Me and Wonder Panda Tan-Tan have decided to do our own versions of how Musaki met Ichi. Like, my KFP OC character meet Wonder Panda's OC character while they were in the orphanage. It's sort of a 'what if' kind of thing. This is told in Musaki's P.O.V. and this is dedicated to Wonder Panda Tan-Tan...so I hope you like!


Friendship Out of Loneliness

by: Terrell James

Chapter 1: Rumors

Musaki's P.O.V.

Bao Gu Orphanage

I was sitting alone in my room one day, all curled up into a corner and to think that my parents' death was about almost 8 years ago and I'm only 10 and a half years old. I'm still grieving over this and it's like I don't know how to let it go and accept it. Not only that, but some of my friends that I had were gone since last year. They were adopted and while I'm happy they found a family, I'm still saddened by the fact that I was alone again in these four walls. I still have my guardians, Brutus and Shakur with me, but it still doesn't take away the fact that I may never have a family. My faith in getting adopted is shaking and uneven, like it may never happen and I may be here until I turn 18.

Not long after, I heard some footsteps coming in my room and I didn't even bother turning around to see who it was, but when I felt a hand placed on my shoulder, I could tell that it was either Shakur or Brutus and when I turned around, it was Shakur, coming in to check on me to see how am I doing.

"You all right, Saki?" asked Brutus.

I silently nodded my head and as I looked at my guardian in the eye and he could sense that I'm still reeling in from what had happened when I was three years old and he told me, "Just thought I came by to see how you were. I'm sorry you lost your friends."

So was I. I already thought that I would finally be happy that I got them by my side and that I had hoped that I would be adopted with them, but I guess fear of having a new family overtook me because I didn't want to forget my parents. The pain of going through this is just too much for me to even face again and what if the same thing happened to my new family? I couldn't allow myself to take that chance again.

"What do I do at this point?" I asked him, almost tearfully.

Shakur lets out a heavy sigh and he could see that I'm obviously still not over my parents' death just yet and I'm almost 11 years old now and he said, "I don't know. Me and Brutus can't replace your parents or your friends, but remember when I told you that it'll get better one day?"

"Uh-huh." I answered.

"Just keep believing it'll get better one day."

I do want to believe what Shakur told me, but for some reason...fear always keeps holding me back and I didn't want to take that risk. But deep inside, I'm really sick of holding myself back from having a family or making new friends. I just haven't grasped into it on the outside yet.

Shakur patted my head and walked out of the room for a while, leaving me to gather my thoughts on my own. I let out a big sigh and just thought about everything he told me and I hope that things will get better soon. I do want it to get better, but I just don't know how to recover from the pain of loss and tragedy.

Hours later, I was walking around the hallways in the orphanage, just to get some air and then...I began hearing some whispers coming from the kids claiming that there's a ghost in one of the rooms. Like each time, they seek a shadowy white figure popping in and out of the hallways for three years. I didn't even know it at the time and I don't particularly follow rumors that much, but the more I keep hearing about it, the more I wanted to find out more about it.

"There's a ghost in here."

"I heard that it comes in and out of the hallways using our bathroom."

"He could crawl up and scare us!"

"I don't wanna be eaten by it!"

I was never a fan of ghosts, but I was smart enough to know that ghosts don't eat people and they're invisible and they don't see kids and scare them like they're visible...if they want to. I didn't really take in whatever they said because they make stuff up...but to silence those rumors, I decided to do a little investigation for myself to see if there really is a ghost.


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