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From Past to Future (2) Char focus: (Tetsuia/Mura)
Hika watched Fuji from behind as she took the lead into the unknown. For all they knew, they could have been close to the exit and were walking away from it, but the same could hold true in reverse. His loose whitish-blue shoes had made a sound similar to the trotting of a horse. Neither he and Fuji had talked after the hug, quietly worrying for the sake of their third companion.
The white seemed to be endless. What if this place had an infinite amount of space? It could be possible that they'd never be able to see him again. A chill made him shiver throughout his body despite the warm, yet eerie glow of the light around him. Putting his hand through his hair, a nervous habit that he picked up from his foster brother, Hika scanned his surroundings, making sure that he will not pass his companion and not know it.
Hika mumbled depressingly, "Where are you, Tet..."
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Where are you, Tet..?
Head full of black hair turned around, Tetsuia scanned behind him, almost swearing that he heard the voice of his younger brother. Feeling compelled to follow this lead, regardless of trap or hazard, Tetsuia had continued dashing foward in the opposite direction. He walked for hours...or was it minutes...it was impossible to tell for he lacked the equipment for it. Tetsuia's face broke into a small grin, thinking of an ironic memory.
"I still think that a watch should be a piece of standard equipment regardless of what you say."
Looking at the disgruntled Fuji, Tetsuia cracked a small smile, saying with a bored tone, "If you want to get killed, go ahead. Packing extra weight makes one less manuverable and increases stamina drain as I've told you over and over." His comment only seemed to infuriate her. Tetsuia then narrowly ducked under an arithmancy book thrown by Fuji, skimming his thick hair, and watching it crash onto a chair, its spine breaking through the middle. Raising an eyebrow, Tetsuia attempted to make a comment about how childish she was acting to only be cut off.
"I'll worry about myself and you worry about yourself...Besides, Tetsu-kun, I won't die...I'm the personification of bad luck, remember." The temperature of the room seemed to warm as Fuji smiled and laughed. The nickname that Tetsuia gave her after the string of failures they had with their missions, ranging from babysitting to assassination.
Tetsuia smiled back, saying with some sarcasm and humor, "And I'll always be your knight in shining armor." An awkward silence ensued with both smiling at each other, broken suddenly by a door opening with a lighter, disappointed voice inquiring, "Tet...are you throwing things again? You do know that these books cost money..."
Fuji's eyes radiated sadisticness and playfullness towards Tetsuia with her mouth opening to say, "Yea, Tetsu-kun. Hika spends money on these gifts to you and you throw them around? Shame on you."
Tetsuia's eyes widened in indignation, his lips sputtering, trying to make a rebuttal.
Pandemonium ensued soon afterwards.
Tetsuia found himself sitting on the ground, recalling that memory as if it had been yesterday. His face was still in the direction of what he though was Hika's voice. Lifting himself slowly up with his staff, Tetsuia returned to running through the great blankness, struggling to find both his companions, Hika and Fuji.
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