The Mirror World
Summary: The world inside a mirror is a strange and backwards place. Back is suddenly front. Left is suddenly right and each and every living being, is only a reflection of those in the real world, doomed to copy their counterparts. So what happens when a man is reincarnated as none other than Kuon Hizuri reflection?
Inspired by the one-shot 'The Disc'.
I do not own skip beat.
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"Isn't he cute?" Said, a female voice.
"Y-Yes, dear. He's got your hair and eyes." Came a weak, stuttering male voice.
"It looks like we don't have a reincarnated, mirror person" The same female voice said, it was a rear thing.
What?
Mirror person?
Where was he?
"It's a shame. That we can't call himself something else" The female male said, "His fate, was set in stone the moment our charges chose a name for their's"
What?
What were they talking about?
Why couldn't he see anything?
"His name will be Nouk Iruzuri. We'll have to introduce him to his charge soon, and once he's older and more aware, we'll tell him, what he is and his purpose in life" The same male voice said.
He was suddenly overcome by the need to sleep, so he slept.
When he finally woke up, something big and strong wrapped around his frame and his eyes were much more sharper.
He was placed in front a mirror.
Wait.
What?
In front of him was a blonde and hazel eyed baby, in a blue bodysuit that said. 'Worlds number one baby"
The baby was annoyingly pretty.
Behind the baby, was a young man and a woman, who he didn't know whether to stare at them, in awe or gape.
The young women had long wavy blonde hair and had the face of a goddess.
The young man had short blonde hair and hazel coloured eyes, if he walked down a street, he would have definitely turned heads, by his looks alone.
Was this, this baby parents?
The baby continued to look at him in awe before crawling towards him.
What the?
Suddenly his body wouldn't listen to him and with his hands and legs, he too found himself crawling towards the baby.
They both stopped until they were inch's away from each other and the baby raised his hand to touch him, his hand involuntary raised as well.
His equally short arm, just like a babies.
What the?
Solid.
Hard glass, was the only thing that separated them and kept them from touching each other but the moment he touched it, he received information.
He was a baby but not just any baby, he was a Mirror baby.
A mere reflection of somebody from the 'solid' world.
He was this baby mirror image, Kuon Hizuri.
He was not what you would call human.
When a child is born, in the solid world, a mirror image of themselves was also born at the exact same time.
He was nothing more than a mere reflection, cursed to copy the person on the other side.
Was he even breathing?
How can somebody live like this, knowing their destiny was set, the moment they were born and any decision you make, wasn't out of your, own free will?
The child smiled with excitement and he was willing to bet, he was smiling also, clearly excited to see his own reflection for the first time before even giggling.
The child was picked up by the male parent and he too was pick up by his own, and a milk bottle was placed in his mouth which he sucked.
He was in for a surprise.
It didn't taste like milk at all, instead it tasted like coke.
He was pretty sure, it wasn't okay to give something so fizzy to a baby, who hadn't been alive for a week.
Or was it because, he was technically not a human being, that he could be given such a thing.
The baby waved goodbye to his own reflection, gaining smiles from both parents before leaving the room, he too was taken out of the room but instead of seeing a room that was attached to the one he was in.
He came face to face with what could only be described as giant factory with a couple of million or so doors, people were everywhere, coming in and out of them, whether they were children, adults or even animals, everybody was dressed as if they had come from a thousand years, in the future, compared to what he just saw.
"Man, your so lucky" A female said, she looked about 16. "Your charge lives, in the countryside and there is hardly any mirror's. You get to fool around a lot." Sounding tired. "My charge, get's three or four hours of sleep since she's an honor student and is afraid of not getting a perfect score on all her tests. That why she's constantly overworking herself. I barely get any free time"
The way it sounded like, it was as if, copying people was a job for them instead of a prison.
"Hey, do you want to get a drink?" A man in his thirty's said, "My charge just went to sleep, he would be out like a light for at least four hours"
"Sure, it's midnight where I am, so I'm good for a couple of hours" Another guy said.
His eyes were immediately draw to the one person in front of him, who had just come out of her door but her skin was glowing red and she looked to be crying.
"Ichim, don't tell me Michi is dead?" her guy friend said.
The girl nodded, tears still running down her cheeks, her skin still glowed as she said. "She got run over by a bus *hic*"
"Wow. Let me to take you to the registration office for the nearest big city." He said, holding her hand and leading her away.
He couldn't say anything to ease the pain of what she could be going through.
"Poor girl" Somebody said. "Her charge died and she was so young too. The best she can hope for is to be reincarnated as somebody else reflection, it's either that or stay in one of the four cities for eternity"
"One day, that's going to be us" Another person said, "Our charges don't live forever like us and we'll eventually join a city to"
Wait.
They were immortal?
Now that he thought about it, your own reflection doesn't disappear even if you've died, even if your body is reduced to nothing but skin and bones, you can still see it in a mirror.
So when a person dies, their reflection either 'reincarnates' or they had to join one of the four cities?
So, they saying, past celebrities like Michael Jackson and Bob Marley, own reflection's could be walking around in one of the great city's?
What an amazing thing to imagine, seeing the images of such famous icon's walking on the very street's you walked on.
"It really isn't that bad" Another person said. "Did you hear about the perks you get if you're a permanent residence of a city? I have a friend, who's charge died recently, he invited me to his house and I've got to tell you. He was living the high life. There were parties going on everywhere, it was crazy"
"Their, probably partying to try and fill the hole" Another person said, "We're linked to our charges, I bet most of them wish they could have died with their charges, instead of being the only one to live on. I know I'll go insane if my charges suddenly died on me."
And he was suddenly on the move again, they passed by an old man, his skin was glowing red like that girl from earlier.
They entered another room, it was a dining room and he was placed in baby chair, he couldn't see a mirror anywhere, so why?
Suddenly his body started moving once again and as he being fed mushy baby food, he noted the spoon was very shiny.
Could it be, that anything that could show a reflection, was counted as a mirror image?
Again, the baby food didn't taste like what he expected, instead it tasted like spicy chicken soup.
He could actually enjoy the taste, his parents were copying their counterparts to the T, no doubt the food tasted opposite to how it looked.
Once they had finished dinner and his mother had rocked him to 'sleep', he was put inside a crib and was given a kiss goodnight, the light was switched off.
But all he could do was stare at the ceiling, he didn't feel tired at all, despite been made to yawn.
Two hour's later, when they were all sure the household in the solid world was asleep, his parents came for him.
He was allowed to watch backwards T.V while his own parent's went out to who knows where and didn't return until morning.
What kind of parents left a baby alone in their house, all night?
He would soon come to realize, that he was living in a backwards world.
If the Kuu and Juliena Hizuri loved their son and smothered him with nothing but love and affection, his parents were the complete opposite.
For hours they would leave him alone, while they went out.
it was as if, they had him, because they were forced too.
Neither of them were worthy of being called parent's, they saw him as a child at best.
By age 5, he had realized Mirror people did not sleep.
He hadn't slept in five years, he was told the only reason why he had 'slept' when he was born was because his form was fixing itself.
A mirror baby was like a large crystal, it needed to be melted so that it can be shaped into the desired form, within the first hours and that takes up a lot of energy.
It would be the first and last time, he would ever sleep.
One night, his parents finally put their nights plans on hold to finally tell him about the world he lived in.
"Nouk, I think it's time to tell you about what you are and the world around us" Aneiluj iruzih said, or more commonly known as Eiluj Iruzih, the reflection of Juliena Hizuri, beside her was her husband Uuk Iruzuih. "As you might have guessed, you feel compelled to copy the person on the other side of the reflection"
Yes, he did. Was there a way for him to stop copying everything the other did?
"As you get older, that urge will lessen" She said, making him show shock. "We believe that the urge is tied into a person life force, the older the person is, the less the life force they have. When their babies, the urge is unbelievable strong and trying to fight it, would be a fruitless battle"
"The world in which we copy, we called the 'solid world' and we 'the mirror world'." Uuk Izurih said, "If you haven't notice by now, we don't have reflections of our own or shadows. No matter how much the sun beats down on us, we will never be able to produce a shadow, just like everything else that exists here, like the trees, objects and animals"
"Did I tell you to speak?" Eiluj said, with a scary smile, the man immediately cowered, unlike his solid counterpart, Uuk was extremely humble, weak and deathly afraid of his wife.
She was clearly the alpha in their relationship, it always fascinated him comparing them to their solid counterparts.
"N-No, dear" Uuk said, keeping his head down.
"Now, I was saying" Eiluj said, "Right now, it is impossible for you to resist the urge, since your charge is five years old, prehap's when he's ten, would it start getting easier on you."
It was daunting knowing that one day he wouldn't feel the urge at all and realize his charge was indeed dead.
He had grown attached watching the little boy grow up and take his first steps.
"It would be at this time, that we will allow you to go outside in the night" She said, making him look at her in surprise once more. "Our world really comes alive when the rest of the solid world is asleep so when the solid world wakes up, our world is asleep. When it goes to bed, our world comes alive. You could say, our day is backwards compared to the solid world just like our names"
So everything was indeed backwards like he thought, Kuon was right handed while he was left.
"Do you have any questions?" She said.
"U-Um, mommy is there anyway for a Mirror person to get into the solid world?" He said, sounding extreme innocent, he didn't expect, a the startled and horrified look sent his way by both of them.
"A M-Mirror person in the solid world?" Uuk said, looking absolutely horrified.
"Nouk, it is possible for a mirror person to cross over" His mother said, "But a mirror person isn't suppose to live in the solid world. If we attempt to cross over, we wouldn't survive a minute. First our form's become unstable, we turn back into crystals. Not only that, but it's a burden to our charges as well. The connection between our charge and us backfires when we die and they have to live their whole life without a reflection. They become soulless husk's and go into endless depression at the loss, many end up committing suicide."
They had both been alive for a long time, they had seen many attempt to cross over and die as a result.
Crossing over was a Mirror person's worst fear, it ended badly for both of them.
"But, has there ever been a mirror person, who has passed over and survived with their form intact?" He said, was there really no hope of going to the solid world?
Both his parents looked at each other.
"If there was somebody like that, there is no way, it won't be known" His mother said, a mirror person survive outside the mirror would be huge. "That person would have to go to the council and provide evidence, nobody from such a low family as us would ever dream of going to them."
Unlike, in the solid world, their family wasn't huge and famous, they were just an average normal family, it didn't matter who their charges was.
What matter was, what they did in their world.
"So unless you want to die and drive your charge to suicide, don't even attempt it" She warned, before going right in front of his face and saying.
"Mama, will be very upset, if her family was know for producing an idiot"
"Y-Yes, mommy." he said.
Why was his mother so scary?
And scene!
This was taken from a story from my old phone. Should I attempt to write it so more or leave it? If I do, the next chapter would be about Nouk meeting Kyoko reflection and finding out mirror people don't have hearts. Please, Review!