Post by Nik on Sept 19, 2010 16:37:26 GMT -6
yeah well read the title 0w0
i want to put on a story, because it'll clear up a bit of what my mini stories are about.
*redid some of the story so it follows the plot better. o-e
1
The clock speaks to me from far away, as if it has something to tell me besides the fact today is the last day of school.
I mean, today is the last day of school for me.
I’ll never have to visit this place again.
There was nothing else to look forward to except the soft, deep bellow of the bell and the sad little face Nori would ever have for not seeing me next year, even if we do live together. To be honest, I’m not exactly thrilled over the last, last day of school, nor am I happy about heading off to a university. Actually, I’m not going to a university until next year, just so I can get ready and be lazy for a year.
Three twenty nine.
My eyes were set on the hands of the clock, the seconds hand creating a heat of nostalgia in the bottom of my heart.
I guess I was sad. But I never felt sadness since-
“Wow, Misaki. Are you really going to be sad about your last day with me?” Nori’s voice cut through my train of thought painfully. Her face, unlike mine, would always be smiling. She looked very unlike me, really. Her skin was a bit tan and her hair was pitch black. It made her look a bit intimidating, but her smile and pure chocolate eyes were always putting down the fact she was probably the most foolish, naïve person you’ll ever meet. She looked older than what she really as- by the way, she’s sixteen- and people always think of her as a college student.
College student. What the hell.
I don’t know if there’s anything you really want to know about me, really. I mean, I’ve introduced myself enough- a rude, selfish, could-care-less-about-you kind of person who can see no point in my living, and the reason I’m still alive is certainly unknown to me. I don’t really know why I’m alive, or why you’re alive. I am not happy with my life. Actually, if it weren’t for something I said, I would’ve killed myself by now.
“Are you going to miss your uniform, Misaki?” Nori asked on our way home. She couldn’t stop being clingy today, and It really started to bug me. “What? No. It’s not like I cared anyway.”
She sighed. “That’s you- Yamamoto Yukio Misaki the downer.” She made a stupid-looking frowning face, and then chuckled a bit. “Misaki, Misaki, you need to get a boyfriend soon!”
“I-what?!”
“You can’t be single the rest of your life!” She exclaimed, building up the truth in her voice. “You need a guy to make you happy!”
I smacked the back of her head, simply to shut her up. I hated it when she teased me, because I always knew she was right. It’d be weird if I stayed single the rest of my life. Actually, it’d be embarrassing. That was a thought that hit me really hard. It wasn’t a big thing for me to think of right now, but I can’t get my mind off of it.
We arrived at our door in what seemed like forever, and I unbuttoned my shirt and untied my red tie before I got to my room (Nori accused me of stripping here. I could’ve hit her again, but I wanted to be nice.), and then threw myself on my bed.
I should be relieved that my day was over, shouldn’t I? That I wasn’t ever going to repeat highschool again. The fact I was never going to live with the exact same people over and over at school again. The fact I was living as an adult. But I wasn’t happy, not at all. I was hurting a bit inside, as if something was missing to me. I always felt this way. Every day I would always feel a small piece of me that fell away, and I couldn’t find it. No matter what I did, I would never find that one piece. That’s because the piece was never coming back. It’s gone forever.
“Hey, Nori. I’m going to sleep, alright?”
“Yeah, okay.” She knows I’ve been sleeping a lot lately, and that I’ve been unusual. But for the many years we’ve been together, she knows that if she bothers me I’ll just get mad at her and then she’d get sad. I would always hate that about her.
I clutched my pillow and buried my face into it, as if it’d help me with something. I hardly knew myself- it was what I always did anyway. I heard Nori’s game console turn on and her grandfather walking into the room, asking where I was. She answered honestly. I was sleeping in my room. I heard his footsteps walk past my room, but I guess he knew I wasn’t asleep. He didn’t mind though, he understood me quite well- better than my mother ever would. He never asked me how school was or any of those questions- he knew I hated them. Instead, he’d talk when he had to. I liked him a bit, I guess.
I squeezed my eyes shut, begging for sleep to come. I wanted this day to pass. I didn’t know why- I just needed to sleep. I couldn’t stand it- the sadness that was creeping up around me. I couldn’t stand it any longer, and I just stayed in my same position, trying to sleep.
Until I finally did, and my life suddenly twisted around because of this.
2
I woke up, and glared at the white ceiling above me.
But wait- I don’t have a white ceiling. The ceiling I had at home was a pale yellow.
This wasn’t my home. I shot up, and looked around, totally horrified and stunned. First, I didn’t know who or what took me here. Second, I didn’t know where I was. Third- the most important part-
There was no ceiling or floor.
There probably weren’t even walls, and I guess wherever I was, it was in some sort of dimension connecting the mortal world to- oh, yeah, I guess I was really going crazy at this point. Was I dreaming?
I stopped in my tracks, considering the thought. I probably was dreaming, wasn’t I? The last thing I remember was sleeping anyway, so I guess it’s a dream.
“Oh wow, that took you really long to figure out, petite-fille!” The sudden words took me by surprise. I looked around, and in that strange room, was a strange man.
“Who’re you?” I asked, rather hostile. He looked not too much older than I was, but he was at least a head or two taller than me. He sighed as soon as he heard my question. “Aww, it’s hard to believe that you don’t know who I am.”
“I don’t like your damn riddles, just tell me who you are and I’ll probably refrain from screaming.”
“Even if you scream, fille, no one is going to hear you.”
“What?”
He laughed heartily. “I thought you knew you were dreaming. You are lucid right now, non?”
I shot him a glare. “If I scream, I’m sure to wake up.”
“Do try.”
I’m pretty sure I screamed the loudest scream I’ve ever done. My throat started to hurt afterwards, actually. I looked around yet again, and unfortunately, I was still in the same place, with that same person. How the hell, I suddenly thought, could someone like that get put in my dreams?
“I told you, didn’t I?”
He laughed again. I don’t know if he was my enemy or my friend. I really, really wanted him to be neither of those things. “Tell me your damn name, you bastard.” I scolded, my voice aching a bit.
“Ehh? Oh, alright.” He yawned and teetered in front of me. “If we’re going to get along, then I guess we’ll have to get to know eachother.”
I’m not getting along with him already.
“I’m Ario Kobayashi. And I’m not a ‘dream,’ in real life I’m about as real as you are, actually! Now, what’s your name?”
Was I really going to tell this guy my name, of all things? “I’m Misaki Yamamoto. And you’re not Japanese, are you?”
He nodded. “Nope, I’m actually French, but hey! I speak fluent Japanese, don’t I?”
What was I supposed to say to that? I pretended to care, and then asked him, “Where am I?”
“Oh, I was waiting until you could get there, miss Yamamoto.” He chuckled, and continued. “Here, we are at the start of the path to the doors that lead to dreams.”
“That’s impossible. There aren’t any doors.”
He shook his gloved finger at me, and pointed to the ground. Peering under, I saw that there were suddenly doors cluttering up the entirety of the area itself. I looked down the hall and, to my surprise, were more doors. There were windows too- open windows. I walked over to one and put my head through it.
Before I was pulled out, I could see many toys and candies, with children playing there and running about. I had no idea what this was and where this took place, but before I could get a better look, Ario pulled me down.
“You’re not a kid, right?”
“Nope.” I answered calmly- at least, about as calm as you can be when someone drags you to the ground while you were just doing some exploration.
“Alright, then that’s not your window.”
“What the hell do you mean?”
“I have to work on my explanation skills, don’t I?” He stood up and brushed himself off. “Alright, well, now that you’re lucid dreaming, you know that a place like this exists.”
“And?”
“And that’s not supposed to happen. I’m actually supposed to kill you right now.”
I looked at him as if he just said a joke.
“So this means something- now that you are lucid, you have to make up your own dream right now.”
I didn’t understand a word he was saying. I can’t necessarily make dreams. No one can do it. That’s not logical.
He sighed, and straightened his tie as if he was preparing for a long talk. “Okay, well, here’s how it works here. I might as well tell you.
“There is a dream world and a normal world and the other world- each serves its own purpose. The dream world is self explanatory, and the normal world is for being alive, and the other world is where the dead roam.
“The dream world was always here. But it took one person to actually realize a world like this exists. That one person turned the dream world into a game.
“Now, if you are lucid dreaming, you have to be killed because you know about the area, but you do not…how do you say… work here. You do not provide the dreams. If a dream world was ever known of, one could take total control over its premise and use it for very bad things, which I will not mention due to the fact it will branch out into other things.
“Anyway, I’m here to help make a little dream for you to have and control for your own fun.” He ended with a long breath and a smile. I interjected a question. “Is this going to be a painful process?”
“Nah. Just a confusing one. You could take that, non?”
I barely know for sure myself. Everything here was confusing already. I nodded subconsciously, as if I knew that I could do it.
“Well, that’s wonderful. I guess we can just start off with this little slip of paper- something like a survey, yes?” He handed me a slip of paper that magically was in his hands the entire time, and then a pencil that was probably always there too.
The questions themselves were not very personal, simply asking for my likes and dislikes and favorite foods. It was more or less trying to uncover my personality. Something like those tests to pair you up with some video game character. I answered them vaguely and honestly, then handed the paper back to Ario.
He read the paper quietly to himself, and then beckoned me to follow him. Reluctantly, I trailed next to him, listening to his murmuring over the little survey I took.
Finally, we stopped. It was an abrupt stop, first it was him and then it was me. I shot him a hard look and he didn’t look back. “Alright, miss Yamamoto, you’re gonna have to stay here.”
i want to put on a story, because it'll clear up a bit of what my mini stories are about.
*redid some of the story so it follows the plot better. o-e
1
The clock speaks to me from far away, as if it has something to tell me besides the fact today is the last day of school.
I mean, today is the last day of school for me.
I’ll never have to visit this place again.
There was nothing else to look forward to except the soft, deep bellow of the bell and the sad little face Nori would ever have for not seeing me next year, even if we do live together. To be honest, I’m not exactly thrilled over the last, last day of school, nor am I happy about heading off to a university. Actually, I’m not going to a university until next year, just so I can get ready and be lazy for a year.
Three twenty nine.
My eyes were set on the hands of the clock, the seconds hand creating a heat of nostalgia in the bottom of my heart.
I guess I was sad. But I never felt sadness since-
“Wow, Misaki. Are you really going to be sad about your last day with me?” Nori’s voice cut through my train of thought painfully. Her face, unlike mine, would always be smiling. She looked very unlike me, really. Her skin was a bit tan and her hair was pitch black. It made her look a bit intimidating, but her smile and pure chocolate eyes were always putting down the fact she was probably the most foolish, naïve person you’ll ever meet. She looked older than what she really as- by the way, she’s sixteen- and people always think of her as a college student.
College student. What the hell.
I don’t know if there’s anything you really want to know about me, really. I mean, I’ve introduced myself enough- a rude, selfish, could-care-less-about-you kind of person who can see no point in my living, and the reason I’m still alive is certainly unknown to me. I don’t really know why I’m alive, or why you’re alive. I am not happy with my life. Actually, if it weren’t for something I said, I would’ve killed myself by now.
“Are you going to miss your uniform, Misaki?” Nori asked on our way home. She couldn’t stop being clingy today, and It really started to bug me. “What? No. It’s not like I cared anyway.”
She sighed. “That’s you- Yamamoto Yukio Misaki the downer.” She made a stupid-looking frowning face, and then chuckled a bit. “Misaki, Misaki, you need to get a boyfriend soon!”
“I-what?!”
“You can’t be single the rest of your life!” She exclaimed, building up the truth in her voice. “You need a guy to make you happy!”
I smacked the back of her head, simply to shut her up. I hated it when she teased me, because I always knew she was right. It’d be weird if I stayed single the rest of my life. Actually, it’d be embarrassing. That was a thought that hit me really hard. It wasn’t a big thing for me to think of right now, but I can’t get my mind off of it.
We arrived at our door in what seemed like forever, and I unbuttoned my shirt and untied my red tie before I got to my room (Nori accused me of stripping here. I could’ve hit her again, but I wanted to be nice.), and then threw myself on my bed.
I should be relieved that my day was over, shouldn’t I? That I wasn’t ever going to repeat highschool again. The fact I was never going to live with the exact same people over and over at school again. The fact I was living as an adult. But I wasn’t happy, not at all. I was hurting a bit inside, as if something was missing to me. I always felt this way. Every day I would always feel a small piece of me that fell away, and I couldn’t find it. No matter what I did, I would never find that one piece. That’s because the piece was never coming back. It’s gone forever.
“Hey, Nori. I’m going to sleep, alright?”
“Yeah, okay.” She knows I’ve been sleeping a lot lately, and that I’ve been unusual. But for the many years we’ve been together, she knows that if she bothers me I’ll just get mad at her and then she’d get sad. I would always hate that about her.
I clutched my pillow and buried my face into it, as if it’d help me with something. I hardly knew myself- it was what I always did anyway. I heard Nori’s game console turn on and her grandfather walking into the room, asking where I was. She answered honestly. I was sleeping in my room. I heard his footsteps walk past my room, but I guess he knew I wasn’t asleep. He didn’t mind though, he understood me quite well- better than my mother ever would. He never asked me how school was or any of those questions- he knew I hated them. Instead, he’d talk when he had to. I liked him a bit, I guess.
I squeezed my eyes shut, begging for sleep to come. I wanted this day to pass. I didn’t know why- I just needed to sleep. I couldn’t stand it- the sadness that was creeping up around me. I couldn’t stand it any longer, and I just stayed in my same position, trying to sleep.
Until I finally did, and my life suddenly twisted around because of this.
2
I woke up, and glared at the white ceiling above me.
But wait- I don’t have a white ceiling. The ceiling I had at home was a pale yellow.
This wasn’t my home. I shot up, and looked around, totally horrified and stunned. First, I didn’t know who or what took me here. Second, I didn’t know where I was. Third- the most important part-
There was no ceiling or floor.
There probably weren’t even walls, and I guess wherever I was, it was in some sort of dimension connecting the mortal world to- oh, yeah, I guess I was really going crazy at this point. Was I dreaming?
I stopped in my tracks, considering the thought. I probably was dreaming, wasn’t I? The last thing I remember was sleeping anyway, so I guess it’s a dream.
“Oh wow, that took you really long to figure out, petite-fille!” The sudden words took me by surprise. I looked around, and in that strange room, was a strange man.
“Who’re you?” I asked, rather hostile. He looked not too much older than I was, but he was at least a head or two taller than me. He sighed as soon as he heard my question. “Aww, it’s hard to believe that you don’t know who I am.”
“I don’t like your damn riddles, just tell me who you are and I’ll probably refrain from screaming.”
“Even if you scream, fille, no one is going to hear you.”
“What?”
He laughed heartily. “I thought you knew you were dreaming. You are lucid right now, non?”
I shot him a glare. “If I scream, I’m sure to wake up.”
“Do try.”
I’m pretty sure I screamed the loudest scream I’ve ever done. My throat started to hurt afterwards, actually. I looked around yet again, and unfortunately, I was still in the same place, with that same person. How the hell, I suddenly thought, could someone like that get put in my dreams?
“I told you, didn’t I?”
He laughed again. I don’t know if he was my enemy or my friend. I really, really wanted him to be neither of those things. “Tell me your damn name, you bastard.” I scolded, my voice aching a bit.
“Ehh? Oh, alright.” He yawned and teetered in front of me. “If we’re going to get along, then I guess we’ll have to get to know eachother.”
I’m not getting along with him already.
“I’m Ario Kobayashi. And I’m not a ‘dream,’ in real life I’m about as real as you are, actually! Now, what’s your name?”
Was I really going to tell this guy my name, of all things? “I’m Misaki Yamamoto. And you’re not Japanese, are you?”
He nodded. “Nope, I’m actually French, but hey! I speak fluent Japanese, don’t I?”
What was I supposed to say to that? I pretended to care, and then asked him, “Where am I?”
“Oh, I was waiting until you could get there, miss Yamamoto.” He chuckled, and continued. “Here, we are at the start of the path to the doors that lead to dreams.”
“That’s impossible. There aren’t any doors.”
He shook his gloved finger at me, and pointed to the ground. Peering under, I saw that there were suddenly doors cluttering up the entirety of the area itself. I looked down the hall and, to my surprise, were more doors. There were windows too- open windows. I walked over to one and put my head through it.
Before I was pulled out, I could see many toys and candies, with children playing there and running about. I had no idea what this was and where this took place, but before I could get a better look, Ario pulled me down.
“You’re not a kid, right?”
“Nope.” I answered calmly- at least, about as calm as you can be when someone drags you to the ground while you were just doing some exploration.
“Alright, then that’s not your window.”
“What the hell do you mean?”
“I have to work on my explanation skills, don’t I?” He stood up and brushed himself off. “Alright, well, now that you’re lucid dreaming, you know that a place like this exists.”
“And?”
“And that’s not supposed to happen. I’m actually supposed to kill you right now.”
I looked at him as if he just said a joke.
“So this means something- now that you are lucid, you have to make up your own dream right now.”
I didn’t understand a word he was saying. I can’t necessarily make dreams. No one can do it. That’s not logical.
He sighed, and straightened his tie as if he was preparing for a long talk. “Okay, well, here’s how it works here. I might as well tell you.
“There is a dream world and a normal world and the other world- each serves its own purpose. The dream world is self explanatory, and the normal world is for being alive, and the other world is where the dead roam.
“The dream world was always here. But it took one person to actually realize a world like this exists. That one person turned the dream world into a game.
“Now, if you are lucid dreaming, you have to be killed because you know about the area, but you do not…how do you say… work here. You do not provide the dreams. If a dream world was ever known of, one could take total control over its premise and use it for very bad things, which I will not mention due to the fact it will branch out into other things.
“Anyway, I’m here to help make a little dream for you to have and control for your own fun.” He ended with a long breath and a smile. I interjected a question. “Is this going to be a painful process?”
“Nah. Just a confusing one. You could take that, non?”
I barely know for sure myself. Everything here was confusing already. I nodded subconsciously, as if I knew that I could do it.
“Well, that’s wonderful. I guess we can just start off with this little slip of paper- something like a survey, yes?” He handed me a slip of paper that magically was in his hands the entire time, and then a pencil that was probably always there too.
The questions themselves were not very personal, simply asking for my likes and dislikes and favorite foods. It was more or less trying to uncover my personality. Something like those tests to pair you up with some video game character. I answered them vaguely and honestly, then handed the paper back to Ario.
He read the paper quietly to himself, and then beckoned me to follow him. Reluctantly, I trailed next to him, listening to his murmuring over the little survey I took.
Finally, we stopped. It was an abrupt stop, first it was him and then it was me. I shot him a hard look and he didn’t look back. “Alright, miss Yamamoto, you’re gonna have to stay here.”