Chapter One: Awkward Introductions
One day:
It was a beautiful morning as the sun shone ever so brightly after a night submerged behind the horizon. A girl stood watching.
'Wow' she thought, 'If only this would last forever…'
At the exact moment, Shinami walked past her, startled, his eyes widened by the unexpected object around the girl's neck
'This necklace…could she be…'
Suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted by a penetrating glare as the girl suddenly turned. Her eyes were soft, but betrayed by the hateful emotions it displayed. Filled with rage, hatred, revenge and abhorrence. However, behind the curtain of emotions, the boy made out a shady figure…hidden, concealed…
Unexpectedly, a pigeon swiftly flew up and started to spin circles rapidly on top of the girl's head.
"Ahh! Get off!" The girl blurted out as she snapped back to her senses,
"Sora!" Another young girl quickly ran over as she called the pigeon away.
"Sorry about my pigeon. It gets like that once in a while. Teehee." The young girl backed away.
"!"
"SHIORI-CHAN!" Kaze yelled out in a demanding tone. "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN! I'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR YOU, DO YOU THINK I HAVE THE ABILITY TO FOLLOW YOU AROUND EVERYWERE!… replace with yelling, yelling, and more yelling "
"Sorry…" Shiori whispered innocently, "I'll be right there!"
"I have to go, and uh, the name is Shiori by the way." She turned and said to the girl. And so, as soon as she came, she was gone.
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'Hm…this is nice, ' the girl thought as she opened the door of her new home. 'Not bad, two levels. Seems like someone already set up the place…HEHEHE' A rather maniacal grin appeared as she zoomed around while looking…EVERYWHERE.
Outside, Shinami opened the front door, only to find an unpleasant intrusion happening to his very own home. As their eyes met, a loud noise was heard. Simultaneously, the two shouted,
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!"
"Well, this is the place I'm suppose to rent, I contacted the owner about 2 days ago." The girl spoke calmly. (Taunting look on the inside)
"Actually uh, my brother bought this and well… he gave it to me 3 years ago." Shinami replied, wondering what the girl before him was thinking.
"This is blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, right?" The girl asked looking rather confused and idiotic.
"No…the last time I checked…this is Ble ble ble ble…" Shinami stared at her…for the longest time humanly possible to maintain unblinking eyes.
"ACK. But the directions on the paper said well, to go er…this way!" she stared at the paper clutched in her hand, "I'm pretty sure it's the right direction"
"Uh…This street only goes up to number ble ble ble and so, your address does not exist and …you got …punk'd"
"But really, the directions said THIS way."
"Tell me exactly what's written on that piece of paper."
"It really says to go this way!"
"Lemme see that!" Shinami yelled furiously, snatching the paper out of the girl's hand.
On the paper there was the print written in black…
To get to blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, you have to go…
"This way?" The boy repeated the direction as if it was a practical joke. ( -In fact….it really was a practical joke…) "And why did you think that this way meant this way? " The boy demanded indicating the exact spot he was standing on.
"EH…you are…scaring me…and…this way, why wouldn't it mean this way? After all, this way, that way, same thing…at least…I think…"
"Ugh!" The boy groaned, rolling his eyes, "Well, think again."
Staring at Shinami's 'crazy' rolling eyeballs, Kosame began to doubt the boy's sanity and her own direction senses.
"Maybe I am directionally challenged," She stuttered, turning slightly red in the face.
"Damn right you are!" Shinami replied a little too quickly, afflicting direct damage towards the girl's poor waning emotions. Clearly, he wasn't the 'happy-go-lucky-iti-bity-tini-winni-smili-all-around' kind of person…today…and he's losing his well maintained patience.
"Oh… sorry…" The girl said, (Obviously offended, I mean, who wouldn't be) "I'll be going now…" she hesitated at first but she realized this wasn't the least awkward thing in the world.
"Yo. Do you even have a place to stay?"
"Uh…well…"
"I thought so. I guess you could stay here. But you have to pay rent…"
"Thank you!" The girl cried out happily as she zoomed and shook Shinami's hand DEAD HARD. "So…what now?" she asked.
Recovering from a massive arm workout, the boy turned back to the task at hand. "Okay, go upstairs and I guess…you can take any room you want…"
"Thank you!" the girl said again as she was about to make her way up the stairs "Oh yeah," She quickly turned around "My name is.."
"Kosame." The guy said calmly. "And I'm Shinami."
"Uh…" Kosame's was at first confused but she soon accepted the fact that a guy she never ever ever ever ever ever ever met just happened to guess her name. "right…well thanks again Shinami-kun." She gave a slight bow as she made her way upstairs.
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NOTE: you may have NO IDEA what this story is about. So here's some advice: GET OVER IT.Evil side taking over. (and ah, don't worry, things will clear up afterwards)
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Next morning…
Kosame: (wakes up)…(goes out bedroom door)…(Looks left, right)…(Tip toed to washroom)…(Closes door)…(Toilet flushes)…(Opens door)…(comes out)…(Hears footsteps)…(panics waving arms and running around a small circle)…(rush back to bedroom)…(Closes door)………
And this is how Shinami-kun handles the situation! or…o.O
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The morning after that…
The sunrays spread quietly around the room after Kosame opened the curtains. Staring out the window, she let out a brief sigh.
"Great, I missed the sunrise…again…oh well…I'll just take a picture then" And out of nowhere, she took out a digital camera and…took a picture.
Soon after she tidied up, Kosame made her way downstairs.
"Shinami-Kun," She said casually "I'm going outside for a while…so…do I bring the house key or what?"
"It's okay, I'll be home all day so don't worry about it."
"Okay then. If you're sure…you are sure about that…right? I don't want to be locked out in the…cold…dark…WORLD!"
"Whatever."
"Nice answer. Okay then I'm off. And remind me to get insurance one day"
"Uh…"
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Few minutes after
Shinami was sitting on the couch as usual, like he did last time, and the time before that, and the time before that. But today for some reason, memories of the past just came flooding back to him as the pain from his birthmark engulphed his conscious mind. Aniki, are you okay? Who did this to you…I don't want to remember anymore…
Aniki, tell me!
Even the truth …it hurts so much…
Shinami…never tell Akumo anything about Shinigami…That was the last thing he told me…
No brother! DON'T!…no……I guess it was too late…just like that…gone
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Quick note- Aniki means respected older brother (Just incase you did not know)
Meanwhile…OUTSIDE
Kosame: (knocks on door) hello? Shinami-Kun? Open the door? Hello? Are you even home? (KOCKS HARDER) HELLO? WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE OPEN THE DOOR? OR I'LL BLAST IT OPEN! (KNOCKS REALLY HARD) PLEASE! Please? -very nicely…. NO ANSWER Awwww…………(…Sits down on front of door)
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Some time at night, Shinami finally fell back into reality. Instinctively, he shifted his gaze onto the old clock. 11:51 it said
'She's still not back? I guess I should go look for her.'
So, he grabbed the key from the counter and opened the door. Suddenly he stopped, only to find the girl sitting with her head in her arms, resting on top of her knees. And with that, the boy let out a long sigh and carried her back into the manor.
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Some morning…
Blankly, Kosame woke up from a very confusing night. Of course, she had no idea at all what had happened.
'What…happened…last night?' She thought, baffled, 'I wonder if Shinami-kun is awake yet…'
As she quietly made her way downstairs, she saw the boy sleeping on the couch. 'Hm' she thought 'He's still asleep. I'll just open the curtains then.'
Unexpectedly, Kosame caught a flash of black and she found herself gazing upon the birthmark on the boy's collarbone. Right then, there was a sudden urge to scream and break windows. But she refrained. Instead, she stood paralyzed.
'Shinami-Kun…there's no way he could be…'
The thought was soon interrupted as Shinami made a slight motion towards his left. Two seconds later, after opening the curtains, Kosame zoomed upstairs again.
After five minutes or so, Shinami finally woke up, as usual, he was very grumpy every morning. And as he ran his eyes through the room, he stared hard at the curtains. Suddenly, his eyes opened wide as he zoomed upstairs and stared at Kosame SUSPICIOUSLY.
"What? What did I do! I didn't do nothing! NOTHING!"
Grumpy, the boy narrowed his eyes and leads the girl out the door
"Hey! I didn't do anything! Don't lock me out of the…"
(DOOR SHUTS)
"Door. No! Not again!"
Author's note #3
First of all, this is a humor/tragedy/romance story. Actually, I can't really decide on a category. I guess there's a bit of everything in this. What else… um, even though I'm the one writing the story, I still would really appreciate it if all you readers out there would give me some suggestions. (To improve my work, which lead to better chapters!)
Please do not be so picky on spelling errors. (My computer is on auto spell check and it references the language to US dictionaries not Canadian ones.) Basically, in this chapter four main characters are introduced and things are of course very confusing. (It has to be or else the story won't have much suspense…Later on.) So thank you for taking your time to read, and please review!