Ages:
Kia - 15
Takuya - 15
Zoe - 15
Kouji - 15
Kouichi - 15
JP - 16
Tommy - 11
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I sat up in bed as I recieved a voice message from my Mrs Koitake on my cell. Noone else knew the number except Akii and Mr Koitake.
Akii is my big sister, well, technically not, but she's my big sister now. And my twin. Not exactly. Her birth records say she is 14 hours older than me. I was born on September 20th at 1am, Akii was born September 19th at 11am.
We were at the same orphanage together, and we haven't been together for long, but we can get used to it. I don't remember much of my old family, but I do know I was an only child and that this is really wierd.
My -- No. Our new family is something I don't like talking about or to. They're a younger couple, but I think I remember Mrs Koitake being unable to have children for one reason or another, but I think she said she was just born infertile.
Mr Koitake is a strange man. He thinks human things like eating and drinking and loving are nessecary, but every other thing in life is completely unimportant.
"Of course, Important to our standard of living. But I wouldn't mind life quality without a couple 'important' things." He had told me. "Like you and Akii. You two need love, and we could see that, with the both of you trying to grab attention."
I had gotten mad at that.
"I'm not an attention seeker! I don't need anything here, and if you only want to keep us because you feel bad, then I'm leaving!" Was what my thoughts had told me to say and do. Instead I had just turned away and informed him I was going to bed.
They were kind people, I'll give them that.
I guess I haven't mentioned my name yet. I'm Kia Yori/Koitake, but I only use the last name Yori. It's one of the few things I have left of my old family, But i'll explain all that in a minute. Right now I'll give you a basic rundown of me and Akii's bio's. Maybe Mr and Mrs Koitake's.
I'm 14, almost 15, in fact Akii and I are both 14 and we'll be 15 really soon, less than a month. Akii and I are really kind of creeped out by how close our birthdays are.
I can't remember much of my past, but I can tell you what it was like from what I remember in my real family and a couple bits of the early years in the orphanage. Akii remembers better than me, but she doesn't know me well.
My real parents were young too. Younger than my new 'parents', but we still managed an apartment always having some sort of strange pet. The one I remember most was a tiny white puppy. We had him for two weeks before the apartment building burned down and killed my parents as well as my puppy. It's been so long I can't even remember what his name was. I think it was something like Koushi or something. I had named him that because that's what my Mom said that she would have named me if I had been a boy. So I had my puppy named after myself: Koushi-chan.
What I remember about that night was being held in the arms of Mrs Something-Or-Other who lived in the apartment directly across from ours. I remember my white puppy jumping out of the window that the kitchen table was under. His white fur had been scorched black and was still burning. That's one of my clearest memories.
I guess I never mentioned when I got into the orphanage. My parents died when I was 4. I met Akii when she came to the orphange and we were 9. We were only recently adopted to Mrs and Mr Koitake, and we're not used to eachother as siblings. I've been adopted by two other families before the Koitakes, but I was thrown back in the orphanage.
One of the families was too busy to adopt a child, the other wanted a girl who was open, happy and energetic. All of which I am not usually. I can be, but not when I'm not used to being around people, and they had only kept me for a month and a half.
Akii's parents died in a robbery assault. She won't tell me any more, but I don't blame her, it must have been so hard to have had your parents taken away like that.
Not that losing mine was easy. I was just so young that I didn't understand, and I don't remember much now.
--Current--
Anyway, I flipped open the tiny cellphone. A voice came out that was not Mrs or Mr Koitake's or Akii's voice by any stretch of the imagination.
"Do you want to know your future? Yes/No" Just like any idiot, I pressed 'Yes" More words popped up.
"Just tell me what to do." I told my cell.
"Go to the Shibuya station before 9:00" I looked at the clock on my wall. 8:30. I had just enough time. I ran outside my room and informed Mrs Koitake that I was going to grab a bite with my 'aquintence' Sarah. I grabbbed my coat and ran out the door with my backpack on my back.
I bring my 'pack everywhere. It has everything from the orphanage I called my own, a couple necklaces that used to be my mothers, small survival kit(my Mom used to carry one around all the time, so I thought it would be good to do the same.) including small scissors, a pocketknife, Just-Add-Water soup and drinks, tiny compact mirror, a couple bandanas, a lighter and a pack of matches. All that fit into a tiny purse. Other things I had in my pack were bottled water, a blanket, some money(just under 10), a sweater and an mp3 player with headphones and about a 10 pack of brand new batteries.
As I neared the Shibuya station, my phone told me to take a train in the basement. So I took an elavator and wound up on a train riding into a place I didn't know. I looked around and while I was looking I got a strange feeling about one train. So I took the one on the total opposite side.
I climbed in to see a young boy getting pushed in by two other kids, and an older boy and girl sitting across from eachother. The younger boy started crying quietly, sitting down next to the door he was shoved in by. I went to sit next to him.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" I asked. "I saw what those two kids did. It was pretty cruel." He nodded.
A boy came in through the back of the train looking exhausted. He must have nearly missed it.
"Hi-ya! You made it to the Kia Yori ex-per-ress!" I yelled. I had a lot of sugar in the last hour so I was in a relatively good mood.
"Your train?" He asked looking shocked. I shook my head smiling.
"Naw. I don't own a train. I just felt like messing with your goggle-covered head, goggle...head?" I laughed. "Okay, I'm sorry, no off to you goggle-brains I just don't know your name. So who the hell are you anyway?" I said in a very enlightened mood.
"Okay, just relax and tell me what you're on, okay?" He said in a kind of reassuring voice, as if I was insane.
"I'm not ON anything, you jerk! Only a freaking train!" I smacked the back of his head.
"Well you must have been smoking something if you're that hyper."
"Nope! You must have been SNIFFING something for wearing goggles and a hat, goggle-brain. Although, with the colors and all, it doesn't look half bad goggle-brain."
"So anyways, why are you guys on this train?" He asked, ignoring my rather rude comment.
"It was closest to the elevator." Said Fatso in the blue plumbers suit with yellow detailing. He had brown hair and was holding a bar of chocolate.
"Well there must have been a reason you got on this train, right?" Goggle-Brain asked the girl with blonde hair, a pink hat, vest, and skirt with a white and blue striped shirt.
"Actually, like him, it was closest to the elavator." Blondie said. But the little boy turned to Goggle-Brain before he even asked.
"Well, I didn't really want to get on this train. But two bullies pushed me and the door closed." He said.
"Yea. I saw that. It was pretty mean." I ran over and hugged the little boy. He had an orange hat, white shirt with green edges, and green shorts. He must have gotten the tips of his brown hair in his eyes while he was crying, because there was a bit of water in his hair.
"Why are kids always picking on me?" He wailed. I kept hugging him, hoping to make him feel better.
"It's okay. None of us will pick on you... errr ..." I paused. Maybe one of the others knew his name. "Hey, Thunder-Thighs, Blondie, Goggle-Brains, any of you guys know Hat-Boy's name?" They all gave me 'Ftw' faces before getting mad.
"Goggle-Brains is getting kinda old." Said Goggle- Brains himself. The others were all way too mortified(especially in the case of Thunder-Thighs) by their nicknames to make a move. It was the perfect opportunity.
"Oh really?" I challenged.
"Yea! Really." He was an aggressive Goggle-head then. I grabbed his goggles.
"Get her, Goggle-Brains!" Blondie yelled. Goggle-Brains stared. "It's not like I know your name either."
"Okay, Hat-Head." I put his goggles around my neck, just to see what he'd do. He stared for a couple minutes. Apparently, I had NERVE.
"You've got some nerve!" He yelled. Probably debating on whether or not to tackle a girl, like the only other gogglehead I've ever done this to. Last time I was tackled. And this time, I was tackled.
I hit the ground pretty hard, considering I had a boy about the same age as me on top of me. He was sitting on my waist and didn't look too keen on moving unless he got his goggles back.
"Ok, you could've just asked. I would've given them back, just so you know." I told him. He sat up straight, letting go of my arms. I lifted the goggles over my chin before realizing that I couldn't get the back strap over my head. I pulled it as far as it would go, but then it got caught on my hair, so I paused.
"Just give me my goggles back." He said noticing my pause.
"I can't, unless you let me sit up." Looks like he finally noticed what we looked like. Now that I mention it, I never noticed before either. I sat up, with Goggle-Brains off of me. The goggles made my hair stick up in every direction. And I mean EVERY direction. Blondie and Hat-Boy gave small giggles, but Fatso was still a lifeless meatloaf. Even I touched my hair, realizing the severity of my 'goggle hair' I gave a laugh.
"You look like you just woke up." Goggle-Brains said.
"I kinda did." I told him.
"You serious?" Blondie asked. I nodded, I started standing up, as I was the only one on the floor. Goggle-Brains lent me a hand to get up.
"My name's Takuya Kanbara, what about you?" He said.
"I'm Kia Yori. Nice to meet you." And for added effect, "Goggle-Brains."
"I'm Zoe Orimoto." Said Blondie.
"I'm Tommy. " Said the Hat-Boy. The only one left was Fatso, who was still a lifeless vegetable.
"Excuse me?" I poked him. "I'm sorry about what I called you. I didn't mean for it to hurt, I call my friend that all the time, she just laughs it off." I actually made up that part, but they didn't need to know that.
"Really?" He asked. I nodded.
"No more lifeless veg-loaf ok? Or else that'll be your nickname dude."
"My name is Junpei, but you can call me JP."
"Nice to meet you JP. I'm Kia." We all jolted forward as the train crashed, or at least it felt like it. "Great! No wonder my sis tells me to be careful of trains!" I yelled. My vision went hazy and I saw foggy creatures around the others. My cell beeped as well as the others' so I pulled it out. "What a lousy time to get a call!" I thought.
"We've arrived." It told me, then changed into some sort of handheld-video-game-esque type of device with a small screen, four buttons(two on the front one on top and one on the side) and some pieces that didnt really do anything.
Everyone's were different colors. Zoe's was pink and purple, Taku's was red and black, JP's was yellow and blue(surprise, surprise), Tommy's was white and green and mine was pink and black.
The train started moving and for a while we were all confused. We seemed to be riding in midair! a bunch of blobby things were outside the windows, and Taku made some freaky comment about them being other kids' souls. One glued itself to the window and Zoe got thoroughly freaked.
This was going to be a long trip.