He had the perfect parents - loving, caring but strict and sensible too. He came from a rich, suburban background, went to the best school in the area. He was lovingly protected from the horrors of the media, carefully kept from all bad influences.
He was a sweet child, with fluffy auburn hair, a cute face and the most beautiful deep blue eyes. He also possessed a mischievous grin which endeared him to the hearts of everyone who knew him.
"He'll be a real charmer when he grows up," Mothers would coo outside the school gate.
He got into trouble often, but he was let off more. "He's just being cheeky," They would excuse him when he was wilful in front of the teachers, when he exercised his colourful language that he got from goodness knew where.
They just wanted to see a cute, cheeky kid. Nobody wanted to admit the truth.
Marluxia was uncontrollable.
Perhaps they'd have realised when he pushed one of his classmates off the school's roof. But they only thought it as an accident, fooled by his tears and cries as she died in hospital two days later. Maybe the alarm bells should have been set ringing when half the school burned down just weeks later. Three pupils were killed by the flames and nearly twenty hospitalised, but it was all put down to a mistake - the gas in the school kitchens left on, or a broken pipe somewhere in the school.
In his final year, however, something happened to reveal his true nature. It sparked a chain reaction of horrors untold, things that he'd done but nobody had ever admitted to. At first the police didn't believe the teachers and students, after all, such a cute, innocent eleven-year-old couldn't have been the one to blame for all these things. But eventually the evidence proved them wrong - he'd meant to kill the girl. He'd started the fire. He'd beaten up his teacher and locked her in the cleaning closet for three days. And he'd badly abused no less than nine of his classmates.
Somehow the media was kept out of the whole affair. That was seven years ago.
Welcome to Problematic; one of my absolute favourite stories as of yet, and I hope you enjoy it too! This version, aside from a few corrections, is largely identical to the one on DeviantArt. I'm listing it as complete for now, but there will be an epilogue at some point, too.
Warning for later chapters: There will be bad language, violence and emoes. You have been warned.