First Meeting
A/N: This is a Mana x OC (Kira) Drabble set, enjoy.
Disclaimer: I Don't Own Guilty Crown.
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Chapter 1
Mana Ouma (17) / Kira Shinomiya (18)
(AU)
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The first time their eyes meet is when everything falls apart. Her mother is being engulfed in Cancer Crystals, while his older brother is screaming in pain. Everyone around them is running in panic trying to get away from whatever "This" is.
The brown-haired teen helps his brother up and asks if he can walk, the older boy nods. Suddenly, he's by the Pink-haired girl's side busy helping her mother to stand.
She smiles, grateful for some help as they re-join his older brother and walk to a place less crowded than this and where the people aren't knocking each other down. They camp out at an abandoned restaurant down the street discussing about what to do next.
The girl is with her mother trying to ease the woman's pain and he's by his brother's side offering him a drink of water. And that's where they decide to help each other.
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Two weeks in and they find an old abandoned building, which luckily is vacant of the occasional gangs roaming around the area pilfering weaker groups. They room in one of the many rooms, her mother lying on the bed closest to the window and his brother next to her on an opposite bed.
The boy and girl sit in the middle of the room surveying over their supplies they managed to procure. A few candy bars with packets of chips, bottles of drinking water and chocolate chip cookies they took from an abandoned bakery on their way here. They wanted to take more but with hundreds of people, trying to get at least something this was all they could get.
But, the thing on the far right is the thing that's more unnerving... The boy picks up the red-glowing cylinder and inspects it once more with an acute focus. He shakes his head as he pockets it in his jacket pocket.
Kira's pretty sure he has never stolen something that looks like a bio-weapon. Not even sure how he could ever forget, something that shines so much like blood in the moon's rays.
On the left side are the two guns they stole from some dead security guards. With Gangs running around the quarantine zone, they can never be too careful.
He feels a hand on his own and the worried look from the girl, Mana, her name that he learnt shortly after they met. She had returned to Japan with her mother and as he learnt they were looking for a parlor of sorts.
Whatever that meant.
"Kira...?" Her scared, wavering voice flutters in the darkness as her red eyes stare into his Silvery orbs, "...Are you alright?" He nods as he takes her hand into his own.
"I'm fine. Let's go to sleep." Kira says, as he puts their supplies into his backpack. Suddenly, there's a bang from inside the building hallways. He and Mana both tense up as they know it could be scavengers.
Scavengers are the worst, as they want everything, even if it meant killing two Seventeen-Year olds. Moving quickly Kira picked up the one of the guns and locked the door.
Mana was standing behind him with her sights on the door. Kira idly noted how she was shaking in either fear or anticipation. He placed his hand on her shoulder and smiled at her.
She calmed down and nodded back while training her gun on the locked door. Many times, it has happened where it was just people looking for refuge and some - not many tended to co-exist together.
Kira had seen it happen many of times while out scavenging for supplies. They hear footsteps draw closer until their doorknob was wriggled... and then let go as the group of people moved on. It has happened a lot actually where people check if the door is open, when it's not they simply move one, warily of not making noise to alert Gangs who may have camped out here.
Waiting a few seconds longer for the footsteps to disappear Kira let out a breath he knew he had been holding. To his right he sees Mana's shoulders sag as her tensions drained away.
Walking over to check on his brother and Mana her mother, they confirmed that both of them were sleeping. Kira saw Mana yawn as she stretched her out like a cat.
Kira blushes as he averts his gaze as Mana's shirt went a bit too tight showing of her well-endowed assets. Seeing Kira's blushing face Mana looked down at herself. She saw her shirt hug her body tight as she had stretched.
She blushed Crimson-Red and shied away from Kira and opting to sit on her knees. With her hands infront of her chest as if she was naked.
"G-Goodnight then, Mana!" Kira proclaimed, rather a bit too loud and hastily. It wasn't long before he was lying sideways staring at the wall with his head on the backpack.
Mana still blushing, smiled at Kira's ability to get embarrassed quickly. 'Or maybe it was only her who did that to him.' She blushed at the ludicrous thought and willed the redness in her cheeks to fade, and promptly got inside the sleeping bag Kira stole for her.
Her cheeks were once again red, damnit!
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She awakes to an explosion outside the building and finds Kira with gun in hand peering out the window. Quickly, she checks on her mother and Kira's brother to see if they've awakened, they haven't. After that, she joins Kira by the window her own gun in hand. Looking out the window, she sees what appears to be Endlaves rounding up screaming and helpless people.
"What's happening?" She asks as her fingers tighten around his wrists sleeve. All he can do his stare out as people are haphazardly being snatched off the ground with no warning. It's only when he hears footsteps coming from outside that he finally reacts.
He turns to Mana and tells – more like orders - Mana to take out her gun and stand at one side of the door, he smiles as he sees her take the side where the door is screwed.
He takes the side from where the door is opened towards and takes his handgun out and waits for something to happen. They hear many people outside their room running and screaming trying to get away from whatever is chasing them.
Its a few tense minutes where nothing happens until the door's handle is being shook roughly. They both retreat to the middle of the room and Mana is behind him with her gun pointed to the door. He's infront so that if they shoot, they'll hit him, not her. He glances back to Mana and he's not even sure if she's the scared one as her face looks oddly focused all things considered.
Suddenly, the door is kicked down and it's like a storm just kicked in as Kira is blinded by the light, seconds later he's tackled to the ground. Mana restrained on the ground next to him, her eyes filled with hatred? A few soldiers moves over to her mother and his brother.
It's all a blur of sounds, but Kira has heard that they have found her, the target they've been looking for. He sees them tying up Mana's arms and legs, tapes her mouth shut and he's knocked unconscious.
The last thing he sees before darkness takes him is two gunshots that ring out while he's being carried.
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'It's happened again'
That's the only thoughts going through her mind as she sits in her cell, her limbs shackled to the ground. She's crying tears as she sees Kira in his own cage right next to her.
People have died for her once again. Not only that, her mother is now among that number, Kira's brother as well. The doors to the front of the Van slides open as it reveals Yuu, The Envoy of Da'ath that came to her all those years ago... She glares at him as Crystals begin to sprout from the ground, her teeth is gnashing together as her eyes turned Crimson.
What's more unnerving is the way Crystals begin to sprout from her cheeks as her hair sharpens
It's not long before she claws at the chains that hold her; she's like a rabid dog who wants blood, more specifically Yuu's.
"Ah. Ah. Ah! Is that any way for a Queen to act?" Yuu asks, as he leans in closer until he's mere inches away from her lunges, "You're such a hassle my Queen... After Five years here we are right back where it all started; you trapped in a cell on your way to Cocytus. Ready to marry that man... That's the only reason you still live... Even this boy will be killed because of you."
"I will never let you!" Mana yells, as her lunges get more erratically, more weak, "I will not be used as some Guinea Pig. Not for the people who killed my father and brother! Momma protected me! Said I had to choose my own life! My own way of living... taught me of how to find love in my own way! And... I have! I will protect HIM with my life if I have to."
Kira lies on the ground conscious through all of it and he's a bit freaked out with Mana's transformation. But, more so than that is how she's screaming in rage and despair. He never wants to see her like that ever again!
"Ah! The kid that jumped in to save you and you're mother right before we could even capture you both. Kira Shinomiya, ordinary high-school boy who lost his mother and father to the first Apocalypse Outbreak.
Kira both hears and sees Mana gasp from where he's lying and he sees how she goes into a total crazed state of saying 'Sorry' over and over again. He has no idea why, but all he knows is that Mana's crying like a lost child as she holds her hands to her ears as if to shut out world.
"Brother works at Sephira Genomics?" Kira hears a surprise tone to the Kid's voice, "Interesting. Will have to look into that later. Says here, that an Ayase Shinomiya has adopted both...? That name... sounds familiar..."
BOOM!
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When Kira wakes up once again it's in the van and the cars lighting inside is completely red. He picks himself up and kicks open his cell's gate, luckily the crash made it easier to break down. Kira's out of the cell and strangely Yuu is nowhere to be seen.
The red lights in the room shut off and soon the room is back to its normal lighting.
He can't worry about that now! Mana's cage is open thanks to Yuu for stepping in earlier. Kira is right next to Mana as he uses his knife to cut whatever restraints was holding Mana. When Kira cuts the first string, he's surprise by how easily he was able to cut through it, yet Mana struggled earlier. He cuts through the last of her binds and that's when her eyes open in panic.
He's pushed up against the wall as a bladed edge of Cancer Crystal is close to his neck, pricking blood! Suddenly, her eyes return to their normal hue of red, and not the intensity it had been before. He sees the Crystals recede back into her, more specifically the blade that just came out of the back of her hand.
Her hair became... much less sharper? But, the look of utter fear as she looked at her hands with snapped Kira to attention. They could talk about that later, now, they had to get out of here. They stopped dead in their tracks when a red glow came from one of Kira's pockets.
Quickly he took out the cylinder; the very same one he swore he hadn't even taken, nor knew about. He saw Mana settle her hands atop his own as the glow from the cylinder soon engulfed the room.
When Kira opens his eyes, again they are in a Void-like realm where these silver strings are surrounding them. The beauty mesmerizes Kira, so much that he doesn't notice when a silver string starts to coil around his right-hand. It's only when his arm stings does he notice that there's a dark symbol on the back of his hand.
Moreso, Mana stood behind him coated in weird strings of red, her red-eyes fixed on him as she spoke:
"Kira, you need my power... I need you... Momma's dead..." Tears started to fall from her eyes, his hand tightens when he recalls the images of his brother being shot in the head, "I have nowhere to go... All I have is Power, Power enough for you to protect us both... The only reason I still live is to be a pawn in Da'ath's plan! I don't want too..."
She quieted when Kira moved closer and began to hug her, it's strange, he met her yesterday and yet... he feels like he has known her far before any of this. It's then that images start to flash before his eyes, images of him protecting a girl who's crying on the ground. Looking closer he saw that it was himself and the girl on the ground... was Mana?
This was the first day of kindergarten... He was walking with his mother when he saw a girl being bullied for how she played with a bunny doll... It was all coming back to him now. He knew Mana when they were little; they used to play together and occasionally helped each other out in the classroom. She was the first girl besides his mother to kiss him on his cheek. But, then his family moved and he slowly forgot about her, about his first friend.
When his eyes shot open it was too Mana who looked quite as confused as himself, seems like she had the same vision as him. Suddenly, and without warning Mana jumped towards him and hugged him close. He was the only remnant of the normal life she had before the Genesis Rock and her becoming Eve. Somehow, that meeting yesterday was something akin to Destiny; it brought her back to him...
Kira almost falls over as Mana begins to smother him in her back breaking hug; it's as if she's a cat, her limbs coiling around his neck and tears falling from her eyes. This! This friend before her was what she needed at this very moment, in the depths of her heart she knew that now more than ever.
"I accept!" She all but yells in overexcited glee, "You're my new King!" She further exclaims as she rests her head in the crook of his neck. Kira doesn't understand what's going on, but he knows that she's his friend, maybe even girlfriend, and his mother always told him to protect the girl. He kisses her on her forehead and that's when the world gets engulfed in light.
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When the two regains consciousness there still in the back of the GHQ truck, but something's wrong, maybe because the truck is on its side? Wait is that gasoline? Oh, no! Kira quickly takes Mana's hand and runs to the back of the truck where the door is unhinged. He kicks it open and jumps with Mana doing the same. They only make it a few feet when a loud boom comes from behind them along with what appears to be a shockwave. They both get thrown to the ground and Kira engulfs Mana between his arms as they roll a few feet more.
After they recover from the shockwave they get up and see the truck is up in flames. But what really catches their attention is the hundreds of people surrounding the entire GHQ forces. Every person is wielding a gun and Kira can vaguely make out that some of these people he knows from his childhood. That's when he spots her; his mother is standing at the back joined by Aunt Tsugumi and Uncle Argo. There's a symbol on their shoulders and he knows it from the news, well, the more infamous news reports online, it's Funeral Parlor!
Wait, what?!
"You were talking about Funeral Parlor?!" Kira yells, turning back to Mana who for all intents and purposes smiles sheepishly at him.
Uh oh... He just yelled that at the top of his lungs, didn't he?
But they are focused on the girl behind him, only his mother and Tsugumi on him, wait, not him, but his hand? Lifting up his right-hand he sees a half-completed Maple flower on it? Then the vial in his pocket falls to the ground and shatters. All of a sudden, there's this feint glow of white lights hovering up and into his hand completing the symbol.
WHAT. THE. HELL?!
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A/N: Okay, this is a story premise of my own OC(Kira) and how he and Mana meets. Sorry, that I haven't posted in over one and a half years but I lost all my GC fanfics and this is the first thing I wrote due to falling in the RWBY fandom.
This will stay a One-Shot as will all the ideas in this story unless otherwise specified or ask for.
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