D. Gray-Man
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Name: Gin (silver) Zaki
Age: 15
Height: 5'2
Hair: White. She wears her hair in pig tails that are really curly and comes down to her shoulders. She has bangs which cover her right eye and come down to the middle of her neck along with her side bangs.
Eye Color: Her left eye is bright green and her right eye is all black.
**Three years ago**
She falls to the hard ground, sharp rocks digging into her pale arms and legs. The girl spits up bloody saliva and gets up like nothing happened. She looks to be around twelve, with her short stature and small hands. But her eyes show no innocence as she smiles sweetly. Flattening her white hair, the young girl closes her bright green eye while sighing to herself. She wore a black cloak with the hood down and under it black shorts and a tank top with lace going down the middle. She had on black ballet shoes that were worn out. A black eye patch on her left eye is covered by her white hair.
"That should show you little girl to not steal from a noble man like me." A man with dark brown hair slid back on his head and cruel eyes stood above her, taller by two feet or so. As he studied the girl, she just giggled softly and smiled once again at the noble.
"I would say I'm sorry," she says with a sugar-coated voice, "but I was told not to tell lies. Now, I need to teach ya some manners, ne?" The noble growled and lurched towards her violently. The young girl ducks under his arm swiftly and kicks his ribcage. "Che, is that all a big ass noble like you got? I've fought street kids tougher than you!" Yelling while blood and saliva falls out of his mouth, I tries to grab her neck, but she once again hastily avoids his attempt and rushes behind the large man.
"Damn brat!" Poking a few places on his back, arms, and legs, she watches as he suddenly collapses where he stood and shakes ferociously.
"Pressure points are so useful, Monsieur. Don't you agree?" He looks up with hate filled eyes as his body convulses once again. "I should make ya pay for hurting that little boy standing over there. But I feel merciful, so I'll just leave ya with your humiliation and take the child. Au revoir. Now, you!" She points to a cowering boy about her size but with child-like eyes, which had tears threatening to fall at that time.
"Y-yes?" She motions for him to follow her. He thinks about running away, but where would he go? His master was the only one he knew, and she was taking him from his self.
"Boy, what's your name?" Her voice is sharp but gentle.
"Master just called me Brat. I guess you can too, Maître." He bows his head and his bright red hair covers his face, hiding his tears falling onto the concrete. She lifts his head up carefully, studying his face as he cowers under her touch, afraid of the beating that he would surely get.
"I'm gonna name ya Xerxes. You'll take on my last name and be my little nii-san from now on." She smiles as Xerxes looks into her green eye in surprise and burst into tears of joy. Xerxes wraps his arms around her and sobs into her chest.
"Wh-what's your name, Onee-san?" He looks up at her innocently e looks up at her innocently and she smiles emotionlessly. He doesn't see it, though, and waits for her reply. She pats his head softly and puts him on her back, carrying him. He laughs quietly but waits for her name still.
"My name is Zaki Gin. So your full name is Zaki Xerxes. So Xerxes, how old are you?" He smiles widely for the first time in years.
"I'm ten I think." Gin nods and keeps walking down the vacant street. The street lamp flickered and cast shadows on the dark buildings and houses. She stops in front of a three story house that is black with ash. The smell of old smoke comes from the entire building and Xerxes chokes on the smell.
"Sorry about that," she says apologetically. "This house was burnt a few years ago on the outside and they decide not to fix it back to its old glory. The inside is perfectly okay, too." She opens the door and he slides off her back. The room was black with a few expensive looking furniture including a deep red couch that seemed to look like a cloud o some sort. Gin quickly lit some candles with a match she had gotten from a fancy table.
"This is where you live, Onee-san? It's amazing!" She chuckles softly as she flicks the match out.
"Yes, well, I have a lot of free time and many people don't need these, so I took them instead." Xerxes frowns and looks up at her.
"Stealing is wrong, Onee-san." She looks at him surprised, but then laughs loudly.
"Xe, you're so naïve! The people I took them from were cruel and heartless. They didn't even need any of it. These people woulda used it for sex or something." Xerxes faces blushed red but Gin didn't seem fazed.
"B-but then, why do you need all of this?" She grins and starts walking to the circular stairs as he follows behind her quickly.
"Because I have nothing, so I should at least give myself a nice house to come back to." He nods, still uncertain. She leads him up to a long hallway with multiple doors on each side. Striking another match, she lights the lanterns in the corridor as she passes them. Gin stops one of the closed doors and opens it up. Inside was a child sized bed with a gray comforter and white pillows. "This will be your room from now on. I am right across the hall if ya need me." He nods, still looking at the medium sized room.
"Good night Onee-san! Thank you for taking me, too." She waves his thanks away and turns around and leaves the room, leaving the door cracked open a little. Xerxes hears her going down the stairs, most likely to blow out the few candles she had lit. He quickly gets under the covers of his bed and sighs happily. This is all new to him. He never had an actual bed or blankets.
Gin comes back up the stairs and quietly slips into her room, closing the door behind her. Her bed is a queen sized bed with red comforters and black pillows. The walls are black like all of the rooms and there are only a few things in the room. She walks to a fancy nightstand with curved legs and lights a single candle. Going to the bed, she lays down and lets herself get warmed up before closing her eyes.
"Why did I do this?" she mutters to herself. Rubbing the hollow of her neck where the cross was entrenched, Gin blows out the candle and the room is pitched into complete darkness. "He'll just make things harder for me."
"After all, didn't they tell him not to go near the murderer?"
**Present**
I walk beside Onee-san as we dodge between the arrogant nobles. She wears a bright red dress with the usual big skirt. Lace covers the front of the top and the back of it is open, showing part of her dragon tattoo including the head on her shoulder. Her arms are bare and I can clearly see the goosebumps accumulated from the chilly November wind. Onee-san had gone through the trouble to fix her hair to make it look neat this morning.
"Onee-san, you're clearly cold. Here, take my jacket please." I wear a fancy tux with tails and a black top hat. I feel like a snob just as the nobles look like one. Onee-san shakes her head slightly, refusing the jacket. I sigh and continue to walk behind her slightly, scanning for anything that would dare get near her. We leave the crowd of nobles and walk until we reach a two story house.
"Xe, we're here. This is where I must go in along. Wait by the door please."
What?
"O-Onee-san, please let me accompany you! I can't let you go in there alone!" She turns her body away from me but looks back with her piercing green eye. I can barely see the thin string holding her eye patch together under her hair.
"Xerxes, just stay her. I will be quite safe even alone. Don't forget, dear Frère," she says sharply, "that I am the one who protects you. Just because you're taller doesn't mean you're more powerful. Remember that." Her eye softens a little. "Now, just stay and wait for me right here. I'll be out in no more than ten minutes, that being the maximum."
"Why do you need to go alone, if I may ask, Onee-san?" She che's and shakes her head as she turns back to the door and pushes it open.
"You may not, Xe." She looks back and smiles at me encouragingly before slamming the door behind her, leaving me worrying about her.
Why won't she let me follow her? I know that she is stronger than me, but she looks weak. Someone might try something with my lovely Onee-san!
"Noooooo Onee-san! Don't ggoooo!" I cry aloud. She could get kidnapped! Even worse, r- r-raped! I blush even thinking about it. I can't let that happen! I grab the door handle and pull, the sweat drop; it's locked. Dang it, Onee-san! I lean against the door and sigh deeply. She doesn't need to leave me out here.
I wonder whose house this is.
I give him a small smile before I close the door in his face. I stand there, seeing when he tries to open it, when he yells for me not to go, and I can just imagine the comical tears he would have right now. It's not like I don't want him to be here with me, it's just that his sisterly complex wouldn't help me from here on. I finally work up the courage to step away from the door, thus stepping away from Frère.
I'm sorry, but I need to go on now." I walk through the corridor, looking at the luxurious furniture as I pass rooms with open doors. At the end of the long hallway, I walk up the spiral staircase, one much like my house. My soft steps echo through the quiet house. As I reach the top, there's another shorter hallway, but with only one door at the end.
This is where he is. I can smell his cigarette smoke and alcohol from here.
I head towards the door with light steps. The hallway is empty; no pictures on the walls, no carpet on the floor, not even any doors except that one. I turn the doorknob and let it swing open. My sensitive nose meets the smoke as it slowly leaves the darkened room. I wait until nearly all of it is gone before walking inside a few steps. I can see his grin and calculating eye boring into mine.
"Ah, what a lovely lady. Why would one such as you be coming into my room, pray tell?" I sit down on my knees and lay my hands on my thighs before answering him.
"Give it up, old man. If you can't see from the smoke, I'm too young for you." I can see his red hair by now and shut the door, leaving the remaining smoke to float around in the air. "You remember me now, ne? Then you now why I'm here." He laughs.
"Ah yes! It's the little twerp from back then. Gin, was it? Yes, I know why you're here. But I'm afraid I already left that brat three months ago. Who knows where he is now?" I clench my dress and grit my teeth, but my face stays passive. "Oh, but I do know where the brat will be. I'll tell you if," he says, pointing his finger at me, "You promise to watch over him. He can't take care of himself."
"Like I need you to tell me to do that, old man. So just tell me where he is." He just smiled and explained how to get there. I memorized how to get there after he told me for the third time. And after writing it down.
"Now leave, twerp. I don't need another kid to look after." I stood up and left the smoky room without saying anything.I walk down the short hallway, down the spiral stairs and through the longer hallway and past the fancy furniture to the door. I unlocked the door just as Xerxes got up from beside it.
"Onee-san!" he yelled and threw his arms around me. "You smell like smoke, what was going on?" His eyes showed concern clearly and I just shake my head.
"I'm fine, Xe. I just had a little talk with an old man, that's it. But we're going on a little trip." He lets go of me and looks down at me, confused.
"A trip? Why are we leaving Asia?" I ignore the question and shake him off me completely. "Onee-san, where are we going at least?" I turn around to face Xerxes with a smirk.
"We're going to Europe."
See! I told ya would have it out quickly! Not even a day has passed! I actually started working on this before the Prologue, so that's why. I'm telling ya now, I won't be so quick to have the next chapters out. I'm currently working on a Bleach fa fiction too called Hated Voices, Hated Me So I'm quite busy as it is. I hope ya enjoyed this chapter!
Frère means "brother" in French. Gin can speak several languages fluently. That includes French, Japanese, English, and a little Spanish. Xerxes can speak Japanese and some English.
Xe is just Gin's nickname for Xerxes, if ya didn't know :P
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~Usagi-san