Chapter 1:2 Came From The Unliving
"Talking"
"Thinking"
"SCREAMING!"
*SFX*
"Transform"
"Kamen Ride: Decade"
Somewhere, in a place, far away from reality, a train drove pass by a baron waste of a deserted field, surrounded with nothing but an oozing feeling of uncanniness. Lightning trembles, and thunder roars, amidst this unsettling world is a train.
Driving at such baron waste, how is a train like this able to maneuver? Especially when there are no operating system controlling the said transportation? Well…
As the train moves forward, the rails rematerialize to where the train moves, acting like a support, but what is this train?
On top of the moving vehicle, stood, a figure wearing a cladded armor, with red shinning eye-like visor and carrying a blue sword by the shoulder, their mere presence is giving away with determination, however, this was put to waste as no one, not even a single soul could feel it, especially at a place, where life doesn't exist anymore.
It's already way pass midnight, and Kota still hasn't slept yet, he looks at the ceiling, eyes both wide awake. The only thing that is drifting into his mind is the hugs, and kisses he get from his parents, Oh how he wishes that all of this is jus a nightmare, a one bad nightmare, each day, he had hope that he could closed his eyes and hugged them in his dreams, he couldn't care less what's reality and what is not, for him, just so he could hug them, is already enough to suffice his suffering.
*SWOOOOOOSH*
Swooning the curtains, a strong wind howls in, catching his attention, he sighed and stand up to close the window, by the time his hand reaches the handle of the window. a small spark of light touching his wrist.
It immediately causes a sand to drop from his shorts.
"Huh?" Says the boy while looking at the mess.
"What the?! Where did this come from?!" He exclaimed lowly, not wanting to alarm his aunt. The sand continues to flow until there was nothing left.
Kota wasn't sure what is going on, but something tells him it's not nice, he reaches at the door, but by the time he could even take a step, something unexpected happen, as the sand materialized, forming a humanoid feature of a man with a split body with the upper torso on the ground and the lower at the top of his head.
Kota took a step back, feared. He looks at the thing that appears before him, the only thing he could describe of it, is that this thing had the look of a monster—no, an oni. It had two horns and face that feature of a bat, alongside with a dorsal plate hanging at both shoulders, serving as a shoulder pad, and grotesque plated chest that underneath, hides a trypophobic sight.
"W-Who are you?" Kota asked in fear. The being infront of him crossed it's arms and said.
"I am what most people call an Imagin." The creature named as Imagin says.
"I-Imagin?" Kota asked, his voice shaken by the thing infront of him, he was ready to scream for help, but he feared that by the time he yells out, he'll meet his end.
"W-What do you want from me?" Asked by the boy, once more.
"Your wish…" The Imagin answered.
"Give me what you desire, and I'll be sure to grant it, I can offer you, anything, and I mean, anything." Kota doubted his words, but, at the same time, this monster or whatever it is, looks so strong. The moment it asked him that kind of question, memories of his parents flashed before his eyes.
Kota gripped his fist, he wasn't sure if he could trust this thing, but what harm could it even give to a boy who's broken.
"My… My Parents… They died… I want to hug them." Kota says which put the Imagin into silence.
"That it? Heh, I expect a boy would wish to get a toy, but oh well." The Imagin says and placed both of its palm together, forming a light which brightened the entire room.
"What's going on in there?! Kota?!" The voice of his aunt can be heard through the door, just as she opens it, the Imagin is already gone. Shino look around, but then she saw something that made her gasped in surprised.
The next day, Kaito is walking his way back to work, passing bystanders on his way there.
"Did you hear the news?" A female student asked her friends.
"Yeah, it's kinda shocking too." Her friends replied.
"Did you hear? The heroes who passed away three months ago weren't even dead." A man said to his friend as they pass by the students.
"Back from the dead? Do you think they're zombies?"
At this point, Kaito kept hearing gossips from each people he passed by and all of them are talking about the same thing. He arrived at his restaurant, shortly after. He saw both Gento and Kiruga waiting outside.
"What took you so long?" Kiruga asked.
"Sorry, I had to take a walk. I didn't want to waste a money." Kaito apologized and unlocks the door, allowing them to enter. Once inside, Kirgua went to her post, while Gento took his apron and walks into the kitchen.
"Hey Gento, how does a chocolate pudding sound?" Kaito asked while cleaning the tables and brooming the floor.
"I'll see what I can do." Gento said while starting the fryer.
"Thanks." Kaito smiled and walk outside to flip the sign from 'Closed' to 'Opened'.
When he gets back inside, he decided to lay off and rest at the costumer's chair. He sighes and gently tapped the table.
"Hey what time is it?" Kaito asked Kiruga in which she replies with a grumble and pointed at the clock.
"You have eyes, idiots." She points out.
"I-I know, but since you're looking at your phone—" As Kaito is about to continue, Kiruga interrupts him and told him it's 9:34AM.
"Thanks." Kaito says.
"Why are you asking?" Kiruga asked, her interest seem to shift.
"Well, I sent a request to Kota's aunt, and thought maybe I could babysit him." Kiruga's eyebrows raised at his claims.
"And why is that?" She asked.
"Well, it's just that, yesterday… I can't get over the fact that his parents died like that, it's every child's worst fear to have, especially to someone who's 3 years old…" Kaito added, as he sighe.
"What are you even saying, they're not dead." She said which perked his interest.
"Huh?" He steps up from his seat and when he was about to approach her, the door opens.
"Hey, guys, sorry I'm late." From the entrance, they saw a very beautiful girl with white hair, entering the store while carrying vegetables.
"It's no worry, Fuyumi-san, let me help you with that." Kaito helped her with the vegetables and walk to the kitchen.
"Odd to see your beautiful face visit here for once, Todorki." Teased by Kiruga while also misinterpreting her name by subtracting one letter.
(Fuyumi Todorki: Second elder sister of the Todoroki Family. Fuyumi is a kind hearted person who's at her peak of her college, she has a unique Quirk known as Frost, which allows her to generate cold glaciers, however, the history of her family affected her from using her gift's full potential, and maintain a life where she is bound to follow her own dreams.)
"Kiruga! She's a guest." Kaito lectured the girl while patting her head with a wooden ruler. The cashier huffed while Fuyumi let out a small chuckle.
"I hear recently that the restaurant gets some attention, it must have been nice to have the Wild Wild Pussycat visit your place." She said which made Kaito stop.
"Say that again."
"Say what?" Fuyumi asked.
"W-Wild Wild Pussycats? As in the Rescue Heroes known for saving many lives including the people struck by Super Typhoon from Indonesia? That Wild Wild Pussycats?" Kaito says in bewilderment, he didn't realize that he had Japan's famous rescue team as his guest.
Kiruga chuckles at the sight of her boss' reaction, even Fuyumi giggled after seeing his ridiculous reaction.
"No way…" Perplexed by the sudden revelation, he recalled all the compliments he received from them, yesterday.
"And Ragdoll called me cute~" he said while flashing a memory on how the feline hero complimented him. Kiruga and Fuyumi watch, as if they can see what he is imagining.
"Eh! Enough of that! I have another recipe I'd like to teach you." Fuyumi swatted those visual thoughts and held Kaito by his arm which alarmed Kiruga, slightly.
"Eh? But you just taught me how to make Oden, and Donburri few days ago, don't you think your giving away too much." Kaito said.
"Come on, it's the least I could do after you saved me back then." Fuyumi says while pulling him to the kitchen, leaving Kiruga jealous.
Inside, both Kaito and Fuyumi, alongside with Gento are now wearing an apron, as she taught the two chefs how to make a Sukiyaki hot pot. From there, Fuyumi taught them basic chef skills such as cutting vegetables.
Then afterward she stirred a frying pan with beef and pork inside. Kaito and Gento make sure they could follow her. Unlike before this really took them a while to finish which led to many costumers arriving, however, Gento came in prepared and already had few foods reserved.
When they finished making the Sukiyaki Hot pot, Fuyumi placed the said food at one of the dining tables. Kiruga, Kaito and Gento gazed at the hot pot, amazed by how aesthetic it looks.
"Wow… It's no surprised that someone like Fuyumi would cook some—" Kiruga tried to placed her arm around the eldest Todoroki, but Fuyumi walks infront of the three and explains the hot pot.
"I've seen Sukiyaki before, but never once thought how to make one." Gento confessed.
"Never tried one before." Kaito was about to spoon a soup, but Kiruga slap his hands.
"I'm eating." She says and was about to gulp a soup, but Fuyumi took the spoon and tasted it.
"MHMMM~ It's still as good as Mom's cooking." She said which made both Kaito and Kiruga flustered at the sight of her smiled face.
"Let me try!" Kaito says and took the spoon from her, but Kiruga snatched it from him.
"Hey!"
"I'm not letting you have an indirect kiss with her." As she whispered, she dived the spoon down, but find that the spoon is gone.
"Eh?" Both the Boss and the Cashier stared confused, until they heard it.
*SLUUUUUUURP*
Head jerking to the left, they saw Gento taking a sip of the soup, he sighe out of delight by the magnificent taste.
"It's good, Fuyumi, you know, you should help me with the kitchen sometimes." Gento complimented which delighted Fuyumi.
"… I'm grabbing myself a spoon." Sighing, Kaito stands up and walks away while Gento offers Kiruga the spoon in which she snatches from him.
*DRING!*
Fuyumi, Kiruga, and Gento turn their heads to the entrance and saw three new costumers, however, Kiruga dropped the spoon.
"Hey, I heard something fall, what happ—" By the time Kaito left the kitche, he saw the three guests, but they are not just any ordinary guests. Infront of him, stood, Kota along with two adults whom he and Kiruga or maybe possibly Gento and Fuyumi know.
These, are Kota's parents. Baffled by the sight, Kaito's jaw dropped at the sight of the two dead heroes who are now standing infront of them. He looks at Kota who waved at him, happily.
Kaito raises a hand, greeting the boy.
Later, both Kiruga, and Kaito are at the counter, eavesdropping on the family, they observing any unusual activities.
"Can you believe this? How are they here?" Kiruga whispered while Kaito had his back facing them.
"Believe me when I said I'm as shocked as you are… Weren't they dead?" Kaito whispered back.
"I read it from the articles too, but I thought they we're fakes." Kiruga added.
"Fakes?" Kaito asked.
"Earlier this morning, there was a tweet on the internet, it says that the Water Hose duo came back from the dead and even showed pictures of them hanging out with their kid." Kiruga explained which now made Kaito realized what the gossips are.
"But, why? Did they abandon Kota? The entire city even offered an honored burial, did they, tricked everyone?" At this point, Kaito needed answers. He needs to know how or why are they still standing here, breathing, even if it's none of his business.
He decided to talk to them, too much for Kiruga's dismay. Fuyumi, and Gento watched from afar as Kaito approached the loving family.
"Hello, have you decided what your gonna eat?" Kaito went for a formal approach.
"Yes, I heard your serving a Sukiyaki, yes?." Asked by Izuo.
"Yes, we do." Kaito humbly respond, from what he had noticed, there wasn't a single thing odd about them, their movements and the way they speak, is so real, but why would they announce their death and return afterwards? It doesn't make sense.
"We'll like to have that, thank you." Izuo says, allowing Kaito to leave and inform Gento. Kiruga pull him over after he left the kitchen.
"What did you say?" She asked.
"I can't ask a thing, it's difficult to ask something sensitive, especially infront of a boy who thought his parents passed away." Kaito respond.
"What would you do then?"
"… I'm thinking, maybe I should go." He said and grab his jacket. Kiruga quirked her eyebrow and was about to follow.
"Nope, you stay, you're in charge." Kaito said and hands her the Manager badge.
"Fuck my life." Kiruga muttered, weighing-not one, but three more jobs in her hand.
Later that day, Kaito researched about The Wild Wild Pussycat's headquarters, he felt that it's best to ask them the questions instead f the Izumi's as to keep them from being alarmed by such question.
Arriving at the forest riding with a bus, Kaito exits and is saw a trail leading to their headquarters. Seeing as how long the trail was, he grabbed a stick from a bush and start making his way down the trail.
It was a very long walk, their headquarters is located at the center of the forest, only few walks-ish, and you can be there in no time, however, this can only be done if one person has a Quirk based off of speed, transportation or teleportation.
Kaito had stumbled on few pebbles, nearly making him fall, but by the end of his walk, he successfully reaches Wild Wild Pussycat's headquarters. He drops the stick and proceed to walk further.
"Stop." Just as he was about to take another step, a voice spoked telepathically, alarming the boy o the process, just as he stops his track, a gigantic wood-like beast emerged and tried to swipe the young boy, but the command saved him from the swirling attack.
*SWOOOOOSHH!*
He felt the wind brushes his face; his heart raised. The beast stops after seeing Kaito as a non-lethal threat, it dematerialized into dust, and from the entrance of the headquarters, out came the same Lime haired woman, but this time, she's wearing a yellow costume, based of entirely from a cact, beside her is the same blonde-haired woman from yesterday, and in this scenario, she's wearing the exact same costume as her comrade, but color scheme is light blue.
"Hey! I remember you! You're that restaurant owner from yesterday!" The lime haired woman, also known as Ragdoll says in a cheery voice.
(Ragdoll: She is a valuable member of the Wild Wild Pussycat, with a Quirk known as Search that allows her to sense anyone near the parameter. She is also considered as the joyous one in the group.)
"Your lucky we remember you, could've thought of you as villain there." The blonde-haired woman, known as Pixie-bob says while grinning at their third encounter with the boy.
(Pixiebob: Pixie one of the strongest members of the group, with a quirk that allows her to shift and manipulate the earth around her with anything she wants. She also has taste for young boys.)
"Hello, Ms. Pixiebob, and hello… Ms. Ragdoll." To be honest, Kaito like Ragdoll much more than Pixie bob, her entire personality is giving the vibe of a cat-like nature. Pixiebob grumbles, knowing she wasn't able to sway the boy with her charms.
Ragdoll let out a soft chuckle at the boy's response.
"So I'm guessing it was Mandalay who talk saved me then." Kaito said.
"Mandalay? She's not here right now, she and Tiger are off duty, helping a sunken submarine near the pacific." She explains.
"Huh? Well… then who was—never mind." Kaito decided to shake the thoughts he had, off.
"I'm surprised you travel all the way here, what makes you want to go in this place anyways?" Pixiebob asked.
"It's, regarding with Kota's parents." Ragdoll and Pixiebob we're surprised to hear this, especially from someone like Kaito who they barely know.
"W-Well, they faked their own death." Pixiebob explains, looking a bit, sweaty.
"Y-Yeah, why are you so interested all of a sudden?" Ragdoll asked.
"Faked their death? But why don't they realize how devastated the boy was?" Kaito asked, seemingly dejected, but there's more in there than just that.
Both Ragdoll and Pixie bob hate to admit it, but the boy is indeed right, they've been with Kota, long enough to see his suffering, but this, it's something they can't even answer.
"But, I have to ask, if they are truly gone, then what about the body found? Why would they fake their death? They won't even gain a thing." At this point, Kaito is making up questions that he think is the answer.
Ragdoll and Pixie bob we're sure surprised that a stranger like Kaito would care so much about Kota.
"You care about Kota?" Ragdoll asked.
"… Kota isn't the only one who lost their parents in a tragic accident." Kaito says while giving them his locket, when they opened, they saw a picture of a handsome man and a beautiful woman. It took them seconds to realized what he meant.
"I wanted to help Kota push the boundaries of his depression, I didn't want to see him walk down a path like this, it's unhealthy, even for a boy at his age." Kaito explains, further.
"It really, pains me to see other suffer, even if I don't have a quirk, I want to help them, even the smallest things too." He added.
At this point, both Ragdoll and Pixie bob are doubting themselves, the more they listen the more they understand that a stranger is dedicated to save someone he never met before while the—a rescue heroes, who saved thousands, couldn't even save a boy.
"… Look, we understand what your trying to say, but we got this, okay." Pixie bob reassures him.
"But how? Kota suffered even more after he lost them, and now that they come out—what? They would just swoop in and act like nothing happened? It's not right." He said, gripping his fist.
"Why do you want to do this, anyway? You can't gain anything from this." Pixie bob says, determined to get this boy off their backs.
"I know, but, if helping him means for a better life, then I'd throw my life on it, just so he can't walk a worst path." He said with a fueled determination.
Pixie bob or Ryuko, didn't know what to say, she was moved by his words, his dedication and his thrilling words made her like him so much. Ragdoll who's been listening, and knows about Kota's challenges, now doubts herself if whether or not she should reveal the secret, however.
For a stranger like Kaito, he won't back then if he sees a child crying, instead, he will reach his hand forward and help that child, and if he fails, then the regret will only make him wish he was dead.
After Kota and his parents finished eating at the Universe Food, a giant tall, muscular man, hiding under a cloak had his eyes set on the family, a grotesque grin plastered at his face.
"Damn bastards. I'll show you who you're messing with…" Holding his left eye, a faint memory of his encounter wit, Izuo and Mika, flashed before his eyes, memories of him being vulnerable against them is now haunting him.
"I'll kill you and that brat."
End Of Chapter
A/n: Just want to point out that the daily upload isn't going to be an actual thing, if some of you are wondering I will only stop until tomorrow once I released the third verse of chapter 1, if you have questions, feel free to comment and I'll be glad to answer them.
