To Writer, Blake Ishiku, The World Up Above is a monotonically boring cage where they dump all the Writers. Things needed would appear from nowhere but things wanted would be longed and searched for some time. And preferred surroundings would suddenly change by their mood. Any other inhabitants are usually not anywhere in sight.
'It gets so tiring here' Blake thought. 'I wonder how my little darlings are…'
But back down at The Human World his Watchers Ruben and Ginger are having a slow day as well.
''Eeeeey!' said the invisible little curly haired girl as the also invisible, Dutch-looking boy pinched her cheeks wide. They sat firmly on a tree branch near the window of one of the Seiyo Elementary School Buildings. Inside the classroom, a math class was going on, where you would see a creamy light brown haired girl in pigtails frowning back and forth from her teacher to the blackboard then at her notes then back at her teacher again repeating the cycle vigorously, over and over.
'Subarashi!' the boy said moderately astonished at the girl. But the girl said nothing from the worry of looking embarrassing if she had talked in this situation.
'I love your soft cheeks Ginger' he commented with a huge smile as he let go, his finger gently slid away from her face. Ginger blushed and took the chance to take a breath. She rubbed her now pain-filled cheeks and pouted at the boy.
'Geez Ruben, the things you do when you're bored…I swear…Someday someone else is gonna have to put up with this someday…' she said lightly frowning at her remark.
Ruben stared at Yaya who beamed at her work and answered a number or two then doubtfully scratched her head after glancing back at the blackboard.
'Well for a genius Writer, Mr. Ishiku really is over-estimating us. I mean 10 stories-'he held out his palms in front of his face to greatly signify the number ten'-and he'd only assign two watchers on guard' he said as he held up two fingers then putting them down slowly and sighing at the ground.
The final bell rang and Yaya stood up immediately before the rest of the class could. She said something to the teacher that was inaudible to the Watchers due to the closed windows making it nearly sound proof. The two slid off the tree and continued watching over Yaya from the hallway. This time they were portraying ordinary students and stood right behind Yaya along with the crowd.
'Ah~' she groaned stretching her arms. 'Math class is finally over! Now off to Amu-chii and Rima-tan~!' she said finally skipping off.
The two, Ruben and Ginger, looked at each other with bored faces. They would've thought their master had something interesting in mind rather than let another boring day slip past.
Ginger checked her cellphone and Ruben checked his digital watch.
'Maybe tomorrow' Ruben said sounding casually disappointed.
'I'm sure of it.' Ginger assured with thumbs up and a soft smile.
Ruben smirked happily and softly pressed his pointing finger at her cheek. 'You might be getting too cute this time' he said.
'There will be no PDA in the hallways children' a teacher said passing them by. (A/N: PDA = Public Display of Affection)
Ruben's finger retreated with a frown while Ginger laughed at his reaction.
'What?' she asked cheerfully.
'Children…?' he said referring to what the teacher had addressed them before pessimistically.
'You're only 3 lifetimes old' she said raising a brow.
'So are you. Besides I think students would be a better term. I mean we should be of age in her eyes' he said looking ahead as they both took the same corridor Yaya was.
'Don't be so stubborn' she said laughing. They reached the open area near the great gate of students flooding out. She then stood in front of him to make him stop. He raised a brow at her and she placed a finger on each of the tips of her mouth, then formed an adorable smile.
'No' he said flatly. She rolled her eyes and continued walking beside him letting a contented smile show for a while, not knowing Ruben had been staring at her with the same smile. The second she turned her head to look at him, he looked ahead again forgetting to stop smiling. The atmosphere between the two was, to them, ordinary, while others would see it with a powerful suspicion of romance. For instance…
'Aww! Did you guys see that?' Amu said, touched at the two Watchers' theorized by her, romance. She then looked away from them and back to the conversation with Rima and Yaya, seeing that the two had gone ahead of them and were already out of sight so quickly.
'Is that the atmosphere you would like in a relationship, Amu?' Rima said quietly while they walked. Amu flushed a slight tint of pink when Tadase suddenly popped into her mind.
'I don't mean it like I want Tadase-kun to change like that or anything!' Amu said self-consciously.
'Of course! Even Amu-chii wouldn't be able to get an attitude like that girl!' Yaya said innocently swinging her bag back and forth as she walked.
'I didn't say anything about Tadase. You're the one who suddenly sucked him into the conversation' Rima said defensively with pure innocence.
Amu sweat dropped but Yaya continued to carelessly speak again. 'Well, the guy was more like Nagi-chan and the girl reminded me of Rima-tan in a super good mood!'
'You're thinking such ridiculous things again Yaya' Rima said in her usual stubborn act.
'Achoo!' Nagihiko sneezed back at school while he walked with Tadase and Kukai.
'Are you alright Fujisaki-kun?' Tadase asked worriedly. 'You may be catching a cold or something.'
'No. I'm sure it was nothing to worry about Hotori-kun' Nagi said.
'Maybe someone's talking about you' Kukai suggested with a grin.
'Who could that be Souma-kun?' Nagi said raising a brow at his senpai.
'I was thinking the same thing…' Tadase wondered.
'I dunno. Secret Admirer maybe?' Kukai said groggily yawning. A cellphone beeped from one of the boys' pockets but only two checked. Tadase stood still confident his phone wasn't the one that rang.
Nagihiko checked his cellphone and accidentally pressed one of the buttons. Rima's number suddenly appeared and he serenely slid his phone back in his pocket with a subtle smile.
So it was Kukai's phone that had been ringing, till now. It was three on going calls from Utau. He said goodbye to the three and took the phone call. The last thing they heard from him was 'you again?' and 'the usual?' It seemed like Kukai and Utau had grown quite fond of each other already.
The two walked the rest of the way casually talking to each other and parted at the usual route with their usual goodbyes.
'Achoo!' Nagi sneezed once more. 'Who in the world…?' he whispered to himself, trailing off with the thought.
'Yup' Yaya said now waving her head left to right to a song she suddenly chanted.
'Rima-tan and Nagi-chan sitting in a tree-' Yaya said suddenly stopping to the dark aura she suddenly felt beside her.
Rima started thinking to herself 'Me and that best friend stealer? No way is that happening. I'm always so cold around him. I bet he's never even thought about it not once in his life! He would think of himself as a fool if he would let go of such a rivalry towards Amu and suddenly take interest in me. Even I think it's out of the question!'
Rima was unconsciously giving off an aura of flickering anger and confusion that switched constantly in the while that it happened but impressively hid the stress marks from her forehead and maintained her calm appearance.
BEEP! BEEP! A watch buzzed. The three halted then, looked up at two directions. Rima looked at the other side of the sidewalk while Amu and Yaya looked up at a tree. Amu ignored the noise and realized what Rima was looking at.
'Oh, your mom's here Rima' Amu pointed out. Yaya looked at the car and they bade goodbye to each other. Yaya took the other route, already heading for a pastry shop where she said she was meeting with her mom and Tsubasa.
Amu walked the rest of the way alone, contented with another ordinary day. Rima on the other hand, took the usual displeasure of a car ride with her mom screaming on the phone with her dad. But today was unusual. She was smiling. She looked down at her bag and thought to herself. 'Me and Nagihiko huh?'
'Impossible!' her mother shouted at the phone oddly in cue with her thoughts.
'Impossible is just something that hasn't been done' she whispered to herself as she looked up seeing the smile on her face through the car's mirror.
'Wha'd he say?' Ginger asked Ruben as they rode on top of Ms. Mashiro's car unseen, unheard and untouchable.
'Blake says we better practice speaking English again' Ruben said calmly.
'No problem' she said in fluent English to the air that ruffled her hair and made her eyes water a little.
'You're tearing up' Ruben said also in English with a slight accent, wiping off the falling tear from Ginger's face with his thumb, the rest of his fingers cupped Ginger's face.
'Thanks' she replied.
That was the last English spoken between the two for the night. They separated stations; Ginger slept in Rima's house's living room couch while Ruben stayed restless in the Fujisaki Mansion's rooftop. Knowing his master, the very idea of this surprise made a horizon of ideas storm through his mind.
'Tomorrow huh?' Ruben thought to himself as he looked up at the starry night sky.
* in this part of the story the only language spoken is English *
At the other end of the world (I think) Ikuto, standing on top of a stage previously used in a small gathering, was enjoying the European atmosphere that he had started cradling in a soft violin piece in honor of his father.
These days he dedicates every song he plays to his father in hope that one of the audiences in the crowd might be familiar with him or his work.
Some time near the middle of the piece two girls walked beside him and addressed the audience with a pirouette. They glanced at each other, Ikuto standing between them, serenely continuing stroking the violin with his bow.
The two girls accompanied Ikuto's music with their graceful ballet. They started with a single spin with their arm positioned in front of them and the other above them in an elegant motion. More and more people came and soon enough his eyes were slowly closing, his lips curled into a smile.
'Splendid!' an Englishman from the crowd exclaimed after the piece ended and the two gave their final bow. The two girls bade goodbye to Ikuto after they exchanged numbers. Later on he and the Englishman were the only ones left. The man smiled politely at him. He wore a black suit, accompanied by a few more men behind him in the same style of clothes. Ikuto stepped down from the platform and held his instrument in one hand.
'That was a very interesting performance, very excellent indeed' the Englishman complimented.
'Thank you' he said with a respectful bow. The man held his hand out for him to shake and he did.
'I am Bradley Hampton. I understand your current situation, Mr. Tsukiyomi' the (rather old) man said as Ikuto turned his back sharply on the men and was placing his instrument back in its case.
'What situation?' he said sloppily.
'Word around here is you've been traveling the streets of Europe carrying your father's name' one of the men said.
'What about it?' he said and had now faced them.
'We would simply like to accompany you in your search' Mr. Hampton offered.
'We'll talk Sunday afternoon at…' another man said trailing off to look at something on his right. He pointed at a corner separated by a small alley.
'…that café' the man continued. They left by all of their goodbyes said by Mr. Hampton. He looked at the sign right over the café's door that said "Ecstasy".
'If I forget…' he said turning to the road in front of him. 'It's their problem' he added with a smirk.
'Its Thursday today, right Tadase-chan?' Yaya asked, looking at her paper. Tadase nodded in reply and looked at Yaya with a smile.
'Aren't you happy Yuiki-san?' Tadase said looking up at his bedroom's ceiling with both his arms behind him supporting his leaning back.
'Whaaa-t? Why would I be happy! I'm still doing homework!' Yaya wailed.
'But it's the last one' Tadase said as he turned his head at her, his brows slightly creased.
'Really? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!' Yaya screamed to the heavens. Her happiness caused her body to feel limp with nostalgia and fall on the tatami mat next to Tadase.
'You mean you haven't noticed?' Tadase wondered, his brows the same position but this time it had been added a smile to his amusement towards Yaya.
'Well, I was too busy with this math homework it flew out of my mind' Yaya said innocently blank at the ceiling.
He turned his gaze from Yaya to look at her paper. Most of the numbers had been answered. But something was very odd about it.
'You know you've been working on that number for a while' he said with a slightly accusing smile. Yaya sharply stood up, no words came from her open mouth at the loss of something acceptable to say.
'Yeah…' she said rolling her eyes to the side with childish shame. 'I'm stuck' she admitted. Her head fell forward in defeat along with her
'Haha, didn't I say you could just tell me if you don't understand something?'
'But I've been asking for too much help. It's starting to make me feel…bad' she said, her upper lips placing a small pout, with straightly furrowed eyebrows to match.
'Yeah, but I'm your tutor. I'm supposed to teach you what you don't get' Tadase explained, realizing he had no more time to be humored by Yaya. 'It's getting late' he said sneaking a glance at his wall clock.
'Well…maybe if I get another glance at it I can figure it out!' she said hope filling most her words. Tadase shook it off and held the paper somewhere between them where Yaya could see it.
'Here, the trick there is…' he said, continuing the lesson.
"Daily Report: Everything's gone into its rightful sequence, Blake. Amu's restless in bed. Ami's asleep. Rima's dreaming of a wedding between him and Nagihiko, who's dreaming the same thing for some reason. Yaya's with Tadase finishing up some math homework. Kukai and Utau are texting each other, already in bed. Finally, Ikuto had fallen asleep from that moment earlier that he had been deep in thought."
Ginger sent to 25253-474458 using her cellphone. "Message sent!" her cellphone read. She sighed in relief, glad to know that she surely put short everything that Ruben had reported on his side of the evening duty.
Hey! Hey! I didn't just randomly pick those stupid numbers you know. If you look closely, your telephone would reveal those numbers with the letters Blake Ishiku. LOL. And the name Blake Ishiku isn't made up too! I remember it from somewhere off the net but whatever. I found one review in one of my favorite stories –Paranormal Attendance \m/- her pin name was Mystical_Melody_Girl something…something… at least I think o.o idk. I'm just surprised cos it's my penname on some site, or at least it's close to it
So, thanks so much for reading. Review guys! v(^-^)v