Okay so this is my attempt at a better version of Nothing is as it Seems. That story has a lot of holes in it like how did Tsuna and Yamamoto meet her and become friends and the whole thing with her parents. I've been thinking about it lately and I've come up with something I like to think is better. Anyways, I don't expect any reviews but they would be nice. On with the story.
Renji clutched the straps to her back pack, staring blankly ahead of her as her mother walked beside her. They had just moved again and even though she thought she was more then capable of walking the five blocks to her new school by herself her mother had insisted on taking her. When they reached the end of the last block Renji looked up at her mothers smiling face. The woman, whose hair was just as fiery as her own, smiled nudging the child on. Renji took the hint and walked toward the gate of the school, stopping to wave at her mother. She didn't know that would be the last time she ever saw her mother.
When school ended Renji didn't waste any time chatting like the rest of the students had. She grabbed her things and walked briskly eagerly looking forward to whatever treat her mother normally made for an after school snack. Grown dreary and gray as if trying to warn the little girl. Quickening her pace to beat the rain Renji smiled when she saw the corner she was supposed to turn on. That smile faded instantly when she saw the throng of people in front of her house. There was an ambulance and even a firetruck. She didn't move, couldn't until she saw it. The black bag. A tear slid down her little face as her feet began to pound on the ground. She was stopped by a policeman, but she pushed past him to run into her house.
Men and women alike gave her a sorrowful look as she cried for her mother and father. There was blood...everywhere. Renji felt sick but even so she searched on hoping that this was all a nightmare. A woman, a social worker stopped her kneeling down to her level to speak to the frantic child.
"Where's my mommy and daddy? I want my mom!"
"Sweety...you mommy and daddy...they went to heaven." Renji shook her head pulling away from the woman and running out to find the big black bags. She'd seen them before, knew what they were for but no one would let her see anything. A policeman picked her up and she screamed pounding her little fist on his shoulders and kicking her legs. He put her in a car and held the door until that woman came back.
She looked out the window through blurry blue eyes. She stopped banging on the window and trying to open the door. Her little body racked with tears felt suffocated and drained of all her energy. When the woman got into the drivers seat Renji tuned her out, staring dejectedly out the window as the buildings slowly passed by.
When she woke up she was staring at a house she had never seen before. The woman stepped out of the car and opened the door for her, offering her a hand but Renji didn't take it. She slid out of the sleek black car waiting for the woman to close the car door. They approached the door of the house and when they knocked an elderly woman with the same blue eyes as Renji answered the door. She took one look at Renji's tear-stained face and smiled faintly hold her arms out to her.
"Grandma..."
Renji ran into arm grandmothers arms and sobbed all over again.
I know it seems a little emotional but it had to be. Renji is about 7 or 8 though for clarifications sake.