Author's Note: Hello. This is my first fanfic. I hope you like it...and if not, tell me why you don't. Thank you. Please read and review.
Disclaimer: I do not own Spiral or any of its characters.
She wasn't supposed to exist. She knew that long and well, but still, she tried to act normal, as if her life depended on it. "Are you really one of us? One of the Blade Children?" they'd asked tauntingly. No, she wasn't like them with their pranks, testing their limits as designed. No, she wasn't like them. She didn't kill or shed blood. Well, at least not yet anyway... But that didn't change what she would become. What she would do someday. She and each and every one of her childhood friends were destined to become murderers. After all, they were the Blade Children. Can't change fate. And Ryoko could only keep running for so long...
"Ryoko!" the red haired boy with glasses chased after her, gasping for breath. God, that girl could run. But then again, that girl could also beat him up. It had always been like that. Kosuke Asazuki sighed. He didn't know why he cared. She was only his childhood friend. She was like a sister to him. But if so, then why couldn't he get her out of his head...
Ayumu Narumi sat alone in his apartment because for once, Hizumi wasn't there. It was strange because ever since Ayumu's leave from the hospital, the cheerful boy had clung onto him; the two seemed inseparable. Hizumi, the shadow of despair that clung to his hope. His friend. His enemy. Those words were one in the same. They both knew they could only maintain the guise of friendship for so long, as history repeated itself, because Ayumu was to kill Hizumi. It had all been declared in the spiral of fate. After all, they were the younger brothers of legends. Kiyotaka Narumi had killed the Devil and since made a name for himself within the police force; his name was synonymous with God. And his older brother's antithesis Yaiba, the Devil, was the blame for the genetic experiments concerning the Blade Children. Children made in his likeness that were fated to kill and be killed. But even without Yaiba in the picture or the blood that washed over their hands, the Blade Children, each with one rib removed, still posed a threat to society with their superior strength and intelligence. The hunters, saviors, and watchers were all after these children for whatever reason, but despite their own grim fates, the children still believed that he, Ayumu Narumi, could save them. They still had hope, but for how long? What could he do? Like always, things would go according to plan. Watchers...Saviors...Hunters...Blade Children...Hizumi...Ayumu...They were all simply chess pieces in Kiyotaka's game. And time was running out for all of them.
Rio lounged on the couch in Ryoko's apartment, with her small frame barely occupying two-thirds of the space, when she heard the door open. "Kosuke? Ryoko? Is that you?" she called, instantly alert, grabbing the extra bomb she had lying on the table in the case of possible intruders.
"RIO!" she heard the familar english voice bellow.
"Kanone! Eyes!" Her pigtails bounced as she rose to greet them, but she soon found herself swallowed up in Kanone's hug.
"You're as small as ever!" he laughed, releasing her as Rio pouted. Despite the fact that she was the about same age as the rest of them, she was considerably smaller and shorter. She appeared 13 even though she was actually 16.
The renowned pianist sighed in the background. "Did Narumi Otouto show up?" Eyes Rutherford asked, leaning awkwardly against the wall with a grocery bag in his arms. His silver hair was in his eyes.
"Narumi Otouto!" she answered a little two quickly. "Why?" Rio asked as Eyes threw her a melon from the bag.
"He's missing," was all he said before he turned and walked out the door. His silver hair was still in his eyes, and his eyes were unreadable.
Kanone smiled good-naturally. "Honestly, the way you two bring him up... it's almost like you're in love with him," he said softly as he followed his brother out the door. Rio felt the color creep on to her face while she struggled to balance both bomb and melon... but she wasn't sure if it was because they just mentioned Narumi Otouto or because she was holding Eyes's melon in her arms...
To be continued...