Ryoku Takigowa was born of Ryuu Takigowa and Shina Takigowa. He was born into a normal family with normal values. He had one brother named Tatsuya. Tatsuya was older than him by 3 years. Everything about his live was normal until he went to college. He decided he would go to Tokyo U but not stay on campus. He found a small apartment complex. The complex was three stories high. It had seven rooms on each floor. Ryoku rented room number one on the second floor. He was right near the stairs. Ryoku was going to college to study engineering. He was majoring in chemical engineering and minoring in electrical engineering. He was an all around great student. He lived life with no cares in the world. Everything came easy to him. His parents became rich when he hit high school. He was introduced to the American culture when he went to high school. He ended up loving that culture and planned on visiting the United States some time but he didn’t know when.

Ryoku moves into the small apartment building in Tokyo before anyone else. The building is in a small part of town. There are trees surrounding the complex and they look incredibly beautiful when they blossom. Ryoku loved Cherry blossom trees. He is tenant number one in the building. He pays a monthly rent of about one hundred and fifty dollars. He walked into the lobby on his first day smiling. He looks around to study the first floor. There is a counter with a wall built around it and a small room behind it. The room has three people inside. There are two men and one woman. The people are the workers of the complex and the owner. The owner normally sits at the back of the room in his chair while the woman and the other man sit at the front to make sure everything is o.k. in the front of the building. Ryoku walked up to the counter and said, “I would like to rent a room from you.” He smiled softy as the woman slid him a sheet of paper and pen. He filled the paper out with all his information. He watched as he moved his hand and the black ink appeared on the page. He was always amazed with little things.

Ryoku finally finished righting his information on the paper and said, “Well I think that’s all of it.” “Good.” The woman replied sternly. She read the paper over and said, “Well then you will have room number one and the rent is due at the end of this month it will be one hundred and fifty dollars a month.” The woman placed a key on the desk and said, “That’s your key to your room don’t lose it.” Ryoku picked up the key and walked away. He walked up to the stairs and thought, wait I still have to go get my stuff from my car. Ryoku turned around and ran to his car. He neared the door of the building and grabbed a cart. He got to his car quickly and unloaded everything he had onto the cart. He knew the rooms were already furnished so he didn’t need to bring much stuff. He dragged the cart back into the building. He walked towards the elevator and waited for it to come down. He got into the elevator slowly and pressed the button for the second floor. The elevator went up and made the bell noise when it got to the top floor. Ryoku walked out of the elevator and towards his room. He found his room and unlocked the door. He opened the door slowly and walked in.

The room was not very big it had a bed and a few dressers. The walls of the room were painted blue. The bed had no sheets or pillows on it. The room was not very big at all. There was a small fridge in a corner of the room. On the top of the fridge there was a microwave. Ryoku dragged the cart into the room and closed the door. He started unloading things. Ryoku finished with the cart and left his room. He dragged the cart back downstairs and then climbed the stairs back up to his room. Ryoku walked into his room again and arranged everything in his room. He made sure that his room was extremely neat. He wanted everything perfect. He finished rearranging his room. Ryoku looked at his watch and mumbled, “Oh crap I gotta get to class.” He ran out of his room and then to his car. He quickly opened the door of his car and drove off towards Tokyo U. He sprinted into his Calculus class and suffered through his first hour-long class. The teacher was incredibly boring. He knew that this was going to be a long year just from this class. He made sure to take his notes and made sure that everything was right.

Ryoku finished his day at school around four o’clock. He walked to his car his eyes were closing slowly. He remembered as he got into his car that his brother Tatsuya was a student at Tokyo U. He laughed when he knew he didn’t see him anywhere. Ryoku started driving towards the apartment building. He finally reached the building at around 5 o’clock. He walked into the building and saw Tatsuya standing in front of the counter. Ryoku walked over to Tatsuya and said, “Hey! Brother how’s it going?” Tatsuya turned around and smiled brightly while saying, “Who the… Oh! Ryoku how are you doing little brother.” Ryoku smiled softly and said, “Well you know I am doing quite well. I have been here in this building for just the beginning of today and I went to my first class at Tokyo U.” “Oh really,” Tatsuya started, “I hope had good classes today.” Ryoku sighed and said, “Yeah it was fine. My calculus teacher is boring and that sucks.” Tatsuya smiled and said, “Well that sucks.”

Ryoku looked around the entrance of the building. He looked back at Tatsuya and said, “What room did you get?” Tatsuya thought for a second and said, “Oh yeah I got room ten. I think that is on the third floor if I am not mistaken.” Ryoku laughed and said, “Yeah it’s on the third floor. You should probably go to your room.” Tatsuya started to walk away and said, “Yeah you are right.” Tatsuya walked to the elevator and got in. The door closed and Tatsuya was gone. Ryoku started to walk away but as he walked the door to the lobby opened. Ryoku turned around and saw a girl. He looked at her and stopped dead in his tracks. She was beautiful her hair was long and she had blond hair with natural brunette highlights. She was about five feet eight inches tall. She had bright gray blue eyes. Ryoku caught a glance of her eyes and was entranced from that moment on. His face lit up bright red. He wanted to talk to her but was extremely nervous. Her face had an amazing shape to it that just made Ryoku want to talk to her even more. She walked past him and to the counter. She signed the paper and walked away from the counter. Ryoku walked up to her and said, “Hi my name is Takigowa Ryoku.” He blushed deeply and talked softly and slowly choosing his words to the best of his ability. The girl looked at Ryoku and said, “Well my name is Yama Kaminari. I never asked your name you know.” She smiled to show that she was just kidding. Ryoku sighed and said, “Well I am glad to meet you.” His face was now bright red. It looked like he had a big apple for a head. Ryoku was so shy at the moment that he thought he would explode just from talking to her. He had never been this nervous in his life before. “Do you know where room number two is?” Kaminari asked. “Umm yeah its actually right up stairs. Follow me.” Ryoku said. He walked towards the stairs motioning for Kaminari to follow. Ryoku reached the stairs and walked up them. Kaminari was right behind him the whole time. Ryoku reached the second floor and walked across the hall from his room and there was room number two. “This is your room.” Ryoku said slowly still blushing. Kaminari walked into her room and said, “Well where is your room.” Ryoku looked at her and smiled saying, “Right across the hall beautiful.” Ryoku turned around slowly to walk to his room. “Wait,” Kaminari said, “Do you want to go get a cup of coffee? You seem like a nice person and I would like to get to know you better.” Kaminari smiled softly. Ryoku blushed even more and said, “Yeah lets go get a cup of coffee my treat.”

Ryoku walked down the stairs with Kaminari walking besides him. He reached the lobby door and walked towards his car. When they got to the car Ryoku opened the door for Kaminari and said, “Here you go.” Kaminari got in the car slowly. Ryoku walked around his car and got into the driver’s seat. He looked over and said, “How do you like this American made car.” Ryoku said smiling. He started the car and drove toward the café. He parked in front of the café and said, “Well here we are.” Kaminari got out of the car and said, “Thanks for driving.” Ryoku smiled and said, “Thanks for asking me to go get a cup of coffee with you.” He walked into the café with Kaminari next to him. They sat down at a table and ordered some coffee. Ryoku got comfortable in his chair and said, “So are you going to Tokyo U for college?” Kaminari smiled and said, “Well I am studying to be a doctor but I am also studying foreign languages.” Ryoku thought for a second and said, “So then you must extremely smart.” He looked at her eyes and was entranced by them yet again. She smiled and said, “Why do you keep staring at my eyes? Is there something wrong with them.” Ryoku sighed and said, “No there is nothing wrong they are just really beautiful.” He was on cloud nine at the moment just hanging out with Kaminari was a big deal for him. He could tell that he was starting to fall for her.

Ryoku sat at the table with Kaminari. The talk seemed to never end. He listened to everything she said. He loved the sound of her voice, the sparkle in her eyes, everything about that night with her. He was starting to forget about his ex girlfriend until she called his cell. Ryoku looked at the number and then silenced his phone. “Who was that?” Kaminari asked. Ryoku faked a smile and said, “That was my ex girlfriend. I don’t know why she was calling me because I told her to stay out of my life after what she did.” Kaminari became curious and asked, “Would you mind telling me what happened or is that asking too much?” Ryoku sighed and said, “Well if you really want to know. I will tell you, but it is a long story.”

Kaminari stared at Ryoku intently her beautiful gray eyes staring into his dark green eyes. “well,” he said, “I met her about seven months ago through a friend that had a thing going on with her. It was almost like they were going out but they weren’t mind you. Mizuki, that’s her name by the way, met me online through my friend of coarse. He had told me to talk to her sometime so I decided I would. We started talking and after a while that night she gave me her number and told me to call her because she had to get off the computer. I called her that night and we ended up talking until six o’clock. I had noticed the sun came up and yeah it was an amazing conversation. I fell for her that night even tho I had a girlfriend. I had no control over my feelings. We started talking more and more until we were talking everyday. My girlfriend eventually broke up with me for some stupid reason. By the middle of the second month we knew each other extremely well. We were going on our first date one night. On our first date we were both really nervous. At the end of the date she told me to lower my head to her level and I did. She grabbed my head and kissed me. That was my first kiss ever. I was saving it for someone special and then she took it from me. My heart started beating incredibly fast after that night. Everyday we were together I could feel my heart beat speed up. I gave her my heart not knowing that she would put back in my chest rip, it out, and then stab it. We started talking more and more. We started seeing each other every weekend and we were kissing a lot. The next few weeks flew by everything was amazing. I was telling her I loved her and everything all the time. After about three months we started experimenting with sexual acts. We never had sex but we came close. Our relationship started growing stronger and stronger. We were at different places hanging out with different people and we eventually fell apart. She met some guy I don’t even remember his name nor do I care about it. He fell for her and she started to spend a lot of time with him. I realized soon that she was falling for him. I allowed them to hang out because I am not controlling or anything. He almost kissed her one-day when they went to the movies together. I cried that whole night when she told me and got off the phone with me. Our relationship spiraled downward even more. We stopped talking after a while and then broke up.” “That’s a terrible story.” Kaminari interrupted. “I am not done yet.” Ryoku said.

Ryoku took a sip of his coffee and started back talking, “She behind my back started kissing that other guy. I had no idea that she was doing it and started back talking to her. I ended up pouring my heart out to her. She acted like she still wanted me and said that she still did. She kept saying she still wanted to kiss me.” “Talk about having your cake and eating it too.” Kaminari interrupted. Ryoku chuckled and said, “Yeah tell me about it. Anyway we started getting close again and she was always talking about him. I wanted to ask her if they were kissing or something like that. I ended up mentioning that to one of my friends. That friend told me that she was kissing him. She told me that she saw it herself almost right after we broke up. I let myself get extremely angry and yelled at her. I decided that I wouldn’t talk to her ever again. She ended up messaging me later saying that her and that guy were going out. I told her to stay out of my life after that and she agreed. That’s why I don’t understand her calling me.” Ryoku exhaled a deep breath and said, “So that’s the end of my long story.” Kaminari smiled and said, “So you really need a girl to fix your heart back up.” Ryoku smiled bleakly and said, “Yeah I sure do.” Ryoku knew that they were hitting it off nicely.