Let's see what happens next after Clara and Kaito meet...
Chapter 3: The Key and the Lock
"MR. DORIN!!!" shouted out Clara. Mr. Dorin turned around, really irritated by her constant yelling.
"Hmm?" Mr. Dorin turned to find out it was Kaito Yurishimi.
"Ah, Kaito. I've heard great things about you from your previous art teacher. She said your art proved to show incredible potential, and that's what I intend to see," said Mr. Dorin, showing a pleasant but at the same time, serious smile.
"Yes, sir," said Kaito, bowing then taking his seat. He sat down at a table by himself.
"Hey, isn't that guy the really good artist?" said a girl from across the room.
"Yeah, and it's also the guy Clara hates," said one of the girl's friends.
"Why? He's a sweet guy."
"But remember, Clara's best friend ever is Saira, and that's the girl that that guy likes, so keep that in mind."
"Oh, yeah. Kaito Yurishimi, isn't it? I heard rumors about it."
"Yup, that's the one." Clara came back and caught wind of her friend's conversation. She stared at Kaito, but with excitement and heinous laughter.
"Look at Kaito, sitting by himself," said Clara, "Aw, he has no friends in this class, does he? Well, serves him right for trying to take my best friend away." Once she looked away from him, she found herself looking at him again.
"There's something about that guy that pisses me off, and I'm sick of it." She hurriedly walked over to Kaito as she harshly said,
"Listen, Kaito, why don't you spare us and Mr. Dorin the trouble and just go back to your own pitiful class? No one wants you here, and they don't seem to care about you, so just leave..." Just then, Mr. Dorin walked by and caught wind of Clara's insults.
"That's enough out of you, Clara. I think you should sit back at your seat now." Clara reluctantly obeyed as she muttered under her breath,
"Teacher's pet..." Kaito didn't even pay any attention to her insults and was drawing the whole time.
"I'm sorry you had to endure that, Kaito. Are you okay?" Mr. Dorin asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I don't even know what she said to me," replied Kaito. Clara's face turned beet red. She was jealous.
"Why is that nut job getting all the comfort and sympathy?!?!?" Clara whispered almost into a loud voice. Her associates noticed she was at her limit and walked away slowly.
Meanwhile, back in the infirmary, Saira was still rehabilitating from her knockout earlier.
"All I...wanted to tell him...were my feelings for him, but..." Saira let a tear run down her cheek, "I guess...I guess he thought I'd give him the wrong answer." She turned and faced the wall, showing a sad look on her face.
"Oh Kaito...if only I can see you again..." Soon after that, the bell rang.
"Saira, I think you're well enough to walk to your class," said the nurse, "You should go before you're late."
"Okay," said Saira as she got up from her bed. "Thanks for the help."
"Not a problem, Saira," replied the nurse, smiling. Saira soon ran out the infirmary after getting out of the bed.
Kaito was soon in his math class, so now he'd be seeing his sister.
"Hey, Thai..." said Kaito. "What's up?"
"Nothing but the fact that we have a math test today..." said Thai, groaning.
"You didn't study, did you?" said Kaito, chuckling.
"Oh shut the hell up..." said Thai, embarrassed. Just throw me some certain equations, like algorithmic ones. Those are the ones I can't seem to understand.
"Hmm...okay," said Kaito, "Alright, so..." Kaito writes the first set, "(20 x 14)/(10-3)/4.44."
"Alright, so I know that 20 x 14 is 480, then divide that by 7..." Thai was instantly hooked to the problem. Kaito and Thai both loved to study in the field of mathematics, but it was Thai that really loved it. She plans on being some sort of mathematician when she's older. They are now both in Calculus.
"Hey Kaito?" said a student.
"Yeah?" replied Kaito.
"If the value of this number is positive, but the number in THIS part of the problem is negative, and y equals a whole number, what will THIS part amount to?"
"Oh, that's easy, Yamura. Let me show you how. So what you do here is..." Kaito began to explain.
"Okay class, review time is over! Materials put away!" said the teacher. This one wasn't as nice as Ms. Sonja. Her name is Ms. Imayama. She wore hard-rimmed glasses, had brown hair, light skin, a formal dress shirt, and a short dress skirt.
"I hope I'm ready for this..." said Thai.
"Oh, shut up, Thai. What happened to your confidence? You ARE ready for this!" whispered Kaito, "Don't lose hope!!" Thai gave a half smile as she said,
"Thanks...you dolt..." she took the pencil out of her hair and prepared herself. Okay, I can do this...a simple math test with simple problems. Kaito helped me to review, so it should be easy for me now, right? RIGHT! She had a whole lot of confidence now, at least until she saw the first problem.
Who the hell am I kidding? I'm doomed!!! Now she was really frustrated. Kaito, on the other hand, was halfway done with the test already. He just finished up a problem when something interrupted his sight.
"Kaito..." whispered a voice. The short vision showed a girl, naked, with covers over her parts, and she was in a seductive position. She looked exactly like Saira, except with blond hair.
"huge gasp, then retches" Kaito's vision caused him to feel very uneasy. His head was spinning, and mind was screaming. Everyone, even the mean teacher, was shocked by the sight. After that moment, Kaito's head dropped, and yet again, he fell into another coma. Thai saw everything and tried to wake him up, shaking him crazily.
"Come on, bro, don't play like that!! Wake up Kaito, come on!!! Please!!!!! Not again..." Thai didn't cry, but you could tell that she was disheartened about the situation.
"Thai, why don't you take Mr. Yurishimi to the clinic? After all, he is your brother..." said Ms. Imayama.
"Alright...thanks..." she got up and carried him on her back and ran down to the clinic quickly. Don't worry, Kaito. Everything's gonna be alright...I promise..."
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"Kaito..." said a voice, "Kaito..." Kaito was floating in an entity of nothingness. In this peculiar world, a girl was kneeling, bending down towards Kaito's face with hers.
"Wake up...Kaito..." She leaned and kissed Kaito, waking him up slowly. When he awoke, he saw the girl that was naked in his quick vision, except this time, she wore a white-see through dress with bandages covering up her parts.
"sigh this world again..." said Kaito in a low and weak voice, "Am I destined to be in the sleeping world? Am I destined for a life of adventure somewhere else? A body not any more useful in the real world now exists in a form in this dream? Will I ever wake up to reality again? Will I stay asleep, always to be in a dream never realized by others?"
"Your comas are becoming longer with each one, and soon, it'll be permanent," said the girl, "Someone or something in the dream world is pulling you into the world of dreams, and you can't seem to drive away from it. You are somewhat drawn to it..." The girl then got up on top of Kaito, with her face close to his, and had her arms around Kaito. "There are an infinite number of ways you can create your dream world, however, there are only 7 people with this ability on Earth, and you Kaito...you are one of them. You are the Dreamer of Intelligence. The others are the Dreamer of Adventure, the Dreamer of Instinct, the Dreamer of Athletics and Physical Being, the Dreamer of Discovery, the Dreamer of Peace and Beauty, and the Dreamer of Diversity. All seven of you, although you may not know it, are creating the Dream World. They are chosen only when ALL of their powers are realized by the Dream Traveler."
"The Dream Traveler..." said Kaito, still very weakened.
"You are one of the most important of the seven dreamers. You shape the world's landscapes, its races, jobs, its rights, and its ability to reason..." explained the girl. I am the former goddess of dream, Seiara. The true keeper of dreams is the dream traveler, Klonoa, one who will guide you through the world of dream. He believes you and the other six are fated to accomplish this task. When a person dreams, it is not them that creates their small world, but rather it is their mind that creates it for them. Our minds take what we see in the real world and create an almost completely original world for us to explore and want. The mind can play tricks on us, give us destructive, dangerous, and horrific dreams, no matter what you see. The mind can be a cruel entity that's not to be reckoned with..."
"Well, I can obviously see that now…" said Kaito, trying to get up. His body hurt too much to get up, and he fell back down.
"Please, Kaito. Don't push yourself. You won't need to," said Seiara. She got up herself as she said,
"Kaito…you now know that you are one of the dreamers. Don't be surprised if we meet again. Bye, Kaito…"
"WAIT!!!" yelled Kaito.
"Hmm?"
"Were you…the same girl that revealed to me her feelings for me that one other time?" Seiara blushed at the question as she replied,
"I'm sorry, but no. I am not."
"Oh…ok, then. Sorry for the trouble, Seiara."
"No, it's alright. Everyone makes mistakes. Even in their dreams."
"So…when will be the next time this kind of encounter happens?"
"Whenever the next time you sleep, or the next time you have a coma."
"Hmm…okay, then."
"Don't expect it to happen all the time, however. Sometimes you may just have a regular dream, or you will end up in the world you are creating, and I'll be there waiting. I've told the exact same thing to everyone else, so you're no one special." Kaito thought for a second, then showed a shocked and disgusted look.
"Wait, so you kissed the other dreamers too, even though they could have been girls?!" Seiara blushed again at the question, but had an insulted look on her face.
"I think you are ready to return to your own world now…"
"WAIT!!! This time I'm being serious…when will I see you again?"
"Like I said, once you've finally created your world, I will be there waiting for you to find me, and this goes for all the other dreamers as well. Then I will explain everything else to you after that has been accomplished." Seiara's hands began to glow as her hands neared Kaito's chest.
"You have a truly unique gift, Kaito. Do not waste it." The next thing he knew, he was in the clinic, waking up from his 'event.' Thai looked at him with a half smile as she said,
"You idiot…don't scare me like that again, you hear?"
"Yeah…I'll try…"
I won't say anything about the DT, 'cause you should know who he is. Anyway, it seems Kaito now knows why he keeps having comas, and probably how he ended up in the bathroom. Or is there still more to know about this girl? And what about Saira and his friends? Do they play a part in Kaito's life too? Stay tuned for another installment!!! Now for QARs!!! (Okay, that sounds like a disease...XP)
