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As the Crow Flies

Chapter 1 Let's Be Friends

A girl about nine years old walked out onto the playground of her school, she had black hair and deep violet eyes. Once again she was alone the rejected witch. Her eyes traveled to a boy sitting alone beneath a tree. He was new he had only arrived at her school two weeks ago and while his attitude was fairly normal like the other boys but he was alienated almost immediately. He always wore long sleeved shirts and gloves, no matter what the weather. But other than his choice of clothes he was normal as far as she was concerned. Well other than the fact that a flock of crows now currently resting in the tree above him seemed to follow him everywhere. She walked over to him he was wearing a blue long sleeved shirt, black gloves and blue jeans. His hair was black as night and messy, his eyes shining like gold.

"Come to make fun of me too?" the boy asked as he looked up at her. "Oh it's you."

"Oh it's me?" asked the girl confused.

"Yeah you're different from the others; they think you're different too. But you seem pretty normal to me, well everyone's normal compared to Me." the spoke in a tone that was mature for his age, but she really couldn't say she wasn't the same.

"Trust me I'm not normal."

"Whatever you say Saki Hanajima."

"How did you know my name?"

"It's sort of a skill I can tell almost anything about a person by looking into their eyes, but your different, all I can see is your name and that's it." he looked down for a second. "I'm Hajime Sakuya."

"Liar." Saki said flatly. "I can tell when people lie their waves waiver."

"Waves?"

"It's kind of hard to explain, it's sort of this energy. So what's your real name?"

"I can't tell you sorry, but you seem nice so maybe if I knew you better."

"Oh okay." Saki looked down for a second. "Wanna go play on the swings?"

"Sure!" Hajime said in a playful tone before they bounded off to the swing set.

"Hajime's" home

Hajime walked into the apartment of the building he and his mother lived in after the bus dropped him off.

"Mom I'm home." Hajime called.

"Oh Keoni your home, you seem cheerful today." Called Reiana as she walked out the kitchen/dinning/ living room. She hadn't changed much, now 25 there was only a slight height difference, maybe only an inch or two her hair was longer now just down to her waist.

"Yeah I finally made a friend!" Reiana leaned down to his level.

"That's wonderful!"

"Yeah she's an outcast like me, she has some strange power that makes everyone scared of her. But she was really nice she was even friends with my crows." Keoni looked to see his mother with a serious face. "What's wrong mama?"

"Keoni you know you can't be around girls, even the slightest skin on skin contact with a girl and you're a crow. Even she can't accept that."

"But I can be careful, that's why I always where long sleeves and gloves I'll be fine, and besides I already invited her to play this weekend so there." He stuck out his tongue.

"Keoni you really shouldn't have done that." She sighed. "But I guess it's alright, but our apartment is small so how about we go to Keiko's place." Keoni looked shocked.

"You just want Keiko-sensei to erase her memories like before, I never keep my friends, and we're always moving and changing names."

"It's for your protection Keoni, there are people who want to hurt you just because you were born the Crow, they don't understand that you're just Keoni."

"You don't understand either, you never will." And Keoni ran to his room and slammed the door.

"No I won't will I?"

Keoni's room

Keoni sat on his bed in his room, it was small not much bigger than a large closet but it had the basic necessities.

"I'm so stupid why do I even bother, mom won't let me see her."

"Now, now Keoni what's wrong." Keoni looked up to see a handsome man about 20 with hair black as night like his but instead of messy and unkempt it was neat and pulled back into a braided pony tail he wore a black kimono he was transparent like a ghost. Keoni looked up into the man's eyes, vivid blood crimson eyes with slits for pupils. Little did Keoni know that some would say he was staring into the eyes of the devil himself the human form of the demon Karasu.

Well so ends another chapter read and review.