Chapter 1 Good Morning
It was morning, close to 5:30. A lone figure was asleep in a dark room of a small apartment, and you can hear the heavy breathing of the figure's slumber. But it was ragged and fast, the person was sweating and panting hard. You could hear whimpering and small crys of fear and pain. And soon the person was talking whislt asleep, "Shiro...wait...It hurts." The voice quivered.
The suffering soul was now thrashing from side to side, trembling and shaking. "Stop...please" And then tears were liking from her still shut eyelids running down her cheeks, small sobs came out as well. And then the voice...
"I wont hurt you, Natsuki...'' The dis-imbodied voice said.
-Dream start-
A small little girl with midnight hair was running to a park that had a big cherry blossom tree and under that tree was the shadow of a boy. The ittle girl ran pass the swings and slides getting closer and closer to the tree and towards the boy, she cried out his name, "Shiro!" She yelled happily. But as she got closer she stopped right in her tracks, "Big bro? Whats-?" She gasped in shock when her brother came from under the tree with a grim look in his face and blood splattered all over it as well.
She stumbeled backwards in surprise when she also noticed his eyes. They were black. No sign of his pupils, no white. His eyes were pitched black, devoid of any emotion, as if he didn't have a soul. "Nat chan, whats wrong? Dont be scared, I wont hurt you..." His voice was gentel and smooth, but it wasnt her brother's real voice. This was not her brother, and he would hurt her. That was what she thought.
"No...your not Shiro!" She cried out. "You are not my brother,stay away-!" Her emerald eyes were wide in fear when she saw him take a few step closer to her, she took a few more steps back. He smiled a sick smile when she did, his smile grew wider with each step closer he took. And finaly, she lost balance and she fell back. "Help! Someone!" No one answered.
He looked down on her while he cackeld uncontrollably, "HAHAHAHA! Oh, baby sister...haha! They are all dead! AHAAHAA!" Then he started crying, wither of joy or sadness, she could not tell. All she knew right now was that he did something and she dared ask. "Who are dead...? Shiro...what are you talking about?" She panicked when her brother grabbed her by her arm and dragged her up on her feet again. His grip was tight and she swore that would leave a bruise.
"Who do you think...?" He whispered into my ear harshly. "Mom and dad were never good parents..." He held her back so he can take a better look into his baby sister's bright green eyes. Eyes that now hold fear, eyes that now cry.
"Oh, dont cry baby sister." He coode, taking her into a bone crushing winced in pain.
"Let go! Your hurting me..." She tried to wiggle her way out of the death grip, but it was pointless. He was too strong for her to push him away.
"You wont hurt anymore, baby sister." As he spoke he gripped her tighter than ever before, she cried out in pain. "You wont cry anymore..." He pauses. "Becuase after Im done with you... You wont feel anything at all!" He said in a cheeri voice. And after that he pushed her back and suddenly he took out his right hand that now had sharp claws, he cut her by the shoulder. She cried out in pain. The smell of metallic blood envided her nose.
The sky was dark, the green grass turn to dust. The swing set and slides were now rust and the cherry blossom tree was wilting away. Dying. Each pedal was now lazyli floating about in the air.
She felt warm liquid slide down her collar bone, she shut her eyes tightly as her brother lauches towards her once again and then-
"Natsuki! Wake up!"
-End Dream-
The raven haired girl jumped up from her bed, her heart beating loudly in her chest. As she clouched on her right shoulder she looked at the side of her bed and found a man standing beside her with a bewildered look in his face.
Normally any one would freak out at the site of a man beside your bed when you just woke up. Not Natsuki, "Yo." she greeted him. As her breathing came back to normal, still clouching onto her shoulder.
"Yo?" He repeated. "I wake you up from your night terror and all you can say is YO!" He exclaimed with arms flapping up and down in the air. "Look at yourself!" He gestured to all of Natsuki, "Your sweating like crazy and your paler than usual..." His tone much more serious.
Natsuki gets out of bed and ignored his coments, just as she was about to reach the bathroom door he called out to her, "Natsuki! Wait!" He quickly walked up to her. She sighs. She turns to face him. Her gaze lingering to his scar thats between his bloned eyebrow, and then his light brown eyes.
"Yes?"
"Are you really going to school, are you sure?" Worry in his voice. "You can stay the day if you want. Your not gonna miss much on the first day of school..." He trailed off.
Natsuki thought about it for a second, and then she shook her head, "I should get some time out..." She pauses. She grips her right shoulder. "I need to take my mind off of it... I have to keep myself busy." She smirks. "But thanks anyways, Mister Wang."
"How many times do I have to tell you? You know you can call me Uncle Serhgey." He chuckelled lightly. "You have been living with me and Nina for ten years now."
It was true... She has been living under the same roof with Serhgey Wang and his daughter Nina Wang. Natsuki was adopted by Mister Wang when she was six, after a few months when... 'When IT happened...' Natsuki thought. But she was never around him or with Nina, she always studied abraod, and would go through a year without seeing them. But this year she decided to finish her two remaining high school years back in Fuuka island today with Nina. They were going to attened Fuuka Academy.
She faked a smile and said. "Right, sorry Uncle Serhgey."
"So..." He kept on talking. "Where did I interrupt your dream...?" He asked lowering his gaze to the floor. He didn't want to ask, but he realy wanted know.
Silence.
"You woke me up just when he was going for my face...with his claws." She said, and then walked into the bathroom. Shutting the door in his face.
He sighs, "I'll never get through you, will I?" He asked to no one in particular, as he walked down the stairs.
"You should leave her alone, father..." A girl with dark purpel hair and orange eyes was sitting on the stair case. Her father smiled at her.
"And why should I do that, Nina chan?" He asked as he took a seat next to his young daughter.
"One." She raises her index finger. "You know very well she does not like to share her feelings." She stated. "Two." Two fingers were up for the count. "Just let her come to you, in time she'll find the trust to talk to you." She continues. "And three..."
"Dont call me Nina chan. Im not a kid anymore." She whined.
"Hmm...your right Nina chan." Nina frowned...he just doesn't get it. She is not a kid! "But its been ten years, and she still doesn't trust us?"
"After what happened to her it is only natural for her to always be on guard, to trust only herself... It was really traumatic what she went through that day. But you saved her, Father. If it wasn't for your detective work you would have never found her... Atleast she's alive and trying to pay you back. Which is really unnecesarry." She mumbled the last part.
Serhgey reaches for his scar, and traces it with his index and middle finger and sighs. "I wish I would have found out more... But whoever or whatever attacked Natsuki and me its long gone..." 'For now...' He thought.
"Yeah...well, let's not talk about it anymore. I should get ready for school and finish packing up." She stood up from the stair case and went to her room up stair.
Natsuki was finished showering and was now brushing her teeth in the sink. Then she washed her face, and looked into the mirror. She stared at her reflection for few minutes. Her hair was much more darker when wet her pale skin was glicening with moister, she took a quick look at her scar in her bare shoulder. The claw like scar was taking half the front of it and a little bit to her collar bone. She sighs... And then she sees the one on her left cheek, just under her right eye. It was small but yet very visible. "It was only a dream... Its only a dream..." She closed her eyes and kept on repeating it over and over again. Like a mantra.
She opens her eyes and breathed deeply, "Time to move out..."
She made her way down to her room, clad in only a light blue towel. She went inside and got dressed in her uniform. It was a simple white short sleeved dress shirt, with a black tie that was hung loosely around her neck, and to top it off, a black skirt. It wasn't too short, it was covering her thighs so she thought it wasn't too short, and some converse(She didn't like the dress shoes they gave her). (1)
"Not too bad..." She said to herself, then she frowned, 'Gods...I hate skirts.' She thought to herself.
"Hey, Natsuki?" A knock was heard from outside the door, and Nina opened it.
"Hey..." Natsuki acknoledged her presence. "Whats up?"
"Father already has our stuff in the car, so no need to worry about lifting anything." She said nonchatlantly.
"Oh..." She said. "Great..." Awkward silence. "Um...so this school is on an island?" She asked as she searched for her back pack. 'Where the hell is it...grr.'
'Atleast she's trying to make conversation...' Nina thought. "Yeah... its called Fuuka island. Its sort of like here in Japan only its more clean..." Natsuki goes to her closet. 'Like Japan huh? Doesn't sound bad, what Im really worried about is the school.' She growled in frustration, where did she leave it? "Sounds cool, I guess- Ah! Found it!" She yelled in victory as she emerges from the closet. Dark blue back pack which had a black imprint of a wolfs paw print in the front.
"Oh, right. Ready to go?" Nina asked.
"Ready." She answered. 'Maybe leaving with Nina to Fuuka will help me forget, Tokyo has too many bad vibes for me. And maybe the dreams will go away...maybe.'
Little did Natsuki know that Fuuka Island will bring her nightmare to life...
(1) I thought it would be a good change for the uniform, I mean come on it looked pretty good in my head. Besides, this IS AU, so anything goes. Don't get me wrong, I like the original uniform in the Anime, but like I said, AU!
A/N: This is my first fanfic. so...please be gentle. Im sort of new at this, and well, I just felt like it. You know? Try something new? So if there are any mistakes or any bad gramar, PLEASE TELL ME! I like it when people are honest. As for any (hopefuly) on-coming reviews, be honest in your reviews. Give me hints, or be blunt and say that Im being a moron and that its an epic fail! That way I can learn from my mistakes and be a little better at what Im doing. So...yeah.
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