<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/ac/Taro03.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Taro Ikeda (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257738.msg12730054#msg12730054)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Track & Field, School Grounds<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Flashback - a few days before school starts, very early morning<br/><strong>With:</strong>Shizuma<br/><hr/>Taro hardly noticed the fresh breeze. If anything it was welcome, cooled him off a little. Nothing wrong with a little wind when the sweat had begun to form on his face and in his hair. He was thinking a moment about hitting the shower soon, looked forward to it, now that he was almost done with his running.<br/><br/>Then he saw – someone. Right in his path. Obstacle. Girl. What the?<br/><br/>Taro's feet suddenly tried to do two things at the same time – stop and run around her. The result was a predictable stumbling, tripping over his own feet. It were only the reflexes from long years of Aikido training that saved him from making a complete fool of himself. His reflexes kicked in and turned what could have been a face-first crash into a twist in midair followed by a tumble that brought him to the edge of the track.<br/><br/>"What the..." He came up on one knee and looked over his shoulder. His jaw dropped. "I must be dreaming," he muttered.<br/><br/>Pink hair blew in the breeze that toyed with the streamers of the girls costume. The morning light added its own shades of orange and red to that costume and made her look more like a flame than a girl. A flame that showed a lot of skin, so perhaps she was really a girl. A cute girl at that..<br/><br/>He definitely had to be dreaming. That girl looked more like someone out of a movie or superhero comic than real. Maybe he had started to dream while awake, thanks to all the short nights he had pulled. Yep, that had to be it. Exhaustion and lack of sleep catching up with him. Only that he had no clue why he would be dreaming up that costume, or the pink hair.<br/><br/>"Where in buddha's name did you come from?"