The Spirit Life
Summary: In a stunt accident Koun Hizuri dies, his soul refuses to leave the earth so he enters the spirit realm. A realm where on a few living people can see him and spirits are at each other throats. Wanting to be seen again, he is told that he needs to find a living person who can be the link he needs to stay grounded in the world of the living.
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So this is how his life ends?
Funny enough this very morning, he had a dream that he would die in a stunt accident and yet today seemed to be his last day on earth.
His name was Koun Hizuri; countless people could say he was blessed when he came into the world.
He had superstar parents, did not lack in looks and was extremely wealthy, but such good fortune was also a curse.
His parents overshadowed him in everything he did, he could never tell who his true friends were because of his money and he was bulled nonstop because of his blessed good look's.
He may have had it all but it was killing him on the inside and one day he just snapped.
That was the day, his best friend Rick died chasing after him and was hit with a car.
Rick was dead the moment his head slammed into the ground on the first bounce.
After that, he was so depressed that he abandoned his life and his parents to start a completely new life in another country.
He started from the very bottom as an unknown male named Ren Tsuruga.
Being Ren Tsuruga was so much better than being Kuon, but the guilt of that day followed him like a shadow while he put it behind a smile.
As Ren Tsuruga he slowly rose to the top through his own power and abilities, and it was at the very top that he met a weird 16-year-old girl who wanted to be an actress for all the wrong reasons.
He went from disliking her to something more, but because he had never seriously liked somebody since woman flocked to him, he was as dense as a pole.
It took years and tireless amount of plodding to convince himself that a 16 year old should be seen as a woman and that he deserved to find his own happiness.
Kyoko melted the darkness in his heart and both of them finally became aware of the other's feeling's once everybody around them finally stopped beating them over the head with it and they sealed the deal.
Dating her was certainly different than dating any other woman, Kyoko always kept things interesting, and he slowly opened up to her one by one until he could tell her who he really was.
The beating he got from pretending to a fairy prince was quite something but she got over it quickly.
He finally built up courage to the tell the world who he really was, and his parents were right behind him for support.
Of course, there was worldwide outcry but the news faded after several months and he was allowed to date Kyoko Mogami in peace.
From there they got married and had two kids.
By the time his second boy came around, he had pretty much gotten over his tremor and was ready to get behind a fast movie car to do a stunt.
Who would know that this was how it would end for him?
His best friend had been killed by a car.
He almost died behind a car.
And now the breaks weren't working in his current car, and he did not dare make a lunge for the car window because of what it would do if his hands weren't on the starring wheel going at this speed.
And then pain.
Than nothing.
He opened his eyes and saw the front of the car was completely wrecked, but he was okay.
He got out of the car and breathed a sigh of relief.
"KUON!" He heard a shout, he turned to find it was his wife, she rushed towards him with tears in her eyes.
"Kyoko," He said, he was okay.
She passed right through him.
His eyes went wide, and he turned around and what he saw shocked him.
Inside the car was his body without a head.
His head was missing!
But than-
"Your dead." Suddenly he heard.
And then the world around him began to transform, creatures that belong in horror movies suddenly started appearing around the panicked crowd.
However, not a single person noticed them.
But the creatures sure as hell noticed him and made their creepy eyes know, they had spotted him.
"What a good-looking soul." said, one.
"I want it. I want it" Said, another.
Every bone in Koun body told him to run, despite him trying to tell himself it was CGI.
But than a cloaked figured killed the creatures right before his eyes using just his hands and strength, the figures hands resembled a human but it was too sharp and claw-like to be one.
"Welcome to the realm of those who can't pass on," said, the cloaked figure holding a dislocated head.
Kuon heard Kyoko crying.
"Kyoko!" He said.
"She can't hear you" Said, the figure. "Or see you. Very few living people in this world can. You can choose to see your family mourn and burry you or you can run from other Spirits who wish to eat you because of your looks. Either way. To survive here, you need to get stronger than you are, burry your heart because Spirits see each other as food and those who are living, as well"
And then the person jumped and landed right on him, knocking him to the ground and Kuon found those inhuman hands pinning him down by his throat.
Where was this strength coming from?
"You smell delicious... but you are weak." The cloak figure said, with a shark grin that couldn't possibly be called human. "Your newly dead, eating you won't be satisfying me at all. If I eat you, it will be because your good looks piss me off"
No guy likes somebody more handsome than them and has chicks, even in the spirit world.
"If you want to a living person to see you, then survive." Said, the Cloak Figure making his eyes widen. "A living person who can see you means they have high spiritual energy and you can use that to get other living people to see you." before he said. "However, they will also become a tasty snack for the spirits so you need to be strong to protect them. But I have to warn you, when you interact with a living person and you show deeper than interest, other spirits can go after that person. So, if you can interact with your family again and they can see you. Let's just say showing how much you care about them in front of Spirit, won't end well"
The message was clear.
Being able to interact with a living person was dangerous for that living person.
If he managed to do it and tried to slot himself back into his life after death, the spirit world will hunt everybody he loved down.
The cloaked person let out, and Kuon coughed, finally being able to breathe and the wound on his neck was almost healed.
The ambulance came, and those who were there were shocked to see the body, Kuon followed as his family was notified and the whole of Japan went into an uproar at the announcement of his death.
The whole of Japan and the world mourned for his death, all the while Kuon quickly learnt he couldn't go near them his own kid's.
When he went near, the number of spirits increased and so did their interest in what he was looking at with such passion.
Seeing spirits look at his children like they were snacks, made him a natural at killing.
His heart bled as his whole family cried, and he couldn't even see them.
The cloaked figure who turned out to be an old man took pity on him and told him how to kill.
How to survive.
How to shut up and eat spirits to grow stronger.
The first time he saw a spirit possess a human and suck their lifeforce was terrifying but he did not have the skills to kill it and the old man wasn't going to bat an eye at the possessed living person.
The old man no longer had a heart towards living thing's, he had already saved too many but the spirits always latched on.
There was no end.
However, even when he was dead, Kuon picked up on things remarkably quickly.
Spirits began to call him a monster but he was trying survive to find that single human who could see him and latch on, so his kids and family could see him.
All the time, he couldn't help but wish that somebody he knew could see him even if it was dangerous.
He walked through his own home with his kid's and neither his wife and his children seemed to be able to see him.
He walked through his managers house but he could go naked and the man won't notice.
He walked through the president office and saw the spirit in their looking drained, probably because they were exposed to Lory Takarada 'lively' personality for too long.
If Lory Takarada died and refused to go from the earth, then god help the spirit world...
One year after his death became five years in a blink of an eye.
Kuon was too busy fighting to notice the person who took up the hole in the Japanese entertainment industry that he used to occupy.
He had just killed a rat spirit and was eating it when he felt somebody eyes on him.
He turned around and was shocked to see a young woman he thought did not exist.
Sestuka Heel.
The character that was made up was staring at him from her window.
There was no spiritual hairdresser or anything and he was eating a rat, he must have looked like a right monster to her.
"..." Was both of their reaction.
Then she slowly went back in and closed the windows.
Hold on! She saw him!
A living person saw him!
And if he doesn't take the opportunity now, the spirits will come for her and eat her.
So, now used to barging into people homes unannounced, he began to climb the wall to her window.
When he got to the window sill, the woman showed her guts.
She wasn't going to let a freak of nature into her house, she held a baseball bat and swung hard at him.
However, what she was dealing with was supernatural, he didn't feel the blow at all making her eyes widened, and then he lunged at her, toppling her over.
When he was close, she smelled so delicious that he could barely contain himself.
Just one bite...
No!
He needed her.
He took on another persona right in front of her; his compassionate heart should not be exposed when Demons come after her.
"Choose," He said, much to the woman surprise to find out he actually talked, before he let out a smile that couldn't be human.
"Will you be my lunch, or will you be my Link?"
Say you are my Link and I will protect you...He thought, this was his chance for him to be seen by the world of the living.
However, what he didn't expect was for her to grab his face and say. "Your quite handsome. I'll be your link but in exchange you'll stay with me"
She wasn't scared of the giant man who climbed her wall to get to her window.
Defiantly a Sestuka personality.
What were the chances?
His smile got wider, and she started to blank out as he drew on her spiritual energy to establish himself into the world of the living.
She passed out, and he was now free to change his looks, but the problem was his face, his face who the world has seen take on many personas's as an actor.
As much as he wanted his hair a lot shorter, he couldn't step one foot outside without fearing somebody screaming how Kuon Hizuri was alive.
He was pretty sure it hadn't been that long since his death.
A safe bet was to keep his hair reasonable length, black, his eyes black and wearing glasses and his face in his early 20's
It was a well-known fact that people can look completely different without their glasses on and it should work for him as well.
And then he changed the clothes he had died in, into clothes that weren't branded and was what a regular person should be wearing, a white t-shirt with a green jacket, jeans and sneakers.
He put her down gently on the bed before pulling up a chair and watching over her against the Spirits who his aura couldn't keep away.
If something happened to her, he could kiss being seen goodbye.
The night was uneventfully, and he did not feel fatigue or hunger.
And then the sun came up, and the door suddenly opened.
"Wake up. Wake up!" Shouted a young woman in bunnies PJ's.
Roommate?
And then she turned to see him.
A grown man she had never seen before on a swivel chair watching a woman sleep.
They stared at each other.
"Who the hell-" She began.
He put power until his eyes.
Suddenly the look of alarm in her eyes changed to recognition.
"Cain. When did you get here?" She suddenly said, with a smile.
"Are you trying to shock her when she wakes up? Let me in on it too"
He had become Cain, the wimpy boy she knew since he was in elementary.
And scene!
If there is a continuation. His Link gains the ability to see the world through his eyes but she isn't horrified by the spirits who want to eat her and is pretty okay with his cold demeanour towards her and how he inserts himself into her life through the eyes of other people. Review/fav and follow!