Up The Hill Backwards [Sharaku]

You had to be thankful to have been raised in a place such as Lunapa island.

Here it was very different from anywhere else in the Azores Islands, to his mother, a big city woman, the country folks were backwards and insufferably old-fashioned and the small town where they lived a hell of boredom were nothing remotely interesting ever happened, but Taiki appreciated both the tranquility of the simple life he lead and the ones in it. Here in Lunapa people were the truest of them all. Their spirits were clean as the air in the island and held both strong values and, most importantly, overflowed a kindness that seemed to be all-reaching… Well, at least most of them, but that's another story.

The place itself played no doubt a big part in this. Lunapa was a radiant garden, overflowing life. Everywhere from the vast oceans to the forests and hills, it was all full of it. If Taiki was to depict the garden of Eden it wouldn't be much different from this.

That's why it always was a pleasure to walk through it, no matter what time of the year it was or if he was technically running some errands to make some extra cash. Unfortunately, one of the few inconveniences of the lack of urbanization were that the roads were little more than paths of cleared ground that vastly varied and were at times full of obstacles, what at times was a broad way that looked just fine for driving through could narrow into a path covered by rocks and vegetation not even a single car would be able to squeeze through. Driving through the island could prove to be pretty dangerous.

Those words rang specially true for Taiki now as he rested pinned to the ground, trapped underneath the weight of his own motorcycle. He had lost control of the vehicle while driving down one of said roads through the forest and fell down a crevasse. He got hit by pretty hard, but he didn't think he had broken anything. Still, this was pretty ugly. He was all alone trapped and he couldn't reach his mobile phone from under the motorcycle. It wasn't like his life was in danger, but he'd rather get out of here as soon as possible.

"H-help… Someone!", he cried in the off chance there was someone out there to hear him.

"... I don't know man, I think I may be a zombie", he replied, still on the ground, looking at Sharaku with a deadpan expression, "I might have even been one all along you know, you can't ever be 100% sure after all", dusting himself he tried to get up, but when he attempted to regain his footing he felt and intense, sharp pain on his right ankle and down on the ground he was again after staggering and loosing his balance, "... Even if this ache would seem to prove otherwise", his face twitched, even if he was somewhat accostumed to pain from the boxing club that didn't mean he enjoyed it. Nonetheless, he avoided complaining so not to make a show of it.


First thing he did was grab his mobile phone, maybe he could call a few friends, they would help him no doubt about that aaaaaaaannnnnd of course, no signal. Honestly, Lunapa was great but fuck that shit. Taiki sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose with both right index and thumb as he frowned, it seemed he'd have to rely on the stranger's kindness for a while at the very least, "I'm very sorry to keep bothering you, but I think I've twisted my ancle pretty badly and I don't seem to get any signal. I don't think I can get there on my own, definitely not with the motorcycle, but if you helped me get to the next village I could manage on my own".

He tended his hand at him, "It shouldn't be too far away, around a kilometer, more or less. Oh, and you don't need to worry about the motorcycle, no one will take it from here, so I can just have some friends help out later".

"Of course you wouldn't", he said with a devilish grin, "No point on feasting on you when my undead colleagues have already done so", the lad tapped the right, center and left of his forhead, the same points where Sharaku had his black markings. Together, they sort of looked like a scar, one possibly caused by zombies eating his brains, as the youth seemed to imply. Being a higly intuitive person, Taiki could see that the man was in a pretty bad mood, surely because of his own private life, and that to him this was probably a drag he wished he didn't have to deal with. Taiki didn't blame him for it, he himself would probably prefer to go his own way without having to take care of other people's problems, so he figured that if he was being so kind to go against his wishes he ought to break the ice and make the whole process as pleasing as possible. Who knows, maybe he could help him get his mind off of his problems for a while in return.


"Piggyback ride, bridal style and your average hand on shoulder human clutch technique, it all works", he would reply when asked how to go about it, "... Though I'd probably prefer the latter", he chuckled. Then, just like that, his mental gears started turning, "You know what, among the things that I was helping transport there's a pizza, a pepperoni pizza with double chees a restaurant owner from my hometown asked me to deliver on my way there. Now, with the fall and all its probably pretty much ruined and since its gonna take a while to get there it'd get all cold. Certainly not acceptable conditions to hand in a pizza. The poor man's restaurant's reputation would be put into question".

"So how about this, we grab the pizza and we can share it once we are there. Throwing it would be quite the waste, ruined or not".

"Eh, if you pass I will too. Pizza's not fun if you don't share it", he was kind of bummed, but he didn't let it show. It would have been a chance for to have some fun but whatever. It didn't really matter. "Anyways, I think the piggyback ride will do if you insist, although its a shame I forgot the reins at home".

Soon enough they were hastily off, the green-haired boy brandishing a wooden stick, pretending to be leading a brave general leading the calvary charge of an imaginary army of pizza-delivering scooters, complete with war cry and everything. At such a pace it wasn't long till they arrived to their destination which, as the young man said, wasn't all that far.

Stepping down, Taiki wobbled his way towards a bench, on which he sat, "Well, that'll do, my loyal steed", he said with a teasing, cocky grin, "… In all seriousness though", he added, getting serious for a change, "You really helped me back there. Without you I'd have been stuck there for god knows how long, never mind how much of a literal pain would have been getting here".

"Look, I'm not oblivious to what has gone down here. I obviously was a huge inconvenience and there's no skirting around it. That's why I'm doubly thankful for what you did and I'd like to compensate you properly… Somehow", the doubt was clear in his voice. He honestly wanted to do something for the man but didn't really know what to- wait a second there. 'The man'?, With all that had gone down he had forgotten to properly introduce himself!

"OH!"b], he exclaimed loudly, "I totally forgot!, My name's Taiki Hayama. I'm from here, Lunapa island. What about you? What's your name?".



OOC: Let's wrap this up okie?, This should be enough.