This is my newest project. I know, I know, I still have many incomplete fics out there, waiting to be finished, but I just couldn't help it…

Anyway, hope you readers enjoy this fic.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Inazuma Eleven. But the OCs are mine. I guess…

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Prologue

~ Hokkaido ~

Fubuki had never met any of his relatives. Ever. Actually, he didn't even know he had relatives, because his parents never spoke about them. But now, as he stood in front of a smiling woman and her children, Fubuki finally knew what his maternal aunt looked like.

"You are Fubuki Shirou?" The woman asked kindly, and Fubuki timidly nodded his head.

"H-Hai. N-Nice to m-meet you." He bowed, looking to the ground as a light blush crept to his face. Unconsciously, he reached up to clutch the scarf he was wearing. Atsuya's scarf…

"Welcome to the family, Shirou," the woman said. "I'm Yubina Sachiko, and these are my children, Kaito and Kimiko."

"N-Nice to meet you all," he bowed again. After the avalanche, they said he was going to live with his aunt, who, apparently, was the younger sister of his mother. With an unhappy marriage, she had divorced, and was currently living with her children in this lovely house. He just hoped he could get along with his cousins.

"Mum, Masami-nee is still not here," Kimiko pulled at her mother's sleeve, causing Sachiko to look down, before looking around.

"Huh? You're right." She frowned. "I wonder what took her so long to get down the stairs."

Just as the word left her lips, Fubuki found his jaw drop to the floor when the window of the second floor was slammed open, and someone jumped through it, doing a back-flip in the middle of the air, before landing soundlessly on the snow-covered ground.

Fubuki took a good look at the newcomer. It was a girl who looked a little shorter than him, with tanned skin and black hair that was tied in a ponytail, which reached to her mid-back. She was wearing a dark purple turtleneck and blue grey jeans, with a black scarf around her neck.

"And ladies and gentlemen, Yubina Masami has made a perfect land!" The newcomer exclaimer merrily. "Bravo! Bravo!"

"Masami!" Sachiko screamed. "How many times I have to tell you to use the door? They invented doors for a reason, you know!"

"But using windows is more fun!" The newcomer, whose name was Yubina Masami, flashed her mother a big grin while doing a V sign. "Besides, I'm a ninja! Ninja!"

Sachiko facepalmed, while Kaito rolled his eyes and Kimiko sniggered. Ignoring her family, Masami then turned to Fubuki, her dark brown eyes narrowed like she was inspecting him from head to toes. Naturally, his body went stiffed.

"Are you, perhaps, this cousin mum told us about?" Asked the girl, eyes still narrowed to slits. Swallowing, Fubuki nodded.

"H-Hai. I'm F-Fubuki Shirou."

For a while, there was only silence. Then, Masami brightened up suddenly, reaching out to slap Fubuki on the back.

"Yo, Shi-chan!"The girl laughed, swing her arm over his shoulders. "Me name is Masami, as you already heard. And, got this memorised, because I'm going to become THE NEXT HOKAGE! NARUTO RULES!"

Fubuki watched Masami weirdly as the girl started doing flips in the front yard, all the while cackling maniacally. A hand put on his head, and Fubuki blinked, looking up to see Sachiko smiling at him.

"Just ignore her," the woman sighed. "She's…kind of weird like that. How about going inside for a cup of hot chocolate?"

Hearing the word 'hot chocolate', Masami stopped her flips, jumped back to her feet and took no time to run inside her house.

"Yay! Hot chocolate, hot chocolate, hot chocolate! I'm a little spider living in your shoe!"

Following his aunt and cousins inside, Fubuki watched as Masami's family shook their heads with another sighs.

"How embarrassing." Sachiko said, but Fubuki didn't think so. He thought it was pretty funny and interesting. Seeing Masami jumping around like she was hyper, he couldn't help but smile. After the avalanche a month ago, this was the first time Fubuki truly smiled.

"Hey, you are smiling!" Masami exclaimed, going all up to Fubuki's face, making him stumble back a little. Laughing at the grey-haired boy's reaction, Masami then gave him a huge mug of hot chocolate, all the while still grinning.

"You look really cute while smiling, you know that?" She said, picking up the remote control on the dining table and clicked to turn the TV on.

"A-Ah," Fubuki blushed a little. "T-Thank you, Masami…"

"Hey, just call me Masa-chan!" Masami chirped. "But really, you look really cute when you smile. You should smile more." With that, the girl turned her attention to the news to the TV, humming quietly to herself as she watched the reporter saying something about a murder case in Tokyo.

"…the victim is identified as Hamamoto Tetsuya, 31 years old, currently unemployed. The time of death is suspect to be somewhere between 3am to 4:15. He was hacked thirty-five times by an axe, which is found five feet away from the…"

"Boring!" Masami sang, before turning to Fubuki. "Hey, hey, what do you want to see now?"

"Well…"

~ Tokyo~

"…according to the head of the investigators team, Kurosawa Kei, there is no fingerprints found in the axe handle, or is there any clues on the crime scene…"

Blinking with a blank face, he turned the TV off. Bringing his hand up, the greenette started playing with a strand of his hair.

"You don't have to make it so messy," he muttered to seemingly thin air, leaning back against the coach. "One stab to the heart, and everything would be done and over with. Nice and simple. Then again, you always go for the messiest ways."

A pause, before he continued. "But, why left the axe near the crime scene? Back then, you always brought your weapons home…"

Someone else stepped in the living room, and the greenette turned around to see who it was. Red hair, pale skin and green eyes. A familiar face.

"Midorikawa?" the redhead asked. "What are you doing? Didn't you hear Hitomiko-nee call for snack?"

"Oh, she did?" the greenette, whose name apparently was Midorikawa, flashed the redhead a smile. "I didn't hear her. Sorry, I guess I zoned out again."

"Don't worry about that." The redhead also smiled. "Come on, let's go get our snack."

"Okay, Hiroto." Jumping out of the coach, Midorikawa ran after his friend. Yet, before leaving the room, he turned around and once again looked into nothingness.

"See you later, okay?"

Just like that, he left the room. Behind him, on the coach, next to where he was sitting just a moment ago, was a red-stained spot, which soon vanished into thin air.

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There, the prologue. What do you think about this? Interesting enough? Manage to catch your attention? Whatever your opinion is, please tell me. Your reviews will be much appreciated, and if you do decide to add this story into your favourite and follow list, I will be even more happy. Of course, the fact you guys do spend time and read this is great enough already ^-^

Bye bye for now, minna. Please stay tuned for more chapters of 'Family', and see you guys later! –heart-