Ring of Fate

Unfading bond

Year 2019

"Shall we go?"

"But to where!" she asked.

To where it all started.

"I've read it somewhere in a sci-fi magazine about the time loop and paradoxes. Well I could tell you but I don't think this is a right time to be discussing those things.." Shiro responded.

"Idiot!!" tell me if it's that important Shiro!!

Well...one theory is the Grandparent paradox. Basically it means if you go in the past and kill your grandparent, then it concluded that your father wouldn't have born and then you wouldn't have existed. So if you kill them, you shouldn't exist here in the first pla-"

Riko kicked him in the leg.

"Oouchhh. What was that for!"

"I'm panicking here right now and you're telling me to kill my grandparents!! You don't understand how much I'm scared...what if we don't go back, what if we get trapped here."

"It'll be alright. Just stay with me." Shiro raised his hand for her to grab.

She looked him in his eyes and had an assurance. She grabbed his hand. It was warm and soft but felt like he had his will in his hand.

They walked towards their home. Everything in the city looked much less technological. After all they were back to 2019. They soon reached their apartments.

"Wait Shiro!"

"What happened?"

"How can we go back to our apartments? We were 17 in 2019!! We were living with our parents...."

They both stood silently. The only way to survive was to go home where their parents lived and that was far away from the city.

"Now where we'll spend our night?" Riko asked.

"Maybe......book a hotel?"

They searched for the cheapest hotel in the town and found one that was quite old.

"Excuse me Sir, how much it would cost to book two rooms for two nights?" He asked.

" It'd cost around 1200¥ for each night for one room."

Shiro smiled with hesitatation. He gazed at Riko.

"What? Don't look at me I only have 600¥ with me" Said Riko.

"Seriously Riko! There's only one option left. That is.......to book one room."
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"Here's your room keys Sir!"

The mood became unoticingly awkward for both of them. As it was obvious that they'd be sharing a small single room together. The night brought Moon upon the sky with heavy clouds lurking over the small town.

The room was filled with silence. Shiro was sitting on the Sofa beside the Bed and thought of his past life.

Shiro lived with his mother since he was eight. As they were not so rich, Shiro's family normally had a earning of having two meals in a day to survive. But due to his two parents always fighting over each other, both his parents became aggressive towards him and finally his father left them. He remembered all those incidents of tragic.

"Shiro, what happened...?"

"Nothing just.......just reminiscing my old wounds."

Suddenly thundering came and rain began to fall. The lights passed out in an instant.

"Shiro....where are you I can't see you!!"

" Wait! I'm coming"

He turned on his flashlights. He laughed at the afraid Riko.

"I'm here. Rest assured." said Shiro.

Both sat next to each other on the bed holding their fingers over each other. No one noticed the voice of the rain as it became pale to the bond between these two. The Ring was still worn by Shiro unnoticed.

After the rain stopped. They rushed outside and looked for a place to eat.

"With this much money, I'll go broke in no time", said Shiro with regret.

"What is the day again?" asked Riko

"It is Wednesday 18th Ju-"

He stopped suddenly.

"What happened Shiro?"

" Today is 18th June 2019."

"So what? Anyways let's go somewhere else.....Hey look over there, there's so much crowd gathering. Let's look what happened! "

" Wait.....don't go......Riko!!!!"

"But why?"

" Becaus-" he got disrupted by Riko.

"Look that's him the boy. Oh my god! He's lying on the ground what happened to him! He's got sun stroked people are saying.

The eyes of the boy who fainted opened a little. And the first glimpse he saw was Shiro standing at a distance.
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The Ring shone brightly
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"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Shit shit shit shit!!! What is happening to my finger!!!!!!" shouted Shiro with non bearing pain. 

"Shiro!!!! there's blood in your hands!!!"

"Hey look, there's so much blood in his hands of that boy!" shouted the crowd gathered.

"Riko....run!!" he grabbed Riko's hand and ran as fast as he could.

His blood stopped dropping and his pain was dissapointed after a time.

"Shiro.... are you alright? How's your pain!"

"It's fine......"

"Shiro....what just happened... I'm so worried about you. Please be fine, Shiro. Did you know who that boy was? Why did you ran so fast?!!"
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"Because"
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"That boy was me"

Unfading Bond

The seeds of pain fell, soon to be germinated.

End of Part 2