Len sat in a corner mourning his girlfriend's death. Lily. His sobs echoed throughout his dark bedroom. It was strange that one person can cause such misery for another.
Tsubaki. The girl with bright blonde hair. The girl with a missing eye. The girl that kills just for the sake of it. The girl that took away his happiness with misery.
The girl that strongly resembles his past childhood bestfriend.
He envied her for that. His childhood bestfriend, Rin was a kind, sweet, pure little girl, whom he met at an orphanage. His first day there at the orphanage, kids whispered about how much he looked like her. He couldn't care less. He didn't care what people said since his parents' life was taken away by the Red Camillas.
The Red Camillas. A terrorist group that killed mercilessly. A group in which Tsubaki belongs to.
The name left a sour taste in his mouth. Rin was the first person to approach him at the orphanage. She wore a white dress that day with white bobby pins in her hair. Her hands were behind her back and she smiled a pure innocent smile. "Hello!" she greeted him, grinning from ear to ear. "My name is Rin, and all the kids have been saying on how much we look alike." She giggled.
"Is that so?" I say, "Oh, yes." she giggled again. She was so pure and innocent at the time. Her smile made people want to protect her more than they already do. After that she and Len became the best of friends. They were always with each other, and it was probably a rare thing to see them separated. He had learned that she came to the orphanage a year ago, meaning she was five years old when she lost her parents. They apparently died in some accident.
He had told her how his parents died, and was a little bit shocked. I mean who wouldn't? Having your parents killed by one of the most dangerous terrorist groups was truly frightening.
As time progressed, Rin and Len grew feelings for each other and they grew stronger and stronger. In fact his first kiss went to Rin. Len even gave her a promise ring. He remembered the day when he gave it to her. T
hey were sitting on a rock in the fields when he decided to give it to her. She cried tears of happiness when he slipped it onto her.
They were happy until that terrible day happened. Rin and Len were playing outside, and then they heard screaming and gunshots. "GET DOWN!" A woman shouted, Len recognized the woman's voice. It was one of the nuns screaming at the kids to duck.
A gunshot rang through the house and the nun was immediately silenced by her own blood. She collapsed to the ground, her lifeless eyes carrying so much fear. Another nun ran outside and pointed to the children to run. Len grabbed Rin's hand and sprinted as fast as he could. He was going so fast, Rin tripped and fell onto the warm Earth. "Len!" she screamed, Len turned around to help her up. They were falling behind. He felt a huge pressure to his chest and went flying back into one of the oak trees.
A man stood over Rin as she screamed. He gave her an evil grin and knocked her out. "NO!" Len shouted, he ran up to the man and gave him a hard punch to the chest. The man was taken by surprise and fell back. He looked up at Len and smirked. "Brat." He spat. "Brats like you should know your place." he said. The man stood up and took a knife out. Len backed up but it was too late. The man slashed his knife infront of his eye. He screamed in pain as he pressed a hand to his eye to stop the pain and bleeding.
The man kicked him again, knocking him back to the tree. The man kneeled down to pick up Rin, as Len shouted his protests.
"Good-job." A woman, with light blue pigtails said as she walked over smirking. "Let's go." she commanded. They stalked off as Len kept shouting Rin's name, and he eventually blacked out.
And that was the last time he'd seen her. As time grew, he had put Rin aside and joined a place where he could avenge the death of his bestfriend. He also met his girlfriend there, Lily. She was similar to Rin in a way. It was her hair and personality. Like Rin she had blonde hair, and like Rin she was kind. But she was still nothing like Rin. They were only 12.
Last week Tsubaki had murdered Lily. He took her out and he was about to propose when Tsubaki got in the way. She was watching them from the rooftop and swung down, laughing like a maniac. "Love?" she had said, "Love is for weaklings." she giggled. "And you know what?" she smirked, "weaklings like her don't need to be in this world." She pulled out her gun and pointed it to Lily's temples. Len's eyes were widened with fear.
He quickly took out a white box and held out his hand. "No! Please! Don't kill her!" He had begged, "I'll give you this $60,000 ring!".
He didn't care if the $60,000 went down the drain. All he cared about was getting Lily out of this alive.
Tsubaki had put down her gun and pretended to think, "Hmmmm, let me see," she said smiling, "how about... no." she said coldly, and uncocked her gun and pointed it back at Lily's temple, and pulled the trigger. Lily's body collapsed on the ground immediately, her head seeping blood. A scream erupted from his throat as he ran to his girlfriend's dead body. Tsubaki laughed while holding her stomach. "You see," she had said, "love is weak." she spat and ran off. His screams echoed through the dark horizon as he clutched Lily's body.
...
"How dare you?" he whispered. "How dare you wear her face? How dare you wear her smile? How dare you wear her laugh?" he asked more angrily. "HOW DARE YOU?!" His voice boomed, as they bounced off the the blank white walls.
"How dare you?" he repeated sobbing,
"How dare you?"
He eventually fell asleep as he cried.
...
He woke up the next morning feeling tired. What was today? Oh, right. A Tuesday. He got up and walked to the bathroom.
He looked terrible. His eyes were all puffy and red, and his face was a very deep red.
He brushed his teeth and took off his clothes and took a shower. He was in desperate need of one.
At work Len was moping around a bit. They had allowed him to take a break for a few weeks before returning.
General Megurine looked at him and nodded. He nodded back his expression solemn. "What are you guys looking at?" he asked, he walked over to the huge panel which General Megurine was leaning over. "Some old footages of the places the Red Camillas has attacked." She said while staring at the screen.
Len looked up and watched the footage. It showed a burnt village. The computer guys switched the footages, it showed a small town, and an orphanage.
Len's eyes widened and he gasped loudly as he back away. "Is something wrong solider?" General Kaito turned around and looked at him.
"Zoom in!" he said, the guys sitting at the computer zoomed in on the orphanage. It was a large beautiful building, with a huge field. Kids were playing and shouting in the fields and his eyes searched frantically for Rin. There she was. She was wearing her usual white dress while skipping down the fields before turning around and plopping onto the grass.
She took a deep breath and exhaled heavily while smiling. A young boy came walking near her. It was him. and her. They kept watching until the Red Camillas came. From the camera's point of view you can see the Karakuris torching up everything.