Somewhere I Belong
By: Atomic Kokoro
Storyline
Rino is tired of feeling he doesn't belong; the Scientist treat him differently because he's young, the kids outside bully him, even growing up he felt he didn't belong. Soon, he finds a place only he knows about. A place only he belongs.
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Before You Read
Ahhh...I have nothing to say. Except that I need a vacation. So does my dad. We'll be vactationers together! (If you don't get it, watch the clay animation of Rudolph the Rednosed Reigndeer: "We'll be Indepentent together!")
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Chapter 2
Wall
Rino, eariler that day, had purchased new books to replace the old ones that had been destroyed. He hadn't run into anyone he didn't want to meet, but no one he wanted to see, either. He had gone to the Ministry, avoiding the boys who had ambushed him the day before, and walked down the halls to his office.
It felt like an eternity before he could get to the safty of his office. And even then, he still wasn't safe. He opened the door and wasn't surprised to see John, one of the Scientists that wasn't all that nice to him, rumaging through his files.
"You have nothing to do with those," Rino muttered dully as he set his books on his desk. John shot up and stared at Rino like a deer in headlights. "Get out."
John was gone in an instant, leaving Rino in wonder why such a man would be going through what was his and no one else's buisness. He peeked into the open filing cabinet. Naturally, John couldn't do his own research for once in his life and often snuk into Rino's stuff to 'permanently borrow' whatever he needed.
Thankfully, he wasn't able to find what he needed. This was because Rino desided to place things John was doing that Rino had researched in a special spot where John would never find it: in the plants. Because there was such little decorating in his room, he had no other place to put the documents, so he simply hide it in the only spot available that wasn't obvious.
He wouldn't need the notes anymore because they were already memorized and had been used in what he needed them for. Rino took the notes from the indoor plant and placed them in his suitcase. He would take it home on his break later.
It wasn't long before he got to work.
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The clock struck twelve and Miss. Yuko stormed into Rino's office. It made him laugh (on the inside) about how she would do the exact thing to him as she did to Doctor O'Sheay. "Rino," she said with a smile. "It's your lunch break."
The funny thing was that he was a lot like the doctor. He could never stay on time and often missed his break if he was too into whatever he was doing. "Thanks, Miss. Yuko," he said, standing up. "I'll be back in a couple hours."
He supposed another reason everyone hated him was because his breaks were three times longer then everyone else's. But he was a child no older than 11. And it wasn't a job, it was school. But he insisted that he have his own space to work on projects. He used that space to make the plans for Gideon.
Sometimes, the Doctor was too busy with other things to be teaching him, so he often practiced what he knew or read books to increase his skill. He never did mind peaceful work hours. It was calming, and not stressful. He didn't have timelines, but he often had a goal to get them done before a certain date, just so he would get use to them.
As he was exiting the building, he noticed some boys down at the bottom of the staircase that lead up to the Ministry. Rino quietly slipped into a crowd of people to be kept from being seen and wandered down to the pizza shop down the street. He agreed to meet everyone there in an hour from then, but he didn't think being early was terrible.
"Hey!" yelled a far away voice from behind. Rino spun around to see the boys. Just his day.
He loosened up a bit. "What, yesterday not good enough for you?" he muttered, still half-turned around. "Why don't you be some good little boys and go screw yourself?"
Remarks like that often lead to a tough chase down the street. And the rules followed for that time, too. The boys charged at Rino and Rino spun, speeding down the sidewalk at the speed he could always. Being able to run quickly was a skill develouped for survival. It became more and more needed as he was growning up, with all the men from before chasing him.
He twisted down an allyway that must've gone for miles. Metro City was big place, but the allies were bigger.
Rino could hear the huffs and the threats from the boys beginning to fade and he smiled, nowing he was more then likely to escape without a scratch. He glanced over his shoulder and turned one last corner. A little farther and he would loose them-
-the next thing he knew he was on the ground with the boys hovering over him like bees to a flower. He tried to bolt upright, but he was forced onto his back again by one of the five boys. He could see a rather randomly placed brick wall behind one of the boys. Perhaps that had been what had knocked him to the ground.
The allyway walls were tight enough for him to chimney jump his way over the brick wall. He rolled backward onto his feet and stared at the boys who were ready to jump him on his next move. But his next move obviously wasn't what they thought.
Using the amazing power and strength in his legs, he leapt into the air and bounded off of the left wall backfliping in the air and bouncing off of that one. This process repeated until he was one jump away from the top of the brick wall, in which, he leapt at the edge of the brick wall and performed a perfect handstand. He flashed the finger before pushing himself in the air from his handstand and backflipped, landing perfectly on the otherside despite the height.
He wiped some blood from his nose from the collision with the brickwall and shrugged. It would stop bleeding sooner or later, but definetly before he would meet with the others.
