The book was no ordinary book, and the story it contained was no ordinary story. It was a wonderful story, and a terrible story all at the same time and it was waiting to be read...
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A small white light filled the night sky and seemed to have exploded in a brilliant display of what looked like firecrackers being played in the crisp summer night. The explosion filled the sky, and disappeared as fast as it appeared. People that noticed this simply assumed that it was nothing more than children playing with fireworks. Well why wouldn’t they? After all, this was Tokyo, and it’s only common in Tokyo to have children and their families play with fireworks during the summer, so this was a completely normal thing….. completely normal.
Well this wasn’t any ordinary fireworks, in fact it wasn’t even fireworks that lit the dark night sky and the two dark figures that stood among the crowd of onlookers knew this, they nodded to each other and disappeared in the shadows.
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"Sugoi!! Yui-chan did you see that?" Tetsuya exclaimed.
"Unn…" The girl named Yui answered as she looked up at her boyfriend and smiled.
Tetsuya smiled back and couldn’t help but stare at her in admiration. She was attractive, smart, and blonde. What more could any guy ask for he thought. And it wasn’t only those features that attracted him to her, it was…. Well something that he couldn’t explain even to himself. Ever since that day that he caught her as she was falling from the sky when Seiryuu spit her back out. He knew, that she was the one for him.
"Ne Yui-chan, act so thrilled why don’t cha" Tetsuya teased her. She laughed and punch his arm playfully. He pretended to wince in pain, and after a second stuck out his tongue at her, "bee-de" he teased and ran ahead. She giggled and ran after him, when she finally caught up, she glanced up at the sky which was now pitch black. She shivered, and he put his arms around her.
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"Mmm….. tempura! Beef steak! Triple fudge ice cream!! Oishii!!!"
"Oii!! Miaka!!!" a voice called from a far.
"French fries!!!"
"iiitaiii!!!" Keisuke’s voice screamed out in pain as his sister bit his finger, obviously mistaking it for food. "MMIIIAAKA!!! WAKE UP!!" He screamed as he shook his hand vigorously trying to stop the pain.
"Na-nani?" The girl said, she was so startled that she fell out of her bed face first.
She sat up and rubbed her face.
"Oniichan no baka!" she said, "you woke me up from such a yummy dream…" she stared blankly trying to recall the delicious dream she just had.
"I can see that." Keisuke said, still nursing his bitten finger. "You almost ate my finger!" he exclaimed. Miaka chuckled and gave him a ‘serves you right for waking me up look’. "Anyway," he continued, " you’re probably hungry because you haven’t eaten yet…. When I came home you were asleep, and probably would’ve slept in if I haven’t woke you up!"
"Sou… I guess all this shopping tired me out!" she pointed to the clutter of shopping bags sitting at the corner of her room.
"Well you better come out and eat something, I don’t want you sleep walking tonight and trying to eat the rest of me!"
"I don’t sleep walk!" she said indignantly, "And I wouldn’t want to eat you anyway." She added as she followed her brother out the room.
Miaka failed to notice the sparkle of light that filled the sky for a second. She also failed to notice the figure that watched her window from outside, it sneered and faded into the darkness.
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He was looking out his window the time that the flash appeared, he couldn’t help but marvel at the brilliance that it radiated. Looks like fireworks, he thought, but his instincts told him other wise. He felt something ominous coming about…. He felt….. Ki. Someone with a strong Ki has entered this word, he felt it in his bones, he knew that there would be danger coming….. but he couldn’t be sure.
"Tamahome…" a voice whispered. He looked around his small apartment to see if anyone was there, but no one was. He shook his head and thought, I am Taka I’m not Tamahome, he’s a character in the book that was long sealed away.
He wandered aimlessly in the apartment, and stopped at the place where Miaka’s picture was. "Miaka.." he said softly and stared at the picture for awhile.
"Tamahome…" The voice called out again. Startled Tamahome looked around, how long has he been asleep he thought.
"Tamahome." The voice called again.
"My name is Taka now…" His voice trailed as he followed the voice near the kitchen area of his tiny apartment and there on the table lay a book. The voice that called him seemed to be ringing in his head. The book……. He gasped.
"Shijin ten shi…" before he could finish what he was saying a red light consumed him, and he disappeared.
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