Broken
It seems I'm the first to post one of these…everyone seems to like Waka more then they like Oki…hmm…ANYWAY! I thought I'd post this cause well; the idea just came to me and I really liked it! I'm not giving up on my Never Ending Dream/Neverending Dream fiction, just wanted to get this started before I TOTALLY lost the idea. If you have read my other Okami Fic and have taken a liking to Kari then this would be good to read, the events aren't mentioned in N.E.D. but it does tell of Kuraku's past.
PS: It's said in the story but everything in BOLD ITALICS is Ichiro speaking. EDIT: Italics are Kuraku.
Pairings: OkiOC
Okami & All the characters © Clover Studios
Ichiro's overall appearance © Meh beloved Ishi-Chan
Ichiro's Personality and Past, Kuraku (Kari) © ME and my loverly imagination,
Prologue
I have so many memories…
Family…Love…Friendship…Loyalty…what do these words mean? I've always asked that, what do the words mean to people I don't know, to the people of Nippon what do these words mean? In Kamui, most people will give you the same definition and it rarely varies. Loyalty is an important characteristic, Family comes first and then Friendship and Love is they say it's indescribable. That's why I want to know what people would say about them in Nippon. I love stories from Nippon, but none of them display all of those characteristics. They have stories of great heroes and gods and demons and evil beings and everything but not a lot of their stories have all three aspects, well there is one…the one about Amaterasu but that's not important. We know Nippon's stories…do they know ours?
Broken pieces of your dream…
My name is Ichiro (1) of the Hatsukoi Clan, not that it matters to us Onia because we're all like one big huge family, for the most part. I love stories and I know most of the stories told by the Onia Tribe and I also know many told within Nippon, rather its fairytales or legends or simply stories, I know so many of them and have take my fair share in legends well I've been in two and my name isn't mentioned in one and the other is a story and it isn't very well known, and I wasn't really to important in that…but my family has had it's fair share within legends.
The same tears are always shed…
My parents were known within the Onia Tribe due to their family lineage as well, on my father's side there always seems to be two children born, a boy and a girl and the Hatsukoi Clan is a straight descendent from a great human priestess who was raised in Kamui by the Onia Tribe, that's a different legend though. My mother's family is known for their wonderful sense of smell. The legend of my ancestors isn't important in this story, or at least it isn't that important…alright so my mother's story isn't that important…My sister, well…the story I wish to tell you is hers. This story isn't mine, its Kuraku's (2).
We will not realize what is precious until we have lost it…
It started ten years ago but I'm only going to tell you about that. You see this story is already long without encompassing a whole ten years when only one week in those ten years was so important. The week began with the death of our parents when she was nine and I was seven, they were killed by an unknown demon though it looked like they had just up and died and that is what the others all believed. Kuraku took on the role of mother and father for my sake and trained hard to become a stronger fighter then I was so she could protect me, I was often teased because of it but I did my best not to let it effect me. She also learned how to cook well so she could feed and take care of my needs, everything she did back then it was always for me.
Leave our fears behind…
A week after our parents died we all heard strange howls coming from Yoshpet, howls so empty and lifeless that they seemed to rip you to pieces inside. The howls of two demons so strong that even I could feel them when I walked through the desolate ice land that was our home. Kuraku, who was in an emotional wreck, ran off into Yoshpet to find these demons and destroy them. When I tried to find help to look for her, everyone laughed and told me it was all pointless until Oki came along and helped me search parts of Yoshpet. It wasn't pointless, we did find my sister but she hadn't managed to find the demons, Oki became one of our closest friends and it is because of these bonds of friendship that formed on that one day that everything else happened.
Our promises made long ago…
It'd been ten years since then and the demons hadn't been seen at all, I thought everything was going to be alright, I never thought this would happen to Oki and Kuraku, to the village, to us all. It was frightening and horrible and I had a feeling something bad would happen but I just dismissed it as my mind, always worrying about things pointlessly…
I could never forget…
"Yukihime (3), can you hear me calling, protecting you even to this day…your family is in danger…I will do all in my power to save you and your brother." Back then, I would have strange dreams about a young girl by the name of Yukihime and a voice telling her everything would be alright that whoever was speaking was protecting her. I wanted to help the girl and to comfort her and the night before everything I heard a new voice…"Yukihime, you're end has come." I wasn't sure what to make of it…and I simply dismissed it as a dream…little did I know…it wasn't.
It was the end of your dream…
I HOPE YOU LIKE IT! I thought it'd be interesting to have it being partially told from one of the sub characters views so I picked Ichiro because he's in the action but he's not the most important character! Tell me if this is horrible and tell me if it is good! Thanks everyone who read this!
(1) Ichiro translates into first/one son
(2) Kuraku translates into pleasures and pain or joys and sorrows
(3) Yukihime literally translates into Snow (Yuki) Princess (Hime)