For people who read the first chapter, sorry for it being so sucky! I had to type it up fast before school ended, and I was afraid that my ideas for the small girl in kindergarten will fade on my way home. In this story, all the children in kindergarten are my original characters, but the rest belongs to Natsuki Takaya!

Chapter 2

Voices

"Akika-chan? What's wrong? It's hand painting time, I thought you liked that…" The small boy asked, blinking his dark blue eyes curiously. He waved his hand in front of Akika's face. Akika's eyes widened slightly as she came back to herself and turned up to look at the boy.

"Ah… Sowwie…" She mumbled quietly. She was dazed out in thoughts about the oranged-hair teen she met the day before. The boy smiled, relived that his friend was ok.

"Tsubasa-kun," Akika spoke. "What if… Aki can change into animal…? What will Tsubasa-kun think of Aki…?"

Tsubasa looked at Akika, his eyes sparkling with excitement.

"You can change into an animal!? That's so cool!" He shouted, gathering their classmates' attentions. Akika's eyes widened even more and she looked around her class, hesitating. She then turned to Tsubasa and shook her head violently.

"No, Aki can't! Aki… Aki just asking!" She said.

"Oh…" Tsubasa looked down, a little disappointed. Akika noticed that everyone else had the same reaction. She then sighed in relief.

Akika got her paper and paint out and started dipping her hand in the pink paint. Placing her hand on her paper, she started drawing on her paper, not really paying attention to what she's drawing.

"What the fuck is that thing!?"

The small girl's eyes narrowed slightly. She bit her lips together and tried to rid herself of the voices of her past.

"How much do you want for her?"

It didn't stop. The voices kept coming, until the point Akika had to concentrate on her paper. But then she somehow saw Akito's devilish grin on her paper, and her eyes widened in fear. Turning quiet and her body starting the tremble slightly, Akika stared down at the paper. The teacher noticed the frightened child and walked to her. Seeing just scribbles of paint on the paper like all the other children's papers, the teacher got curious. She placed a hand on Akika's head and smiled slightly.

"Akika, what's this?" She asked playfully, trying to get the child's attention. Akika glanced at her teacher, her eyes still wide with fear, and started to whimper.

"A….A…" Akika's voice came out, shaky and scared. The teacher blinked and hugged the small child, and Akika quickly calmed down. Kindergarten teachers were good at calming young children; they noticed that if a child gets a tight squeeze, any child would usually calm down pretty fast
The school bell rung and children ran out the classroom. Most of the parents were already in front of the school gate, ready to pick up their children from school. However, Akika's parents were no where to be seen. The teachers sighed at seeing Akika left at school after all the children went home.

"Akika, are you planning to walk home alone again?" The teacher asked, kneeling down beside Akika. Akika turned around and smiled, then nodded to her teacher. She then pulled her hat onto her head and walked out the school gates. A teacher from another class came up to the frowning one.

"Her parents didn't pick her up again? It'll only be a matter of time until something bad happens…"

"I know," Akika's teacher said, cutting off the sentence. "But we can't do anything. If the parents feel that Akika's ready to walk home by herself, then let the child walk home by him or herself. It's a part of our school rules… Although, I never seen either of that child's parents, never. She's always alone I think…"

"Children, they're hard to understand," The other teacher shook her head and walked back into the office.
"Aki home…" Akika mumbled as she walked into the dark, messy house. She looked at her mother, holding the baby. Glaring towards the woman, Akika slammed the door and walked into her room. She then glanced at the picture in the corner of her room. It was a picture of yet another woman, not her teacher or the woman who was holding the baby in the house, but a beautiful teenager with long brown hair and dark green eyes.

Akika's eyes watered up with tears once more. She closed her eyes tightly and let the tears run down her cheeks. Crying silently by herself, she started hearing more voices of her past in her head again.

"I can't handle it… Why did you have to be born…?"

"It's all your fault! You killed him!"

"Will 200 be enough?"

"You look different, why your mommy don't look like chu?"

"You want to raise her? Do you know how old you are!?"

Wiping her eyes with her uniform sleeve, Akika sniffled and whimpered. She placed the picture on the floor again and curled up against her bed.

"Mommy, Aki still wuv chu…, why chu no pick up Aki an take Aki wif chu…?" The small girl mumbled. She looked up at the roof and frowned. "Why, mommy…?"