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Reclusion

Prologue: Hysteria

Tick tock, tick tock, time is running out
Akira's sanity is falling out
Slowly burning slowly from doubt

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He was a puppet.

Insignificant and worthless little toy, and the only power that he even held, never truly belonged to him.

All of it belonged to Ryuuko, not him. Just someone whose power belonged inside him, someone whose memories are inside of him, someone who takes control of his body at times of danger, he has no control inside of him.

That is what angered him the most, the one thing that had changed his life, that one thing that washed all this boredom and the normal everyday routine and it wasn't meant for him. It was meant for that thing inside him.

The King of the Rei…

A royal line of light…being a Rei that thought practically disgusted him. Grouping him with the same person who gains control of his body, that is an insult formed in many ways.

A game that was all it was.

And he was a meaningless puppet, a marionette hanging of strings.

And soon the strings will be cut off, and he'll be dead, while Ryuuko lives.

It's some sick joke, sent out to taunt him, to control him, to kill him. It was stupid beyond words that he could ever think that this was ever all right. That nothing would ever go wrong, that life could stay boring for him in a single moment of time.

But of course, fate had to jump out and surprise him. After all these years, something finally happens. It was ridiculous, a blasphemy in many forms, a cruel trick of fate causing him to fall into the Shadow's grasp.

Trembling with insanity, he started laughing, a wild, hysterical cackle. It was a sudden movement, which caused the Shin next to him to jolt awake. "Akira?" his name slipped of the shin's tongue softly, each syllable carefully pronounced in a melodic song.

The young Shin didn't even bother to glance at him, didn't even bother to spare him a glance, and just stared blankly into space, dazed. The stormy sea in his eyes faded to a series of monochrome colors, completely empty and lost. It was a feeling of mass hysteria, madness, a sense of dread.

Akira was gone.

His Akira was gone, and all that was left was this body with no master.

Suddenly the laughter consumed the young shin again, calling him into the empty void of darkness, letting him fall into oblivion. Shirogane looked at Akira, watching his every breath rise and fall with every passing second. And in just a few hours he'll be gone from his reach, so he watched him lose the final moments of his sanity.

Does he even want this?

That question lingered on in Shirogane's mind, as he focused on the brunette next to him, sleeping so calmly on the bed. It seems as if the affect of the hysteria has been put on hold and is probably somewhere in his mind, lurking around waiting for the perfect moment to jump. It was all too silent for a moment, a moment that seemed like forever, before the screaming begun.

"It does not require him to be the puppet master; it just requires intent,"


And that is the prologue. How was it? I wrote this ages ago. Like September-October-November-December of last year. One of those months, don't remember. I was bored, so i decided to post it, simply out of the decision to post it. I love how one of the volumes of Monochrome Factor released on my Birthday. No surprise what I got. So tell me what you think. I don't know about romance. I can't write yaoi to save my life. I really can't write it, so don't expect ShiroAki or KenAki...or whatever pairing you love. I don't know what I orignally planned for this story, so don't even bother asking, till next week. I need to work on my other story-Down the Rabbit's Hole. It has been a while since i read this, so forgive the mistakes. I can't ramble on this story's author's note as much as I would like to. I just pissed off my parents, and now they are at the mall while i am at home. Good. I really don't like the silent anger that illuminates of them. Was it my fault i didn't want to go to the damn mall?

Sorry I was lashing my anger out at you all. So it is just me, my cat, my rabbit, and my four fishes that may or may not be dead.

The song of the entire story is Reclusion by Anberlin, AKA, one of the greatest bands ever.

The song of the chapter is Muse's Hysteria-Muse one of the other greatest bands ever.

So Review. Because i really wanna know what you think of it.

Review, and thank you.