Hide's POV
I was 3 years old when my father died and our mother started becoming abusive towards my sister and I. You see, my sister and I have elemental powers as our semblance and they appeared early. Our mother could not understand our semblances and thought she could quote-on-quote beat the witchcraft out of us. My name is Hideyoshi Fall, but my sister calls me Hide. My 6 year old sister is named Cinder Fall and she has a fire semblance. My semblance is the same. Neither of us can control our semblance very well yet as we were not supposed to even access our abilities until preteen years if that.
One day mother goes too far and my semblance activates. It was an accident. I swear. I may or may not have burned her, which makes her more angry. She grabs me by my hair and drags me into the bathroom where I see a tub full of water.
"Oh, Hide dear", Mother says in her sweetest voice, "Let's see how long you can hold your breath for."
"No. Please", I say trembling with tears in my eyes, as mother strips me out of my clothes. Damn it. If I weren't 3 I would so be able to take her. She's way less strong than any ghoul. Even Hinami could beat her. I feel myself being raised into the air and cry. "Please, Please. No. Stop."
"You should have thought of that before you burned my beautiful face!" Mother and with she drops me into the tub full of water.
I feel pain as my back hits the bottom of the tub. I try to swim up for air but mother holds me down. I can feel myself choking water. Is this how I'm going to die in this life. I have so much to live for. I mean I haven't even seen Kaneki yet to tell him not to feel guilty for killing me. I mean he wasn't exactly sane when he did it. I felt the weight of mother's lift off of me. I felt small hands grab ahold of me and lift me out of the water. As I hit the air I gag and cough up water.
"Shhh..." I hear my sister say as she gently pats my back, "you're safe now and nothing bad will ever happen to you again."
I look around and see mother's half burnt corpse on the floor. I look up at Cinder and I see insanity start to envelope her being.
"You will never be hurt again. You will never be hurt again." She keeps muttering to herself over and over. I wrap my small arms around her and cry, because I fear if I let go the sister I know will burn away into nothingness. But the fact of the matter is that statement she keeps muttering is a lie.
This is what my life is now. I have to make sure my sister does not go down the wrong path and I think I'm failing. Ever since she met that woman Salem she has been becoming more and more violent and apathetic. The only person she is kind to these days is me. I am 16 now and she will not tell me what is wrong. I know she's an adult, but I fear that she is losing everything that makes her her with every mission she succeeds at.
"Hideyoshi." I turn around and see Salem approaching me. "You are your sister's only weakness. Without you she would be able to rid herself of her needless emotions."
I back away from her realising what she was about to do, but it was already too late.
"It doesn't matter where you run. You will never see your sister again." She pushes me out the window. I point my hands towards ground and use my semblance to soften my fall.
"I'm sorry I couldn't protect you from yourself, sis." I say as I run away from Salem's base silently crying.