So. This isn't my first fanfic but it is the first one I've decided to put up. X3 It's a sort of Minako x Shinjiro with a twist sort of thing. I was never good at explaining things. Also since I'm halfway through writing chapter one it won't be too long until chapter one comes along. All my chapter names will be from song lyrics (the prologue title being from Let Go by Frou Frou because it always reminded me of going on a journey somewhere) I just thought it fit Minako's love of music. Remember to review! XD T'would be appreciated. Enjoy. I hope.
~ The Detective Prince
Prologue
So Let Go, Jump In.
It wasn't the first time she'd moved and she was sure wouldn't it be the last. But on that morning of April 6th something felt different, something even Minako Arisato could pick up on.
Dazed, she was awakened from her slumber by an alarm clock screaming in her ear. Naturally she had tried to ignore it but after 2 minutes her patience has worn thin. Minako slammed her hand down on the clock to silence it and then sat up, noting the sunlight trickling through the curtains of her small room.
She had almost forgotten that she was returning to Iwatodai that day, with a lazy yawn she scooted out of bed and found a note on her desk.
All your things are downstairs; your train tickets are in your bag. Be sure to leave plenty of time to get there as there's been a lot of delays on the trains today. Food in the fridge, Aunt Miyuki.
"She didn't even wake me up to say goodbye...Oh well, there's always food!" and so with a smile on her face Minako rushed to get ready.
She was slightly apprehensive to be returning to where her parents died but she was determined that wouldn't get to her. 10 years was a long time and she was ready for anything. With her auburn hair tied up, pinned up with her hairclips arranged with XXII, her passionate red eyes were glistening with determination,
Minako walked out of the house she'd called home for 10 years and began her walk through the sleepy suburbs to the train station.
She felt it would be a good time to plug in her MP3 player and put on her headphones, for a brief moment the world was silent and then...filled with noise.
It was just how she liked it. She'd never had told her aunt but the suburbs weren't for her. Minako longed to go to a city. Somewhere where everyone was up to something and it was full of strange and wonderful mysteries. A city that never slept, some place where someone was always awake and there was always noise, always life.
By the time she'd gotten to the train station she realised her aunt had been right. There were delays on almost all her trains. Her 9 o'clock arrival was seemingly impossible.
No. I won't let it bother me! Minako, get on those trains and start moving!
The brunette pulled out a pork bun and began to eat.
Her first train was an hour late and the one after that was half an hour late. Her third one was another hour and the final train to Tatsumi Port Island was half an hour late.
It was when she boarded this train that it happened. She was just standing waiting to get off at Iwatodai when she fell asleep.
An image of a butterfly fluttering past her eyes, and then, ever so faintly at first was a tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick…It was getting louder and louder and just floating before her eyes was an old silver pocket watch.
Minako's eyes snapped open as the train jolted and she realised she was nearly at Iwatodai. Picking up her bags, she prepared to get off the train, realising that it would be midnight when she did.
Midnight…I wanted to be in bed before that happened…But all the delays had caused her to be walking around late at night during that time.
Just moments after exiting the train the whole world went silent, lifeless yet there was an air of danger.
A sickening green glow was cast upon the world as the moon beamed down oppressively. Liquid as red as Minako's irises began dripping down causing the only trickle of sound in that speechless world.
Some place where someone was always awake…That's all she'd hoped for. But even Minako couldn't escape the Hellish landscape before her.
However, even she could feel it.
Her journey had truly begun.
Minako had a whole ordeal before her. She didn't know it would be tough or that she would meet so many people along the way. But she did know that finally she'd get the answers she'd been searching for.
