HAPPY NEW YEAR :D
this will be my new years gift to you all.
As Rock left the train station, she noticed that the sun has already set and it was night time now. Gone now was the orange sky to be replaced with a black one filled with stars. There were an abundance of black skies with stars in her world, but they all seemed pretty still and "blank", quite unlike how the sky in this world had the stars twinkling. Some were even moving actually, those were apparently called "shooting stars" according to Mato's memories.
Rock stared at them for a while before looking back at area she was in. Several houses that were mostly identical to each other were stretched out, going far before ending up with barren plains that were probably going to be constructed into more houses eventually. Further on it went up a hill with some forests that blocked further vision, not that she would see more anyway due to darkness from the night.
As for the neighborhood itself, most were the same with some having more things like being bigger or having two houses connected. There were also of course lights starting to come from the lamp posts with people walking on the street as they went home and cars moving about with the occasional bus.
Rock familiarized herself with the setting, then compared it with the information gotten from Mato in order to pinpoint the location and the direction to Mato's house. Deciding to walk instead of taking the bus, Rock picked Mato's usual path and started walking.
After walking for several minutes, Rock's thoughts returned back to comparing this world with her own. There were barely any buildings left standing in one piece at her world, if they were even standing at all. 'Well, those were for the "modern" buildings like in this one,' she mused. 'If we count those crude castles and stone towers as buildings, then we've got at least several dozens around. Oh and we at least have some floating buildings...' her thoughts trailed off as she finally came to her destination: The Kuroi's residences.
Rock was about reach up and press the doorbell before stopping herself. Instead she opened the gate to let herself in and then opened the door with Mato's key. 'My key,' she corrected herself. She was going to have to start referring herself as Mato as of now. Rock shook off her shoes as she stepped inside 'her' house. She headed to the dining room where the rest of the family members should be, since it was dinner time already.
A small boy sitting at the table looked up at her appearance. "Ah Onee-chan's back."
'That must be Hiro Kuroi, Mato's brother,' Rock noted. 'And over there seating at the middle must be Mato's mother, Mana Kuroi.' She walked over to the empty chair that was her seat, placed herself in, and started eating. 'Hmm. This is curry I think...?'
After Rock was done eating(she ate really fast due to the nature of urgency at her home world), her mother momentarily stopped eating and turned to face her. "Dear, we really need to start talking about your hobbies. Perhaps its time to look for another hobby other than watching anime..." Rock pretended to groan, as Mato would have done(though she felt groaning already considering it wasn't really 'her' hobby).
"Mom, that was just a one time thing," she swore, pushing aside her plate. "I was just... staying up all night finishing those DVDs a friend gave to me. Please don't stop me from watching anime, its my LIFE!," Rock whined while waving her arms for effect. "I promise I wont do it again," she said, clasping her palms together in front of her.
Mana just sighed at her daughter's usual antics. "Fine. But as punishment for staying up late, you have to clean up the bathroom this weekend," she said sternly. Mana started to pick up the dishes and put them into the sink.
Meanwhile, Mato's little brother gave her a look of disappointment, which was apparently the usual with their relationship. "Nee-chan... please don't stay stuff like that when my friends are around," he told her before leaving the table and heading back upstairs.
Rock waited for him to reach the top of the staircase before leaving the table herself and went up the stairs to her room. After reaching Mato's room, she locked the doors before throwing herself on the bed. She tossed around the bed until she found a comfortable position to lie down.
"Well, that went better than expected," she muttered. Really, she thought that it would be a bit more difficult to pretend to be Mato but it looks like her family weren't that familiar or close enough to notice her deception.
"... probably wont be the case for her friends though," Rock sighed. Indeed, from what she glimpsed, and also from their initial meeting, that Mato was pretty close to her friends. Likely meant the same in reverse, fooling them will be a lot more harder.
Rock rolled around in the bed for a while before sitting up and looking at Mato's room.
It was... pretty well ordered actually, surprisingly. Mato's ditz personality would make people think that it would be messy. The were no clothes on the floor, no bag of chips or anything at all. A pile of fresh clothes were on her table, also her extra uniform hanging on the handle of her closet. Her study desk only had some papers with drawings and a CD of some sort of anime.
Curious of the drawing, Rock stood up from the bed and went over the desk to look at them. Surprise surprise, Mato was drawing her! Rock blinked in surprise, not expecting Mato to be able to remember her clearly. Then she looked at some of the other drawings and noticed that it was people from her world.
There was a girl with green eyes and horns in a black dress with 2 skulls floating... Dead Master. 'Mato's got some good drawing skills...' Rock moved some of the papers to see if there were any more, but the rest seemed to be just random unrelated things like flowers and some animals...
Just when she was about to go back to bed, Rock noticed a paper sticking out from beneath the CD case. She pulled it out and widened her eyes before narrowing them at the drawing she saw. The drawing was about a girl who had red eyes and horns, with claws and carrying a rather big sword. This one had a lot more details and quality than the others.
"Black Gold Saw," Rock hissed. She was tempted to rip apart the paper, but then noted the work given to it that she decided to spare it, even if it was her archenemy.
It was just a drawing anyway...
as usual, please read and review. also you can ask me questions, which I'll answer so long as it isnt going to spoil my plans for the fic.
the room I described is as Mato's room looks to me, I made research on that.
and in case it wasnt clear, Mana is just my made up name for Mato's mom since they never really revealed her name. as for her dad, well the anime says that he's abroad, so I dont think I need to make a name for him or make him appear.
btw probably would take next week before I can post the another chapter...
