Open Stiches
"Why won't you guys just leave me alone?" Kaiden yelled back to his family in the kitchen as he stormed outside and slammed the door behind him. His family had been on his case for weeks after his skateboarding accident which resulted in 34 stitches up his left arm, at first he accepted it, it was his fault he was hurt, and his family was pissed, but after hearing complaining and arguing for a whole week he finally blew up. His family never really accepted him fully, mostly because he was adopted, but should that really matter? They never accepted his skateboarding, he was good at it but like everyone, he had accidents sometimes and it got them angry.
Kaiden was greeted by pouring rain and cold breeze, his light brown hair was already plastered to his forehead, and his t-shirt was almost soaked through. "Great. Just freaking great!" He yelled up to the heavens. Mad at the weather he walked over to his skateboard and rode it to the old well in the far back of their house. He slowly got off his skateboard and leaned over the well, looking into the dark abyss beyond.
"Wonder what's down there?" He asked leaning farther over the well. After his curiosity dimmed he went back to leaning on it, his chin in his hand, and he was thinking of all the times he's screwed up.
Kaiden was deep in thought when he heard a soft scraping from deep in the well, he slowly looked over the edge. Nothing. "Great. Now I'm going crazy." He stated half in wonder and half in self-denial.
He heard a soft rustling behind him, but didn't bother to look this time. The next thing he heard was laughing and a hard shove coming from behind him, making him lose his balance and fall into the dark, deep well. As he fell and his yelp of panic had vanished he heard a sharp laugh come from his older cousin above, and then…nothing. He just fell, the fall never seeming to come to an end, but still he braced himself, waiting for the part of the fall when he would crash to the ground.
Minutes later he finally he hit ground, with the loud thud of him and his skateboard. "Ow!" He hissed as he pulled himself up, "HEY! GET ME OUT OF HERE!" He yelled up to his cousin. No answer.
"This is just wonderful." Kaiden started to check out his surrounding, it didn't take him long to get bored, just a circular rock surrounded him, nothing of interest was down there. "Uhh! JACK GET ME OUTA HERE!" He yelled again.
He looked up out of the well, which surprised him because the opening didn't seem far away at all, but the fall had taken forever. And then he noticed the sky, it had been cloudy and rainy a second ago, but now it was a crystal blue sky. Maybe he passed out when he hit the ground and didn't remember, or maybe he was just going insane, both were very possible outcomes. But either way he had to get out, with help or without, and right now it looked like he was getting no help.
Kaiden slid his precious skateboard down his shirt and began to climb his way out. His hurt arm screamed with protest to the climbing, blood began to seep out of its wrappings. But right now Kaiden had to keep his attention on his getting out after would beat his cousin up, and then he would fix his arm.
As he reached the top a faint smell of rice filled the air, flowers were present also. Since when did they have flowers, and did they have rice for dinner tonight, he didn't remember rice.
Finally, he pulled himself over the edge of the wooden side of the well, and flopped to the ground, his heart racing with the effort. That's when he knew he was going crazy.
Everything around him was different, the trees that were in front of him weren't supposed to be there; instead his house should be there. The ground was completely covered with green grass, whereas before it was all mud. And a small dirt trail ran between a forest of trees. What the hell was going on?
"Well, I've completely lost it." He stated with no emotion what so ever. "But I might as well go with it."
With that he got up, took his skateboard out of his shirt, and began to follow the trail. He occasionally looked up and saw birds flying above, or he just drifted off to his thought. "Ouch!" He stopped suddenly and looked down at his arm; blood was now freely running down past his fingers and dripping on the ground. "Oh great." He pressed his arm against his side and began his walk again, this time a little faster, hoping a house would come up soon.
After twenty minutes he finally broke free of the ever increasing woods and found himself at the entrance of a village. "Ok, weird." A searing pain made him remember that he didn't care where he was he needed help, and soon.
As he entered the old village he noticed that the people were wearing the old kimonos, the kind you saw in the history books. They wore rice hats and it seemed to Kaiden that he was walking through a very old time period of Japan.
And then the scream came, that startled Kaiden and made him whip around to find a beautiful young girl pointing at him and screaming "demon". Everyone's attention was brought to him, a second of awkward silence occurred and then all hell broke loose. People dropped what they were carrying, loud screams were heard everywhere along with the word demon. People scurried into the "huts" that littered the roads. And all the while Kaiden stared dumbfounded, he couldn't figure out what was going on or where he was, what was wrong with these people?
"DEMON!" Yelled a man from behind him, Kaiden turned and found himself staring at a young man with a pitch fork and a very old women in red pants and a white shirt.
"Uhhh, I don't exactly know what's wrong with you people, but could I get some-" Kaidne began to walk towards the old women but the man jumped in front of her and jabbed the pitch fork at him. Kaiden immediately stopped. "Dude. Chill out I just need-"
"Be quiet demon! Your trickery will not work here!" The man yelled.
"Suikoden, be silent. I do not think he wishes to harm us." The old women said in a very old voice, "He looks like our own Inuyasha, except younger."
The name "Inuyasha" was heard throughout the people that came to watch the show.
"Listen I'm really confused, but I need some help." Kaiden began, he was beginning to feel very dizzy and the world seemed to spin before him, "I need…h-help." He stumbled forward dragging his skateboard behind him. "Please, s-someone."
Everyone seemed to just stand there, watching. Did anyone care? What was wrong with these people? He stumbled more towards the old women, the blood seemed to now flow down his hand, his stitches were completely ripped open. The old women finally began to realize the amount of blood he was losing because she ran over to him and caught him in his arms as he began to fall into unconsciousness. The last thing he saw was the man called Suikoden yelling over him, and the last thing he heard was the word demon.
-I'm sorry it was short, but this idea just popped into my head. More chapter will be coming up, I promise. Please review! Thanks!-
