The Meeting [Page I]
Monday, January 21 | 0 comments
WELCOME TO IRINO'S MANSION
After a few lightning strikes from the sky below a deep forest of Wonder World, rain droplets falls down to the earth, wetting everything without any sympathy. In a few minutes later, the rain that poured from the dark clouds becomes heavier than before. Every animal that lived inside the deep forest already cover themselves under their shelter with their own kinds and laying to each other to share their warmness. However, there is one creature that ignored the rain, the lightning and the fact its body already soaked with rain completely from top to bottom.
The creature is actually a young girl with long ember-brown hair, wearing dirty clothes and her eye’s colour is still a mystery as her hair is covering it from revealing. Then, she faced up and feels the rain dropping on her face before she returned from her previous position. Footsteps suddenly can be heard clearly and clearly every time the sound of the steps can be heard. Then a shadow appeared, staring at the ember-brown girl curiously. The young girl noticed the stare, so she turned to the shadow, revealing her blurry sky-blue eyes before collapsed on the ground.
When the shadow saw the girl fainted, it quickly stepped out from the darkness, revealing itself. It’s actually a young boy with blond hair, holding an umbrella to prevent himself from getting himself wet. He went closer to the girl and dropped the umbrella as he exchanged it to carry the girl behind him as if her condition is more important than getting his blond hair wet or getting a fever later. While carrying her, he could feel her body is heating up. She is probably having a fever right now. Therefore, helping her is a MUST or she may end up dying.
Before he started walking, a smile appeared on his lips when he glanced to the girl’s face. After that, he started walking deeper and deeper into the forest as he returned to the darkness and faded slowly.
“She has returned.” he whispered.
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Chirping sounds can be heard from outside of a huge mansion. The mansion looked rather old, haunted and easily to collapse, however there’s many trees and plants helped supporting the mansion from destroyed. It has survived countless of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Now, it’s the end of autumn season and soon, snow will come but there’s nothing to worry about. The sun already rises up in the sky but there’s still some dark clouds in the sky meaning; it’s going to rain gain soon. Nevertheless, there’s still sunlight reaching inside the old mansion.
A soft sleeping sound can be heard inside one of the mansion’s room, coming from the ember-brown girl who sleeping on the bed. When the sunlight reached her face, she whimpered before revealing her sky-blue orbs, looking and observing her surrounding hazily. When she turned to her left, she saw a pair of curious emerald eyes, watching her with full of concern. He blinked his eyes and titled his head aside before stood up and walked to a nearby door.
“Tsubasa-NeeChan! She woke up!” he yelled outside the room and closed the door once his job is done before gave a smile to the young ember-brown. “HIYA!” he smiled childishly as he sat down on his previous chair with his eyes still looking at the sky-blue orbs. “How are you? Feeling any better?” he asked as he softly placed hair blond hair behind his ear.
The ember-brown sat on the bed and remain silent after hearing the blond’s questions. She tried to speak up but her voice won’t come out as if she hasn’t let out a single sound for years.
Suddenly, the boy closes their distance and placed his forehead against hers. “No more fever…” he mumbled and stared at the female’s orbs with his emerald orbs before backing away. “Something’s odd…” he continued as he crossed his hands. “You… are her but… you are not… Nee, may I know your name?” he blurted out which made the girl startled.
Before the mysterious girl could answer the question, the room’s door is knocked as a person with beautiful short light-brown hair wearing maid outfit entered the room while holding some foods and drinks along the way. “Irino-sama, I have brought some food and drinks for you and your friend as well. Please enjoy it.” the maid uttered politely as she placed the foods and the drinks on a nearby table.
“Arigatou!” Irino said happily as he grabbed two onigiri(rice balls) for the girl and for himself. “So, back to my question… What’s your name?” he repeated the previous question before he realized something before the young girl could do anything again. “AH!!! HOW RUDE!!” he yelped while still munching his food. “I SHOULD INTRODUCE MYSELF FIRST! MY NAME IS MIY—” he suddenly chocked his food.
Quickly, the maid took a glass of sky juice and gave it to the chocking blond as she patted his back, “Sheesh, take it easy Irino-Sama.” The maid sighed.
Suddenly, the blond stopped coughing and turned to the ember-brown girl who is watching him with a smile on her lips after watching the blond’s action. Irino couldn’t help but to smile too as he scratched his head and introduced himself once more. “Gomen about the unusual scene.” He laughed lightly and continued, “I am Miyu Irino and this is Kinomoto Tsubasa, my older sister.”
“It’s nice to meet—” Tsubasa stopped introducing herself when realized something. “IRINO-SAMA! I’m NOT—”
“Hie, hie whatever.” Irino said as he ignored Tsubasa and stared at the quiet ember-brown with his pair of curious emerald eyes. “So, watcha (what’s your) name?” he asked with childish tone.
Then, the room become quiet with only the sound of the chirping birds can be heard. Tsubasa and Irino looked at each other before turning to the girl once more, waiting for the ember-brown to answer but she just remains silent as stared down her hands. “I don’t… know.” She answered. “I’ve been thinking about it… but I can’t recall anything… at all from my mind… Where am I anyway?” she asked as she gasped for air after talking with a long sentence.
Tsubasa sighed while Irino crossed his hands and nodded for a few times before come out with a conclusion, “YOU LOST YOUR MEMORIES ISN’T IT!” he yelled his conclusion as he slapped the bed sheet. “I knew it, I knew It.” he nodded for a few times before continued, “YOU SHOULD— nya!” Irino stopped his words when his head is knocked by the maid. “Itai yo… (It hurts)” he whined.
Tsubasa sighed again and bowed down. “My apologize about my master. There’s only the two of us in this mansion and that’s the reason why seeing you made him excited. Ah, and for your information… you are in Irino’s Mansion in Wonder World.” She explained without missing anything.
“Tis a wish come true, how couldn’t I be happy having you here~!” Irino claimed happily but ignored by Tsubasa.
“So, how about it? Do you want to stay here until you’ve gain your memories back or what? I’m letting you stay here because you don’t seem like a bad person.” Tsubasa offered although there’s doubt inside her words.
The ember-brown remain silent, thinking about the offer. Should she stay here or not? If she doesn’t, where can she goes with this amnesia of her? It will be more risky if she doesn’t stay. Plus, this blond called Miyu Irino-Kun doesn’t mind at all and looked like begging for her to stay while Kinomoto Tsubasa looked unwilling as if she doesn’t want her to stay in this mansion. Should… she reject the offer?
“I…” She wants to rejects their kindness to them but before she could does so, a pair of begging emerald orbs kept on staring at her, pleading for her to stay with those eyes. Irino looked like he could even starts crying if she rejects him… “I-if both of you don’t mind…” Finally, she gave up on refusing thanks to Irino’s puppy face.
“YATTA~” Irino smiled happily and reached the girls hand, “Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!! Now, let’s play together! But you just recovered so, let’s play together tomorrow! We will have soooo much fun together! I JUST KNOW IT!” he said cheerfully as he released her hand and grabbed another onigiri, eating them only for a second and asked for more from the maid.
The girl smiled for his cheerfulness as she began to eat her onigiri slowly while enjoying the morning scenery with two new peoples she just meets till a strong wind blows through the nearby window. ‘Am I making the right choice?’ she asked herself.
“Oh, yeah. You need a name~” Irino said with the same smile. “What should your alias name be?” he asked as he looked at Tsubasa, signing that they should figure a name for her together.
‘Hikaru Kazena’
“Hikaru Kazena.” The girl suddenly uttered a name as she smiled. “The name just popped out from my mind.” She continued before realizing something. Both Irino and Tsubasa are staring at her with a weird and shocked look at their face. She blinked for a few times before asked, “Can I use that name?”
Irino snapped out from his stupor and laughed nervously. “T-that’s a beautiful name. It suited with your cute face, Hikaru Kazena-Chan… Kaze-Chan.” The blond said and continued eating realizing Tsubasa is staring at him but he simply ignored her. Then, the three of them continued eating and remain silent as they lost in their thoughts. For Kazena, she felt familiar with the name. So, it’s fine using that name for now or… for later on.
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“The name… Have you heard it before, Irino-Sama?” Tsubasa asked after closing the door lead to a sleeping ember-brown.
Irino blinked before yawned lightly, “Never heard of it but I think she got it from the wind and the sun light. Why do you asked? Are you familiar with that name, Tsubasa-neeChan?” he asked as his emerald orbs turning to the ember eyes of Tsubasa with a question mark on his head.
“Well… yeah. The name sounded like an old friend of mine from another world.” She answered.
“I see…” sounded Irino as he walked toward the master room of the mansion and slowly disappeared into the dark hallway. Before he disappeared completely, he placed his hand on his temple thinking about something. ‘The past… It’s going to hunt me again.’ He thought and faded into the darkness.
After the disappearance, Tsubasa smile and chuckled lightly as he placed her fingers on her lips. “Finally… we found her.”
-Page I Ends-
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