Warnings: Future reference for mentions of drugs, alchohol, violence, language, death.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything having to do with the song/lyrics of Panda Hero. Or Vocaloid. I basically own nothing here; shows you how poor I am, right?

Panda Hero

Chapter 1: Intro

A majority of her young life was spent living in filth.

Whether it was in actual garbage or the poor excuse of other humans.

Ever since Rin was seven, she's been living in the grimiest, most dangerous slums her city had to offer with her older brother, Rei.

It's been eight years since she moved in to join the slum rats;literally and figuratively.

"Rei, Rei, i'm scared." Rin whimpered, shaking her brother awake.

Waking up to Rin's nudging, her brother groggily sat up from his lumpy cot and held her in his lap and rocked her back and forth.

"Another bad dream?" He asked softy not breaking his soothing rocking motions. The girl nodded her blonde head and buried her face in her older brother's shirt.

Ever since the second night they took residence in their slum clan (for she had been so frightened to sleep the first night), Rin would sleep fitfully and wake up from nightmares in a cold sweat. And every night she would go to her brother for comfort and fall asleep again in his arms.

The thing with these nightmares; they were REAL. They wouldn't stop and go away once Rin opened her eyes. Her nightmares were reality.

What the hardest thing for Rin was, was that she was an orphan-her and her brother. But that wasn't the beginning of it. She had no memory whatsoever of her parents. Not any memories of baking cookies on Christmas eve, birthday parties, and not even of being hugged and loved by one of her parents. She didn't even know what they looked like.

All she knew was that their life had been a hard one, but a happy one filled with love and belonging. Atleast that's what Rei, her older brother by three years would say.

Each and everytime Rin was feeling down in the dumps and that the world had servered her crap on a shattered platter, Rei would tell her that he loved her and that no matter what, he would always be there for her. To soothe her and cheer her up. He was the only blood she had left, the only one who could talk to her and be her best friend and guardian at the same time.

Rei remembered every single thing about their parents, from their favorite colors to the jobs that they had.

And how they had died and left them orphaned.

Rin knew this, but never forced answer's out of him. She knew how touchy the subject was and how he would rather not talk about it, aknowledging that everything was in fact true and had happened.

The girl alway's fantasized about her parents though, and how they were when they were alive. She would imagine that her mother shared her hair color, canary yellow. Her eye color would be inherited from her father (who would be tall and strong and protective, but also a softie on the inside).

When she was alone at 'home' (she would never describe aloud this place as home. Thats how much she despised it.) she would create little stories with her imagination about her life before she turned seven and the world that seemed so large to her seven year old self, violently turned upside down.

One of her favorites was when she came home from a place called school (a word she had heard other slum kids talk about, but had no memory of) with a report card. All A's. Her mother was so proud of her she gave her a big bear hug, lifted her up and swung her around in circles as they both laughed and giggle gleefuly. Her father cam home from work and she would run up to him.

"Daddy! Look!" She would say while jumping up and down unable to contain her excitment. Her father would take a look at the card shoved in his face and he would smile and kiss her forehead and call her his little smart princess.

Rei would come out from his room, curious as to all the ruckus and then ruffle her hair playfully and let her play with him in his room.

Almost all the time during her day dreams she would wonder why she didn't remember anything from when she was young. She would have been old enough to clearly remember quite a bit according to the other slum kids.

Sooner or later, Rei would walk back in from god knows where, and ask her why the long face. She would explain, her little stories and about her memory. He would frown and with a serious face would say, "Please promise me that you will do your best at getting an education, Rin." she would nod gravely understanding how important an education was if you wanted to get out of a place like this. Her brother was the perfect example, having to give up school after their parents died and be the independant older role model at uch a young age and do his best at raising Rin. She didn't want to be like him. She had her whole young life ahead of her.

Everyday, waking up from her horrendous dreams, she would look up at the blue sky-grayed from pollution and not letting the sun peek through-she would silently promise herself to do her best and have her and Rei out of this hole in the wall and support him for once.

She smiled faintly in her sleep. She will get them out of here, so they can live as a proper, happy family for once.

I should really stop starting more projects when I already have others in effect /orz I just couldn' help it though! This idea popped into my head, and I just had to write it down!

I should clear things up; Rei is just an O.C I created. Nothing special. (So those of you who are like 'Where's Len? He should be her brother!" Don't worry, he plays a bigger part in this story, trust me.) And this story is inspired by the song Panda Hero sung by Gumi. Not sure who the writter is of the song, but they're awesome and the song belongs to them. I'll be writting this story with the help of various lyric alternations of the song, both English and Japanese.

Well I hope you liked this little teaser/Intro! Review for more and tell me what you thought. I have big plans and promises for this story ;D

~Sabby-Sama