Fateless.

[Black] [Blinks] A pale-skinned boy with messy black hair opens his eyes to a very small, run-down room, with one window across his bed, printouts stuck on the right side of the wall, and paint on the left with the name 'Ryu' in capital letters. Ryu gets out of his bed, begins to stretch, and goes to the bath which was the room across from his door. He only washes his hair, upper body and begins to dress for school in the bath. Ryu leaves the bath fully dressed in his high school uniform. He goes to the door at the end of the corridor and opens it slightly to see his father, young brother, and sister. Laying on top of each other, fast asleep, and he smiles. He walks to the apartment's living room, which was connected to a small kitchen, with a small dining table to the left, and one single sofa across from the TV in the center of the room. It wasn't an open-style living room by design, but rather because the place was too small to have all those things in other places. He picked up his messenger bag as well as the  TV remote from the dining table and walked into the living room. He stretched out his arm and pressed the power button on the remote repeatedly, but nothing happened. He slightly smacked the remote against his palm, and tried turning it on, but again to no avail. He was forced to turn it on using the buttons on the TV set. #NEWS REPORT ABOUT CONFLICTS IN THE SOUTHERN CONTINENT# As soon as it came on, it landed on a news channel at full volume. Ryu quickly turned what seemed to be a volume dial and reduced it. He then turned what seemed to be a channel selector dial, changing the station. #WEATHER REPORT ABOUT SEVERAL HEAVY STORMS AFFECTING WESTERN CONTINENT*# He turned the dial again. #DISCOVERY OF VARIOUS ARTWORKS FROM THE ERA OF THE "GODS" # After seeing nothing but news reports, he turned it off, causing the only sound in the room to vanish. Leaving only silence in the room. Ryu left the Apartment building and walked to the Central Train station. As always, he would get onto the Inner line train, which took him to his school, an area close to his school to be more specific. After what felt like an hour, he got off the train and left the station. He began walking until he reached the school gates. The school had these long, towering walls that stretched several meters, as soon as the main gates came into his field of vision, he noticed one of his only friends in the school, waiting for him, as she usually did for them. She started to wave at him as soon as their eyes met. She was a tall and slender girl, with straight, flowing pale blonde hair which reached her shoulders and was never tied up. One could immediately notice that she looked more elegant and beautiful than cute and lovable, as most girls her age looked- With a somewhat 'unapproachable aura' around her. Her name was Mila. She was what you would call the school's flower.  She unhurriedly walked towards Ryu, cheerfully smiling. Just as he was about to return the smile he looked around and noticed cold stares aimed at him. It was only natural that he would be the object of hate from both genders in the school. "Why do you always get to school late on Mondays sleepy head?" Mila asked in a giggling tone. "I tried to watch the news this morn---" Before Ryu could finish, he felt someone put their arm around his shoulder. "Mondays are always a drag. I'm even tempted to sleep in, as soon as I see that it's Monday." Said the boy who had just arrived. Mila burst into laughter with the boy, and Ryu could only awkwardly laugh in an attempt to join the laughter. He was a taller (taller than both Ryu and Mila), dark-haired boy who had one side of his t hair parted. He was what you would call a 'pretty boy' and his name was Toshiko. He had dark and full eyebrows as well as thick eyelashes, which were the highlight of his perfectly designed face. "We need to head to class before Laveda calls for attendance." Said Mila, as she started to walk into the school. The three got into their class, which was on the second floor of the school and they sat by their respective desks. Ryu's was at the back of the class, right next to a giant window pane, that had a view of the entire schoolyard. He turned to look out the window and stared at the sky, completely covered in thick grey storm clouds which blocked out all of the sun's light and left a grey tint on everything. "Ryu. Ryu. Ryu. Ryu!" Called out their class teacher, breaking him out of his trance-like state. Their class teacher was a tall beautiful, not handsome man. It was in all senses true that he had an effeminate charm, while still maintaining his manliness. He always wore designer clothes, and today he wore a dark-blue, paisley-patterned waistcoat over a black shirt and black trousers. He had higher cheekbones, as well as a perfectly symmetrical face, complemented by the ponytail of his dark purple hair. His name was Mr. Laveda. "Don't forget to collect the class's permission slips for tomorrow's trip, and tell everyone not to leave until the storm passes. Don't want any cases on my hands." Said Laveda as he dismissed the class and walked out. [School ends] Ryu walked out to the main gates and before he could leave, he heard his name, he quickly turned around looking for who was calling him. Only to see Mila yelling for him from their class's window. "You forgot to collect the permission slips from the class, but it's okay I took all of them to Laveda for you." Yelled Mila. "Thank you! I'll make it up to you tomorrow!" He yelled back. After a few steps out of the school, it started to rain, and not just rain but a complete downpour came down. Ryu started running towards the station train station with his vision obscured by the rain. He arrived at the station in the nick of time, but the doors to the station were closed. He looked around to see a bright red electric sign by the station entrance that read; [The outer line train has already departed. Next train ETA, 2 hours. We apologize for the inconveniences the weather has caused.] He decided to run home, despite it still raining. He held his bag over his head and charged into the rain. As he's running in the pouring rain, he sees a woman walking in the middle of the road without an umbrella. He then looked behind to see the lights of what looked like a truck behind him, and the lady still didn't get out of the road. He realized that the heavy sound of rain masked the sound of the truck, and she couldn't hear it. Ryu started to run even faster towards the lady. Once he reached her, he jumped to push her out of the way and they landed in a puddle. In an attempt to push her out of the way he wound up on top of her.  He sees this and looks into the woman's eyes for a brief moment, and immediately gets off of her while the truck zooms by them. The woman gets up slowly and to his surprise, she's wasn't wet despite being in the rain and landing in a puddle. She bent over and picked up her coat which fell to the ground and started to dust herself off, highlighting her short hair, which was about neck length, with a partition on the left – Almost looked like the way Toshiko does his hair, is what he thought to himself. She wore a traditional black kimono with a red floral pattern, accompanied by the white coat she had just put on. She didn't fully have it on, she just wore it over her shoulders. The woman then turned to look at Ryu and then said, "Well, hello and thank you." With a smile. As she said these words it looked like the grey tint the clouds caused disappeared, and the sun came up. Its rays reflected off of all the buildings in the area's windows, as well as the puddles the rain had formed, and they all seemed to meet at this particular woman like a spotlight. end