Life in Hell
By: Lizzie-chan, the Self-Proclaimed Kitsune-yasha
Inspiration: All those fics in the infamous Sith Academy
Credit: CLAMP owns 'em, I put 'em in weird situations. Oh, and the Sith Academy deserves much credit for the idea, since it's similar to what they did to the Star Wars Universe.
Declarations: I AM YOUR…
Prologue: This is Hell
Hell is a place where bad people go when they die. That is what parents and Sunday school teachers tell children when asked about the subject. According to the Catholic Church, Hell is separation from God, as consequence from mortal sin that had not been repented. Hell is where the damned are located. The Protestants have a similar belief, minus or plus a few things here and there. The Muslims believe that Hell is where sinners and unbelievers spend eternity. This isn't so different from the dogmatic belief that some of the more mainstream Protestant Christian denominations hold. The Hindu and Buddhist hells are more like the Catholic's Purgatory; they are not the final place of dwelling, but they are places of punishment. Overall, Hell is a bad place. You do not want to go to Hell.
Ignore all of that. Ignore popular religion, what your Sunday school teacher taught you, and what your parents told you to scare you into being pious. Disregard Dante's nine circles and Milton's version of Hell. It's wrong. Every single word, every single dogmatic belief, everything.
Hell is what one makes it. You could be in Hell right now and you would never know. All you would know is that your life sucked and that there were no blue skies in sight for miles around. In your Hell, you would get up everyday, do the same routines with the same people, come home to your lonely life, and wish every night as you lay in bed how much you wanted it all to be different. Or it could be opposite. Who knows? It's your Hell. But remember, even in Hell, there is Hope.
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That's Prologue. Short, I know, but it had to be brief.
The stories here are for the most part unrelated, except for maybe some events mentioned here and there. It's X/1999 without the End of the World, without the magic, without the "night jobs". Everybody's lives are normal…well, sort of. But that doesn't mean their lives are good and happy. Heh. That would be far from the truth.
I took creative liberties to include some characters from other series. Example, Hokuto. Yes, she's in here. She never died. Otherwise, it wouldn't be normal.
These stories follow around Subaru mostly. That's why the title is "Life in Hell". It would have followed around Kamui, but after what I've done with him, I don't think his life would be too bad. There is shounen-ai and yaoi in these stories, so if you're not a fan of such things, don't read (but I don't think that will be the case…if you didn't like or mind yaoi/shounen-ai, you wouldn't be a fan of the X/1999 manga).
Read. Enjoy. Review.