Iris
Salty- Okay! Here's chapter three! Enjoy, if you dare! I don't own PoT.
AussieGirl411- Yay! I'm glad you liked it! Lolz, the jokes were just random stuffs I made on the spot. Thanks for the correction! I always make that mistake...my friends always make fun of me for stuff like that. The title, Iris, is based on the song Iris by the Goo Goo dolls. Actually, I heard the song on an 'I love the 90's' special and then inspiration hit me! And it brought back so many memories; my mom played that song all the time.
Coco96- I know how that feels too...TT-TT When I was in elementary school, my head would get hit by a ball every day. ON ACCIDENT! Hm...maybe I should make that a recurring thing...
Yasu Yoake- GASP! Maybe we got to the same school? .
2. It just died
A long time ago, when animals could talk and angels roamed the earth and skies, there was a rogue human on Earth. This human was the first of its kind and very lonely. But eventually the angels came down and found him among the animals and tried to explain how he got to be there. Perhaps the human had been created by accident? The angels looked to the human and themselves and when they saw that they looked similar, they asked if he was one of them.
"No," he said evenly. "I do not have wings and I can't fly so I'm probably not an angel."
The angels asked if he was a prince, he replied no. They asked many more questions, each replied the same way. Eventually, they had to name the human and so called it HU Man, which is what we now called a human. And that is the story of how the human got it's name! Or at least a story that my mom read to me out of a children's book and chose to believe. I used to laugh at the story and make fun of it, but now...I cherish it.
After all, it is one of the last few items left for me to remember my parents along with a picture of us all together, when my four year old sister was still in mom's tummy and my little brother in my arms, a beanie and their house phone number for their apartment some miles away.
Yeah, they're not dead. Did you think that it was possible? Nope. Not at all. Actually, they've been living 'some miles away' because...well, it's a long story.
First of all, we all know that the economy's in a choke hold, right? So when all that happened my dad lost his job and mom had to support everyone, which was hard with a husband and three kids, so they had to let one of us get a job, and then two of us. The third of us was a bit too young for a job so it was up to me and my little bro.
Somehow, that evolved into us not having enough money for five people and now, here I am, all alone in this apartment.
I'm not mad at my parents though, not at all. I realized that it was the economy's fault, not my parents.
That's also why I'm devising a plan with my secret organization, Ex-Couronne, to destroy the different governments, starting with Asia, in order to create mass hysteria and inevitable world peace. Of course, it's easier said than done but with enough weapons and soldiers and my own small army, I believe it's possible. Kidding. Seriously, just kidding. That would've been a cool movie though...
But anyway, you may be wondering the relevance of this small story to the main one? Well...that one goes with the next one...
~I~R~I~S~
In the beginning spring days of my third year, the skies seen from outside my apartments window, or at least what I could see beyond the thick trees, was surprisingly gray and ominous. It was obvious that it would begin to rain. Still, it was a weekend and my refrigerator was fully stocked so I didn't have to worry about going out for some time. Nevertheless, my weary stomach was growing tired of all of the frozen meals and health foods and hungered for something real like...a cheeseburger with lots of ketchup and mustard and pickles with a bit of relish and a coke on the side with French fries with lots and lots of salt...I was gonna start drooling.
Without thinking, I grabbed my wallet, my cellphone, keys and jacket on my way out and walked to the town where I could literally feel my burger waiting for me.
"Big sister! Wait for me~!" Great, my stomach had been making my ears hallucinate...That wasn't grammatically correct, was it? "Big sister!"
Apparently, I was imagining someone tapping on my black rain coat too. Just kidding, I wasn't that oblivious. It was, surprisingly, my little brother there waiting for me. At first I thought I was staring at my door, but then I realized that my door wasn't black with a designer logo on it. And then finally, I realized that I was looking at my not so little brother's t-shirt. He was only a first year in middle school but I only reached to about his shoulders. His blond hair was blond and his eyes were still caramel so I definitely knew it was him.
"Kazuma? What're you doing here?" So far, in the six months that I've lived in this apartment building, I usually had to visit my family. Not the other way around. Never the other way around.
Kazuma, my little brother, looked up at me. His pretty lavender blue eyes locked onto me, and he grinned.
"What? A little bro can't visit his sister on a rainy day?" Ah, how I missed his sarcasm. Even though it was a joke I smothered him with a hug anyway. "You're weird, Kata-Chan." It was hard to hear his muffled reply but I squeezed him tighter. "Ah. Can't. Breath. KATSUMI!"
I let him go, quickly and saw how quickly he was panting. I didn't think I was hugging him that hard.
"Ah...right..." I chuckled nervously. "Um...come inside, please." I pushed him inside my cream colored room and watched him stumble a bit before closing the door, giving the outside one last look. Why didn't the angels want me to get a burger? I haven't had one in a year!
Okay, I would just get one with Kazuma in a few minutes...yeah...and then I'll get my precious.
He looked around the small living room for a moment.
"It's a bit cramped. I guess I can fit my books over there..." He was staring at the nearly empty book shelf in the corner.
"Um, what are you doing here?" I realized that that probably sounded offensive. "No offense." Like that'd help.
"Slightly offensive, but none taken." He shrugged. "Mom and dad can't afford me any more so I'm staying with you now. It's still illegal for me to live alone, let alone rent, you know."
Technically, the legal age, I think, to live alone would be eighteen but my parents claimed independence or something and made them think I was sixteen. So, here I was. Illegal town.
"Yeah..." My mind was somewhere else, for some reason. "Did..." The words were still forming on the tip of my tongue. "Did dad...has he gotten a job?" And then my stomach chose to growl, reminding me of my mission. "Oh, wait, never mind. I really need to eat, are you coming too."
"Uh..."
"Good." I really needed a burger and no little bro of mine was gonna stand in my way.
And so, I re-grabbed my keys, wallet, and cellphone, re-walking out the door and walking down the stairs and across the street to my favorite burger place, Wacdonalds.
As soon as we entered the building, Kazuma stormed off to the large kiddy slides and hamster tubes that headed outside. It was good that he hadn't changed in six months.
"Momo! How could you be so mean? I've been treating you since yesterday. Is that not enough from your sempai?" I recognized that voice. It was Kikumaru-kun.
"But it's always the duty of a sempai to treat his kouhai!" I didn't know that one though. It was definitely a male about my age, I was sure of that.
"May I take your order, miss?" Ah! The order! I forgot about it...
"AH! Yeah, um, may I have a..." I glanced at the large menu board above him. "two large number three breakfast burgers, both with a hash brown and a soda." I could practically feel the burger on my lips but for now I had to suffice for drool. Ew.
"What type of soda, ma'am?" I didn't feel like having soda suddenly.
"Replace it with a Kikumaru-I mean orange juice! Orange juice!" Why the heck did I say Kikumaru when he was right behind me? What an idiotic thing to do...
"Hm? Did I hear my name?" Crap. Nooo! He couldn't see me now...It looked like I just rolled out of bed! Why oh why do I have to sit behind him diagonally?
"Okay! One orange juice coming up!" the order guy flashed me a grin and handed me a number.
"Th-thank you..." I muttered before walking to the tubes to attempt to find my little brother.
"Ah, Saisai-Chan!" Crap! I forgot that I was walking by his table.
"Yes?" Okay, I could do this. All I had to do was...uh...crap! Instinctively, I turned to his direction. Why did I have to do that?
"Ah! It is you, Saisai-Chan!" In my attempt not to look at Kikumaru-kun I caught of glance of the person that was demanding a free meal. It was a purple eyed, spiky black haired guy that I was sure I'd seen somewhere before.
"Eh, who're they, Kata-Chan?" There was suddenly an arm around my shoulder. It was a head of blond hair and a set of caramel brown eyes. I don't have to say who it was, right? It was pretty obvious.
The black haired person and Kikumaru-kun stared at Kazuma with a curious interest.
"Momoshiro Takeshi, second year at Seishun academy, call me Momo" he said with a prideful smirk. So that's where I saw him before. It was all coming together now.
"Kikumaru Eiji, nya," he grinned. "I'm a third year in Saisai-Chan's class!" Ah~...why must he be so cute? I could've died right then in my brothers embrace...That didn't just sound weird to me, right?
"Hey, are you her boyfriend? Ah~to be young~," said Momo, and...WTF? My alleged boyfriend is tall freshman in middle school and my little brother. That's like...so many illegal things that I can't even count. AND I'M OLDER THAN MOMO!
"But Momo, she's your upperclassmen, and it's sort of nosy to announce that he's her boyfriend, nya,"
NOOOOOOO!
"Ah-No, he's-"
"What if I am?" He snuggled his face to mine. "She is pretty cute though, right?" WTF? What had I missed in those six months away from him? What has my brother become? HE WAS JOKING RIGHT? RIGHT?
"Uh-uh, Kazuma, please don't...um..." What was going on? I was confused. The only straight thought in my head was that I hoped my brother hadn't turned to...ahem...well, I still don't want to say.
"Number 42! Your meal's ready!" Yay! Saved by the bell.
"Oh! T-that's mine. Gotta go..." I said, elbowing Kazuma in the gut before walking over and getting my order. Why, oh why didn't I get the meal to go? "Thanks..." I said to the cashier. He had a really good smile.
"I'm Mitsuo Tenshi," he said grinning. He was random, I supposed. I grinned anyway, pretty weirded out.
"Saitou Katsumi." I didn't want to talk to him anymore that I had to. I was tired. My brother was apparently in love with me or something. Today was just too much. All I wanted today was a nice cheeseburger. Or something. Why were the angels making me weary? Why? "I should be getting back...to-to my table."
I nodded to him and glanced around for a table. The corner of my vision was locked onto Kikumaru-kun and Momo-Chan and Kazuma. They were still chatting at the table about something.
A part of me wanted to tell Kazuma to shut up and another wanted me to just sit at a booth in piece. I did the latter, not being good at confrontations or whatever you called it. It'd probably be too much trouble, anyway.
"Justin Timberlake!" I shouted, looking at the famous pop star that was standing before me, watching me eat my burger.
"I've come to take you away!" he said, as my heart started beating faster. He suddenly kneeled next to me and all of the people in McDonalds started clapping and the sun replaced the rain. He opened a small box and pulled out a ring. Somebody in the crowd whistled. "Will you marry me Jenny?"
"I'm not Jenny but okay!" He picked me up and carried me out of the restaurant, bridal style, until we sunk into the sherbet made cement in New York. Wait, what? That couldn't have been...right.
Quite suddenly, I found myself looking at a gray darkness. I lifted my head and found that I was still at WacDonalds, at my small booth next to the window where I could clearly see the rain splattering rather violently against the window next to me. It seemed as though it wanted to get me, actually. How funny. I yawned and remembered my dream.
Now thinking about it, I had probably came to WacDonalds by myself and dreamed that Kazuma came too and I saw Eiji and Momo-Chan. Wait, does that mean I made up Momo-Chan? How strange.
"Hey, Kata-Chan? Why're you all the way over there? Come over here!" Damn, I was gonna kill Kazuma when we got home.
"Coming..." I muttered in reply. They probably didn't hear me. I picked up my tray and walked over to where they sat on the other side of the establishment. Neither Kikumaru-kun nor Momo seemed to see me coming (both seemed to be having a burger eating contest, Momo was winning) but Kazuma was waving me over from where he sat. I tiredly slouched over, as my mother often called my way of walking, and drew over a chair to sit next to Momo and across from Kazuma who immediately started talking about...something. I didn't catch any of it since my attention immediately turned to my tasty looking breakfast burger. My hash brown looked pretty good too.
The first taste of my breakfast burger almost made me purr, I swore. Not cursed, I just meant...never mind.
"Can I have that?" asked Kikumaru, his mouth stuffed. It took me a moment to realize that he was pointing at my hash brown. His face just looked really...kind of gross. And something suddenly...just died. It was weird.
"No!" I hissed, snatching my hash brown away. "Oh! Ah...sorry. I just sorta like my hash browns."
I just hissed at my crush! Why? Wait...I didn't regret it like I usually would. How strange.
Kikumaru-kun, apparently not realizing how rude I probably was, started laughing.
"It's okay, nya. Momo-Chan gets the same way when I ask for his burger, nya." The said person hissed, some of his burger literally flying out of his mouth. Why did I have to be sitting next to him? A bit of his food landed on my face! EW!
Grabbing a napkin, I wiped the stuff of me like it could've been contaminated. It probably was! EW!
"Ew! Momo-Chan! That's not very nice!" whined Kikumaru-kun. He wasn't talking about me though, some of Momo-Chan's spit got onto Kikumaru-kun's food. And cheek. Ew.
"Um...Could I have a napkin?" I asked to Kikumaru-kun who did as I asked and immediately went back to talking to Momo and Kazuma as I wiped my cheek. As I was left to do nothing, I began to think about why I liked Kikumaru-kun. Now that I thought of it, it was probably just because he was cute. And, he wasn't really in my circle of friends, who's in high school. How had I come to like him at all, I wondered. He, now that I realize as I watched him talking with a full mouth(him, not me), was pretty much just a large human cat. Weird thought, yes, but I couldn't deny that it was somewhat true.
And then, the feeling that died came upon me again but this time, I was sure what it meant. I probably would never see Kikumaru Eiji as my crush again, I realized at the split moment he made a knock-knock joke that made the entire table laugh. I laughed too, though.
~I~R~I~S~
Katsumi- Wait, what? I'm over Eiji? How the hecking God are you gonna continue the story if I don't feel anything for him?
Salty- Um...you'll see. That's all I can say for now. Muahahahah...
Katsumi- 0-0