A New Life

Chapter 10

30 August, 2013

Junes Food Court

"OH! It's Jaker-Baker! HIII!" Teddie called out as Jacob walked into the food court, looking for something to eat for lunch. He was grateful for all of the aid that his new friends had given him over the past month, but still unsure as to where it all came from. Giving him his own HOUSE! Where does one come up with money like that, especially a bunch of high-school/college kids!

"Oh, Hi teddie. How's it going?" Jacob acknowledged the boy in the bear suit, who was busy passing out fliers for Junes' back-to-school sale. Speaking of school, it starts tomorrow, and Jacob is signed up to go in a normal second-year class. He's already got the uniform and everything, proof that he's not going to go home any time soon. Although, why would he want to go home? This place is so much more hospitable.

"I'm doing bear-y well! What are you here for? More lessons? Or are we going to my place today? Sensei didn't tell me any-" Teddie talked so fast and with such odd phrases and implications of said phrases that Jacob's mind struggled to keep up, especially with him just starting to learn the language.

"Your place..? Lessons? Bear-y? It appears I still have more to learn, either that or you're just stupid."

Teddie faked physical pain "Oww, Jaker-Baker, that hurrts.."

Jacob only smirked in response, "Of course it does, it was supposed to.." He was getting a grasp on the language after all.

Writing it, however was a whole different endeavor. "So I'm supposed to draw a line here and... here? This doesn't look like a word at all! It's like squiggles on my beautiful sheet of paper!" After buying his lunch and sitting down, Yukiko had walked up and agreed to give him some help before school started up. Of course, the concept of writing in kanji was completely foreign to Jacob. Not even the most basic words looked remotely comprehensible.

"No you see.." Yukiko started to guide his hand across the page, "You write it like this... do a stroke here, here and a little dot over here." The result was a beautifully drawn character that actually could be easily read.

Jacob's mouth hung loose, before he just flipped the book off of the table and stood up. "Ah, screw this! I'll just stick to writing in romaji!" Then, for some unexplained reason, Yukiko started laughing. And laughing hard.

"*snrk* Hahahahahaha! Hehehehehehehe! Oh, Hahahahahaha!" She kept laughing, regardless of all of the stares she was getting from around the food court.

"Uhh.. Yukiko? Hellooooo?" Jacob, utterly confused, waved his hands in front of her face. "Anyone in there?"

"Hahahahaha- Huh? Oh, sorry... it was just too funny..." Her expression did a total 180 in a fraction on of second, from laughing out loud to total regret just like that.

"What was...? Nevermind, I'll forget that ever happened."

Later That Night

Yu's Room, Dojima Residence

Yu was staying up late, studying on his computer. He had to go to college soon, as does Yukiko. He managed to arrange to come this late, but he could not push it back much further. He didn't want to leave his younger teammates here by themselves, however. Especially Jacob, he's new to his power, as well as the Japanese language, yet Yu and Yukiko have been his main educators in those, respectively.

As Yu ran these thoughts through his head, an icon blinked on his laptop, indicating someone wanted to video chat with him.

Immediately once he opened up the window, he was met with a mass of red hair. "Ah, There you are, Narukami. I hope everything's been going okay so far.."

"It has," Yu said with a smile, "Although, I have noticed that I, along with another member of my team will be departing soon, and I worry for the team's sake."

The woman on the other end smiled, "I think I can arrange for someone to go over there in your absence."

This confused Yu a little bit, "But I thought you said that you were understaffed st the Headquarters..?"

Again, another smile, although this time it was more like a smirk, "I did, however, since then, we have received ten new recruits, all with over a decade of experience, more than anyone that I started with. That person I send would be one of those. Also, remember when I said I'll send your team some equipment?"

"Yes, What is happening with that?"

"It all just got out of the lab, I'll send them with the aforementioned person down there in two days time, does that sound good?"

"Yes, I think that would be perfect."

Author's Notes:

Another Chapter of A New Life! I am actually getting excited to write this again! As I said before, Expect updates of this on Sundays, and BYTM on Saturdays.

Note the underlining of dialogue in this and the lack of it in BYTM, that is because the main character here is American, and there will be some english dialogue which is not underlined. I already mentioned that before, but I figured I should probably mention it again here for those who don't get it.

Don't forget to leave your input on my story! Tell me how I'm doing, make suggestions, walk all over my self-esteem, whatever! I just want to know what you all think about my writing, so please, review.