The Taunting (Part 1)
Kin~iro Mosaic (or known as Kinmoza) was written and illustrated by Yui Hara, and the anime studio that produced it's called Studio Gokumi. I own but this story which is [only] used for entertainment purposes. Thank you for taking your time to read this and I hope you enjoy this fan fiction.
It... Was a cold and rainy night, the lights were all out and everyone in the town was trying to sleep through the storm, while the rest were already sleeping the night away. The winds were blowing real hard through the trees and other things, making it pretty difficult for one to snooze with the entire ruckus going outside.
Inside one of those houses, was a young girl from England staying over at her friend's house, sleeping (or at least trying to) in her little futon while tossing and turning around inside. Her friend was clearly napping safe and soundly but she was having some trouble herself.
"Alice-chan..." The blonde girl heard someone say. She opened her eyes and got up.
"Sh- Shino, Shinobu-san?" Alice walked and looked around and saw herself completely alone in a purple and black void of darkness. The only thing she could hear were her footsteps, her own voice, and Shino's.
"Alice-chan..." She heard it again. Her voice was getting more and more distant each time.
"Shino-san, where are you?" Alice started to tear up at not finding her best friend. She had feared that something bad is happening to her right now and that she was calling her for help... but she did not know where she was.
"Alice-chan, I'm over here." The blue eyed girl quickly turned to see Shino standing out in the open, smiling to her, sort of indicating that she was alright.
"Shino, you're okay!" She runs over to greet her with open arms. "For a second there I thought something bad might have happened to you—" But as she was getting closer to her, she then noticed a shadowy figure walk up to her with a knife in its hand. "Shino, look out!"
"It's okay, I'm alright now that you're with me, and your cute little blonde hair too."
"Shino-san, get out of there, there's someone behind—"
"Eh?" Before Shino could look or even catch a glance, the figure jabs the knife into her head and walks back.
"SHINO!" She covered her mouth to prevent herself from screaming and tried to hold back the tears that were falling onto her soft small face.
Blood started to pour onto Shino's head, as it was slowly getting onto her head, turning into a sickly yellow color. Shino looked up and seemed to notice it. "Oh, would you look at that, I'm now a blonde just like you." She smiled wide. "My wish has finally come true." She closes her eyes for a few seconds before opening them again, this time taking a form of different colored eyes that went from a calm brown to a bloodthirsty red in seconds.
"Shino, are you... okay?" Alice stops in her tracks and gasps at the horror she is seeing in front of her.
"Like I said I'm fine, and now that we're both blondes, we'll become the best of friends... forever and ever."
"No, you can't be her, can you? What has gotten into you?" Shino started walking towards her as Alice was walking backwards each time more sluggishly then the last, up until Shino fell onto the floor with a splat. "Shino? Shino!? SHINO! D- DASKETE! NOOOOOO!"
.-.-.-.
Alice shot opened her eyes and saw that she was back into her friend's room. "Thank goodness, it was just a bad dream..." She sighed in relief.
"Alice-chan, are you ok?" Shinobu asked sleepily from the other side of the room as she turned her head and stared at Alice on the floor rolled up in her futon.
"Uh, yeah I'm fine now, did I wake you by any chance?"
"Mm hmm, but it's no worries unless you're not feeling well. Is something wrong?"
"I... I just had a nightmare, where there was this weird figure and it possessed you and... We weren't friends anymore because you..." The small blonde looked like she was going to cry again.
Shinobu smiled softly. "Don't worry about that Alice; you know we'll always be together as friends, no matter what the obstacle may be."
"B-but you were—"
"Its fine really, nothing bad like that will happen to us, you can count on that. Please don't get upset about stuff like that, or else I'll be upset too."
"Oh, okay, yeah you're right I shouldn't dawdle over silly things."
"That's a good girl, care to sleep with me tonight just in case?"
"Oh, s- sure if that's ok with you."
"Sure is."
Alice slowly walks over and brings her pillow to sleep with her buddy for that extra support. She now felt safe knowing that her friend will never leave or betray her no matter what.
.-.-.-.
The next morning Shino and Alice were getting dressed so they could be ready to go to school and meet up with their other friends. Shino offered to brush her friends' hair and tie them into her usual ponytails.
"So Alice-chan, did you sleep well last night?" She asked politely.
"Yeah, I sure did." The blue-eyed girl replied with a smile. "Knowing you were there by my side I wasn't scared anymore."
"That's good to hear."
"Oh Shinobu Omiya, you and Alice up?" Her older sister Isami asked from downstairs. "You two better hurry up and get breakfast or else I'll eat them all!" She joked.
"Isami wait, I'm almost done so don't eat it just yet!"
"But it'll get cold soon..."
"And... there, all done!" Shino exclaimed after tying the hair and placing her lucky hairpin on it. "Come on, let's go and get some breakfast."
"Okay!" Alice got up and followed her downstairs.
They beat Isami to the punch and were able to relax and eat their meals... up until they realize that they were going to be late for school soon.
They both get their drinks and granola bars and head out the door but are eventually stopped by two female classmates who just happened to walk by them wearing the exact same uniforms... almost. One of them had short red hair with brownish eyes, and the other had blue pigtails with blue eyes, kind of like Alice's only slightly darker. They noticed and catch their attention.
"Oh hey there, we were just about to come and get you guys." The red head said.
"Huh, oh hi you guys, how are you doing?" Shino greeted them both.
"Boy you two seem to be out in a hurry... where ya going?"
"Yoko, where else? Today's school, remember?" The blue haired one complained.
"Oh right, gomenasai. But school doesn't start until much later you know that right?"
"But we looked at the clock and noticed the time so we're heading out as quickly as possible!" Alice exclaimed.
"But... didn't you tell us before that the clock was broken though?"
"...Really?" 'Why didn't Isami stop us then!?'
"Don't worry, you guys are fine, if we just take our time and walk over there then we'll make right on time. Ain't no one gonna stop us now! Right Aya?" She turned to her blue friend with anticipation.
"You say that, and now we're going to be late."
The others laugh and shrug it off as they all walk along to get to the school.
Upon arriving at the school building they come across Alice's childhood friend Karen waiting for them. She had pinkish eyes, was wearing a British themed jacket around her school uniform and a small bun around her long yellow hair. She runs over to them and greets Alice with open arms.
"Alice-chan, where have ya been? I missed you so much!" She squealed happily.
"Karen I'm glad to see you too, but it's only been a day." She replied in muffs due to being unable to breathe from her hug.
"Yeah, I know but we rarely hang out anymore due to class changes, don't you remember?"
"Yeah, I remember."
She soon lets her go. "Hey everyone else what's up?"
"Nothing much, shall we get going?" Shino replied in a daze. 'Blondes are so pretty.'
"Yeah, let's go!"
While walking into their respective classes, the gang talk some more about life.
"Hey, tomorrow is Saturday, what do you guys want to do for the weekend?" Alice asked.
"Well I was going to go and do some studies like a good girl that I am." Aya muttered.
"Boo, that's boring; do you really want to spend your two days doing something like that?" Yoko teased.
"S-shut up, it's not like I have anything else to do! Even so, you're probably too busy to do anything fun either..."
"What, I was just joking. How about a movie, we could see that new one that just came out today?"
"You mean the one with the... k-kissing in it?"
"No, I actually meant the other one—"
"How could you trick me like that you jerk! I mean—"
"Oh, so you think they'll suck then?"
"We could always hang out at my house if that's okay with you guys." Shino offered.
"Yeah, that's true, but it seems tiring, if only we could do something... ya know, different for a change." Karen pondered.
"Well it looks like we're here to our destination, we'll be seeing during lunch ok?" Yoko said as the gang wave's goodbye once they get to one of the classrooms and they go on their separate ways for now.
.-.-.-.
Once class was over, Karen, Shino, and Aya go and head over to meet Yoko and Alice in their classrooms, who seem more than eager to go and eat lunch with their buddies. While heading on over there, Karen then realizes something.
"Uh, guys, I need to go to the bathroom real quick, be right back, you guys go on ahead without me." She says as she runs off into the other direction, leaving the other two morally confused.
"Toilet, toilet, where the heck is the toilet..." Karen sung to herself as she was trying to find a bathroom nearby. 'Dang it, I knew I shouldn't have drunken the water in the fountain...' She thought to herself. Just as she was turning the other corner, she accidentally bumps into Shino's homeroom teacher Sakura Karasuma. "Oh crap, I'm so sorry, need a hand?"
"Thanks, I'm sorry I should have looked where I was going." She replied while getting up.
"I should say the same thing... and I did, which means that this is awkward now."
"Oh, it's alright, no harm done; just try not to run in the halls okay?"
"Sure thing, oh the by the way, do you know where the bathroom is?"
"It's right over there to your left." She pointed.
"Ah, thanks! Oh and one more thing..."
"Hmm?"
"What do you usually do on weekends?"
"Well I sometimes go out on jogs, watch movies in my house, plant some flowers; I even joined some club activities in school—"
"Ah, ok got it, thanks." Karen said and ran off.
"Your welcome, but why did you ask me that? You wanted to plant some flowers too?"
.-.-.-.
Karen runs over happily to the bathroom while thinking up some ideas on what outdoor activity one could do over the weekend. Suddenly, she felt an uneasy presence nearby and stopped dead on her tracks. She turned and saw a door with a dark aura surrounding it and also heard some noise. Strange, she thought, she had never seen a room like that before, maybe it just showed up today? Karen was stumped, unknowing what to do here. Curious, she slowly walked over and went to open the door to check out this new place.