Booooooooooooooored.

That was the only word I could think of that could describe the small town, or was it a village? I don't know, I'm just gonna call it a village cause it's so damn small. The tow- err I mean village's name was Sotoba. Did I say I was bored, well let me say it again.

I was so god damn bored. I wish someone would just come and take me away from this place. The people were dull, simple minded, but kind so I couldn't hate them. They weren't the reason I was so bored. No, the reason was that there is nothing fun in the village so entertain me. There was like no technology, and even if there was nobody would understand it. There was only one person who understood me and that was my girlfriend Shanara. Oh, and the only 'technology' that we had was our phones. Mine was an android phone with black with red stripe on the side and hers was white with black stripes. Kinda like a zebra if you think about it.

Her full name is Shanara Bukyzowa. She is a 17 year old girl who has a normal skin tone, light purple hair that reaches just past her shoulders with blood red eyes. She was currently smiling at me warmly.

My name is Kayz Mokushino (pronounced 'Kai', like Dragonballz 'Kai' since the z is silent). I am 18 years old and I have bright brown hair with blue/purple eyes. My right eye was blue, and the other was purple I was currently smiling back at her with a smile that could probably match the sun.

I was currently wearing a black t-shirt with the Decepticon Emblem with blue jeans with some light blue sneakers with white lines on the side. It was a pretty casual get-up. Shanara (although I call her Shanae) and I love the American Transformers, especially the Decepticons. We never really knew why we preferred the bad guys over the good and we didn't really care. We just assumed it was because that they were cool looking.

She was wearing a bright red t-shirt with the words "Till All Are One" written on it in blue with black jeans accompanied by green and black shoes.

We were currently walking through the woods at night with our fingers deeply intertwined. We were what people would call 'weird' to say the least, but we didn't care. All that matter was that we had each other. We weren't doing anything special, we just enjoyed the night time.

You see, both of us had some pretty fucked up lives when we were with our parents.

*Flashback*

It turns out that neither of our parents wanted us. It Shanae's case, she literally was called a 'mistake'. Her mother told her that she shouldn't have been born and that was constantly beat whenever her father came home. She was apparently born with a speaking impediment. More specifically, her vocal cords were rendered as 'nonfunctional' due to the fact that she was infected with a disease before birth. Well, that's not entirely true. She could make sounds with her voice but she was unable to form words. This was only because her mother often took drugs to attempt to kill her while she was still in the womb. Why she didn't just get an abortion is a mystery. Fortunately, her body managed to kill the disease before anything else was infected, so she was born perfectly healthy. From that point on she experienced harsh bullying and developed resentment for her mother. Her father was the only one who actually cared for her. So when he dies in a fatal car crash, she entered a state of serious depression. Despite all that, she still managed to maintain her grades in school that her father still had money invested into as well as her cheery smile. She started to roam the streets of the Tokyo until we happened to meet by chance. It takes the term 'love at first sight' into literal terms. The moment I laid my eyes on her, I felt my heart flutter as it beats faster and by breathing got heavier. We were so busy taking in each other; we forgot that we were still walking towards each other. We both stopped when we realized that we were right in front of each other.

"…" I was so enamored by her beauty that I couldn't find anything to say to her. Not that I could use my mouth to speak anyway.

My life was, well ok for the most part. I had a mother who loved me and a father who supported his family. That was until my father divorced my mother and left her for another woman, leaving mom to take care of me for herself. I s I also had voice problems but those developed as it got older. It turns out I had a tumor in my throat but by the time the doctors removed the tumor, it was impossible for me to speak because half of my vocal cords were vanquished by the tumor. Thankfully it wasn't life threatening because it was so small.

We pretty much clicked right away. You see, due to our 'conditions', we became very, very fluent in sign language. It made sense, since we had no other way to communicate to each other. Unfortunately, not everyone knew sign language. Hell, the vast majority of the world didn't the 'universal language'. Because of this, we always carried a small note book to write on. This led to us becoming very fast writers.

"H-hi" I said.

"Hello" she waved back. I now just noticed that she was drenched in rain, her blue T-shirt and brown pants were practically just soaked in the liquid. Seeing as to how I had an umbrella on me, I immediately got next to her.

"You'll freeze; do you speak sign-language?" I was really hoping she could. It would have been a damn shame if she couldn't

"I do" she signed back, a small smile creeping on to her face. Looks like she was happy I spoke sign as well. There was a moment as we stared into each other's eyes, taking in the others essence. Luckily, she decided to break the silence.

"Thank you" she said, grateful for the umbrella.

Your welcome, but why were you walking in the rain?" I replied, confused as to why a girl like her would be walking in the cold rain.

"I…" she said, unable to finish the sentence. I could tell she didn't want to talk about it right now, so I changed the subject.

"Um, do you wanna grab a bite to eat?" I offered, hoping to get to know her more if she said yes. She smiled brightly and nodded, oh how I was entranced by that smile.

We walked together under the solid black umbrella to my favorite roman noodle shop. I opened the door for her as she walked insides and say down on the counter.

"Ahhhhhhhhh, Kayz, how ya been?" he said. He was one of the few people who knew about my 'condition' so I just smiled and nodded. His name was Mr. Kenshin.

"So, who your friend?" he asked, a suggestive tone evident is his voice as to who the girl besides me was. It was at that moment as to when I realized that I didn't know her name and I just invited her to eat with me, I blushed slightly. I turned to her.

"Um, I'm sorry but I never caught your name" I signed, rubbing the back of my head in embarrassment. She proceeded to reach into her pocket and bring out a small pocket sized yellow and black notebook with a pen attached to it. She turned the cover and showed me the page. It said "My name is Shanara Bukyzowa, nice to meet you." At that point I was surprised to see that she too had a small notebook.

"I'm Kayz Mokushino, it's nice to meet you too" I signed in return. She simply smiled in reply as she placed her notebook back into her pocket.

"Ohhhh, I see what's going on here" Mr. Kenshin said with a smirk, thinking that he knew who she was. "She's your girlfriend isn't she"? Before I could respond he spoke again.

"Ahhhh, I always knew you would find yourself a girl sooner or later" he smirked. I frantically waved my head with wide eyes, trying to tell him that wasn't that case.

"Huh? So she's not your girlfriend" he said, surprised that a pretty lady such as herself wasn't my girlfriend. I nodded.

"Oh…" he said "sorry for jumping to conclusions eheheh" he stated, kinda embarrassed that he assumed who she was. Before he could say anymore, I stretched out my hand towards the girl, known as Shanara. She was confused at first but soon understood what I meant as she accepted my extended limb. We simply smiled warmly at each other as I knew that from that point on, my future would be deeply involved with this woman.

*End of Flashback*

I woke up to see that is was still night time and Shanara was asleep as she leaned onto my soldier with our fingers still intertwined. I must have so pre-occupied with my thoughts that I never noticed how much time has passed. It was still dark out, so I guessed that it was around 11:00 P.M. We were leaning up against a tree in the forest, as it had become a normal routine of us taking nightly strolls through the woods. Normally, anyone with some common sense would never think that this was a good idea with the death toll around 19 dead and more. But we weren't ordinary people, granted we weren't stupid enough to not know when we were in danger, but we weren't about to cancel our enjoyable routines because of an epidemic.

I watched as Shanara slept soundly on my shoulder, her mouth agape with a small amount of drool starting to form. While all I wanted was to stay like this forever, I figured it was time to head back. I slightly poked her on her cheek and when she didn't respond right away I tried a few more times until her beautiful red eyes fluttered open. She smiled warmly as me as I smiled back. We closed the distance as are lips connected to one another with passion. Once we finished I stood up, stile holding her hand as I pulled it ever so slightly to signal that it was time to go back. She stood up and as she squeezed my hand and continue to do so as we started to walk back to our house. We continued to walk until butler of the Kirishiki family, Tatsumi, came out from behind a tree. We immediately stopped.

"So, how have you to been today" Tatsumi asked, his voice filled with cheerfulness and innocence. We both replied with a thumbs-up accompanied by a small smile. Everyone in the village knew that we never spoke but no one really asked about it, they figured we had our reasons.

"Well that's fantastic, hey would you guys mind helping me out with something?" he asked in a somewhat rushed but polite manner. We glanced at each other before slowly nodding 'sure'. It's not like we didn't trust the guy, giving his kind, carefree, somewhat absent minded personality. It's just that something felt… off about him, as if he was hiding something, but we decided not to give too much thought into it

"Great, I'll be right back so would you mind waiting here real quick." We both shook our heads. Tatsumi then disappeared as we heard him run off into the distance.

Suddenly, I felt a chill crawl up my spine, as if we were in grave danger. I could tell Shanara was feeling that same thing as she squeezed my hand ever so tightly as she looked up at me with eyes filled with worry. Every hair, muscle, cell and fiber in my body was simply screaming to run away, but from what? I didn't know. I had an odd feeling that everything was going to be ok, but that was quickly crushed by a sense of danger.

I heard a shuffling in bushes and I instinctively placed myself between the bush and Shanara. It turned out to be a small rabbit. We both signed but before we knew what was happening, someone came up from behind me and grabbed me, covering my mouth and neck. I had just enough time to see a pair of black pupils with red eyes enshrouded in a dark violet color before I felt a sharp pain in my neck.

I quickly glanced to Shanara to see if she was ok, only to find a sight I never expected to see. It was Megumi biting the neck of Shanara! But that can't be right, Megumi died and we were both at the funeral to mourn her death. I distinctly remembered Shanara crying at the loss of one of her friends. So how in the hell is she here? Unfortunately, I didn't find an answer as my vision slowly faded to black.

Authors note: I'm sorry for not updating my story 'The Ork and The Yoma for a while, I've been really busy with school.

I will be sure to write a lot more during my summer break, which is in like a week.

Until then, peace!