Title: To Live Again
Author: Daggergal
Summary: Kurogane was just an aggressive high school senior, until one day he bumped his head, tripped, and fell into another universe where all the beasts of legend live. Meeting with a vampire named Fai can they save each other or are they doomed to die.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but if I did I would share it with all of you! -
Prologue: To Meet Nevermore
Kurogane was just an aggressive high school senior. He never really paid any attention in class and he was failing everything but gym and classic literature. Go figure, a jock that liked to read old books like 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Sense and Sensibility', and 'A Mid-Summer Night's Dream'. It's not that he was dumb or anything it's just that he had no motivation. The only thing that could grasp his attention more than sports was the way that authors in the yesteryear used words to paint a delicate and detailed canvas of a story. He loved that old time way of talking. He loved the colorful landscape of metaphors with no obvious similes in sight. The way you could feel the author pouring his soul into his work, unlike nowadays when everything is about the money and the beauty of the painting of words is lost; crippled but the greed and lust for power and glory.
With is curt temperament and lost tolerance Kurogane had no one who he truly considered and friend and vise-versa. So when he wasn't sleeping in class or at some meeting for one sport or another (being on various teams) he was reading a book, or perhaps two at once, depending on his mood.
He existed. He breathed and walked and thought and ate and slept, but he never really lived. At least since he was a freshman and his parents divorced. After that he stayed to live with his mother. Then three months into the second semester she caught ill and died. Turning to is father he realized that the man he knew had long since died within and a demon had taken shelter in his skin. With nowhere left to turn to he learned the hard way that in the world you must rely on yourself.
He got two part time jobs and continued going to school, forging his mother's signature when necessary. Sure the school and local jobs had caught wind of her death but they didn't have the heart to turn him down knowing damn well he was truly on his own. He existed alone, with no one to lean on. (He became a stone, solid and rough on the outside but with something much more precious within. But he would soon be cracked.
Today was Wednesday, the exact middle of the week. Kurogane awoke believing it was like any other Wednesday but he was mistaken. Today on this most auspicious of Wednesdays he would find himself cast into a strange world, with strange creatures and even stranger feelings. Today, on this Wednesday the fates lined up to show him that even a once hollowed man can live again.
A/N: well what do you think? This is total crack writing that came to me at midnight and is now being written down at … 2:00am so if it seems weird… that's because it was written at 2 am with no beta. If someone would be so kind as to beta for me I would love them FOREVER!!! The plus is you get to read the story early. If you want to then PM me for more info. (like if the job is taken or my e-mail or something)