Nightmare Requiem
Deus Arc, First Chapter: Memoria
Chapter Length: 1,478
Total Story Length: 5,216
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Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, which belongs to Tite Kubo. This story is mine, however. Enjoy it!
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Thunder raged through the sky of Karakura Town.
In her room, Kazuya Hitomi "Humm…"
She tossed and tumbled in her bed as she woke up to the sound of thunder.
"Auuuh…" she said as she rubbed her eye. She got up and left her room to go down to her kitchen.
Turning on the light she opened her fridge and grabbed the milk carton. She eyed it suspiciously.
"Uuhh…" was her expression as she opened it and began to drink it. Once finished, she closed it back up and put it back. She closed the fridge and her heart stopped momentarily.
There it was.
A picture of her family…
When she had one, that is…
She stood in the picture grinning very happily as her brother had his arm wrapped around her waist, laughing and enjoying the moment. Her mother above the two of them with her hands on their heads.
It was terrible. First, her brother died less than half a year after his graduation. Next, his mother was murdered half a month after that. That was around the time of the accident. That horrible accident that took her mother's life and nearly her own.
But the strange thing was…
She didn't remember it.
Hitomi couldn't help but feel like she had forgotten something important.
All she did remember was that a rhino escaped from the nearby zoo and trashed her house. Although for some reason, Hitomi felt like her head was deceiving her. She specifically remembered more than just a rhino was involved. She couldn't remember what though.
Somehow she felt like she let down her brother.
She couldn't shake that feeling.
For months it had haunted her.
She just couldn't shake that horrible feeling.
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"Hey, Hitomi!"
She turned around and was almost literally tackled by a girl.
"Ahh! Hanako!"
Hitomi regained her footing and took the girl's arms off from her neck.
"How ya doin'?" she asked Hitomi.
"Oh, Um, Good, I suppose…" she answered, frowning.
"What's wrong? Ya thinkin' 'bout him again?" she wearily asked her.
"Yeah…" she answered as they turned the corner to walk onto the school grounds.
"Hey." a voice said.
"Haha, Jiro!" Hanako called out.
Hitomi looked up to see a tall, brown haired, boy in the school uniform walk up to them.
"Hey, how are you two?" he said, very properly.
Hitomi smiled at him, "Just fine! I'm good now!"
Jiro looked at Hanako and raised his eyebrow. She shrugs in response.
"C'mon, guys! We're going to be late!" Hitomi says as she grabs their hands and runs through the school entrance.
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Sigh… Math is so easy… Hitomi thought to herself silently, Oniisan, are you okay wherever it is you are? Mother, are you with him?
"Class is over…" she heard a brutish but proper voice. She looked up to see Jiro and Hanako.
"W-what?" she looked up and noticed everyone was either gone or leaving for the day, "O-oh…"
"So. C'mon! Lets get outta here quickly!" Hanako practically yelled into Hitomi's face, making her jump.
Hitomi begins to stand slowly before Hanako grabs her hand roughly and drags her and Jiro out of the room.
Soon after leaving the school grounds the group was headed towards their homes. They traveled with a meek silence that was very uncomfortable and awkward. It was as if nothing could-
"Sigh…" Hitomi said to nobody in particular.
"Why're ya thinkin' too much-bout this? Taka-kun died in an' accidental hit and run… there's no secret behind it…" Hanako said, looking at Hitomi.
"Yeah… I know…" she responded Blankly.
Jiro looked at Hanako and frowned. She didn't know what Hitomi was going through. How could she? She wasn't there…
But I was… Jiro thought to himself. Yes, He was there when Takahiro died. He could never bring himself to tell her about it.
No matter how badly he wanted to…
It was etching at him.
He wondered how she must have felt…
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"Sigh" Hitomi says to nothing, again. She takes two steps into her single apartment before slipping off her shoes and throwing her bag halfway across the room. She immediately collapsed onto her couch before yelling an obscenity into one of the cushions.
She turns her head and begins to talk to herself, "Why can't I get my mind off him!"
She turns around entirely and stares at her ceiling, "… He died five months ago… I thought I put that behind me already…"
Taking a quick glance towards her kitchen, she sees it. The family portrait of Hitomi, her brother, and her mother.
"Takahiro-oniisan…" she says softly to it.
Kazuya Hitomi was very unfortunate.
But it wasn't always like that.
Hitomi had a loving Brother, Kazuya Takahiro, and a loving Mother, Kazuya Yukie. Hitomi had a father who divorced their mother. Her mother had custody. Once her father heard of what happened, he supplied Hitomi with money. Being wealthy, money was of no consequence when it came to his daughter, he even offered to move in with her. Hitomi wouldn't hear of it, though. She didn't want to be a bother.
Her father, Umaki Kazuma, was very rich and very successful in Tokyo. He was the owner of a large business. Kazuma and Yukie divorced because Yukie felt Kazuma often neglected her and their children for his work. Kazuma, realizing that Yukie had a point, decided that He would give Yukie a large sum of money to survive for five years without needing to work as well as custody of Takahiro and Hitomi. Yukie rejected the money proposal but kept the children.
That was twelve years ago.
"Damn it!" She said, shaking her head hard. "Stop thinking about the past!"
She looked over to her Television and clicked it on with her remote.
"- The crater that appeared out of nowhere in the forest area has now been reported to have taken the lives of an estimated twenty people. They seem to have no physical wounds on them, but it they are all dead. There has been a claim that this was a cause of -"
She changed the channel. "Why are all these strange accidents happening all of a sudden," she sighed, turning off the TV entirely, "and they say TV is supposed to be happy…"
Sighing one more time, Hitomi slowly drifts into a cold darkness.
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"Hitomi! Watch out for that-"
"Wuah"
SMASH
"… Log…"
Hitomi got up and rubbed her bruised leg.
Takahiro ran up to her, "Hey, dumbass, watch where you step… You're to much of an airhead…"
Hitomi stuck her tongue out at her brother and said, "Oniisan, you be quiet!"
"Haha, I'm serious… I'd hate to think what would happen to you if a stranger called you over to a dark alle-" Takahiro suddenly stopped and seemed to turn pale.
"Oniisan?" Hitomi said, worried.
"Oh god! He'd probably convince you with candy!" Takahiro said, shocked out of his head, "And then you'd follow him and then next thing you know, BAM! Theres like six guys all around you!"
Hitomi griped as she imagined the situation.
"And then," Takahiro kept going frantically, "they'll have their way with you!"
"What!?" She yelled out.
"They'll throw candy all over you and you'll get fat!" Takahiro said, laughing as he finished his statement.
"Takahiro!!!" She yelled out and threw her hardest fist to his face which collided with his cheek.
Takahiro fell back into the leaves, bruised and laughing.
"That's not funny!" she screamed at him, "I'd never do that!"
"Now anyway…" Takahiro said, smiling at her. He got up and pet her head, "Now that I've brought it to your attention, I'm sure you'd definitely make sure that doesn't happen… You worry me… you're to much of a… free spirit… you know?"
She looked at him as if he had grown a second head. "Wh-what?"
He sighs and laughs, "Nevermind… Just take care of yourself, yeah?"
Hitomi blushes and grabs a hold of her brother's arm with both of hers, "Yeah!"
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"Uhh…?"
Hitomi gets up and looks around. She sees absolutely nothing except for the small green figures that glowed in the dark. She read them,
"ugh… its four fourteen in the morning… damn…"
She gets up off her couch and walks over to her bathroom. She turns the waters on and begins to draw a bath, Might as well bathe now… I wont be going to sleep after hitting the sack for so long…
She takes off her uniform and strips to her bare skin and slinks herself into the very warm water and leans her head back.
Staring at the ceiling, Hitomi watches the light, thinking absolutely nothing.
She blinks repeatedly so many times before breaking the eerie silence of her bathroom, "Oniisan… are you happy?"
No response but the waters moving with her body.
"Are you… safe?"
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"I love you… Oniisan…"
She sighs.
"Goodnight…"
Takahiro…
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E/N: Chapter One. Yes…