Sakuchii: *jumping around and typing this while listening to music*
Aiko: It seems that the next chapter is done, right?
Sakuchii: *realises someone was talking to her* AH! YES! I finally got the next chapter done! I managed to upload three of my Inazuma fic on this week! I'm hella happy!
Yukiko: Hu-uh... you managed to write those even though you had exams almost everyday.
Sakuchii: Actually I had them everyday... English national listening, math exam, mother language (Finnish) exam, Swedish national and Swedish listening...
Aiko: OH MY! That's a lot... did you study for them *seeing Sakuchii all silent* I knew it! My god with you! You should really know when to take breaks! You cannot do everything at the same time!
Sakuchii: Okay... But well, I'm really grateful to all those who had given their OC for this story, and I try to use them the best way I can. *bows*
Yukiko: Also... Sakuchii had sent an acception message to all those whom she has accepted (meaning ALL) and would be waiting for your reply. So please be kind enough to reply her, or she might not use your chara in this fic. (This doesn't include those who already have replied to her)
Sakuchii: My god Yukiko! Don't be so mean to them, of course I will use them all, though I would really like you guys to reply.
Aiko: I also noticed that you got all those OC's and you're still a little disappointed... Why?
Sakuchii: Oh, of course I'm extremely happy about all the chara's! But there is still few boys whom I want to appear in this story, but their missing a crush! *puppy eyes*
Yukiko: And those are?
Sakuchii: HAII! Fideo and Rococo! I especially want one for Fideo :3 *puppy eyes*
Aiko: Stupid Fideo lover. But it would be nice to inform that Sakuchii is still accepting charas, but only limited number of them, so that she can keep this story won't break away XD So if you want to appear in this story and still haven't gave your OC then do it fast or miss your chance! (Oh my it rhymed)
Shirou: Anoo... can't we start already? I really want to read it already... your stupid chatting is getting annoying.
Sakuchii: OH MY! I'm really sorry Shirou-chii...! So I still DO NOT own INAZUMA ELEVEN! I only own my OC's :D All the other OC's belong to their rightful owners.
Aiko: Enjoy the chapter full of Shirouness! *love*
Chapter Two: Nobody's Son
Shirou let out a loud sigh as he walked along street past many houses and different shops. His whole body was itching from pain and he could hardly walk forward. Little kids were running past him and didn't even care about him. Older people were staring at him with angry glares and tried to avoid the boy. All of a sudden he felt his shirt being pulled and when the boy turned around he saw a little girl with blonde hair and emerald colored eyes was staring at him with her index finger inside her mouth.
"Onii-san, are you okay? You look really terrible" she asked with innocent eyes and came a little closer to the gray-haired boy. Terrible? It was really the perfect word to use. Shirou stared at the little girl who was staring at him with those emerald-colored orbs of her. How could he explain to this little innocent girl what had he just gone through, what could he make up as excuse to his terrible look? Wait, what was he thinking about... Why would he bother to tell something about himself to a little kid?
"RAZEL SATO! How many times I have told you to stop talk to strangers?" they suddenly heard a male voice shouting and the girl turned around in startle, still not letting go of Shirous shirt. "But father, this Onii-san looks awful... We need to help him." the little girl argued against her father, but it was useless. After all, she was only a little child.
"You come here NOW!" commanded the angry voice of the male. The girl almost jumped from the fear and awkwardly turned to Shirou. The gray-haired boy smiled at the girl and kneeled before her, "I'm really okay, don't worry about me." he patted the girls head as the other one started at him still sucking her finger.
"Okay, take care Onii-san" she finally nodded happily and ran to her parents. After she was scolded by them, she once more turned to Shirou and waved happily. Shirou smiled happily and answered with a low wave, but stopped when he heard people around him whispering something.
"Hey, isn't that the Maeda family's adopted son." one middle aged woman whispered to her companion.
"Right. I heard he brings a lot of trouble to the family." the other one answered with offended tone.
"That's so true. I heard that he was the reason for their daughters death. I pity the oldest son the most, because of his parents stupidity his own children have to suffer." they heard a male from a fish shop telling.
Shirou walked past all the people and listened as their complaining about him didn't stop and felt him even more miserable than just earlier. He felt a strong pain in his left shoulder and covered it with his right hand. Not ever in his life time had he felt himself so unwilled. Shirou turned right from one of the corners and disappeared into an alley.
On the black alley, where no one was he sat down to let himself rest a little. His whole body was covered by mud and it was shivering as he breathed heavily. He had no shoes on and his clothes were ripped off from countless of places. On the clothes you could see stains of blood. Shirou body was cover by burn marks, scars, swallows, and all other wounds that he had got when his "father" had beaten him up.
Could you really call him a father...? Shirou sighed and tried to clean himself from all the blood stains that were running by his body. No, to Shirou he wasn't a father. As the old lady from the market place had said, he was an adopted child. Actually the ones who really adopted him were his "fathers" parents, but after their death the oldest son had taken care of him.
You cannot really say that he was taken care of, because he was almost everyday beaten up by his "father", especially on those days when he had drunk something. Shirous "father" blamed the gray-haired boy for his parents death, and when his only daughter had died just the day earlier he once again put the blame on Shirou. Today again, the old man after drinking like a pig, had beaten the young boy up and had kicked him out of the house, telling him never come back.
Now that I have told you about Shirous "father" not being his real father you probably are wondering where Shirous real parents. To tell the truth this is not known, because as long as Shirou remembers he's been always living in a adopt family or alone and doesn't remember anything about his real parents. It is assumed that they are dead, but this is unknown if it's only a rumor or a true story.
So there he was, sitting alone on a dark alley not knowing where to go and not having place where to stay. Blood was running by his body and his sight was getting blurry as the hunger and lack of sleep started to take an affect on him. His breathing was getting heavier and harder every single time he breathed in and then again out. Not wanting to give up to the hunger and exhaustion he stood up with his whole shivering like crazy.
All of a sudden while leaning against wall Shirou heard a young child voice shouting happily not far from his place. This time it wasn't the girl he had met just earlier because the voice belonged to a boy. After that an older girls voice scolded the boy as she tried to keep up with the running child, or to correct, children. Yes, with the girl there was two young boys. Shirou raised his head a little to see one girl with black colored cloak and two boys with one of them having dark crimson colored cloak and the other one having copper red colored cloak.
"Haruya, Hiro-kun! How many times I have told you to not wander on your own. We're not here to play around." the girl shouted angrily while holding a basket full of different fruits and other things as she tried to catch the two running child.
"Yeahaha! Baka-neesan, trie and catchie meh!" the crimson cloaked boy laughed happily as he tried to avoid the hands of the frustrated girl who was trying to catch him.
"Crys-nee! Not gonna catchie us, not gonna catchie us!" the boy with copper cloak jumped around as he followed the example of his rebellious friend.
"Haruya, Hiro-kun! I'm serious!" the angered black cloaked girl shouted and all of a sudden the aura around her started to grow stronger and her eyes which were hidden under the hood flamed red.
Both of the jumping boys froze to their places and gulped. They knew exactly what this meant, and the best choice for them was to stay still and not move from that place. Everything would probably had gone well if suddenly a strange thing had not popped out from under the copper cloaked boys cloak. Shirou even had to blink his eyes to make sure that he wasn't seeing things because what he saw was a... tail... a black cats tail.
"Gr- Gran..." the dark crimson cloaked boy whispered to tell his friend that everything wasn't all right, but the other boy was too concentrated on the angry girl that he had forgot the most important rule when staying in the city.
The black cloaked girl noticed the black thing swaying from right to left and the feeling of anger grew only stronger. "HIROTO! Hide that thing... IN THIS INSTANT!" she shouted in anger which made the copper cloaked boy to startle and the black thing of his back instantly hid under the cloak.
Shirou continued watching them and slowly wanted to approach them, but he was noticed. The copper cloaked boy started to have the feeling that they were followed by someone and quickly checked the surrounding. He felt a strong black colored aura around them, which a little of white mixed on it and informed about this to the older girl.
"Say what?" the girl asked with rising voice.
"Ima tealling yuu that wey're folloawed by tahat guy." the boy explained once again. After that the girl kneeled before the copper cloaked girl and whispered something, but Shirou was too far away to hear what she said. After that the two other nodded and the girl took the dark crimson cloaked boy to her lap as the copper colored climbed to her cloak which had a specially made big "pocket" which made her able to carry to children at the same time.
The girl then started to walk faster with increasing her pace with every step. Shirou wanted to follow them because he wanted to talk with them and thank them for yesterday, but his body was too tired and numb to move and he tripped into his leg. He saw as the girl with the copper cloaked boy on her back disappeared behind the corner.
He was lying on the ground, his sight getting blurry. He was loosing his consciousness, but tried to stay strong. Why? Why did no one like him in this world. His "parents" hated him, the stranger avoided him and even little kids pitied him. And now the persons who had been just one day earlier so kind to him - though they were kind of weird and noisy - were running away from him. No one, no one in this world loved him, not even the person who had once been the dearest friend to him. She too had abandoned him and probably had already forget about him.
Shirou felt him loosing his consciousness and closed his eyes while a tear was running by his cheek. His consciousness moved into a memory which was probably the most important but also the most chocking memory to him. It was memory when he had finally realised that he was all alone in this dark world.
~ Three years earlier ~
The thirteen year old Shirou stood in front of the grave of his "parents" and didn't feel anything. He had just lost his dear parents but couldn't cry not even a teardrops had formed into the corners of his eyes. Could you call him emotionless? I don't think so. Shirou turned his head to the right and saw a girl with armpit length Hyacinth-lavender colored hair and her lavender colored orbs were wet and red from all the crying.
"Hey, aren't those the ones who were adopted by the Maeda couple?" they heard some asking as they pointed at Shirou. The boy turned to them and started at them with emotionless eyes which didn't have any color. It's going to happen again... Again someone would whisper something bad about them. Again someone would diss them from something they hadn't done.
"I heard that the boy was the one who killed them. It seems that he was protecting the girl whose crying right next him, from the drunk father. When he had killed the father, he also decided to kill the mother too, because she had witnessed the whole scenario" one of the older mans told as if he was a professor who knew everything.
What kind of lies did the people create from their own imagination and fears? Shirou always knew that he wasn't liked by the citizens because he was "outsider" but why did they had to make up lies to soak his reputation even more. Well, if it was only him he probably wouldn't have cared, but because they were talking bad about his parents and her he couldn't stay calm any longer. He would show them what it really meant to beat someone up till his dead.
Shirou was about took a step towards the group who was bad mouthing but was stopped by a hand which was placed on his shoulder. The startled boy turned around in surprise and saw his future "father" staring at the group angrily.
"You can say what ever you want, but what I know is that my son is not a murderer and don't dare to badmouth him when I'm around." he threatened them and then smiled at Shirou and placed his shoulder around his shoulder. The whole group went all quiet, they didn't dare to say anything more.
"We should go. The dinner is almost ready." he said and started to walk away from the cemetery. Shirou was about to follow him, but before that he turned around to the girl who was still crying before the graves of their "parents." Yes even she wasn't their real child.
"Tsuki-chan..." he said softly and walked next to the sobbing girl. The girl stopped for a moment to look at her dear friend and "brother" with her wet and shining lavender colored eyes. Shirou was amazed and surprised by this sight. Not ever, not ever in his life, which he practically lived with her, had he seen this lavender-eyed girl crying.
"Why..." the girl sobbed between her breaths and at the same time tried to dry her eyes, "Why did they had to die? They... They were so kind to us... Always looking after us... and..." the girl again broke into tears and ran to embrace her good friend. Shirou startled from the girls sudden actions, but then calmed down, closed his eyes and embraced the sobbing girl back.
"I... I don't know..." he said gently and he glanced at the two gravestones in which were written the names of his and her "parents." In just how many families the two have lived already... To Shirou it didn't matter. As long as she was with him, he would mind moving away just as much as they had up until now.
After the dinner Shirou and Tsukina went to their favorite place in the city, which was a big oak three near the castles rampart. It was a really big and old three, which had been standing there for many many generations. The kids climbed to the trees branches and enjoyed the view up in the three. Shirou turned to his dear friend. And noticed that the girl had already calmed down and was smiling and laughing happily.
"Nee... Shirou-kun..." the girl suddenly started with serious voice and stood up on the branch where she was sitting. The girl put her hand of her forehead to stop the sun shining in her eyes and stared at the big, wide capital city Yukidamura and it's palace. Shirou turned to her and smiled.
"Yes?" he asked as he followed the girls example and stood up.
"You know... Tomorrow I'll be leaving the city for sometime." the girl smiled, not really happily and turned the gray-haired boy. Shirous eyes widened and he couldn't believe his ears. Was she going to leave him? Why? That would be a pointless question after all she didn't know anything about her past and real family and traveled around the kingdom to find about them. Though up until now, she hadn't learned anything new about her family.
"I see..." Shirou finally broke the silence with his words, "God luck" he cheered for her. The girl took a deep breath inside and then breathed all the air out. The air in the city was really freshing, and especially around the oak tree it was the most cleanest. Tsukina then jumped from the tree and started to ran towards their new home.
Shirou looked the hyacinth-lavender haired girl running and smiling happily. That sight could make him only smile, and when she turned around to wave at him calling him to her, Shirou jumped from tree and followed girl. He was happy, but at the same time he was sad that she would leave him alone. But at that time he didn't want to think about it and enjoy the happy moment he shared with her.
End of Flashback
"Tsu- Tsuki-chan..." Shirou mumbled supplicantly as he finally got his consciousness back. His whole body was numb, so numb that he barely could feel his heart beating. His sight was still blurry and blood was running all over his body. He felt as a teardrops started to appear into the corners of his eyes and not long after that a lake of tears was running by his cheeks.
Why? Why had she left him, why was he all alone, why did this happen? He never thought that living without real parents from the very start was this hard. He had never thought that people could be so evil towards their adopted children, don't mention their own children. How could someone be so evil? How could someone hate this world so much that their children had to suffer because of the drunk and violent parents.
After the death of his "parents" who were really kind towards them and liked them very much, Shirou had thought that their son would be as kind as they were. Also if your wondering, the reason for Shirous "parents" death was then and is still unknown. They one night went to sleep and in the next morning they never woke up. The only thing that was strange on them was that they had black marks all around their bodies.
So after his "parents" death Shirou had moved to their eldest sons house and thought that he would be as kind as them. That was the picture the gray-haired boy had got from him when he had visited his parents house. He was like a brother to Shirou... But after his parents death and when moving to his house the man completely changed his behavior towards Shirou.
He started to drink a lot and he was drunk almost every single night. When he was drunk he used violence against Shirou and always blamed him from the every thing that was wrong of undone. Once he even hit Shirou when they didn't have any more beer and blamed the gray-haired boy for it telling that he had drunken all of it. Of course as the younger and the weaker one Shirou couldn't anything against him and always had to suffer the beatings.
This violence continued for almost three years and finally stopped, when Shirous new "father" that morning found his only daughter dead on her bed. She had the same black colored marks on her body as his parents and because Shirou was the only one who had been living with both of them, he somehow got the idea that the boy was reason for their deaths. Of course, he figured out that idea after drinking himself till drunkenness.
So he beat the boy up till the other one was all red and covered with blood, swallows and scars. Then he kicked the boy out of the house and told him never to come back. So here he was all exhausted and in hunger with his body refusing to listen to him. He didn't know that to do, where to go. Right now all that he wished for is that someone would come and save him from this miserable feeling. He wanted to change everything back to normal, back to like it had been.
Why did no one like him? Why everyone avoided him? Why everyone dear to him died? Why the ones still alive left him all alone? He didn't know, he didn't know answer? Was there anyone... Was there anyone who would know answer to these questions?
With these question in Shirous mind he remembered about the fortune telling shop that he had visited yesterday before going back to home, where his "father" was already drunk and was ready to beat up the boy. Maybe they... Maybe those girls would know the answer.
As the gray-haired boy tried to stoop up he heard steps coming towards him and then a child voice shouted, "He's allive... Thatat guy is still allive!"
Shirou raised his head a little and saw the same dark crimson cloaked boy standing in front of him. The cloaks hood covered the boys head, so Shirou couldn't see his face. It was the same little boy that he had met just earlier and the same boy that was living in the fortune telling shop together with the girls. If Shirou remembered right his name was Haruya.
'Haruya?' Shirou thought and his eyes widened as he remember their fortune to him.
'One day a spring ya will come in a form a crimson fenix and burn your old life, while leading you into a new one.'
So they were talking about him. At first, when the girls had told this to him he hadn't understood those words but now he completely got what they meant to say. So the girls really knew answer to his last and most important question and in order to start his live from completely new and clean page he had to follow this boy. The gray-haired boy saw the cloaked boy reaching his hand towards him.
"Come, folloawe meh"
Sakuchii: *yelling at Aiko* How can you call that ENJOYING?
Aiko: But you yourself told me to say that
Sakuchii: *stunned* Oh my... I'm really sorry...
Yukiko: Let's make this short. This chapter was supposed to end when Atsuya and Shirou would finally meet each other... but because Atsuya had the first chapter (almost) whole to himself, Sakuchii decided to give this chapter to Shirou.
Sakuchii: Un, Un, *nodding her head* So the second chapter is ready and I would really like to know that did you guys like it? I'm sorry if it was boring, but this is still only the start of the story... so the pace is really slow... After a while it will faster and lot of chara's will appear here.
Aiko: Also, the uploading of next chapter is still unclear because Sakuchii has a field trip next week so she might not able upload it in week time.
Yukiko: *rolling her eyes* She says to even though it took two days to write this.
Sakuchii: Okay okay, enough with that... just have to see how the next week will go, but I really try to upload in on next Sunday.
Razel: *popping out of nowhere* WHAII! I appeared here!
Sakuchii: yep.. only that you won't be appearing any more... I just needed a name for a little girl and because I was lazy for making up new names I used yours
Yukiko: *sweatdropping when seeing Razel dashing away angry* Okay! It's time to end this... We really would like to know did you like this chapter or not, so please review. *bows*
Sakuchii: ALSO! HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO EVERYONE!
~ deshii
