Forestille City

Cold and harsh white, then cold and dark. Tubes and wires everywhere in a claustrophobic space, with no light or sound. A brief pain...

But that was before. Now... Now there was light. Light and heat, morning sun on a figure wrapped in blankets.

Ina Rozumo groaned and twisted, untangling an arm to try and block out the morning sun. No use. It seemed determined to wake her up. She opened her eyes, rolled over, and looked up at a ceiling she didn't recognize. Her brain told her she'd never been here, but then it said she'd been here her whole life, which comprised of a minute ago to now. She quickly forgot that there had been something wrong, forgot everything but her name (and basic human functions such as speech, which were conveniently left alone).

She stood up and realized she was in street clothes, not sleep clothes like she would have expected. She ignored that too, and grabbed a red hankerchief from a bedside table, tying it over the back of her head as unconcious habit dictated, even though her blond hair was short enough that it did nothing.

Then she surveyed her apartment- the possessive supplied itself instantly and booked no arguments. It had a simple, clean look to it, of a well-cared for home. There was a bedroom, a main room, a bathroom and a kitchen, all done in hardwood. The bedroom was small, containing only a comfortable but undersized bed, a nightstand and a bookshelf empty but for some cheap novels. The main room had a table (set for six, she noted), a couch and two chairs, with the seats arrayed around an old widescreened TV, the kind you had to cut holes in the back of the TV cabinet for. A few shelves were lined with odd figurines and trinkets, including a smiling Buddha and a folded blue umbrella. The kitchen was neat- neat and empty of anything but plates, bowls and silverware. The refridgerator hummed reassuringly, but it proved empty as well. A ring of keys lay invitingly on the counter, but she passed then over. She didn't bother to check the bathroom, since a more interesting destination presented itself- the front door.

Ina sneaked a glance through the peephole, and saw only a carpeted hallway outside, with another door straight across. Unlatching the door, she stepped out into the hall. It wasn't until the door closed that it occured to her to bring the keys along. The door had, of course, locked itself automatically behind her.

And so Ina said her first words in this new city: "Screw you too, door."

Leon felt a slight pain, and then she opened her eyes.

The sunlight didn't enter her eyes, since she had the blankets over her head, but all the rolling around she was doing ended up with her falling on the floor. She rubbed her back before realizing she had no idea where or who she was. All she remembered was that her name was Noel, but she called herself Leon. For some reason, before going out the door to see if she could recognize anything, she shrugged a coat on. She somehow felt attached to the long coat that stooped by her ankles. The coat was hanging up in the wardrobe, and she suddenly had the idea to actually search this place.

Her bedroom had a bathroom attached, and the main room simply had a couch, three armchairs and a small bookcase. Space for six she thought. The main room was sort of... empty, but the kitchen had a small TV on one of the counters. She saw some keys on the counter and she put them in her coat pocket, coming to the conclusion that they were the keys to her apartment. Her bedroom had carpet, and the rest of the rooms was done in hardwood. Leon looked at a small cabinet by the door and in there was an umbrella and a cap with goggles. Her short, dark and most of all, green hair sat lazily on her head, and she somehow felt she didn't want to brush it.

After standing there a while, she heard a girl speak.

"Screw you too, door."

Leon walked out. "Hey, is it just me who has no idea what's going on?"

Yuki was awake for a while and his back and neck felt on fire. He remembered his name but that's pretty much it. Yuki already inspected his room.

A Nice comfy bed, a little kitchen, a living room with a TV and table, and so on. Yuki was already in clothes. He was wearing a white sweater with some jeans. His hair was to his shoulders and brushed. He walked around for a few more minutes trying to think about what the heck was going on. Another thing he knew was his age, eighteen. He pondered a few more minutes until he hear two girls talking. He decided they might know what was going on so he grabbed his apartment keys and put on his shoes. He opened his door and stepped out to see two girls. But he was only paying attention to one of them. She was beautiful to him. He stared for about a minute until his feet started moving towards the girl.

The girl seemed to dress like a boy and had short hair. Yuki didn't care though. She was cute in his eyes. The only thing he worried about was her age. She had to be younger then him. But she couldn't be that young so who cares. He walked up to her and scratched the back of his head. He gave her a closed eye smile," Soooo. You guys have any clue who I am? Or whats going on?" The words came out wrong. Hopefully they didn't think he was crazy. He should of just said, 'Hi I'm Yuki.' or,' Hows it going?' But he didn't.

Ina turned, surprised by the sudden appearance of two boys. She would have thought the normal occupants of this place were sleeping at this hour, or perhaps leaving for work; Not getting up and-

"Hey, is it just me who has no idea what's going on?"

"Soooo. You guys have any clue who I am? Or whats going on?"

Oh. These weren't the normal occupants.

"Well, it depends on what you mean by 'going on'," Ina replied, carefully. She didn't want to let her ignorance of the area become known so quickly, especially since the older boy was eyeing the younger one with an interest that seemed very nearly creepy. She considered blocking the older boy from coming closer, but by that point it was too late. Besides, he seemed to be in the same boat. "If you mean, waking up... Weirdly, then I think we're all in the same situation. And I know just as much as you do." She hesitated on the last one, but it was true- She didn't remember anything. Right?

Leon didn't mind Yuki staring at her. In fact, for some strange reason, she first thought he was trying to work out whether she was a boy or a girl. The idea of that quite amused her, but she knew he was staring for a different reason. She just couldn't work out what.

"Soooo. You guys have any clue who I am? Or whats going on?"

Leon was about to start talking, but the other girl there started.

"Well, it depends on what you mean by 'Going on'. If you mean, waking up... Weirdly, then I think we're all in the same situation. And I know just as much as you do."

Wow. That's... Useful. Leon thought. She looked down the boring, plain corridor, then back at her room. She was actually still really sleepy, like she'd only slept 5 minutes. She sort of looked at the other doors, then at Yuki. "Hey, do you think there are others? The only things I remember are my age and my name." she said, before something dawned on her. She hadn't told him her name! "I'm Leon, by the way."

Yuki shook his head as he noticed he was staring awkwardly. He looked down at the cute girl and smiled again, but this time not to weird. " Nice to meet you Leon, I'm Yuki. Anyways I don't know if their are more people. I only know you two girls and me. I also only know my name and age. Its weird. I have memories but they are really blurry." Yuki blushed a bit as he was examining the girl Leon. He liked her so much like she was love at first sight. But he really didn't know... why.

"Nice to meet you Leon, I'm Yuki. Anyways I don't know if their are more people. I only know you two girls and me. I also only know my name and age. Its weird. I have memories but they are really blurry."

Leon sighed. "Yeah. For some strange reason, without even noticing, I picked up this coat before I left. I remember that it's not mine, and it's not stolen, so someone gave it to me?" she said, her head tipping to the side as a look of confusion spread across her face. She liked the Yuki guy. He seemed down to earth, and really kind. "I say we need to talk about this. It can't be coincidence that three people suddenly forget who they are. And anyways-"

As Leon was speaking, a rather plump man came out of the elevator. "So you're the new tenants, huh?" he said cheerfully. "Where's the other three?" Leon looked at the man for a minute as if he was crazy. How could they have brought the apartments when they have no idea who they are? To her, that just didn't make sense. She shook her head. "I don't know." she responded, and before she or the other two could get a word in edgeways, the man walked away and into the elevator again. "Strange man..." Leon said slowly, staring at the elevator.

Yuki wasn't surprised the plump man knew who the three teenagers were. He got an idea and decided to share. He looked down to Leon. "Maybe he knows who we are... Maybe we should ask that man a few questions?" He looked over to the elevator and wondered which floor the man went to. It would probably be a office or he would be in the lobby. Yuki thought he was probably the owner of the apartment building. Yuki then turned his attention to the other girl by Leon. " Whats your name?" Yuki smiled and tried to act calm. Even though he had no clue what was going on.

"Ina Rozumo. And should we really be following a strange man into an elevator? We don't even know what floor he went to." She turned down the hall- The empty hall, she noticed. "He said there were six of us, right? He wouldn't have lumped us all together if we hadn't shown up at the same time. We ought to go wake them up- At least we'll get some backup, then." How much help three more amnesiacs might be was a point that really had only one answer, but safety in numbers and such. Besides, they were all in the same boat. Or apartment complex. Whatever.

Piko Wakai~~

He rubbed his eyes sleepily blinking awake, and sat up a stuffed animal fell from his lap onto the floor, by instinct he leaned down to pick it up as he lifted his head. His eyes got wide. He had No idea where he was. He rubbed his eyes again trying to wash away a dream he was sure was happening but every time he looked he saw the room again.

It was small, like him. He sat up rocking his legs off the bed. As he explored the room with his eyes.

A bed and a book shelf and a small table. with a lamp.

how'd i get here....where is here he thought. His eyes fell on a door and he got up quite quickly tripping over the edge of the fallen blanket.

"oww" he nearly cried, pulling himself back up and walking carefully to the door.

Would it open? He wondered. He lifted a shaking hand his overlong sleeve covering it and with closed eyes turned the knob, to his surprise it opened and he stumbled into the main room.

An apartment?.....am I alone or is there someone here?

he ignored the cleanliness of the apartment and started towards the next door. Fear edging up on him. His hand froze on the knob afraid he was trapped here. He couldn't take it he couldn't take being alone, he threw open the door and ran out into the hall, falling in the midst of three people.

Ina turned as, bizarrely, a small teen fell out of a door nearby. It had been the one across the hall, in fact. She looked down at the boy, who appeared to be wearing a shirt made for someone twice his size, which flopped about in was as half-cute and half-silly as it was almost certainly was deliberate. She bent down to help the kid up, noticing as she did that he seemed afraid. Deciding that, as probably the oldest one here, she ought to do something, she spoke quietly. Remembering how she'd felt a brief fear at waking up alone, she said, "Don't worry, we're all in the same boat as you. You aren't alone. I'm Ina. Who're you?"

~Piko Wakai~

Piko felt some warm hands lift him from the floor and looked up in half fear half shock to see a blonde girl, seeing her shocked him deeper for some reason but he shook the feeling away as she spoke

"Don't worry, we're all in the same boat as you. You aren't alone. I'm Ina. Who're you?"

"Pi...Piko" he replied shyly lifting an over-long sleeve to his face to hide his shyness behind.

he stared at her for a second before noticing the others.

"Well, nice to meet you, Piko. Do you remember anything about... About before you woke up? Besides your name?" It was too much to hope that the boy had any knowledge of what had happened, but perhaps... "Like who we are? Apparently, we all arrived together." It would be nice to know things about herself- she felt like a psychologist examining someone whose eyes she was looking out of. Hmm, I automatically tied my hair up with a hankerchief. Oh, I seem to be protective of children, why? Ina was trying to piece together her personality at the same time as she was acting as it dictated. 

She was starting to get a headache from it.  

Yuki looked at the smaller boy Piko. He walked over to him and held out his hand," I'm Yuki Nora. Nice to meet you Piko." After he shook the boys hand he walked back over to Leon. The beautiful girl he couldn't stop looking at. Ina and Piko were talking so why not me and Leon talk. Yuki smiled as he looked down at the girl," Hey Leon I'm going to grab some food. Would you like to come with? I have some stuff in my fridge. I know its in a panicky situation but I'm really hungry." He heard his stomach grumble.

~Piko Wakai~

"Well, nice to meet you, Piko. Do you remember anything about... About before you woke up? Besides your name?...Like who we are? Apparently, we all arrived together."

Piko shook his head

"I'm sorry I don't remember anything" but as he stared at Ino he felt something shake within him but he couldn't place that feeling and it scared him to try. He wrung his sleeves and looked up at the next person

" I'm Yuki Nora. Nice to meet you Piko."

He shook his hand, and looked around, this place was so strange. but he kept silent not saying anything about that. For fear he'd find that this was indeed something strange

"I'm sorry I don't remember anything"

Ina pursed her lips. Well, it was a long shot. She couldn't have expected someone so young to have remembered what happened, if people her age did not. There was simply something wrong about this whole mess- From her companions' almost blase attitude towards their situation, to the mysterious fat man who'd appeared and disappeared so quickly, to the fact that two of their doors had yet to open. And she still didn't know who her self was.

"Alright, er... If you two are headed to get something to eat... Piko, could you wait with them? I'm going to try and see where the other two are. If there are another two." She started towards the first of the two doors that had yet to open- The first door from the elevator, 301. Walking up to it, she took a deep breath and knocked twice, hard.