I Jigoku Kara no Koneko, hereby declare that I own nothing other than the oc's that appear in this chapter, and that all credit should be given to the author Ichiei Ishibumi for the thanks of bringing us readers the original work of HighSchool DxD in the form of a light novel
A little boy around the age of 6 is sat reading an advanced strategy for beginners at chess book while in front of a chess board when he hears a female voice call out to him
"onii-chan" the girl called out to her sibling "Okaa-san said that food is ready"
"ah '******'-chan give me a second ill mark my page" he says back while creasing the edge of a page while closing the book "shall we" he says while standing up and extending his hand out to the girl whose face is blurred out due to the light in his eyes.
his vision then goes black and when it comes back he is sat at a table eating curry when an older woman comes running into the room and slings him over her shoulder while picking the younger girl up under her other arm and begins to run from the house " Okaa-san why do you look scared?, where are you taking us?" he asks getting further and further away from the house
"We are ru-" she is cut of as the boy screams
"no Otou-san, no let me go Otou-sans hurt, let me go, let m-" this time he is cut of as the hand that was holding him jams into the back of his neck and just before he falls unconscious he hears his mother whisper softly to him "sorry Raiden I hope you won't be mad at me when you wake up but for us to survive we need to escape quietly" he then loses consciousness and hears another voice that sounds almost panicked and he feels like someone is shaking him, "onii-chan, onii-chan, ONII-"he shoots up in to a sitting position an knocks the person into a lying position cutting of what they were saying, while panting heavily with sweat pouring down his face panicking from the memory in the form of a dream.
"onii-chan" he hears the voice again and realises that it was his sister "what's wrong you started screaming in your sleep while I was trying to wake you" she says while sitting up and pulling him into a hug that filled him full of security
"It was nothing just a bad dream" he looks around to see the digital clock and calendar in the room "ah todays the day we start our new school isn't it"
"yeah" the girl replied confused at why yet again he changed the subject to avoid explaining the dream he always did that when he woke up like that "now common get showered and dressed and come down stairs, you should feel honoured that this is one of the few days I wake up early and actually want to go to school" she says in a bossy tone
"I'll be down in ten" he says as she walks out his room and closes the door "f***ing dream it's been like 13 years since then and I still have that same dream nearly every night when will my memories stop plaguing me" he mutters sadly a tear coming to his eye at the remembrance of how he lost his further, 'I may have to tell Athena the truth about our existence soon, I have a feeling that something's going to happen soon that will force me anyways' he thinks while stepping into the shower, he punches the wall cracking a tile "f***ing b******s why'd they have to kill dad why was did loving mother have to be forbidden we never did anything wrong" he asks no one tears streaming from his face as the water rained down on him therapeutically calming him down.
after eating breakfast consisting of burnt toast caked in strawberry jam to mask the flavour that was lovingly prepared by his sister he stood up and walked towards the door picking up his bag on the way, his sister following suit "off we go" he exclaims in a cheery matter stepping into the light while taking his sister's hand.
Earlier that same day
Leaving go of her bandaged hand the older boy kissed her forehead and turned around and walked out the door.
"hey freak, you got you brother bringing you all the way to class now?" a boy the same age as her called out thinking her brother was out of ear shot, she heard her brothers footsteps stop, "what happened to you hand freak?" she froze at the memory of what she had done a few days before, her brother ran back into the room and beat the boy into the ground while other boys tried to stop him she noticed them as the rest of the bullies that made her life as hell like as they could, the teacher nowhere to be seen, as the boy lost consciousness her brother stood up and turned to the others anger completely taken over and his pupil so thin that they really did look like a cats did. Her vision change to the memory of the beginning of last weekend.
'she sat in her room holding a knife crying hear eyes out the bullying that day had been the worst so far and they had almost picked on one of her friends they had cornered her and snatched her bag while she was playing with the cat that was always there just after school had finished, unfortunately one kid had seen her petting the cat and gathered the others one set to pouring out the content of her back onto the floor as the cat ran off while another picked up the carton of milk and proceeded to pour it over her as another called out "Hey freak even the cats you look so much like run away from you" he then proceeded to laugh earning a few jeers as some started to kick her into the floor. as the memory stopped playing she walked into the bathroom placing the knife onto the side of the bath and washed her body before stepping into the bath and cutting both of her wrists, after a while she started to drop in and out of consciousness as her brother ended the room when he noticed the knife on the floor and the now crimson dyed water h rushed over and dragged her from the tub and onto the floor all the time repeatedly calling her name and shaking her just as the shaking stopped she completely lost consciousness and blacked out. The next thing she knew she was waking up in a bed looking up at an unformiliar celing and her brother sat in a chair laid across her stomach.'
As her mind returned to her body she saw her brother turn to the last standing boy as the other dropped to the ground white as a sheet, she noticed the symptoms as internal hemorrhaging from the little amount of medical knowledge that Abel their guardian had taught her, just how hard was he hitting them any ways, she caught a glimpse of his face as he punched the last remaining bully in the stomach making him keel over, it was the same as before but now dawned a sadistic smile that along with the anger in his face made him look like he had lost every ounce of sanity there was then and audible snap as her brother brought his knee into the boys chest whom dropped to the floor getting whiter and whiter while breathing erratically, clearly a rib had broken and pierced a lung, as ten adults burst into the room pining her brother into a kneeling position even with ten of them he could still move sure her brother was strong but seriously he was nearly out powering the joint efforts of the fully grown men, it then struck her that he arms and hands were covered in cuts and his clothed caked in blood looking around the room she had yet to find a spot on the wall, floor or celling not covered in blood there were multiple unconscious bodies on the floor adults in cuddled, she returned her gaze to her brother an looked into his eyes realising that they held not hatred but pain the pain he felt for his sister, squeezing her way through past the adults she hugged her brother hard begging him to stop suddenly he jerked to a stop and the adults released he she looked him in the eyes once more and saw that his face now held a disgusted expression aimed not at the bullies, not at the adults that had not noticed anything wrong but at himself like he hated himself for succumbing to his hatred. With that the dream came to an end and she woke up in her bed sweating profoundly " I wonder if I had that dream came because of what day it is" she whispered to herself
after showering and pulling on her uniform she realised it was the wrong one "oh yeah we start 'Kuoh' today don't we" she said to herself while striping down to put her new uniform on looking into the mirror she saw two green eyes with slit like pupil starring back at her a head of aqua coloured hair that has two long bangs going past her shoulders to rest on her breasts and several loose bangs hanging over her forehead while the back has a short bob cut, (much like Koneko's only with the longer band going down to rest on her breasts), "yep I look damn good I wonder what onii-chan will say when I wake him up" she said turning on her heels to head for her brother's room, knocking on the door she stepped in and walked over to his bed, he was covered in sweat like she had been not too long ago herself, she started to shake him awake and panicked when he started to scream "onii-chan, onii-chan, onii-chan, onii-chan, onii-chan, ONII-" she was cut off as her brother shot up into a sitting position knocking her back into a lying position on his bed while he was panting heavily with sweat pouring down his face with a panicked look on his face
"Onii-chan" she says again "what's wrong you started screaming in your sleep while I was trying to wake you" while sitting up and pulling him into a hug
"it was nothing just a bad dream" she saw him look round to the digital clock and calendar in the room "ah todays the day we start our new school isn't it" he says now calmed down from the hug
"yeah" she replies confused at why yet again he changed the subject to avoid explaining the dream he always did that when he woke up like that, it was almost as if he could tell the question was coming and avoided it before it could be asked throwing the thought to the back of her mind she spoke up, "now common get showered and dressed and come down stairs, you should feel honoured that this is one of the few days I wake up early and actually want to go to school" in an almost bossy tone
"I'll be down in ten" he replied as she walked out his room and closes the door
just as she was setting the jam covered toast down on the table her brother came into the room and they ate in silence, once finished she stood up and followed her brother to the day and like him picking up her bag, feeling her hand getting grabbed she looked up as her brother tugged her forward stepping into the light "off we go" she heard him say, "ummu, lets" she replied following him out pulling the door behind her.
So what did you think, I know pretty long for an intro right? your probably wondering why is it so long when it's based around the same thing but from two viewpoints?, well I'll tell y'all why I would have broken it into two chapters but that would have just meant that to read the intro you would need to load a new page, so to save you guy and girls the 30 seconds it takes to load a page I stuck it into one chapter.
Your reviews are welcome with open arms but please do keep them constructive and helpful, as this is the first time I've shared my work with anyone other than my friend and to be honest one person isn't really anything to go off.
How the heck authors actually do this for living is beyond me but he then do a great job and I admire them for it, it's harder than it looks it took me days to even think of the scenario and twice as long to figure out how to change it from notes on bits of scrap paper into something that looked like reading material.
This is Jigoku Kara no Koneko biding you farewell and I hope you to be reading your reviews and that you continue reading.