A Whole New Perspective
Well, here is the other story that I said I was writing. I really hope everyone likes this one as much as my other one. If you haven't heard of or seen 'If My Heart Had Wings' yet, I suggest you go check it out! Anyways, onwards with the story!
Chapter 1: The Big Move
"Yeah, that's fine guys just dump it all right there, Frank and I will take it out and sort it all later." I handed the moving guys each 7.5k in yen. Which is around 60ish dollars.
They both bowed their heads lightly, thanking us as they walked out the door of the hotel we were staying in.
"Man dude, it was pretty cool of your Dad to book us into the hotel for the whole year!" Frank exclaimed.
"Well I guess that's what happens when he owns multiple businesses. Heheh." I began to start picking up the boxes from the ground.
"But wait...what about when the year is up?" Frank asked.
"He told me to just call him whenever we needed him if we deemed it necessary. But we probably won't. We still have a lot of money saved up from back when we were working offshore."
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Anyways, I think we should just start unpacking the big shit first. We can always just sort out the small shit later on, since that'll be more of a time consuming pain in the ass." Frank set down one of the boxes he was holding.
"Agreed. Is that the new exhausts for the cars?" I said pointing to the box he had just set down.
"Yep, that's it. Can't wait till we fit them on. These were illegal back in the U.S., since they hit over 108 decibels. Here, I don't even think they have a limit." Frank smiled, patting the box of car parts.
"Yeah man thank God cause these things hit like 130 decibels just stock, so I have no idea what we'll be hitting with all the boost we have from the turbos. I guess it doesn't matter though, Japan is like...tuner central anyway." I walked over towards the box that had contained our new refridgerator. "Give me a hand with this will ya bro?"
"Yeah of course." Frank grabbed one end of the box as I grabbed the other. We both walked it into the kitchen before setting it down.
"We can just hook it up and stuff later after we unpack some more stuff." I said.
"Yeah that sounds good to me." Frank nodded.
After a few hours had passed by, Frank and I had finally unpacked all of our things to look somewhat acceptable for the time being. After all that hard work, I began to get hungry.
"Yo, I say we go grab some sushi, like pronto dude." I rubbed my stomach and patted it a bit.
"Uh, yeah, let's." Frank grabbed his wallet and keys from the table. "We both cruising, right?"
"Hell yeah dude, didn't get our cars shipped here for nothing!" I picked my keys and wallet up as well.
Frank drove a Nissan 350z with a twin turboed 2jz swapped engine. I drove my Honda Civic Si, single turbo 2jz swapped engine with a rear wheel drivetrain swap. We both drove standards obviously. Even back when we lived in the U.S. we were always cruising side by side no matter where we went. We never passed up the opportunities to take the cars for a spin.
After driving around a bit and figuring out how to use the GPS on my phone around here properly, we finally had found a sushi place at this place called Windy Mall. After grabbing our food, we found us a seat and sat down to eat.
"Good lord this shit looks amazing." I ordered four salmon rolls with a side of eel sauce.
"You don't have to tell me that twice bro." Frank ordered the same as I did.
"Man...it's crazy how much stuff changed over the course of 16 years huh?" I glanced around the brand new looking mall.
"Well, I mean that is a long time you know. Jeez, has it really been that long since that time we had come here with our Dads?" He asked.
"Something like that yeah. We were eight when we last came here to Kazegaura soo...fourteen years, my bad. I was getting all mixed up." I put my hands up in defeat.
"Haha yeah. We came here at the age of eight with our Dads for that business trip, then we stayed here for two years. That's probably what confused you and made you add those two unneccesary years to make it 16 instead of 14." Frank chuckled.
"Yeah man, that's probably it." I shook the thought off quickly. "Ahh anyway, shall we?"
Right as we were about to chompity chomp down on our food, a random passing girl had dropped her phone. She had tried to catch it in mid air, but failed, only causing it to fly even further straight towards my food. With quick reflexes, I reached my hand up and caught the cell phone before it had succesfully landed in my eel sauce, thus saving it. It probably would have ended up screwing her phone up too.
The girl who I'm assuming that the airborne phone belonged to, had semi-long red hair, and she was wearing extremely short black shorts with a reddish pink tank top also sporting some sort of flowery looking wristband.
I just smiled and chuckled a bit when I looked up at her and presented the phone.
[In Japanese] "Oh thank y-" She suddenly stopped when she looked at me, blushing a bit. It looked like she had seen a ghost or something.
I just looked over my shoulder a bit, wondering what the hell she was looking at. It kinda creeped me out a little to be honest. I just raised my eyebrow and made a small motion towards her with my hand that her phone had been residing in.
"O-Oh! Right sorry...thank you." She said as she gently grabbed the phone from my hand.
"Oh...you speak English? Cool! Yeah uh...my best friend and I just moved here from the U.S. We learned a little bit of Japanese before coming back here after so long here but uh...yeah we still aren't crazy great at it." I shrugged.
"We sucked at it back then the first time we were here too! Though we were much younger then." Frank laughed.
"O-oh that's cool..." She sounded really nervous the whole time she talked to us. "So it really is..."
I looked over to Frank who was just smirking hard at me for some reason, before turning my attention back to the girl. "Uhh...yeah I guess so heheh."
"Hayd- Uh...I mean...Well bye then!" She hurried off into what looked to be some kind of sports store or something.
"Uh...okay that was weird as fuck. What was she about to say?" I picked up my chopsticks before grabbing one of my rolls and dipping it in the greatest sauce ever created.
Frank was still just staring at me and smirking hard.
"The hell are you smiling so much for?" I cocked my head back at him.
"Because she was cute as shit, and she was totally digging you man. You're an idiot if you seriously didn't notice that." Frank kept that same smart ass smirk on his face as he had before.
"Nah man I don't think she was. But what's weird is...it seemed like I know her from somewhere or seen her or something before." I laughed.
"I mean...I highly doubt it." Frank shook his head.
"And don't you think it's weird that she just like all of a sudden started speaking English? Like...she started in Japanese, looked at me, and then just like...knew to speak English I guess? You don't find that weird at all?" I raised my eyebrow.
"Not really, but if you say so dude. I'm pretty sure she was checking you out though and-" Frank looked over towards the sports store that the girl walked into before, and smiled, gesturing with his head towards it.
I raised an eyebrow at him before turning around to see where he was looking. Once I had looked into the sports store, I had locked eyes with the cell phone girl, who was peeking her head out at me. As soon as she took notice that I had seen her she had gotten a surprised look on her face.
She then bolted back into the store in a flash.
"Heheh...told you she was peeping you." Frank continued to eat his sushi with that smug little grin of his.
"You're enjoying being a dickhead aren't you?" I chuckled.
"Oh come on man...I say you go ask her on a date." Frank had a more serious look on his face now.
"Nah man. You know I don't do the whole dating thing. I've never been good with girls." I looked off into the distance.
"Hmm...yeah I can't argue with you for feeling that way, you know I'm the same way." Frank shrugged his shoulders. "Oh well."
"Yep, screw it. But hey...this sushi is killing it at least." I continued whoofing down the delicious rice and seaweed covered raw fish.
"You got that shit right." Frank had just finished his last piece. "Whoo...that was fantastic."
"Definitely. Well, we found our sushi spot." I said proudly.
"And we've only been here four hours. We're already getting settled in nicely it seems. Anyways you ready to head out?" Frank asked.
"Yeah man, we can check out the rest of the mall some other time cause my ass is ready for a much needed nap." I stretched a bit when I stood up from the chair.
"Definitely man, two day flight kinda makes you forget how to stay awake. We gotta get some rest since we gotta get up early tomorrow anyway to go and finish signing all those transfer papers and shit as well for the new school." Said Frank.
"Oh yeah no kidding. Huh...I'm actually kinda nervous dude, this is still pretty crazy that we decided to do this." I let out an exasperated sigh.
"Yep. Hopefully tomorrow everything works out pefectly. Then starting the day after we'll both be official students at Keifuu Academy." Frank had brofisted me.
"Yeah dude. We got this all day." I grabbed some yen from my pocket and left it on the table for the waitress.
After we got into our cars, we both left the mall and headed straight back to the hotel to get a few more things unpacked that were necessary. After another good hour or so, we both took our showers and got ready for bed around 8. Of course before we actually went to sleep, we got in a few rounds of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate on the N3DS. After an hour or so of that we had called it quits and got ready for bed for real this time.
"*Yawn* Ohhh..." I turned over towards where Frank's bed was in the darkness. "You nervous about tomorrow man?"
"Hmm? Yeah, of course I am dude, this school is totally new to us. But we got this in the bag dude we just gotta have confidence that's all." He said.
"Yeah, you're right we'll be fine." I turned back over and faced the wall. "We should just relax and try to get some sleep man, we can worry about everything else in the morning."
"Yeah that's a deal man, I'm tired as shit anyway." Frank adjusted his pillows and all to get comfortable. "Night bro."
"Night dude." I quickly felt myself begin to drift off to bed.
Well, there you have it! My first chapter to my new story. I'm sure you all noticed that this chapter is really short. I intend to keep the chapters of this story that way, since I'm always busy with work and don't get much time to put out chapters. I'll continue to keep the chapters for my other story the average length that they have been since that's my main peice of work, so that won't really be changing.
I hope my current followers are able to enjoy this story as well like my other one. Please, continue to R&R and let me know how I'm doing along the way for this one too! Thanks everyone, for everything in advance. You guys never cease to help me greatly. See you guys in the next chapter soon!
Stay awesome guys!
-H