AN: I just got told that they are cutting my hours at work so I should have plenty of time to work on all my fics and get them all done within a single week so I decided to start a new one. I really hope that you like it despite it's weird storyline.
Family History
The Fairies' Pool
Today would start the fourteenth month that Rikuu Hizuri, age fifteen, would visit his mother at the mental health facility she had been living in since the stalker reappeared in their lives and since his father was murdered in front of both him and his mother in that brutal manner. He still had nightmares whenever he thought about it.
Rikuu wasn't a writer but he was able to map out that scene exactly from what he had observed. Apparently, this was a man who had taken advantage of his mother when she was eighteen and had gone to do some work overseas. His father who had been put on life support and badly scarred by the same man at the age of twenty-two, had gone to protect his mother. That was when the man had managed to get a few strikes in despite his father's superhuman strength and agility and when he had whacked his head with a lead pipe a number of times, he made absolutely certain he was dead.
His mother had been taken then and when they had found her, she had been psychologically and physically altered in a way where he couldn't recognize her anymore. His mother had lost her mind and why wouldn't she have done when she had seen the way her husband's corpse had been treated.
Thankfully, Rikuu's younger sister, Alyssa, hadn't been there when it had happened.
Everyone agreed that she was too young to really cope with the fact that her mother had lost her mind and her father had been hurt in such a way so she had been left with a lot of questions and hopefully one day they would get some answers. Next year she'd be thirteen so maybe then.
"Rikuu," the doctor who Rikuu knew treated his mother the most came out to see him, "I need to talk to you in my office."
"Of course, Doctor Jackson," Rikuu said as he picked up his messenger bag and the book that he had been reading for his classes. He sat down at the desk and looked across at the medical professional, "What did Mom do now?" he asked. It was strange feeling more mature than your parent but Rikuu had the feeling that his mother would get better. When he was growing up, he knew that his mother could do anything that she put her mind to, even his father said that she could and his dad was a highly skilled partner a one of the biggest LA law firms.
"I'm so sorry to tell you this," Doctor Jackson said slowly, "but this morning, we discovered that your mother killed herself. I truly am sorry for your loss," he said and Rikuu's eyes widened as he looked back at the doctor. He felt his anger rising around him but he managed to cool it down.
"You're joking, right? She put you up to this?" he laughed awkwardly wanting to vomit up everything that he had eaten that day. He shivered as he got to his feet, "I need a moment outside," he gestured as his head started to spin in circles. This was so overwhelming. It couldn't be real. She wouldn't do this to him, to them. "I need a moment," Rikuu said again before rushing out of the hospital.
He ran to a small wooded area not too far away where his mother had taken him once to tell him about fairies. He took very shaky breaths as he tried not to fall under the pressure that was surrounding him. His parents were dead. He couldn't - he didn't -
There was a white light on the palm of his hand and Rikuu looked around. Had his mother been right about the fairies that had lived here? His father was so sure that they weren't real. Were the fairies able to bring his mother back to life.
As he felt the warmth of the magic fill his body, he saw small glows of light but no actual bodies. Were fairies more of this form or was this something else?
"You have finally sought us out," he heard a yellow light say, "You are our fairy godchild. Well, you and your sister."
"It was your mother's request," a pink one added in.
"but it was our honor to help her," a white one added in.
Rikuu looked at the lights and the fact that his own hands had now turned a jade. What was going on here? He needed to wake up. He needed to wake up and find that this had been a terrible nightmare and that his mother was alive and that she was doing better than the last visit. He felt sick. He must have eaten something that made him hallucinate like this.
"Do you want to protect your mother?" the white one asked, "then you must stop her from meeting that man."
"How do I do tha-" Rikuu tried to argue but the yellow light spoke back.
"You have to go back to the past," the fairy said before flying around a nearby pond, "Jump in."
"And what will happen to me and Alyssa?" Rikuu asked as he tried to think this through. It sounded crazy, jumping into the past sounded so crazy, he had read about time travel and he had read how people could seriously screw up their lives. If he stopped Alyssa from being here then he'd never forgive himself for doing that."
"We promise to protect you," the pink one said before taking the appearance of a fifteen-year-old Sailor Chibi Moon cosplayer, "Ah, I always liked this character," she said and Rikuu's eyes widened again. Weren't these fairies supposed to be significantly older than him? Why was he questioning logic at this point? "We love you and Alyssa, Rikuu, and we have given you fairy magic due to your mother's strong belief in the fairy world. We would never want to harm you but this is the only way of not only saving your mother but your father too."
"Dad?" Rikuu asked as he put an arm around himself, he felt the pink fairy place a chain around his neck that looked very similar to Ren Tsuruga's but there was a golden bead in the middle with writing around it.
"That will allow you to come back to a happier future," the fairy said and Rikuu took a deep inhale before jumping into the pond.
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"Let me guess," Yashiro hummed as he adjusted his glasses and looked down at the schedule, "Even though we somehow manage to have an hour and a half before your next job, you don't want to sit down at a restaurant and eat something. You're still not concerned about your diet."
Ren laughed at that, "I eat when I feel hungry, Yashiro-san," he said as he tried to wave it off. "However, if you're asking to go to the restaurant then I could drink a cup of coffee."
Yashiro sighed, "Shall I dial Kyoko-chan and tell her tha-"
CRASH
The two men looked to each other unaware of what had made that sound before seeing a young teenager fall onto the trash bag that had been put out by the company. Had he been in the dumpster? Where had he come from?
Yashiro approached the teen as Ren looked around the area where the trash was to discover the story of what had happened. The kid had dark blond almost brown hair that was stylishly messy. He wore a leather jacket, red shirt with a quirky design from a band, and leather pants, he also had boots on that had spikes and flames. What period of time was this kid from?
"Hey," Yashiro said as the teenager seemed to try to get onto his feet, "Are you okay? Do you need to see a doctor?" he asked as the teenager looked at him in shock and then opened his mouth to say something but no words came out. "Do you know your name?"
"Ri-Rikuu Hi-" Rikuu started, his voice shaking but was interrupted by a tall man.
"I don't see anything over here, Yashiro-san," Ren said with a smile before he walked over and Rikuu flinched, his body turning stiffer and his spine going as straight as his mother's had always done. "Are you alright?" he asked with a smile and Rikuu paled.
His father had hurt his face and body around this age and had to retire from acting, he had only seen him looking like this in pictures. He looked so youthful and happy, so thin, so…was this how his father would have looked had it not been for that murderer? Rikuu realized too late that his jaw had dropped.
"Hi," Ren smiled as he held his hand out, "It's always nice to meet a fan," he said before bowing respectfully despite Rikuu being younger than him, "Thank you so much for supporting my work, now is there anything that I can help you with?"
"My name is Hi—Hanazono Rikuu" Rikuu lied as he dropped down into a bow hoping that his acting would be able to fool the older man. He had never trained as an actor like his father had before he and his mother started dating and his mother had before she had given birth to him. He looked at the two men who looked between one another and then back at him. "I….I'm a big fan."
"Thank you," Ren replied slowly as he looked around, "but just for your own safety, I think it might be best if you don't try to get into areas which are restricted. Now, I think it would be hypocritical to turn you into the authorities so just learn from this," he said with a smile and Yashiro looked between the two of them before his eyes narrowed. This kid looked just like Ren. Why weren't the two of them noticing it?
"So, which of Ren's projects is your favorite?" he asked curiously and Rikuu shifted again.
"What year is it?" he asked as Ren's eyes widened in surprise and Yashiro looked between the two men again. That was an extremely strange question. "I mean uh…Autumn Leaf Café," he said as Ren blinked confused and Yashiro laughed uneasily.
"I think that might have been someone else," he said and Rikuu shook his head.
"No, Autumn Leaf Café is this great movie that Kuo-" he saw Ren staring at him with his eyes observing him everywhere, "Kuon Matsuyama got an award and international recognition. It was his final movie though."
Rikuu watched as Ren took a sigh of relief which Yashiro didn't see and the manager looked a little concerned about him. It was the same way that his grandparents looked at him sometimes after he had visited his mother. He froze, he had to find her. He had to stop his mother.
"Dark Moon is my actual favorite," Rikuu said despite not having really seen it. He had never seen a lot of his parents work. After the attack, his father had tried to destroy his work and had gone into a frenzy trying to block out that part of his past. Maybe out of guilt or maybe just out of respect to him, his mother hadn't pushed him to show them his acting. It was because of that man that his family's life had turned to shambles before he was even born.
Rikuu watched as Ren dug out a number of scripts from his bag and his eyes widened as he looked at one of the roles of which he had been offered. He looked up at the boy in horror and Rikuu stiffened. Had he been caught already?
"Yashiro-san, may I talk privately with this boy?" he asked before looking at Rikuu, "Can we go over here?" he asked with a polite gentleman's smile which really made Rikuu feel as if he had messed up here.
Once they had found a quiet place to talk, Ren showed Rikuu the script that he had been offered the role for. Right in the center it said 'Autumn Leaf Café'.
"Please explain this to me," Ren said as he looked at Rikuu firmly, "What do you know? Who do you work for? Are you spying on me?"
"I…" Rikuu said nervously, "I just….lucky guess?" he asked and Ren stared at him.
"Lucky guess? Nobody is this lucky. You know my real name don't you? How long have you been…is it just that you look like a kid or…" Ren said in frustration. "How dare you come here and use that name," he said as Rikuu flinched a little but had to admit that it was nice to hear his father telling him off again. "So how did you know it?"
Rikuu sighed, well he was going to change the past anyway, that was why he had come back here, "You want to know the real reason?" he asked as if challenging Ren.
"Yes, I'd like to know why you are -"
"Because I'm your son," Rikuu said as Ren's eyebrows both shot up as he stared at this teenager as if he were crazy.
End of Chapter One
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