Chapter 1

My name is Akane Hakuma Phantomhive. I grew up in a relatively normal environment. I had a mother, a big house, and tons of pets. I had everything a girl could ever want, well except for a dad. He died before I was born, but mother never really talks about that. Everything was perfect, that is until Jack the Ripper came along.

My mother was fine at first, but as time progressed and hus crimes got more disturbing she got more and more nervous. At times she would just stare out the window as if waiting for death to come. Waiting for her time to come to be one of those women.

I come home and mother is outside waiting with a carriage. Well that's odd, then again mother has been acting very starnge lately, I think to myself walking cautiously up to the carrige door.

"Are we going on a trip?" I ask nervously, fidgeting as her errie glance comes my way.

"no honey we're leaving here, forever." she says quietly, never one flinching at her words as I did.

"What? Why? How could you do this?"

"Honey lower your voice and get in the carriage, now."

I got into the carriage confused and fearful for my mothers well being. She's finally strted slipping onto the edge of insanity. Ugh I thought I would have more time to help her fix this. I was mad, mad at my mother for going insane, father for dying before I got the chance to ever know him, and god for putting me in this horrible situation.

"Ok mother whats going on? I want the truth now." I say in a more demanding tone than I thought as my mother flinched.

"Honey i dont really know myself." she whispers, cringing into her seat as my eyes widen.

"What do you mean you don't know? How could you just take me away frome my home without even knowing why!"

"Please honey lower your voice and calm down. If you really want to know then just look at this note." she says handing me a crisp white envelope with a gold seal.

I gently take the note out of my mothers fierce grasp. I wonder what's so special about this little envelope. I wonder if its from father. As the thoughts swirl through my head my fingers shake as I open the envelope.

"My dearest Jane I must leave this world to save you and our wonderful daughter, Akane. I am truely sorry I got you into this situation and for the fact that I can't tell you the specifics of it either. Alas I leave you with this:

One day a man will come along with the title of Jack the Ripper. He will become a notorious killer, but I can't you why. Still this person will come and try to find you, so run. Get far away and go into hiding. I can't promise you that it will save you, but it will help and hay might be all you need.

Good bye my love,

Edward

"Why? Why wouldn't he just tell you?" I shout tearing up, my body shaking with sobs of sorrow.

"I'm not sure myself honey, but we need to heed your fathers warnings and hide. Now do you understand why we must leave without causing too much of a scene?

"Yes I understand."

"Ok so we're going to have to be very careful in this new city. We won't have to change our names but we won't be able to stay in one place for very long."

"Fine, but mom next time if you have some huge family secret do you mind telling me as soon as possible?"

"Yes, yes I assure you that there are no more secrets. At least non that I know of."

I spend the next five hours either eating or sleeping. Of course i had nightmares along the ways, but then again who wouldn't. I dream that I'm running through the streets being chased by Jack the Ripper. I run and run, and almost get away, but of course I fall. I see the blade come at me and get close, so very close and I wake up.

"Well honey welcome to yuor new home." she says quietly gazing out at the dimly lite streets.

I look out as well and see an ugly brown house. The only thing that brings the house light is a single street lamp that is a few blocks down. The only other thing around is more ugly houses, idetical to ours. So this is where we're going to live until further notice.

"Well i know its not a mansion, but we can make it homey." she says with a tight smile, trying to make things seem better than they were.

"Of course, we can make any place a home if we're together." I say with a tight smile of my own altough I don't think I do as well.

"Well come on now let's not gawk like commoners."

"Right."

We unpack and try to lighten the place up, but after some time we both just give up and go to our seperate rooms. My new room is small, too small for my tastes and painted a sickly shade of green. All thats in the room are two small chairs, a desk, and a tiny little bed. I look around a get sadder by the second as I think of my old bed, my old room, and my old friends.

Well at least I have mother and my cat Lily. I try to keep my thoughts positive and light, but end up sobbing even more than I had before. Finally after sobbing my eyes out I fall asleep.

It's a dark dreamless sleep and by the time I wake up it is the morning of the next day. I get up and stretch and find that all of my clothes are still on from yesterday and that my mouth felt like I had ingested a large bowl of cotton balls.

I walk out of the room to find mother cleaning house. We exchange simple good mornings and I go to help her with the chores. We dust, sweep, scrub everything squeaky clean until around noon. At that time we decide its time to make some lunch.

"Mother I know you probably dont want to do this, but we need to go out." I say slowly as not to frighten my mother yet again.

"Why?" she asks nervously, twitching at the sound of my suggestion.

"Well for one thing I'm starving and I bet you are too and two we need to learn what aour surroundings are like, so if need be we can escape easily."

"Well ok I guess."

"Great then I'm goin to my room to get dressed properly and I will be out in just a few minutes."

"Wait! I think we shold dress in these servent clothes instead."

"What? Why? And where in the world did you find those?"

"Well after you went to your room to rest I did some more exploring and found them in a box."

"Ok that answers one of my questions, but what about the other?"

"Well we don't want to be recognized now do we? Now its either you wear the clothes or starve, it's your choice not mine." she says her facial expression never changing.

"Fine I will wear your servant clothes. Just let me go to my room and change." I say crisply walking out ofthe room.

After I change we head out to the market. The entire trip was filled with silence that neither of us tried to fill. I was still mad at what my mother was making us do even though I knew it would probably save out lives in the end. I didn't care, I let the hurt and anger swirl around me like a raging tornado that wouldn't stop.

We were nearing the house when we saw the flame. All of our hard from the morning gone. All of our things burning, dying really. The memories we held dearest to us fading. When I first saw the flames it felt as if a part of my that was dying too.

"Mother no!" I shrieked as my mother tired to run into the flames, but I pin her down before she has the chance to go any further.

"Edward, no don't leave me!" she shrieked along with me, trying to claw her way towards the house.

"Stop!"

"Edward, Edward, Edward."

"Mother stop it's gone, he's gone. Juts please stop.