Names

"Your name," he said, "is Izuru Kamukura." I was looking at him while he said. I noticed the way his mouth and eyes moved as he said it, the way his breath sounded, the way his fingers tightened almost unnoticeably. I knew instantly that he was lying, but not only that. I also knew that he wanted to know whether or not I knew he was lying. The fact that I was able to read him so easily was just as much a shock for me as it would have been for him if I told him. But I decided not to do that. Instead, what I said was "Something about that name doesn't seem quite right to me. I'm not sure what it is." In reality nothing about the name itself struck me as odd. In fact I kind of liked it. However I didn't want to reveal the real reason I knew something was up. However, saying that the name was odd satisfied him that I was smarter that average, without revealing to him just how smart I was.

"Well, that's your name." Said Noboru. "If you say so." I responded. It was then that I decided to look at my surroundings, as I had yet to properly observe them. It was a bare white room with nothing in it except the bed I was lying in and a hanging light directly above my bed, which is why it was so bright when I first opened my eyes. "You said you were going to be my teacher. What are you going to teach me?" I asked. "I'm going to teach you how to use your incredible talents to make the world a better place. You're the hope of humanity, and I want to make sure that you do the right thing with your talents." This surprised me. I wasn't expecting him to be doing this for the sake of the world. And I could tell he wasn't lying either, he legitimately wanted to mold me into a savior of humanity.

Now, put yourself in my shoes. You wake up, with no memory of anything before that point, find out you are a genius like no other, and are told that you are going to save the world. How would you react? You would probably be in shock. You would probably have no idea what to say, or what to do. But that isn't how I reacted. Maybe it was because of the way my brain worked but I took everything in stride. In that moment, it didn't matter that I had no memory of my life before this moment. What mattered was the life I had now, and I was going to make the most of that life. So I simply asked "Where do we start?"