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This is my first ever Fan Fiction so I'm sorry about the quality

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The Other Side of the Mirror

Chapter One

After the fall of No.6 Shion hadn't felt the same about himself. Whenever he caught a glimpse of his reflection it sent an unnatural shiver up his spine as though the reflection he saw was not him at all.

Shion found himself looking at the mirror in his home.

"You're a monster" He whispered to the mirror "I'm a monster" he smiled grimly as he looked away from the mirror. Shion shook his head, he wasn't a monster was he? He knew he'd killed a man but that didn't make him a monster, a murderer perhaps but not a monster. He began to shake remembering the look on the No.6 soldiers face as the lights left his eyes and the colour faded from his face, how he enjoyed it. "I didn't enjoy it" he muttered under his breath.

"Shion?" A familiar voice sounded from behind him "why are you shaking?" Shion turned round to see Nezumi staring anxiously at him.

"Oh, it's just you Nezumi" Shion said turning away from Nezumi hoping he hadn't heard any of the things he had said before.

"Who else would it be?" Nezumi laughed "Expecting Company from someone else were we?"

Shion shrugged "I wasn't" Shion noticed Nezumi was carrying a large armful of vegetables "I see were having vegetable stew for dinner today"

"That's observant of you" Nezumi said as he put the vegetables to the side "Why are you not looking at me Shion?"

"No reason" Shion lied as he turned around and looked nervously at Nezumi "You didn't hear anything I said, did you?"

"Why, were you singing to yourself?" Nezumi chuckled at the thought.

"Yeah, something like that" Shion wrapped his arms around Nezumi "I'm glad your back"

Nezumi kissed Shion gently "I'm glad to be back" Nezumi smiled "But now I need to make dinner so go have a bath whilst I get it ready"

"Fine" Shion smiled.

His smile soon faded as he turned away from Nezumi and walked to the bathroom and found himself confronted by the mirror once again. His mirror self-stared at him, almost as though it was mocking him.

"You don't even look like me" Shion whispered as he began to strip off his clothes.

He looked at the crimson snake that wrapped around his body. A scar that reminded him of everything that was wrong about him, every imperfection, everything he'd ever done wrong. It reminded him of the guilt he felt about almost regretting opening his window and harbouring that injured prisoner boy ever so many years ago. He had always wondered how his life could of gone if he'd never been kicked out of his home and taken off of his course, forced to do a menial job as a park warden when he could have been something, anything. He could have been a scientist in No.2 and avoided all the scandal within No.6. Maybe the guard was right that day, maybe he was naïve to think that saving one kid was worth losing everything. Shion shook his head.

He knew meeting Nezumi was the best thing that ever happened to him, he knew the man in the other room cooking was someone he couldn't live without.

Shion sighed. He always over thinked things like this.

"Dinners ready!" A voice shouted from the other room. "I'm coming" Shion answered realising he'd been in the bathroom for over an hour without actually going in the bath. Shion splashed water over his face and quickly got dressed before hurrying out of the bathroom to join Nezumi for dinner.

"You took your sweet time" Nezumi smirked.

"Yeah, yeah" said Shion as he eyed up his bowl of vegetable stew "That looks tasty as ever Nezumi"

Shion sat down across from Nezumi and began to taste his stew before looking up to give Nezumi a smile of approval.

"Good to see you like it" Nezumi said before tucking into his own portion of stew.

"Hey…Nezumi, Do you ever wish you had a better life?" Shion said as he began to play around with his food.

"What are you talking about?" Nezumi asked looking up at Shion "Where did that come from?"

Shion put down his spoon

"It's nothing" he said getting up to leave the room "Thank you for the food Nezumi" Shion forced a smile.

"Wait Shion!" Nezumi said urgently "I'm worried about you, don't just go". "It's your fault I'm like this!" Shion screamed as his eyes filled with tears "I wish I never met you, I should have left you that day…"

Shion ran out the room and slammed the door. Shaking, Nezumi walked up to the door and put his hand to the wood "I didn't ask you to save me" he whispered before sinking to the floor.

Shion stopped running, he didn't know where he was going but he didn't want to be stuck in the hell hole of an apartment a minute longer. He sighed he knew what he had said to Nezumi wasn't true, Nezumi didn't ruin his life, he did.

Nezumi dragged himself off the floor and sat back down at the table and stared at the half eaten stew Shion had been eating before he'd left.

"When did you start feeling this way Shion?" he muttered to the empty chair across from him.

Nezumi picked up the bowls and discarded of the leftover food. He'd always hated wasting food but now he didn't want to see the food the man he loved had been eating, the sight of it gave him an intense pain in his chest he had only felt once before.

Shion sat on the ground outside the entrance of Nezumis' apartment, he wanted to go back already but didn't know how he could face Nezumi after what he'd said.