It's been years now since Tsukasa and Ryuji have been married and
even though it is hard to believe, they had a daughter. On the day she was
born both new parents swore to protect her and teach her all they know
about the dangers of the world and never to tell her about her heritage,
but they taught her all they knew about the arts of fighting and of using
guns. But for Tsukasa and Ryuji, raising a child the last thing they could
do, and even thought they did their best, Tsukaji was raised under a
very.interesting family if that's what you call it, and I'm sure you can
all imagine he life as a child.
~14 years later, after Tsukuji was born (Tsukuji now 14)~ ~Tokyo, the house of Tsukasa and Ryuji~
*Ahh.. Why do I have to wake up so early in the mornings on a Sunday morning? Tsukuji thought as she began to dress, it was now 7o'clock in the morning. Why can't I have a normal family like the others? Where I don't have to wake up so early almost every day to practice my fighting skills and my shooting skills? Why do I need them anyways, the other girls just brought electric stingers with them to school.* Every morning, since she was five Tsukuji had wake up at 5 in the morning on school days to practice these skills and 7 am on none school days. The house that Tsukuji and her family lives in is a fairly large airy place, it has 2 floors and a large living room and family room, they also have a fairly big garden with all sorts of flowers.
On the bottom of the stairs her parents sat having breakfast, Tsukasa, Tsukuji's mother was as always having breakfast and reading the newspaper while Ryuji, her father, sat opposite to his wife just eating breakfast. They were an odd pair, Tsukuji always thought, because no matter what they did they always ended up fighting with each other, no matter what it was or how small it was, they always had a fight, Tsukuji knew though it was their way of showing their love towards each other. "I wonder if I would be like them when I grow older? Would I be able to--" before she could carry on her mother cuts in her train of thoughts.
"Tsukuji," said her mother, "come and sit down and have breakfast with us." She motioned to the chair beside her and Tsukuji sat down and ate a light breakfast of toast and egg. "You know, if you eat so little, you wouldn't have the strength to practice later," commented her mother after she finished her meal.
"Don't worry mom, I've got plenty of strength in me to kill a few lions! But you know, if you think that way then why not skip the lessons today and just let me sleep a little longer, it's not like I need them anyways, I could just carry a stinger with me to protect me." Again Tsukuji tried to persuade her parents that she didn't need her lessons. SS "Tsukuji dear," said her father, which was a surprise because he never spoke much "how many times have your mother and I told you that, you need to learn to protect yourselves against the dangers of the outside and a stinger is not enough." That was what it often got to, it always ended there, and that was the final decision.
So as the morning wore on, Tsukuji worked with her parents with various techniques, on fighting with a sword, bare hands, the chain blade mother always had with her and finally the only lesson with her father, the gun. He taught her how to use different kinds of guns and their properties, it always amused Tsukuji how much her parents knew about these things and where they learned it all from. But whenever she asked that question they would cleverly direct the conversation to something else and until she left did she realize what they had done and so after a while, to her parent's delights, she just stopped asking, what was the point anyways, they would never answer. This was her life, nothing special or different happens except when her parents would leave home for a couple of days sometime to tend to "business", until.
~Monday, Rokuominami school~
"Hay! Tsukuji-chan!" Tsukuji's friend Kiko called from the classroom "do you think you can skive today's lessons and go and hang out with us?"
"You mean, in school time?" Tsukuji asked "but then we'll get into a lot of trouble if the teachers find out, and also especially if my parents find out about this!"
"So!? Who cares! I mean, are you afraid of your parents? Come on, get a life, I mean, you're already 14 years old, what can they do to you?" Kiko looked at her daring her to go with them.
Tsukuji just couldn't resist accepting this challenge, *how dare she think me as a coward! I'll show her, I'll show them all! I will not let them make fun of me like this.* So she said, "I'm not scared, you want me to go? Then I'll go!" though she may have sounded brave but she felt like jelly inside. *What have I to loose, she thought, I could always run if anything goes wrong and I don't care if they call me a coward, as long as I can escape!*
~So Tsukuji and her friends went to a club~
Inside the clubhouse, loud pop music sounded everywhere, Tsukuji looked around in wonder at the surrounding, she has never been to a clubhouse before and never knew what it looked like. The globe at the ceiling reflected bits of light from everywhere making the atmosphere in the clubhouse very energetic, people dancing around on the dance floors, all of this was very new to Tsukuji. Her friends pulled her onto the dance floor and a fast pop music began to play, Tsukuji watched her friends' dance along and after a while she got the rhythm of the dance and she was dancing like her friends and enjoying herself in no time. She had a great time, chatting and dancing with her friends, then she saw someone enter the clubhouse, he was wearing a dark blue cap and a leather jacket. It shouldn't be anything important, but she saw that in the way he was walking made him look suspicious, so she kept an eye on the man as he walked near them.
The man walked right passed them with out noticing their presence, and as he out the back exit Tsukuji just couldn't resist the urge to follow him and to see where he went. She told her friends that she had to leave and followed the man out the back door, *something about that man was not right,* she thought as she walked out the door. Once outside, Tsukuji looked around her to see if she could find the man with the navy blue cap, a man appeared in front of her, it was the man in the navy cap. Then she heard a sound from behind her and she quickly spun around to see, but it was already too late, she forgot about the man in the cap and he caught her wrist and twisted it back behind her making it impossible to escape.
"Well, well, look what we have here" sneered her captor "you were the girl in the clubhouse who was looking at me oddly when I went in, are you not?" Then he nodded to his companion and said "too bad you didn't look behind you when you followed me out, you should be more careful from now on. But you know since you followed me here.I can think of something for you, you do realize that there is no one around!"
Tsukuji should have felt fear, but instead, she felt calm and she knew exactly what to do in this situation. She followed the routine she and her mother had practiced and stepped hard onto the man's foot, he yelped in pane and let her go. She quickly twirled around and landed a high kick onto the man's head while spinning. Then, even before the man fell, she quickly darted around his partner and swiped is foot from under him, causing him to land with his face flat on the floor, both man could not stand up anymore afterwards.
Then as she prepared to leave she heard clapping from the entrance of the alleyway and she quickly turned around getting prepared if any assault should come. But instead she saw a figure in the entrance and she heard a voice said, "I'm sorry if I frightened you, I meant you no harm. I was just impressed at how you handled yourselves against two grown men, both almost a head or so taller than you." The person slowly walked towards her holding his hands out to show he held no weapons and that he meant no harm.
That was when she got a clear look at him; he looked about the same age as her, maybe slightly older than her. He had golden hair and dark brown eyes and was about two or three inches taller than her. He wore a fairly formal set of clothing, even though he seemed young, he had an air of authority around him, and at the moment Tsukuji thought him to be totally handsome. "Who are you?" she asked tentatively.
~14 years later, after Tsukuji was born (Tsukuji now 14)~ ~Tokyo, the house of Tsukasa and Ryuji~
*Ahh.. Why do I have to wake up so early in the mornings on a Sunday morning? Tsukuji thought as she began to dress, it was now 7o'clock in the morning. Why can't I have a normal family like the others? Where I don't have to wake up so early almost every day to practice my fighting skills and my shooting skills? Why do I need them anyways, the other girls just brought electric stingers with them to school.* Every morning, since she was five Tsukuji had wake up at 5 in the morning on school days to practice these skills and 7 am on none school days. The house that Tsukuji and her family lives in is a fairly large airy place, it has 2 floors and a large living room and family room, they also have a fairly big garden with all sorts of flowers.
On the bottom of the stairs her parents sat having breakfast, Tsukasa, Tsukuji's mother was as always having breakfast and reading the newspaper while Ryuji, her father, sat opposite to his wife just eating breakfast. They were an odd pair, Tsukuji always thought, because no matter what they did they always ended up fighting with each other, no matter what it was or how small it was, they always had a fight, Tsukuji knew though it was their way of showing their love towards each other. "I wonder if I would be like them when I grow older? Would I be able to--" before she could carry on her mother cuts in her train of thoughts.
"Tsukuji," said her mother, "come and sit down and have breakfast with us." She motioned to the chair beside her and Tsukuji sat down and ate a light breakfast of toast and egg. "You know, if you eat so little, you wouldn't have the strength to practice later," commented her mother after she finished her meal.
"Don't worry mom, I've got plenty of strength in me to kill a few lions! But you know, if you think that way then why not skip the lessons today and just let me sleep a little longer, it's not like I need them anyways, I could just carry a stinger with me to protect me." Again Tsukuji tried to persuade her parents that she didn't need her lessons. SS "Tsukuji dear," said her father, which was a surprise because he never spoke much "how many times have your mother and I told you that, you need to learn to protect yourselves against the dangers of the outside and a stinger is not enough." That was what it often got to, it always ended there, and that was the final decision.
So as the morning wore on, Tsukuji worked with her parents with various techniques, on fighting with a sword, bare hands, the chain blade mother always had with her and finally the only lesson with her father, the gun. He taught her how to use different kinds of guns and their properties, it always amused Tsukuji how much her parents knew about these things and where they learned it all from. But whenever she asked that question they would cleverly direct the conversation to something else and until she left did she realize what they had done and so after a while, to her parent's delights, she just stopped asking, what was the point anyways, they would never answer. This was her life, nothing special or different happens except when her parents would leave home for a couple of days sometime to tend to "business", until.
~Monday, Rokuominami school~
"Hay! Tsukuji-chan!" Tsukuji's friend Kiko called from the classroom "do you think you can skive today's lessons and go and hang out with us?"
"You mean, in school time?" Tsukuji asked "but then we'll get into a lot of trouble if the teachers find out, and also especially if my parents find out about this!"
"So!? Who cares! I mean, are you afraid of your parents? Come on, get a life, I mean, you're already 14 years old, what can they do to you?" Kiko looked at her daring her to go with them.
Tsukuji just couldn't resist accepting this challenge, *how dare she think me as a coward! I'll show her, I'll show them all! I will not let them make fun of me like this.* So she said, "I'm not scared, you want me to go? Then I'll go!" though she may have sounded brave but she felt like jelly inside. *What have I to loose, she thought, I could always run if anything goes wrong and I don't care if they call me a coward, as long as I can escape!*
~So Tsukuji and her friends went to a club~
Inside the clubhouse, loud pop music sounded everywhere, Tsukuji looked around in wonder at the surrounding, she has never been to a clubhouse before and never knew what it looked like. The globe at the ceiling reflected bits of light from everywhere making the atmosphere in the clubhouse very energetic, people dancing around on the dance floors, all of this was very new to Tsukuji. Her friends pulled her onto the dance floor and a fast pop music began to play, Tsukuji watched her friends' dance along and after a while she got the rhythm of the dance and she was dancing like her friends and enjoying herself in no time. She had a great time, chatting and dancing with her friends, then she saw someone enter the clubhouse, he was wearing a dark blue cap and a leather jacket. It shouldn't be anything important, but she saw that in the way he was walking made him look suspicious, so she kept an eye on the man as he walked near them.
The man walked right passed them with out noticing their presence, and as he out the back exit Tsukuji just couldn't resist the urge to follow him and to see where he went. She told her friends that she had to leave and followed the man out the back door, *something about that man was not right,* she thought as she walked out the door. Once outside, Tsukuji looked around her to see if she could find the man with the navy blue cap, a man appeared in front of her, it was the man in the navy cap. Then she heard a sound from behind her and she quickly spun around to see, but it was already too late, she forgot about the man in the cap and he caught her wrist and twisted it back behind her making it impossible to escape.
"Well, well, look what we have here" sneered her captor "you were the girl in the clubhouse who was looking at me oddly when I went in, are you not?" Then he nodded to his companion and said "too bad you didn't look behind you when you followed me out, you should be more careful from now on. But you know since you followed me here.I can think of something for you, you do realize that there is no one around!"
Tsukuji should have felt fear, but instead, she felt calm and she knew exactly what to do in this situation. She followed the routine she and her mother had practiced and stepped hard onto the man's foot, he yelped in pane and let her go. She quickly twirled around and landed a high kick onto the man's head while spinning. Then, even before the man fell, she quickly darted around his partner and swiped is foot from under him, causing him to land with his face flat on the floor, both man could not stand up anymore afterwards.
Then as she prepared to leave she heard clapping from the entrance of the alleyway and she quickly turned around getting prepared if any assault should come. But instead she saw a figure in the entrance and she heard a voice said, "I'm sorry if I frightened you, I meant you no harm. I was just impressed at how you handled yourselves against two grown men, both almost a head or so taller than you." The person slowly walked towards her holding his hands out to show he held no weapons and that he meant no harm.
That was when she got a clear look at him; he looked about the same age as her, maybe slightly older than her. He had golden hair and dark brown eyes and was about two or three inches taller than her. He wore a fairly formal set of clothing, even though he seemed young, he had an air of authority around him, and at the moment Tsukuji thought him to be totally handsome. "Who are you?" she asked tentatively.