Silence is my Nature

By: Hermoine147

Summary: He's ten and he's the city's most notorious killer, having killed a total of 178 people, ranging from a fellow child to an adult who can well defend himself/herself from the young attacker. He was caught and locked, tightly locked in a cell that not even a ray of sun can peek in. But suddenly, the young prisoner disappeared without a trace. Unbeknownst to anybody, he was sucked by a portal that lead to a completely different world, a world made of white birds one calls "rukhs". The young mass-murderer has to live his free-killing days in this world, together with a daughter of a family with great underworld history and political power, who was also sucked together with the young boy.

Author's Note: I came back to update this fan fiction today just to see that the 2nd chapter that I uploaded yesterday, in which was worth 3k+ words, were replaced by some html gibberish. I wanted to burst in anger but I know that there are people waiting for the next chapter, or at the least that's what I wanted to believe. Forgive me for the false hope that I posted yesterday, It was hard on my part too, considering that I spent 3 hours to type it. But still, I am at fault as well. *Bows head* I hope you all forgive me.

Disclaimers: I do not own Magi, I own the plot but any of the characters that plays their roles in this story is not mine but Shinobu Ohtaka-sensei's. Have a good time reading!

Chapter 2: The Coincidental Meeting

The storm horribly ravaged everything outside; sturdy trees, electrical poles, and even houses. Everything was swaying, the wind dancing and out of control. Everyone hid in their houses, fearing that their house might become a pitiful victim of the storm. But in a certain house, another fear was felt by the people residing on it. It was not a fear such as fearing a petty storm of a kind; It was a fear that one feels when one knows that they will die. Fear for their own lives.

On that certain house, a sharp screeching of a woman was heard. After the screech were countless gunshots. But neither sound was heard by the neighborhood, since the storm made it inaudible, specifically by the rumbling thunders that ran and crackled across the gray sky.

Inside, a woman was lying on the kitchen floor, Her head was tilted on the side, covered by her dirty blonde hair. There was a huge obvious cut on her throat as blood oozed out from it, forming a pool of red on her dead body. Ahead the kitchen was a quite long staircase, and in the middle of it, a man no older that forty was lying there, slanted because of the uneven stepping. He had a gun in his right arm, but the huge cut in his skull that almost parted his face indicated that said man was dead.

The stairs led to a room and in there, a girl no older than twelve stood. She had a beautiful magenta hair that reached on her shoulder. The thing that made the girl peculiar was that there was blood splattered all over her face; Blood that she did not own. She clutched two BC-41 knife in both her palm, tightly. The said knife had fresh blood dripping on it.

The room was dark and she can't be seen quite clearly but her wide-open magenta eyes that seemed to tell that she knows something one does not know, glowed on the dark room. Her lips were pursed as she stared at the young man, or rather, a kid, sitting in front of her.

He was shaking but he was staring back at her. Many cold sweat dripped from his forehead and ran across his face. He was about seven, if estimated. He did not dare to blink, he knows. He knows that the girl in front of him is dangerous. Tears prickled in the corner of his eyes as he opened his mouth to speak, trying not to stutter and swallow his words, "W-who are you? Where's my mom and dad."

The girl tilted her head, as if the other asked something stupid, her magenta hues unblinking and continued to gaze at the frightened young boy, "Name? They do call me 'insane'. Is 'insane' a name?" She countered his question but then followed it with a decent answer, " Your mother and father has passed away."

The boy sharply gasped, he knew that the girl in front of him was weird in a lot of way. As if, she did not know is "insane" is a name or something to describe a crazy person; one that is no longer sane. But another thought was in the boy's mind. "D-Did... Did you kill them?"

The girl finally blinked and a smile curved her lips, "Yes, I did." She answered, strangely, innocence was in her tone.

The tears that has prickled the boy's eyes finally dripped as he silently howled, calling for his parents name. The girl, on the other hand, blinked once again, the smile that graced her face earlier was wiped-out, as if she did not understand why the boy was crying and as if she does not know the gravity of what she had just done.

She walked close towards the boy, removing the BC-41 and flipping the skirt she wore, revealing a circular leather cloth draped over her left upper leg, attached to it were sheathes and knives that it covers. She tucked the bloody Bc-41 in it's sheathe and closed the distance between her and the boy. " DON'T COME CLOSER!" The boy shouted.

She hummed as a response and grabbed the boy in the collar of his sleep wear and brought him up in the mid-air with unimaginable strength that one can not imagine coming from a twelve year old little girl. "Are you vexed?" She casually asked.

The boy struggled to get free, he was going to die, he knew it. And by the hands of a freaky twelve year old girl. He was concentrated one getting away from her steal-like grip than answering her question, causing her to repeat her words, but with a much harsher, hoarser and demanding tone; "I ask, are you vexed?"

The boy clenched his teeth, breathing was now harder, he's being suffocated by his collar, he needed to get away but it seems that he won't be able to if he won't answer the question of the girl, so with much force and whole tone, he answered; " OF COURSE I AM! WHO WOULD NOT! LET GO OF ME, YOU FREAK! I SWEAR THAT IF I GET OUT OF THIS I'LL KILL YOU!"

The girl seemed to be surprised by the sudden outburst of the boy, as she loosened her grip and made the boy stumble down the ground. The boy tried to catch his breath, hanging on dear life. He then felt a strong force in his chin and realized that the girl pressed her thumb and index finger of it, directing his gaze at her, directly and squarely as their faces were inches apart. The tears continued to stream in his cheeks as a small mischievous grin was plastered on her beautiful face. "You will? Well then, It would seem unlikely that you would be able to, right away. So, I'll give you all the time you need. If you are ready, you should come and seek me, sought me out and kill me. See, the world is not all that unfair is it not?" She then chuckled and removed her hands away from him.

Once again, she lifted her skirt and pulled out an F-S fighting knife. She then threw it on his side as his gaze followed the knife, "It's one of my treasures; One of a kind if I must say. You should keep that so I will know." She then turned her back and walked away. She was already exiting the room when she heard the boy scream, "WAIT! AREN'T YOU GONNA KILL ME?"

The girl looked back, the grin still intact as she shook her head, "I will not, The 50th trial has been successful. Your mother would be the 49th and your father the 50th; I, most probably, would kill you if it is 51 trials that I must complete. But sadly, It is not." She then completely left, leaving the poor boy behind.

Kougyoku woke up like usual. She rubbed her eyes sleepily and looked around her, yes, perfect she was in the public train- Wait, what? She abruptly stood up and felt the corner of her mouth wet, she wiped it and found out that it was a drool. Did she just sleep on a public train?

Suddenly, she noticed a shadow fall from the corner of her eyesight as her gaze followed it, just to see the kid that sexually harassed her earlier on the floor, wincing in pain. He rubbed the back of his head and grimaced at Kougyoku like it was her fault that he was on the floor.

Kougyoku sighed, "What are you doing?" She then knelt down to help the kid, Aladdin, to stand up. She offered him a hand but was quite taken aback that Aladdin didn't take it as fast as he could. Instead, his hand flew up to his chin and he was staring at something. Kougyoku followed his gaze and it landed on... Well...

"Oh, a white-red polka dots!" Aladdin commented and brought life to the startled Kougyoku as she quickly brought her skirt down to prevent anymore sight of her.. white-red polka dot panty.

"HYA!" Kougyoku screamed, stealing the focus of half the people on the train and she was as red as a tomato. She stood up and sat on the chair. She was not letting the boy sexually harass her any longer! She then tilted her head; an act of looking away.

Aladdin grinned, "Nah, don't get so upset." He casually said and sat beside her.

"Just go awa-"

Kougyoku's words was cut off by the ring of the train and the information that Kougyoku's stop will be the next destination. Kougyoku stood up, and with a pouting lips, she said, " I do hope that both of us will never ever meet again!" She then waded away with the crowd and she was gone. Aladdin was left looking at the direction where the female went off to as a smile slowly crept in his face, "I hope the opposite."

Kougyoku ran forward, the rain has started to shower and given that her house and the train station is a walking distance, she thought she would be fine but she was soaking wet and earlier at the train station, her right sandal's heel broke, making her run, barefooted, in her left hand was straps and as to where it connected, were the sandals.

Many stared at her, they were her neighbors so she was not quite embarrassed. "Do your best, young lady!" "Haha, Kougyoku's running like a mad man!" " You're close to your house now, Kougyoku!" There were many shouts from her neighborhood and she just blushed, shouting back a "Yes, I will do my best!"

When she arrived on the front of her house's door step, she was madly huffing, her lungs can't get the right beat and so did her crazily thumping heart. "I... finally ...arrived.." She said in exhaustion. She then placed her wet sandal's on the shoe shelf just beside the door. Her house was huge, so there was not only a single shoe shelf.

She was still huffing when she heard a footstep on the end of the corridor, she looked to see who it was and saw a beautiful man with pink hair and droopy magenta eyes, lean on the wall, in his back, half-naked. "B-brother Kouha!" Kougyoku stuttered in sheer surprise. Kouha glared at her, " Kouen called. He's grounding me. You sure did blab about me sneaking out last night." He said, there was anger mixed in his tone.

Kougyoku heavily exhaled, "It is unfair that I would be the one enduring your fault, is it not?" Kougyoku shot Kouha a menacing glare. she was exasperated and all she wanted to do is take a bath and roll on her bed and sleep. And Kouha knew her better than anybody. He knows what she's capable of.

"Oh well, I guess I'll let you go on that. More like, I came here to apologize." He answered, not apologetic at all. He then started to walk away and without looking back, he whispered, "I'm sorry and welcome back home." He then proceeded to be gone on Kougyoku's line of sight.

Kougyoku's lips slightly parted, "That was not like Brother Kouha at all, I thought that he was really angered and would bring the discussion more further. But I guess, I am glad he did not." She, as well directly went to the bathroom for a nice hot bath. Kouha, on the other hand, was sitting on a white leather couch, looking at the television with bored eyes. Truth to tell, he was super angry but more than anybody, Kouha knows that Kougyoku doesn't like to be burdened with another's fault. He would bully her if it is not about that but it was; Kougyoku tends to take everything seriously about that topic and Kouha hated to push her out of the line one calls "sanity."

That night, There was no sight of the Oh so marvelous Ren Kouen and that left Kougyoku with guilt and worry, Maybe Kouen was angry at her that's why he didn't go home. She rolled on her bed, wearing a cute bunny sleep wear. But she was exhausted to think about apologizing to Kouen anymore, so she decided to just sleep as the thick covers was draped over her fully, preparing for the next morning's weather: Snow.

Kougyoku woke up and sat up, looking outside the window and there, a gray sky was in sight. An intensely wide smile was plastered on her face as she ran to the window and looked down, to see that the soil was filled with snow. After the rain yesterday, snow came and that was quite strange but the fact that the winter that she adored has come made her spirits extra high than it already is.

She opened her walk-in closet, and searched for the wonderful winter dresses, in which was a lot,more than her summer one's. She happily dressed herself and came down the stairs. She passed through the kitchen and smelt something good; extraordinarily tasty. She peeked to see who was it that was cooking and saw a woman with dark blue hair tied in a pony tail, wearing a teal apron. She held a kitchen knife in her left hand and professionally cut the vegetables in pieces and mixed it on the dish.

"U-umm.. Good morning, Auntie Gyokuen.." Kougyoku shyly said, blushing a bit. Gyokuen looked on her shoulder and her usual kind smile was perfectly in place. "Good morning, Kougyoku. Oh? Are you going somewhere?" Gyokuen greeted and asked. Kougyoku sheepishly nodded, "Yes, It's the start of winter and I want to breath the air."

Gyokuen chuckled, "Alright, but make sure to return on eight, We'll have breakfast by then." Kougyoku's eyes lit up in joy, "Y-yes! I will be here before eight!" She then ran on the hallway and put on her winter boots.

"Uwaahh~ I just love snow!" Kougyoku commented out of nowhere as she looked around, seeing a pile of white everywhere. She loved the color of the snow. She thought that it was the purest of all the things that she saw. She looked behind her and giggled after seeing her pair of footsteps. She was like an idiot laughing to herself.

After minutes of walking and adoring, the abandoned park came into sight and she decided to rest there for the time being then head back for breakfast. Again she was running, but pathetically stumbled and head-first to the snow, she dived.

However, she just rolled, and kept laying on the snow, laughing at herself. Truly, she was high in spirits. To the point that one might mistaken her to be someone who has few loose screws on their heads.

She exhaled and inhaled, closing her eyes and feeling the cold breeze hit her cheek and something warm on her right chest area... What? She shot her eyes open to see that there was a hand groping her right boob.. and that was not only it! The hand came directly below the snow!

"HYAAA!" She backed away from that specific area, Was there a pervert zombie buried there or something. Suddenly that specific part became a mound and formed like a person. Said person then dusted the snow off him. Kougyoku stared at the sight, wide-eyed, was the pervert zombie... smaller in frame?

When the snow on that certain "pervert zombie" was removed, she recognized it right away. "Y-you! From yesterday!" She pointed her shaky index finger at him and meaning by "him", it as none other than Aladdin.

"Hey, Kougyoku, we meet again." Aladdin commented and sat beside Kougyoku who was now wearing a displeased grumpy face. "Hmmph! I did not wish to see you!" She tilted her head to the side like a tsundere. "No, you're not only sexual harassing maniac but a pervert zombie as well? How low must you go?" She stated, The kid has done and said many embarrassing things to her now. She was not falling for the next!

"Now, that's a fine compliment." He grinned, making Kougyoku face him in anger, "I was not complimenting you! It was not an insult."

"Well, you see, I'm a very optimistic person." Aladdin informed, starting to tease the older girl again. Kougyoku has nothing to counter, the kid was too smart for her. She just sighed and said, " Why were you buried in the snow? Do not tell me that you were waiting for an opportunity for a maiden to lay there and grab their chest area, are you?" She added.

"Don't worry, No maiden is as stupid as you are." Aladdin replied and that drove Kougyoku on her end, "I am not stupid!" She pouted, defending herself. Then she saw a sudden change of expression from Aladdin, " I was trying out how much pain I can bear." Aladdin started then looked at her and smiled, " And I must say that I'm pretty pleased."

Kougyoku's mouth hung open. What did he just say? She abruptly stood up and shouted, " Are you crazy? What if you were unable to bear it and died instead! That is not funny!" She exclaimed.

"Because of a certain heavy girl, I didn't die, tho." Aladdin casually and sarcastically replied. He then received an earful of "I am not heavy!" by Kougyoku.

"You are unbelievable..." Kougyoku said in the end of her long speech about diets and maintaining a good form, in which bored Aladdin to death. She then seemed to realize something as she warily looked at her watched: 7:56. "Oh no, It's turning eight!"

Aladdin looked up at her and saw that she was starting to get pretty frantic. "I'm leaving now. Breakfast by eight, said my auntie, Er, I mean, my step-mother! Good bye and I hope that I won't see you again!" She informed and took a step forward but was then stopped by Aladdin, gripping her hand. "Hey, wait.." He started.

Kougyoku looked back, her brows knit down, "What is it, you molesting brat?"

Aladdin then let go and pulled out a backpack from nowehere, or at least, it seemed non-existent until just now. He opened the zipper and dug out something. When he successfully pulled the thing, Kougyoku screamed a bit, "Hyah! Why are you carrying that thing! That dangerous!" She said. Anybody would be surprised if a F-S Fighting knife would be pulled out from a kid's backpack.

Aladdin narrowed his eyes, "Do you have any ideas as to what this is?" He asked, as if it was normal to ask somebody about a knife.

"A knife? And what about it? Oh my goodness, do not tell me you are planning to take somebody's life?" Kougyoku asked, a hint of being scared was visible in her features.

Aladdin deeply sighed and stuck the knife on his backpack again and zipped it close, "Whatever. Your stupidness is amazing, Kougyoku." He then went away, leaving a completely taken-aback Kougyoku.

Kougyoku ran again, this time much faster, she wanted to go home and confirm something. When she entered her house, she didn't bother to remove her shoes, she directly went to her room. She was heavily catching her breath after arriving on her room. She gulped a seemingly huge lump that formed on her throat. She hoped that she would be mistaken.

She opened her walk-in closet. It was not the one that contained her dresses, in which he opened earlier. It was the one directly in front of that closet. She basically have two walk-in closets on her room. She's a rich kid, after all.

On that specific closet, knives of various sizes and types was revealed as she landed each knife a gaze before looking at another completely different one. She was sweating so much. The reasons as to why were mixed and a lot.

She then heard her door creak. She didn't look at who intruded on her room, she continued to search for something that seemed to have gone missing. Meanwhile, on the door, Ren Kouen , with all his grace, was leaning on it with folded arms as he stared at the nervous Kougyoku, "What's wrong."

That was when Kougyoku lifted her head to look at her elder brother, "Brother Kouen, have you seen my F-S Fighting Knife? I believe that I only possess a single piece of it."

Kouen shook his head, "Is it missing?" he asked.

Kougyoku nodded, "Was there.. was there a point where I brought that knife on a mission?"

Kouen stroked his triangular goatee, "Yeah, there was. That was three years ago, I think. That time on the 50 trials. I remember you bringing two BC-41 , F-S Fighting Knife , two Fixation Bowie , (BW-ACK) and Gerber Mark II. Oh yeah, that time you came back, I don't think I saw your F-S Fighting Knife with you."

Kougyoku's eyes widened, "Is there.. Is there any chance that I left it on a mission?" Kouen nodded, "Yes, there's a possibility. Why what's wrong? Did it go missing?" He asked.

Kougyoku pursed her lips, "Brother Kouen... please give me all information about the 49th and 50th trial that I underwent three years ago." She then looked at Kouen with wide-eyes, her magenta hues seemed to flicker. "As soon as possible."

Author's Note: Alright, let's get on with the information about the knives I inserted in this fan fiction;
*BC-41 = The clip point blade is strongly joined to the knuckle guard and a strong plastic material named Bakelite, grips the primary 4-1/4 inch edge of the 4-3/4 inch exposed portion of the blade when holding it conventionally. Overall the knife is measured to be 9 inches; the knuckle portion measures 4 inches at the widest point.
*F-S Fighting Knife or Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife = The F-S fighting type knife is a double-edged knife which resembles to a dagger. The length of the blade is about 7.5 inches (19 cm).
*Fixation Bowie = The length of the blade is 7 inches and overall its length is 12.25 inches. Its handle is made from Kraton and Sheath is made from nylon.
*(BW-ACK) or Bundeswehr Advanced Combat Knife = This knife is temperature resistant from – 40 ° C to + 80 ° C, mold resistant, resistant to chemical and biological influences. The total length of the knife is about 305 mm , diameter blade length 175 mm, total length about 355 mm, sheath total weight approximately 430g.
*Gerber Mark II = The knife is 12 inches long overall, with a 6.75 inch blade. The blade has double wide serrations on each side of the diamond cross-section shaped blade. The handle is a single piece cast on black metal, with GERBER marker mark on one side.

** Alright, I'm finished. Please do leave a review!