A berserker's requiem

chapter 1

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A teenage boy sighed as he laid on his bed. This young boy's life had just turned into hell in just a few hours.

This young man was Ganta Igarashi, an average looking boy with black hair, black eyes and regular skin wearing a green body suit with a metal collar on his neck.

He felt fresh hot tears on his face as the images of what transpired earlier came flooding back.

(Flashback)

At first Ganta thought that it was going to be a normal day like any other; Waking up, going to the bathroom, taking care of his teeth, taking a bath, putting on clothes, eat some breakfast and praying to the picture of his dead mother before bidding farewell to his father, who was going to work, and go take the bus to school.

And it felt like school would be the same, boring, but normal. That all changed as soon as he looked out the window and saw a man completely colored in red.

Then said man did something and soon the classroom Ganta was in was destroyed as the boy lost consciousness.

When he came to, his friends and entire class was completely massacred. Then the red man did something to him, which knocked him out and when he awoke he was in a hospital. And he soon found himself questioned by police on what happened.

Then an apparently good man named Tamaki introduced himself as his lawyer and told the boy that he would get him out of problem...but in the court Tamaki all but betrayed him and got him convicted to Deadman Wonderland through some false evidence and everyone else believed the bastard!

When he got here, he was put in this suit with this damn collar, but something did get a small smile out of him. The hot female warden who gladly said what her cup size was without hesitation.

But his smile vanished for a look of fear as he remembered how that officer slashed at that poor guy that tried to get the candy...luckily he was still alive though. But then came the real terror behind this place. They used the prisoners as part of some sick entertainment people watch and are completely oblivious to the fact those are real lives dying right in front of them.

'Just how BLIND can those people can be?!' Growled Ganta in anger as he held something to vent out his frustrations, which happened to be a mere crowbar, which had been left in the cell...which was beginning to glow red and black right now, not that he noticed in his anger.

'Fucking game show my ass!' he thought in frustration throwing the crowbar at the wall and turned away, but perked up at hearing a strange noise just now. Then he saw to his shock that the wall where he threw the crowbar had a pretty big crack on it! "What?" muttered Ganta in awe as he stood up to take a closer look.

But then he felt a presence behind him and turned around...and blushed a bit at the girl before him.

The girl had albino white hair that went down to her back. Her body though looked naked, but was really just covered with a white bodysuit with gloves that made it look like she had no clothes on.

Ganta blushed upon seeing how developed the girl's body was, but then he saw her face, which was for some reason...familiar.

"Ganta!" cried the girl in joy as she tackle-hugged him.

"W-What?" He gasped in surprise as he barely managed to stay on his feet. "W-Who are you?"

That got the girl to pout with sadness. "Doesn't Ganta remember Shiro?"

"Shi...ro...?" Ganta repeated, feeling for some reason the name was familiar.

The girl nodded in confirmation.

Then Ganta held his head as a brief memory of a younger Shiro in a pink dress appeared alongside his mother, making him gasp. 'I...remember...' he thought as the memory seemed to continue in his head. He remembered how he used to visit Shiro, who was quite cold, because of his mother working alongside the old man that took care of Shiro on some project.

And it was their time together that got Shiro to slowly smile and seem to change her personality. Not only that, but she even saved him from a rabid dog during their last day together!

Ganta smiled at the fond memory and looked at Shiro who smiled at seeing her friend remember.

"Do you remember Shiro now, Ganta?" She asked as he nodded, making her happy. She pulled him into a bear hug that got Ganta to blush at feeling her chest.

"S-Shiro...w-what are you doing here?" Ganta asked worried.

"Oh, doesn't Ganta remember? Shiro lived here with oji-san."

Ganta nodded as a brief memory of an old man and his mother came to his head.

"But what is Ganta doing here?"

Upon hearing her question, Ganta froze up before he growled angrily as tears went up to his eyes.

Shiro saw the hurt in Ganta's eyes and held him close to her as he let tears more fall onto her shoulder.

A red man..." He finally said. "A red man...just appeared...and killed all of m-my f-friends...and yet. I-I was the one blamed for it!"

Shiro patted his back as he could only stand there and cry.

After a while, Ganta managed to recover and separated from Shiro while cleaning his face of the tears. "Thanks Shiro." thanked Ganta.

"You're welcome, Ganta~!" Shiro said cheerfully.

There was a noise at his cell as Ganta turned to answer it just as Shiro vanished with his back turned. "S-Shiro?!" Ganta gasped, wondering what happened to his friend. Seeing how there wasn't anywhere else she could go, he sighed and walked to his door. Then he was surprised to see the very same prisoner that was attacked by the security guard in front of him with a bandaged arm!

"Hello, sorry about that whole incident earlier." smiled the boy.

"It's alright...um..." Ganta tried to say.

"Oh, I'm Yo. It's a pleasure...erm..." Introduced himself.

"Ganta Igurashi." He answered.

"How's your wound?" asked Ganta in worry.

"Eh, it's OK. I've been through worse." Yo said with a chuckle.

That's when several more convicts made their way over to the cell.

"Well well well, look who we have here." Said the leader with a snarl.

Yo could tell things were about to go down.

"What do you want?" Asked Ganta, unknowingly picking up a fork to use as a weapon, which again seemed to be lying on the floor.

"We heard what you did and wanted to see if you're image matched." remarked the leader.

"W-What are you talking about?" Ganta asked worried.

"I mean, I expected someone tough, but you're just a wimp." mocked the criminal.

"Seriously, what do you mean?!" Growled Ganta, beginning to lose his cool.

"If you think putting up a weak facade is gonna help you, think again." replied the leader grabbing him by the scruff of his suit.

"H-hey! Let him go!" Said Yo as he tried to help Ganta. The other two kept him at bay while the leader pulled his fist back.

But when the leader was about to hit Ganta, the latter's eyes flashed red as he used the fork to block the fist and stab it! The leader cried out in pain as he pulled his fist back with the fork embedded in it.

"BOSS!" Yelled both accomplices in shock as they lowered their guard, which Yo used to free himself by hitting one of them with his remaining good arm in the nuts and then headbutt the other one. That knocked them both down with Yo flashing Ganta a thumbs up.

Ganta just grinned sheepishly as they saw the so called leader run away before being stopped by the guards.

"How did you fight like that?" asked Yo.

"I...don't know...I guess that...reflexes?" Ganta said surprised.

Yo could tell from Ganta's description that even he didn't understand what happened. "Well, whatever happened sure helped us get out of that mess." Yo said.

"I'll say." nodded Ganta. "So why are you here anyway Yo? You don't look like a bad guy." Asked Ganta.

That got him to frown before he punched the wall. "The reason I'm here...is because of my sister..." He finally answered in worry.

"Sister?"

"Yeah...she was sent here for a crime she didn't commit...and I'm here to make sure she's alright." Yo explained.

Ganta was impressed to hear a goal like that come from a boy around his age. "If you want, I would like to help you." Ganta offered.

That surprised Yo as he figured the kid would focus on saving his own hide in this place. "Are you sure? I wouldn't want to give you any problems." Yo said.

"Well it wouldn't hurt to help each other out while we're in here." Ganta said.

Yo smiled while thinking inwardly 'How could this boy kill his entire classroom?'

"Hey, can we go get some fresh air?" requested Ganta.

"Yeah, luckily for us it's still recess break." Yo nodded as they got out.

They found themselves in a large courtyard area for the convicts to relax for a little bit.

"I'm surprised that this place even exists in this prison." Ganta commented as he and Yo were walking around.

"This helps keep the prisoners calm, even with these collars." muttered Yo.

Ganta flinched upon hearing that remembering when the guard slashed him. It was at that moment a familiar group of prisoners showed up.

"Oh crap! Not them again!" Yo cursed.

"You punks think we'd go down because of your cheap tricks? Not this time." growled the leader.

"Please stop! I don't want to fight you!" Ganta pleaded.

"Too late you brat!" yelled the leader charging at him with a knife.

But before anything else could happen, something crashed right near them making smoke come up.

"What the-?" mumbled Ganta.

Then Ganta froze up as he and the others stared at a certain man in red! Anger filled Ganta as he stood up and slowly walked towards the man who put him in here. Unknowingly to Ganta himself, he picked up the knife that the gang leader had but dropped near him from the crash caused by the man before them… "It's all YOUR FAULT!" roared Ganta in pure rage.

The red man just smirked in response.

Ganta glared at the man responsible for all this and unconsciously tapped into an unknown power within himself. And that power caused a red and black mist to appear around Ganta as the knife changed into a more dangerous weapon. It went from a simple knife to a black and red sword that a samurai would use.

The red man and the remaining prisoners meanwhile looked surprised at what they saw before Ganta rushed to the red man with the intent of kill.

The red man just grinned again as he sent several whips like before at Ganta.

"NOT THIS TIME!" Ganta roared as he used the now transformed blade to cut through the whips and proceed to attack the red man!

The red man frowned and jumped high enough to dodge the slash and land on top of the nearest building.

"YOU WON'T ESCAPE!" Yelled Ganta as he threw the blade with enough force and speed to actually hit the red man's shoulder!

That caused him to grin as he looked down at Ganta. The red man then created a giant blood sphere with crystals surrounding it before throwing it down to Ganta.

Ganta scowled and saw a crowbar on the ground. Then he took it as he saw it turned into a black and red lance! He didn't question it and held his arm back before throwing the lance towards the red man.

Then the lance clashed with the red sphere before they both exploded!

Ganta prayed his attack dealt some damage to the red man. Then he saw the red man smirk before vanishing. Ganta would have cursed him out, but had to catch his breath as he felt exhausted for some reason.

Unknown to him, his hair got several red streaks and his eyes turned red.

His body couldn't handle the strain of this unknown ability and found himself about to hit the ground from exhaustion. But then he was caught by Yo, who was shocked from what he just saw.

'What the hell did I just see?'

(Deadman Wonderland Hospital)

"So how is she?" Tamaki asked with a smile as he and a few doctors looked to a black haired girl that was supposedly dead hooked to several machines and a red crystal in her chest.

"She appears to be stable." was the doctor's reply.

"I'm still surprised that she survived having her head crushed." Said another of the doctors in awe.

Tamaka smiled as he looked at the girl. "How is the procedure going?"

"At this rate, she'll be ready in a few more days." Said the first doctor as he saw how her crushed head was reformed and even survived because of that crystal in her chest.

"Excellent." smiled Tamaka in satisfaction.

Unknown to them, the girl in question was conscious and could only thought of one person.

'Ganta...'