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On with the fanfic!
NOTE: As promised, this is the Kai chapter.
OTHER NOTE: I was purely inspired to make this chapter after watching the East-Asian movie "Black". I claim no rights to the movie, but it was indeed VERY good, and emotional. I recommend it, seeing as most of it is in English.
B L A C K
Don't want your hand this time, I'll save myself… Maybe I'll wake up for once. Now tormented, daily defeated by you, just when I thought I'd reached the bottom – Going Under by Evanescence
Once again, he watched from behind the glassed mirrors.
Kai Hiwatari. A name now famous throughout the world used to be one of that of a complete novice.
His small hands pressed against the glass as his eyes widened in wonder because of the sheer power he saw in front of him.
Black Dranzer. At first, nothing but an ordinary blade, Kai had begun to wonder if there truly was such a dominant beast within that simple blade.
He didn't doubt himself ever again.
The power, the mass destruction, the dominance and control of the Beyblade... Pure perfection.
At least, that's what he once thought.
Kai lazily stared up at the cloudless blue sky, a simple blade of grass in his mouth. It's become a habit. Not a bad habit, but a habit all the same.
Kai suddenly bit his lip, hard. No, he wouldn't let that memory come back in again…!
Slowly, he closed his eyes, attempting to calm himself. He would dream -no, he would be thrust into a nightmare every so often. He would be right here, in this very park, as usual and then…
Darkness, the entire world would go black, he could no longer see, nor hear, nor speak.
Black.
Everything was black, the only thing he could do was feeling, but what use was that to him? What use was being able to feel when he couldn't see what he was feeling?
That same darkness an abyss of infinite black, it would always be there.
Something made Kai snap out of his daze. Of coarse, it was him. That same boy.
Kai looked across from where he was sitting, on a bench sat a boy, and next to him, a man. Kai had seen this young boy one too many times.
It had been a shock to Kai, as to anyone else who came across that kid, that he was both blind and deaf. Being so, he couldn't speak either. Kai didn't know how the man next to him, his teacher, managed to get through to him, but he did. The boys teacher, would sign, and the boy would have to feel every single one, then answer.
Kai distinctly heard the boys teacher mumble what the boy was signing to him. " 'My world… is black. It always has been and always will be. Where do I… find the light… that you speak of?' " He hurriedly signed back, the boy felt each sign as the teacher muttered yet again "Your world is not… black."
Kai felt his stomach sink. Constant black, at least Kai could get away from it once in a while. To be surrounded by it eternally…
Surely, Kai thought, he would go mad.
As he steadied himself, and walked away from the once-welcoming park, it still didn't make much sense, and frankly, it never would.
A world of black, of darkness and shadows…
Could that be waiting for him? No. It wasn't waiting, he'd already experienced it, it was a part of him now.
The darkness had him already.
END
Chibi Amo: … It's 10:25 PM, don't blame me if that was lame… (sweat drop)
JA NE!
Chibi Amo