Akira lived with her mom until some weeks ago, they were very poor, but her mom always managed to get them enough for a decent living, Akira noticed she was different from most of the kids for not having a father to call her own.
Her mom always told her that her daddy went on a trip and never came back, which Akira accepted as truth without asking further she was a kid but could notice the shadows that made her mommy s face get sadder every time that subject was brought up.
Her live was really regular for a poor kid. School, then helping at home, later playing and finally sleeping and it was a routine that was only disturbed 6 months ago, Akira s mom felt sick and went to the public hospital.
Sharp pain shot her belly, and all her worst fears came true when the doctor said that she had lung cancer that has spread to all her organs and since it took to long to be found out. Treatment was out of question as her mom was already in terminal stage of that illness.
Akira s mom entered desperation state, and decided to seek someone, to which Akira figured was a relative to take care of her little did I knew at that time of the narrative her life was undergoing a major change.
She arrived on a very refined and high status palace; Akira instantly knew that was a noble household. Was her relative a noble? If so, why mommy always choose to lead a poor and miserable life like that one?
Those questions stormed Akira s mind as her mom requested an audience with someone she never heard about, the family name was quite familiar, but she didn t manage to remember it as the facts of that night really traumatized her.
I remember I began sweating this kind of story was really familiar to him. Stories of people abused by corrupt nobles were always the gossip on parties and balls. I intuitively knew where this was heading and kept listening, now with my heart pounding like a hammer on my chest.
Her mom was summoned to a separated room, gave Akira a hug, the last one she was going to receive from her mom and was left behind. Not wanting to stay behind she followed her mom secretly it would be better if she hadn t.
She remembers very few of what happened there, but this is what she managed to recall from all of it:
Her mom is greeted be a handsome noble. She tells him what is going on, Akira remembers his face getting a big smile, and they hugged and did something that she though it was disgusting; they kissed!
A moment later screams were heard, Akira was held in place be someone and couldn t move at all, she felt terrified and began shouting on the top of her lungs, her mom turned around to look what was going on to be punched in the face and fall to the ground.
A man that seemed to be really old came out through one backdoor, took his glove and slapped the man that was hugging her mom, said some stuff to him; he yelled at him back, and some people also held in pinned down.
They proceeded to kick, punch and humiliate Akira s mom, and all she did in return was to shout Akira s name and try to reach her at all costs, she was bleeding from various spots on her wounded face, a big nasty wound on one of her ears.
The old guy proceeded to walk towards Akira, saying something about abusing this little thing in front of her mother . When she heard that, Akira s mother entered a frenzy state, and managed to free herself from her subjugators; and pounced towards the old man, ripping her claws on his face.
I big shout of pain was heard, and the man backhanded Akira s mother on the face using the back of his hand, she instantly flown 3 feet backwards. Akira was really shocked at that time; her voice was already lost as she couldn t shout any longer
What happened afterwards would be enough to permanently scar anyone mentally forever and from what I understood (as Akira herself just stated what she saw, she didn t know what was going on) was really brute, unnecessary and uncalled for.
Akira s mom had her clothes torn from her by the old man, much to the other one despair, and from what I understood; she was raped time after time by all the guards on that room. Right after all of them were done, one of them got a huge mace and squished her head open like a walnut.
A horror scream was heard on the room, it was the young man s one, his stare now was blank and empty Akira made it clear that he was no longer there, his body maybe, his soul on the other hand had left the rational field a good deal of time ago.
Akira had her dignity untouched from the looks of it but she did get carried away and thrown in the dungeon of that noble s property, she thinks she spent quite some time in there, when a couple of overgrown brutes caught her, washed and took him to the guy that sold them on the slave auction
I was in utter shock anyone that saw my face at that time would see a mix of terror, astonishment, rage and hatred poor Akira, at such an tender age needed to go through all that?!?! That was an absurd!
Little did I know back there but something moved inside of me and without thinking, I hugged Akira. It was a strong and firm hug; she was scared I would hurt her at first because she was shaking, but as soon as she noticed I just wanted to protect her, she relaxed.
I then took her on my arms, she yelped because she got a little scared, afraid I would drop her. I remember her nails sinking on my clothing; but not for hurting me, but to show she trusted me, she put her head on my chest and began purring. I took her to the other side of my bedroom like this and stopped in front of my piano.
She looked around, trying to figure out why I had stopped, I began lowering her on one edge of the piano, she seemed confused as to why I was doing that, but patiently sat there, and waited me sit in front of the piano. That was when I began explaining her:
-Akira-chan I understand how you feel; I lost my mommy when I was 8 years old. But what I really felt to understand you was losing Nina not long ago -Losing Nina made you sadder than losing your own mommy Richard?
-Yes, because Nina has been together with me since I was a little boy. Every time I was sad with something, she would bring me here and play me this song. The same song I am playing you now.
Her tail began moving on a festive manner, her smile showed me how happy she was; her face had no signs of the past sadness covering it any longer, she was shining, and that made me so happy! With that mental image in mind I began playing her the same tune Nina did to me.
I remember how my fingers raced across the notes of the piano, Akira s smiling face made me forget my solitude cause by Nina s death Akira had that healing effect on me I could forget the world problems as long as she was there smiling the sweet trap had already been laid in front of me I was too dumb.
After a while the song ended, and I we both were pretty sleepy, so I decided to take Akira back to her bed. I gently placed her on the there and went to kiss her forehead, but as soon as I neared her she moved and we ended up giving a light kiss on the lips.
After all my face flushed red she said:
-You are a nice person Richard. I like you.
And then she turned around and closed her eyes and I stood up there, alone in the dark bedroom, trying to figure what the heck had happened, why my heart was racing and why I was so flustered about a little girl kiss.