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[FanFic] Cherish -- Prologue

2009-06-23T23:09:22Z

Title: Cherish

Chapter : Prologue

Pairing: Ryo x OC (& maybe more...)

Rating: PG

Genre: Romance, a bit of angst.

Summary: A foreigner unfortunately (or fortunately) stuck in Tokyo the night of her arrival in Japan.

Disclaimer: I wish I could own Ryo, but I can't. But the OC is aaaall mine. :p (talk about a consolation...)
Comment : All dialogs are supposedly in Japanese (except when indicated so) but written in English for my, and I suppose, your ease.

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[pic by rendomthoughts]

Craaaap, crap, crap, CRAP! I'm gonna miss it, I'm really gonna miss it!

With a panicked look at her watch, she snatched her passport off the immigration officer's hands, made a quick bow and rushed in the terminal hall.

Carrying a super-heavy luggage was difficult. Doing it while trying to run was even worse.

After five minutes of fierce struggle, she finally managed to reach the info desk she aimed for. It took her five more minutes to be understood by the lady, trying to form audible words between her panting and her hesitant Japanese.

Five minutes, that's exactly the time she would have needed not to miss the last train of the night.

- Eeeeeeh! God, no... Isn't there any other way to get there? asked the girl, pointing on the map the small town she had to get to.

- Sorry... I think you'll have to spend the night in Tokyo and wait for a morning train.

Yay. Not even my first full day here and I already messed up.

- Thank you.

With that, she reluctantly left the desk, took her bag and let herself fall on the nearest seat. Head down, she tried to figure out her situation.

So, here I am : alone in this gigantic Tokyo, no cellphone, no relatives or friends, not enough money to spend the night in a hotel. This is so great.

One hand casually messing up her mid-long hair, she lifted her head to have a look at the hall. She sighed : this airport alone looked already like a city itself. She cursed herself for growing up in such a small country.

Thinking of home suddenly made her sad. Her parents, her brother and sister... She didn't expect what it would cost her to leave them behind.

What am I doing here...

She looked at the various people coming and going in this huge hall through the glass doors. It was so dark outside now that the place seemed surreal to her. As if the terminal was surrounded by nothing, just black emptiness.

Maybe because the thought was too oppressive, or maybe only because her usual optimism was slowly getting back to her, she decided :

I won't stay here being depressed. Let's take a look at what Tokyo has to offer to a poor stupid lost tourist!

She grinned to herself as she grabbed her bag and went to store it at the left luggage office for the night. She only kept some money and her wallet.

She took a few strides towards the entrance when her attention was attracted by a particularly beautifully dressed Japanese women.

Oh, so that's what is called the Japanese sense of fashion.

Feeling suddenly self-conscious, she looked down at her own clothes. She wore converse-style baskets, her favorite baggy dark blue jeans, a plain white t-shirt with a huge black "ROCK ON!" spread on it, and on top of this, her old black leather jacket. She did feel comfortable, not sexy at all - especially as opposed to the passing-by Japanese woman - but comfortable.

Let's face it, I look shabby and boyish. Well, at least I won't be annoyed by some stalker.

Putting the thought aside, she put her hands in her pockets and went through the automatic doors.

Now that the she was stuck here and the night was all hers, she was feeling kind of excited.

***

Ryo was annoyed, pissed off, disappointed, and - above all - angry. Those four emotions were going through his mind while he was shouting on the phone.

- I waited for you for TWO hours!!

- I'm sorry... I really am..., Yamapi replied. But Jin called, he sounded as he was in trouble so...

- How could he not be, this bakanishi! You should have called me earlier, Pi!

Ryo was still fuming, but Yamapi could sense the end of the crisis was near as his friend called him by his nickname.

- I'm truuuuly sorry, playfully repeated Yamapi.

Ryo could not help but crack a smile just imagining Yamapi saying this.

- Fine. Let's not talk about it anymore. So, are you coming over? It's late already, and I'm tired of waiting in this bar.

- ...

- You're not coming.

- Sor-, began Yamapi.

- You're sorry, I know. See you tomorrow, Pi.

And he hang up.

Not that he was still angry - he knew how Pi was devoted to Jin and how the latter could easily persuade him to come over for any ridiculous reason - but he was just bored.

Staying in this bar alone was out of the question. He payed the bill, grabbed his jacket and went out in the chilly night.

He first thought of going back to his apartement. But just imagining spending the rest of the evening in an empty place and going to bed early a friday night made him change his mind.

Where could I go... Stupid Yamapi.

Now that he was stuck alone and the night was all his, he was feeling kind of scared.

(to be continued...)

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Yattaaa! This is it, my very first crappy try in the fanfic world!
I'm sorry if I'm made some language mistakes (be indulgent, I'm originally a French speaker...). Don't hesitate to point the things you find wrong.

Aah, I've got several ideas for the next chapters, but I still can't make my mind on which direction to take. XD

Comments are LOVE ! ;)

Yamapi Ryo: Smile !!!!!

2009-06-21T22:14:17Z

(Yay! I'm back on my LJ, it's been quite a while...)

This vid is, well, love incarnated!
All the cuteness & gorgeousness packed in three and a half minutes.

(by leiluchan)

By the way, new layout, with a taste of summer (see the credits on my profile page), & new mood theme I fell in love with. ^^ Damn it, must refrain my fangirlism... =p

888 Challenge - Book list

2008-01-02T08:44:36Z

I said that I was going to share my book list for the 888 challenge, so here it is ! Most books are in french.

Adviced by my brother :

1. Jean-Michel Truong - Le successeur de pierre
2. Jean-Michel Truong - Eternity Express
3. Douglas Adams - Le Guide du voyageur galactique (H2G2, I)
4. H.P. Lovecraft - Par-delà le mur du sommeil
5. Frank Herbert - Destination vide
6. Frank Herbert - Dune I
7. Terry Pratchett - Sourcellerie
8. Terry Pratchett - La huitième fille

Classics :

1. Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
2. Vincent Engel - Retour à Montechiarro
3. Balzac - Le Père Goriot
4. Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac
5. Chateaubriand - Atala / René / Les Natchez
6. William Shakespeare - Richard III
7. Alexandre Dumas - Vingt ans après
8. Alexandre Dumas - Le Vicomte de Bragelonne

Japanese authors :

1. Fumio Niwa - L'âge des méchancetés
2. Junichiro Tanizaki - Le meurtre d'O-Tsuya
3. Taichi Yamada - In search of a distant voice
4. Kiyochi Kurosawa - Kairo
5. Koji Suzuki - Dark water
6. Koji Suzuki - Double hélice
7. Koji Suzuki - Ring
8. Takami Koushun - Battle Royale

Fantasy :

1. Jean-Louis Fetjaine - Le pas de Merlin
2. Jean-Louis Fetjaine - Brocéliande
3. J.R.R. Tolkien - Faërie
4. Philip Pullman - La tour des Anges
5. Philip Pullman - Le Miroir d'ambre
6. Neil Gaiman - Stardust
7. Christopher Paolini - Eragon
8. Christopher Paolini - L'Aîné

History :

1. Edwin O. Reischauer - Histoire du Japon et des Japonais (1/ Des origines à 1945)
2. Edwin O. Reischauer - Histoire du Japon et des Japonais (2/ De 1945 à nos jours)
3. Stephen E. Ambrose - Frères d'armes
4. Elisabeth de Chimay - La princesse des Chimères
5. Françoise Chandernagor - L'Allée du Roi
6. L. Génicot / J. Ruwet / J. Lefèvre - Histoire de Belgique
7. Jean François Deniau - La gloire à 20 ans
8. Marcel Bluwal / Félicien Marceau - Mozart

Supernatural creatures :

1. Bram Stoker - La dame au linceul
2. Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla
3. Polidori - Le Vampire
4. Anne Rice - Lestat le vampire
5. Richard Matheson - Je suis une légende
6. Anne Rice - Entretien avec un vampire
7. Gaston Leroux - Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
8. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

English-speaking :

1. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
3. George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
4. E.M. Forster - A Passage to India
5. Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
6. J.R.R. Tolkien - Unifinished Tales
7. J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
8. Jude Morgan - Passion

Testimonies / Life philosophy :

1. Christiane Singer - Les Âges de la vie
2. Philippe Delerm - Le bonheur
3. Philippe Delerm - Le Portique
4. François Garagnon - Jade et les sacrés mystères de la vie
5. Nicole Benevise - Journal d'une infirmière
6. Guy Corneau - La guérison du coeur
7. Scott Cunningham - La Wicca
8. Dr. Charly Cungi - S'avoir s'affirmer

Randomness + 888 Challenge

2007-10-17T22:28:39Z

Geeeez, I'm so tired... Sleeping too late and too much things to carry out. >_<
I have to write articles for a magazine, it's been now more than a month that I'm doing it, and, honestly speaking, I'm tired of this !!! But I guess the reward will be worth the effort.
The day after tomorrow I'll be 21 ! The symbolic year of the "20" is already over for me. Time's running so fast ! ^^ I speak like an old woman. =D

Enough small talk, the wallpapers I'm working on will only be finished this weekend, or even during the following week... I'm too busy for the time being. Gome ne. ^^

I've adapted a new layout for my LJ by the way (I could not help include a picture of Ikuta Toma, my favorite of the moment. <3 ). The credit of the layout is on my profile page if you want it for yourself (except the banner, which is what I added. ^^).

Ah, just in case you're interested, I read a blog today telling about the "888" challenge. It's a reading challenge : to participate, you must create a list of 8 categories of books including 8 books each, and the challenge is to read all these during the year 2008. You can grab more information and suscribe to the challenge here > http://triple8challenge.blogspot.com/
As a french speaker, I don't think it's possible for me to officially be listed as a participant, but I love the idea and I'll soon post my list of books here. =)

But it's time to go to sleep now...

Oyasumi ! ;-)

Oribe Junpei (Ikuta Toma) tribute MV !

2007-10-14T12:02:43Z

Yosh ! Just finished yesterday night this video starring mostly Ikuta Toma as Oribe Junpei in the first episode of Hana Yori Dango 2.

The song is "Psychobabble" of Frou Frou. I thought the lyrics and the rhythm of the song fitted pretty well the theme of the video.

Hope you'll like it ! Don't hesitate to comment. ^_^'

Back !

2007-10-10T10:23:31Z

I'm finally back on my LJ !
I hope I'll have the time to post some wallpapers I work on soon. There'll be some Gackt, some Hyde, Ikuta Toma and maybe Oguri Shun.

But for now, I really have to work on my partitions... My singing lesson is not so far away... >_<

Dja ne !

\m/ \m/

Avalon OST

2007-05-18T22:02:25Z

The "Avalon" OST (1990 movie by Mamoru Oshii).

Here's the link, enjoy !

Avalon OST

~ Back to my blog ~

Aereogramme - My heart has a wish that you would not go

2007-02-13T23:58:02Z

Aereogramme - My heart as a wish that you would not go

~ Megaupload link

Enjoy !

Dragon Ash - See You In A Flash

2007-01-17T15:13:27Z

Dragon Ash - See You In A Flash

Album : Rio De Emocion
2005

> Billet du blog <

The Cape Of Storms, again...

2007-01-05T10:01:51Z

If you haven't the last quarter mix of this song, there you go :

http://www.mediafire.com/?cnemjydmnmk

Enjoy.

Slipknot - Vol 3 (The Subliminal Verses)

2006-12-04T23:22:39Z

(Please report it in a comment if a link does not work. I'll try to fix it.)

Slipknot - Duality (via Badongo)

Slipknot - Circle (via T3rbo)

Slipknot - Vermillion (via Badongo)

Slipknot - Vermillion Pt. 2 (via Sharebigfile)

Aller au billet

Label : Roadrunner Records
Année : 2004

PS : 10 comments, and I upload the entire album !

K's Choice - Almost Happy

2006-11-28T16:14:29Z

K's Choice - Almost happy

K's Choice - Tired

K's Choice - Shadowman

Label : Sony
Année : 2000

Aller au billet

Hyde - Faith

2006-11-28T15:06:29Z

Hyde - Faith

Aller au billet

The Cape Of Storms

2006-11-21T00:56:35Z

Just in case you're passing by, you're a Hyde-lover, and you don't have the instrumental versions of the Cape Of Storms in Kagen No Tsuki / Last Quarter.

Enjoy !

Piano version : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6VVUE5LY

Guitar version : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J6HOJLHM

Lyrics : japanese to english.

2006-10-07T21:19:07Z

If you're looking for lyrics translated from japanese, go for this location > http://www.centigrade-j.com/

The layout of the page isn't really handy, but the content is there. A website to bookmark.

(By the way, if you happen to read this line, don't hesitate to inform me if you know other adresses. I'm sure there are plenty of them.)

Update : Go also for (L'Arc~En~Ciel lyrics + translations) > http://haruka.baka-koneko.com/

J-pop covers

2006-10-07T21:04:24Z

As I was tagging some j-music on my computer tonight, I found it quite hard to find high quality cd covers.

I tried many locations : Amazon.jp, Play-asia, YasAsia, Cduniverse, Wikipedia, and many more. Wikipedia and Cduniverse happened to be the best ones.

It's a pity that even on official sites they provide only tiny covers. Maybe because they're afraid of hotlinks, dunno.

I you are searching for Utada Hikaru covers, or J-pop covers in general, you can go on this website : http://www.j-popcdart.com/ They upload pics of high quality.