Hiya Peoples Readers, I'm glad to present the latest installment of ATL

Rei: Yeah she doesn't own it V.V (runs away into a bomb shelter to escape rabid fangirls of doom)

All That's Left
Chapter 4 Counterfeit Identity

Arriving home Rei stepped into his small dank second floor flat, even in the middle of the day it was complete darkness inside. Closing the door behind him Rei dropped his bag near the entrance and he began to undress; slipping off his school jacket and polo shirt he walked down to the single bedroom shirtless.

When he walked back into the lounge room he was only wearing a black singlet and red sweat pants; with droplets of water running down his face from his raven hair and a plush blue towel hung over his thin shoulders.

'All I can do now is wait…' he thought tiredly. Hours wasted away without any sign of his mother and Rei had given up waiting for her if she was going to turn up at all.

Picking up his keys he walked to the front door, pulled an athletics jacket off the coat rack and slipping on his trainers. Taking a quick look out of the one smog filled window he could see that it was starting to get dark.

Rei's patience quickly ran out 'I GIVE UP I'M SICK OF PLAYING HER GAMES' he screamed mentally, storming out of his flat he slammed the door pulling one of the flimsy hinges off the wall but he didn't care anymore.

He ran, where? He didn't know or care, he just felt the need to run that is what he'd always done when he had a problem why would this time be any different. Tears streamed down his face mixing with the water still trickling out of his damp hair.

Memories flooded his mind from the last few years, as the grey overcast sky speckled the ground with rain, painful memories he'd tried to hold back for years.

Mother forcing him into a beauty contest when he fourteen…his closest friends had betray him when they saw him there, he had met them in Hong Kong six years earlier at a gymnastics competition, it tore his heart out when they wouldn't listen to him at all Gao, Kiki but most of all Lee and Mariah not only had they been his best and only friends but also an escape from his overbearing Mother. They had deserted him in a time of need…Lee had even accused him of being gay and trying to get with him.

Pushing through a throng of people he kept on running even though his amber eyes continued to stream tears blinding him to things going on around him, all he saw were the memories and all he felt was the pain everyone caused to him when ever they got too close.

Father dying…Zhan…Uncle Hu kissing him when he was eleven…his only true friend Uncle Xun killing himself a year ago…everyone either hurt him or died when they got too friendly with him, the only one's left were his grandparents and they didn't have long.

Rei slowed as he reached the pier he had always liked the sea he admired it; it reminded him of himself somehow, deep and shallow at the same time the ability to be two contrasting elements at the same time, calm and peaceful one second churning anger the next, destroying lives or supporting them it was fate what happened either way.

He stare into the black rippling water at his reflection dripping wet, soaked from the rain his bandana had slipped down covering his eyebrows. Peeling it off he stared, he hadn't looked at himself since walking home, he looked similar et different at the same time. Rei's long raven bangs fell over his face and stuck from the rain and tears.

"Who am I anymore? Am I only what others want me to be?" he whispered to himself exhaustion seeping into him.

"You're mine Rei of course where did you get an idea you were anything else then what I desire you to be" a deep purring voice said behind him, turning around he saw it was…

"Mother what are you doing here?" Rei nearly growled.

"Rei dear I your mother I have a right to an input in your life, don't you think my dear child" she said running her fingers through her long raven hair, her emerald eyes laughing.

"YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER AND NEVER WILL BE FANG XUEYUN YOU NEVER HAD THE RIGHT TO CALL YOURSELF THAT AFTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" He screamed his anger rising over his exhaustion.

"Now now Rei that's mean a few days away from home and already you think you can run your own life honestly son come home you need me you know you do" she caroled smugly.

"I DON'T NEED YOU! I HATE YOU BITCH YOU RUIN MY LIFE AND CHASED AWAY MY ONLY FRIENDS" Rei yelled to her face calming himself a little "Just accept it you have no role in my life anymore I HATE YOU AND I HOPE YOU DIE!".

"Oh my! What have they done to my poor Rei Rei you were so obedient and quiet before you must have seriously hurt your head if you can't remember what a good mother I was, they must have brainwashed you against me" she stroked his face "Oh well that won't take long to undo" she purred.

Rei's fist clenched at his sides.

"Yes not long indeed…"

His hand raised and before he realized it had it happened

SLAP!

The sound echo around them, Rei couldn't believe it he had actually hit his mother and he couldn't stop himself from saying what he felt, right there he didn't fear her anymore and he didn't care what happened.

"How pathetic I was never your obedient little doll I only what you said because I was afraid and I certainly haven't been brainwashed, you think just because I'm finally going against you it's some evil conspiring plot pathetic idiot you're the one who can't deal with life on your own GET OVER YOURSELF AND LEAVE ME ALONE!" he found himself screaming at the top of his lungs, he stared at her the look of smugness had vanished and her eyes held a look of both hurt and anger but also surprise.

Rei clenching his fist hard around his bandana he ran. This time he knew where he was going; he didn't want to go back to his dank and smelly flat but it was the only place he had.

He ran with his amber eyes straight ahead to stop himself looking back because he knew if he did he would take it all back no matter how much of it he truly meant and that s something he knew he'd really regret.