Zutto

Zutto
Chapter 1
By: Aramoix

The night was calm and cloudy. To calm for any one’s liking, anyone except me. I like calm and quiet nights, especially here in Kyoto. The breeze is soothing, the trees dance to the wind’s silent songs; it’s almost bewitching.
I got up from my girlfriend, Yumi, bed after contemplating the trees and the calmness outside and started getting dressed. She was sitting in the left edge of the bed looking to the floor; I really don’t blame her, she must be mad at me.
I’ve been with her for two years, she is 22 and I recently turned 16, to be exact 2 days ago. We used to have a lot of fun, we had a great sexual life, but as the time passed, I wasn’t just…satisfied. Sex started being somewhat of a routine and personally, I wasn’t enjoying it.
I was never like that, I thought to my self as I finished putting my uniform on. I used to be a happy person, living with my mom, my brother and sister, until I met the asshole that made me hate men; yeah, after him I became a lesbian.
I grabbed my book bag and stood in front of her; she didn’t even look at me. “I’m leaving.” She just nodded as I turned around and walked away. At the entrance of her apartment my umbrella was waiting eagerly for the fore coming of the much anticipated rain that the sky was announcing, so I grabbed it and started making my way to my apartment.
I always walked home from her house, even though is kind of far, but I am not the lazy type of girl that prefers busses and trains over walking; I love to walk and feel the wind in my hair and muse over the monotony and how square life is and tonight it was no exception to my musings.

I had been walking for 10 minutes now, I was close to my house but then rain started to pour. I thought to my self “Great.” But I kept on walking, but as I approached the corner I saw the person I hate the most with his three best friends, waiting. “Hey, Kirara, long time no see! Still in the lesbian business?” Yeah, every body in school knew I was a lesbian; after all, the stupid men of my school were kind enough to actually follow me and take a picture of me and Yumi kissing and to top it all off they posted it all over school; I really didn’t care, I still had my two best friends, Meki and Yoichi.
“Fuck Off, Ryosuke; I can’t believe you actually came from Tokyo to Kyoto.”
“I missed you, I had to keep an eye on you, and after all you’re still mine.”
“What makes you think that?”
“I was the one that popped your cherry, Kira-Chan. I am your first and I will be the only one.”
The bastard had been my boyfriend and my first when I used to live in Shinjuku. He cheated on me and abused me in every way possible, of course I never told my mom; when all this happened I just left him and told my mom everything; she just hugged me and said that if she could help me in anyway, that’s when I told her that I wanted to attend the Gyoten High School in Kyoto, she agreed and she sent me to Kyoto, living on my own; it’s been like this since I turned 14, living by my self.
He just talked all his shit while I mused. “Hey, are you even listening to me?!” I looked at him in the eye and honestly told him a big and raw “No”. I started walking but then he suddenly grabbed me by the arm and slammed me against the wall making me drop my umbrella and slapped me; I was in shock, I wasn’t expecting him or this, not again. “You listen to me now, you fucking lesbian bitch, you are mine!!! Not some dikes!!!” I snapped out of the shock and tried to hit him, but as I raised my hand to punch him he grabbed my free hand and pressed it together with my captive arm. “I’m going to teach you a lesson, bitch!! One that you’re never going to forget!” His friends approached me and grabbed my umbrella closing it and preparing to hit me with it; I just closed my eyes.

“Oi.” I heard an unknown voice, I opened my eyes, but between my tears and the rain I couldn’t focus, being able to only see a silhouette with a black umbrella and a plastic bag. “What the fuck do ya want!!?” Ryosuke, screamed with so much fury; I started praying to what ever force that could hear me to get me out of here as I tried to focus on the tall silhouette. “Leave that girl alone.” “Oh, you wanna be a hero, don’t ya? Take him guys!” His friends went running towards the man while he calmly closed his umbrella, placed his bag on the floor and stood in a weird stance. They laughed as they approached the guy but then my attention was taken by Ryosuke. “I’m gonna show you what you’re missing and make you think about it.” He started touching my breast and kissing my neck, I tried to resist but his right leg was between my legs and he was still holding my arms against the wall with his right hand. “Stop it Ryosuke!” Then what I never expected happened, the guy finished them both with just his umbrella, attracting Ryosuke’s attention. “What the Fuck!!!?” “That was easy. Didn’t even break a sweat. Ok, dude, let her go.” I looked at him, eyes wide open, I couldn’t believe that that guy alone finished with those 2 brutes in seconds, I think it took them more time running towards him that him knocking them.
Ryosuke pulled me and threw me on the floor and started walking towards the man. “You know, you shouldn’t be messing in other peoples business, that can get you killed.” Ryosuke took out a knife after finishing his threat. “Wow, is that a threat? You better do what you say, pal or you really going to regret it.” “Heh, let’s see what you can do against me with your stupid umbrella. Ahhh!!!!” Ryosuke launched at him with the point of the knife heading straight towards his stomach, but the guy just swayed to the side with a lot of speed as Ryosuke bolted by him; the guy finished it all in seconds with a strike to Ryosuke’s back of his neck; it almost seemed as he was using his umbrella as a katana and if it would have been a real katana Ryosuke would be decapitated right now and I would be happy.

He opened his umbrella and took his bag. I stood up and tried to cover my self since it was cold; it was autumn, October to be exact. “Are you alright?” He walked towards me while he asked me that oh so trivial question. “Do I look alright to you?” He smiled; it was all I could see in the darkness. He grabbed my umbrella and handed it to me. “Where do you live?” I opened my umbrella and took my book bag from the floor. “Oh, don’t worry, you did enough, bye.” And I ran away from the place as if my life depended on it.
My house was close but since I didn’t trust that guy I just ran to another direction and then headed home taking another way, this took me 20 minutes since I waited in the bus stop giving the guy time to go as far as he could. I arrived to my warm apartment and took all my wet clothes and took a nice hot bath; I was freezing to death outside.
After my bath I started arranging my stuff for school tomorrow and to my “surprise” every note book was ruined, all of them were soaking wet. “Great, now I have to buy new ones and a new book bag too.” I just threw everything to the floor and laid back and went in one of my other muses on how life was so unfair. My eyes closed but something weird happened, something that had never happened to me before; as soon as I closed my eyes all I saw was the silhouette and a flash of his smile. “What the hell? I’m not thinking about him or the incident in that matter.” I sat down and picked everything up. I looked out the window in my eleventh floor while my uniform dried off hanging from the window. “I wonder.” I looked at my drawer and saw a picture of me and Yumi. I walked towards it and took it out of the frame. I looked at it for about a minute. “I’m so sorry Yumi.” And threw the picture in the trash can. “I have to end this, for your own good.”


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The alarm clock in apartment 11-C started announcing a brand new day until a reluctant and sluggish hand turns it off. “I hate that alarm.” The red headed girl stands up and makes her way to her bathroom, after taking a cold shower she comes out full of energy in spite the fact that her uninterested face says other wise. She heads towards her window and looks at her alarm clock one more time; it was 6:15. “5, 4, 3, 2, 1…” Her phone rings. “Hello Mom.”
“Hi sweetie, just making sure you’re up.”
“I’m up, Mom and now I’m going to make myself some breakfast.”
“You didn’t call me last night, what happened?”
“Nothing, I just came home late from Yumi’s house and went directly to sleep; I was tired.”
“Oh, anyway I sent you some money; it should arrive in the afternoon, ok?”
“Ok, Mom.”
“Anyways, I have to go, I have to take your brother and sister to school, so call me when you arrive from school, Ok?”
“Ok, Mom, I’ll talk to you later. Love you.”
“I love you too, Kirara, take care.”
“Ok, Mom, Bye.” “Bye.”
She hangs up the phone and made her way to her closet and proceeded to put a fresh school uniform on. The morning routine was always the same, shower, phone call from her Mom, Getting dressed, Breakfast and then she would check if everything was in order; she didn’t mind the phone call, she loved the idea of calling her Mom everyday and the fact that her Mother called her everyday was a proof that her mother loved her dearly and that she was missed in her house back in Shinjuku, but the fact that it was so lonely it was hard.

She left the house at the same hour everyday, 7:15 Am, after all her high school was only 15 minutes away, and since she enjoyed walking, she could actually take it easy. She stops as usual in the candy store and buys a pound of sour gummy candies and a pound of regular gummies. Since her other school uniform got wet she had decided before leaving to take it so that on the way to school she could leave in the laundry near her house.

After leaving the uniform in the laundry she walks past the grocery store right near the candy store, her best friend Meki spots her and hops towards her and with a happy-go-lucky leap, she screams her name as she makes her way through the air towards Kirara. “Kirara-Chan!!!!!”
They fall on the floor and Kirara, who is used to this already and knows that it’s going to happen every day, sits on the floor as Meki clings on to her.
“Kirara-Chan, Good Morning!”
“Good Morning to you too Meki.” Kirara answers with a smile. “When will you stop doing that, Meki?” The girls hear a delicate male voice ask from inside the grocery store so they turn around and see their best friend Yoichi walking out of the store with a bag. “Hey Yoichi how are you?” Kirara stands up with her best friend still clinging on her.
Kirara’s friends were what have been supporting her ever since she met them when she first started. Being a lesbian and or course, everybody knowing it, it was hard enough, so ever since they all met they clicked. Meki was a cheerful dark skinned girl who came to school with the weirdest of hair styles and was always wearing very colorful accessories but the thing that made her weird was her strange personality and her loud voice, she was normally bothered by the kids at school for her glasses but she was great at ignoring people; every bully eventually gave up.
Yoichi on the other hand was a very delicate and gentle young man; he was a girls dream come true, 5’10”, ash blond hair, honey colored eyes, he was a total pretty boy; the only exception was that he was gay, so he was a gay man’s dream come true. They were Kirara’s strength in school and her supporters in her every day.

They kept going talking about the day’s news; Yoichi’s Date.
“So Yoichi how was Taka?”
“He wasn’t bad, a little stiff, if you know what I mean?” Meki who is in between them holding on to their arms. “Nope, I really don’t know what you mean, Yo-Chan.” He just sighs. “What I mean is that he was too boring, the only interesting part was when he took me home and left.” Kirara and Meki started laughing. “Oh my God, I can’t believe that! I really thought that guy was the one for you?”
“I really thought so too, Yo-Chan!”
“Well, so did I, but you know, things aren’t always what they seem; besides I met him in the mall, in the finance section of a book store, what else can I say.” Kirara looks at him. “Then why did you ask him out then?” He smirks. “Because he had a nice ass!” They just laughed at his remark.
They kept walking, finally arriving at the entrance of the beautiful school they attended. Many girls went to that school because they thought that the uniforms were cute and they were indeed cute. The school uniform colors were green and red; the hues were dark of course. For the boys it was a dark forest green suit, a white button shirt and a crimson neck tie as for the girls, it was a dark green skirt and blazer, a white button shirt and a crimson red ribbon. The skirt was adorned by many thin lines of red, accentuating the plain green color of the skirt.
The school was alive as friends met with their friends and joined them in their way to the campus, but in Kirara’s case she was already accompanied by her dear friends. Right when she was about to enter the gate a bunch of girls that were standing in the gate gossiping started saying in a high tone of voice and excitement in their tone while they looked towards Kirara and her friend’s back. “Oh my gosh, look at that guy!” Said a long hair girl with a red ribbon. “He is so hot!” Said a girl with two very long braids. “He has this school uniform.” Said a girl with glasses and short hair. Among the girls there were two that looked very classy; they were the most respected girls in school, since they were both rich and they were sisters. “Mizuki-sama, Ayame-sama, are you going to go after him?”
“They both looked at the braid girl, who was the one to ask the question and smirked.” “Of course.” Answered the athletic Ayame. “I will; of course, he will have to win my heart.” Answered the delicate looking Mizuki.
The three looked at the girls talk and started to realize every one looking to the back. “You know, now I am more intrigued to know how this guy looks, Kirara.” Said Yoichi. “Yeah, Kirara-Chan lets see.” Begged Meki. Kirara sighed. “Oh, ok.” They turned around and walked a little to the left to let the man come in since every body was in the way.
“When is he going to come in?” Yoichi asked with anxiety. “What are you expecting him to be gay and be your dream man, Yo-chan?” Meki teased. “Well actually yes, I really would love that.”
“Maybe he’s signing some autographs, since all of the sudden he is so popular.” Kirara added with a sarcastic tone. “You are always so cheerful.” Countered Yoichi as he looked at her. “Here he comes!” Meki warned making the exited Yoichi look and the reluctant Kirara as well.
To Kirara’s surprise he was utterly beautiful; as he walked Kirara could not believe her eyes or the fact that she was entranced by him. He was a tall young man, standing 6’0” tall. He had an athletic built not too much muscle but not too little; just right, making the school uniform look great on him. His hair was long, covering his butt, in the deepest color of black she had ever seen. His face was spotless, not a single mark on his porcelain skin. His eyes were beautiful being in the lightest shade of lilac making him look delicate. Full lips in a light shade of red completed the masterpiece making him, with all of these traits, look almost unreal.
“Oh my gawd, he is…perfect…” Yoichi said under his breath. “He is so hot…” Meki said in a sigh. Kirara snapped out of it and looked to the floor; she could feel her cheeks hot, she knew she was blushing. “This can’t be possible! I gave up on guys! I mean, I must admit he is beautiful, but…men are all the same.” “Ok, fine I’ll give it to him that he is hot, but I don’t see why all the commotion.” He started making her way in to school.
“Oi, Kimi!” A deep very manly called, but Kirara ignored it and kept going in, leaving Meki and Yoichi behind. She kept walking and finally went inside the school building. She went to her locker and changed her shoes placing her black Converse in the locker instead. “Sumimasen…” She heard the same deep voice but this time gasping for air behind her. “Nani?” She closed her locker. “Can I ask you something?” She looked to the floor in annoyance and turned around. She saw a pair of dark green and white Puma and a black umbrella. In Kirara’s mind a flash back of the occurrences of last night passed by as in fast forward. “Oh…my….god…” She looked up and saw friendly lilac eyes looking at her as he gasped for air. “Is it always like this in place when ever an exchange student arrives?” He asked her. She looked at him startled by the fact of her savior being in her school and being the new exchange student.
“You are the girl from last night; I wanted to tell you that I am very happy you made it your house. My name is Yanagi, nice to meet you.” Kirara, once again, snapped out of it. “Is that all you wanted to tell me?” He looked at her questioningly. “I guess?”
“Good, I have to go.” She walked by him and left him standing in the lockers with out looking back. He smiled. “Interesting, that was the coldest reaction I have ever had .” He closed his eyes. “Oh well, I think it’s better off this way…even though she’s cute…”

To be continued.

Glossary

1- Oi-Is the equivalent to “hey” in Japanese.
2- “Oi, Kimi”- In English “Hey you” men in Japan tend to use the word Kimi a lot.
3- Sumimasen- Excuse, I’m sorry or pardon me
4- Nani- What
5- Zutto- Always or forever (Title)
6- Shinjuku- a district of Tokyo


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