A/N: Hello! Another update! I was bored and I didn't feel like drawing, and as you probably don't know, for some reason, no matter how tired I am, I can't fall asleep during the day, except when I'm extremely sick (which is also a rare thing to see), which would be a good way to pass the time, but, unfortunately for me and fortunately for you, I can't do it.
*sighs* My, my, look at me, I'm babbling about trivial stuff again... I already wasted much of your precious time, so I wouldn't be surprised if you skipped all this. But first, before you skip the rest, I want to say three things:
1st: Just for the record, I love reviews! It's kinda empty in the review section, so I'd like if you shared your thoughts on the story with me. No matter if they're mean, suggestion (how to improve my writing, possible pairing between OCs and / or Official characters…?~) or praise, I'd appreciate them!
2nd: From this Friday to the 23rd of August, all of my stories will be put on hiatus, due to me going to my family's summer house. Even so, I might be able to write stories on my dad's laptop (he lets us bring it with us) and post stories during the "Happy Hour", when our limit for internet doesn't count and we can be on as much as we want for those four hours (watch videos, play online games, post pictures, have video chats, and of course, update Fanfictions!)
3rd: Even though this will mostly be a filler to lighten up the mood, I hope you enjoy it. And also, I will include clothes description for the OCs, you already know what other characters would dress like. Oh, and also I decided the tall man's name, that's now Seiyu
So, now that's cleared up, and for those that didn't skip this yet, a short review of the last chapter wouldn't hurt, no?
As more students are falling victims to the undead monstrosities hunting for souls in forest, with Tachiko almost getting hurt too, the atmosphere in DWMA grows more and more unsettling and loud much to Rin's dismay. He's been having weird chest pains ever since the attack due to the ' transplanted' part of his soul raging more than usual. The tall man in black shows himself to the two friends, leaving them with almost same lines, then disappearing. For several months, it's all been fine, but what'll happen now?
Of course, I won't bother to try to calculate the right day counting that this is past the new year theme and whatnot, it'd be just too much work, and I doubt any of you care the accuracy of the date, am I right?
Chapter 15:
A Doll's Dream
Pt. 1
Saturday, June 1st - 10:45 AM (noon) - Skull Avenue
"Geez…" Tachiko leaned to back of her seat, "It's really been far too hot lately.. I know summer is nearing but seriously…" (she's wearing light blue sleeveless shirt with black kanji on it and white short pants covering only her thighs, her hair tied into a low ponytail)
"When it's heat, it's about mentality…" Kidd said calmly
"Yeah, says a guy that wears clothes made of at least some Shinigami Skin fabric that keeps him at perfect temperature all the time.." Tachiko groaned.
It was a hot day at Death City, cats were sunbathing, people were shopping for the upcoming summer season, and the ten friends were sitting outside of a coffee shop, eating ice cream.
"What about you, Rin? Isn't it a bit too warm for long sleeves?"
"It's like Kidd said," The black haired boy said, "It's all about the mentality." (he's wearing thin, plain, gray elbow length sleeved shirt, thin loose black vest (like Kidd's but even looser) and black shorts to knees)
"Liar," Black*Star muttered in his usual cocky tone, "It's because you're so cold all the time. I maybe can't sense wavelengths like Maka or the OCD kid over there can, but I have common instincts, ya know? And mine says it has something to do with your soul!"
"You're right, but it's its nature, and can't be helped." Rin shrugged it off with his weary smile
"Whatever, I think you should Lighten up a bit, it's not cool to always keep acting cold.." Soul said leaning back to his chair
"Look who's talking" Maka said and raised look from her book to Soul
"Hey, I have an idea! Let's go play basketball!" Black*Star suggested in his loud and cheerful tone.
"We'd get a heatstroke if we play at this weather… It's over 30 degrees Celsius out here…" Liz said, cooling herself off with a pamphlet she found.
"Just once I agree with her, we'd all die if we tried to do some asphalt sports…" Yoshiki muttered, slumped over his chair like a cloth, (he's wearing red loose sleeveless shirt with black outlines, black shorts and has his hair tied up into a small, low, spiky ponytail)
Tachiko was silent for a few seconds, then she saw what Liz was holding and took it from her hands
"Hey, what the-!? That's mine!" Liz said, confused.
"This is a pamphlet for the newly opened pools in the south of the city!" Tachiko said opening it, "Maybe we can cool off there!"
"Alright!" Black*Star said happily in sync with Patty and continued on English: "Let's go to pubic pools!"
There was a short silence before everyone else started laughing
"You two… It's not 'pubic', but Public… Public pools.." Maka and Tachiko laughed
After a while they all calmed down, and said they'd meet at the pools at noon and 30 minutes that day.
12:30 - Deep Springs Public Pool
"Yahoo!" Black*Star yelled as he jumped into the pool, followed by Patty that was already red in face. When they fell in they both splashed Kidd, much to his dismay
"I can't believe they actually put sand here…" Maka smiled as she kneeled over the small area by the pool, grabbing a handful of sand
"It's all around the city, so it probably wasn't a problem for them to get some." Yoshiki said as he stopped by her. (Yoshiki is wearing black and Red swimming boxers, still with his hair tied in the ponytail and bangs held behind his ears (they're usually covering his right eye))
Maka blushed slightly when she saw him; he always wore loose clothes and hid his rather nice built form. Soul saw that and slightly frowned. He didn't know why, but he just didn't like that look. (and in the background Patty and Black*Star just splashed Kidd again then pulled him into the water)
Tachiko was observing all that, then grinned. (Tachiko has her hair down, and is wearing emerald green swimwear with black skull sign on her right breast)
She sneaked up on Soul and pushed him at Yoshiki, who fell and pushed Maka and all three of them ended up in the pool.
Tachiko laughed "You guys looked like you needed to cool off."
All three had straight faces to nose in water, they exchanged looks and grinned
"Heh.. Heheh… WAUGH!"
All three pulled her into the water
Meanwhile, Liz was napping on one of the wooden deck chairs, Tsubaki was drying off and talking to Rin under shade of the same parasol. (Rin wearing black and white knee-length swimming boxers and that same loose black vest, still unbuttoned, but without a shirt underneath, and his hair was limply hanging down as usual, but this time with no headband to hold any of it at least slightly up)
"You aren't going to take a bath too? The water's really nice."
"No, thank you.." Rin replied, "It seems like it's a bit too wild kind of fun for me."
"Very well.." Tsubaki smiled, getting up, "But you should really try the waterslide, it's really good." she finished and walked away with a towel
"Phew, you guys sure are persistent…" Tachiko sighed with a smile as she moved her wet bangs off forehead, "Hey, Black*Star was just here, where did he go?"
"No idea." Maka shrugged
Just then Black*Star dived out from behind of them and grabbed the back of their swimming bras, clicking off the holders that kept two ends together, making them fall
"You flat chests don't need that!" Black*Star laughed.
They kicked him in a synced motion all the way across pools, holding their swimsuits up, with Yoshiki and Soul just standing a few meters away with a confused and flustered face expressions.
"Th-they aren't so flat-chested after all…"
For that response, Soul got a Maka-Chop, and Yoshiki got his head sank into the water by an annoyed Tachiko, brushing her foot on his head like she's extinguishing a cigarette, bubbles of air floating to surface, and both girls holding their tops up.
Rin watched from under the parasol with a smile.
"Who cares if I don't have a meister? These guys are the best companions I could wish for… No, how do they call them… Friends?" he thought as he took a sip of soda from a can
"Oi, Rin!" Tachiko walked up to him with a towel on her shoulders, "Aren't you going to take a dip too? It's a bit hot for you to be just sitting around, you're going to have a heatstroke.."
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Rin replied
Right at that moment, Black*Star and Patty sneaked to them, picked up deck chair with Liz on it and carefully carried it to pool, slid her onto a blow-in bed in the pool, snickered and let her flow
"Seriously, it's not fine to go to pools and not even try the water. You could at least take a walk around."
"To be frank, I'm feeling kinda tired lately…" the black haired boy said as he set down the can of soda
"So you too, eh?" Tachiko said as she leaned onto her Deck Chair, "… Did the chest pains return…?"
Rin just nodded in response, looking down, with Tachiko's glare fixed to him. They just sat in silence for a while.
"Did you go see Professor Stein?" Tachiko finally asked again.
"You know yourself, DWMA is a mess.. 94 dead students and around 300 attacked isn't a small number.. And to think it all started at the same time when the chest pains originally started.. Professor Stein couldn't give me any better diagnosis than just saying that my Soul Response has changed like last winter.. He says that I should avoid upsetting situations, because they seem to power the 'foreign' part of my soul." Rin looked her dead in the eye and continued "There's no way of treating it, it just has to calm down again.."
"Is there really no way of treating it?"
Rin just shook head in response, and the following was a long silence.
"Geez, don't get all pessimistic on such a nice day.." Tachiko said in a lazy tone as she got up, "If your chest isn't hurting now, then you can at least have little fun, besides-"
A muffled yell and a loud splash interrupted her. She smiled
".. Liz's up.."
Rin silently chuckled, "Well, I guess I can give it a try…"
"Great!" she grinned and jumped into the pool, then started swimming
"Wait for me!" Rin said as he took off the vest and threw it onto his deck chair, and jumped in after her.
Soon, Kim, Jackie, Harvar, Ox, Killik, POT and POF came, soon followed by professor Nygus, Stein and Spirit;
They all took a day off to enjoy the weather.
02:50 PM
After a while, everyone was resting and eating lunches they brought.
"It sure was fun, eh?" Yoshiki said as he took a bite of his sandwich.
"Yep." Tachiko replied, smiling widely.
They all talked while eating, cheerfully ignoring all their doubts and problems. There wasn't a lot of them to start with anyways.
After the lunch, they all rested and finally the fun continued, even more wildly than before.
"They're just like little kids.." Stein said, looking at them from the deck chair on the side of the pool, smoking a cigarette,
"They have to enjoy it while it lasts, no?" Mira Nygus spoke up from seat by him
"And I see someone enjoying other type of fun…" Stein said nonchalantly as he looked over to Spirit, who was flirting with a Lifeguard
It appears Maka was looking in the same direction and got annoyed by the sight, which Yoshiki used as a chance to throw himself on her, submerging her,
"Gotcha! … Eh? WAUGH!"
Maka quickly switched their positions
"Nope, I gotcha.."
"What the- HEY!" Soul yelled at Black*Star who was waving his underwear,
"Not so tough now, are ya Soul?" Black*Star mocked with a grin on his face
In a blink Tachiko submerged him,
"What's up with you and swimwear today?" she spoke in a slightly annoyed tone, with an embarrassed and flustered look on face as she tugged Soul's boxers out of Black*Star's hands and threw them back to their owner with Patty behind her, laughing as usual.
"Thanks…" Soul said, sinking a bit deeper into water and getting them back on.
"No problem," Tachiko replied as she let Black*Star dive out.
Meanwhile, Rin challenged Kidd into a swimming contest, and they were currently at the longer, recreational pool.
"You're a surprisingly good swimmer…" Kidd said after they were done, sitting at the edge of the pool,
"You weren't bad yourself" Rin replied smiling, still in pool, holding for the edge and trying to catch breath, "You almost won, I'm not used to move around much except when I go to missions.."
"You decided to go without a meister?"
"Decided and succeeded. I've collected eleven souls.."
"Not bad. The youngest graduate, Demon Guillotine Justin Law, also graduated without a meister."
"Yeah, I heard for him.."
Kidd got up to get towels
Rin watched him leave and sighed,
"Man, this is kinda exhausting… I'm really not in the best condition lately…" he muttered and sunk to nose into the water, then looked around the pools. Nothing in particular caught his eye until he say a figure of a tall man with tan skin and very dark brown hair in the main pool, he strangely reminded Rin of Yoshiki.
Rin kept looking at the strangely familiar man, until he turned almost like he felt his glare and then Rin saw it;
Narrowed, bluish purple eyes that seemed to slightly sparkle for a second.
Rin felt his chest starting to hurt, like it was impaled. He winced and doubled up slightly, hugging his torso with his free arm and gripping the edge of the pool with the other one harder, trying to pull himself out. Suddenly, his arms went numb and slid from the edge as he sank into the deep, recreational pool,
"What the hell..?" he thought as he tried to kick his way back up to surface, but to no avail. He couldn't feel his arms, and soon started running dangerously low on oxygen.
His vision blurred and he could only make out bubbles of air floating from his mouth and a shadow from above the surface, reaching down to him.
"Rin..."
"RIN!"
Rin's eyes opened as the distant voices became clear. As soon as his eyes focused he saw the blur were his friends and professor Stein.
".. H-huh?" He said as he sat up, grabbing his head
"Are you okay?" Tachiko closed in on him with a worried look
"I... Uh, I think so... What happened?" Rin stuttered over his words before opening eyes "I felt chest pain.. My arms went numb and I Fell into water.."
"It appears you tried to get out of the pool, your hand slipped and you hit your head... You fell back into the pool."
"Luckily, my cousin came to the rescue." Yoshiki said, looking up to the tall man with tan skin.
"Allow me to introduce myself..." The man said in the familiar voice, kneeling by Rin and ignoring his startled expression, "My name's Seiyu Reisen. It's nice to meet you..."
Rin was silent for what seemed like years to him. The man that gave him chest pains, the man that put him and many other students in hospital and into graves, the very same man that cursed him when he was a child in order to manipulate him, just saved him? He must be going insane...
"What's up with that look?" Seiyu smiled kindly "You look as if you just saw a ghost."
"N-nothing... Thank you.." Rin almost automatically replied, shaking off his thoughts for a moment.
The tall man got up "Well, I'd better get going.. See you all later"
"... S-say, Yoshiki, your cousin doesn't look half bad..." Liz said, looking at him as he walked away
"Don't even think about it..." he looked up to her rather carelessly "He's 24, that means a good 7 years older than you.."
Liz growled at the boy's attitude silently. "What do you care?"
"He's my cousin if you forgot already, blondie."
Liz tried to grab him but he stepped out of the way and she ended up head-first in the recreational pool
Rin was silent the whole time, as well as Kidd who was suspiciously looking down at the young weapon.
After a while they all cleared up, most of them went back to pool after they were assured that Rin was fine. Though, Tachiko didn't seem like she'll just let go of what just happened.
"Hey, Rin?" she said, walking up to him once again
"Oh, hey Tachi.. You aren't going back to the pool?" Rin said, again at his place under the parasol
"Nah, I'm kinda tired." she said sitting down by him
"I see..." he said, leaning back
"... You seem like something's bothering you.."
"It's nothing.." he said and caught a glimpse of Tachiko's glare that made him realize that that kind of response isn't going to work with her, "I just.. Thought I saw something else... Like I was slowly drowning with chest pains.."
"That was probably a hallucination because of lack of oxygen, you already know that.."
"Yes, but not only that... Th- Eh... Seiyu looked... Familiar to me. But you'd call me mad if I told you how, it all seems kinda sketchy to me too..."
"Well, I'll not call you mad, but if you don't wanna tell, then it's fine." she said, looking at the Rin who wasn't returning the glare, "... Listen, maybe you just need some rest to think it all over, I would've too be shocked if I nearly drowned."
"I guess you're right.. I'll take a nap." Rin said, lowering the deck chair so that he was laying down.
Tachiko stayed at his side until she was sure he's sound asleep. Who would've expected something like that would happen? Well, accidents happen every day, that's what a normal person would think, so did Tachiko.
Though her sixth sense was raging at this last event. There was something fishy going on.. and she was going to get to the bottom of it.
But, like I already said, fate chooses its favorites. And it was playful while handling this group of friends. Though, the ending of this story depends on its good will. WIll the outcome of this little game be happy, or tragic? We can only hope..
A/N: Yes, I FINALLY updated. Took me a while, I know. I was busy with drawing projects for this fanfiction. If you wanna see them, go look up my profile on Google+, Helena Mizaki (I have a really cute Sasha Braus profile photo so I'm kinda hard to avoid. I'm also currently only one with that URL on the website)
And yeah, I'm updating all fanfictions slowly, so be patient, I'm going to beach every day and don't get to much time online at this heat.. So be patient, mkay?
Honestly, I'm doing final edits on this at 1 AM so I can't think of a good preview... I guess you'll just have to wait or, let your imagination flow