It was amazing.
Yuki could not simply believe how beautiful the sky looked. It seemed that even if everyone was under the same sky, it can look different from another place. Is sort of obvious taking the fact that in a city like the one he lives, all those lights overshadow the natural bright of the stars. But here... it was so quiet and peaceful, and so bright, he could see the lights from the city from the distance, but still. This spot was more than perfect.
So perfect that it completely made him forget that he was on the roof of a place he has been living for only half day.
It reminded of when he was a little kid, and his family would visit that observatory his grandfather called home every summer. It was always so much fun, Yuki and Madoka would be always looking for adventure (and for trouble) in the forest, his mother would take them fishing upon a river that was near by, and every night; instead of using that giant telescope in the observatory, his grandfather would take him and his sister to the roof and showing them a sky full of stars.
Of course it was before everything went down.
Oh gosh... there it is again.
"Why can't I stop thinking about it?"- Yuki whispered after slightly shaking his head.
"Thinking about what?"-
"N-nothing... just..."-
He sighed heavily.
"Nothing at all"- he whispered, some tears were about to form in his eyes, but he was going to fight them.
Yuki was done with the tears a long time ago.
"Is not okay to keep everything to yourself, if something bothers you; you should talk about it, little pup"-
"T-that... that doesn't work for me, the best thing to do is not to think abou... wait a minute"-
Little pup?
.
.
.
Why?...just WHY?!
Yuki turned around and he met with a familiar pair of eyes. Last time he saw them, they were the only thing noticeable in a face covered with a mask. But now they were unmasked, and they looked...normal.
Two pairs of soft green eyes, they were big and something that looked like...
Well, it looked like innocence.
But sure as hell, he knew this wasn't the case.
"So... what are you doing?"-
"Ah!"-Yuki jumped in surprise the very moment she talked, he ended up falling on his back, closing his eyes and bracing himself.
The girl just stood there, she didn't even moved.
"S-stay back!"- Yuki yelled, he extended his hand and it started to glow-"I-I'm warning you!"-
The glow turned into a short stick. Yuki looked at it and noticed how embarrassing it looked, What was that thing supposed to do? Why doesn't he has King's super strength?
"Well seems that you got a better hold of your power, that's nice"-the girl said in a nice and friendly voice.
"Don't talk!"-Yuki begged, still pointing the stick at her-"Please!"-
"Why not?"-she asked in a teasing tone
"I don't want them to know you are here!"-
"Who?"-
"The other warriors!"- he answered in a whisper without realizing what he just said.
Yuki saw her giggling, then she looked at him with in a teasing way, like she was expecting him to realize something.
And then it hit him.
"Dammit! I was not supposed to tell you that!"-Yuki yelled before putting his non glowing hand on his face. Why did he just said that? Why does everything have to be awkward all the time?
When Yuki retired his hand from his face, he noticed that there was another hand in front of him. Apparently this girl was offering her help, Is this some kind of trick?
"Uh... thanks"- he took her hand, and at the same she pulled to help him stand up.
For some reason, the blue stick as well as the glow in his hand disappeared.
"So, what's your name?"-she asked as if it was the most normal thing to say.
"I'm...No wait! What are doing here?!"-Yuki yelled/whisper at her, while at the same time stepping back from her.
"Well, I finished working early today so I decided to come here and-"-
"No! I mean what are you doing here?!"-Yuki corrected her-"Last time I checked, you were trying to kidnap me in Metal Bey City!"-
"Well... I have my ways, but don't worry about that"-she answered-"My grumpy cat of a brother kicked me out of his mission because I 'lost' track of the fragment of star"-
"What?"-he asked, she nodded
"If you ask me, he was waiting for me to make a mistake"-she sighted in a tired way-"So, again, what's your name?"-
Yuki gave her a doubtful look, he wasn't sure if he should give her his name. The girl didn't looked anything dangerous, she looked so normal; she wasn't wearing that weird jumpsuit, actually she wearing a light brown sweater with the picture of a cute cat, a white skirt and plain white slippers. He looked at her face and, she looked like any other normal girl. The only peculiar thing was a bow on the back on her head that looked like cat ears, it made her look really cute. In fact, she was really pretty.
"Y-yuki... Uh...My name is Yuki"- he answered, crossing his arms and looking at his feet.
"My name is Motti"- she said, again offering her hand in a friendly gesture.
Yuki was hesitant at first, but decided to take it. Motti smiled at him, he couldn't help but smile at her too.
"Well... Hi Motti"- he said, unconsciously blushing a little.
Kenta's eyes just snapped wide open at the noise of screaming. The kid tried to stay awake in case it happened again, but what was that supposed to do? He had to sleep too.
"Not again"-the green-haired boy whispered as he sat on his bed and passed a hand through his face, then he looked at the clock.
It's three in the morning...
He got up and climbed down the little stairs of his bunk bed. In all honesty, if this keeps happening Kenta will not know what he is gonna do. Sure, he was very empathic and couldn't help but try to do something whenever someone feels horrible, but he is just a kid. Kenta loves his cousin but... he just doesn't know how to help.
"Ryuuga..."-he whispered-"Ryuuga wake up..."-
Kenta was feeling sick by seeing his cousin like this, he was in pain, he had his arms around himself and it looked like he tried to speak.
"L-let me go!"-he tried to yell, but it was more like he was choking
"Ryuuga!"-Kenta started to panic-"Ryuuga, please! You are safe now!"-
Kenta grabbed Ryuuga's shoulder.
"You need to wake u- Ah!"-
Suddenly he encountered with a face that expressed pure rage. Ryuuga had grabbed Kenta's hand, and while gripping it; he looked deeply into the boy's eyes.
"Don't fucking touch me..."-Ryuuga growled, scaring his little cousin nearly to death.
Kenta froze. Even in the darkness of the room, he was able to see the anger in Ryuuga's eyes. It was absolutely terrifying, it made him afraid of even moving an inch. Ryuuga looked... murderous.
The only thing that made Kenta snap out of his fear was the fact that a reddish glow started to revolve around Ryuuga's eyes.
He knew what it meant.
"RYUUGA, STOP!"-
The young man snapped, he didn't realized what was going on. There was fire on his hand, and Kenta was on the floor, bracing himself as if he was in danger.
Without saying a word, he stepped up from his bed and walked to the scared child on the floor. He didn't said anything, just kneeled down and put a hand on the boy's head. It made Kenta look up and felt a giant wave of relief hitting him.
"You are okay..."- Kenta sighted-"Oh thank goodness... Ryuuga, nearly gave me a heart attack"-
"I burned you"-Ryuuga whispered.
Kenta noticed that his wrist had a few marks, some because of Ryuuga's strong grip, but there was a couple minor burns on it.
"It's... I'm fine"-he answered.
They both sat in Ryuuga's bed, looking through the window, it was so late that there was nobody in the park in front of the house.
"I... Ryuuga, do you..."-Kenta sighed deeply-"Look, I know you hate when I get sentimental on you but... you really need to stop denying that you have emotions, you hear me? You really need talk to me about it this time"-
Ryuuga sighed.
"I know, I just want to help you"- Kenta answered, apparently he was able to understand the way the guy express himself-"But, I am really worried about you. Neither mum nor I can help you if you don't tell us what happened... is just that... when I saw you in the hospital I realized that you could really have died a-and there was nothing I could do about it... and now you have this...power and... I just don't know how to help... no comic book ever prepared me for this... I-I j-just..."-
"I'm sorry"-
Kenta looked up and thought that he saw something in his cousin's eyes... it looked like... fear.
"Look, I will only tell you because I physically hurt you. This is payment only, kid"-he said
The boy nodded.
"I was really trying this time... I tried to support myself, tried to go on a better path, hell; I even went back to school, but... one night I was just walking back to my apartment and I don't know how it happened, but I saw something shiny hitting me on the back"-
"Did someone shoot you?!"-
"No... it didn't hurt but it made me feel weird, got home and for the next few days everything was normal. One day I got a call from my mother and... needless to say we started fighting"-
Kenta looked at his feet, he knew it well. His aunt wasn't really the nicest person.
"It was pure arguing back and forth, I don't even remember why we were arguing but I was so mad that my hands got on fire for the first time"-Ryuuga said while looking at his hands-"I melted my phone and burned jacket because of this"-
"Wait... so the first time you noticed your powers was weeks ago, How did you managed to control it then?"-Kenta interrupted him.
"I just... tried to not lose my temperament"-he answered-"It was hard"-
Kenta giggled a little. For some reason, it made Ryuuga give some kind of indifferent smile.
"So... how did you ended in that fire?"-Kenta asked awkwardly.
"I think its pretty obvious who caused it"-Ryuuga said as if it was nothing.
"I get that, but how did it happened?"-the kid asked with a little bit of annoyance in his voice-"I know you too well to know that you are not a psychopath"-
"How do you know that? You know I have been involved in some shit"-
"Ryuuga!"-
"Okay, geez, kid"-he laugh a little bit too cynically-"There was these... people, they tried to... well, they tried to kidnapped me"-
"W-what?"-
"And before you have a heart attack let me tell you that I didn't do anything to them, okay?"-Ryuuga interrupted him-"They said that they needed me for something, this power that I have was a gift given by the God of destruction or some crap like that"-
"I don't understand"-
"Neither did I, so I tried to get away from them, they tried to attack me and I growth impatient so... you can guess what happened afterwards"-
"You caused a fire in the building..."-Kenta whispered, he was really confused right now.
"You guessed it, twerp"-
Kenta would get angry at that like he would get every time someone called him names, but right now he was trapped on his thoughts.
"Have they... are you sure that they are not looking for you anymore?"-Kenta asked, he was really concerned.
"Pretty sure they think I died"-Ryuuga answered simply, while laying down on his bed and covering himself with his sheet.
He was now turning his back, not facing Kenta, who was still sitting in his cousin's bed.
"Ryuuga, are you sure?"-he asked, not convinced at all
"Yeah, I'm sure, now would you go back to sleep?"-
Defeated, Kenta sighed deeply.
He did what Ryuuga asked him, but not quite.
"Go back to your own bed, kid"-
"Nope, I want to be sure that you are okay, so I won't leave your side"-Kenta said firmly while closing his eyes.
"What did I said about getting sentimental?"-
"Is for your own good"-
"God, you are such an as-"-
"Ryuuga, stop it with the swearing!"-Kenta yelled without opening his eyes.
"Grow up, twerp"-
"You grow up... dummy"-
"Sometimes I can't believe that we are related"-
"Shut up... and for the record, even if it is scary... your superpower is pretty awesome"-
"You read too much, kid"-
"And I wonder whose blame that is..."-
"I told you those were not mine"-
"Whatever you say... Batman"-
"That's it, I'm disowning you"-
