My First Friend is a Failure

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[Kaito POV]

Kaito was just running around without any destination in his new neighborhood when he saw some kids were gathering in the back alley with some rocks on their hand.

"What are they doing? Rock baseball?" Kaito though innocently.

Curiously, he walk towards them and greeted them with a smile.

"Hi there! What're you guys doing?"

The kids was looking at him with a weird look, before one of them approached him.

"What? Who the hell are you? never seen you around here… new guy?" A boy who's bigger than him answered rudely.

Kaito just smiled at him like he usually do, "Yes, I just move this morning, my house is … 5 blocks from here I guess? On the top of the hill"

The boy jaw dropped when Kaito mentioned his house, that house might be much smaller than their castle like one from before, but it's still one of the biggest and grandest building in this city.

"H-hello there… how may I help you?" The boy quickly change his attitude.

Kaito looked around, there's a lot of other kids around. Boys, girls,there's even some teen and adult. Most of them are carrying some rocks on their hand. They look like preparing for something.

"Nah… just wondering what're you guys doing…" Kaito said, not understanding the situation around.

"Oh… we're just going to cleaning some thrash"

"….cleaning?"

"yes! See that soon collapsed house?" He pointed to a worn out house they surrounded. There's a lot of small and big hole on it, that was repaired only by nailing some piece of wood to cover it. The paint was peeling everywhere. A lot of crows make a nest on the roof. Tons of small rock, thrash and mud are on the front door. And the door looks like it was being hit repeatedly by a metal pipe, which is also scattered around. Some words like 'Whore', 'Thrash', 'GET OUT' and so on are written on the wall. Any one who live there must be really hated.

Kaito nodded in confusion.

"It's the house of a thrash! A low life creature! Looks like a girl with a grey hair and red eyes! Someone Who belongs in the thrash bin! Her mother is a whore, so she's also a whore! She's small, useless and weak! Not to mention ugly and creepy… Can you imagine it? A perfect example for a living failure…" The boy said in disgust.

Kaito remembered that word, living failure… Mikuo used to call him that when he was kicking him to the thrash bin

Kaito imagined her to be a thrash monster that came out of a thrash bin, complete with a grey hair and red eyes. He chuckled at the though.

"A thrash…. I wonder if I can become a good friend with her…" Kaito though, he was curious, he want to be friend with the so called thrash, as they're a fellow failure.

After a few moments of waiting, The other kids started to get noisy. Their target, the grey haired girl has started to get out of her house. Kaito was a bit disappointed to see that she's just a normal girl, different from how he has imagined her. She looks like to be as old as him, and she's indeed small, gray haired and looks weak. But then, wasn't it too much to use a rock?

Kaito watch worriedly as the girl running desperately to get away from her chaser, The bullies started to aim and throw some rocks at her. Some even using a sling shot or a toy gun.

The bullies must be a pro at this. They looks so organized. Their shots are precise her body are being hitted by stones no matter where and how fast she run, They're chasing and Blocking her way in team. Some kids even tied some dogs on the door of her house to guarded her running back And they even managed to lure her out to open space where the ambush team are ready to attack her by surprise.

The girl fell, but the attack didn't stop. She desperately trying to protect her self by curling her body and placed her hands on her head.

Kaito feel sorry for her, He really want to help her, But if he does, the other kids will hate him and won't play with him anymore. They will isolated him, talk bad about him, and maybe bully him.

"Well…. I'm a failure anyways…" He said it without hesitation, before he rushed towards the girl aid.

Kaito slip through the bullies and run towards the girl before the bullies can reacted to him. Stray Rocks showered his body each time he walk. His head was hit a few times before it started to bleed. But he didn't care about the wounds or the pain it caused, he used to it anyway.

Finally, Kaito reached the girl and lay down on her, pressing and covering her down with his body. Protecting her from any harm.

Soon, the bullies stopped attacking and confused with Kaito behavior.

Kaito let out a sigh of relieve, the attack has stopped but The girl was still shaking in fear.

Kaito looked down at her. Her grey hair covered most of her face, and her hand covered the rest. He can't really look at her face clearly before. Is it that ugly like they said it?

She turned her head at him, looking at him with hope in her eyes.

Kaito eyes widen when he caught a glimpse of her face.

She's nowhere near ugly, nor average. She's really cute and radiant. She's without doubt The cutest girl he has ever see in his life so far. She's even prettier that her sisters or his mother. Tears flowed down from her crimson eyes down to her cheeks.

Kaito can feel his cheeks warmed up and His mind is going blank, He can't look directly at her and He had this funny feeling in his chest when she looked at him. He never feels anything like this toward anyone before.

He smiled at her with an awkward smile.

"Hi there…. Will you be my friend?"