"Nariko! You can't leave me! What about our children!"
"I'm sorry Ryu, I-" The woman lying listlessly on the bed faltered.
"Nariko!"
"Mummy?" A young boy peered curiously into the bedroom. His eyes widened as he saw his mother lying in a crimson red pool. "Mummy!"
"Akio," Nariko lips curved into a slight smile as she saw her son. "Come here honey."
Eyes still wide, Akio hurried to his mother side. "Don't leave us!" He cried out as he reached his mother.
"Akio, promise me. You will take care of Kira ne?" Nariko asked as she caressed her son's head.
"Of course mummy but-" Akio's sentence trailed off as he saw his mother go limp after the first two words are spoken. "NO! MUMMY!" He howled when his mother remained limp despite his shakings.
"NARIKO!"
"Akio!" The 7-year-old girl bounded up to her brother happily. "Look what I found!" She grinned as she shoved a handful of wild flowers in her brother's face.
"What did you f…Argh! Kira!" Akio shouted indignantly at his sister after having a bunch of flowers in his mouth immediately after he opened his mouth.
His sister burst into peals of laughter at the sight of her brother spitting out what she had "fed" him. Her laughter soon turned into shrieks as her brother chased after her in revenge.
Half-laughing and half-screaming, Kira ran up to their house, hoping to find safety within it. Her laughter died in her throat abruptly as she saw the scene before her. Unexpected by his sister sudden halt, Akio bumped slightly into his sister, eyes widening as he saw what caused Kira to stop.
Blood. Everywhere. The two siblings stare shocked at the crimson scene. The source comes from a crumpled body in a corner.
"Daddy…" Kira whispered. "Wake up" She gently shook her father's shoulder and muffled a scream as the body collapsed from its once propped up position against the wall. "No…" Kira's eyes filled with tears as she looked at the mangled corpse that was once her father. Flinging herself in the arms of her brother, she sobbed for the loss of the person she loved so much.
Akio just tightened his hold on his sister, dropping a few tears of his own. First their mother, now their father. Who's next? …
Akio bolted up in bed, the dreams still fresh in his mind. He looked at himself and realized that he is tangled up in the bedsheets.
"Damn I gotta stop dreaming of that … After all it been so many years … " Akio muttered as he propped his elbow on his knee and cradled his forehead in his hand. Lifting his head, Akio surveyed his room.
'Not too bad actually…' He mused silently. A few charred items but nothing serious. Sighing, he pushed the tangled sheets off and slowly gets off his bed.
'I need to train more with my powers' He thought as he plodded down the stairs to the kitchen. 'I need to restrain it when I'm resting, who knows one day I will wake up to a charred sister' He cringed inwardly at that thought.
"Akio? Can't sleep?"
Akio blinked at the sight of his sister sitting at the table, a warm cup of coffee in front of her. Somehow he wasn't surprised that his sister was awake at this time, after all, she had always been an early bird.
"Yup…" He replied after a moment. Then grinning, he swiped the coffee from his sister and takes a huge gulp. "Thanks kid"
"Hey! That was the last cup!" Kira glared at her brother, then shrugged. "Oh well…"
"Wanna train?" Akio called as he made his way back up the stairs to change.
"You're on!" Kira quickly overtook her brother on the stairs and dashed into her room. She emerged a few seconds later, a katana in hand.
Akio also came out of his room with his weapon in his hand. Although his was a lance instead of a katana. "Race you to the clearing kid!" He dashed off as he yelled to his sister.
"You cheated!" Kira yelled and ran after him.
A few seconds later…
"But I won " Kira smirked at her brother as he reached, a few steps behind her.
"Ya ya I let you win anyway" Came the indifferent reply.
Kira narrowed her eyes at her brother, then charged with her katana out at him. Eyes widening, Akio quickly dodge out of her way and retaliated with his lance. After getting a few hits at each other, they separated and stood a distance from one another.
Raising his hand, Akio shot a large stream of fire at Kira, who quickly shield herself with a wall of ice which surprisingly didn't melt under the fire. As the stream stopped, Kira lowered the shield and countered by shooting bolts of ice around the same size as herself at Akio. He quickly got out of the way and shot a sympathetic glance at the trees behind him, which had met Kira's icicles and now lie in splinters on the ground.
After almost an hour, they were both panting hard and glaring at each other. Kira's katana is aimed at Akio's heart while his lance is next to her neck, one swipe and she will be beheaded.
"Tie?" Akio asked, grinning slightly. Kira just smirk back in reply and they remove their weapons in unison.
Lying down on the ground, Kira gazed at the sky as she recovers from the fight. Glancing briefly beside her as her brother plonked himself down.
Closing her crystal blue eyes, Kira relaxed herself, assuming that's what her brother is doing as well judging by his sigh of relief. After a moment though, she could feel someone blowing down her ear. Annoyed, her eyes snapped open, she turned around and scowl at her brother who is assuming a "I'm-innocent" pose.
"Ha freakin ha" she muttered glaring at Akio. Akio just gave her a grin and sat up.
"You're gonna be late for school ya know…" He said as he watched her close her eyes and relax again.
"Who cares, I'm late everyday, the teachers don't give a damn anymore"
"I care, now get your lazy ass up and go" Saying that, Akio hauled his sister up to her feet and pointed in the direction of their house.
Kira just give him a "I-hate-you" look and stroll back to their house. "If I have to go, so do you!" She shouted over her shoulder as she walked.
"I was planning to anyway" Akio ruffled her hair as he walk past her. Then quicken his pace to a run as Kira ran after him.
"DAMN IT, HOW MANY TIMES MUST I TELL YOU NOT TO DO THAT!"
Sighing, Kira changed into a pair of black jeans with chains and a black t-shirt with a picture of a howling wolf in front. Leaving her waist long dark blue hair down, she quickly grabbed her backpack and stuff several books in, put on a pair of sneakers, and stroll leisurely to school. Upon reaching it, she looks up at the school building, pushing a streak of silver hair behind her ear. The streak of silver hair seems to be a trait in their family. Since Akio has it too only his was shorter and at the left side of his face while Kira's is on the right side.
Kira glanced at the deserted entrance of the school. 'Yup, I'm late alright' She thought amusedly as she went up to her classroom.
"Nice to see you're gracing us with your presence today, Miss Lorien" Her teacher glanced at her as she walked in. "Although you are a few hours late" He muttered as she walked to her seat.
Kira just walked to her seat, not even bothering to reply him. After staring at nothing for a while as the teacher went on with his class, she surveyed the room, noticing half of the class either sleeping or staring somewhere else other then the teacher. Her eyes landed on a boy who's hair was heavily gelled, Yusuke Urameshi.
'Poor guy…Keiko must have dragged him here again" She mused as she watch Keiko trying to keep her boyfriend awake. 'Koenma must have sent him on another mission…' She concluded as she watched Keiko fail and Yusuke went back to dreamland. 'Wonder what mission the toddler sent him to which caused him to be so tired…oh well'
Sighing, she glanced at the clock and resists the urge to groan at the remaining amount of time left for the lesson. She rested her head on her arms and in a few minutes, she was oblivious to her surrounding.
"KIRA!"
She quickly sat up and glared at the speaker. Messed up brown hair with streaks of blond and light brown eyes appeared in her vision. Tori Tansei, one of the "bishie" of the school, grinned at her.
"What do you want Tori?" She asked as rubbed her eyes. Blinking, she realized the class has ended and only a few students remained.
"Nothing, just giving you a wake up call"
"Thanks"
Quickly, Kira gathered her stuff and the both of them walked slowly out into the courtyard. Glancing behind, Kira sighed as she noticed a group of girls following behind.
"Your fans are stalking you again"
"Oh shit…roof?"
"Meet you there" Saying that, Kira broke into a sprint together with Tori and soon split up. After reaching the roof, she sat down and waited for Tori.
"Finally" She said as he came up.
"Heyy! It's hard to avoid those crazy girls you know?" He protested as he sprawled out on the roof.
Kira just glanced at him for a while, then smirked. "Imagining them finding out you're gay"
"I told them before, they didn't believe" Tori shrugged then turned onto his side away from her, signalling the end of their conversation.
Kira just sat beside him, staring down at the sea of students. Her eyes flicked back to the roof as Yusuke came up as well.
"Hey." He muttered as he sat down on the other side of her.
She just acknowledged him with a small nod then went back to her staring.
"Arcade?" Asked Tori as he turned back to face her.
"Sure…Coming Yusuke?"
"Fine with me, let's go."
After opening the door to her home, Kira plopped down on the sofa and switched on the TV, switching channels every few second. Its around evening right now, she had spent the whole afternoon at the arcade with Tori and Yusuke.
"Hey kid," Akio strolled in, closing the door Kira had conveniently forgot to close then joined her at the sofa. "Koenma wants us tonight."
"What does the toddler wants?"
Akio just shrugged, then went up to his room.
'Oh well…I have nothing better to do tonight anyway' Thought Kira as she absent-mindedly continue to flip through the TV.
After an hour of torturing the TV, Kira went up to her room to shower and change. Her outfit is similar to her previous one except the t-shirt has changed to a hoodie. After tying her katana to her side, she lounged on the sofa, waiting for her brother to come down.
"Hungry?" Akio asked as he came down. Kira glanced up at her brother. His black hair with the silver streak is slightly wet, but still in a messed up way like it always was. His eyes matched with the blood red color of his t-shirt. Oddly, Akio has their father's hair and their mother's eyes while Kira has their father's eyes and their mother's hair. Although both of them inherited the silver streak from their father.
"Nope, not really, I ate before I came home" Kira replied standing up.
"Same here, lets go then."
-Lene