Prologue:
It has only been two days since we arrived in the city of Yokohama. I look out into the dazzling city lights from our crappy apartment room. Peeling walls, cracked glass, creaky wooden floors, if you could have put these things in a vocabulary list to a " five-star hotel" you would have thought we wanted this hole, but it's the only thing we could afford with the limited money we have.
It was around the middle of the night, I couldn't sleep a wink. After me and my best friend, Howl, entered the city of Yokohama, we had been trying to search the city for someone. Someone who can be able to take away the sorrows of my gift, who can save me and others from myself and can erase all the fear I have because of my ability. His name… is Osamu Dazai.
"Can't sleep?" the familiar voice of Howl asked me from behind my ear as he, wrapped his arms around my shoulders in a warm embrace. Strands of his white hair gleamed in the moonlight from the corner of my eye, looking almost as if they were silver threads of a spider's web. "What are you thinking about?"
"About him. Dazai." I leaned into his shoulder, snuggling up against the warm heat of his arms and chest. "I'm nervous about when I meet him. What do I say? How do I ask him? What if….What if he doesn't want to help me?"
"Now what made you think something like that?" He holds me tighter, placing his chin atop on my head.
'Everything'. I want to say, everything that I've been through has been nothing but a nightmare up until this point. Because the difference between then and now was that I didn't have an ability.
I was a normal girl growing up in the small city Onomichi with my mother and father. Since I was young, I had always been prone to sickness. My body was weak, and I would constantly get sick, but I can't say that my childhood was horrible or miserable. I had a family that loved and cared for me and I was happy being the way I am despite my sickness. However, in every person's life, regardless of whether they're good or bad, there would always be a moment where things would turn for the worst.
Everything changed after I got into a car accident, both of my parents died. I was the only survivor and was said to be diagnosed with amnesia. I couldn't remember my family, my name, my abilities, or even how I ended up in the hospital before they told me. After their funeral weeks later, I was sent to a foster home in Tokyo.
A couple of months flew by. Then one night, all the other kids that liked to pick on me because of my sickness, started to gang-up on me when I was busy cleaning up from dinner, beating me up, and calling me names. I wanted them to stop, I wanted to hurt them back, but I didn't know what to expect when I suddenly was able to shoot fire out of my hands and white light out of my body. In fear, I ended up burning down the foster home and ran away, hoping that I would be a lot safer if no one got hurt. Days later I was alone on the streets, cold, tired, and was just on the verge of hunger. Then, just as I thought I wouldn't be able to survive much longer, a giant white wolf found me. And that's when I met Howl.
He was an ability user like me, so we shared a mutual connection with each other. Though I tried to get away from him, saying that I didn't need help, he took me to his hideout in an abandoned warehouse and nursed me back to health. When he asked me why I was alone and out on the streets, for some reason, I felt like he could be trusted, and so I told him everything. About my powers, the accident, and the fire. Even though at the time it didn't mean much, Howl told me that I could stay with him for as long as I needed and that he would help me find a way to control my ability. Since then I've lived with Howl, and he became my closest friend. He gave me shelter, food, and water and would always take the time to listen to the ever-growing nightmare I would have about losing control of my ability. In a way, to me, he was like a second only thing that he couldn't do was to help me control my powers. A couple of attempts we tried, made a few tests and experiments to see if I could try, but I nearly end up burning things down and most times we nearly get caught by the polices.
So as while sneaking into the library every so often, Howl slowly learned how to develop a drug to stop my ability from growing any stronger and keep it from growing out of control. And for that, I was forever grateful to him.
We stayed on the streets for a little more then a couple of years, until we heard rumors that there was an ability user in Yokohama who could take away another person's ability. I felt my hopes rise, I thought this would be the only way I would be able to live a normal life again. At once, we started to head for Yokohama, we had to travel through the backs of pickup trucks, car carriers and even had to sneak onto the bullet train just get through to the rest of the way to save time.
But now that we are actually here and Osamu Dazai could be almost anywhere in the city, I started to doubt about the possibility he would help me. Maybe he wouldn't, maybe he would just tell me something like that is not possible. Maybe...Maybe he wouldn't be able to do it cause he doesn't want to...
I hear Howl quietly sighs, grabbing my arms and gently turning my body to face him. As I look into his bluebell eyes, he tucks a lock of my hair behind my ear. He whispers, "I know he will help you Kaiya. After everything you've been through, I have faith in that he will. But Kaiya even if he won't, I need you to remember something very important… No matter what, never forget….."
I couldn't really hear what he said. I was beginning to get so tired and sleepy, all his words were muffled, they began to fade, and I was beginning to lose consciousness and my eyes were starting to close on their own.
The last thing I remember from that night was feeling him pull me into his chest, holding me tight as his hand combs through my hair and hearing him hum a sweet lullaby just before I enter into a deep slumber.
Soon, when the sun rises above the city of Yokohama, we will set off again, this time, to the place where we know he is sure to be; the Armed Detective Agency.
Author's Note:
Hi, my name is RyanF0ster.
This is my first story and I'm pretty sure there are a lot of errors that you could point out for me, but hey, that's what you're here for. If there is any constructive criticism you all would like to share and help me out, I would gladly accept it if you type a comment down below.
Characters included in the story:
Atsushi Nakajima • Osamu Dazai • Doppo Kunikida • Ranpo Edogawa • Junichirō Tanizaki • Kenji Miyazawa • Akiko Yosano • Naomi Tanizaki • Yukichi Fukuzawa • Kyōka Izumi • Ryūnosuke Akutagawa • Chūya Nakahara • Ogai Mori • Elise • Ichiyo Higuchi • Ryūrō Tachihara • Gin Akutagawa • Tachihara Michizō • Kōyō Ozaki •
OC's • Kaiya (Special Ability: {Not yet suckers})• Howl (Special Ability: Beast Soul) • Noel • Nana (EXTRAS)
[I do not own any of the Bungou Stray Dog characters or the anime, but I am part-owner of the OC characters. Thank you.]
Note: this story takes place AFTER Season 3…. (JTLYK)