Ichiwa-hen
Shion seemed to have murmured something that Mion couldn't catch. But by the look in the older girl's eyes, it didn't seem to be a good thing. Suddenly Shion fell to the floor, in which Mion gasped and ran straight to her side. "Are you okay yo-"
"I want her back..."
Mion's emerald eyes widened in shock. Shion's glare, her tone of voice, everything finally made sense to the girl as she felt her stomach turn in unease. Before Mion had a chance to try to calm her sister, Shion was already continuing on. With each word Shion said, Mion felt a piece of her heart break. Did Shion really feel that way? Mion knew it was a bad position they'd put themselves in all those years ago, but she really hoped such feeling had passed over.
Clearly they had not.
Mion's troubled and rather shocked thoughts were interrupted by her twin as Shion actually jumped on her! Tears welled up in Mion's eyes as she struggled to try to tear her sister's fingers away from her throat.
Mion begain to cough as her sister easily overpowered her. She continued with her struggle as she tried to say her sister's name.
"Sh...Shi...-cough-...Mi...Mi.."
Her vision was beginning to get fuzzy as her body was paying it's price for the lack of air. Despite the physical pain and fear that was being induced on her, the one thing that hurt the most was her sister's words.
Tears began to fall from her eyes as the color was draining from her face. I'd give her back in a second if I could sis!'She wished she could say that, but knew that to Shion, it'd just be another shallow promise, to Shion, Mion would just be sounding even weaker.
The lack of air was beginning to get to Mion in a more severe way than ever before. Becoming more desperate to break free of her sister's grasps, the younger teen's legs began to flail as her body jerked violently. Her skin was being scratched away by her own twin but for Mion, she just wanted to grab ahold of Shion's hands for long enough as to regain her breath. But all was futile as Mion's attempts began to die down and her eyes slowly roll backwards.
Suddenly at that moment, the girl's bedroom door opened. As her vision began to grow worse, Mion was at least able to make out the person standing before them... Obaa-san.
As Shion's fingers tightened around Mion's throat she laughed hysterically in her mind, I would be the better Mion anyways, I'm so much stronger, and tougher! I have the demon, I feel it!
The girl felt herself drift away somewhere else and something else take control; something dark and evil. "Give me Mion!You are a failure as her! I can do so much better! I would have made Batchan proud! You truly make me sick! Why were you even born Onee?! Why! Why couldn't I have been the heir?!" She screamed at her sister. Drool formed around the corners of her mouth from the intensity of her screaming as she kept forgetting to swallow.
As she scratched at her sister's skin and clawed at her neck she tried to take back the possession of 'Mion', "Give her back! Give her back!" She shook her head furiously while screaming a ear tingling scream.
But, she suddenly stopped as the door slid open.
Standing against a cane, The head of the Sonozaki Estate stood with eyes wide, Oryou.
Shion had never ever been scared of anyone. As a child whenever the neighbor boys had picked on her she would fight back and even hurt them. Whenever upperclassmen had tried to start with her, she would end up doing serious damage to them. But, when it came to her grandmother, she quivered with fear at the old woman...
"Onii-baba..." She whispered as her grip suddenly released off Mion's throat.
An older woman, about the height of the two girls, hunched over with a cane in her hand bellowed from the door at the scene unfolding. Sonozaki Oryou, the Head of the Sonozaki Estate. This was a name that could send shivers down anyone's spine, even though she was a old hag, she had her resources.
"Shion!" The woman's eyes were wide with anger, as she slowly made her way into the room, death glare set on the Disgusting Twin.
"How dare you set foot in my estate, you trash! Have you not already tarnished the Sonozaki name, but you want to harm my precious Mion, my heir! Your just a walking disaster aren't you?!" She screamed at the girl as she hovered over the Harlequin haired female who quivered in fear.
Oryou raised her cane and brought it down with all the force she had in her body and began to beat Shion with it. Knowing full well the girl would take her punishment as she always did. "Your just as disgusting as Akane-san! Worthless! Why couldn't she have just given birth to Mion?! But no she had to give birth to This...This Mistake!" The old woman hissed.
With every word her sister brought forth Mion felt her heart become more and more shattered. Throughout all of these years did Shion, no, did Mion really hate her so much? Had her sister only known spite while gazing at her mirrored counterpart? The severity of her strangling and the harshness of her words seemed to say so.
It was shameful.
She couldn't fight back. Not against the sister she loved so dearly. All Mion could do was try to pry the bony fingers away from her throat in a desperate attempt to save herself and even tat was frutile.
Finally it stopped.
But, when she saw why, Mion's heard sank in dread. However her mind and body were too busy coughing and gasping for air. Her fingers reached up as if to check to see if her sister's fingers were still against her neck as the new contact against the bare scratches burned at the touch. Tears were continuing to stream down her eyes just as they did when she was a child as she simply lay meekly on the floor sobbing.
But it wasn't the pain she was sobbing for, but her sister. Her sister's anger, her grandmother's rage, and her own mountain of guilt.
The moment her grandmother yelled she knew it was bad, but Mion was too busy simply recovering right away to stand up and say anything. Still, she continued to lie on the floor. She helplessly watched though, as her ocean filled eyes were widened at the site of her grandmother striking Shion.
"Obaa san.." She whispered softly, wanting to see it stop. It wasn't her sister that the old woman was insulting, but Shion… her. Each word stung almost as badly as her sister's as Mion watched in horror. Finally she had enough,
"Obaa san!" she cried out, her eyes begging for the old woman to stop, to stop hurting her twin, to stop hurting Mion. The younger Sonozaki was useless and she knew it, but even as useless as she was, even as in much pain as she was, she couldn't bare to let her sister suffer such a beating… even if it was at her own hand.
Her sister's cries for her grandmother to stop were almost distant in Shion's ears. I'm Sorry...Her thoughts cried out in her mind as she sat curled in a ball, arms wrapped protectively over her head as she did as a child when she received punishments,I'm sorry for being born...
I don't belong here. Why was I born...? There's no point for my living.She cringed in her mind as she received beat after beat from her grandmother. Enduring the pain, she blocked it out with her thoughts.
I hate her... I can't stand her... Why was she born? Why couldn't I have been the heir...?
Ignoring the plea's of the 'next heir' of the Sonozaki, she hissed at the female, "Silence! Sonozaki Mion! Learn your place as number two to me! You are nothing but a limb of me, and do as I say. Do not question my authority! Espcially not, when thisrat!is among us!" She growled as she withdrew her cane.
The cold, glossy gaze of the old woman fell down upon Shion and the corners of her mouth curled in disgust, "Why are you still sitting here?!Get out!"
Two bulky men suddenly walked through the door clad in tailored black suits. Each with the same set of Sunglasses that Kasai would usually wear. They knelt down toward Shion and picked her up, each by one of her arms and began to haul her out Mion's room.
"On the street with her! Throw her to the curb, let the dogs eat her flesh! For defiling the 'next heir' of my family! May Oyashiro-sama curse her forever!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, which caused her to cough violently at the end.
Almost as if seeing her own flashbacks occur before her, Mion watched with miserably wide eyes as her sister was harshly beaten. The fragile ball that Shion was curled up in, Mion couldn't bring herself to jump in front of her twin, but she would continue to try to verbally stop her grandmother.
But…. Of course, she was silenced.
By her grandmother with just one look, and that twinge of fear pulsed throughout her own body as it was being to her sister. This wasn't right… not even a little bit. The only thing capable of showing her weakness other than Shion was their grandmother. And falling silent from such emotion was exactly what Mion would do.
Tears continued to vainly fall down her cheeks as each vindictive word that her grandmother spoke sank in. Obaa san, even if she didn't know it, truth of the matter was that it was the current heir she hated, the fake heir. Shion, or well, the younger twin was nothing but dirt to her, she was the one meant to die. Surely their grandmother thought so, but did the twin that was being dragged out at that very instant feel that way too?
'Stupid! Do you remember what she'd done to you just minutes ago?! She hates you with every fabrication of her being… She is Mion! She is! You're just a lie!'
Mion felt crippled in this standpoint as she hadn't even bothered to crawl off the floor. Staring in pain, she watched her sister be forced out of the Sonozaki residence an out onto the street.
Nothing felt right anymore, instead it'd all fallen to ruin. Without anymore tears to physically do so, Mion just sat there silently sobbing while staring at the floor, even as her grandmother coughed…
"I'm so sorry…. Onee."
The mud splashed hard in her face, turning her beige outfit into a brown- filthy color. Hurt and full of despair, she pulled her arms to her sides and pushed herself up to her knees. Turning around she looked at the closed door of the Sonozaki estate and cringed, Animals...
Seething as she rose to her feet, the rain was still falling hard, showing that it could care less if she was in pain. Dirty and worn down she listlessly began to drag her feet forward away from the place she once called home.
Walking away from the area, she soon came near a hillside, as she stopped and turned back to look at the estate which was still in sight, a hard sob rose within her throat as sadness began to sweep over her. She bit down hard on her lip to stop the 'cry for help' from coming out. But, alas it did not work. A loud sorrowful sob escaped her lips as she fell to her knees again, hands covering her face as tears raced down her cheeks mixing in with the rain.
Her walls had come crashing down.
Rocking back and forth on her knee's she sobbed in her emotional pain, it was all too much for her. For too long has she had these walls built up tall and strong. She'd take hit after hit and nothing, still standing strong. But, those hits all over the place caused her walls to weaken, and this last hit... Caused her once sturdy walls... to come crashing down.
Falling down onto her side onto the wet grass; comforting her fall, she looked dazed at the tree at the top with not emotion what-so-ever. It could all end right there and she'd be fine with it, What's the meaning of living a life with no meaning at all...
Rolling onto her back she sighed hard as the pellets of water struck her face like a hundred of little needles. She raised her hand above her face to block out the rain and closed her eyes and began to drift into a slumber, Why...Why was I born?
.x.
"Sh-Shion! No fair! Your out! I won this time I get the point!" The Harlequin haired youngster giggled as she pushed her sister away while grabbing the big red ball. They were playing a game where they bounced the ball really high and whoever catches it gets the point.
Here, before everything went wrong, this is when Mion ( Shion ) Sonozaki, actually smiled...
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[a/n: If you don't understand the sudden change in conversation, shion now had passed out, and we will be going over her Past in the next several chapters.]