Hey all this is my first fanfic for Hirunaka no Ryuusei I'm looking forward to it, should be fun enjoy.
Chapter 1:
Cerys tried to keep her breathing even as she waited. Every decision she'd made these past months came forth inside her mind, waiting in turn to question her and fill her with doubt. Did she make the right choice? Was it all worth it? Should she have left well enough alone? Could she even fight what was coming?
'I should never have left Australia'
She thought to herself as the door opened and closed again. The cop let himself into the chair opposite her, slapped a folder down on the table and took a good look at her.
"Cerys Light?" he asked to be sure.
"Yes" she confirmed, there was no use lying about her name.
"Do you know a certain Shishio Satsuki?"
"Yes but I know him as Sensei"
"Indeed" he says opening the file in front of them.
"He is your Sensei at the University of Tokyo" she nods once.
"And what exactly is the nature of your relationship?" he asked getting to the point, Cerys discreetly swallowed. What exactly was the nature of their relationship he asked? Well…that was a long story.
Cerys got off the plane into a tsunami of people bustling around, a good lot of them shorter than her but some stood taller.
"Cerys?" a voice called among the sea of people, Cerys turned a 180 looking for the source, surly they wouldn't any other Cerys's coming to Tokyo today.
"Ah you're here!" a voice in English said happily in front of her, Cerys looked down at the short women beaming up to her.
"Yes thanks" Cerys smiled, the women looked very pleased.
"I am Yukamara Tashi, it's a pleasure to meet you Miss Light" she shook Cerys hand bowing to her, Cerys did the same as she'd been taught.
"Don't worry dear you'll get used to being in Tokyo in no time!" she assures her taking her carry-on suitcase from her.
"The luggage comes out this way follow me and be careful not to get separated" Ms Yukamara tells her, Cerys does her best feeling bad every time she bumps into someone but no one takes any notice. She uses Ms Yukamara as a shield as they pass through the throngs of people.
After rescuing her suitcase from the conveyer belt Cerys and Ms Yukamara manage to get outside to the road, Cerys looking around agape at the sight around her.
"I brought a teacher with me to help pick you up, who knows? He may even be a teacher in one of your classes" Ms Yukamara says pleasantly and Cerys snaps her attention back to her.
"It's very nice of you both to come see me to the university"
"Oh think nothing of it! We couldn't possibly let a young lady straight from the wilderness into Tokyo with no way to get to the university, and alone!" she says with a shiver as if her great ancestors were haunting her.
"Don't worry I'd have made it" Cerys says with a shrug still following her.
"Oh no Cerys!" she says turning to her and shaking her head.
"You must never go out unaccompanied it's not safe, I don't know what it may be like in Australia where you live, but in Tokyo…" she trails off shaking her head again.
"It's not safe" a new voice finishes. Cerys looks over Ms Yukamara (not a hard thing to do) to a man leaning against a car, he had on a woollen hat that covered his ears, large glasses and a cigarette hanging from his lips, he gave her a kind smile.
"Miss Light, it's nice to meet you" he says in English holding out his hand, she takes it and shakes it.
"It's nice to meet you too Mr?"
"Just call me Sensei" he says taking her suitcase from her and storing it in the boot.
"Ah Mr Shishio is a history professor" Ms Yukamara announces, handing Cerys's carry-on to Sensei leaving Cerys with just her shoulder bag which would also be her school bag when the semester started.
"Nice, I might have you then" Cerys realizes, Sensei closed the boot and looked back to Cerys, his green eyes studied her.
"What are you studding?" he asks as a topic of discussion.
"Ancient History and Writing"
"Come, come let's continue this in the car!" Ms Yukamara says getting into the passenger seat, Cerys hops in the back behind Ms Yukamara and Sensei gets behind the wheel.
"So Cerys what made you want to become an exchange student to Tokyo? A rather unusual choice for an Australian isn't it?" Ms Yukamara asks once away from the Airport.
"I suppose so, most other people I talked to were going to places like America or Europe or even China but I decided I wanted to come to Tokyo"
"Any particular reason?" Sensei enquires as he navigates traffic.
"I don't know, I guess I've always been curious about Tokyo and well…I do like Manga however getting it in English print may be hard to find" Sensei laughed.
"It'll be good to test your Japanese" he says in Japanese.
"My Japanese still needs work" she says in Japanese back at him, she sees his smile in the rear-view mirror.
"I'm afraid you are definitely going to stand out Cerys" Ms Yukamara says a little apologetically.
"No, really? A pale freckled skinned, red haired Australian accented girl in Tokyo stand out? Nah" Cerys says with a smile out the window, Sensei chuckled as did Ms Yukamara.
"Keep smiling Cerys and just nod if you don't understand, if you can't translate something, my doors always open" Sensei tells her, looking at her through the rear-view mirror.
"Thank you Sensei I will remember that" Cerys promises.
How did it all start? She wondered, as the cop waited for her reply. It started from the moment she met him she decided. 'So we were doomed from the start' Cerys thinks nostalgically.
So here is the first chapter, there probably won't be any more flash backs from this point in time but I decided to add that little bit at the end. Hope you liked it, I only just finished reading the manga today and only started yesterday but I fell deep into the fandom hole faster than the amount of times I face palmed myself reading it.