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I heard footsteps coming closer; I looked through the bushes I was hiding in and saw a man with hair almost the color of a raven. I shrank back away from the unknown man, but unfortunately I'm only five years old and have very little balance and it doesn't help if I've been abused since my so-called father remarried 3 years ago after my mom was murdered. He heard me fall and looked over the bush and smiled until he saw that I had blood all over me, none of which was mine but he didn't know that.
"Hello there," he said in a gentle voice, "what are you doing out here all alone and covered in blood?" he tried to get closer to me but I jumped just out of his reach. "I won't hurt you. I swear on my life I won't," he was being sincere, "what's your name?"
"M-Mizuki, Mizuki Hara."
"Would you like to come with and live with my family, I'm sure my wife would love another girl around the house," he smiled at me and I felt warmth coming from it.
I looked down and nodded my head, "but I need to get some things, and kinda show you something so you know just what you asked to live with you." He looked confused but said nothing. We walked a mile towards my "clan's" compound.
He saw the blood spattered walls and flinched he was about to stop and asked something but he decided against it and continued to follow me. I walked to the center of the compound where the biggest house is still standing even though it has seen what no one should've.
"You can stay out here or enter this and all the other houses with me. Just be warned, this is the worse house of all of them," I walk right into the foyer and up the stairs to the third floor. "Reveal the secrets to me and whomever else may be in with me," I whispered, the room began to move around my weaponry wall filled with my swords, daggers, fans, and everything else shrank so I could put them all into a bag. I went to my closet to grab my favorite clothes, meaning tank tops, long sleeve shirts, and jeans. I grabbed everything medical wise, including bandages, poisons, antidotes and so on. I grabbed all my money and set back to the second story to get everything from my father and step-mother's room.
Walking over to her dead body I ripped off the necklace she was wearing, as I turned to walk away the man had walked in and said, "you know it's disrespectful to steal from a dead body."
"Try telling her that since she stole this," I held the necklace up, it may have looked like a simple Celtic medallion knot, yet, "it holds so much power that only a Hara could control no mortal would survive using it. She only lived because she never knew how to unlock it."
"Hara means meadow correct?" I nodded my head yes, "and Mizuki means beautiful moon," again I nod my head, "what was your mother's name?"
"I don't know I forget," looking away from him, truth was I did remember it, but it brought back too many painful memories. I walked through every house and took what they no longer needed. Which included their weapons; I knew which weapons were powerful by whether or not they had the family crest on it; those were the ones that could shrink.
We walked through the woods and found his clan's compound, 'I remember that symbol, but why can't I remember where it's from?' 'Think of your mother sneaking out with you and who she went to meet.' I looked around but didn't see anyone but him and that was a female voice.
"Is everything alright, you seem freaked out about something." I shook my head no and continued walking next to him. He looked back at me and whispered, "Maybe she isn't Tsukiko's daughter," to himself.
We walked in silence for a few minutes, as we got closer to the house I could feel the presence of two children and a woman around the same age as my mother should be. I could feel my courage slipping and fear settling in, just like when my father brought "her" home. From that day she made my life a living hell.
I'm going back through and changing a few things, but the plot will stay the same. I hope.