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6: Mina meet Yulie and trouble
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Kento yawned as the teacher explained calculus to the students in every detail he could possibly manage to get into his explanations. The dark/ash haired boy fought the urge to yawn again but outloud to get the teacher to stop his ramblings as gazed down at his tex book trying to decipher the complicated and confusing math problems that resembled a poorly drawn doodle to him.
He glanced over to Mina who sat beside him writing like she was running in a marathon, racing to win the grand prize; a date with the highschool brain, Rowen Hashiba! Kento chuckled evilly under his breath writing down a random answer to his math problem, glancing over at Rowen who was sweating bullets glancing up at Mina several times before sticking his pencil in the sharpener then returning to his work.
Kento figured he didn't want 'dirty-vagas-blonde' to steal his reputation of being the smartest teenager in school, however he didn't see the big deal in losing a reputation. His mind soon drifted to Ryo and Cye, who happened to be in front of the class room were throwing paper balls at eachother while the teacher's back faced the class. The fought with eachother as if they were related to eachother in some way, Kento watched his two friends fight for another minute then returned to his school work.
Mina looked up from her paper starin' at the two boys in the front glaring daggers at eachother, she could practically see the static-electricity between them. "Oi-ya, to think Cye has to stay after school. So much for meeting at his house. His ma' is gonna be pissed," Mina thought looking around the class room.
She turned her head to the left her nose came in contact with someone's sweet-scented hair almost sneezing. Sage! She cried mentally sitting back correctly into her chair once more. Sage looked up at her in the corner of his violet-eye curiously before returning his attention back to his math problem.
He couldn't shake the feeling that something bad had happened to one of his family members, he wanted to just bolt from his desk and run out of the class room to find out what was happening, but he figured his grandfather wouldn't like that if the feeling he was simply a figment of his imagination and nothing at all was wrong. Sage sighed realizing he had snapped his pencil in half, he looked upward to see if anyone had noticed or heard the snap of a pencil.
They didn't: everyone was too fixed on their school work to notice him, with grumble he opened his pencil-holder pulling out a beautifully pointed pencil it's tan-like color gleamed in the sunlight or so he thought. Sage squinted his eyes as the gleam on the pencil intensified to the extent that he had to close his eyes, he felt something small and round form in his hand.
Once the bright light had vanished completely Sage opened his eyes slowly along with his hand, he gazed upon a green orb with Japanese symbol glowing faintly on it. "Wisdom," Sage spoke aloud unaware that he did so. He suddenly felt heavy, as if something was weighing down on him, he tried with all his might to ignore it but the feeling was too uncomfortable to even think it was a figment of his imagination and calculus was getting the better of his weary mind.
The desk's chair suddenly gave way beneath him shattering into a million pieces, Sage let out a cry/curse of surprise landing on his bottom which for some reason didn't hurt as much as he expected it. Ryo, Cye, Kento, Mina, Rowen, and the rest of the class along with the teacher gazes locked on Sage who now rested on the floor with a 'beyond embarrassed' expression upon his face, his breathing was considerably shallow.
"Mr. Date are you all right?" He asked arching an eyebrow. Sage managed to nod cringing at the stinging pain of his stiff neck. "I'm f-fine I just wasn't expecting the chair to ... well..... break," Sage sputtered nervously blushing. "Mr. Hashiba will you please escort Date to the nurses office I would appreciate it," The teacher said simply before turning his back to the class. "And get a janitor in here."
Rowen glared at the teacher's back, he couldn't find not one reason why he spoke so coldly toward him or others. He guessed the teacher didn't like his job here. Stiffly, Rowen rose from his seat helping Sage up. The blonde managed to help himself up with little assistance from Rowen letting the blue haired boy lead him out of the class room by the arm.
"Man can ya' believe that guy?" Rowen grumbled letting go of Sage's arm. "He thinks I'm his personal butler if you know what I mean." Sage shrugged with a nod, before Rowen stepped in front of him grabbing his dress shirt, Sage was taken by surprise when he punched his..... cold hard stomach?
"Rowen why did you punch me?!" He hissed pushing Rowen who unbuttoned his shirt revealing some sort of darkblue and white metallic undergear underneath. Sage cocked an eyebrow at the blue-haired boy curiously examining the blue and white subarmor. Rowen pointed to his shirt he had pulled from his pants, indicating that he wanted him to unbutton his shirt as well. "You've got it to Sage-san," Rowen pointed out the obvious.
Sage hesitantly unbuttoned his dress shirt revealing the metallic undergear as well, only the color was green and white, his breath was stuck in his throat. The two decided going to the nurses office was not a wise idea and headed back to the class room trying to make up a persuading excuse to their teacher while trying to figure out what exactly was underneath their clothing. "I betcha Satsuki would love this funny metal underwear," Rowen joked. Sage snorted, shaking his head.
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(Date residence):
Mrs. Date (Amara) sat on her bed wrapped in a robe from showering reading a worn old novel she had since Yayoi started medical school, she tucked several strands of stray wet hair behind her ear to ensure her novel wouldn't get wet.
She placed her back up against the head board crossing her legs (Indian style) her blonde hair shimmered in the sunlight pouring through her window, as her violet eyes darted from side-to-side too intrigued with the story to even hear the phone on the nightstand ringing begging for her attention.
[Hi, this is Yayoi, you've reached the Date residence, please leave a message after the beep] *BEEP* The tape inside the built in cassette player began to roll as a caller spoke. Mrs. Amara Date, this is Principal Suya of Han'a elementary school.. I have some upsetting news about your daughter, Satsuki.
Mrs. Date's attention was now focused on the answering machine and what the Principal had to say about her straight-A daughter. The first thing that popped up into Amara's mind was that her daughter had done something wrong like start a fight with one of her classmates. After a long pause the message continued.
I-- It seems that your daughter has...has gone missing. Her friends said she went to the bathroom, but never returned to class, none of the students have seen her since then. The police are already on it. I'm sorry Mrs. Date.
The message ended and Amara's heart stopped beating the instant afterwards as she fought to steady her now shallow breathing, her shaky hands grabbed her head, she felt lightheaded and the room began to spin out of control. All the strength in her body left her, Amara tumbled off her bed onto the ground with an image of Satsuki running through darkness giggling happily.
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Mina sat up in the tree that she usually met Ryo at when lunch time came but for some odd reason he was later than usual. Her coalbolt blue/green eyes scanned the school yard, she noticed the wind was blowing exceptionally hard today, Mina brushed it off figuring the high-tide was coming in later on in the evening since there was a full moon according to her calendar. It was September after all and it was no surprise (except to her) that the wind would be blowing strong as it was.
With a disappointed sigh she dropped the crust from her sandwich into her lunchbox slamming the lid shut. "I suppose what he's doing to way too Important, to join the only person that befriended him when he first got here," Mina uttered leaping out of tree landing in a crouching position.
She figured his silly little crush finally gave way, and he was out doing other things than hang around Mina 'the crashee'. Picking up her backpack she strode down the hill when she heard a groan behind her, Mina turned quickly with her firsts up in the air ready to attack only to see a little boy standing before her covered with dirt scrapes and small cuts.
Being the sympathetic one of her family Mina was known for helping ever little kid that was hurt. She dropped her lunch box, rushing over to the boy's side as his legs gave out of him and he fell forward. Mina caught him before he ever touched the ground, his head landed on her chest with soft thud. "Hey ... kid, you aren't dead are you?" Mina asked propping herself up against the tree, slapping him lightly on the cheek. The boy managed to open his eyes a little trying to focus on Mina's face.
"What's your name kid?" She asked. The boy groaned lifting his head off her chest blinking tiredly. "Y-Yulie Y-Yamano," The boy mumbled falling unconscious against her chest. Since she didn't have a first-aid kit with her, Mina pushed herself from off the tree positioning the boy between her arm (like Ryo would do with a soccer ball), picking her lunch box up she rushed down the hill toward the school putting Ryo and her other worries aside, they would just have to wait.
Cye opened his eyes finding himself floating in the water on his back with his hands behind his head looking up at the sky. The sound of seagull's filled the air, they floated on the air that carried them across the sky like kite's. Cye smiled happily twirling his trident around in his hand watching the splashing water follow the spin of his weapon, he glanced briefly at the Trident as it began to glow a light blue. He managed to get off his back, putting himself in an upright position curiously examining the glowing weapon. "Torrent?" He wondered, blinking.
The scenery changed he now was on an airplane next to Kento sitting behind a raven-haired boy, he figured it was Ryo but he was too confused asking himself how'd he got into the airplane when he was in the ocean just a second ago. He watched Kento rise from his seat inching his hand over to the shoulder of the boy, when he turned to face the bulky-teen. He shocked to find Ryo in the seat Kento's hand was nearing, Ryo's expression was a surprised one.
"No sneaking out on your own Ryo-chan," Kento said smugly pushing his sunglasses up on his nose. Cye watched himself get up from his seat resting his arms on the seat beside Ryo. The raven haired boy looked toward him with the same expression. Cye smirked raising his hand almost like he was saluting him. "Mia told us all about the news report on TV," He said. Ryo managed to swallow wondering how his friends got on the plane without him noticing. "Kento, ah.... Cye...."
Once again the scenery changed, Cye was in the cold hall full of torches he was in previously in his other dream, beside a the armor of Torrent if he was correct. He looked down at the soulless figure finding a little girl in his arms that resembled Sage Date or better know as Casanova according to Kento. Her blonde hair was just like his only it had an angelic shine to it. The woman that grabbed his wrist was hidden in the shadow's sitting on her throne, her legs crossed and her chin resting on the back of her hand. "I see you have succeeded in Capturing Sage of Halo's sister, Torrent," The woman said shifting her jaw. Torrent nodded.
The only thing Cye could really see on the woman was her eyes; cold and lifeless, it gave him the creeps. "Send Strata, wildfire and Halo out. I want their bearers. You and Hardrock have the pleasure of going after Mina Kojiya and Yulie Yamano."
Cye's heart began to race at abnormal rate; They were going after Mina and someone named Yulie?! He had to stop them! He stepped forward to attack the light blue armor, when he was engulfed by floor turned liquid. Cye fell into the water fighting to reach the top again, he didn't notice two decaying hands below him ready to grab him by the ankles. Cye was taken by surprise when he was suddenly pulled under by the a strong force unaware of what was happening. He cheeks were burning as he slowly lost his ability to hold his breath any longer. Cye gazed up; his desination was farther away from him, his mouth opened letting the water enter....
"Cye, wake up! Buddie, wake up will ya!" Ryo shook the sleeping form of Cye roughly trying to rouse him out of his R.E.M sleep. It seemed to be failing miserably from what the blue-tiger eyed boy could tell, Cye laid slumped on his desk with his head rested on his arms snoring softly. School had let out everyone had gone home.
Mina didn't even come to see him which meant she was either too busy with thinking about homework or she was miffed at him for not meeting her at lunch. He sighed slumping back in his seat, it was already afternoon which meant soccer practice was already over and his team was going home AND he was left with a sleeping Cye who was mumbling about a TV report that a girl named Mia told him about.
What ever went on in English-boy's mind was beyond him. He poked Cye in the shoulder with his pencil glancing over at Mrs. Kazi who was reading the expensive model magazine; ELLE instead of grading papers. Ryo was about to raise his hand to get Mrs. Kazi's attention when a hand grabbed his arm pulling it down, his gaze shifted to his left finding Cye wide awake with a worried look on his face.
"Cye, what's wrong?" Ryo asked worriedly his eyebrows knitted together. The brown haired boy was drenched in a cold sweat and he was breathing hard as if he ran a marathon in his sleep, Cye took in a deep breath before speaking. "Mina's in trouble," He managed to get out before trying to catch his breath. Ryo's worried face became an angry one.
Someone was trying to hurt his Mina?! Before he let his temper get the best of him he asked began to ask Cye how he knew this but found himself being yanked out of his seat by the English-accented boy, Ryo managed to grabb his and Cye's backpacks almost being nabbed by Mrs. Kazi as he was dragged out of the classroom. "Mr. Mouri and Sanada get back here this instant!" Cye heard Mrs. Kazi's infuriated voice as he dragged Ryo down the hall toward the school's exit.
Ryo managed to regain his footing as he unwillingly followed the robin-blue eyed boy down the hall. "Calm down will ya!" Ryo cried, almost tripping on his foot. "Your gonna break my wrist!" Cye wasn't listening, he was too focused on getting to Mina's house despite the fact that he had no idea where she lived.
She couldn't live that far from the school, he would just have to ask around.... a sudden realization hit him: Ryo! He was pretty close to Mina, he had to know where she lived! Cye skidded to a halt causing the raven haired boy behind him to crash into him. Ryo's chin made contact with Cye's shoulder blade he stifled a cry a pain stumbling backwards. "Ryo-san, do you know where Mina lives?!" The brown-haired boy asked in a panicked voice.
Ryo grumbled something while rubbing his chin before glancing up at his friend with a glare. "Yes, I know where she lives...," He responded in a pouty voice. "1700 block of Birches Street in a gingerbread house why---?" Cye grabbed Ryo by the wrist once more and dashed down the hall hoping he wouldn't arrive too late.
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Yulie awoke rapped in a sheet in a medium sized bed, the room was dark he noticed that right off, the only light that could be seen was the moon light shining into room through the open window, the breeze was chilling his face. Yulie snuggled deeper into the covers when the door opened in a crack and a dirty-blonde haired girl stepped inside balancing a tray of food in her hands. Yulie watched her shift the tray onto one hand her palm underneath it, to turn on the light.
He closed his eyes in advance, the light came on it's soft glow stung his eyes even when protected by his eyelids. "Hey, I see your awake kiddo," The girl said coming forward now balancing the tray in both hands again. Yulie nodded stretching out ignoring the sting of his tended cuts, his blue eyes watched the girl set the tray on his lap with a sigh, kneeling in front of the bed. Yulie stared down at the tray.
She made him tomato soup with a cup of steaming cocoa milk and roasted fish. "You made this for me?" He asked timidly picking up the spoon. The girl nodded offering him her hand. "The name's Kojiya, Mina, Yulie-san," The girl introduced herself with a smug look. Yulie figured she quiet proud of her name and shook her hand quickly before dipping his spoon into the tomato soup.
"You're really cute, I have a friend whose name almost sounds like yours except her's is Mia Koiji," Yulie smiled placing the spoon into his mouth. Mina blushed at his comment, the little boy was quiet charming that much was for sure, he probably took lessons from Sage Date. "Why thank you Yulie, you're cute too," She replied watching him gulp down the soup from his bowl.
Woah, he must have gone without food for days! She thought tousling his hair. "What happened to you Yulie-san?" Mina asked her cheerful face turning serious. Yulie looked down at his hands as if he had been shamed by something. He explained everything to her, a little about his life and parents, up to when he visited Mia, and his babysister hurling him from the dock to safty and and woke up injured in the bushes with Mia nowhere to be found.
"Sounds like you had a rough time. Do you know where Mia is now, Yulie-san?" Mina asked placing the tray on the ground. Yulie shook his head sadly biting into his fish, Mina sighed rising from her place she paced around her room with her thumb on her chin pondering hard. It reminded Yulie of Sherlock homes when he thought really hard to figure out the mystery, Mina was startled out of her thoughts when her door was opened completely.
A heard poked inside the room. A girl with wild brown hair, mahogany brown eyes, tan skin, wearing a tight-fitted zipper-sweater shirt with a plaid skirt, small framed glasses and mitch-match sneakers stared at Yulie curiously before glancing skeptically at Mina. "Ha! I knew you were hiding something when I saw that tray of food!" The wild-haired girl accused stepping inside shutting the door.
Mina sighed angrily with a sweat drop forming behind her head. "Junya, you better not tell or I'll tell Ma' you've been using her fabric oil-paints for decorating your skirts!" Mina threatened pointed her finger at Junya. 18-year-old shrugged with an inquiring look on her face. "I'll just tell ma' you framed me and painted my skirts! You can't blackmail me!" Junya snickered evilly.
Mina growled angrily like a rabid wolf ready to pounce on her sister when a loud explosion outside her window caught her attention. "What the--?" Mina muttered as the house began shake. Several glass objects from the shelves on Mina's wall fell hitting the ground shattering, everything in the bedroom began to shift from their rightful positions moving toward the center of the floor, Yulie climbed out of the bed jumping behind Mina clutching her legs fearfully while the dirty-blonde placed a hand on his back protectively.
"Why are you standing there Mina it's an Earthquake!" Junya cried in panic when the wall exploded sending Mina, Yulie, and herself onto the ground. Mina shielded the little boy with her body looking over her shoulder and gasped; two supposed men in orange and lightblue armor were hovering above the ground looking like something out of...
"Whoa! That due in the orange looks like something out of Mortal Combat!" Junya cried dreamily staring at Hardrock then at Torrent. "That's the thing that took Mia, Mina!" Yulie cried glaring. Mina's coalbolt gaze shifted from the armors to Yulie. If it was indeed the creep that kidnapped his friend then they were in a lot more trouble than she bargained for......
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Cye and Ryo rushed down the sidewalk in a panic when they heard an explosion a block away from them. Cye fought keep up with Ryo, he had forgotten how fast the boy was when he wanted to be which was a trait Cye wished he had. Not too far behind them was, Kento who they had literally run into as the bulky teen headed for a fast food resurant despite the fact that his mother owned one, Mama Faun had kicked him out of the house for stealing a burger from her grill.
Cye had a hard time following after Ryo, Sanada was quiet known for his speed many wonder why he didn't join the track team instead of joining the soccer-team. Kento zoomed passed Cye with a cocky grin on his face, he loved running with a passion, Kento's mother vouched that he would be good on the track team as well but Kento refused and stuck to his Chinese Marital arts and Kendo. Ryo glanced biefly at the bulky teen beside him before looking over his shoulder at Cye who was lagging behind.
"Kuso!" Ryo cursed in Japanese rushing across the street almost knocking a little boy off his tryke. He was running considerably slow! must be the cold. Ryo thought dryly. Cye dodged the boy apologizing in his friend's place jumping onto the sidewalk to pick up his pace. "Ryo, matte (wait)!" Cye cried rounding the corner after his friend panting like dog. Ryo slowed down his running letting the brown-haired boy catch up with him. "Oi-ya, your slow Cye," Ryo said between pants. Kento chuckled at his comment recving a punch in the arm from the English-accented boy.
They were nearing Mina's house which had a cloud of dust surrounding it. "Oh no, Mina!" Cye cried picking up his pace the second Ryo, and Kento started running at top speed, when a huge title wave of water came from the sky.
Ryo, Kento and Cye looked up realizing that they wouldn't be able to dodge that much water, they would surely be killed the second it came down on them, the two braced themselves for the worse when the symbol's upon their foreheads came to life and bright light engulfed them teleporting them away from their present area leaving Mina at the mercy of Torrent and Hardrock.
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Meanwhile on the outskirts of Sendai, Rowen fought to catch up with his blonde friend as he rushed across the lawn like a madman. Sage held his backpack against his chest, as he rounded the corner; He couldn't believe how fast he was running! Everything around him with like a blur except for Rowen who was now beside him, the blond could hear his feet pounding against the ground sounded like a giant's feet.
"H-hey Sage, why are you in such a hurry?" Rowen shouted dodging a tree. Sage stared at his friend beaming with a smirk on his face, he wanted to get home fast so he could show his little sister how fast he could run and the odd undergear hidden by his clothes. "I wanna introduce you to the rest of my family! Grandfather would absolutely love you," Sage replied.
Rowen noticed the gleaming look in his friend's eyes, it happiness. Rowen was beginning to wonder if anyone could see them as they rushed up the stairs seemingly toward a Dojo that looked like something out of an old Japanese movie. Sage stopped for a brief moment with a smile on his face, catching his breath, Rowen did the same as well.
After their little break, they passed the family Dojo and rushed up the stairs to his house. At first, Sage was feeling a bit nervous he wasn't sure what his parents or Grandfather would think of his friend. He already knew Satsuki, and Yayoi liked-liked him, the last thing he needed was a fight over who got to spend time with his friend. Sage felt a tap on his shoulder, he looked back to gaze on a suddenly nervous Rowen.
"What's wrong?" He asked cocking an eyebrow, at his blue-haired friend. "I just remembered, my Dad wanted me home before 9:00pm," Rowen replied stammering. Sage was about to make a crude remark about his drunk and abusive father but decided against it, since his friend might not see eye-to-eye with him on that subject. "Well, okay," Sage replied quietly bowing his head slightly. "I'll see ya later then." Rowen nodded reluctantly before running off down the stairs.
Sage sighed as his spirits lowered, he turned the door knob and entered the house. The first thing he heard when he slipped out of his shoes was a sobbing woman and someone trying to calm the sobbing woman down, Sage figured his Mom was watching a sappy romance movie. He ventured deeper into the house leaving the small narrow hall way, his socks paddled softly against the hardwood floor as he passed the stair way and the coffee table that held the phone and a lamp, Sage's eyes darted from side-to-side entering the living room he spotted his mother and father on the couch and sister standing beside it with numb expression on her face.
Yayoi looked up at her brother in surprise before looking away just as fast. Sage sighed not aware of the situation at hand thinking he had done something wrong. "Mom, why ... are you crying ... and where's Ojiisan (Grandfather)?" Sage asked making his presence known to his parents. He was wondering where his grandfather was while his mother was in such a broken-down state.
He looked around some more before feeling his mother embrace him tightly around the upper part of his body sobbing into his dress shirt. "Oh Seiji," Amara sobbed clutching his green jacket. "Your.... sister ... is m-mi..." Sage cringed as his mother let go of him pushing up against the wall wailing she ran up the stairs with her face in her hands.
Sage was now beginning that he did something horrible to his little sister to make his mother this upset, she used his Japanese name, he looked up to his father when he rose from the spot with a controlled expression and narrowed eyes. "Sage," Mr. Date began getting Sage's attention. "Your sister went missing when she was at school." Sage felt as if he had fallen into a deep black hole when the sentence left his father's mouth. "Satsuki--- missing?" Sage managed to get out while collecting everything into his mind.
Yayoi moved from the beside the couch coming over to his side to catch him if his physic abilities kicked in and it caused him to faint like it always did. His father walked passed him brushing against him slightly climbing the stairs quickly.
Sage's head began to throb painfully, as visions of his sister and another female chained on a wall bruised, along with another woman stood in the shadows smiling as three four familiar armors teleport out of the hall, Sage groaned in pain falling unconscious, Yayoi gasped in surprise catching her brother. "Sage!" She cried falling to her knees from his weight.
(Author's note: I switched it around a bit as you see! and a quick reminder that this is not a yaoi story at in the least. No hints of it or anything. This story is set before Gaiden and Legend of the inferno armor. Cye is somewhat of a seer. Italics are thoughts/dreams. R/R please! Sorry for any misspelled words or grammatical errors. Ja ne! Sakura123~)