"Happy Birthday, Ryu!" Exclaimed an excited voice from behind.
"Hm?" Turning around, and lift his head, stood a man with jet black hair, lighted with several white-blonde streaks through it. It was pulled back into a ponytail. Wear was clad in a baby blue sweat shirt that was tucked into oversized baggy black jeans that were lined with silver behind the pockets.
"Here's your...present." Said a girl with shorter, blonde hair that traced a black streak on each side of her head. She was wearing a black shirt made of silky material that tied around her neck and came down to a point just above her belly button and raised up in the back. Her skirt was a tough material that shined and hung at her hips, just barely reaching to the middle of her theighs with only several inches between it and a pair a black leather boot that had silver chains embeddled into the ankles. "Here, silly." The girl said as she held a small white box with a red ribbon tied around it and ribbons that curled down the sides. "Happy 21st birthday, Ryu!"
Lowering his sunglasses, he looked up to her with eyes of crymson and Violet. He lifted the glasses onto the top of his head and took the present. "You didn't have to."
"I know. But I wanted to."
Pulling the ribbon off and removing the box top, he looked down to see a small locket that was shaped in the form of a sword and was hung on a fine chain. The locket was made of silver elite and had a ruby placed at the hilt of the sword. Setting the box on a table beside him, he opened of up the locket to reveal a picture of the two, one as they were younger and a recent. "I don't know what to say."
"Well, I stayed up all night trying to find those pictures small enough to fit. So..."
He cut her off with a hug. "Thank you. It's the best thing I've ever got, Shouko."
Her face turned red as she looked off to the side, noticing all the girls that gave her dirty looks as if they were plotting her death. "Um..."
"Alright, everybody! Look, it's late and I had a great time, but it's reached that time." Said Ryu as he bowed. "Thank you so much."
The towns people came around few by few wishing him luck in the future and once more a happy 21st birthday, and bowing in the appropriate manor.
"Ryu! Won't you reconsider my offer?" Said the head of the official Ryu and Crym fanclub.
"Sorry. Not tonight. Maybe...another night?" He replied with a a wink and his prize winning smile.
She clasped her hands together and fell back where her groupies caught her, giggling as they took a last look at him and then dragging their friend out.
"Really?"
"Really what?"
"Maybe...another night?" Shouko repeated.
"I wouldn't really. It'll keep her satisfied until she asks again. It always does."
"Yeah right."
"Oh Ryu. Happy birthday."
Turning to his side, he smiled as he lifted up an older woman that was middle aged. She had wavey brown hair and Violet eyes. She was wearing a brown t-shirt and and blue carpenter pants. "Mom!"
"Ryu, put me down. You'll break my back like this!"
He growled and lightly set her down with a smile. "How are you?!"
"I'm fine. I just got here." She handed him a few envelopes. "Here, these came for you."
He nodded as he took them. "Thanks." He turned around, tossing them on the table behind him, freezing as he heard a metal cling. Turning around, he scattered the mail around, feeling for metal. Tearing the an older looking envelope open, out rolled a ball with a flat prism attached.
"Ryu! It's a bomb!" Yelled Shouko.
The ball lit up and smoke started to flood into the room causing the room to spin around. "I... just have... to ge-" Ryu's eyes rolled into the back of his head as he fell with a thud, followed by a chain reaction of thuds.



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