A/N: Hello my friends, JJ the Pancake Thief here to bring you some news. First off, please do not read unless you have read Chapter one. Second off, please do not read unless you have finished Volume 4, this story has spoilers. Lastly, Chapter two will bring Volume 4, Chapter 10 alive. Fair warning to be sure to have some tissues ready! Enjoy!

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Chapter Two- Kuroyuri

The lovely sound of water flow is heard as a small boy smiles happily and leans over the near the stream of water and looks over at the Lotus flower that sits near the edge.

"Why hello, Little Lie," giggled An Ren, the boy's mother, as she stood holding a basket, "Are you trying to catch a fish?"

"I found a flower on the water!" Lie exclaimed happily while pointing at the lotus. An smiled at her boy.

"Oh, I see." She smiled as he gets up and runs over to her and looks up.

"Can we take it home and plant it in the garden?" Lie asked eagerly. An frowned feeling her boys sweet love for the flower tug at her heart.

"No, Sweetheart, That flower lives here," The mother said sadly to her son who frowned and looked down at the ground, quite sad that he could not take the precious flower home, "But I'll tell you what you can do," An smiled and pulled something out of the basket she was holding, "Take this lien and go find something nice for your fathers return. He's been hunting for quite some time. I bet the journey has been very tiring, don't you?" His mother smiled while outing a single lien out to the small boy.

"Yes." Lie said while taking the Lien from his mother.

"Do you think you'll know what he wants?"An asked her son.

"I think he wants a water flower in the garden!" Lie said while smiling up at his mother. His mother shook her head and smiled.

"Why did you have to inherit my sass?" The mother asked jokingly as she scooted her son off. Lie chuckles and runs off. An smiled and proudly watched her son runoff.

Nora ran into the village and hid underneath a porch of a building, quickly searching the area for something she could eat. She didn't care where it came from or what it was as long as it was edible. She watched as people walked around the village, some people were in groups laughing and talking, others were walking alone carrying objects, others were running around playing and chasing after each other. The village was lively with people.

"Food…" The poor girl whispered softly to herself as her belly growled, betraying her with hunger.The girl frowned and waited for an area to clear out before running off to search for her prize.

Lie Ren ran up to a weapon stand and chuckles and held out the sing lien to the man who was running the stand.

"What can I buy with this?" Lie asked.

"Hehehe," The Blacksmith chucked and bent down and rummaged around before standing up and held a wooden sword in one hand and a wooden hammer in the other, "Well, something just your size." Lie sighs and looks down at the ground.

"I'm sorry," Lie said and ran off and searched through all the stands before running to a stand alcohol stand, knowing the exact drink his father like. He stood behind a man waiting for him to move. One to seller handed the man his drink the man walked up to the stand and held his lien out, "Saka, please." the boy asked but the seller looked at him like he was crazy before shaking his head. Lie sighs and looks down and walks off. Lie looked up just to see a bakery story. He smiled wide and ran over to it and looked into the window, smiling at the goodies he saw in it. Lie was about to go into the building until he heard someone yell mockingly.

"Hey, get back here!" The mocking out of a boys yell was heard. Lie sighed and gained a serious look and ran towards the voice.

Sounds of three boys mocking laughter are heard as Nora cowardly crouches in the down hugging a molded bread. The three boys mocked her and one of the boys tried to snatch the bread from her but she quickly backed up and shook with fear. Only simply wanting the boys to leave her be.

"Where did you get that bread?" The taller boy asked " I didn't see you pay for it, thief" his voice annoyingly mocked her.

"No, look, it's all moldy!" The shortest boy exclaimed.

"I think she got it from the trash!" The taller boy said.

"Let me see," The medium boy said as he reached out for the beard. Nora backed up a bit but soon bit onto his fingers as his hand inched closer to her face, "Ouch! She bit me!"The taller boys eyes widened in slight fear before the medium boy growled and pushed Nora making her fall and dropping her bread. The poor orange head layed on the ground and cried for a little bit get hurrying up and grabbing her bread and backing up and crouching again, hugging her bread and looking down crying and shaking.

"Where'd she come from?" The shorter boy asked, "She's dressed all weird!"

"I bet she's abandoned! Like a dog or something!" The taller boy explained.

"Does that mean I have rabies?" The medium boy asked. The three boys started laughing. Lie slowly inched to them and frowns, watching the scene before him. It didn't take the three boys long before they turned and saw Lie. Lie locked shocked, he didn't know what to do except for the first thing that came to his mind, panic. Lie started panicking and turning around and running off but was stopping after running into his father, Li, and falling onto his back.

"Father?" Lie asked while looking up.

"What is happening here?" Li Ren asked as he looked around, and then his gaze went to the three boys and Nora.The three boys looked at each other in fear. Not only was the three boys feared but Nora was also. Nora gasped and quickly got up and ran off, soon afterward the three boys ran off also, "Do you wish to run with the rest of them?" Lie asked while looking down at his son. Lie frowns and looks down at the ground. Lie sighed and kneels down and placed his hand on his son's shoulder, "Sometimes the worst action to take is taking no action at all," Li looked down, "Go home. I need to speak with the mayor." Li got up and walked off. Lie frowns and watches his father walk away before looking towards the location Nora ran off. The boy sighed sadly and slowly made his way home. Who was that girl? Lie asked himself as he walked home. I wonder what happened to her………. I want to find her….but father told me to go home. Lie frowned and walked towards his house.

Nora ran, crying and scared. All she wanted was to hide and eat her bread. She was scared that the bullies would come back again. No, they won't come back again, that man scared them off. Nora quickly ran off hiding underneath a porch and slowly started to munch on the moldy bread. It tasted bad but she didn't care, it was food and she didn't know when she would have her last bite out of anything else.

It was late night and everyone was fast asleep. Lie Ren lay sleeping peacefully, all the way to a point where the roar of an unknown Grimm was heard, Making Lie open his eyes in fear and sitting up. And gasped as his door swung open.

"Lie, get up. We have to go." An said as she ran into her son's room.

"Mother?" Ren asked worriedly.

"Now, right now, ok? Let's go!" An grabbed her son's arm, running out of the room with him but soon stopped in the middle of their living room just as the door opened and her husband stumbled in, breathing heavily.

"Li!" An exclaimed.

"An, what are you doing?! We need to hurry!" Lie exclaimed while walking over to her.

"We can go to the safehouse." An stated.

" No. I saw that beast. We need a huntsman. You two need to leave!" Li said.

"What?" An asked, followed by the extremely angry roar of the unknown Grimm.

"Mother…" Lie asked, in tears and scared.

"It's ok, Darling.Everything's ok." An gave her son a reassuring smile but soon as doing so the roar got closer and the roof collapsed on them.

Screams were heard all around the village, followed by the heavy breathing of Li as he ran holding Lie who was out cold. After running for a while longer Lie slowly awakens and looks around.

"Father? Wh..Where is Mother?" Lie asked, his father didn't answer him, only continued to run and breathing heavily, "What is going on?! Where is Mother?!" Lie was panicking now. The scene before them, people were running around scared to death and screaming, debris was falling from the ground and soon Li get knocked to the found dropping Lie in the process and groaning in pain, "Father!" Lie cried out, terrified.

"Lie, you have to run," Li told his son while sitting up. Lie crawled closer to his father.

"No, please, don't leave me! Get up!" Lie cried out, the Grimm let out another roar, making Lie look up at the sky with fear.

"Listen to me, son. You have to be brave now. Do you understand?" Li asked Lie.

"No! Please! I cant! Please, Father!" Lie cried out while laying his head against his father's lap. Lie growls and pulls out a dagger and places it in his son's hand before roughly pushing him away.

"Yes, you can! Take action, son." Lie said. Lie looked at the sword and wide his eyes, watching his father stand up with his bow and arrow, " Your mother and I love you."

"Father….no…." Lie cried before the Grimm soon landed on the ground. Li started pulling out and arrowing and putting it into the bow and aiming at the Grimm.

"RUN!" Li yelled towards his son who immediately ran off, in full fear.

Nora cried in fear as she hid under a porch of a building. Terrified to death, she didn't know what the creatures were, but she knew that they were not friendly at all. There are creatures that were attacking, creatures that were similar to the creature who attacked her mother and father. In the long distance, she can barely see the boy from earlier who watched her get picked on by the bullies. He was hiding and crying. But soon he seemed to get a light magenta glow to him before he calmed down and jumped out of his hiding place and running towards her. Nora shook in fear.

"Hey!" Lie ran up to Nora and placed his hand on her shoulder, "We have to be brave." Lie gave Nora a reassuring smile. But the nonstop screeching of a Grimm was scaring her too much. Nora soon clung herself around Lie and cried.

"I'm scared. " The soft, scared voice of the orange haired girl said.

"Me too," Lie said and searched around before seeing to toy wooden hammer from earlier. He got up but Nora cried and pulled him down, "Its ok," Ren got up and walked over to the wooden hammer before picking it up and walking back to Nora, "We'll keep each other safe," Lie held out the toy to her. Nora looked at it with wide watery eyes before reaching and taking it out of his hand, "What is your name?"

"Nora," Nora said while looking up at him.

"My name is Lie Ren," Lie smiled at Nora and grabbed her hand Pulling her close to him, his semblance darkening their emotions away, "Come on we need to get out of here!" He helped the girl up and they both ran, escaping the village.

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Hey! I hope you guys enjoyed this Chapter. Sorry I tried my hardest spent about 3 good hours tryong to bring this chapter alive. It was been so so long sincce I have seen Volume 4 ep 10. And An Ren is my fav mom character. When that episode came out I watched it so much time just because to the backstory. Its a sad back story but it was also cute as well. Sorry, I kinda forgot if there was a fight scene in that backstory so I just decided to skip it if there was. Sorry if my explaining was not good either I am still working on it. Also sorry if I made yall cry! Now now, its 5 am in the morning im going to bed.