Rapunzel

Ch. 8 Haku

Riku's POV

"This is her?"

"Yes."

"Who the hell cut her hair?"

"Ren did."

"I'm sorry, okay?"

"Oh hey, she's awake."

"Really?"

"Calm down, dude."

I slowly opened my eyes and saw Ren, Kumi and a purple-haired guy in front of me.

"Well, hi!" He greeted.

"Ah!" I sat straight up.

"Kumi, you almost killed me! You made me run out of air!"

"I couldn't let you see the rest of the way."

"If you were gonna take us out of the water anyway then why did you make us swim all that way? And if you wanted to make us faint then-"

"We're still underwater, you know."

I jumped out of bed and went to the nearest window. I saw water everywhere. Then, a shark came to the window.

"Ah!"

"Oh, that's Haku's pet."

"Haku?"

"Coming~!" I heard a voice from outside the room.

"Oh no, I wasn't calling-" Too late.

A silver-haired woman around 26 with red eyes in a black and violet dress came in. She had her hair tied with a black and violet bow that matched her dress. She was holding a beer bottle.

"You need something?"

"Haku, she was just admiring your shark." The purple dude said.

"'Your shark'?"

"Grey!" She came to the window.

"I've been looking for you! I was worried you might have eaten Gaku here since you didn't come for lunch! You idiot shark, where were you? I was really worried..." She turned to me. "Anyway, you're Riku, right? Rapunzel girl?"

"Uh- I- actually I... Yeah I am."

"Heheh! Well, I'm Haku."

"Hi."

"Kumi said she took you to me so I could help you save the island."

"Yes! Just because there isn't any super powerful saviour here doesn't mean we're completely in crisis, right?"

"Well, apparently, what you just said doesn't work that way here. We're all gonna die."

"WHAT? Then why wasn't I taken somewhere where I could recognize myself as some hero person and go through special training and stuff?"

"Someone took you from me."

"Huh?"

She sighed. "I'll tell you a story through flashback, okay?"

"That doesn't make any sense, we can't see flashba-" Kumi covered my mouth.

"We'll need all the info we can get."