden that he was born with but big enough to sadden him. He longed to tell somebody about his ailment but he was just to sad.
Finally, Tatsu arrived at the library. The library looked like a huge cathedral with gargoyles of dragons carefully carved decorating the outside. It was quite odd looking and out of place because it was located beside an café and an antiques shop. Tatsu hadn't been to the library for years and was breathless when he saw it. He took a deep breath and entered the cathedral of books.