It's my first fanfiction in this fandom and I'm quite excited. Also I'm not a native English speaker and learn it in school. Still I hope that my writing isn't that bad as I assume. However, when I estimated my skills wrong, I'm sorry.

I hope that this story is kind of enjoyable.

(Note: The only pairing I have is Kogami and Akane. And I hope it's okay.)


Prologue:

The Wandering Souls Knows No Rest

"Ripples form on the water's surface, the wandering soul knows no rest"


Fresh air from the sea touched his face and icy wind blew through his hair. He had his eyes closed and listened to the calmly sound of the waves moving back and forth. And every time they came forth, they made the soles of his shoes wet. He didn´t mind.

He remembered the last time he had been at a beach. Back than he had been around five years old and his parents had taken him to a beach for a little daily trip. He remembered that his mother had been worried he could eat the sand or drown himself in the water. His father had to tell her over and over again that they are watching and that their son was too intelligent to do something like this. At the end of the day he had eaten a bit of sand and managed to get dirty all over his small body. Even if his mother nearly got a heart attack back than, this had always been one of his good memories.

Three years later the Sibyl System had taken over Japan. After years of preparations they had finally done it and he could remember how excited his mother had been after the System had been announced. She had always been a careful woman who got worried easily. For her the System meant safety and a light sleep. His father had laughed because of her excitement and he himself grinned because he had never seen his mother like that. But still the day the System came to life had always been one of the darkest days in his life.

One day, just one day, before the System took over everything his father had been killed by some maniac. Hadn´t he overworked that day, had he done it the next day, he would be still alive. With the System it had been almost impossible to kill someone on a open road, even it was late and the town slept.

They had got the message about his father´s dead a few minutes before midnight. Kogami Hayate had died just thirty minutes before midnight ‒ thirty minutes before the beginning of Sibyl. His mother always said that if the System had been secretly put on maniacs like the one who killed her husband never took their chance to commit one last crime before they probably would never had another chance to do anything.

In fact, the Sibyl System had took his father from him, took his life and now it took his. Kogami Shinya had left his homeland Japan just three months prior because he turned his back to the System and handled against its judgement. Because of that he was now a public enemy and he doubted that he could ever return to his old home. And he felt guilty that the dreams of the girl would never be fulfilled.

One month ago he had contacted this girl, Tsunemori Akane, his former superior, and she had sounded so relieved to hear his voice. She had always been kind of a joyful, optimistic girl and he couldn´t help but smile as she said she believed they would meet again someday, not as Inspector and Enforcer but as normal people. But Kogami could never return to Japan and he wouldn´t allow that she threw away her bright future just because she wanted to follow him. Someone like him didn´t have the right to destroy someones life, even if she had been hurt as he left. But he didn´t have a choice and she knew it.

Kogami wondered if she was doing well. She had taken the position of Sheperd One after Ginoza Nobuchika became a latent criminal. She had to lead a whole Division, just with a newbie by her side. Not long ago she had been one by herself but she had rapidly grown out of it. Of course she had Ginoza who worked now as an Enforcer under her and Kunizuka Yayoi, probably even analyst Karanomori Shion, but they couldn´t help her with everything.

When they had talked one month ago he had been ‒ to his surprise ‒ relieved himself to hear that Akane was alive and healthy. Since the day he flew he wondered day and night if she had been punished afterward by the System or the Bureau because she couldn´t prevent that Kogami killed Makishima Shogo, someone the System wanted alive. He could never have forgiven himself if something like this had happened. After all this hadn´t been her fault. It was all his.

He air was cold on his skin and he opened his eyes. He saw the blue-green sea which seemed to be eternal. She was somewhere by the other end of this sea, this ocean. And he wondered if she looked onto the ocean too, in this time, in this moment. And if she dreamed about a future, so beautiful and bright and eternal like the ocean. And if in this dream of a far, far future he was included.

He had thought he could forget everything and let it go. After all he had to build up a whole new life for him. Holding on the past wasn´t helpful. Especially if you knew you couldn´t go back. That you had to live on. Because it was the only thing you could do or you would just hurt yourself. And he really hoped she knew it too.

Still he lingered more and more to the past, to his home, as he left it more and more behind. He didn´t find his peace, even if he killed Makishima, he was still a restless soul and he probably would never be something else. He could only hope that Akane wasn´t like him.

Kogami stood still for a moment, still listening to the tranquil sounds of the water, letting them wash over him, letting their tranquility fall over him, and then turned to go. He had to sleep early when he wanted to catch his train tomorrow.


I hope you liked this chapter, this prologue.

I'm currently working on chapter three and I hope that enough people read this story, so I can happily continue!

Note: The name of the chapter and the little quote at the beginning derives from a poem named "Loveless". And if you already knew, you should know that this is a poem of Final Fantasy VII - Crisis Core. The one Genesis always quotes.

Have a nice day!

PeachDestroyer