[Revised Version]

I DO NOT OWN HAKUOUKI OR ANY OF THEIR CHARACTERS! I ONLY OWN MY OC,YUI!

~Reader's POV~

'In the beginning,it was all black and white.'

Black and white? I wonder..how was it just black and white then.

It was red. Blood red. Speckles of black dotting my sight.

I froze in fear. My forehead and hands felt clammy. My face turned pale white.

The sword rose and cut down their bodies in a flash before I could even blink. Blood sprayed across the walls,painting them red. Drops splattered onto my white nightwear.

Their.. Who was 'their'?

The fallen bodies laid there. Not moving. Not breathing. Not screaming.

My parents.. Gone.

I gripped onto the skirt of my clothes. My chapped lips trembling. But my head was in a blank. My heart in a swirl of emotions.

They approached me,just like how a predator does. Their cold and merciless eyes fixated on me.

Feelings started to pulsate through my veins. A mixture of agony and hatred.

I cried out agonizingly,grabbing a vase nearby and smashed it against one of the murderers.

He cried out in pain,falling on his knees and fell over,unconscious.

I took up his katana and swung it around,attempting to slaughter those beasts that preyed on my family.

Then I saw.. them.

Three men. Killing off every single attacker.

They walked towards me. Their eyes glowed in the dark.

Come with us,that was what they said.

Relying on my instincts,I faked an attack on the red-eyed one and sprinted out of the house with nothing but the dirty katana used to slay my parents. Nothing but a sleeping kimono worn.

The beginning. Sure wasn't full of rainbows. It was also not black and white.

It was just blood red.

I wandered along the empty and quiet streets of Kyoto. Well,not really so around the red light district.

Oh wait,let me backtrack a little. I just remembered that I forgot to introduce myself.

I am Yui. Nagakura Yui. I'm 18 years old. Mahogany colored hair in a side ponytail. Bangs swept to the left. Eye color? Pink. Wearing a lilac colored vest over my clean white kimono shirt,and a brown hakama with a black and pink colored bandana worn on my head. A katana worn on my right,my vest hidden with a few blades.

Oh yeah,previously I had nothing except for that disgusting sword and dirty nightwear. How did I get all these? Right,let me back track a little more.

So basically,that night I slept in the forest. Well actually,I slept up in the tree that was close towards the forest. And I saw some bandits lurking around. And I thought,why not? And I beat them up and tada,I got all these!

No? Not convinced?

...

Fine,a nice Samaritan saw me and took care of me. Washed my wounds,gave me a place to rest,new clothes,food. There,I said it. Tch,my Nagakura pride all gone.

Hey,don't look at me like that! My family,the Nagakura's,are prideful,and vain,people alright?

Anyways,I managed to get on a boat and travelled around till I finally got here. Kyoto.

Why am I here? Uh.. Finding an elephant with lumpy fats and a large ass. Its name is Nagakura Shinpachi. Nope. Not a human. An elephant.

Strolling through the dark alleys,I heard shifting and shuffling of footsteps.

"Why,what a pretty man." A drunkard staggered towards me,pulling his heavy arm over my narrow shoulders while his friends jeered him on. "M-Maybe you are actually a girl! Now,n-now let big brother take a l-look for yer' "

Before that man could even touch the collar of my clothes,I flipped him over and nailed him onto the ground swiftly with the use of my hidden blades.

"Dammit! You bloody bitch! Yer gonna get 't from me!" His friends perked up from their drunkenness and unsheathed their katanas threateningly.

I sneered at them,my eyes darkening dangerously. Unsheathing my own blade and in 3 slices, I cut them all down,flicking off the remaining drops of blood off my blade and sheathed it back.

"Hmph..good for nothings." I walked off,hidden in the shadows. "..Now where is that elephant's headquarters."

-Ayu

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