Emerging From the Shell
by Butterfly Girl (1331)
With more help than comprehensible from Mason
I am giving a story to explain yet another misunderstood character, Gifuto Onbin. WARNING: CONTAINS MANY SPOILERS! Also, it deals in a lot in places with abuse, so not for the weak of heart.
A few songs by Linkin Park are used on this one. In the story, it is stated that Onbin wrote the one song. I DID NOT WRITE IT. All songs are (c) to their respective REAL writers and I take no credit in writing them.
I DID rewrite the last chorus on the song, to better fit the character (which is marked to show exactically where), but that is IT! So don't sue me, I don't take credit for the song!
All disclaimers fitting the characters fit now: all Little Senshi (including Devin) are mine, all Elder Senshi are their respective owners', Kojiro, Mako, Mai, Ryukin, and Max are Mason's, and X, Zero, Bass, and Dynamo are Capcom's. Thousands of thanks to my friend and, on occasion, co-author, Mason (pen name: duelist17), for all the help he gave me on this and MANY other stories
Enough said, let's move on.
As many can relate, I am a quiet girl of many words—for many reasons. I have seen much more than most girls my age, more than I care to admit. My life is full of things that cannot be adequetly put into words. Boueino Batafurai, one of my closet friends, describes me as, "Violent...yet dormant...like a little evil volcano..." Rightfully so, I hate to say. My temper can flare faster than you'd think, especially in...certain situations. But I have my reasons, reasons my best friends—Batafurai, Urawa Taiga, and Musashi Riki—don't even know.
Before I go on, my name is Gifuto Onbin. I'm 16, a junior in high school, and the Princess of Neptune. I've got an otou, an okaa, and a baby brother named Kouken. My okaa, Michiru, has a cousin named Aikou Haruka, Queen of Uranus, who in turn is married and has a daughter nearly a year younger than me named Hatsu. In the terms of looks, I have long dark brown hair streaked in light blonde that is parted to the side, shaped-cut, and to my behind, brown eyes, and I'm around 5'2" tall. I have a group of close friends—all female: Batafurai, Taiga, Riki, Shinrino Otome, Hatsu, Mori Annai, Tsukino Tonbo, and Meioh Miyabita. We just refer to each other as "The Group" or the girls.
You see, I'm sorta like Annai in the sense of our pasts on Earth(2). Where she was verbably abused for the majority of her life, I was phsyically, emotionally, and verbably abused. And I mean HIT by my "otou" every day of my life, at least once a day. Eventually, my baby sister, who completely adored him, gained the mindset that if she wanted to be loved by her otou, she had to hit me too. Which she did; trust me did that little witch EVER. And if I EVER took a stand againt the little "Angel", I'd get it twice as bad. My "okaa", also a witch, ignored it all, content spending her days killing her lungs with cigarettes. Instead of doing something productive about it (mainly, telling Batafurai, as her "otou" was the principal of our school and could have solved it all), I locked it all inside of me. As I was quite young when it all started, I gained a mindset that all men were out to hurt me, that no male of the human race would EVER not harm me, nevertheless care about me in any form or way. As a defence mechanism, I would clam up when us girls would talk about our families, and make it sound like I had a normal life. If I came in with a new cut or bruise (or, in one extreme case, had to miss school for 2 days because my "otou's" beatings caused me to withstand a large cut to the back of my head, requiring staples), I would make up some kind of excuse to cover it up (like saying the cut needing staples was from a falling branch). They always bought it.
To make matters worse, Batafurai and I were completely hated during grade school and middle school by the males in our grade. They considered us nothing more than objects to be teased, because we were 2 of the tiniest girls in our class, Batafurai because of her "otou's" job, and myself because of my attitude compaired to my size. They did nothing more than strengthen the hatrid I had of guys. Only 3 guys were EVER nice to me on Earth(2)- Bouieno Tarento (yes, note the same family name as Batafurai, they married a while ago), Meioh Shuzika, and Maxwell Spencer, but Max and Shuzika were a grade ahead of us at the time. I merely passed it off as an attempt to catch me off guard to harm me. And Max...well...something about him just reminded me of something I couldn't remember and I really didn't want to face it. I never admited it to the girls, but I did find Max...well...really good looking I guess. But my heart never opened enough to allow me to care for , at least. I, more-or-less, shunned the heck out of him. He did try to talk to me on occasion, but I had mastered the art of the cold shoulder. He, in turn, mastered the art of fleeing.
Due to my mindset, I sat in the backseat while my group dated. I watched Hatsu date on Earth(2), then every one of the girls—minus Tonbo—when we returned to Crystal Tokyo. Back on Earth(2), I downplayed school dances and sport events, mainly because my "otou" would NEVER allow me to go to one, in fear of my having a good time, and I was jealous that they could go to them and I could not.
When we were saved, taken off of the Hell-trap known as Earth(2), I was happier than you could EVER imagine. I knew I was free of my "otou" and his reign of terror upon my life. During the time that we had to travel alone, in search of our friends, Hatsu and I were partnered. Neither of us understood why, and...quite frankly...we drove each other insane. Batafurai then, after we were found, explained the relation between our okaas. Apparently our okaas had always been the best of friends—as close as sisters—and we were expected to be the same way. WRONG. Hatsu and I honestly can't stand each other half the time, mainly because she's a boy crazy lunatic and I'm a boy-slayer (not literally, but you get the drift).
Three years have passed since we defeated Lydia. Three long, painful years. Ever since I returned here to the future, my birth time, I have avoided men, including my acutal otou, Gifuto Jinsei. I do not want to return to the torture I once endured, and if ignoring my otou is the only way, then so be it. But to my joy, my okaa gave birth to my younger brother a year after I returned. Little Koukin is practically my best friend...if he knew what one was, that is. Kouken's only two, and as sweet as could be. The only male I don't fear, and I don't know why. I also do not understand why my parents don't pressure me as to why I ignore my father.
But I'd better stop rambling on now. I have a story to tell you, one that my friends can help with a bit. It's when Batafurai, Taiga, Riki, and Riki's husband, Kojiro, helped me in such a way that they will never understand the effect it had on my soul. It lead to a total change for me, one that I will NEVER regret, that much I know. I will allow Riki and Batafurai to tell a bit of, along with a special—secrect—person.
Now on to the story of my emerging, where my way of life totally changed forever, where I finally let my past go...
