Ok people, you know what they say, its best to strike the iron when its hot, so lets keep this fanfic ball rolling. As of right now, today's date is the 5th of February. I'm going to try and have this one done by the end of the week. With all of my other activities (including sleep, video games, anime, and general wasting of time) it's going to be a tough schedule to keep. Ok, jokes aside, it still will be tough. With school, I never know what the hell is the next challenge, and I'm trying to teach myself how to draw, so it's going to take a good chunk of my free time. Ok, rant pt. 1 is over…story time is now.
Chapter 9: Reflections of The Past
After storming away from Yumi, heartbroken, Ulrich had no idea what he was to do anymore. His entire life, or most of it, has been devoted to saving the world from xana, and trying to get closer to Yumi. However, after this incident, Ulrich was truly lost for the second time since he's ever arrived to Cadic. Ulrich decided to look to his past to see if he could find a way to get through this, just like the first time he did.
The first time Ulrich had ever felt lost was when he had first arrived to Cadic. Not knowing anyone, and being away from his parents, Ulrich felt very isolated from everyone else there. However, after a few weeks, his life changed forever.
Thanks to failing numerous classes, such as biology and physics, he was assigned a tutor who's name was Jeremy (cant spell last name). Surprisingly, it didn't take very long for Ulrich and Jeremy to become great friends. They not only studied together, but Ulrich helped Jeremy in sports, and they hung out when ever they had free time.
Things were going quite well indeed for the two, because Jeremy was also lacking in the friends department. Not long after, they got another new student, this one from Japan. Her name was Yumi (also can't spell the last name). Ulrich and Jeremy were assigned the job of showing her around and helping her fit in with the rest of the students. Yumi had taken French classes over in Japan, so it was easy for her to adapt to her new school. Since then, Ulrich developed a huge crush on Yumi, as well as the same for her to him, but neither got around to telling each other. They've probably liked each other sometime around the first week into Yumi moving there.
The final member of the group had not been added for about another month after Yumi had arrived. Odd Della Robbia was an American transfer student who had moved because of his parent also being transferred because of their jobs, of which they both worked in the same department. By this time, Yumi, Ulrich, and Jeremy were all now involved in battles against xana, and trying to materialize Aelita. How Odd got into the group was rather unique compared to the others. While walking in the hall, he had ease dropped on some kids talking about secret missions and saving the world; being as adventurous as Odd was, he decided follow them one day, but was caught when he tripped and fell over a tree branch. He told the other three students about how he had heard them talking about it for a long time. The others decided it was too late for him to not be involved now, so thus the fourth member was added to the group.
How this was supposed to help Ulrich was beyond him. Most of his work before was cut out for him, this time was a little different. Sitting and thinking about the past was not Ulrich's usual way of solving problems, but he knew it was still by far an effective way of doing so…otherwise, there would be no point to history class. So sat and thought Ulrich did, wondering where his mind would lead him next.
It wasn't long that his thoughts dwelled to when he first took interest in Yumi. It all started in Gym class; Ulrich would find himself always looking over at Yumi, just staring for lengths of time, only to be interrupted by a loud shout from Odd now and then to snap out of it. That too was the time that Odd started to take notice of what was going on, and began his campaign of annoying the absolute crap out of Ulrich. Singing small chants at Ulrich's expense, Odd never missed an opportunity to poke some fun at the lovesick boy. Sometimes Yumi would be walking by just as Odd was getting into it, her face just as red as Ulrich's would be. Yet her affection would go unnoticed for the time being, letting her be free of any rants and teasings…That is, until Sissy caught wind of what was going on.
Just the mere thought of these memories put a smile of Ulrich's face. The best thing about the past was that no matter what happened he would always have it there to remember. He just hoped that this was one of those moments that he could look back on one day and be glad that it didn't last…if, it didn't last.
Ulrich's eyes began to grow heavy. With each passing moment, they gradually kept closing more and more, making it harder to fight with every blink. It wasn't long before he soon found himself in another world where rules meant nothing, and that happiness and sadness knew no bounds. It was a land that he rather liked, letting it take him wherever it wished. For better or worse, it didn't matter because Ulrich was in need of break from reality, even if it only lasted for a short while to him.
Well, I know that this chapter is more or less of a filler…and that the whole "I can finish this in a week" thing above is complete bull. Most fanfics have a chapter like this, where someone simply thinks about the past (by the way, you could probably tell I made a lot up myself…I have no idea how the group really got together). Anyway, hope it wasn't a total loss for you guys, I know some of you out there really like this. Please do tell me if there are any spelling or grammar errors if you find them…I HATE to proof read my own work…its beyond annoying. Till the next folks, see ya.