From The Sidelines Chapter One
"Hey Luka, it's almost that night isn't it?" I asked the man standing next to me. We were standing on the edge of a building watching the world below us. My companion, Luka, had black hair that reached a little past his shoulders, gray eyes, and was dressed from head to toe in black.
"Yes, only a little longer until Walpurgis night." He answered. A gust of wind blew our hair, strands of black and dark blue mixed. He turned his face slightly to me my gaze, his piecing silver eyes stared into my baby blue eyes. I offered him a small smile, trying to comfort him, trying to assure him that nothing was going to happen on that night.
It was early afternoon, and we were in Luka's amazing, expensive car driving fast.
"LUKA!" There was a boy no older than 15 standing frozen in the middle of the crosswalk. Right before we were about to hit the kid Luka knocked the car door off and jumped out of the moving car to pushed the boy out of the way.
"That was dangerous! Are you two all right!" a passerby yelled. I slowly exited after I stopped the car. 'Luka damn it! Be more careful!' I thought. I slowly made my way to the two on the ground.
"Whoa! The car door is….gone…GONE!" someone else yelled. The bystanders were making a huge fuss about how the car door was missing, and how expensive the car was. I bent down to examine Luka and the boy, I frowned when I saw Luka's hand, the boy seemed to notice to.
"Blood! Your hands bleeding!"
"Let's go." Luka said grabbing the boys hand and threw a glance at me. The boy seemed to not understand.
"Hurry, before we get involved in something troublesome." I explained softly. Luka grabbed both our wrists and pulled us to a nearby park. We were sitting on a bench in the park as the kid bandaged Luka's hand.
"Are you all right? Um… maybe you should go to the hospital…"
"I'm fine. Something like this doesn't even count as an injury, but thank you for this."Luka said as he smiled a bit. I got up so the boy could sit down, moving behind Luka I wrapped my arms loosely around his neck and leaned on him.
"No problem. The same goes for me. Thank you very much. For saving me form such a dangerous situation, and then getting hurt on top of that…" The boy stuttered. He was kinda cute, with his light metallic orange hair, and doe like eyes, he reminded me of one of those false angels form picture books. Those two were staring at each other so deeply to the point where I felt like I no longer existed.
"….um…?"
"Oh right. Sorry." Luka said snapping out of his trance.
"Before could you not move because you felt temporarily paralyzed?" I asked the boy in a quiet voice. He looked up at me confused.
"That wasn't what you wanted to do, right?" Luka asked.
"Do these inexplicable situations happen often?" he continued.
"…yes…." The boy said stunned.
"I see…You've gone through some scary experiences."
The boy tried to explain what happened. How he saw one of his classmates on the other side of the crosswalk and when he went to cross the street his classmate disappeared.
"He may have something to do with you feeling temporarily paralyzed. Has anything out of the ordinary happened with him? Anything that sticks out?" I asked him picking up on Luka's thoughts.
"Well… to be honest… I have this weird ability…" he said hecinently.
"Ability?" Luka asked.
"Well, my words may sound weird, so I don't know if you'll believe me or not… when I touch someone, their emotions flow into my mind… It's not a constant thing. It just happens all of a sudden. I can't control it myself. At times I get images, like the person's past and such. It's a burden. In the past, I often… made mistakes. That…classmate I spoke of…was also…someone I blundered with." Luka and I listened to the kid carefully.
"That time was also sudden, as usual. I saw a past that he undoubtedly didn't want anyone to know about. With something tiny like that… It's not like I thought that I understood everything about him. But, at that time, I just…just because it was painful for me after touching his emotions…I'm such an idiot. He was trembling with anger…" The kid continued on with his story.
"No, you're wrong." I stated to him.
"It wasn't solely your fault. That darkness is something that he summoned himself. He doesn't wasn't to see reality. That's why he blames others and runs away." Luka picked up for me.
"It's like you're already dead even though you're still living, right? Due to his darkness you were hurt. Don't take it to heart; you won't be able to hold up." I said to him.
"In any case, we'll look into it." Luka tried to reassure the boy.
"Eh? What do you mean by that?" he said confused.
"It just means that you don't have to worry." Luka explained as he got up, and I untangled myself from him.
"W-why would you go so far for me? I mean neither of you two even know me…" He did have a point; we really didn't know this kid.
"…Right, I suppose that's true but, even if we are strangers, it's better than being alone right? You don't have to burden yourself with everything. We will help you."Luka promised the boy. The boy looked down like he was thinking about something, Luka reached his hind out as if he was going to touch the kids head, but pulled back at the last minute.
"Well we're going to go. Make sure to be careful of your surroundings, Yuki." Luka said before we disappeared.