Chapter 1 - Forever Lost
(I own nothing related to Trigun and stuff.

It was true. The one man that my papa told me about, Vash The Stampede, was here. I'm only eleven years old but I listen to the daily gossip of the adults. There I was, standing in the doorway of my house an watched papa talk to our neighbors. They all had their guns, but papa let me carry his weapon. Ever since I remember, I've always been able to have toy guns to play with. Sure mama and big brother didn't like the idea, but papa trusted me.

I never shot at anyone or anything, even if I wanted to. Now papa was walking over to me and knelt down in front of me, taking his gun out of my hands.

"Go back inside with your mother and brother, Kito." he said to me. "It is safer in there and I'll be right back."
"Okay, papa." I answered and I hugged him tightly, hoping that he didn't get hurt.

I ran back inside the house, and sat down in the back room with mama. Gokan, my big brother, didn't look too happy. He did not even look at me when I tried talking to him.

"What's wrong with Gokan?" I asked mama quietly.
"Nothing is wrong, dear." answered mama calmly, but I had a bad feeling in my stomach.

We sat in the back room a little longer and then I saw the moons' light coming through the window. After a while, I heard some people yelling so I got up quietly, careful not to wake up mama or Gokan. I tied my red hair back with my favourite ribbon and then walked out of the room, to the front of the house. That's when I saw...him.

Even in the middle of night, I could see the long red trenchcoat, the blond spikey hair and those...evil-looking deep green eyes. He was just standing there, while people shot at him. Was he insane? I walked past a mirror, looking in it for a moment and seeing my own amber eyes looking back at me. I opened the front door and stepped outside then I saw papa. Papa was there near that...that insane person! I need to help him! I wanted to help him so I started running towards him. Many of the people started yelling at me, telling me to go back inside the house, but papa needed my help!

Then everything turned around. The man in the red coat was aiming the gun at...me! He shot at me but it whizzed by, inches from my head! What was he thinking?! Is he trying to send me back inside the house like a scared child? I'm not scared! I can take him! I'll help my papa and drive him away! He shot at me again, but the metal bullet came closer! He IS trying to scare me! I heard some...metallic noise...like something bouncing off of a sheet of metal... then papa fell over...Vash The Stampede shot my papa!

"Papa!" I yelled, feeling many tears start to flood my eyes. "Papa, hang on!"

I ran towards him. He can't die! Not now! Not shot by Vash The Stampede! I skidded to a stop and knelt down beside papa. He's...he's...he's covered in blood! He's bleeding! He's going to die! It's not fair! I sat there a while longer, trying not to cry but the tears kept falling down my face. I couldn't stop them. That's when he, the man who killed my father, turned and started walking off. He can't just get away like that! He shot papa! I grabbed papa's gun from the ground and stood up, pointing it at the killer.

"Get back here!" I yelled angrily, with tears still streaming down my face. "Don't you walk away from me!"

He looked back at me, looking all too calm but I don't think he cared. He killed papa and he didn't care! I pulled the trigger and started shooting at him. I was breaking my promise but I don't care! I continued shooting until there were no more bullets left, but that man was still standing! Not hurt or anything! He just stood there and looked at me! I started fumbling with the gun, trying to reload it when I heard Vash The Stampede's pistol being reloaded.

Is he going to kill me?! I looked back up, starting to get scared as he slowly aimed the gun right towards me face! I'm going to die! I couldn't protect papa! Now mama and big brother are going to die! It's all my fault! I should have stayed inside! I started crouching down when I heard the gun shot then unbearable pain on the left side of my face. It hurts so much! I don't want to die! I have to get my revenge for my father's death! But it hurts! I just let myself fall onto the dirt and curled up. I'll get my revenge...after my nap...after I wake up...