The island was called Svico. That place where families could go to the park together and enjoy each others company. A place where you could look up in the blue sky and white clouds. The children could go outside and play, while the adults enjoy there happy jobs. Just one thing...

This was the exact opposite of that. This was a nation under a strict military control, with both slavery and poverty rampant. If the sky was really blue, was a unanswered question. Svico skies are cloudy gray from the smoke of the work factories. All children must stay home twenty four hours a if they didn't want to consume in the air.

Tegami was a young boynat the age of twelve. His hair was a bit longer and even if did wear a shirt there are no scar's on his body. Like he asumed everyone other child did he helped his parents when they got home from the factory. They were always so worn out after they got home they couldn't even do house work. One of his normal house chores was cooking, something he had no talent for. As soon as his parents stepped through that door he will serve them his smoked salmon. Knowing they would step through that door any second he sat down in the middle of the table.

The front door opened and he could hear footsteps coming in, his father was the first to come in the kitchen but he was missing something. Tegami jumped from his seat and ran towards his dad.

"Dad what happened to your hand" Tegami asked.

Yes his hand was missing from his arm. Tegami's mother Venus walked in next and held on to her husband's arm. She looked down to her son with a 'forced' smile. "Don't worry about it Tegami dear, we just had a accident at the factory today. It was nothing to bad, something went wrong with one of the machines and your father was the only one who could do something about it"

Tegami was still pretty horrified by this, even with his mothers assurance. A missing arm wasn't something you could just ignore, so pretending that is wasn't there was difficult. Alzen saw this in his son and he didn't expect for him to just ignore it. He had to reassure his or else he would lose his will in this place called Svico.

"Yo! Don't worry about this Tegami. It was just a body part" said Alzen. "It just shows how much I am willing to give up to protect the ones I love. I know it will look strange for awhile, but one day it will be like it never happened. Losing this arm is nothing compared to what I would do for you and your mother.… now how about we eat some of that smoked salmon before it gets cold"

They all sat down for dinner with not much to talk about, but they made the most of it. Although Tegami brought up a book to the table he wanted to show his parents.

"Little guy what is that" asked Alzen.

"Its this book I found in the attic, it tells about all islands in the world. They have spring islands, winter islands, and did you know that the sky could be blue. I want to see it for myself" proudly explained Tegami.

"Yes I know all about the blue sky" said Venus. "I used to live outside this nation before king-" Venus stopped herself in mid sentence. She looked towards her worried husband and confused son. "Forget what I was about to say"

To derail Tegami's thoughts Alzen switched the movement of the conversation. "So Tegami if you want to see the outside world then maybe you want to see the most inspiring view"

"Most inspiring view?"

"I can't exactly explain it because I haven't seen it myself. But you will know it when you see it"

"How?"

"You will just get that feeling. Trust me you will know"

After dinner all respective family members went to bed. As soon as they hit the pillow they all fell to sleep. Resting was the most important part of the day and they needed a lot of it.

After a week had passed things seemed to get worse for the Io family. Tegami heard his own parents crying, they never cried. He could hear them talk about how they couldn't keep up with the work at the factory and they couldn't earn enough money. He assumed that they would all be homeless soon, but that didn't hurt him so much. He hated the sound of either of his parents crying it hurt. Then there was the day...

Tegami walked into his parents bedroom and saw them laying next to each other. They are holding tightly onto each others hands, they both are paler than ever. He was going to let them sleep, but he then heard sounds of bagging coming from downstairs.

"Alzen! Venus! Skipping out on work is not an option! Get out here now!"

Tegami had to wake them up, but not matter how much he shook them neither woke up. They been known to be deep sleepers but never this deep, he tried harder and harder but no luck. This couldn't happen to him, not now! not now!

'Bang!'

The door knob was shot off and three Svico soldiers came in. They observed the situation, but not by much. In there eyes all they could see was a boy and two lazy workers sleeping in. One of the soldiers came up to the dead body of Venus and directly smacked her in the face.

Tegami's eyes widened with this. The man had smacked his dead mother, couldn't he let her rest in peace. Then we he did it again, Tegami lost it. He jumped up from the bed and tackled the man in the face. He tried with everything he had to rip his face off, two of the other soldiers came over and pulled Tegami off.

"It looks like both of them are dead, it doesn't really matter" said the soldier rubbing off his face.

Both of the other soldiers looked down at Tegami with a wicked wide grin. "Too bad for you kid… all orphans must join the Svico army"

"NO! SCREW YOU AND YOUR DAMN ARMY" Tegami shouted out of his lungs.

"Too bad you have no choice" The two soldiers pulled Tegami from to bedroom to downstairs, to finally outside in the smokey air.

The last soldier walked out the house with a jug of empty gasoline. He then lit up a match and lowered it to the gasoline. "No don't" thought Tegami.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!'

He watched it all light up in his face. The explosion destroying his house and everything or everyone one in it. There was no chance of anything coming out of there.

"Nooooo!"

All life was now to him is nothing. He was too young to handle so much of a dramatic trauma. He hated Svico with all his heart now. He had only been enrolled into the army shortly after his parents and he already having trouble adapting if he even could. For his first year here he was beat down by other soldiers claiming he was annoying. Yes Tegami did everything he could to piss off the people around him. He spat in there face, fed there food to the animals, brutally attacking them when he could.

So when they returned the favor by beating him, shooting him, or cutting up his body he didn't care. All he knew were two choices either he died or they died, but no matter how much he wanted to die he couldn't because they knew killing him would make him happy. When he reached the age of eighteen he was called in by one of his superior officers.

"What the help do you want? Ya piece of shit" Tegami asked.

"You know Tegami you are just so stupid at times. Anyway im giving you a mission, the Sagittarius have entered near the area so I need you to take them all down" said the officer.

"The Sagittarius pirates! But that's a suicide mission"

"It doesn't matter if you fail then you get an execution"

"Fine whatever" shouted Tegami as he slammed the door behind him.

Tegami didn't really care what happened by this point. He had no one to love, care for, or even think of. After all these years of misery and torture he was almost forgetting his parents face. So whatever happened, happened.

The Sagitarrius pirates are infamous like any other pirate crew. The only thing they really had to separate them from other crews is a female captain, not many of those in the world, Aoi Tonbo. I know what you are thinking, she is a woman of incomparable beauty no. Yes she had her looks but it wasn't really anything to brag about. A pink (she hated pink) mowhawk hairstyle and red eyes. A black tank top and black baggy pants. She and her all male followers were about to walk across the bridge but in countered a man waiting for them across.

The man was tall and well built. He wasn't so much as skinny but he had a bit of muscle tone. He looked pretty dangerous with shark teeth and different colored eyes. He could certainly or potentially be stronger than the other man in her crew.

"Hey you, what is your name" asked Aoi

"Tegami Io, but that shouldn't matter to you" said Tegami

"So the rumors are sure about Svico" thought Aoi. "Tell me are you a slave? Have you ever seen the blue sky?"

"Yes we know all about the blue sky" Tegami remembered his mother say.

"That doesn't matter! my job is to kill you, and thats what im going to do!"

Tegami charged towards Aoi and her crew. With the word given to them all of the Sagittarius pirates charged towards Tegami. It was a difficult battle after so much kicking, punching, stabbing, and other unspeakable methods Tegami and Aoi are the only ones left standing. Tegami gave a bone crunching punch to the woman and sent her flying with a kick. Aoi quickly got back up and whipped out a knife, as she reached enough distance to the man she stabbed him in the shoulder. This left them both standing there panting really heavily. At the same time they punched each other and fell to the ground.

"I… never seen a woman like you" said Tegami

"I'm not like other woman… in case you haven't noticed" said Aoi

"Its Aoi right … tell me if the sky really blue"

Aoi smiled at him even if she couldn't see him. "Yeah every single day you can see the blue sky and the yellow sun with it"

"What's a sun" asked the perplexed Tegami.

"Its a big beutiful ball of light. That shines the world everyday"

"Sounds amazing"

A long silenced lasted before either spoke to each other. Tegami was ready to make this mission a failure and return for his execution. But before he left he had to ask one more thing. "Aoi why did you become a pirate"

"Well I wanted to find a inspirational view and be free" said Aoi

Tegami couldn't believe what he just heard. She also searched a inspirational view, was this another one of life's cruel jokes on him? Was this woman here for a reason?

"Tegami do you want to be free"

With those words his life took a major turning point. Tegami accepted and thanked her with great gratitude. But before he left he had just one piece of business left and it involved Aoi.

As it appeared the factories seemed as normal as usual. Until screaming was heard and the sounds of blood gashing everywhere. The scene moved to inside one of the factories with Aoi and Tegami taking everyone down. If it involved bashing heads in, slicing people open, or even pushing there brains out Tegami and Aoi took down all the factories a most of the guards that tried to stop them. After there great take down of the factories most people where recorded missing or dead. Tegami or Aoi probably didn't know it yet, but they have started a history together.

Four years later the Sagittarius pirates found themselves in a bar partying their asses off. The most lively person at the party however was Tegami who was repeatedly getting into fight after fight. He was clearly drunk, but apparently drunk enough to sit down next to Aoi.

She looked terribly annoyed at the man's presence, she took another sip of her wine trying to block him out of her head.

"Hey what's the matter Aoi" asked the drunk Tegami.

"You are, you stupid idiot" said Aoi

"What do you hate me?"

"Yes!"

"Then I guess you don't want this then" Tegami presented her with a diamond ring he pulled from his pocket. "I know you don't like these femine things but I wanted to show you how much you meant to me. This diamond shows how much I care for you and that I can never stop loving you the way I do. You healed the giant space in my heart I thought could never be filled. You don't -"

Tegami was cut off by Aoi giving him a kiss. "Shut up and love me you idiot"

"I'm not a idiot" he said before proceeding the next kiss.

Months later they had a wedding that was fairly odd. All the guest on both bride and groom side were all male members of the crew. The brides maid was at odd another man. Neither the less Tegami and Aoi joined each others lives and became one. They enjoyed a happy and fun filled marriage for three years until it happened.

"You got me pregnant you idiot" shouted Aoi

Tegami smiled at the woman and laid his hand on her stomach. "I think you make a wonderful mother"

Aoi punched him in the face and sent him flying across the room. But neither the less was happy they are having a baby.

Of course it took the natural nine months later for her to be born. Yes they had a baby girl and all members of they crew gathered inside to look at the miracle they came on the ship. Tegami and Aoi had already talked about retiring since they had a baby. They could start there very own family and live happily ever after. It really did look like a happy ending, but they were wrong.

On this dark stormy night an entire fleet of marines surrounded there ship. Knowing they had to protect there captain and the baby the Sagittarius pirates fought with all they had. But they failed. It was down to Aoi having to fight. But failed as she couldn't handle the fight after the effects of child birth. Tegami watched it all go down in front of him.

They died, they all died. Everything he cherished was now dead in front of him, but he still had one last thing left. He had to defend his daughter and protect her. Tegami grabbed her and attempted to escape with her on the ship. But a dark looming figure stood over him in the lightning storm. He HD malice face inplanted on him and all Tegami remembered were those last few words.

"You failed"

Tegami felt as if a bullet had hit him multiple times and he fell in the ocean below. Everything went black and all he could remember was those words.

"You failed"

Months passed since anyone heard from Tegami. It wasn't until the man came in like a shark at Enies Lobby and killed everyone in sight. He was one man against an army, no matter how strong he was he couldn't take it all at once. By the time he was on his knees there are swords and multiple bullets in his back. He went in this knowing he would fail. He just had to do something to release his anger and prove something. But prove what?

"I guess I had to prove I still lived. Don't worry my little girl I will keep living and I will find you. Until then please know that daddy loves you" Tegami whispered those words before a hit on the back on the head knocked him out.

Wow this was long. Tegami's past is pretty dark and heart breaking, I really wish he could have gotten a happy ending. I finished the anime Future Diary and that is what inspired me too get down to Tegami's past. Eventually Tegami will get his happy ending. Cold D. soul out.