Cloud (Oh where have I ended up in?)

[Ryoma Echizen]

It was a troublesome week. One, he had almost fallen down the staris, two, he made a wrong decision to go to the Lake despite an impending storm (not really, he made a new friend), and third, he almost fell sick. He needed a rest from all these things. He needed a rest from all these things. He needed a rest from all these things. Thinking about that line thrice while walking back and forth in front of that blank piece of wall, the Room of Requirement gave him what he required. He pushed opened the door, glad that he'd finally have a rest after a long, troublesome week.

Ryoma's eyes widened. the Room was not a room fit for a rest at all. It looked more like a room prepared for a gigantic dance party, with food, drinks, cushions and lights dazzling his eyes as he surveyed the Room of Requirement. Wait... is this what I really reuired? Ryoma thought, raising his eyebrows. Oh well, I have to do with this then... He placed his racket bag in a corner, sighing. Ryoma went over and threw himself on top of a bunch of large coloured cushions. They were pleasingly soft, and to Ryoma's amazement, the room played a soft, classical melody as if to soothe his nerved, and the lights in the room were dim and soft to the eyes. Ryoma felt his mood lighten. Yes, this was that I needed. whoever created this room is indeed a genius. Ryoma thought as he closed his gold brown eyes.

Ryoma's cap fell to the ground beside the pile of colourful cushion, and he nodded off, his arms and legs spread out wide around him. He had just finished his practice, and his arms and legs were tired. His black, silky hair splayed out behind him on the soft cushions. His Seigaku jacket was ruffled, and his feet dangled over the edge as he fell asleep under this distressing nature of his environment now.

Until...

(Short T____T)

[cloudstrife]

ooc: lol where got short. mine even short sia. are u keith?

Cloud was taking a slow walk around the castle, thinkign about all those stuff that happened in the past few years. So many things that troubled him, yet he can do nothing about them. He really need a break. He's tired, not physically, but mentally. He was walking past this stretch of wall when he dropped his wand. Bending voer to pick it up, he realised a door appeared beside him. Standing up staring at the door in amazement, he wondered if he should enter. He was quite sure that the door wasn't there a second ago...it was just a stretch of wall. He shrugged. Well...what could hurt me?

He entered and was surprised to find someone in the room. There were food and drinks all around. Feeling slightly hungry, he grabbed a cookie and nibble it, slowly approaching the sleeping person, wondering who he is...

[Ryoma Echizen]

OOC: Yes, I am Keith dammit. I haven't talked to you in a long while. how are you? X3

Ryoma felt a shift in the air, and a sound of the door opening. He opened his gold-brown eyes a fraction only to see a pair of sky blue ones looking straight back at him. Ryoma stared back at those eyes, slightly shocked. Then he sat up quickly and picked up his cap from the ground, patting it down on his nest of messy black hair, as if hiding the messiness of it. "..." Ryoma remained silent for awhile, still sitting on top of the cushions as the boy nibbled on a cookie. The smell of the cookie was great, and it made Ryoma's stomach growl. He wanted to make his way over to the food that he had only just realised was there, but there's a stranger in the room now...

Ryoma coughed a little, looking at the boy again. The boy is good-looking, he was sure. Looks kind of like a girl too, and definitely older than he was. Ryoma nodded at the boy. "Err... hi." Ryoma said tentatively. Dammit! The cookie!! Ryoma was going to drool all over his shirt, which he almost did as he stared at the cookie with wide eyes. Awww, talking about 12 year olds - they just can't hide the fact that they want a tasty cookie, but at the same time, they don't dare to get one! Ryoma was still staring at the cookie, then he shifted his gaze up, looking like he REALLY wanted the cookie.

"...uuu..." Ryoma almost wanted to cry. Then he coughed again, trying to control himself. He must be cool. "Ahem! So... may I ask why did you come in?" Ryoma muttered, changing the subject and shifting his cap's visor down so that it hid his gold-brown eyes.

[cloudstrife]

"Err... hi."

Cloud looked at him and realised that the boy who was sleeping was very short, as he stood up. Cloud smiled a little and said,"Erm...hi" He looked down at him and wondered why he wore a cap even in a room like this.

"Ahem! So... may I ask why did you come in?

Cloud raised an eyebrow and said,"Well...it ain't illegal, is it? But if you really want to know, I was walking past when I found this door appearing. So i went in and here i am. I was about to ask you where is this room." Now that he was much closer, he realised that boy is much younger too. Even if the boy was a bit rude, he decided to hold back his anger and be polite. He held out his hand and smiled, his blue eyes gazing into the boy's,"Cloud. Cloud Strife."

ooc: yea havent seen you for such long time......YEA RIGHT.

[Ryoma Echizen]

OOC: huh? its been about a year... i think. or more. you mean you saw me? when?


"Well...it ain't illegal, is it? But if you really want to know, I was walking past when I found this door appearing. So i went in and here i am. I was about to ask you where is this room."

"I didn't say I was going to fine you," Ryoma said with a blank look on his face. The boy was a funny person. His imagination was real good. "I didn't say I really wanted to know. But if you really wanted to tell me, I'll listen." Which in fact, he did. Ryoma listened to him like he said he would, but it doesn't really make a difference anyway. "Oh, okay," Ryoma said, nodding. He walked over to the table and grabbed a cookie too. Maybe he should care less about who is in the room or not. Ryoma bit down on the cookie and chewed. It was a chocolate chip flavoured one.

"Cloud. Cloud Strife." The boy extended a hand out. Ryoma took it briefly, and then released it. "Echizen Ryoma," Ryoma muttered, patting his hands on his shorts so that the crumbs from his cookie would be gone. He had already finished his cookie, of course. It was pretty tasty. "Nice to meet you." Ryoma plonked back onto the cushions. Like he had said at another place - he is never polite to people he just met, until he reckon that they're people he could get along with. he isn't heartless, of course, he treasures his friends above all things, and you will know it once you are close to him.

That was how things worked for Ryoma Echizen.

[cloudstrife]

ooc: well....one year is quite short right? i have friends whom I havent saw for four years. But yea, nice to see you again.

Cloud frowned slightly at the boy's attitude. He watched as the attitude boy called Ryoma went over to grabbed a cookie and devoured it in two seconds. Cloud sat down onto the cushions as well and tried to peer under the cap visor. Maybe he looks like some freak. So he can't show his face... However the cap visor was so low that he couldn't see anything. Or maybe he has lots of pimples...

Cloud gave up and grinned at the boy. "Ya know, I know I'm in no position to tell you, but your attitude won't get you lots of friends...not that I have many myself..." Cloud stood up and walked around the place, occasionally eating a few snacks and sniffing a few.

[Ryoma Echizen]

"Ya know, I know I'm in no position to tell you, but your attitude won't get you lots of friends...not that I have many myself...""A few good friends are enough," Ryoma said, staring over at Cloud who had also plonked down onto the cushions beside him. Ryoma caught sight of Cloud trying to look under his cap at his face, and he turned away. The people around him often said he was good-looking, and he even has his own fanclub in his Muggle school (not that Ryoma really cares), but Ryoma hated it when people said: "Hey, you look just like your dad!" Ryoma doesn't want to look like a pervert... like that man he calls his father.

"..." Ryoma pulled his visor down to cover more of his face on purpose. He would continue with his sleep now. Since he talked to the boy... wait, what was that dude's name again? Sky or... Ground or Star or something... Ryoma felt the pressure on the pillows beside him lift. The whatever Star guy had just gotten up from where he was resting - perhaps to get more food. That left Ryoma alone on the moutain of pillows, and he closed his gold-brown eyes under the visor of his cap. Ah, finally.

Back to sleep.

[cloudstrife]

Cloud took a glance at the boy in cap again. He can't really remember his name anymore. Although he can remember it was a japanese name, and it sounds weird. Cloud popped a last chocolate frog into his mouth and swallowed it. He walked over to a shelf at the corner, full of books and comics. He glance down the row of books, and one caught his attention. he pulled out the book with a title "The Prince of Tennis".

Cloud smiled and muttered,"Well...this will make a good read...it looks interesting. Although the main character looks ugly..." He walked over to the cushion and sat down beside the Japanese kid. Cloud raised an eyebrow. Does this boy sleep everywhere? Cloud shrugged and flipped a page of his comic.

[Ryoma Echizen]

Ryoma took up a photobook he bought at Kinokuniya during summer and held it up. His friend had told him to buy it because it was 'in' and Ryoma took a look at it before going to sleep again. "...." Ryoma stared at the person on the cover, then turned around on the cushions and held the book against that dude's face. ".........." Ryoma's eyes darted to and fro from the book to the boy. "... Cloud." Ryoma muttered. Then he tossed Cloud's Photobook aside. "I knew when I wanted to throw that away," Ryoma muttered and slept.

He totally ignored that book Cloud was reading. Because he had already completed the entire series (in HR XD He was reading it in two of my threads XD)... and he thought that the scenarios were dejavu. Like he had experienced them somewhere before... really strange. Ryoma decided not to think about that stupid Prince of Tennis series. He remembered the protagonist to have somewhat the same name, same life and same cocky attitude as he does. Maybe someone spied on his life and drew a manga out of it. Strange. He could use it as his biography some day (not really. there are alot of negative things inside about him too. he wont want to use it XD).

Ryoma sighed, and plonked back onto the pillow, with Cloud's Photobook lying at a corner of the room where he tossed it. Damn, that thing cost his 9,000 yen. Fuck it. Now he had met someone who looked exactly like that guy in the book. Fuck it even more. And the boy has a crappy attitude and is reading his biography. Fuck it over and over.

[ pardon the swearing XD ]

[cloudstrife]

(OOC: hahahaha~ what's witht he swearing. HAHAHA)

Cloud looked at the book Ryoma threw aside. He picked it up and marvled at how charming and good-looking the guy on the cover is. He frowned slightly as he realised that the person on the cover resembles him in many ways. Those blue eyes, those spiky beige hair...he shrugged and turned to the Japanese kid named Ryoma. Cloud grinned and stood up. Getting a little bored, he thought of an idea....

Cloud walked over to beside the boy, who was asleep. Again. He crouched beside him and took out the fire cracker from his pocket. He bougth it at the joker shop in diagon alley. He light it with his wand and the fire cracker exploded loudly and began to soar around the room, shooting sparks all over the place. Cloud grinned and glance at Ryoma.

[Ryoma Echizen]

Ryoma continued to sleep.

Errr, HELLO?! An alarm clock can't wake him. When he sleeps, there's nothing to talk about. Therefore, this extremely short post. Maybe the rper should crap about Ryoma's sleeping life, or start doing a sterotypical 'dreams roiled in his mind' paragraph or something. No, Ryoma's dreams consists of him beating people's asses in tennis. The end. LOL.

[cloudstrife]

ooc:........................................you know........................how do you expect me to continue, keith? HAHAHAH

[Ryoma Echizen]

Dreams roiled in his mind.

In the end, Ryoma's roleplayer still used the most perfect way to crap out a really long post. Using dreams that his character had. Ryoma Echizen dreamt of his days in Seishun Gakuen, but that's not all... there was still something else. Something that he did not understand. Even when he was dreaming, he was still thinking about what is it that had slipped through his grasp so easily. Ryoma thought hard. As like all his dreams (or almost all), he was floating in a sea of darkness, dressed in his Seigaku shirt and black pants again. "..." Ryoma opened his golden-brown eyes, feeling really warm... it was a good dream, perhaps. He felt comfortable. He looked around him at the endless darkness, wondering what this dream would bring him.

First, it was still that worrying thought at the edge of his thoughts that was bothering him. Ryoma thought hard about it. Something told him that he had travelled back in time, and somehow ended up being a 2nd year again. Being a second year isn't that bad, Ryoma just wondered if actually... actually he was older than he was supposed to be now. Turning his head at a small movement in the endless darkness, Ryoma's eyes widened. His twin now floated just a few feet away from him, dressed in Slytherin robes. That him was still short, but clearly... slightly taller. An older image of himself.

Ryoma frowned, watching his other half. His other half had his eyes closed. That made Ryoma wonder why. And he also wondered what was that faint rumbling and snapping sound that came from afar. It sounded like a couple of firecrackers that had been let loose. That was rather strange because there was no festival going on, only a weird dude with blue eyes and spiky blonde hair... yeah. What was his name again? Ryoma still kept his golden-brown eyes on his other half. He didn't want to leave this dream yet - he wanted to know more. That dude outside in the real physical world will have to wait. Hopefully Cloud wouldn't do anything bad to his body. Though if that dude went overboard, Ryoma WOULD wake up.

Ryoma paddled over to the boy, and grabbed the arm covered in the sleeves of the robes. The boy didn't respond. Ryoma gazed at the fair face so familiar to him. Something snapped in his mind. He knew that this boy was his future self. That was impossible! How could he see the future...? He isn't a born Seer, he had known that from young. Seer powers should have matured when he was young. So this is... something that only dreams could do... Ryoma ran his hand over his doppelganger's face, marvelling how grown he looked (even though still short). Is this... me in the future? I look like I am a 5th Year or something...

Maybe, just maybe... Ryoma felt it all slip away, and his older self disappeared. At that moment, Ryoma knew. He knew he had fallen back in time, and he had forgotten many things. Many things - the friends he met... the people he loved. Maybe he had always existed... in another school? This isn't the same school! Ryoma thought, eyes-widening. Then everythign faded away... impossibly - the darkness as well.

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Ryoma opened his eyes gingerly, the light above him blinding. He put a hand over his eyes, blocking off the lights. He was awake again. Cloud was grinning down at him, and Ryoma's ears was ringing... strangely. Ryoma frowned, feeling extremely lethargic. "What did you do now...? Why does my ears hurt a little?" Ryoma muttered, sitting up from the pillows, his cap dropping off revealing his awesomely messy raven black hair. Ryoma flattened his hair down with his hands, but he didn't bother to put on his cap anymore. He left it lying on the pillows.

Ryoma noticed the wand in Cloud's hand, its tip still issuing abit of smoke. Ryoma thought back to the dream, remembering that at some point he heard a pewwww and rumbling sound that sounded like firecrackers. Giving Cloud a deadpan expression, he sighed. "Did you set off firecrackers?" Ryoma muttered, his golden-brown eyes not amused.

[cloudstrife]

ooc: #!%$!# you post so long arh. hahahaha...oh and the amebr thingy mentioned in my post was something i discussed with her before...

"Did you set off firecrackers?"

Cloud's grin grew wider and nodded, and he took a step beackward, making sure Ryoma would not hit him suddenly. He was sure that Ryoma's hands would be rather strong from all that tennis, although it probably wouldn't hurt him as much....his werewolf blood will allow him to heal much faster than an average person. He glance down at Ryoma again and he realised Ryoma strongly resembled a bully he knew in school, but that bully would be much older. Those same deadpan stare, those strong arms and the cold attitude...although he wouldn't ever bother Cloud again...

Ten years ago

"Aww man...Dad! Do I really really gotta go to school?" Cloud moaned to his father. He had been hoping that he can visit the girl across the street,Amber, and play around as usual. His father shook his head and glared at him,"Of course you need to...I thought you used to enjoy school?" His father frowned slightly as he realised the sudden change in attitude. Cloud shooked his head and gave his dad a brilliant smile, walking into the school gates and his smile disappeared as he stepped in. "That was before he came...." Cloud muttered.

As he walked into class, he found his table full of paper balls and plastic bottles, as usual. The other kids had hated him to the core. Their parents had all heard the rumour that there's a werewolf in town due to the howls and growls. And they never failed to notice Cloud disappearing on every full moon. Their parents told them repeatedly to stay away from the "monster". And they did. With the exception of that Amber, of course. Soon, fear turned into hatred. As he walked into class, everyone booed and someone shouted,"Get away from us, monster!" Cloud turned around and sure enough, he found himself face to face with Bruce. Wel...not exactly face to face as Bruce was a head taller than Cloud...

Cloud started to take a few steps backward and Bruce approached him, pushing him against the door. "Well, you know what? I'm not afraid of you, monster! Scram! You don't belong here!" And he kicked Cloud in the stomach, making him double over. And he pushed Cloud out of the back door of the classroom. Cloud had spent hours in the toilet, afraid of what was coming for him if he returned to class...

After 4hours, he decided that he wouldn't need wto be afraid since the teacher would be in class. He walked into class and bowed to the new science teacher. She glared at him and barked,"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!? OUT! I DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOU!" Speechless and hurt, Cloud backed out of the class and his classmates snickered, pointing at him and whispering to each other. Cloud remembered walking to the corner of the school and sat there, under an apple tree. Of course there weren't any apples dropping on his head...he ain't newton. He's a monster. He looked down at the grass and found ants crawling on the grass. He grinned slightly and he muttered to himself,"How i wish I can see you, Amber...hmmm but at least these ants aren't afraid of me..." He continued to sit there and watched the ants and time passed without him knowing. Suddenyl a foot stomped down on his leg and he shouted and jumped up. There he was again...Bruce with his cold eyes and strong arms. Bruce pushed him against the apple tree and sneered,"Nobody to protect you now, eh? Motherless monster." C

loud's eyes flared and his blue eyes instantly turned red, and Bruce took a step back. "What the...."Bruce muttered. Cloud grinned as he felt himself losing control. The rage was taking over and he couldn't do anything about it...well back then he couldn't control himself like nowadays....the fur sprouted throughout his body and his muscles bulge. He grinned again and snarled,"What's the mattter Bruce? I thought you aren't afraid?" Cloud's transformation completed and Bruce widened his eyes in fear. He turned and started to run, but with a single leap Cloud pounced on him and bit down with his powerful jaws and razor-sharp teeth.....

He remembered that night, nobody could found Bruce...and he kept queit...only Amber knew about it, but she wouldn't tell anyone either, except she swore that she would help him control his temper. He also remembered that they only found his body a week later in the woods, already unrecognisable due to the cuts and bites. All the parents instantly supected he did it, but there was no way they could prove it....He also remembered regretting losing control...even till this day.

Now

Cloud shook his head, trying to forget the bad memories...he found Ryoma still staring at him with that look. He grinned at Ryoma again and said,"Well, you know, hiding in here the whole day will just make you fatter..." Cloud laughed and he smiled at Ryoma again.

ooc: The longest post i ever attempted.

[Ryoma Echizen]

Ryoma sighed as Cloud reminisced about his past. "To take your mind off things, I shall let you in on the 'Golden Tezuka Moment'. Subs provided by yours truly." Ryoma said, pointing towards a youtube video. "Please enjoy this really random Tezuka moment."



SUBS:
Oiishi: Oiii, everyone! Tezuka had sent a message from Germany. The mail is here!
Everyone: Really? Where?? Let us see...
[music sounds]
Tezuka: Yuuudannn Sezuuu ni Ikou~~~
[music ends]

[silence]
Kaidoh: ... that's all?
Horio: What the heck, that's it?? Why does buchou always have to send this kind of thing? The Nations are coming soon you know...
Momoshiro: But its Buchou... so that's okay, and we must all follow his orders!
Oiishi: That's right! So everyone, let us all not be careless!!! (Yudan sezu ni ikou = lets not be careless)
Everyone: YEAAAAHH!!!!