Chapter 1
My footsteps clicked loudly as I walked down the vacant hallway. Only the dim light from the emergency lights lit my path. School had let out 2 hours ago and my club an hour and a half later. I stayed after a bit to train some more. Some of my friends say I go over bored with all my training but it's only to be stronger. I see no problem in that. I pulled out my cell phone and saw a missed call from dad. Whoops. I hurriedly called him back.
"Kurayami?" my dad;s voice asked as he answered.
"Yeah dad, sorry I missed your call. I stayed late after club to practice."
"that;s fine sweetheart, just tell me when you do. I was starting to get worried." his voice rand of relief and slight parental authority. I smiled. At least he tries to act like a parent sometimes. My dads great. He's really fun to be around and usually lets me just do what I want because I'm not one to do stupid stuff. I am mature for my age so he is lenient as a father.
"M'kay I will next time. Sorry." I apologized again.
"Alright hurry home. I'm making my special homemade Spaghetti tonight. Don't wanna miss it!" I smiled and got off the phone with him. I slung my backpack over my shoulder and ran the rest of the way home. I slung open the door and the fresh smell of tomato, garlic and cooked ground beef reached my nose. I walked into the kitchen to see my dad hunched over a pot of boiling noodles. He turned his head my direction at the sound of my entrance.
"Hey hun, how was school?" he turned to me and kissed me on the cheek. He only really shows affection around me. Supposedly he used to too my mother as well. But she died when I was young so I don't remember much of those days.
"You know, same old same old. We're going to be getting our partners for our weapons in a few months though." I told him. My club is kind of special. It's called the SSS, which stands for Secret Slayer Society. Half of the club are what we call meisters. Meisters are really strong weapon wielders. We're a bit stronger than humans and faster than them as well. Then the other half of our club are weapons. Yes weapons. They are not as strong as us but they have a special ability to transform into a weapon, which then the meisters use. Each person transformation is differently. Even if two weapons are the same type when transformed they look totally different. I am a meister. The strongest one in our club. Every meister gets appointed a weapon halfway through there sophomore year.
A weapon and their meister usually get close because of all the time they must spend together and the situations they get put in together. There is only one person is my club I want to have as my weapon. And I am pretty sure I will get him.
"Already! But you're too young! I didn't get my weapon until I was 16." he exclaimed. I rolled my eyes at him.
"Dad, I am 16..." I told him bluntly. In his eyes I was still his little girl. I guess he just doesn't want to accept that I am already a teenager.
"Oh, yeah I guess you're right. But you're a girl, shouldn't..." I cut him off mid-sentence.
"Really!? Because I'm a girl!? No. just stop trying to make up excuses. I am old enough already."
"Hahaha! I know, I know, I'm just picking on you. I am a little upset at how fast your growing up right before my eyes. Before I know it you're gonna be out of the house on your own. And have a boyfriend. And end up getting married and forgetting all about me!" he started to panic at his own overreaction.
"Whoa dad! Calm down. Your getting way ahead of yourself. I'm not ever going to forget about you. And all that stuff is way in the future. You don't have to worry about all that. Kay?" I told him reassuringly.
"yeah, yeah. Well... go ahead and set the table, dinners almost ready." he turned around and went back to stirring his noodles.
After dinner we sat in the living room and watched TV for a bit before I decided to head to bed. We said our good-nights and I started up the stairs to my room. But halfway up the stairs he called out to me.
"Oh Kurayami! I forgot to tell you that I;m going on a mission not tomorrow but the next day. I wont be gone too long. It should only be a day or two so not a long one." I looked down the stairs and just say the back of his head over the couch. I hated when he left. I felt kind of lonely and was always super happy when he came home. No matter how long of a trip it was. Rather it was a short one or long.
"Oh alright." I told and I continued up the stairs. I never figured that would be the last night I really had with him. The next night when I came home he had already texted me and told me he had to stay late at the office and do paperwork. He had sent me a long message complaining about how when he isn't on missions they work him like a slave doing all the paperwork they are to lazy to do themselves.
So that night I fell asleep on the couch before he came home. When I woke up the next morning I had a blanket draped over me and a note sticking to my forehead. I peeled it off and read
'Good Morning dear. You were sleeping so peacefully last night and this morning I didn't want to wake you. I will be home soon. Probably tomorrow morning. I love you and I'll miss you. -Dad'
I smiled and set it on the table. I looked over at the clock. It was 9 am on a Saturday. I got ready for the day by starting it off with a shower. I stood in the hot water for a little too long because my usually pale skin was red from the constant sting of the hot water. I grabbed a towel and rung out my long silver hair. My hair has always been perfectly straight and a whitish silver. I loved it because of how unique it was, just like my red eyes. I looked in the mirror as my reflection stared back at me. I used to not like my eyes and wanted to get colored contacts and change them. But then one day my dad said they reminded him of mom and I decided to keep them the way they are.
After getting ready I called Kana. She's a meister like me and we've been best friends for as long as I can remember. It rang a few times before her voice mail picked up
"Hey It's me, if you don't know who me is, you shouldn't be calling this number in the first place. To busy to answer your call so leave me a message and I shall return the favor by listening to it and possibly calling back. Bye!" then the long beep afterward telling me I can start leaving my message. I told her that I was heading to her house and hung up. We never asked when we went to the others house, we just went and sometimes told each other before hand. I shut the phone and slipped in my pocket. I checked all the doors and made sure everything was good and locked up before I headed out. I started west towards Kanahouse. I had grabbed my headphones on the way out. I plugged them in and turned on 'Falling in reverse'.
I was over halfway there when I felt a vibration in my pocket. I reached in and pulled out the little blue phone and saw I had a text from Kanasaying 'K'. I guess she didn't feel like calling me back. Lazy.
I finally got to her house and knocked as I opened the door. I saw her mother sitting at the table in the dining room gluing something together. She was a very artsy women. I sort of taken to her as a mother. She looked up and smiled at me.
"Hey Kurayami. She's in her room." she told me. She has a sweet musical voice, the kind that sounded like a lullaby whenever she just spoke.
"Thanks!" I smiled at her as I darted down the hall to her room. I knocked and didn't get a response. I looked on down the hall towards the bathroom door to see if there was a light shining under the door. Just darkness. I went to turn her knob and it was locked. What the heck? I knocked again. Still nothing. Starting to get annoyed I sighed when, finally, I heard shuffling towards the door from the other side. I heard a click and the door slowly opened. From the other side I saw a beast. Blue Hair going this way and that. A green eyed scowl so hideous it would scare a mama bear. Clothes distraught and anger radiating from it so strong that you could sense it a mile away. I shrieked and jumped back.
She gave me a look of annoyance before moaning "Ugh! Why did you have to come over so damn early?" I just laughed at her.
"You do know it's about 10:15 right?" I questioned even though I knew she didn't know.
"Really?" I nodded back to her. "Huh. I went to bed late last night. Stayed up watching anime and lost track of time." she started to turn away and walk back in her room. I followed silently behind snickering to myself. Her room was a bit small. It held a single twin bed and a small dresser. She had shelves hanging on her light blue walls with various objects on them. Her 3 year old backpack sat beside her bed with papers spilling out of every pocket. The floor had clothes scattered all around. A small walk in closet was filled to capacity with shoes and clothes and any type of accessories out there. I had been in here a million times before so it was a kind of peaceful to be in it. The beds springs cried out as Kana plopped down on it. I walked over to her full length mirror that hung on the wall by the foot of the bed. I looked in it and adjusted my hair and makeup from the trip over here.
"So, what's the plan for the day?" she asked. Her voice muffled by the pillow smothering her face. I wasn't actually sure. I just was bored and had decided to just come over here on a whim.
"Not sure. Was kind of hoping you would be able to think of something." I told her. I sat down on the edge of the bed and stared at her. Finally she got up and disappeared down the hall. I heard the bathroom door open and shut. I laid back and shut my eyes for a bit while I waited. She came back with her dark hair fixed and makeup on her face. Her eye liner slightly swooped out from her eye. She then walked into her closet for a couple minutes before she came back out with clothes. She pinned back her bangs with two black clips on the left side of her forehead. The way she fixed her hair always made it look like she had cat ears under them. It was really cute and fit her. She was sort of feline about everything she did. By the way she walked to the way she fought. She even would down a giant glass of milk every night before bed.
"Ok! So I'm ready. Wait! She turned and went back in her closet. On the wall was a hanging ear ring holder. It was a really cool thing her mother had made for her. She looked over them and got her simple small silver hoops. "Ok. Now let's go." she said as she slipped on her black boots.
"Go where?" I asked. She never said where we were going.
"Food." she said simply. As she walked out the room. I jumped up and followed her. As we left we said bye to her mom and she said she was going to say bye to her dad. Her dad wasn't a very sociable man. For all the years I have known her family, I have barely seen her father. Much less held a conversation with him. She popped her head in his office and I just stood back. She didn't say anything before she shut the door. She whispered something to her mother and we left.
"What was up with that?" I asked. Hoping she would know I was talking about her dad.
"Oh, he had fallen asleep on his desk again. He overworks himself you know." Unlike my family where being a meister was just in our blood. It was only her in her family that was chosen to be a meister. She was strong and really bright. A person rarely can be a meister without it being in your blood. She may have a hint of it somewhere but not that we know of. Her father works as a book editor and the author he works for likes to procrastinate. So he is always having to work over time and stress about upcoming due dates. And her mother works at a childrens clothes store. So their income isn't the best in the world. But they get by and seem to be pretty close.
We arrived at Saiko no Ramen. An amazing restaurant that has the best ramen in the around. We went in and the owner greeted us.
"Kurayami! Kana! I assume the usual?" he asked. He just smiled and nodded. We came here a lot so the owner knew us fairly well. We sat at the bar and chatted until our steaming bowl of ramen was placed in front of us with a pair of chop sticks resting on top of each. We broke them, shouted itadakimasu!, and dug in. after devouring two bowls a piece, we paid and left with our guts just a little bigger.
"Ahh! Nothing like ramen to start off the day." Kana sighed. We walked along the busy side walk dodging other pedestrians as they did the same.
"Yep. So wanna go hang out in the park? We still have to take pictures for our biology class." I reminded her. We had biology together and of course we were partners for this little project. We got a list of different things we had to take pictures of, but the catch was the names of the stuff he gave us were the technical scientific names. So we first had to figure out what the heck it is were suppose to go find pictures of.
"Ugh! I forgot! Yeah I guess we should go do that and get it out of the way so we.." her sentence was cut short as a guy rudely bumped straight into her. He backed up and looked at her. "Oh! Sorry." she apologized. But the guy just kept staring at her blank faced. The first thing I noticed was his eyes. They were unique like mine. But not red. They were reversed. The pupils were white and the iris was pitch black. 'I bet there just contacts'I thought. Kana looked at him and I saw her start to get angry. The guy just continued to look at us. Not saying a word. Then he just walked on like nothing had happened.
"Hey!" I yelled at him. He turn his head to look at me but I guess he didn't feel I was worthy of his full attention and left his back facing me. "Your just as much at fault as she is for running into each other! What makes you think you don't have to apologize?" I screamed at him. How rude can you get? He continued to look at me blank face before he finally spoke. But I think it would have been better if he had just walked away.
"Because I don't care too." he said monotone. Then turned and merged in with the rest of the people until the only thing you could see was his fire red hair sticking out in the crowd.
"What an asshole!" I screamed to Kana.
"A lot of people are." she said. I could tell she was angry but she was much calmer than me. I get angry much quicker and much more intense than most people. All my emotions are that way. If I feel a certain emotion, I FEEL that way.
"Yeah! But I mean, how hard is it to say 'sorry'?! That's freaking ridiculous. I hope he gets hit in the face with a door!" I continued to fume. Kana just started laughing her ass off. "What?" I looked at her curiously.
"A door? Hahaha! You wish the craziest things on people! Haha!" she just kept laughing at me. Already have forgotten the incident. 'I swear if I see that boy again, I am punching him in his face.' I thought.
We spent the rest of the day going through the list and taking pictures. By the time we knew it the sun was going down and the mosquitoes were coming out. So we split up and she went to her house and I went to mine. I realized that I hadn't eaten since the ramen earlier so I went to the kitchen and made me a sandwich. I gobbled it up and downed some juice. I looked at the clock. It was early, right about 8 o'clock. I decided to go upstairs and work on my homework. My desk sat under my bed. I had a bunk bed sort of. where the bottom bunk would be is my desk with my little laptop and a cork board.
pinned to my cork board was reminders of important dates and events. Also up there were pictures of me and my dad, me and Kana and one of my mother. I have had this picture for a really long time. And it showed. I got my hair from her I guess, in the picture she had hip length hair like mine, and just as white. She was a beautiful young lady in the picture. It was supposedly right after she had me. She was standing in a huge area of grass speckled with patched of flowers. She was wearing a knee length flowing baby blue dress and white sandals. I went over to my nightstand and opened the bottom drawer and pulled out my phone cord. I took the photos off my phone and loaded them onto my computer. I went through the the pictures selecting the best of all the ones we had, there were a couple of Kana just being silly. Trying to climb a tree in one, poking a something on a fallen log, both of us sticking our tongues out at the camera. I laughed and saved them to my favorites. After sorting the pictures and fixing them into a power point I decided to go to bed. I turn off the laptop and changed into my night clothes. I climbed up to my bed and went to sleep with in seconds.