"Mommy!" I called her name, looking around for her in the garden where we would play. "Mommy?" I saw there was no one there at the garden. I was disappointed, but fear started to hit me and I got scared that I ran around the house to find her. "Mom!" I wasn't looking around my surroundings that I bumped into a servant.
We collided. "Lady Mizuki, be careful where you are going. You could've gotten hurt." Said the servant as he picking up the things that had fallen from our crash.
"Sorry." I apologized. "Have you seen my mother? I'm looking for her, but I can't find her anywhere!" I panted.
I saw the bitter expression on his face as he couldn't look at me in the eyes. He was hiding something from me… "Tell me where my mother is!" I demanded, not wanting to be fooled by this lowly servant. I curled in my fingertips into two fists as my lips turned upside down into a madden frown. "I want answers now!" I screamed, air heavy and thick as the wind blew our way.
"I can't…" The servant ran off as he whimpered away. He was definitely hiding something from me.
"Dumb servant…!" I growled, infuriated by how he acted in front of me. I may be little, but he needs to tell me answers when I need them.
So I took off running as well. I went into and out of the house, looked at each room carefully, high and low, but there was no sign of her. "Mom…." I whispered, backing myself up to the wall in the hallway and sliding down, wanting to cry in my hands.
"My little rabbit," I heard my nickname that my mother gave me. "Come...into this...room…." it sounded like her breathing was shortening. BANG BANG. It was a weak but loud bang for me to hear. It was coming from within the walls.
"Mom! I'm coming to save you!" My frustration was getting to me as tears slipped down from my eyes. All I wanted was to see her. I pounded the wall with all my might.
"Lady Mizuki!" I heard the servants yell as they were coming for me. They wanted me to stop from what I was going to discover.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. I guarded the wall where my mom was in with my life.
"Lady, you mustn't be here! It's dangerous to be by yourself! Please-"
I gathered all my tears in and kept it there. I needed to not be a crybaby at this very moment. "You dare disobey me?! If you want to serve me then-"
"Lady! We cannot do this!" They ignored what I had to say. They were going to be persistent no matter what, even if they have to use force on me.
My head couldn't take their fussing no more. I stomped to get their attention. I breathed in and out slowly before talking to them. "Hey look at me!" I stared at their eyes, compelling them against their will, eyes dark red, glowing bright. My breathing started to get heavy as I was nervous to explore this quirk I have.
"Lad-!"
"Stop talking!" I zipped them up as they muffled behind their sealed lips. They should have never disobeyed me. They should've listened. "Tear down that wall. Show me what lies behind it!" I ordered. Their bodies was moving but their minds did not want to comply.
Hit by hit, the wall was broken. There lie the body of my mother. "MOM!" I screamed in a high pitch voice, waking myself up from my dream to only see white. I ripped off the bandages from my face as I hyperventilated, then ripping it off from all parts of my body as well. I jumped off the bed and anything that was attached onto me.
"Akagawa! Where are you going?" I turned my head to the voice who was the nurse. I didn't say a word as I slammed the door opened and ran off.
I ran past the students in my class as they glanced at me for a moment before turning their head forward. I went outside the gates where they held the festival and ran to the woods to calm myself.
I crouched down against the tree trunk, hugging my legs as I stared at the green grass and dirt. "If we had time…." I mumbled, heart broken by remembering the painful event that changed my whole life.
"MOM!" I screamed, running to her bleeding body. I held her in my arms as her brown eyes stared back at me.
"My little rabbit," she smiled with blood running down at the corner of her lips. Her soft cold hands cupped my face as she breathed. "If only we had time…. I would've taken you out from here. Don't be like your father… I don't want to see you like him. Get out from this house...and the evil doings. You...have a good heart and I want to see it...when it shines." She pulled me down into a tight yet bloody hug. "I love you…" That was her last breath as I was forcefully pulled out from her arms.
"MOMMY!" I screamed and shouted, tears running down my face.
"Get Mizuki out of here!" It was my father's voice.
"Dad, save mommy! PLEASE!" I begged with teary eyes, but my pleading was never answered back. I was only eight years old.
"I locked myself in my room after that event, and later found out that he killed her…" I whispered, still blanked out, didn't know that I was crying until I felt two fingers swiping the tears away on my cheeks.
"Who killed who? And I see that you quickly healed yourself too." My eyes made contact with Todoroki. I didn't know how to react because his big hands were on my cheeks, cupping it to wipe away my sad salty tears that came dropping out from my red eyes.
"It's not important." I quickly moved away from his closed up, beautiful face. I stood up, brushing off the dust on me then turning my back toward him.
"If it wasn't that important, then why did you cry? Crying for something must be important. Anyways, I went to check up on you after the ceremony," I glanced back to see his second placed metal. "But after hearing what happened in the nurse's office, I went to chase after you. And I found you here, zoning out and crying." He placed his hand on my shoulder and I stiffened.
"When you love someone with all your heart to be in their blood stained arms, as they breathe their last breath to say some loving words to you before they die. To be fooled by someone who comfort you from that beautiful death scene was the one who kill them...to erase them from you, to take them away as if they never existed." I said, trying not to give out names or information. I can't spill my secrets to him.
Todoroki POV:
'Did her boyfriend died? Is that why she was crying? No no no. Before I heard her said 'he' and 'she'.' I said to myself, trying to gather as much information as possible.
With my facial expression twisting around unsurely and a hand on her shoulder. I decided to pull her into a hug. As I loosed hugged Mizuki with my upper body bent forward, locking my arms around her shoulders and feet far from hers. I looked like an obtuse angle.
Mizuki's body jumped as I made contact with her. I was only trying to be a good friend to her like she did to me. "T-Todoroki…what are you doing…?" Her voice trembled from surprise and shaking as if she was nervous as well.
"I… Um… Trying to be a friend and comfort the one who is crying…?" I didn't know how to reply back as my train of thoughts were ending with nothing to convince her from that awkward hug and air between us.
"O-oh, I see…" Mizuki chuckled.
I removed myself from Mizuki as quickly as possible, then having our distance from each other. "Here!" I handed out to her was a new pair of clothes in the sealed plastic clear bag. "You should change before we leave back home." Mizuki took the bag and ran off to change without the word 'goodbye'.
"Ooooo…." I breathed out, feeling the heat on me. I felt hot and red all of a sudden. I've never hugged anyone except my mom, but that was when I was little. But I didn't have any feelings toward her. Just seeing her down like that… I guess was unusual for me to see her in that state and made a spark in me to comfort her. "Ugh…" I groaned, shaking my hands to get rid of this unknown feeling.