A/N hopefully long chapter no clue yet, let's all hope it's good and what not if not, oh well. I'm also trying to update often for people since I know how humans

like to wait usually. But also like good work, we contradict ourselves way too much. Oh well more fun I say!


The snow in the north is unlike anything I've ever seen before. Well to be fair I've never seen snow before, I always imagined it as a pure being. Gentle and innocent, able to make anywhere seem more beautiful than before. I was wrong. The snow in the north is an unforgiving beast and I just happened to wander into it on a bad, bad day.

10 minutes earlier.

"Oi so this is snow? It's more beautiful than I could ever of imagined." I ran into the field covered by snow, making it seem pure white if it weren't for the dead trees in the area. They made the beautiful snow seem, haunting maybe? Definately gave off a bad aura is all I know. As I wandered further into the snow, something started to glow slightly. Upon noticing it, the glow slowly turned into a light golden trail. (A/N: Definitely not pee, I promise!)

Something screamed inside my head to follow the trail, see where it goes.

"I will guide you to where you need to be." The voice thingy…. that was in my head… I am so totally sane, you all read it too! Wait fourth wall broken shit my bad. Sorry everyone so sorry!

*Cough* *cough* the voice was guiding me, it had to be that. As I followed the trail I noticed the snow slowly start to blow against me, freezing my body slowly from the outside. A wind started blowing hard as the snow started to cover my vision to where I couldn't see even two feet in front of me.

"Tch this bad, really bad." Well I don't think it could get any worse than this.

*Grrr.* Nevermind guess it can get worse than this. Well note taken, jinx are reals and I just messed up big time.

I drew out my sword in time to notice two wolves slowly making their way through the snow towards me, hunched down ready to attack at any moment. You stupid fucking snow, if you didn't get all windy and shit ugh. I pulled out the knife that I took from Esdeath. I wonder how she is.

I got into a battle ready stance, ready to counter at any moment. I've been taking care of myself for months now I'm pretty sure I can take care of myself, or something.

I decided to charge at the wolves first, hoping to get the first strike. I slashed out to the wolf that was now to my right, cutting slightly into it's shoulder while the other wolf jumped out me, sinking it's teeth into my shoulder. "Ahhhhhh! Fuck that hurts!" I quickly lunged my knife out to the wolf on my shoulder while pushing my shoulder forward, feeling slight resistance against my knife I knew I hit my mark, let's hope that killed it.

The wolf yelped and hopped off, leaving a blood trail from me to it, probably mixed with both of our blood. To bad for hoping to kill it.

*Crunch* Hearing that I jumped up then slammed my leg down in the direction of the noise. To my luck I felt something crack under my leg. To my bad luck it was the second wolves teeth. I pulled my leg back noticing blood spilling from it. "Shit this isn't good I need to end this." I mumbled as pain surged through my leg and shoulder. I stood still and closed my eyes.

Feel it's killing intent. Rely on instincts. To the left! I moved slightly to the right just in time to feel a fur rub against my face and a claw scratching against my chest. "Ung. No good." I fell onto one knee. Shit shit shit, I have to do this please give me a break! I heard a growl from behind me. Shit I wish Esdeath was here she'd been able to handle this. Wait no can't think like this. I have to do this. I crouched there resting on one knee waiting for any sign of an attack.

It's behind me, I swung my arm around with the knife in hand, my shoulder pretty much screaming at me. With some luck my knife hit dead on mark, right in the wolf's forehead. I let go of the knife and took a deep breath.

"Phew that was clo… wait there were two of them weren't there?" As if on cue a bundle of snow white fur hopped on me from the front. It started clawing at me as I tried pushing it off with all my might. It wasn't enough to get it off but enough to stop it from cutting too deep into me. With my injuries it's a wonder I'm not dead yet. Than the clawing stopped. Just as all my strength went away, the wolf went limp on my body. It didn't move, but I could feel one of it's fangs buried in chest.

"HEY IT'S A KID HURRY UP." I heard a voice call out as my vision slowly faded to black. I could feel something grabbing me as I slipped away into unconsciousness.


"Oh, it seems you have returned to your mind once again young one." It was him, it, whatever. I knew it was from the voice and because of the area I was in. It's exactly like last time, a shallow lake that went on forever with. A pure blue sky with milky white clouds covering up parts of it.

"Before anything else. Who are you?" i asked.

"I am but an extension of you. You will soon understand what I mean. Other than that I cannot say."

"Oh… okay. So why am I here?"

"You're here because you are on the verge of death. I need to tell you, your journey, reaching where you need to be won't matter if you die."

"B-but I need to hurry and get to wherever the fuck it is you want me to go."

"Yes you do, but you also need to be alive kid. Stay where you are until you heal up okay?" He took a step towards me as he finished his sentence.

"O-oh okay. I'll wait…" I looked down into the lake.

"Good, now it's time to wake up, you have been here far longer than you should have been." He reached down placing his hand on my head. "Also don't worry the blue haired girl is okay."

Everything slowly faded to black so I closed my eyes. Once I opened them again I was in a field. A green field with trees hiding whatever is beyond the borders. Looking around there was only one pathway out of here.

I walked along the pathway for what felt like days until I finally reached another clearing. Something feels off about this, I just can't explain it. This clearing is exactly like the first one I was in, but this time there was something blue in it. I walked about to the blue object, once I got closer

I realized it was a girl. Not just any girl, it's Esdeath. She looks, a little bigger now. I reached a hand out towards her slowly. "Hey Esdeath.. it's me Leo." She didn't move.

I placed my hand on her shoulder and spun her around. Her skin had what looked like dark webs hiding underneath her pale skin. Her eyes were shrouded in darkness, pure black as if a demon took over her. A black smoke poured out of her mouth. "Wha-what happened to you?" No reply.

I took a step back and she just stepped towards me. A grin slowly formed on her face as she went to speak. "What's wrong Leo? Why are you walking away from me?" She said in a voice that sounded like a demon screaming.

"I.." I couldn't say anything. This isn't real.

"Oh but it is Leo." She placed her arms around my neck and pulled me closer to her.

"..."

"Why aren't you talking to me? I thought you would of missed me." She slowly licked my cheek leaving a black trail on it. I pushed her away from me. This isn't her.

"Uwah, Leo why are you being mean to me?" She sounded pissed, or it.

"I… I'm sorry." I felt bad but this isn't her.

"Uwah, I'm going to have to punish you." Her face slowly started melting off, leaving a black smoke trail. Her whole form transitioned into a shadow. It was haunting to watch as her body slowly melted away revealing a dark black cloud that took a humanoid shape. It's eyes were blood red.

"What the… fuck.." I can't move my body, I'm too scared. Why is this happening to me?

"ItS aLl yoUR FauLT LeO, YoU hURT mE. NOw yOU HaVE to PAy."

"N..NO this isn't real. No NO NO NO." I fell onto the ground and curled up in a ball. "No no no no no NO NO." Than everything went black.

The nightmare kept repeating over and over. No matter what I did, or what I didn't do, it still happened. It's horrifying to see all this. What do I do? It's dark, I'm scared. I want to go home!

"Home.." I suddenly felt lost.

"... home? where is my home?" The darkness that enveloped my mind suddenly turned bright, I could feel something else familiarity? "Home…"

"Come on Leo, we have to hurry or we'll get in trouble again."

When I looked at who said that, I was surprised. There standing in front of me was a girl, she looked 15. She had bright green hair, it was messy like she woke up. Her eyes matched her hair, but they had something in them, innocence. Oops guess I was looking too long.

"Don't tell me you're checking your older sister out, you perv." She said.

"My sister?.. WAIT I'M NOT A PERV!" I shouted the end, while my cheeks heated up.

"It's me you idiot don't tell me you forgot about your beloved sister Kanae." She put on a pouty face.

"O-oh yea Kanae.." A million memories surged through my minds at hearing her name. The time she protected me from wild animals, the time she told me to always smile no matter what. All the memories that surfaced were happy. How could I forget her? My own sister?

I ran up and hugged her tight, hiding my face in her shoulder. "I forgot who you were.. I forgot I even had a sister.." I managed to say while starting to cry.

"Oh Leo… I didn't mean to make you cry. There is a reason you forgot, you needed to." She said as she gently rubbed my back to comfort me.

I gently pushed her away and looked into her eyes. I'm crying and I can barely see great, but that's not important right now. "Why did I have to?"

She shifted her eyes away from mine. "If I told you… you might forget again."

"I won't forget, so tell me! Please.." I had to know, I mean what kid forgets about having a sister.

She sighed. "Okay… if you say so…"

As she began to speak the scenery changed. We were in the middle of a village, Smoke was covering the red sky. If I had to guess it was night time. Houses started to form out of nowhere. As they fully formed something was off. The houses were burning, and some were covered in blood, but no bodies were anywhere. Hearing a crunching sound from behind I whipped my body around. Oh I wish I didn't fucking do that.

There was a guy, he looked like he wanted to scream but couldn't, His arms were cut off and stabbed through his rib cage, blood slowly oozing down the arms. There was a gash in his stomach and as if on cue of me seeing the wound, his intestines started to fall out of him bringing along with it plenty of blood. Something came from behind him and picked up his body, he tried to fight his way out of the thing's grip but was too weak. The thing had a sadistic grin on it's face as it placed the man's chin over the tip of a spear. You could hear the spear tearing away at his flesh as it stabbed it's way into his mouth, blood starting to overflow from his mouth. It was a horrible sight… but I couldn't take my eyes off it. Look away, just fucking look away. Please listen to me.

"Keh keh keh." The thing started laughing, then as if it hadn't had enough yet, it started pushing down on the man's head. You could hear a crunching as the spear pierced through the bottom of his skull. Than it started to twist his head around, blood filling up the eyes. After a few moments it shoved the spear the rest of the way through his head, blood and pieces of his mushed up brain spraying out of his head. As if that wasn't enough the thing took his intestines and used them to bind his body to the spear.

I fell onto my hands and knees and started to throw up. That was way too much, why did that happen? *blegh* I couldn't stop puking. Than I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was warm and comforting.

"I-I'm so sorry Leo for making you see that again.." It was Kanae.

"A..aga…" I couldn't even speak.

"That was father. The man you just saw die that is. You watched him die, then ran away to home to find something worse." I looked up at her and saw tears running down her face.

"Kanae.." Wait that was dad.. wait what could be worse than that?

"I'm so.. so… so sorry…" Kanae started to break down letting out sobs. "I didn't want you to ever have to remember this.. now you have to see what else you saw again.." She managed to say between the sobs.

The scene changed once again. I was outside a burning house, in a bush. There were three men standing around a woman on the ground. She was naked, it looked like she was dead, with tear stains on her face. One of the men leaned and straddled her body as he pulled out a knife from his side. "You guys had your fun, now it's my turn." The guy said as he started sawing at her harm from the elbow. Alls I could do was watch as he sawed off both of her arms at the elbow and toss them to the side. The man started smiling and licked his lips. "This is so MUCH FUN!" He started stabbing into her legs up and down with the knife, blood shooting out of every wound on her body covering the ground around her, and the man's body in blood. He had a wild look in his eyes as he started to take his pants off.

Before anything else happened the scene changed and I felt arms wrap around my body embracing me. "I'm so sorry Leo, I couldn't let you watch that again… not that." There was concern in her voice

"So that's why I forgot?" I asked in a monotone voice.

"Yes, that's why." She tightened the embrace, it was obvious she was holding back from crying. I felt bad for her. I wanted to comfort my sister… but I can't move my body right now.

"How did I end up in the forest?" That's not what I wanted to ask. Damnit why won't my body listen to me. Hug her, she always comforts you.

"I carried you there… but I knew they would find us… so I dropped you and lead them away. I died shortly after."

She died… wait so.. my family.. the people I forgot about just to remember are gone.. The world started to get blurry. I realized I was crying. It hurt so much. They all are dead, I'm alone. I hugged my sister tight. "I'm so sorry, it's my fault you died… now I'm all alone.. I'm so sor.." *Smack*

My cheek started to sting, I was shocked. She just hit me…

"Leo you are not alone!" She yelled that at me.

"Than where are you!"

She placed her hand over my heart. "I'm right here little brother along with mom and dad. We are all in your heart. Also there's someone in the world of the living waiting for you. She's kinda cute ya know." She didn't have to say anything else, I knew who she meant.

"Sis.."

She kissed my forehead gently. "Shh don't say anything. I love you little guy."

"I love you too.." That did it, I couldn't help it, a stream of tears poured down my face as I started to whimper slightly.

"I have to go now, and you have to wake up for real this time. Get strong little guy and don't let a girl see you cry, just smile. Smile through the hurt and everything else. Goodbye Leo." She smiled at me. It was such a beautiful smile. It fit her perfectly.


"Uhhh. Where am I?" I was in what looks like a hut. It was lit up with a fire. There was another person here with me, the person turned around. Probably after hearing me.

"You're awake mister! You're finally up!" The boy said excitedly. His hair was brown, but the thing that really caught my attention were his eyes, they were as green as emeralds and he had a huge smile on his face.

"Finally awake? What?" Is all I could say. Than I remembered my family… and what happened to me. I frowned and looked down at my body. I know I said I wouldn't forget… but now I wish I could..

"Heya don't look so sad! It's okay now."

I looked back at the boy, and put on a smile for him. Smile through the hurt. "You're right.. my name is Leo by the way. What's yours?" I asked reaching my hand out towards the boy.

He grabbed my hand and showed the biggest grin I've ever seen. What's with this kid? "My name is Tatsumi, nice to meet you!" He said as he shook my hand.


A/N I am so sorry that this took so long. School and work distracted me entirely. I know not an excuse but still! I'm going to start updating every Saturday starting next week, and well maybe this week if I'm quick enough. I'm sorry once again but hey I got something in! As for introducing Tatsumi, well he's still really young right now so he'll be a little OOC, but don't worry I won't stay long enough to influence him too much! Also the real story will start up soon I promise just have to build up to it first. Well see you guys again next chapter!