Awakening

It's 7 A.M. and young Yotsuku just turned off his alarm.
Another day, yet not so different. Yotsuku wakes up, goes to the bathroom, looks at himself in the mirror and sees his pale white face, his soulless eyes and bland face.
The best words to describe such a face would be "Easy to draw", and from the first glance, the average person would immediately jump to the conclusion that Yotsuku is depressed and miserable, but most people don't see the hidden details: his black messy hair that is silky and soft to the touch, his black eyes and sharp face that even though soulless and pale, is often intimidating.
Yotsuku doesn't have a reason to be depressed and miserable, one could even say he is living people's dreams; Yotsuku is a student at “Tokyo Internation” Highschool, which is a Japanese project the details of which are unnecessary, but it's safe to say it's the best high school in the whole world, and people would fight just to have a chance to attend it, and Yotsuku is one of few who actually had the chance to.

After Yotsuku had finished his daily bathroom routine, he stood naked with a towel on his waist in the middle of his room and looked at the mirror, he was very skinny, as skinny as a healthy person could be, because even though he found pleasure in food like anyone else, he barely ate, and even when he ate, he ate small portions of specific foods.

Yotsuku finally put something on his skin, a navy blue pair of pants and a navy blue jacket over a white shirt, with the upper left part of the jacket having a logo of the united nations flag, and exactly above it a small circle with a dot inside and six small lines coming out of it, surrounding the dot was a red circle, it was a mix of the flags of Tokyo and Japan, under the logo there was a small text that read "Tokyo Internation".

Doing the buttons of his shirt, Yotsuku noticed he received a voice message on his phone, so he played it and from it came a playful feminine voice saying: "Hey genius, I have been waiting for more than 0.002 seconds. You are sooo late."
Yotsuku looked out of his window to find a young woman of his age standing at the fence of his house and waving, she wore clothes very similar to what he wore except for she wore a long skirt and a hijab of the same navy blue color.

Yotsuku went downstairs his two-floor house, and even though the house was clean and tidied up, four rooms were closed and unused, and a big chunk of the house felt too much for one person. The house was definitely designed for at least two people to live in. 
Yotsuku finally went out and walked the garden to his colleague, to which she said: "How come I get a lecture when I am even a second late and you can act reckless like that!"
To which Yotsuku replied in a cold and sarcastic way: "Good morning, Nora."
She said sarcastically, making a funny face: "GoOd MoRNing, YoTSUku!"
He said: "We are already quite a few seconds late to school, we will have to walk a little faster today."
She said: "I wonder why that is?!"
But Yotsuku had already started walking so she quickly followed him.

On the way to school, which wasn't too long, Nora asked: "So... You never wake up that late. Something happened?"
He said: "No, just a weird dream."
She said: "Tell me about it!"
To which he didn't reply, so she said disappointedly : "I wasn't being sarcastic."
He said: "I know. I am trying to remember."
She said: "Okay... tell me when you do then."

Posted Jun 23, 2026, 10:21 AM UTC

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