Disclaimer: I do not own MFB or KH.
Note: Parts of this written content in this story are not made up by me. That credit goes to Kirameki87. Also for Roxas having 3 brothers and a hard working mother (also including the KH teachers and students in the cast.) are not made up by me. Give that credit to Xyphate (Yes, refer to KH High School Times). The whole idea for KHS to have firebirds as their mascot is actually made up by me. Here is the replacement cast. (This happens after KH High School Times.) Yay, I'm finally updating again~! It's a miracle! I've been doing a lot of
deviantART lately, because I just got an account (same username), and other then that, I've been pretty busy…
This chapter is being written and uploaded from my phone, so the formatting might be a bit off... Not to mention spelling...
If any of you watched the latest episodes of metal Fury, you most likely noticed that Ryutaro got some screen time! He didn't say anything of course, but I was going crazy about how awesome it was that he appeared. I was disappointed that Reiji wasn't there though… they never told us what became of him! I mean, even Teru (Or as my sister likes to call him, "ballerina dude") got a few cameos in Metal Fury! And he only starred in, what, two episodes?! Speaking of Teru, I really want to put him in this story, but he's not, and never was, a bad guy…
Disclaimer: Ryutaro's first few lines were not my idea... copyright Sora's sister, I believe… And the picture idea wasn't mine either... Sora actually drew it! I might link to it if anyone is interested...
When I got home, my mom asked me if I had any homework. She was a little suspicious of the fact that these "new teachers" had given us absolutely no homework all week. I was mildly surprised as well. These are stereotypical cartoon villains! Wouldn't they want to torture kids by giving them hours of meaningless work to go home and occupy their time with? Not that I have a problem with homework… or the lack of it, for that matter.
And as usual, nothing interesting happened until I got to school again.
I got into the classroom somewhat early, unpacked (I wasn't sure why I'd packed anything in the first place—we had nothing due), and sat down. Ryutaro sat at the desk near the front of the room, fiddling with what looked like a deck of cards. But I could tell they weren't regular cards.
Sora sat down beside me, and Angelique beside him.
"What are those cards Mr. Fukami has?" Angelique inquired in a manner that I cannot note, for finding the correct adjective has already hindered the progress of my story for nearly a week, as it is. No thanks to Marik, either.
"I think they're Tarot Cards…" I replied.
Sora piped up, "Tarot Cards? Aren't those like… fortune telling cards and stuff?"
"Yeah…" I confirmed, "Figures Ryu- Mr. Fukami would have them…" I still wasn't too used to calling these characters by their last names. And since some of them never told us their first names, it would be difficult to come up with an excuse for how we knew them.
So we all sit down, completely at the mercy of the cartoon villain in front of us bearing mysterious objects that we are yet to understand the relevance of. But then again… isn't that how most days start? School days, at least…?
"Good Morning class!" Ryutaro announced, uncharacteristically happy. He received a steady murmur of greetings from various people around the classroom.
"Did you sleep well?" He continued, this time getting more than a few odd stares from the students he'd greeted. After a considerable amount of silence, one boy in particular decided to voice the thoughts of the majority of the class.
"Soooo…. What exactly are we doing today, Mr. Fukami…?"
A Tarot Card was promptly chucked at Sam's face (And accurately, at that… Throwing cards is pretty tough! I've tried!)
"I will not proceed with today's lesson until everyone tells me how they slept!"
…Did you know we have crickets in our classroom? Yeah, me neither…
The faces among my classmates were generally blank, with the exception of Sam, (Who was rubbing his forehead that still had a mark he had gained from a Tarot Card to the head…'The Fool', to be exact) and Sora, who was trying very hard to suppress her laughter.
Ryutaro sighed in somewhat of a disappointed manner, and waved his hand dismissively, "Never mind, I'll just explain the assignment."
The purple haired man strode over to the desk on his left, and picked up the deck of Tarot Cards, displaying them so the class could see what they were.
After explaining the point of the cards, he told we would each receive a card and would study it. We were then to write create a character that "embodies" the figure on the card, and write about them. It was an interesting assignment… especially coming from Ryutaro.
"I will give you all a card, except Sam, who already has one," Ryutaro told us, gesturing slightly to Sam who was still rubbing his forehead and staring at the card that had been thrown at him in bewilderment. The psychic then shifted the deck of cards to one hand, and started throwing them at our desks rapidly.
Granted, most of the students didn't see this coming and ended up searching the floor for their stray Tarot Card. As was the case with me. Sora and Angelique, I noted, had caught theirs just fine by slamming their hand down on it as soon as it came sliding onto their desk. Again with throwing cards! Seriously! How does Ryutaro do that?!
I sighed, my hand finally landing on the paper rectangle leaning against the wall that I assumed was mine. Bringing it back to my desk, and flipping it over, I saw that it was Kingdom Hearts- Oh wait, Sorry. King of Hearts.
Wait a second… The King of Hearts isn't in a Tarot Card deck! That's just a playing card! And besides it's Luxord's favourite! Why was I chosen for the King of Hearts anyway? It would make much more sense if our superior owned it. Yeah, so much 'luck' for being a Nobody. After seeing this, I decided to go up to Ryutaro.
"Mr. Fukami…? This card isn't a Tarot Card…" I pointed put, showing him the card.
He glanced at it before answering, "Oh yeah, sorry about that. I ran out of cards, so I had to borrow some from Jack. You can just use that one."
I nodded, then walked back to my seat slightly confused. There were 118 Tarot Cards, and 36 people in our class… how did he run out? Maybe he was just using the Major Arcana… Oh well.
Staring at the card some more, I decided that if I were to make a character based of this, I'd have to be careful not to make it's personality be to similar to that of a different character. Especially a Beyblade character. Or course, that's easier said than done.
As a matter of fact, any way I looked at the card I thought of Gingka. Real inconspicuous.
I finally settled for a character design after thinking for a few minutes. The King of Hearts was a happy person. He smiled a lot, which annoyed certain people he spent his time with. His name was simply "The King of Hearts," until a better name comes up, but he is called King for short. This King beared no relation whatsoever to King from Beyblade, of course. Like I said before, King liked to irritate people—especially the King of Spades. This usually resulted in him being heavily injured.
How the hell do I know so much about Beyblade? IDK. Ask Sora.
"Okay, you can share your characters with the people around you, now!" Ryutaro announced, making me look up from my paper. I turned to Angelique and Sora to see what they had written about.
Angelique had received the Star, an actual Tarot Card, and had written about a girl who was a bit shy but had lots of hidden talent. She was, to be blunt, a star.
Ankha traded her original card, The Magician, with the guy sitting next to her so she could obtain the Tower. Also an actual Tarot Card, and despite how harmless it sounds, was one of the creepier cards in the deck. It usually depicted two people falling from a burning tower in the middle of a Thunderstorm. Sora, being his usual self, had even gotten around to drawing the character, as well as describing it.
The drawing even had colors labeled on it. There was a boy, donning a tunic that was half red, and half blue. A line of the Roman Numeral XVI, the number of the Tower Card, made up his edges and sleeves of the tunic had a dentil moulding-like pattern, similar to that of the stone tower-top crown that sat on the left side of his head. In his left hand, the boy held the Tower Card, while his right arm was corroding away. Sora explained him to be a soft spoken boy with a love of architecture, and a fear of storms and fire.
That was more thought out than Angelique's and mine put together...
"What card did you get?" Angel asked, curiously glancing at my card.
I smiled faintly, "The King of Hearts…"
"Lucky!" she smiled brightly, whipping the card in front of my face.
My face now screwed up with confusion, "Wait, that's not a Tarot Card!"
Sighing, I explained Ryutaro's dilemma and then my character I'd made up. In retrospect, I was kind of glad Ryutaro only used the Major Arcana, and then face cards from a normal deck. I really didn't want to be stuck designing a character for the Three of Pentacles or the Knight of Wands…
Ryutaro had us all turn in our character sheets, and then go out to break. Looking around I saw that I wasn't the only person without a legitimate Tarot Card. The purple haired psychic then sent us away to get ready for Science, where our fate was at the mercy of Reiji. And Ryutaro himself, I suppose.
Yay… done… I'm going to try and get these chapters out sooner…
I don't know about you guys, but I really like Tarot Cards… and cards in general… Oh! You should try throwing them! It is pretty hard! But that guy in "Now You See Me" could do it… and evidently Ryutaro can as well, so it must be fairly possible!
