Chapter One

Kanami sat in the rocking chair on the porch near flowers of many colors. The wind softly blew her hair, and the baby's coo in her arms filled her with joy. It had been two weeks since Obason's grandchildren had been born. The twins were so young, yet they were still the spitting image of their mother, Arana, who was both beautiful and kind. Arana was resting as Obason and Kanami sat watching her children. Kanami thought about how much she had wanted Kazu-kun to marry Arana, so that they could all live together, and Kanami could be with the two people who inspired her the most. However, Kazuma wasn't interested in her. Kanami looked back on this and remembered how she realized that day that Kazu-kun would never feel that way about a person. (Little did Kanami know, that very day that she suggested how beautiful Arana was, Kazuma had just met Ayesay Terada, the woman that had claimed both his, and Kimishima's hearts).

Kanami looked down at the small child and thought how herself and even Kazu-kun could ever be so small. She couldn't wait to watch the babies grow up. She already had so much love for them.

Obason broke the silence. "Aren't they just darling," she said, admiring her grandchildren.

"Yes," Kanami said staring into the eyes of the little one in her arms.

"Kanami," Obason said, trying to sound as if she were saying this off hand, but it was clear that she was thinking about this all morning, "there is a man coming to work tomorrow, and "Obason paused, "I don't want you coming to work tomorrow. I'll still make sure you get paid, but I don't want you around him.

"Sure," Kanami said, a bit confused, "but Obason, who is it?"

"His name is Kouketsu Someru and he is just as utterly worthless as that husband of yours." (referring to Kazuma, though they were not married, just two orphans living together. Kanami was 8 and Kazuma was closer to 16). "But there is something that he is that I don't believe Kazuma to be. That man is dangerous, and I don't want you anywhere near him."

"Kazu-kun... Kazu-kun... where are you?" Kanami had just gotten up and had found Kazuma absent from his bed. "Oh Kazu-kun, you did it again!" Kanami said, as she sat on the kitchen stool, wondering how long it would take for Kazuma to come back from his so-called work this time.

"Why do you always do that to her?" Kimishima asked as he drove his car down the dusty road heading to a small town beside the coast.

"Do what?" Kazuma said in a bit of an grumpy tone. He was definitely not a morning person.

"You know what I mean," Kimishima responded. "You always leave her when she's sleeping and never tell her where you're going. Don't you think she'll worry about you?"

"Of course she'll worry, but if I tell her when I'm going, she'll ask where I'm going, and I don't want her to know what I'm doing. She'll worry about me even more if she knew..."

"You mean if she knew that you were an alter user?"

"Shut up and just get us there, okay?" Kazuma said, avoiding the question. "How much does this job pay anyway? We are so broke right now, I don't know what we are going to do."

"Calm down. It pays a bundle." Kimishima said to his best friend. "You know," he added, "you wouldn't be so broke if you didn't give all your money away, and maybe Kanami wouldn't be so hungry all the time if you didn't help the 'less fortunate' that probably have it better off than you."

"Just drop it alright. I'm not in the mood. Besides, you've got this new car, you eat our food, and then you have the nerve to mock me? Why can't you ever help us out?" Kazuma questioned as he thought about all the people he had left money for in the past, and wondered if he should have put Kanami first.

'I was... I was dreaming. Inside the dream I was this selfish person, who only thought of himself. This person was about to do something terrible. He was going to hurt a mother and her children, for no purpose at all. He was going to watch them suffer. This man was cruel. This man was... was... Kouketsu Someru.'

Kanami woke all of a sudden, startled. She shivered uncontrollably. 'Something about my dream,' she thought, 'something tells me that Arana and Obasan, and the twins, they are in trouble!'

Kanami ran out the door quickly. 'I have to tell them. I don't know if they will believe me, I'm not sure I believe myself, but, but, I've just got to that's all.'

Kanami finally got to Obason's home. She was sitting with a child on her lap. She waved to Kanami. Then she realized what she had said the day previous. "Didn't I tell you to stay away from the farm today?" she scolded.

'Good. She's okay. Maybe it was only just a dream.' Deep in thought about her dream, Kanami tripped on a rock on the ground and hit her head hard.

'I was... dreaming... again. This person was close. Close enough to see. Close enough to do what he desired to do the most. Kill.'

Kanami woke. Obason was standing over her with one of her grandchildren. She now realized that she was on the porch. He was close.

"We have got to get out of here! Now! Where is Arana!

"She is feeding the baby. What is this all about, Kanami?

Kanami grabbed Obason and threw her and the baby away from the house, and she too jumped away from it. All at once the house exploded and they were all thrown into the air and hit the ground hard. Kanami felt blood trickle from her fingers, arms, legs and finally the warm liquid on her head. The baby was crying and Obason sat and tried to consul her, while blood flowed from her body as well. Kanami felt a hot, painful feeling as she breathed the smoke and coughed horribly. What was this gas that they were breathing? Kanami ran toward the house and threw herself on the dead bodies of Arana and her baby and felt their warm blood soak her clothes. And wept.

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