Disclaimer: Let's just say, if I owned Umineko, this would be true, Kanon would be the main character and Higurashi would be a LOT more involved. So I don't own it. The great Ryukishi07 does.

If you commit a sin,

I shall forgive you

If you do not know of your sin

I shall repent for you

If you are the sin

I shall protect you

but for my sins....

will you destroy me?

Chapter one:
Tragedy

"Demon!!!"

Kanon curled up, trying to shield his body from the blows he received by his father, but no matter how much he wrapped himself up, he still got hurt.

"You're nothing but furniture!!!"

"I'm not furniture!!" Kanon cried, and the beatings stopped. His father grabbed him by the hair and lifted him above the ground. His father smiled wickedly.

"Not furniture, eh? Then what, may I ask, is the thing that comes out of your arm?" Kanon's father demanded, grabbing Kanon's right arm and holding it above him, squeezing it as a shining, red locus formed from it.

Kanon was then thrown against the back wall, and blood fell from his mouth once again.

These beatings had been going on for as long as Kanon could remember. His father despised him, for Kanon not only reminded him of his mother in body and magic, but also showed that he had been cursed with twin sons that were nothing more then dirt.

"Father, stop it!!" Kagu yelled from behind. Kagu was Kanon's older twin brother, and hated the fact that it was always Kanon that got the worst of the beatings, and not him.

"You two... both of you are a curse from Oyashiro-sama!! As was your mother, appearing before me!!"

Oyashiro-sama... that was the shrine god of Hinamizawa, the town that they lived in. Everyone feared Oyashiro-sama's wrath, and his curse.

Their mother was a witch. Well, in truth, they had no parents, but it had been the witch they know as their mother that had created them, and it was also her that had given them to the man whom had callen upon her, and whom she had fallen in love with.

However, despite hoping that the two twin boys would receive a good upbringing, her wish was not granted. Despising their mother for leaving him, their father had used the boys as a way of getting revenge against her.

Kagu clung to his father, pleading with him to stop. His father, angered, grabbed a knife from the wooden table and buried it deep in Kagu's stomach. Kanon screamed as his brother fell to the ground, blood pulsing from his stomach.

With madness and hatred in his eyes, Kanon's father raised the knife above his head and brought it down upon Kanon.

Moving as quick as possible to prevent damage to his vital organs, the knife only penetrated Kanon's thigh, although it went right through his frail body. His father stabbed him again, and again, and Kanon's screams got louder, yet weaker.

Suddenly, a blue locus exited his father's body, and was ripped out again. The man collapsed, and Kanon drew his own locus, stabbing his father in the exact same spot. His father's eyes were blank and empty, staring at nothing.

Kanon watched in horror as his brother collapsed again, blood on the shiny blue locus on his arm. Kanon wanted to run to Kagu, but he couldn't move, and the world was slowly being swallowed by darkness.

Although barely on the brink of consciousness, Kanon was still awake. He heard the paramedics rush in, and felt his mind slowly collapse as he heard the words 'time of death'. He was taken away, and as he heard a distant whimper, he could hear someone reassuring him.

Then, everything disappeared.

Well, I decided to write a story about what could have been Kanon's past. I just was thinking about why he's always so angsty and such, and decided to write an explanation! And yes, in this story, Kanon is from Hinamizawa (it had to be done...)

Kagu is Kanon's twin brother that I made up, though he's basically just evil Kanon that was saw in ep 9, except kinder. Though he could have been corrupted by Beatrice...

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it, and shall enjoy the rest!

P.S. the poem at the top I wrote, so yeah... the usual...