A/N: Alright this is my first shot at trying to write an AU, so please be gentle, I honestly don't think I've read enough AUs to really get a good feel for that kind of writing but we'll see what I can pull out of my sleeve.
WARNING: This story is NOT Yaoi even though it will sound like it in later chapters! Just keep that in mind when you start thinking that it is.
Disclaimer: I do not own YYH, I write these stories purely for fun and for practice and I'm not being paid for these writings.
Chapter 1: Counting Numbers
It was early in the morning, the sun was barely over the horizon, the world outside of it was already warm with the late summer heat, but the soft breezes smelled like the fast approaching fall.
Held up in his dark room he sat on his bed watching the digital clock on the top of his cluttered desk, it read 7:18 AM, across the room an old TV spoke about the weather that was predicted for the day.
He counted the seconds as the neon green numbers turned to 7:19, 'one, two, three' the sudden sound of shattering glass drew him out of his slight daze; he looked towards the closed door.
He knew the sound of that shatter… he had glued that one object, a special vase, back together six times within the last month. He closed his eyes and blocked out the sounds from just beyond his door, 'eight, nine, ten' he continued.
The bus would arrive soon and he would dare to leave his room only then, so he would not have to stand unarmed on the front line for long. In this never-ending war he had developed his own plans of action to counter against the enemies.
'Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen.' It always went this slow… every single morning, and every single night. He would count down the seconds until he could complete another task, any simple task that allowed him to somehow get through the day, and sometimes even through the night.
He could take this counting no longer, he stood from the bed in his black ensemble and stepped toward the door, his hand hovering above the doorknob as if there was electricity running trough the metal just waiting to shock him.
He took a deep breath, giving his clock one final look, 'twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six.' He suddenly yanked the door open before he had the chance to second guess the action.
The hallway was empty, the whole house had an eerie silence to it, he would rather hear screaming, and breaking objects than this uncomfortable silence.
He began down the steps to the first floor front lines, the wall that blocked the stairs from the 'formal' dining room divided him from where he knew the enemy was, the front door was only mere feet in front of him and yet he doubted whether he would get there unscathed.
He began towards it, his eyes firm on his goal, each step he took he gave another sigh of relief while in the back of his mind he knew it couldn't go on this cleanly, somewhere in this it had to get dirty.
And then suddenly it came.
A rather thick shard of broken glass was suddenly hurled at him, cutting him across the cheek, he barely flinched and turned his head away from the lit room. "Where are you going?" Came the devil's voice… the sound of his mother.
"School." He chanced a glance back at where she stood in the doorway, her black hair untended to and her clothes dirty from being worn so much. She looked into the kitchen, probably at the clock then turned back to him with a hard glare.
"Fine, get out! I don't want you here anyway, Yusa is coming over tonight so you had better be here and out of the way!"
He nodded once having heard those same lines so many times, he then left from the house before she had another chance to hurl something else at him, he could already feel blood welling at the laceration, he wondered how he even had any blood left to bleed after all of these years.
Stopping outside the closed front door he looked down at the clock he had on his key ring, it was exactly when the bus was supposed to arrive and bring about the start of his day, 7:20
A/N: Yes I know that that was really short but I think the quality was really good! Well I guess we'll see how he makes it during the day in the next chapter.
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