Anfang vom Ende (beginning of the end): Equilibrium

To say that Himawari has bad luck is incorrect because Himawari's luck is that of any ordinary girl

To say that Himawari has bad luck is incorrect because Himawari's luck is that of any ordinary girl. To say that Himawari has bad luck is wrong because Himawari actually has some good luck. That is to say, she has normal luck like any average person.

As she grew up, she and her family gradually came to understand the impact of her... curse on other people. There is no cure to her illness or condition or whatever it is. She always wondered what she is supposed to call it. Over the years she has slowly figured out some of how it works. Is it really a curse? The effects happened upon either bad people or something good came of it. For example there was a time when she was a child and she and her best friend were attacked by bees in the forest, they ran all the way home crying. Two years later they found out that the hole in the forest that the other girl was about to walk into was full of the bones of dead children that a serial killer had placed there. Yuuko says there is no such thing as coincidence, there is only hituzen. Yuuko had once offered to explain her curse to her but she shook her head. She already knew what it did.

Nature abhors a vacuum. And while Himawari finds comfort in this fact, it also makes her sad. Her condition is simply that: a vacuum. In truth, they found this out by accident. One month she had a huge project and decided to skip school for a week to finish it. After that she got extremely ill. After that she started getting 'clumsy' and sliced her arm on a knife that was on the table. They went to the doctors office. Twelve people in a passing bus died. The other twenty three passengers and the driver were miraculously untouched even though the bus had rolled. It was found later that they were going to rob a bank (nobody ever expects criminals to use public transport.) Himawari had a similarly miraculous recovery from her illness, and her wound healed without a scar. The police had said that if the bus hadn't had an accident, the twelve robbers would have likely gotten away with it because the small bank they were robbing was laundering money and wouldn't have gone to the police. (Because criminals and children have the most luck.)

Himawari is bad luck. She finds comfort in the fact that she is here to even out the world, not many people know their ultimate place in the universe. The fact that she was born gives solace because she knows that somewhere out there, there is an individual with her exact opposite in power. She can only pray that they remain so. And she knows she might disappear when the world has restitution.

But for the time being she will continue being a luck stealer. It is the only way she can live and they have given her a new reason to want to.

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A/N: If any of you didn't get the point, it was that Himawari is there to equal out the world. I had a hard time trying to get it across, so I don't know if it is intelligible. Again with the angst... well at least I was able to add something new about her, its just something I thought up. Probably many of you won't like these extras... sigh well next is Yuuko, that one will take some time. Oh and after Yuuko's will be the final one. I'm sure you're tired of these already. As always, please review dear readers. Thanks.

+Andy