A/N: Hey, guys! Kisane-chan again~ here's chapter 2. Hehe…loaded with new stuff! (0^o^)0 (yay~!)
Sorry about the delay guys! I've been having Midterms weeks! But, it's done with now! ^^
Hope you enjoy!
I'm walking up the stairway, now on the third floor. I look down on the piece of paper in my hand, glancing at the number "3701". I look at the first door on my right as I peak through the third floor door. "3101". Well, I must be on the right floor I thought to myself. I stepped inside the hall and looked around and down the hall. After a minute or so I finally found the room. "3701". Ah, there was something I was supposed to do… I look down at the paper once more. Underneath the number, there was some writing. It was a password.
"The best feeling in life can be represented as the number given to you" I said, feeling like an idiot. What the heck did it even mean?
The door opened. I saw Kaito's face appear before mine, as he looked down at me with a kind smile.
"Well hello, my princess."
"Um, hi."
"Well, come on in. I know it's a bit cold outside."
"Domo."
I walk into the apartment, taking off my tan winter jacket and placing it on the hat rack to my right. I look around, and see that it's kind of small at a first glance. Coming in from the front door, first you see is a somewhat small foyer, which then opens up to the living room, revealing two doors to the left of the room, and one to the right. On the direct left of the foyer itself, is the small kitchen with simple tan, blue, and black themes to it.
"Yo, Kai-chan, who's here?" An unfamiliar curious voice says.
I look at where the voice was coming from, and eventually saw a young pale girl, with long white hair down to her knees, and braids in her side bangs and light blue eyes, pop her head out of the door on the right of the living room. She looked over at me, going from a curious expression, to a confused, but delighted expression.
She waltzed right up to me and clasped my right hand up, looking quite delighted indeed.
"Are you the new diva?" She asked, her eyes sparkling, and her smile wide.
"U-Um…"I stuttered rather awkwardly.
"Yes. She is." Kaito said as he looked at the pretty and pale girl, smiling right back at her.
With this girl's even wider smile than before, she went and asked me "Oh my! What's your name, miss?"
"M-Miku desu." I stuttered once again, taken aback by this overwhelming girl.
"Miku-tan, eh? My name's Lia, although I'm commonly called Ia. Nice to meet you. Come and sit down, I'll make some drinks for everyone." She said as she directed me to the dark leather couch in the living room. She then twirled herself right around and walked into the kitchen, getting out a kettle to make tea. Kaito helped himself to sit on the old green sofa across from Miku.
"So, how are you this morning, Miku?" Kaito asked.
"Um, a little cold, but I'm alright." She responded.
"Hey, what kind of tea do you guys want? We got all sorts!" Lia loudly asked from the kitchen, reaching for the tea sampler packs on the top of the cabinet.
"Um…Jasmine would be nice..." Miku politely responded.
"Jasmine it is!" she said back.
A few minutes afterwards of looking around and examining everything a bit more in detail in the apartment to which was in her view, Miku then focused her attention on Kaito again. He seemed to be rather happy, as he had a soft smile on his lips. She had to admit, this guy was cute and handsome.
Lia came storming into the room, holding a silver tray with four china tea cups on it in one hand, and the pretty pearly kettle with a wicker handle in her other hand. She placed the items on the coffee table separating the leather couch from the sofa. She took one cup, poured some tea into the cup, and handed it to Miku first, then poured another for Kaito. As she was pouring the third cup, she called out "Yuu-chan, come here~". I looked around, confused as to who she was speaking to.
A door on the right side of the living room opened up, revealing a young man with light pink hair, soft yellow-green eyes, and a tall posture. He wore a black hoodie with a white shirt underneath, black skinny jeans, a black winter cap on his head and black headphones around his neck. He looked straight at us from a bit behind Lia, still holding the door knob, barely past the entrance to the living room.
"What do you want Lia?" the boy asked.
"Come have tea with us, I made you a cup!" she said to him as she half turned her head around to meet his eyes.
He let go of the door handle, his other hand on the back of his head, and walked towards her, taking the tea cup from her hands. He sipped it a bit, and looked back down at us. 1, 2, 3...4…Hmm… he thought.
"Oi, Lia, who's that with the long teal hair?" he asked, sniffing his tea in front of his face, and using is other hand lowly point at her. "Ah...Jasmine" he whispered.
"Oh, she's our new diva. Introduce yourself to her, won't you?"
"Hmm….fine." he exasperated, as he brought his tea cup back to Lia for her to refill. The tall boy sat down next to Miku on the couch, and received his new cup of tea, as Lia sat down on the sofa next to Kaito. "Domo."
"Yo. Name's Yuuma, nice to meet ya."
"Um, hi. My name's Miku." She told him right back. She had to admit, this guy was also quite good looking. She sipped her tea a bit, warming up, and looked at these people, still a bit uncomfortable, so she decided to lighten the air a bit by getting to know them a bit better.
"So, um, what's your relations with each other?" She finally asked, after finishing half of her cup of Jasmine tea.
"Ah, Lia's the daughter of a friend of mine. She also has a gift to be able to hear the shards, and nullify them through playing her guitar. And as for Yuuma over there, he...uh, got kicked out of his parent's house, so he's living with us, but he too can see the shards, and calm them through playing the cello. Yuuma's sister also lives here and can sense and interact with the shards, but she is not here at the moment." Kaito explained.
"Ah. Interesting. So, um, I'm kind of new to this" ,she said as she put her now empty cup down gently on the coffee table, "so, would you mind explaining a bit more about these shards and such?" Miku simply, but a bit nervously said.
"Of course, that's why you're here after all." Kaito calmly put, as he too placed his now empty cup down gently on the coffee table. "Well, simply put, to our understanding, the shards were once part of a gem long ago, but scattered across many universes. Each of the shards possesses qualities to them which distort one's spiritual nature. This causes dreadful things we call 'acts of sin', as the shards do intensify one's inner desires, and brings them forth as outer expressions of those desires. Are you with me so far?"
"Um, I think so. So, basically, there are lots of these shards across many worlds, and they all bring about the bad qualities in a person through their wants. Right?" Miku self-explained to herself.
"Yes. Precisely." The blue-haired young man assured her.
"So, where did the shards come from? Do you know?" the girl then asked.
"Ah, no, not quite, however there is a story which may or may not be accurate as to the shards' origin. The story is called 'Chrono Story'. We have it on file should you wish to read it." He responded.
"Ah, I think I'll look at it later, Thank you."
Several hours pass as they go a bit more into detail about the shards, and tell each other about themselves. But then, it hit 9:00pm, which was troubling for the teal-haired one, as she was a minor, and a high school student at that – Which meant she needed to be home.
"Ah, it's so late already. I've got school in the morning!" The new diva exclaimed as she was quite shocked, and noticeably a bit tired.
"Eh~ But the train station's about to close for the night in, like, thirty minutes. The closest one from here is like a 25 minute walk down the road." Yuuma pointed out lazily.
"Eeehhhh~! I won't make it!" she exasperated.
"Hm, well, you could stay the night here, and you could take the early train to school tomorrow. You can sleep in my and Mizki's room if you want to." Lia proposed, as she sat up off the floor, taking a break from playing PlayStation with Yuuma. "Ah. I won again." Yuuma whispered.
"Um, I suppose I could do that, but I'll need to call my sister, Luka, to let her know I won't be coming home tonight."
"That's fine, here's my cell phone, go call her." Lia offered, as she walked over to her, handing the cell phone over.
"Ah, thank you." Miku walked off into the hallway as she called her sister to let her know that she would be sleeping over at her new friends' apartment.