Their Masks

Yoko was a fighter, she was taught that when she was 3. When she was three years old she knew her mother, but when she turned ten she could not remember what she looked like, and she was terrified that one day she would totally forget who she was. She couldn't fully grasp the idea of her mother going to the subdimension with Messiah, but that doesn't mean when was 9 that she couldn't feel the anxiety of the future battles, the grief of missing her mom, weight of the actions of Hiromu's father, and the expectations that rested on her shoulders everyday. So she tried to work off the grief, sadness, and pain by training, but Usada would always stop her and force her to refuel her battery. She knew Usada was trying to help but she sometimes just wanted to leave, so when everyone was asleep she would always pack of sweets and would leave through one hidden doorway she knew about, and would be gone for hours, but no one noticed she didn't care if they did though, she was tired of being treated like a baby. They would never remember that she was not three no matter what she did. Yoko was trying to be appreciative but it was hard with a buddyroid screaming in face about homework, an older brother being in her face with his buddyroid, and your father/future-boss looking over her shoulders.

So she made a mask, one that hides the pain, agony, and broken heart that she has locked it up and was determined to not let it show. She pretended not to understand her homework, even though she understood it perfectly, or how she always needed Ryuuji, or trying to be ill-tempered. And it worked for a while, Ruuji, Usada, and Commander fell for her mask perfectly. At nine is when she put up the front, not letting her mind think of what would have to wait, something like finding a boyfriend, or having friends. She would always skip school to find some solstice away from the world. She did her homework, but didn't turn it in, and she asked others to do her homework so that she could think and train. She did everything that she could, but it seemed like no one noticed how when she sad that she would try to leave the room, or when she was truly aggravated that not only she would puff out her cheeks and her hands would curl and she nails would dig into her palm of her hands. The mask never slipped up and only came off when she wanted it too, and only Nakamura knew because she saw Yoko reading a college level book in the hallway, and Yoko asked her not to tell her anyone.

But soon everything fell apart when He came. Him, the one the mask couldn't fool, the one that even though she has not spent more time with him than fighting and coming up with plans occasionally, but not long after he joined Ryuji and herself, he knew that it was a mask and soon confronted her about it.

It was day after her 17th birthday and she was going to go see the little girl that she caught when he stopped her, "Yoko, I have a question."

She gave him an annoyed look, "I have an appointment to go to, so hurry."

He gave her a confused face and asked, "Did you pack chocos?"

"Yes, Baka." she said after punching his arm.

"Gomen, demo you do realize that its not good to hold everything in, right?" he asked.

Yoko was shocked but it didn't show it, "Gomen Hiromu, demo I have to go. Can't we talk about this later?" Then she ran off, but Hiromu used his super speed and caught up with her.

"No."

"Well, too bad." Then she jumped on a building and walked her way, while Hiromu went to Ryuji to talk about Yoko.

When she came back, Hiromu and Ryuji were waiting for her, but she quickly turned around then ran away before they could see her and bought some more sweets at a store and sat at the park and thought. Before she knew it, the day was turning into night and she had to go back, but instead of using the front door she used her secret path, and snook around Hiromu and Ryuji and ran to her bedroom, and locked the door. Then she showered, changed into her sleepwear, braided her hair, and went to bed. But she couldn't fall asleep. So she did what she did every night she couldn't fall aleep, she wrote in her journal, and wrote down what she thought, it was yellow. She turned to the last page of it and started writing.

Dear Journal,

Hiromu saw through me, I don't know how or when, demo I know that he did. And I'm pretty sure that Ryuji is knows now too. Mou, I guess soon I'll have to talk to them soon. Maybe it would be good putting everything out in the open, demo I'm scared to show them. And I need a new journal soon, perhaps an orange one at the store down the street, you know, with the picture of the sunset inside.

Good night,
Yoko

Then she finally was able to go to sleep, and after a hour or so the door opened to see two human figures wearing Go-Buster uniforms one red and the other, blue. Hiromu and Ryuji walked in and saw that Yoko was sleeping and they turned around and Ryuji left, but Hiromu saw the yellow notebook and flipped threw it.

It was full of small entries and drawings of everyone: the Busters, the Buddyroids, Commander and them, Messiah, Enter and Escape, even some of the metoriods, and she was in the middle of drawing the girl that she caught the day before. But what caught his attention is the detail the she used, like the glint in Ryuji's eyes, or you could hear the snear in Enter's voice, then he read the last entry and was saddened a little.

He had to leave so he placed it down and went to his room, and slept.

Ok, I'm new to this fan page, but I have written before. I have written the second chapter, but I don't know if I should post it, what do ya think?

~RaySimp