This Story Is Just Beginning

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Disclaimer - (Cause fanfiction is tricky ground and I hope not to offend the creator of the original story and get sued)

This is a fanfiction, a work of fiction. It is an unofficial, non-canon alternate story based on Riichiro Inagaki's story "Dr. Stone". Most of the media - such as the images and video's used in this fanfiction - are from the web. Thus, most of them aren't mine (because I really, really can't draw) unless mentioned. To fit the story, images are also edited by the photo editor. So they aren't mine, just edited.

Have you ever written something from the back of your head, and then realize oh sh** these were someone else's words. Yeah, that just happened to me, my disclaimer no less. Anyway, like 40% of this disclaimer belongs to KairuSui from quotev

Also if you own a picture or Video that I found online, and you either want your name added, or me to take it down. Please contact me and we can talk it out.

P.s. I also ask that you do not copy my work and publish it onto any other website If you're gonna use my idea, please ask me (I'll 99.99% say yes unless you're super duper rude). If I don't contact you within a week, then just assume I'm giving you the all clear and go for it. Just remember to credit me.

I will be writing out scenes even if my Oc isn't in them. As long as she's mentioned, or influencing the characters in some way. This may seem a bit annoying. But that's just how I write. I like to embed my characters into the story line.

Warnings: Spoilers for episode 11, Slow burn,

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Today's Special

May your glass always be half full.

~ Unknown

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{Third P.O.V.}

"Your strike is too shallow!" Kohaku shouts, stopping one of Kinro's attacks and ducking out of the way. She then leaned back, stepping out of the way and directing Ginro's incoming attack onto Kinro. "One of us must win the Grant Bout so that we can give Ruri-nee the cure-all medicine!"

"Wow. At this rate, we really do have a good chance of beating Magma. So the science team only has to focus on creating the cure-all drug for Ruri." Rika said, standing beside Suika, Senku and Chrome.

"As for us. While Gen's out deceiving Tsukasa, it's time for us to get started on that cure-all drug."

"Yeah!" Chrome shouted, excited to finally begin. "What are we making with science next?"

"There's a material that's just as important for building a civilization as iron." Senku said, seriously. "The first man-made material in history, synthesized using science... Glass."

"What's that?" Chrome asked, never having heard of it before. "Aren't we gonna make all sorts of drugs now that we have electricity and all that?"

Rika nodded, "At this point, shouldn't we be focused on collecting the raw materials needed to make the drug."

"Yeah, we are." Senku says. "Clay pots are no longer going to cut it for our happy chemistry experiments if we want to make the cure-sulfa drug."

Rika hummed, "Now that I think about it. The clay pot was starting to crack. I'm guessing it was because of the air we kept blowing into it. I'm assuming the cracks appeared because of the heat?"

Senku nodded, "That's one of the reasons we need glass. But it can also stand up to just about any chemical. Glass is the foundation of chemistry. Ten billion percent easy to process! Yet it's tough as hell and durable!" he said, selling the material to the group. "You can even see through it, which means you can observe the chemicals inside."

"Really? Oh, man." says Chrome, amazed.

"All those traits do sound really useful." Rika agreed.

Senku chuckled, "To top it all off, once we have glass, we might finally get a chance to yank that headpiece off or Great Detective Suika and see her true face."

"Wait. Glass can help Suika?" Rika asked, suprized.

Senku walked over to Suika and popped her watermelon off her head.

"Wait Senku!" Kohaku shouted, instantly coming up next to him. She swiped the watermelon out of his hands, ready to put it back on to Suika. "Suika doesn't want her face to be seen!"

"Take a good look." Senku told the blond, hands still in the air.

Kohaku and Rika did as he asked, and within an instant he was pushed aside and replaced by Rika. "Wow, Suika! You're perfectly adorable!" Kohaku exclaimed, holding her cheeks, hearts in her eyes.

Rika's expression mirrored Kohaku's. "Aww, you really are just the cutest thing."

Suika's adorable bashful face, was perfectly surrounded by her short, soft, blond hair. Her big brown eyes taking up almost all of the top half of her face. Giving her the perfect cute look. Then, that image was shattered when she narrowed her eyes, trying to focus onto them, her face scrunching up like an old ladies.

"What the hell?!" The two girls and Chrome exclaimed, eye's nearly popping out of their heads.

"I have the fuzzy sickness in my eyes." Suika explained. "Everything looks fuzzy to me, so I end up looking like this when I try really hard to see, and it's embarrassing." She then popped her mask back on, and the skip in her step returned. "But with this mask, for some reason, it's easier to see!"

"Aww, Suika. You shouldn't feel embarrassed about something like that. There have been similar cases like this in the past. Though we may not have a cure for it yet. You discovered your own little way to help yourself. And plus, Senku said that the glass were gonna be making can help you." Rika coed, hugging the girl.

Senku nodded "Yeah, what Suika's experiencing is the pinhole effect." Seeing everyone's confused expression, he explained the term. "If you look at an object through a small hole, the light passing through it narrows, bringing it into focus."

"What does glass have to do with Suika's fuzzy sickness?" Chrome asks, scratching his head.

"It has ten billion percent to do with it!" Senku exclaimed, eyes as wide as saucers. He then turned to the youngest girl in their little group, "Listen up, Suika." He said, clasping her shoulders, he looked at her, right in the eyes. "You're nearsighted as hell. That's not a disease. It's not even a defect. In a technological civilization, it doesn't even bother anyone. We have eyes of science, made from glass. They're called glasses, and they solve everything."

"Science users can make eyes?" Suika asked, amazed. "That's so amazing."

"Yeah." Senku agreed, a soft smile on his face.

"If I could, I'd love to see the beauty of the world, too. Even if it's just once." The girl said, starting to cry. "I want to meet you guys without fuzziness." I want to meet the real you, just once."

"Suika. No need to cry." Rika said, pulling the girl even closer. "If what Senku say's is true. Then science really can help you see clearly. And I promise you, that the science team will do whatever it takes. To make sure that you can see." Rika promised.

"Rika's right! Let's make this glass stuff!" Chrome shouts, getting all fired up.

"Yeah." Kohaku follows. "What do we need to gather, Senku?"

"Glass is made mostly from quartz sand." Senku explains, as they climb up the mountain. "I didn't see any in the twins collection, actually."

"I'm not going to collect sand." Chrome says bluntly.

Rika shrugs, "We never really had a need for sand. It never really had any reactions, not even to fire. Which I now realize is because we didn't have the temperature right. Either way, we had no need for it. So we never collected it."

"That's fine. You probably can't find this sand unless you are looking for it. Though I did see a hint that'll lead us to quartz sand." Senku tells her.

They eventually reach an area of the mountain, with barely any greenery in sight. "This was the place." Chrome announces. "This is where I found this translucent rock as a kid."

Senku looked around, "That little tidbit is worth a ton." He said, referring to the small chunk that Chrome was holding. He the. Got out a pole pick made out of stone and wood and began hitting away at the rocks near his feet. "That translucent rock, that crystal," he went on, "tends to be found in areas of decayed granite, like this place." After chipping away at the top layer, he pulled the broken off rock pieces up like egg shells. Below it, was a dark grey like sand. Scooping some up in his hand, he turned around to show the rest of the group what they would be searching for. "And all this sand here is the raw material for glass: quartz sand."

Once they started, it wasn't that hard to set a constant pace.

"Yo, the white grains are falling out like crazy!" Chrome exclaimed.

"This is fun!" Suika said from beside him.

"Yeah. But pace yourselfs. Go too fast you'll burn out." Rika said.

Senku turned around to look at her, and his eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets. "What are you doing up there?!" He shouted, referring to how the female brunette was effortlessly balanced between two jagged rocks, and chipping away at one of them.

"Oh, that?" Kohaku asks, "That's nothing. Rika has been climbing trees and mountains since she could walk. She has the best balance out of everyone in the village. Actually. I think it'll be better if I join her, that way. We can cover more area." Kohaku says, jumping up to a position similar as the other girl. "We'll get loads here."

"All right. Just try to gather the see-through ones." says Senku.

They continue to gather sand till afternoon. By the time they get back to base, it's nearly sun set. The next step, is for them to begin grinding the sand down

"We grind down all the quartz sand into fine grains." Senku says. Most of the sand that they had gathered was already fine to begin with. So that didn't take them long.

It was already night by the time they did finish, so they decided to push the rest of it to the next day.

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"Then we mix it with a bunch of other stuff and melt it in the stove." Senku instructed.

"What else do we need?" Chrome asks.

"We already have everything we need." Senku answers. "Thanks to all our efforts so far. 10 percent carbonate, or sea shells. Twenty percent cooked seaweed. We used all this stuff when we made soap."

"Now..." Senku panted, on his back, "We just through in some lead and we have super see-through lens glass." Senku said, pouring the liquid solution into a pre-made mold.

Once the glass had cooled, it became a clear, see-through circular disk.

"It's shiny and see-through!" Suika exclaimed.

"It's like a gem." Kohaku compared.

"That's a weird-looking tool." Suika said, referring to a wide green bamboo cylinder, that had a thinner bamboo running through it. It had a string wrapped around it, on the ends of the string, a short wooden piece was tied to.

"We'd die if we tried to polish glass by hand." Senku answered.

"We can use that super tough corundum for polishing." Chrome suggested, climbing up the shed to get it.

"Glass had a Mohs hardness of about 6. Corundum's is 9." Senku told him.

Chrome through him a thumbs up, "Polishing will be a piece of cake!"

"And the strongest is diamond with a hardness of 10." Senku added.

"Here they do again with their stone talk." Kohaku muttered from the side. "I can't keep up with them."

"Diamond is nuts! That's insane!" Chrome exclaimed.

"Just goes to show you how strong Mother Nature really is." Rika said from beside Senku.

The rest of the day was spent with the battle team training, and the science team working to perfect a pair of lenses. They did that through trial and error.

They polished the glass a litre, and the. Had Suika see if she could read shapes pinned to a tree from a close distance. Having her only look through one eye, by having the other covered by a leaf, that was attacked to a thin branch.

Eventually, they reached the results that they were looking for. The next step was making a copy of the lense. Rika then secured the lenses into Suika's watermelon.

"This is the first time Suika's gonna see something clearly. What she sees should be special." Chrome said, observing the mask.

"I know just the place!" Rika exclaimed.

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"Suika, can you see what's in front of you?" Senku asked the little for who was clutching Rika's shirt in her small fists.

"They're just sunflowers." Suika squinted a little and answered. "It's not like I can't see at all, you know." The girl pouted.

Senku then placed the watermelon on the girls head. Suika's eyes widened as she saw the sunflowers clearly for the first time in her life. Her eyes flew to the sky, and down towards her friend, chalk. They then trailed upward to see Rika, who was still holding her to her chest. Suika turned her head to see Senku and Chrome standing only a couple steps away.

The young girl's eyes one again began to become fuzzy. This time though, it was because of tears of joy.

The four of them then spent the rest of the day, having a picnic by the sunflower field.

"I knew Rika would be this pretty. But you're both surprisingly good-looking, Senku and Chrome." Suika said happily.

"What do you mean, 'surprisingly'? Jeez." Chrome.

"It means exactly what it means." Rika teased. "She called you good-looking. She was just surprised by it." The brunette laughs.

"Hey!"

Senku chuckled at the trio's exchange. "Next, we're finally making glass instruments." His face then converted into a sleazy one as he imagined his chemistry set, "Now that Suika's labour potential has leveled up super high, we're going to put together a full chemistry set."

"Don't call her 'labour potential'!" The twins screamed at him in unison.

"Just let it end as a feel-good story!"continued Chrome.

Rika goes too far through there now empty picnic basket at his head. "Yeah. Do you have something against happy-ever-afters or something!!"

Senku looked at her in the eyes. "But a happy-ever-after means the story is ending. Now that we've required glass, this story is just beginning."

Acquired glass!!

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