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-K.A.Z.U.K.I.-
He remembers being told that about four years after the acid rain began to fall in his world, his parents had been killed. But he had been too young, and so he didn't remember them.
That didn't matter though, because he had his family.
He had Kamui and Kusanagi and Satsuki and Yuto and Kakyo and Nataku.
Yes, Kazuki had his family, and he cared about them all very much. And now, the people – the travelers, as they had said – had appeared. He had once said that Kamui looked like a lost child, and somehow these travelers had looked that way too.
So he decided that they needed a family, and though he knew he wasn't much, he accepted them into his.
He liked the strong man who could fight Kamui. He liked the blonde man who smiled all the time. He liked the strange but adorable creature called Mokona, and he liked the cool boy who could kick away arrows in the air. And though he didn't know the girl because she was always asleep, he figured he would like her as well.
But now members of his family were down in that water, and they weren't coming up. He was scared, and he could tell that there was something happening down there that he and the others couldn't see. And now there was blood, dying the water red, and the creature on his head was shouting, and the smiling man was diving into the water without a second thought.
His family was in the water, in the water with the blood, and he was scared. He watched with wide eyes as the water began to spin, and then it was stopping, and his other new family member was here, and he now wished it hadn't stopped.
Because he could see blood, and he could see pain, and his family was suffering. It was scaring him, and he could feel tears running down his cheeks. Arms encircled him, and he heard Nataku whisper words of reassurance in his ear.
He didn't want to look, but he couldn't pull his eyes away from the horrible sight, and as more seconds – but they had to be hours, right? – passed, more and more tears slipped from his wide eyes.
He didn't know them well, he hadn't spent much time with them…
...but…
...they were his family.