So... basically, Midorima's kind of crazy in this one. You'll know why afterwards.
By the way, while browsing my song library, I listened to Romeo and Cinderella. I suddenly came up with a romance song-fic for Akane and Tetsuya. Is that good?
Hanahime Midorima's evil was well known in the entire kingdom;
Whenever an unexplainable crime happened, her name was always brought up.
Her soul was accused of haunting the kingdom and causing crime everywhere it went.
Yuuji Aomine tried his best to ignore the memories that came with those horrid rumors.
But fate clearly wasn't on his side.
Her son, Shintaro Midorima, had inherited her bizarre insanity.
It was like a curse that repeated itself to make him keep regretting…
And the worse thing was that the same fate they had suffered was going to be experienced by their children.
He did not want this to happen to Daiki, nor to any of them.
So he set his mind on making sure they didn't die the same way their parents did.
"Now, bow down to me!"
A long, long time ago
There was a kingdom of unspeakable inhumanity
And the person at the top was
A prince at the age of fourteen
Crystalia was a kingdom that lived on fighting in exchange of peace. Those who found no future to their lives dedicated themselves to fighting their own kind, the ones who did not believe they should also give humanity protection. The others who wanted to protect the defenseless also joined the army, regardless of age.
A long, long time ago, there was a boy who graduated early from the training academy together with his "friends". During their graduation trial, he was captured by the enemy and tortured, and watched his best friend get violently murdered. He was also forced to love the metallic taste of blood, until he eventually craved for it.
"If only I could control fate, he wouldn't have died!"
This painful memory was erased from his mind, but his wish remained.
At the top of the blood stained kingdom that appeared clean because of its crystals sat a boy by the name of Shintaro Midorima. He controlled every second of the world, and forced it to follow his idea of fate, though a single thought remained in the back of his mind.
"Why do I want to control fate so much?"
He collected all the luxuries in the world
Standing by his side was a servant with a like face
His lovely horse's name was Innovator
Everything in the world belonged to him
Being a Midorima had its advantages. You were personally supported by the royal family because of your natural intelligence and skill in the field of technology. You had a part in everything the princess had. But it also had disadvantages.
Shintaro was a Midorima and a "Genetica", Pure Blood who were born with power superior to others. Genetica were rare and usually ended up being arrogant; so he was hated by everyone around him, that and something about his mother, whom he know nothing of. He met Kazunari Takao, and surprisingly he accepted him the way he was, and stayed by side all the time.
However that bright smile that was once present on his face was replaced by a sinister smile after he graduated and became the Lieutenant of Elite Squad 1. Shintaro liked to mess with computers when he had nothing to do. And one day, he invented a robot his teammates had named Innovator. Finding no need for him, he pulled his power board and discarded him somewhere.
And he even laughed at how pitiful that piece of metal looked after he had removed his main power source with his bare hand. Lifeless, immobile… he enjoyed every detail. Really, it was fun to own everything.
If we're short on money,
Then squeeze it out from the citizens.
Anybody who opposes me
Punish them!
"Get me a 1st Grade model of this."
The surprise in Satsuki Momoi's eyes was evident. And the sadistic Lieutenant enjoyed how her usually calm look had deteriorated to this. He smirked as he waited for what words she would say.
"But Lieutenant… this is a very rare item! Only one person has it! And that's the only one!"
"So what if he owns it? Kill him."
Once again shock adorned her face. It was lovely, how she would shake and slowly step back upon hearing his request to kill somebody for something so little. She tightly clutched the piece of paper in her hands and stepped back.
"Why… kill just for this…?"
The sadistic Lieutenant's amused look was replaced with a look of complete disappointment. Despite how lovely her face stained with tears of pure fear was, he could not accept defiance, especially from his third-in-command.
"Because I said so, and you will do it."
"Now, bow down to me!"
The evil flower, steadily blooms
With an array of colors
Even the weeds that grew around it
Became its fertilizer and died away
Shintaro's mercilessness became widely known, and they came to fear him as well. People began clearing the way when he was going to pass by. He wore a look of satisfaction as he walked down the cleared street.
"I truly love the feeling of standing above weaklings…"
He glanced to his left and noticed a glaring blue haired girl who had complete hatred in her eyes. The green haired prince closed his eyes opened them once again, but with a soul-stealing glare.
"Princess Chiffon Starlight, someday you'll bow down to me."
"Just try, I know you'd just fall."
Shintaro smiled softly and continued walking down. He felt glad that someone was daring him to a battle which he knew she'd lose.
But alas, the princess was the legendary queen's daughter; and he had no other fate than fall on his knees in defeat before her.
The tyrant prince was in love
With the green haired girl in the neighboring country
But she was in love
With the blue haired man across the ocean
While wandering around the academy grounds, he caught sight of a beautiful raven-haired girl running with a warm smile. His heart was immediately captured, and demanded from his third-in-command her identity. The next day, Satsuki came in with a folder labeled "Kazuha Takao".
Shintaro opened the folder carefully, and sighed happily when he saw the beautiful girl's biography. His eyes stopped at a certain detail.
FAMILY: ASUKA TAKAO (MOTHER), KAZUNARI TAKAO (TWIN BROTHER)
"Where have I heard the name Kazunari?"
He dismissed the thought and continued on. After finishing every existing record about her, he decided to take a stroll and if he was lucky get close to her. As he expected, he once again spotted her, but she was with another boy. And the warm expressions she made clearly spoke of one thing: she liked him.
The prince's soul suddenly felt like it was crushed. He dropped to the ground, and tears started falling from his eyes. Glaring at the boy, he stood up, and in a low voice muttered.
"How dare you…!"
Torn with jealousy
He called upon one of his ministers
And he said with a soft voice
"Destroy the Blue Country"
He called on Ryota, the weakest of the team. The blonde boy was shaking while entering his Lieutenant's quarters. After all, the dark-lit-up-with-a-candle theme was rather frightening especially for him, who hasn't experienced being assigned on a night mission.
"Ryota, I am aware that you have a zero Pure Blood kill record."
Ryota gulped at the green haired boy's dark voice. Usually that meant someone had defied him, but this time it was different; he sounded more… broken, and that was even worse than someone defying him.
"To fill that up, kill the boy closest to Kazuha Takao."
The blonde's eyes widened and he suddenly lost his balance, falling back with a stream of tears flowing on his face. He wanted to object, to shout out, but he knew best not to speak and just follow.
Because he knew that his broken Lieutenant just wanted to have everything he wants, and he knew that he once lost someone so precious to him and he could not get over it.
Numerous houses were burned to the ground
Numerous lives disappeared
The screams of pain from the citizens
Doesn't reach the prince's ears
"Oh, it's snack time."
Blood… there was blood everywhere… on the walls, on the ground, and especially all over a boy's body and a blonde Genetica's sword. He stared at the dead body before him and stood there as if paralyzed. He wanted to ask various questions, but he kept telling himself that it was merely Shintaro's idea of fate.
Unbeknownst to him, the frightening Lieutenant quietly stood there watching, pleased that Ryota followed his desire to have that insolent boy erased. Previously, he had heard his cries of help and whimpers of fear, but being the sadistic person he was, he merely smiled and walked away as if nothing happened.
"It's getting late and I'm hungry, maybe I should eat a snack,"
The evil flower, steadily blooms
With an array of colors
Although it's such a beautiful flower
There are so much thorns you can't touch it
Rumors began spreading that the "Evil Prince" has once again done an evil deed. As Ryota strolled down the streets, he felt something inside him slowly twist painfully. Daiki noticed this and sighed.
"He made you do something, didn't he?"
The blonde weakly nodded and Daiki sighed. Really, that insane guy had nothing better to do than order them around to do malicious stuff.
Kazuha frantically ran in Elite Squad 1's office building, heading to the Lieutenant's Office. She slammed the door open, and with a tear filled face, asked in a loud voice.
"Why did you have my best friend killed? He didn't do anything to you!"
To her surprise, he was wearing a smile when he turned around. She gasped when she saw blood stains on his cheek.
"He was taking you away from me, I had no choice. I love you and you are mine only…"
For the first time in her life, Kazuha cried so much. 'He… he kills because he's jealous… then if I… he wouldn't…' She said to herself. That day, she had agreed to be with him, for the sole reason of protecting everyone around her.
In order to take down the evil prince
The people stood up
The person who led the wild mob was
A swordswoman in red armor
"Hey Shintaro, Head Commander's looking for you! And she looks really mad!"
The green haired Lieutenant sighed as he put down his cup of tea. That woman had a bad sense of timing. He stood up and practically pushed his subordinate out of the way (more specifically the door).
"What are you planning to do?"
"Give her a beating. I'll prove that "Annette the Destroyer" is merely a rumor."
He kept walking until he came upon a furious looking red haired woman, beside her the princess he loathed so much and for some reason she looked more concerned than intent on killing him.
"So, you two finally agree on your hatred for me and unite forces?"
The first to move was of course Annette, because she was the Head Commander and put royalty as her priority. But true to his words, he made the title of Annette the Destroyer degrade to a mere rumor that spread out of nowhere. He tasted his former superior's blood on his hands and smiled a little. Suddenly remembering that there was still one more person standing, he turned to her.
The anger built up over the years
Quickly spread throughout the kingdom
The soldiers that were worn out from the war
Stood no chance against them
The building was stormed by several other Genetica. This, of course, shocked the other members and they were forced to fight against them despite just coming back from tiring missions.
"Geez, what's going on?"
Tetsuya complained in an annoyed voice as he cut apart someone's mid-section with his infamous self-made "Black Blade". He, like his teammates, was frustrated at the sudden raid.
"Head Commander together with Milady came looking for Lieutenant earlier! I guess this has something to do with them!"
Finally, the castle was surrounded
And all of the servants have already fled
The little fragile prince
Was finally captured
"You insolent woman!"
Akane Seijuro, the squad's captain, had already lost her left arm so they were forced to retreat and leave their Lieutenant and the princess alone.
Meanwhile, Shintaro was panting heavily as he sat on the ground, clutching his head.
The evil flower, steadily blooms
With a sorrowful array of colors
The paradise made for him
Quickly disintegrated
"I know that you're suffering from emotional distress."
Blurry memories kept flashing in Shintaro's mind. They often contained a raven-haired boy that seemed to be rather close to him. He assumed that it was a friend. But… who was that? The memories were too blurry for him to see.
"That is a normal side-effect. Just ignore them and you'll be fine."
He tried so hard to follow the princess's advice to just ignore the flashing blurred memories. But they hurt so much for a reason he didn't know, particularly the one where he saw the raven haired boy and so much red.
"Please, if you don't want to get hurt anymore, don't mind them."
And on that same day, his previous perceptions on the princess were replaced by the image of a motherly figure, of something he didn't have since birth.
A long, long time ago
There was a kingdom of unspeakable inhumanity
And the person at the top was
A prince at the age of fourteen
A long time ago in the 91st Generation of the Pure Blood Era, Crystalia was ruled over not just by the princess, but also by an emperor dwelling in darkness, vanquishing enemies in his own way.
He was the prince of the main Midorima branch, and his arrow could pierce even a caterpillar meters away. He was both a master archer and a ruler. And he began his ruthless reign at the age of fourteen.
The time of execution was at 3'o clock
The time when the church bell rang
A person that was once a prince
What does he think in his jail cell?
Shintaro Midorima was currently held at the facility for the insane. He was diagnosed with severe mental trauma. Chiffon Starlight had volunteered to take care of his case. She went into his cell, leaving the door open.
"What are you up to, Princess of Blue?"
She sighed. Ever since he was put in the facility, he became colder and refused to speak in a kind manner. It was very difficult to get into a conversation with him unless you were Chiffon.
"Nothing, I'm just here to release you from this boring white room."
His eyes narrowed momentarily in surprise. Standing up, he walked over to the door, touching the cold metal and looking at her with doubt.
"If you don't believe me, do as you wish. I'm letting you out of here in one condition: don't do anything insane like you did before, but you can do as you please if the target is the enemy. If you're assigned to look after a dimension, do not harm any of the humans. You will be put under the Management Control program and Kazuha will be your Restrainer. Is that clear?"
He nodded then ran out of the door, hoping to find his beloved waiting for him. He sighed in relief when he spotted her in still in his mansion. He excitedly ran up to the garden.
The time finally came
The church bells signaled the end
Without caring about the commoner's eyes
This is what he said
"Oh, it's snack time."
"I thought you were in the facility?"
The raven haired girl asked. She felt two arms wrap around her and a warm breath beside her ear.
"We won't be killing without reason from now on. Princess Chiffon has subdued the merciless prince,"
Tears of joy began falling from her eyes as she welcomed back the boy she had learned to love. From the distance, he could hear the faint sound of the clock.
"And it's snack time already,"
He said stretching out his hand to her, which she happily took and they both ran back into the large mansion.
The evil flower steadily withers
With an array of colors
The people afterwards all say
He was indeed the prince of evil
As years passed, mysterious killings were no longer present. And Shintaro Midorima's cruel reign had slowly faded away until they were mere rumors and stories told by parents to their children. Whenever the green haired prince passed by, all they did was whisper.
"He really was the prince of evil years ago, so stay away from him,"
But unbeknownst to all those people who made up rumors, insulted him behind his back, and to those who wore disgusted expressions whenever he and his happened to stroll around, he wasn't the only one drowning in darkness.
I've also been thinking of two of OC's as the main character of the next entry "Kagerou Days" (or is it daze?), Shion Emeraude and a boy I haven't named yet. Does that sound good as well?
Please review and give your opinion! :) Arigato!