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YUYA SAKAKI UN: FUNDIRECTION

STATUS: Student Grade 9

ACCOLADES: (Here is a list of leading roles Yuya's has in school theater performances over the past two years, plus a glowing review of his familiar Odd-Eyes)

BIO: Hello! You can call me Yuya. I'm from Sendai, Japan. This is my second year in Daybreak Academy. I'm a Tamer, and Odd-Eyes is my familiar. He's the big red dragon that hangs out in the courtyards. He's friendly but he tries to steal food sometimes. I speak Japanese and English but not very good French. I'm also in the theater club. I'm in Lumiere 203. Let's be friends!

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Yes! I forgot! It was short, but there were a lot of feelings with it. There was like a fog thing, kind of a mist and it was black like a shadow and moving around and then there were gold eyes peering out of it, but different eyes, like the ones you had before and not the ones-

[He gestures to the loft.]

Anyway! And then like the shadows sort of form hands, large hands, and one of them is giving something to the other one and there's this feeling of... dread or not really despair, but fear and hopelessness mixed together and this is coming and you can't stop it, like that and then... then... the eye looked a different way, like back into the mist instead of at me and I look over and you're standing there in the middle of it and the mist like surrounds you and you're gone!

[Yuya rests his chin on his hand as he listens. He's never heard of Toki having a vision about him before, so he's trying to be attentive of everything.

He doesn't quite get it when he gets distracted with something Toki says at the beginning.] What do you mean, like the ones I had before?

The other vision about you like weeks ago wh-

[His explanation is cut short by his fourth or fifth vision of the day; he's lost count at this point. Today was not good... Near the dorms, there's a lot of students. The uniforms visible, though the faces are blurred and unclear. Familiar voices talking, shouting, screaming. Someone points to the sky. It's turned black. Bluish veiny hands pull the sky apart like a curtain and the Herald's many eyes bore down at them. Its face is indistinct and shadowed... It's short and he's probably done nothing but stare blankly for a minute or so. It could have been worse.]

It's coming!

[He holds up one finger to make Yuya wait; he'll get back to the other vision in a second. Right now, he's fishing under his mattress for his third vision notebook and scribbling down as much detail as he can from this one.]

Okay! That's- it's soon! It's going to be soon! The- but, first you- uhh...

[He closes his eyes for minute and gathers his thoughts. There will be no panic. Eventually, he turns back to Yuya.]

The other vision about you. It was a couple weeks ago, one night when I stayed in the hospital. I wrote it down and some kid named Natsuo was going to give it to you. [A frustrated noise.] I thought afterwards that he might be Kano and now I really think he was. Why wouldn't he tell you?

[He's more muttering to himself than actually talking to Yuya at this point.]

[Yuya sits and waits as patient as he can, though his brow furrows in further confusion.]

Nobody brought anything to me. [He tilts his head.] Who is Natsuo and why do you think he's Kano?

I don't know! Natsuo, I mean. I just met him in the hospital lobby and then... things happened... and then I had a vision about you and they wouldn't let me call you or anything and then like right after that, Natsuo came into my room and I wrote it down for him to take back to you- I thought that he might be Kano because of the illusions because he can be a cat and he could be me, so why not another student and he was acting like Kano and trying to get me to think things the opposite of what I did!

[He starts scrawling in his notebook again, trying to recall any details of the undelivered vision about Yuya.]

[Yuya shifts up out of his seat, stealing a glance at what Toki's writing.] Think the opposite of what you did? What seemed like Kano to you?

[The messy notes read something along the lines of walking Kuroko, Yuya running by, red funnel clouds, raining blood, gold eyes.]

Just that he, Natsuo, like... questioned everything I said? Like trying to get me to agree with the opposite of what I said because of some reason or other. I don't remember exactly, but like... he was dismissive of anything that I said and made me feel like it was all wrong for a second.

[Yuya nods once.] Is that how it was a lot with Kano? Is that why things were worse when you were with him?

Yes. Kano was... like that. I didn't always realize it, but I see it now.

[He can't remember anything else about the vision, so he's done.]

Okay, so in the vision you were running by me on the road to Soleil at night and there was a red storm in the sky. Funnel clouds blocking out the stars and it started to rain blood. Then I look back on the path and you've stopped. You're just looking at me and you have gold eyes; the same ones in the vision with mist from today.

[Yuya would rather keep talking about Kano, because when he hears about the second vision there's a pit in his stomach he doesn't want to deal with. Toki already has too much to be worrying about what Yuya's learned. He hates that it's the one thing he's getting visions about.

Yuya shifts back, sinking in hours seat as he looks down.] I might know... part of what it is. If you get any more, will you tell me?

[Yuya's expression worries him. He's been picking up on subtle cues more often now, and recognizing emotions to a better degree.]

You know what it means?

[He sets the notebook down and looks Yuya in the eyes.]

I'll tell you right away; anything. I won't leave it to anyone else. But if you could tell me... things, if you want to... it might help me interpret them better?

Maybe? I don't have anything definite. [He rubs the back of his neck, looking up at Toki.] Are they getting clearer again?

Not of all them, but some. There's a lot of symbolism and weird shit still. It's hard to sift through and sometimes it's just... nonsensical.

[He shifts his gaze away from Yuya.]

Do you think it all means something? The doctors said I'm probably not seeing as much of the future as I think I am and that half of it is hallucinations. I don't want to discount anything, though...

I don't know. You definitely see something but it seems like it all gets muddled up in other symbols? Maybe it's because yours comes from a daemon contract...

[He tiles his head back, looking at the ceiling.] Did you have hallucinations before that?

I've wondered about that too; because it's a daemon contract. I want to research more about it, but I keep getting distracted and I don't have time.

[Time management is something he really needs to work on, but it's not the most pressing problem and it always gets shoved aside.]

Not as frequent as visions are, but... yes. It kind of went along with that feeling of everything being unfamiliar when I get lost. They weren't like... that strange, like visions... but just seeing something different or that's not there to someone else.

Oh. Then I guess it'd make sense that they didn't go away because you started having visions... [He twists his chair around before looking back at Toki.]

I don't know as much as actual seers, but... it makes sense to me, maybe yours are so difficult because of the deal it was. I'd still ask Professor Jailbreak to make sure!

It just... complicates things.

[At least he can talk about these things now without freaking out; for the time being. He's not sure he trusts things to keep going in that direction. At the mention of Jail, Toki's more animated again.]

Yeah, I was kind of talking to her about that just now; that's where I came from. She didn't know of any other examples of people who got their powers from a daemon contract, and I've only looked through the library here. She made me realize there's a lot more out there and Daybreak doesn't have every resource or every account. I might make one myself too, a memoir~! Or like, a video blog! What do you think?

That's not a bad idea. It'd help you track things yourself, too, and anyone else who gets powers from daemons! [He leans forward, then pauses.] But maybe don't post it on the internet. I don't know how supernatural stuff is supposed to be hidden on there.

[The Iris Network is probably fine, though. If nobody minds (they're going to mind).] Maybe... the coven that taught me summoning might be able to look something up, since we're both from Japan. I'll ask them!

[After all, a daemon isn't likely to strike only once. There must be other accounts of contracted seers.]

Exactly~! I'm going to document everything~!

[He frowns a little at Yuya's internet comment.]

I think I should post it to the internet! If people like me knew about this kind of shit before, there'd be less unsuspecting victims for daemon contracts!

[He honestly has more faith in the "normal" citizens of the world at large than he does the students who monitor the Network. They will mind, and they'll be dismissive and filter it out, and then blame him for not warning them about something when he clearly did. The Network is bad.]

Do... do you think your coven would like know which daemon it was!?

[Is there actually hope for something like that?]

Uh--[Yuya raises his hands.] I don't know what happens if you break the whole secrecy thing, and I don't want you to get in trouble...

[He's right that they deserve to know, but Yuya doesn't want to see Toki martyred for that.] But maybe? Or find other people who have similar contracts. Professor Valvatorez could also help you find which daemon it was.

It should be broken! Sorry... Uhh... I don't know if Professor Valvatorez is the right person...

[He may have a bit of an issue with Valvatorez at the moment, under the impression he thinks Toki was an accessory to Kano's exploits. The number of faculty members he trusts has gone down significantly.]

[Yuya's not gonna touch that before he gives Toki any ideas. He agrees! But for all he knows the consequence for spilling magic secrets to people is death, or something.]

... Okay. Then I'll see if the coven knows anything. I'll tell you as soon as I know.

Really!? Awesome! So, he like was this guy who worked at the Tokyo National Museum near the train station! Or he said he was and I saw him there a couple of times with my sister before... Anyway! He-

[Toki looks at the floor in embarrassment. He's so stupid.]

He said his name was Taro Yamada.

[Taro Yamada... it's a bad name, but Toki's name is a bad name so he's not going to mention it.

Instead he's quickly keying in notes on his phone.] That's probably not his real name... I mean that he changes it! But there might be other victims before he did. Do you remember anything else about meeting him?

Not really. He was just... so normal. But now I think it was too normal, too... fake? Like an approximation of a person, but not one. Very formal language; I think maybe he was really old.

[He basically sounded like a much less confusing version of Gongenzaka, like Seiji.]

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