Difficult Decisions
This is my first fanfic ever, so some constructive criticism would be nice. Just to let you know, I did NOT rip this off from 'Reckless Fire' by The Aqua Alchemist. I started writing this before I started to read 'Reckless Fire'. Anyway, enjoy!
Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own S-cry-ed. -sighs- The things that I do own are the characters that I make up.
Difficult Decisions - Prologue
It was spring time when I was five years old. That was when I discovered that I was an alter user; a freak of nature. I never told anyone for fear of being treated like a monster. Scratch that, I only told two people: my best friends since as long as I could remember, Kazuma and Kimishima. I waited a while, but I told them none the less. I knew that they would accept me even if I was an alter user. To my surprise, when I did tell them, they thought it was cool. They were the only ones who didn't think I was just another good for nothing alter user; they thought of me as just another friend who just happened to have unique capabilities.
Surprisingly, about a year after I discovered my alter, strange things started happening with Kazuma. He would always go home early and complain about his right arm being sore. Then one afternoon when he was being especially whiney, his right arm turned into something amazing! When I realized that it was his alter, I became ecstatic. Finally, I knew someone who was like me, but then I thought about all the pain and suffering that arm would bring him. I suddenly became overwhelmed with sadness and worry. I ran towards Kazuma, hugged him tightly and started crying.
"What's wrong Haruka? Why are you crying?" He asks me.
"That arm, it'll make you someone who is hated and feared by everybody. I don't want that to happen to you! I don't want people to think of you as some kind of monster."
"Haruka….don't worry, I won't tell anyone about it. But, if anyone does want to mess with me, I'll hit 'em with this." He holds up his right arm. Kazuma was violent, even at eight years old! "Same for you too! Tell you what, how about we train to get stronger and stronger to beat up anyone who gets in our way? Kimishima will help, of course." I nod. "Then it's a deal?"
"Deal!"
From that day on, we trained like we were going to war. Every morning, we would sneak out to a nice and isolated place so no one would see us and train.
Eventually, Kimishima started to get us jobs to 'take care' of things in certain places so we could use our alters for something and make a little money along the way. We always made sure whoever saw our alters were too scared to say anything about it to anybody we knew. That made sure that our families' would never find out. At least not by someone telling them about it. By doing these jobs, we made just enough money to live; until my brother was born. Since we split the money up between the three of us, we never got very much in the end. But when he was born, I needed more money to support the family. Mother would never be able to work because of her illness and father died a few years back, so it was all up to me. It was a hell of a lot to handle at that age. I started to ask Kimishima for more jobs and overworked Kazuma and myself ten times over. Years passed with us living like that. Always fighting, almost starving to death, and living in some pretty bad places. It was horrible. So there I was, Haruka Yoshida, 17 years old, struggling to live with my closest friends.
So, how do you like it so far? Please review! I'll be posting the first chapter soon.