Author's Note: Hi guys, this is a totally new piece of my writing work. The core ideas of this story are made by me for 1 month. I obviously do not own the characters since they belongs to Arc System Work Company. I really did hope that you guys like it. This is my twelfth fiction so far. t's been nearly two years since I start writing stories and I really find it interesting because this is one of the place where I unleash my own imagination along with the improvement of English writing skill. If anyone spot out any mistakes during the process of reading then inform me. (I really emphasize this problem) But anyway, back to the new story. Let's read and Enjoy The Story!

Oh, one more thing, don't be too confuse about the "Thump Bump" thing because it is the heart beat sound of our main handsome character!

Shape of My Soul

Chapter 1: The Memories along the Heartbeats

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12 years ago

"Jin, my son. You are the pride of the Kisaragi family. I will hand you're the head chair of this family if you manage to bring glory to everyone in this family." An old man was sitting on the chair, his mouth blew out smoke from a skillfully crafted, expensive pipe steadily and calmly spoke out to his youngest son.

A blond-haired 5 year-old boy looked him with his two innocent eyes and apparently confused by the words.

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11 years ago.

"Father, why brother has to sleep in that box." The young boy pulled the sleeve of the crying father who was trembling in sadness. The sky is darkened with the sorrowful gray cloud floating, covered the bright sun and dropped down its tears, screamed upon the sky with its flashing, soundly thunders.

"Because … he will a...arrives to…better pl...ace!" The man broke himself into a heartbreaking cry. Their first son, the famous guy in the Military Academy for his unbelievable strength, has finally fallen upon the fiercest test of his life, to control himself over the element he wields.

"Will he come back to visit us?" Jin said sadly, his eyes fixed on the group of men carried the wooden coffin, slowly headed toward the grave that was already prepared and a priest walked forward. He stood in front of the sarcophagus and gently put his hand on the object.

"To our beloved Derek Kisaragi, who is loved by his noble family, his dear friends, his soldiers, his masters. He passes away in the endless pain of us all and finally arrived at God's Heaven. God, please extend your hand and welcome him with all of your kind heart. He finally can rest in peace. Please pray for him, hope that he will have a better life." He prayed as many people there cried out loud in the rain.

The young shed out no tears but he understand one thing, his brother had gone forever and never come back to play with him anymore.

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10 years ago.

"Master Kisaragi …!" the old butler of the family barged into the room, where the old man was spending his time playing with the young Jin.

"What is it, Sebastian?" He turned at him, the servant breathed heavily due to running fast.

"You …you must come here… now! William … William .. He is …" Jin's father's eyes widely opened, he grabbed the man's shoulder, shook it furiously.

"WHAT…Sebastian … What's happening to him… TELL ME!"

"He is …heavily injured and currently in a very … critical situation. I afraid that…" At that point, the noble man pushed the butler aside and hastily ran away.

"What's matter out there?" The remained boy asked,

…...

…...

The old man dashed toward the door, to where the bloodied man was carried by two soldiers. The other members of the family was also there, gasped as they saw him coughed blood wildly; his chest was badly cut with a widely opened wound.

"STEP ASIDE!" He shout out loud, drove himself into the crowd, only to collapse on his knees at the scene of his son little by little dying.

"William…. William! Can you hear me? …. Say something!" He shook the lifeless figure of the deceased young man.

"TELL ME! WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!" His eyes burned a raging anger that feared everyone.

"Sir, he was fighting a big spider-like monsters and when it slashed its claw at him … I-..I don't know why but he was seemed to be immobilized and unable to cast his spell so …" The man stood up and gripped the soldier's collar.

"Herrkk…Sir … What..?" The man's big hand gradually proceeded its way toward the poor guy's throat and squeezed it brutally.

"Cough cough! Please … sir!" The young man desperately struggled in the uncontrollable hold of the old father.

"Where the hell are you … WHEN HE NEEDED YOUR HELP! WHY DON'T YOU PROTECT HIM?" He shouted out loud

"Sir… my ...apologies… B-utt..we couldn't do anything at … that time"

"Father, please! Don't kill him." His children all panicked saw him like that. The man finally loosened his grip, dropped down the unfortunate soldier who coughed hardly while his partner clapped his back, tried to relief him.

"WWARRGGHHH!" The old man madly punched the wall nearby, hopelessly watched his second son died in pain.

"John, please calm down." The fair and aged woman approached him, tried to comfort the heartbroken man.

"BUT WHY! WHY IT HAS TO BE HIM?" the father dropped down, cried loudly. While his wife hugged her arms around him.

"I …know. We all feel… painful, too" Her voice shaking, a drop of tear oozed from her reddening eyes. At a far corner of the house, behind the wall, the young Jin stuck out his head, looked at them, wondered why they all cried and looked so miserably. His childish soul still didn't know about the death, about the hurting feeling of the people who lost their loved one. He just looked at them and unknowingly shed a small drop of tear. Now, he knew that, it's so much upset to see people he love left this world and never came back.

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9 years ago

The music….

The light…..

The laughter….

The crowd…

….

That was what the 8 year-old Jin was watching at the luxurious party. There were so many strangers. His father was having his time talking with another blond-haired young man who stood beside a fair woman in slim body, purple dress. His sisters were too busy flirting with other male from different families. He could say that this was a party which was held by the Kisaragi's, where all noble families that belongs to the Royalty met. In between the crowd of unknown people, he was likely to lose his control over the matter. The boy didn't know who to talk with, what to say, where to go….

"Ouch…" He bumped someone and both of them fell on their feet.

"Are you okay?" Jin stood up and offered his hand.

"Thank you." For the first time, he could know how a girl's hand felt like. It's so warm and so smooth that he didn't want to let go. As soon as he pulled her up, the force he used somewhat was stronger than needed and the girl fell onto his chest, his head was above hers. A soft, nice scent of her hair sneaked into his nose.

"The lily flower scent…"

"Errr… excuse me but... "

"Oh, my apologies. I've just spaced out a little bit." The boy gently pushed her back and blushed.

"Are you a Kisaragi member?" The girl asked.

"Yeah, how do you know?"

"Every family has their own distinctive crest in order to have easier recognition. Your family crest is the Griffin that was spreading wide its wings, that was the symbol of eternal royalty and it also stand for the absolute power within the families." The girl explained.

"Oh, really? I don't even know that. How about yours?"

"My family symbol is the sun which indicates the purity and honesty because we will purify the darkness and bring hopes to the world. Another meaning of this crest is the kindness we shall bring to everyone."

"Woah, your family is such a very nice one." The boy complimented

"Thanks, anyway, what is your name?" The girl giggled.

"My name is Jin Kisaragi, I'm the youngest son of the family. And you are…" The boy bowed down politely.

"I'm…."

"My, you two surely befriend quite fast. Come on, my little girl. It's time to go home now."

"Yes, father." She ran toward to the earlier blond man who talked with his father.

"Well, Mr. Kisaragi. I appreciate you kind invitation to this huge party. But it seems that we have some issues to solve now so I suppose that we have to leave sooner."

"Hahaha, I really did hope that you could stay longer but if you really have to leave then I won't keep you and anyway, feel free to come here anytime. You are always welcomed." Jin's father said

"Thanks for you kindness. Now then, excuse me, gentlemen." The blond haired man made his way toward the door and took along the little daughter. The young boy ran after them.

"Wait, I haven't known your name yet." With a bright smile, the girl gave him a wink before the main door closed.

"So son, do you have good time?" The old man asked.

"Yeah." He replied back with his eyes still fixed on the door.

"That girl earlier is good looking right?"

"Uhmmm, perhaps you can think so…" He scratched the back of his head and lightly blushed.

"Oh, by the way, what is her name, do you know?"

"I don't know because that is the first time I saw her but I'm sure that she belongs to the Vermillion family."

"Vermillion family." The boy whispered.

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8 years ago

"Father, where are we going?" The boy looked at his father, who was driving his favorite, red, small car. There were only Jin and the old man inside.

"We are going to some wonderful places." He replied with a smile while reaching out his hand, pat the boy's head.

They kept driving for hours, through the wide forest, where Jin was truly amazed by the magnificent scenes of nature.

Huge trees…

Birds chirping…

Butterflies on flowers…

This is the very first time Jin actually saw those thing with his two naked eyes. So unbelievable, the boy couldn't help but smile happily.

"Woah, Father! Father! Please stop here, I want to have a better look." He squealed excitingly, pulled the man's shirt.

"Hahaha, calm down, Jin. Our next destination will be even much greater than this place."

"Really? Please go faster!"

"Then sit down quietly and hold still, because we are going to …RUSSSHHH!" The car suddenly opened its rocketing devices and started the engine.

"Weee! So cool!" The car ran out of the forest, through the green field.

The very wide field, with many hardworking farmers watered the crops, some were sitting down under the trees and smoked, laughed contently after hearing a joke from other humorous farmers. Then the car advanced to a mountainous area, where Jin was able to saw the whole wide world under him. Everything was so small, so new that he couldn't help but enjoyed it with all of his heart.

After few more hours.

"Here we are. The Military Academy." In front of the boy was an enormous building with so many people there. There was a huge training ground where soldiers were running around the field. There were some wizards in their loose robes. The main house was a giant quarter where Jin could see several men flied into the house, some others was walking across the hall. Even with the little boy's two eyes, he couldn't see all of it.

"Father, this place is so big…" But what we are going to do here?" Suddenly, an old man in hood walked toward them and bowed down.

"Greetings, master Kisaragi. How can this old one help?" He said dryly and roughly as he if he has something stuck in his throat.

"I want to entrust my son under your care. I want you to train him into the finest soldier of all time."

"Wait…. Father!" What is this all about? You mean I… will become a soldier? And you are going to … leave me here?" The boy said in shock.

"From now on, you will stay here and this man is going to be your mentor. He will make you stronger, manlier."

"But… I don't want to be a soldier. I hate killing and fighting stuff."

"Silence! It's time for you to grow up. Don't be a crying child who always asks for mother's help! You're not a child anymore. It's your duty to protect and bring glories to the family. You better be the top over everyone else otherwise…" The boy said no words; he was too frightened in front of the emotionless eyes of the father.

"…Don't ever come back and see my face." With that, the man walked toward his car.

"Mark my word." The Kisaragi father said then entered the car and left the place, abandoned the child there who broke into a hard cry while the old man came to his side and comforted him.

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7 years ago.

"How is the result of test this time, Jin?" The old man said as he perceived the boy had just entered the house.

"Just as boring as always. I got the top mark again." Jin replied in a very unexciting tone as he put down his schoolbag.

"Haha, I so proud of you, my son." The man said contently.

"I wonder when I will start some kinds of special training."

"Do you really want to learn it that much? You've nagged me thousand times to teach you that."

"Of course, I'm getting all very best scores at school in all subjects. I feel sleepy because they are so boring and easy. It's like I'm not gonna get any better progress. "

"Ok, you follow me." The guy pointed at him and walked away.

"Haiiizzz, not again with the history thing!" Jin pouted and unwillingly followed behind. So they walked and walked distantly until they got to a high and windy hill.

"Huh? What are we going to do here? Isn't it not like you are going to tell me something about the history of Academy like usual or something?" The boy asked.

"Say nothing and watch me." The man said as he wore off his loose old fabric robe and revealed his muscular body with many scars on his arms. As he closed his eyes, his two hands clapped and a small sphere slowly enlarged from the middle of his palm. When it was as big as a ball, he held it tightly and turned toward the boy who was looked at him in awe.

"Can you see this? This is a pure energy orb which was made by my core power." Jin fixed his green eyes on the sphere.

"Every magical soldier has to choose their own element and begin developing it." He said and threw the rounded object at the stone nearby and it blasted out a brilliant blue light that flashed that whole place. A powerful force of wind pushed the boy back and after that, a terribly frigid surge of ice ran through his whole body as he saw that stone was completely frozen along with a large area around it.

"And every element shall suit its owner if they train it carefully and do not choose another element if you have already devoted your body for one. Because that other element will give many detrimental effects toward your health, your own original element and believe me, you don't want to hear how awful it is."

"Oh, I see. Then can I learn it now?" Jin said excitingly.

"Sorry, but it's not until you totally graduate from the university of Military Academy."

"Awww man…. Those will me a very long time from here." He complained

"Don't worry, just keep trying and you will see your effort isn't for nothing."

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5 years ago

"Pheeww!" The young muscular boy clapped his hand together and sat down on the grass field as he slowly closed his eyes. The secret training of his started ever since the day he was told about the basic knowledge the natural elements. Today, he put some extra effort to the daily practice since he skipped the boring class and went to the training ground once he got out of the school. The boy tried over and over again to sharpen his own skills of close combat, enhanced his endurance by pushing himself with a strict training schedule. Even his old temporary foster father didn't know anything about this scheme of his because Jin obviously knew that his father would prefer telling him to focus his attention at school work to this kind of training. The atmosphere around him went heavy as he concentrated a large amount of stamina into his right palm. Suddenly, he flexibly stood up and thirst his hand to the ground and unleashed a tremendous amount of power he had stored which cause a big explosion. Dust clouded the whole place as the rock and the ground was destroyed greatly. After that, Jin calmly put himself into a meditation pose and continued his training.

"I have to get stronger and my father will definitely have to see my face when I bring the brightest glorious to the Kisaragi family. Just wait for it and all of you will know who I am." He thought.

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3 years ago

"Congratulation, Jin Kisaragi. Your score was the very top of your year. This is the first time in the history of the academy that someone achieves the top score for 5 year straight. You will have the school's permission to enter the Military Academy Specialist Training High School. Everyone please applause him for his outstanding results." The whole school got into the cheerful felicitation in hand-clapping sound of the students as the principle proudly gave him a gold medal of honor.

At the school, he thought that his dream of starting a special kind of magic training finally came true. However, he was completely let down by the teacher when they told him that they will teach about weapons using and strategies on the battlefield. He dully sighed as he had already learned by heart most of the strategies thanks to the education of the old man at home. The weapons was nothing new to him too since he knew how to use the swords, bows, lance, spears effortlessly at the age of 10.

"Haiizzz, what a boring waste of time!" He sighed again.

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Cukkoo…. Cuckkoo…Cuckkoo

The young boy opened his eyes, it's 5 o'clock in the morning as the cold mist still faintly flew in the air. The sun was slowly rising at faraway sky line. He looked around a found nothing new as he got up from the bed and went to the bathroom to take some morning shower. When he got out, he had already worn his usually blue uniform with white pattern on the front that ran vertically from the neck. There were some yellow line cover the edge of the white pattern and the end of the sleeves were pure black color patterns that covered the whole wrist parts.

"Morning son, have a nice sleep yesterday?" The old man said as he took a small sip at the coffee cup. The boy sat down on the stool next to him and took his dish of breakfast.

"Well, maybe. I've just reminiscent about some old memories after all." He replied and began to bite the bread.

"Oh, really? I rarely see you talk about things like that. Were they all good memories?"

"It is not all that good. I had some bad experience also."

"Awww, that's good to hear you still treasure your previous moment. I think you better forget all the sad things and focus more on the happy time." The old man smiled.

"Haiizz, I guess you're right. Ok, I have to go to the school now. Bye dad." He took his school bag and ran out of the house.

"Bye son. Have A Good Day!"

The way to school of his wasn't very far as it took his only about 10 minutes walking. The road had become too familiar to him that he remembered every inch of this brick way. He remembered every single side tree that shaded the road of his. The sky was occupied by some guardians who stood on the flying saucer. The Academy again appeared in front of him like a giant blocked the sunlight. Jin made his way to the main building of the Academy's Special Training School and entered the house. There were thousands of soldiers there as some were chatting; some were going to the class. At the other side, girls were squealed as they saw a handsome man walked across.

"Did you see him? He is soooo handsome! I want to be his wife." A girl said.

"Haahhh, I wish he would took my hand even for once." Another girl said.

"Just like always." Jin rolled his eyes and stood in front of his locker. He took out the key and opened it.

"Let's see…. First is Strategies Class then it is Physical Training …. I hope that the can let me skip it today." He muttered as his eyes skimmed throughout the class schedule.

"Nothing interesting today after all." He shut the locker. Suddenly, a girl walked passes him elegantly with her hair fluttered behind. Her figure was slim and delicate. Her skin was purely white and her hair was a very beautiful blonde color. Jin quickly turned his head toward her and only to see her from the back.

"That scent…. The lily flower scent. I remember smelling it somewhere very familiar." He whispered as he watched her entered the class he was about to attend.

Author's Note: What do you think about it. Let's review. Be truthful about your opinion toward the story because I want to know if you like the idea or not.

Hahaha, well, comment it anyway you like.

Oh, and the chapter 2 of this story will be posted when the story "never See, Never Know" is finished.

Thanks for reading!

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