Borderline Chapter 2
Title: Borderline
Disclaimer: I didn't own anything except for the plot
Characters: Inoo, Yabu, Yaotome
Genre: fantasy, romance
Summary: Borderline is a moment in time where wishes are granted but with a equivalent compensation.
Author's Note: I posted this in one of my journal before but i wanted to post it again here... so enjoy readingXD
Borderline
Chapter 2
December 22, 2006; 09:30
"Inoo-san, I really like you so please go out with me." a cute girl with curly long black hair confessed to him. She is smaller than him and with a pink scarf around her neck. Her hands are intertwined to each other and she is obviously blushing and embarrassed with what she did but there is a light hearted feeling that she was happy and in relief that she finally confessed to the guy that she really likes. Kei didn't answer at first for he can't understand what's going on. He is sure that he is outside the gym, well he is in front of the gym but it is different compare to his university gym and he is sure that he is only alone with Hikaru and now he is standing in front of a girl who confessed her feelings and a bunch of girls and boys watching over them. Kei bite his lips and think about it, he remembered the situation before this. He and Hikaru planned on going back to the library because they are feeling cold but then on his way his sight shut down and when he opened his eyes he is in a pitch black place with nothing on it and then he can hear voices and the second time he opened his eyes he is already in front of this girl.
Where is he? What is happening and what's really going on?
"I am not worthy of your love besides i don't like you" Kei answered honestly without even planning on choosing a word so that the girl will not be hurt. He still can't understand what is going on and so he just go with the flow and he wanted to end it immediately so that he can think of what to do about this. He experienced so many times being confessed like that and he is known for being a brutal killer of maiden's heart and because of that students starts to think that he is gay and he is not interested with girls.
Despite knowing how Kei always decline a confession, that girl still tried to conveyed her feelings thinking that maybe she can do it compare to other girls. But all the girls who confessed to him think that way at first but they ended up crying like the girl who just confessed to him now. It doesn't change, Kei is always Kei. That girl that confess to him is one of the maidens of the school. She is the top 2 beauty and she is really smart just like him but without any second though he just rejected her. The girl was left standing there in verge of crying, her friends approach her and try to cheer her up. Being rejected is way too hard for people who are really in love and Kei knows it but what he can't understand that even girls knew already how he treat a confession they still continue. Maybe winning the heart of a stoic person like him is really big deal to them. Kei walk away trying to analyze what is going on but all of a sudden someone tap his shoulder and then poked him in the face. He is irritated and not in the mood for humour but when he saw who did it he just sigh. It was Hikaru Yaotome, his best friend who is pouting his lips like a brat. But he change, he is not Hikaru Yaotome with the age of 20 years old if he is not mistaken he is Hikaru when he is in his middle high. His hair is still long and black and straight and he is wearing a middle school uniform with a scarf to warm his neck and gloves for his hand.
"Are you really stupid or nuts?" Hikaru asked him. "You just rejected a maiden's confession."
"Hikaru, why are you wearing our junior high uniform?"
"Huh? Why? Of course we are in school. What the hell is that question."
Kei looks around and realize that he is not in their university grounds. He is in a different place that looks familiar to him. He eyed every inch of the place until his sight goes back to Hikaru who is looking at him questionably. "Wh...what is going on? Hikaru what is the date today?" he asked curiously.
Hikaru get his cellphone and check for the date "December 22, 2006."
Kei excused himself for a while, he went straight to the restroom which he barely can remember where it is located. Gladly his mind is not that rusty and still he can remember how to navigate around his junior high school. There is mirror inside the boy's bathroom and he take a look at himself, upon looking on it he suddenly back off as if he was scared with his own reflection. But he still stare at himself and then move forward to check if what he is seeing is real. He touch his face, he look at himself thoroughly for he can't believe of what he is seeing right now.
"I am back to myself 6 years ago." he whispered. "B...but why? What is going on? Is this a dream? Yeah... That's what can only explain this." he continued murmuring and then he tried to pinch himself but it really hurts and so he stop. That place that he pinch is turning red but he did it again for the second time to wake himself up if it is really a dream. "Ouch that's painful."
"You will ruined your face if you will continue doing that." a voice said and then one of the cubicle to the right opened and he saw a good looking guy went out of it. He is tall around 178 cm but he is skinny as if he is not eating anything, he has brown hair and small face but what is attractive to him is his smiling eyes.
"W...who are you?" Kei asked immediately but that guy just smiled and waited for him to answer back but he didn't as if he is ignoring him. Kei didn't like being ignored but sometimes it is his hobby.
"Why can't you remember?" that guy suddenly asked after all the silence. "I told you my name already. You already know who i am."
Kei was surprised with what he said, he tried to think but he really didn't know him. But that is not the big deal, the most trival thing is why he is on his junior high school? And why he is small, he is back to his 14 years old self. He feels that his mind will going to burst after all the thinking. He feels another sharp pain on his head and his sight started to get fuzzy again. His body feels so weak and weird, it is like burning. He loss his balance and he sit down the floor . That guy that talked to him asked if he is alright and asked what he is feeling but he can't answer it for he can't utter a sound until he totally loss his sight and he is back seeing an all pitch black surrounding.
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December 21, 2012 ; 00:00
"I'm here again." Kei whispered and he saw 2 girls dancing in front of him. He is back to his normal body and age but now he didn't know what world he is in. The 2 girls looks alike, someone that is called twin. They have similar movements and that smile on their face says that they are cheerful and happy. They are wearing the same design of lolita clothes but the other one is blue and the other is red. Their hair are tied up with a big ribbon on their head that resembles the colour of their clothes. They stop dancing when they saw Kei watching over them, at the same they approached him and smiled with their teeth showing off. "Who are you?"
"I'm Fin and this is Min, we are the guardians of this place." the one on the left answered him.
"Can you tell me what exactly is happening?" Kei asked them seriously.
"Welcome to Borderline." both said at the same time making a weird posture. "Kei Inoo, 20 years old and currently a university student. You are smart and good looking and everyone admires you despite of your rude personality but even so you don't have that much friend except for Hikaru Yaotome. You hate yourself for some reason and you feel that there is something missing on your part." they summarized and they said it at the same time.
"How did you know all those facts?"
"It's written on a book, all the information since you are born until your death is written on that." they answered. "By the way as guardians we are here to tell you something about what is happening to you. We know that you are confused and your brain is going to burst anytime soon because of thinking about it. Well literally you can suffer that since no matter how you think about what is the rationale behind all of these, there is no scientific answer to it and so you can't attain an answer even you squeezed all your brain cells inside your brain." they continued.
Kei didn't say a thing anymore since he agreed to everything that they said and he is tired of thinking so he will just accept whatever explanation that they will give him. He sit down for a while and waited for the girls to explained the situation he is in.
"Like we said this is Borderline, the zero time world and the fine line that separate the parallel world of dreams and reality. Commonly when people sleep and went to REM state where dreams flash to people's mind they just pass through straight to that tunnel over there." they told him and they both point to a direction where Kei can see a tunnel that is so bright and different from the place where he is sitting that time.
"So...i am really in a dream."
"Yeah... It is like that but you are not passing through the tunnel so this is different from a dream. The tunnel is called the Dream Road while this place is the Borderline. Borderline is a place where special people pass through, actually you can say that this is an opportunity. People who reach this area are those people who have questions that they wanted to answer, doubts that need to settle and problems that wanted to solve. Those things will be achieved through dreams. The Dream Master, the ruler of this world will choose a dream where you can find the answer to the question asked by your heart and mind." they explained. "Which means since you pass this area you have questions that you wanted to be answer and now you are having a dream where you can find the answer to it."
"I have?" Kei asked them.
"Why are you asking us? You must supposed to know it right?" Fin and Min asked him as they pout their lips.
"Then are you telling me that i am in a dream? But i feel conscious, i mean i still have a control of what is happening."
"Of course it's your soul that is wondering. Your body right now is sound asleep and your soul is wondering to seek for an answer."
"But i don't know what question i wanted to be answered. I want to go back... This is just useless." Kei complained.
"If you enter Borderline you are not allowed to exit it without gaining anything. There are few things we wanted to tell you about this place First, resistance is not tolerated, whatever happened you just need to join the flow. Second, this is a dream and the dream that you will have depends on what problems or question you wanted to be answered. If you feel pain then it is just here and your body is safe. Third, this is not for free, equivalent rate is implemented and Forth, your dream is your own property." they explained. "You don't need to worry Inoo-sama, we mean no harm. just accept this and everything's gonna be fine. Borderline is not something you must afraid of." the two girls said gently and warm and that make Kei feel at ease for some reason. "Enjoy your stay and we hope you will attain the answer that you are looking for a long time already." they told him and then they totally vanished from his sight.
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December 22, 2006 ; 11:05
"You're awake already." the guy he saw in the restroom said. He is sitting in the chair next to the bed where he is sleeping. He was startled but he didn't say a thing. He is smiling at him like crazy and he thought that it is kinda creepy. "You suddenly collapse in the restroom and i was really worried about you."
Kei looks around to check where he is and then he remembered that it is the clinic room in his junior high, gladly he didn't forget about it. He feel light after all his questions being answered but still there are few questions that bothers him. What can he gain from this? Is this sort of magic or a play of his brain cells? The reality still doesn't seek into his mind, the reality that he is in the world dream that looks so real. "By the way who are you? Are you the clinic nurse?"
"Of course not, but i am here to see the clinic nurse. She is beautiful and sexy, she is actually my type." he answered and he sounds like a creepy pervert making Kei irritated over him. He hates people who doesn't know their position, people who are boastful and always talk about what they have and attained but the worst of everything is someone who is a pervert and talk like a host who only knows how to flatter and can only see the good part of you. He wanted to left the clinic already but when he is about to stand up he saw Hikaru pulled the curtain that separate each bed, he is with the clinic nurse who is a sexy young lady like that guy told him "Pretty." that guy whispered to him but he ignored it.
"Kei, are you alright?" Hikaru asked him worriedly.
"I told you he is just sleeping. Maybe he is tired or it is fatigue. Whatever it is you don't need to worry that much. By the way Inoo-san, i excuse you to your class so you can go home if you want to but Yaotome you need to go back to your class." she ordered them.
Hikaru has no choice but to obey the clinic nurse, he left the clinic after checking that Kei is really alright. He give him his stuffs and then Kei decided to leave the but before that he told something to the clinic nurse that she should be careful because there is a pervert young man hanging around in that place. Kei saw her looking around but the expression on her face tells "There is?"
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December 22, 2006; 12:00
Kei didn't want to go back home yet, he wanted to wander around to the world of dreams that he is in now. With that 14 years old body of him which is small compare to what he became when he is on his 20's, he walk around the area but he feels nothing change that much. There are just places where it is there in the future but no in the past. That time he wonder, he is sure that where he is in is his past, the life he has when is 14 years old but why it is this one was chosen to be his dreams. Can he find something in this?
When he is already in the park he saw his favourite ice cream shop. In his present year it is not already available since it was burned down 2 years ago and they never build anything around that area. Kei went inside and then he saw familiar faces and he found it nostalgic to see them again. He bought a vanilla flavour ice cream in cone and then eat it. Even it is winter he still love eating ice cream.
"You have guts to eat ice cream in this cold winter." someone interrupted and Kei was shocked again to see that perverted tall guy standing by the door.
Kei exited the shop and then he follows him. "Do you have lots of spare time and you spend it bothering me?" he asked him.
"I am tired staring at miss clinic nurse so i came following you." he answered him.
"Don't follow me, i don't even know who you are. You look like a university student but why are you hanging around a junior high school like me." He feels weird addressing himself as a junior high school student when in reality he is already in his late teens. He guess that it will not be easy for him to cope up with his situation. He tried to brush him off but it seems like that the latter is not affected by it. He noticed that the children in the park are staring him but he didn't know why, maybe it is really weird to eat an ice cream in the middle of the cold winter.
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December 22, 2006; 14:38
He tried his best but that guy is still following him. He went to a bookstore which he used to go before and owned by her aunt who is the little sister of his late father. He scan some new books that are displayed and he can still see that guy standing there and doing nothing but stare at him. His aunt saw him and called his attention. She is eating some monchi and she asked if Kei want some and so he take one and bite on it. "Aunt, isn't it stand byers are not allowed here?" Kei asked her out of the blue.
"Yeah, why? did you see someone who is around here for a long time without buying anything at all?"
Kei point at the main door where he can see that guy standing, her aunt went straight there and then she open the door passing through that guy as if she didn't saw him. She look by the door and then she saw high school students talking outside and they talk loud as if they owned the place and so she shoved them away. She went back after she did that. She went straight to the cabinet near the cashier area and pulled a box inside. "Give this to your father ones you come back home. It is given by our sister but she didn't have a chance to visit your house." she told him.
"Aunt, the stand by is still there." Kei talked pointing by his finger by the door area.
"Those high school students again?" she asked him back. "Geez, they never learn."
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December 22, 2006; 15:03
Kei start to feel something weird and still that guy is following him around. He decided to go back home and have a rest but still that guy is persistent enough to follow him through his house. He stop walking and then stare at that guy who seems so carefree "Stop following me. Are you a stalker?" he told him and then there are 2 high school girls who are passing by that area that stop walking and heard him say that.
"I am not a stalker." he answered back.
"Huh? Are you an asshole? Don't you call what you are doing as stalking." he replied back.
"Hey, are you sure you are alright shouting like that?" he pass another question. He slowly walk, making the distance between them short.
"Of course i am, i am irritated already so stop following me. If I will not say it you will not listen at all. I don't even know who you are." Kei noticed that the girl are staring at him but he doesn't care. It is true that it is not his nature to shout in public but he can't help it because he is irritated already. His patience is shortening and he can't think anymore, the reality doesn't still seek in on him even how he tried his best to understand it all. After a few seconds, he then realize that he is passing a wrong way, he forget that they transferred house when he is 18 years old and so when he is 14 years old he is still living in that old house that they sold 4 years ago in the future.
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December 22, 2006 ; 18:00
He look at himself in the mirror and he still can't believe that he is back in his 14 years old body. His height is so small and his face is still chubby and young. His fingers are still beautiful and slender but compare to what he have when he is 20 years old it's small and still soft and there is no marks of burns that he used to get during experiments. He is done taking a bath, he went out of the bathroom while wiping his hair.
"You look great with your hair wet." someone commented and that makes Kei's heart jump in surprised. His eyes open wide that he loss his balance and sit down the floor. He look at his bed and saw that guy again sitting on it and he looks relax. "Did i surprised you."
"W...what are you doing here? W...h...how?" Kei stummered he doesn't know what to say because he is too shocked. He immediately stand up and then get the baseball bat that he is hiding in his closet and threatened that guy that if he will not go out then he will not hesitant to hit him. But what bothers him is the fact that he entered his room without him knowing it. He used to lock the door of his room because he doesn't want anyone disturbing him but... This guy did enter it.
"I will not do anything to you so put that down" he said assumingly "besides even i want to i can't do anything at all."
"Go out! I told you go out!" he shouted. "or else i will call the police you pervert."
"Can you calm down a bit. You are noisy."
"then get out already."
"Even you call the police it is useless so don't bother."
"I am not naive to be fooled by you. If you will not go out freely then i will just kick you ass out of my room" Kei threatened him again. That creepy yet good looking guy stand up from where he is sitting down and slowly walk towards Kei. Kei step backward until he reach the wall and he is cornered. He can feel his body being numb and cannot move as that guy stare at him like he is planning to do something bad to him. His eyes is glomming and so clear but his face is pale and he noticed a scar on his forehead. He doesn't look bad at all, he looks like an ordinary people and not those bad ones but still bragging inside ones room is a crime or against the privacy law.
"Are you really scared of me? Well can't help it... Besides I am not alive anymore." he whispered to him and then he lift up his hand try to touch Kei's face but there is nothing happened. He didn't feel anything touch his body, he look down and then he gulped when he saw that guy who in front of him floating, his feet is not stepping on the floor. Kei gasped and then he lift his hand and try to touch the guy in front of him but it gives him shiver when his hand just pass through him. He didn't touch anything at all, there is no body, there is no physical form, there is not solid thing . He is like an air just pass through his touch. Kei run through his bed, passing through that guy.
He remembered everything that happen that day, that time in the park, those children are not looking at him just because he is eating an ice cream in a cold winter but it is because he is talking to someone they can't see and that goes the same in the clinic and even to the bookstore and even those 2 high school girls that he meet on his way back home. They didn't saw him because he doesn't have a physical form or he is not a human.
"Y....you..." Kei uttered but he can't finished what he wanted to say.
"You realized already right?" he asked him.
Kei is about to say a thing when suddenly the door opened and it is his big sister who went inside. She heard Kei shouting and so she is curious but when she went there Kei is on his bed and just done taking a bath and nothing else. Kei told her to go out already and never enter his room again without knocking the door. He close the door making sure that it was lock and then he is sure that his sister didn't saw him, that guy flying above his bed and waiting for him to say a thing, because if she did then she should be panicking already because she is afraid of ghost and any supernatural being. For the pass few seconds silence filled the room, Kei observe him while he is flying around and exploring his room. He tried to rub his eyes but he can still see him.
"You're different when you are at school and when you are at your own house. You look more carefree inside your home and i like it better." he commented, breaking the silence between them. He stop from flying and then sit down in front of Kei and smiled.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Kota and like what you are thinking. I am a ghost who died 6 years ago."
Disclaimer: I didn't own anything except for the plot
Characters: Inoo, Yabu, Yaotome
Genre: fantasy, romance
Summary: Borderline is a moment in time where wishes are granted but with a equivalent compensation.
Author's Note: I posted this in one of my journal before but i wanted to post it again here... so enjoy readingXD
Borderline
Chapter 2
December 22, 2006; 09:30
"Inoo-san, I really like you so please go out with me." a cute girl with curly long black hair confessed to him. She is smaller than him and with a pink scarf around her neck. Her hands are intertwined to each other and she is obviously blushing and embarrassed with what she did but there is a light hearted feeling that she was happy and in relief that she finally confessed to the guy that she really likes. Kei didn't answer at first for he can't understand what's going on. He is sure that he is outside the gym, well he is in front of the gym but it is different compare to his university gym and he is sure that he is only alone with Hikaru and now he is standing in front of a girl who confessed her feelings and a bunch of girls and boys watching over them. Kei bite his lips and think about it, he remembered the situation before this. He and Hikaru planned on going back to the library because they are feeling cold but then on his way his sight shut down and when he opened his eyes he is in a pitch black place with nothing on it and then he can hear voices and the second time he opened his eyes he is already in front of this girl.
Where is he? What is happening and what's really going on?
"I am not worthy of your love besides i don't like you" Kei answered honestly without even planning on choosing a word so that the girl will not be hurt. He still can't understand what is going on and so he just go with the flow and he wanted to end it immediately so that he can think of what to do about this. He experienced so many times being confessed like that and he is known for being a brutal killer of maiden's heart and because of that students starts to think that he is gay and he is not interested with girls.
Despite knowing how Kei always decline a confession, that girl still tried to conveyed her feelings thinking that maybe she can do it compare to other girls. But all the girls who confessed to him think that way at first but they ended up crying like the girl who just confessed to him now. It doesn't change, Kei is always Kei. That girl that confess to him is one of the maidens of the school. She is the top 2 beauty and she is really smart just like him but without any second though he just rejected her. The girl was left standing there in verge of crying, her friends approach her and try to cheer her up. Being rejected is way too hard for people who are really in love and Kei knows it but what he can't understand that even girls knew already how he treat a confession they still continue. Maybe winning the heart of a stoic person like him is really big deal to them. Kei walk away trying to analyze what is going on but all of a sudden someone tap his shoulder and then poked him in the face. He is irritated and not in the mood for humour but when he saw who did it he just sigh. It was Hikaru Yaotome, his best friend who is pouting his lips like a brat. But he change, he is not Hikaru Yaotome with the age of 20 years old if he is not mistaken he is Hikaru when he is in his middle high. His hair is still long and black and straight and he is wearing a middle school uniform with a scarf to warm his neck and gloves for his hand.
"Are you really stupid or nuts?" Hikaru asked him. "You just rejected a maiden's confession."
"Hikaru, why are you wearing our junior high uniform?"
"Huh? Why? Of course we are in school. What the hell is that question."
Kei looks around and realize that he is not in their university grounds. He is in a different place that looks familiar to him. He eyed every inch of the place until his sight goes back to Hikaru who is looking at him questionably. "Wh...what is going on? Hikaru what is the date today?" he asked curiously.
Hikaru get his cellphone and check for the date "December 22, 2006."
Kei excused himself for a while, he went straight to the restroom which he barely can remember where it is located. Gladly his mind is not that rusty and still he can remember how to navigate around his junior high school. There is mirror inside the boy's bathroom and he take a look at himself, upon looking on it he suddenly back off as if he was scared with his own reflection. But he still stare at himself and then move forward to check if what he is seeing is real. He touch his face, he look at himself thoroughly for he can't believe of what he is seeing right now.
"I am back to myself 6 years ago." he whispered. "B...but why? What is going on? Is this a dream? Yeah... That's what can only explain this." he continued murmuring and then he tried to pinch himself but it really hurts and so he stop. That place that he pinch is turning red but he did it again for the second time to wake himself up if it is really a dream. "Ouch that's painful."
"You will ruined your face if you will continue doing that." a voice said and then one of the cubicle to the right opened and he saw a good looking guy went out of it. He is tall around 178 cm but he is skinny as if he is not eating anything, he has brown hair and small face but what is attractive to him is his smiling eyes.
"W...who are you?" Kei asked immediately but that guy just smiled and waited for him to answer back but he didn't as if he is ignoring him. Kei didn't like being ignored but sometimes it is his hobby.
"Why can't you remember?" that guy suddenly asked after all the silence. "I told you my name already. You already know who i am."
Kei was surprised with what he said, he tried to think but he really didn't know him. But that is not the big deal, the most trival thing is why he is on his junior high school? And why he is small, he is back to his 14 years old self. He feels that his mind will going to burst after all the thinking. He feels another sharp pain on his head and his sight started to get fuzzy again. His body feels so weak and weird, it is like burning. He loss his balance and he sit down the floor . That guy that talked to him asked if he is alright and asked what he is feeling but he can't answer it for he can't utter a sound until he totally loss his sight and he is back seeing an all pitch black surrounding.
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December 21, 2012 ; 00:00
"I'm here again." Kei whispered and he saw 2 girls dancing in front of him. He is back to his normal body and age but now he didn't know what world he is in. The 2 girls looks alike, someone that is called twin. They have similar movements and that smile on their face says that they are cheerful and happy. They are wearing the same design of lolita clothes but the other one is blue and the other is red. Their hair are tied up with a big ribbon on their head that resembles the colour of their clothes. They stop dancing when they saw Kei watching over them, at the same they approached him and smiled with their teeth showing off. "Who are you?"
"I'm Fin and this is Min, we are the guardians of this place." the one on the left answered him.
"Can you tell me what exactly is happening?" Kei asked them seriously.
"Welcome to Borderline." both said at the same time making a weird posture. "Kei Inoo, 20 years old and currently a university student. You are smart and good looking and everyone admires you despite of your rude personality but even so you don't have that much friend except for Hikaru Yaotome. You hate yourself for some reason and you feel that there is something missing on your part." they summarized and they said it at the same time.
"How did you know all those facts?"
"It's written on a book, all the information since you are born until your death is written on that." they answered. "By the way as guardians we are here to tell you something about what is happening to you. We know that you are confused and your brain is going to burst anytime soon because of thinking about it. Well literally you can suffer that since no matter how you think about what is the rationale behind all of these, there is no scientific answer to it and so you can't attain an answer even you squeezed all your brain cells inside your brain." they continued.
Kei didn't say a thing anymore since he agreed to everything that they said and he is tired of thinking so he will just accept whatever explanation that they will give him. He sit down for a while and waited for the girls to explained the situation he is in.
"Like we said this is Borderline, the zero time world and the fine line that separate the parallel world of dreams and reality. Commonly when people sleep and went to REM state where dreams flash to people's mind they just pass through straight to that tunnel over there." they told him and they both point to a direction where Kei can see a tunnel that is so bright and different from the place where he is sitting that time.
"So...i am really in a dream."
"Yeah... It is like that but you are not passing through the tunnel so this is different from a dream. The tunnel is called the Dream Road while this place is the Borderline. Borderline is a place where special people pass through, actually you can say that this is an opportunity. People who reach this area are those people who have questions that they wanted to answer, doubts that need to settle and problems that wanted to solve. Those things will be achieved through dreams. The Dream Master, the ruler of this world will choose a dream where you can find the answer to the question asked by your heart and mind." they explained. "Which means since you pass this area you have questions that you wanted to be answer and now you are having a dream where you can find the answer to it."
"I have?" Kei asked them.
"Why are you asking us? You must supposed to know it right?" Fin and Min asked him as they pout their lips.
"Then are you telling me that i am in a dream? But i feel conscious, i mean i still have a control of what is happening."
"Of course it's your soul that is wondering. Your body right now is sound asleep and your soul is wondering to seek for an answer."
"But i don't know what question i wanted to be answered. I want to go back... This is just useless." Kei complained.
"If you enter Borderline you are not allowed to exit it without gaining anything. There are few things we wanted to tell you about this place First, resistance is not tolerated, whatever happened you just need to join the flow. Second, this is a dream and the dream that you will have depends on what problems or question you wanted to be answered. If you feel pain then it is just here and your body is safe. Third, this is not for free, equivalent rate is implemented and Forth, your dream is your own property." they explained. "You don't need to worry Inoo-sama, we mean no harm. just accept this and everything's gonna be fine. Borderline is not something you must afraid of." the two girls said gently and warm and that make Kei feel at ease for some reason. "Enjoy your stay and we hope you will attain the answer that you are looking for a long time already." they told him and then they totally vanished from his sight.
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December 22, 2006 ; 11:05
"You're awake already." the guy he saw in the restroom said. He is sitting in the chair next to the bed where he is sleeping. He was startled but he didn't say a thing. He is smiling at him like crazy and he thought that it is kinda creepy. "You suddenly collapse in the restroom and i was really worried about you."
Kei looks around to check where he is and then he remembered that it is the clinic room in his junior high, gladly he didn't forget about it. He feel light after all his questions being answered but still there are few questions that bothers him. What can he gain from this? Is this sort of magic or a play of his brain cells? The reality still doesn't seek into his mind, the reality that he is in the world dream that looks so real. "By the way who are you? Are you the clinic nurse?"
"Of course not, but i am here to see the clinic nurse. She is beautiful and sexy, she is actually my type." he answered and he sounds like a creepy pervert making Kei irritated over him. He hates people who doesn't know their position, people who are boastful and always talk about what they have and attained but the worst of everything is someone who is a pervert and talk like a host who only knows how to flatter and can only see the good part of you. He wanted to left the clinic already but when he is about to stand up he saw Hikaru pulled the curtain that separate each bed, he is with the clinic nurse who is a sexy young lady like that guy told him "Pretty." that guy whispered to him but he ignored it.
"Kei, are you alright?" Hikaru asked him worriedly.
"I told you he is just sleeping. Maybe he is tired or it is fatigue. Whatever it is you don't need to worry that much. By the way Inoo-san, i excuse you to your class so you can go home if you want to but Yaotome you need to go back to your class." she ordered them.
Hikaru has no choice but to obey the clinic nurse, he left the clinic after checking that Kei is really alright. He give him his stuffs and then Kei decided to leave the but before that he told something to the clinic nurse that she should be careful because there is a pervert young man hanging around in that place. Kei saw her looking around but the expression on her face tells "There is?"
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December 22, 2006; 12:00
Kei didn't want to go back home yet, he wanted to wander around to the world of dreams that he is in now. With that 14 years old body of him which is small compare to what he became when he is on his 20's, he walk around the area but he feels nothing change that much. There are just places where it is there in the future but no in the past. That time he wonder, he is sure that where he is in is his past, the life he has when is 14 years old but why it is this one was chosen to be his dreams. Can he find something in this?
When he is already in the park he saw his favourite ice cream shop. In his present year it is not already available since it was burned down 2 years ago and they never build anything around that area. Kei went inside and then he saw familiar faces and he found it nostalgic to see them again. He bought a vanilla flavour ice cream in cone and then eat it. Even it is winter he still love eating ice cream.
"You have guts to eat ice cream in this cold winter." someone interrupted and Kei was shocked again to see that perverted tall guy standing by the door.
Kei exited the shop and then he follows him. "Do you have lots of spare time and you spend it bothering me?" he asked him.
"I am tired staring at miss clinic nurse so i came following you." he answered him.
"Don't follow me, i don't even know who you are. You look like a university student but why are you hanging around a junior high school like me." He feels weird addressing himself as a junior high school student when in reality he is already in his late teens. He guess that it will not be easy for him to cope up with his situation. He tried to brush him off but it seems like that the latter is not affected by it. He noticed that the children in the park are staring him but he didn't know why, maybe it is really weird to eat an ice cream in the middle of the cold winter.
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December 22, 2006; 14:38
He tried his best but that guy is still following him. He went to a bookstore which he used to go before and owned by her aunt who is the little sister of his late father. He scan some new books that are displayed and he can still see that guy standing there and doing nothing but stare at him. His aunt saw him and called his attention. She is eating some monchi and she asked if Kei want some and so he take one and bite on it. "Aunt, isn't it stand byers are not allowed here?" Kei asked her out of the blue.
"Yeah, why? did you see someone who is around here for a long time without buying anything at all?"
Kei point at the main door where he can see that guy standing, her aunt went straight there and then she open the door passing through that guy as if she didn't saw him. She look by the door and then she saw high school students talking outside and they talk loud as if they owned the place and so she shoved them away. She went back after she did that. She went straight to the cabinet near the cashier area and pulled a box inside. "Give this to your father ones you come back home. It is given by our sister but she didn't have a chance to visit your house." she told him.
"Aunt, the stand by is still there." Kei talked pointing by his finger by the door area.
"Those high school students again?" she asked him back. "Geez, they never learn."
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December 22, 2006; 15:03
Kei start to feel something weird and still that guy is following him around. He decided to go back home and have a rest but still that guy is persistent enough to follow him through his house. He stop walking and then stare at that guy who seems so carefree "Stop following me. Are you a stalker?" he told him and then there are 2 high school girls who are passing by that area that stop walking and heard him say that.
"I am not a stalker." he answered back.
"Huh? Are you an asshole? Don't you call what you are doing as stalking." he replied back.
"Hey, are you sure you are alright shouting like that?" he pass another question. He slowly walk, making the distance between them short.
"Of course i am, i am irritated already so stop following me. If I will not say it you will not listen at all. I don't even know who you are." Kei noticed that the girl are staring at him but he doesn't care. It is true that it is not his nature to shout in public but he can't help it because he is irritated already. His patience is shortening and he can't think anymore, the reality doesn't still seek in on him even how he tried his best to understand it all. After a few seconds, he then realize that he is passing a wrong way, he forget that they transferred house when he is 18 years old and so when he is 14 years old he is still living in that old house that they sold 4 years ago in the future.
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December 22, 2006 ; 18:00
He look at himself in the mirror and he still can't believe that he is back in his 14 years old body. His height is so small and his face is still chubby and young. His fingers are still beautiful and slender but compare to what he have when he is 20 years old it's small and still soft and there is no marks of burns that he used to get during experiments. He is done taking a bath, he went out of the bathroom while wiping his hair.
"You look great with your hair wet." someone commented and that makes Kei's heart jump in surprised. His eyes open wide that he loss his balance and sit down the floor. He look at his bed and saw that guy again sitting on it and he looks relax. "Did i surprised you."
"W...what are you doing here? W...h...how?" Kei stummered he doesn't know what to say because he is too shocked. He immediately stand up and then get the baseball bat that he is hiding in his closet and threatened that guy that if he will not go out then he will not hesitant to hit him. But what bothers him is the fact that he entered his room without him knowing it. He used to lock the door of his room because he doesn't want anyone disturbing him but... This guy did enter it.
"I will not do anything to you so put that down" he said assumingly "besides even i want to i can't do anything at all."
"Go out! I told you go out!" he shouted. "or else i will call the police you pervert."
"Can you calm down a bit. You are noisy."
"then get out already."
"Even you call the police it is useless so don't bother."
"I am not naive to be fooled by you. If you will not go out freely then i will just kick you ass out of my room" Kei threatened him again. That creepy yet good looking guy stand up from where he is sitting down and slowly walk towards Kei. Kei step backward until he reach the wall and he is cornered. He can feel his body being numb and cannot move as that guy stare at him like he is planning to do something bad to him. His eyes is glomming and so clear but his face is pale and he noticed a scar on his forehead. He doesn't look bad at all, he looks like an ordinary people and not those bad ones but still bragging inside ones room is a crime or against the privacy law.
"Are you really scared of me? Well can't help it... Besides I am not alive anymore." he whispered to him and then he lift up his hand try to touch Kei's face but there is nothing happened. He didn't feel anything touch his body, he look down and then he gulped when he saw that guy who in front of him floating, his feet is not stepping on the floor. Kei gasped and then he lift his hand and try to touch the guy in front of him but it gives him shiver when his hand just pass through him. He didn't touch anything at all, there is no body, there is no physical form, there is not solid thing . He is like an air just pass through his touch. Kei run through his bed, passing through that guy.
He remembered everything that happen that day, that time in the park, those children are not looking at him just because he is eating an ice cream in a cold winter but it is because he is talking to someone they can't see and that goes the same in the clinic and even to the bookstore and even those 2 high school girls that he meet on his way back home. They didn't saw him because he doesn't have a physical form or he is not a human.
"Y....you..." Kei uttered but he can't finished what he wanted to say.
"You realized already right?" he asked him.
Kei is about to say a thing when suddenly the door opened and it is his big sister who went inside. She heard Kei shouting and so she is curious but when she went there Kei is on his bed and just done taking a bath and nothing else. Kei told her to go out already and never enter his room again without knocking the door. He close the door making sure that it was lock and then he is sure that his sister didn't saw him, that guy flying above his bed and waiting for him to say a thing, because if she did then she should be panicking already because she is afraid of ghost and any supernatural being. For the pass few seconds silence filled the room, Kei observe him while he is flying around and exploring his room. He tried to rub his eyes but he can still see him.
"You're different when you are at school and when you are at your own house. You look more carefree inside your home and i like it better." he commented, breaking the silence between them. He stop from flying and then sit down in front of Kei and smiled.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Kota and like what you are thinking. I am a ghost who died 6 years ago."