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A/N:My first story ever here, please enjoy, if you review!!
Japanese Terms:
-san: Literally means, Mr,Mrs,Miss.
Kanji-is one of the three writing systems used in modern Japanese, also the most complicated to learn.
Ch-1-Someone...
Suicide is the 23rd biggest cause of death in the world.
Japan is ranked in 10th place for suicide and ranked 60th in murder.
Yanagi stared outside the classroom window, she let her mind wander, as she stared down at the school ground a loud thump was heard, in shock Yanagi looked at the angry teacher who towered above her.
"Kyoki! Start taking notes and stop daydream!" the teacher yelled at Yanagi as she nodded in agreement.
"Such a horrible student."the teacher grumbled under his breath,while her classmates snickered and whispers were heard. Yanagi didn't mind, this was apart of her daily life. Everyday she would get yelled at,her parents,a teacher,even a random person whom she never met, it seemed as though everyone hated her.
Yanagi had long black hair,she wore thin eyeliner, thin enough so the school teachers would not notice,Yanagi also wore black nail polish,something that was not tolerated at her eventually it was allowed.
She quickly wrote all the notes she had missed taking down, she did it to please the teacher. The notes wouldn't do her any good,so she thought. At the end of the school day, the bell rang for dismissal. As usual Yanagi was alone. She had no friends,was it because she was so different from the other girls?Whatever the case, no one liked the shy Gothic girl. The only person who was slightly like her, was a boy in her class by the name of Ryuu Zetsumei(絶命 劉). He was emo, and everyone knew it. He always wore heavy eyeliner, he never did speak to anyone, but if anyone did hear his voice, he'd be yelling at a teacher to leave him alone, or swearing under his breath.
He had multiple cuts everywhere on his body,it was revealed when summer came around. Every summer the class would go have swimming classes at the school's pool.
Yanagi walked up to the Kyoki residence, her took out her house key and unlocked the door. Yanagi entered the house, it was one came home till late at night,she went up to her room and closed the began to do her homework, after about two hours or so, she glanced at the clock.
5:00 p.m it read. She stood up and went downstairs to make dinner before her parents came home, at about 6 o'clock she finished and headed back upstairs, to finish her remaining homework,after it was completed she layed on her bed and fell asleep.
It was 11:45 when she awoke,but where she awoke was not her bedroom but outside of her house,she blinked and knocked on her front door. A mid-aged man with messy black hair opened the door, "What do you want bitch?" asked the man,
"May I come in?" she asked,
"Why the hell would I do that!? You cooked dinner but was it warm? No!" he yelled punching her hard in the face,a trickle of blood ran from her mouth, she whimpered. The man was drunk, very drunk. He had no knowledge of what he had just done, it was like this every night, after the loss of his wife, Yanagi's mother, he took in another wife that also was a horrible drunkard, who too beat Yanagi, due to the overload of alcohol.
"Stay out there until you learnt your lesson!" he yelled punching her once more in the face, then slammed the door shut, and locked it. Warily she made her way back to the front gate of her home and sat there, crying slightly. This was the first time, it ever happened. The abuse was getting far worse, and the alcohol in-take as well.
She cried,until she could cry no more.
Suddenly footsteps were heard, the source of the sound came closer and closer finally looming over Yanagi.
"Kyoki?" Yanagi looked up, it was Ryuu. She said nothing but stared at him.
He looked at her and bent down,his finger wiped a bit of blood off near her mouth, he licked his finger happily.
"You kill people."
"What was that?" he asked,
"You kill people, don't you?" she uttered,
"And if I do, what are you going to do about? Tell anyone and I'll kill you, or maybe I should right here right now." he said menacingly, as he removed a knife that had been hidden under his black clothing.
"No one will listen. People laugh when I talk, why would they listen if I told?" she said flatly, unafraid of Ryuu's threat. But Yanagi was scared, she was shaking constantly.
Ryuu looked at her, and wiped more blood off her mouth, licking it gleefully, he smiled. Blood-lust in his eyes.
"Do you know what my name means?" he asked her, she nodded.
"Ryuu means 'kill'(劉), and Zetsume means 'death'(絶命)."
"I'm an outcast cause of that name.I'm mad at this world, that's why I kill. I'm not stupid enough to get caught." he said sitting next to her.
"My, my name means 'weeping willow'." Ryuu looked at her.
"My last name, 'Kyoki' the kanji is for weeping(歔欷) and the kanji for 'Yanagi' is willow(柳).All I seem to do is weep."
"And let life pass you by, like how the wind blows against the willow branches." Ryuu whispered,holding the knife firmly in his hand, and cutting his wrist slightly,not deep enough for him to die. He licked the blood from his wrist while Yanagi looked away in disgust, clutching her stomach.
"Zetsume-san."
"Call me Ryuu."
"Ryuu,why are you even talking to me?Why did you cut yourself?" asked Yanagi, with a blank look.
"I like the taste of blood, everything tastes just like it...I love it!Besides,"he said calming down after his confession about his obsession with blood,"I can talk to whoever I want to. And besides..." Ryuu's voice trailed off. She looked at him blankly.
"You looked lonely, Yanagi."
"That's the first time, someone has called me my name in a long time." Ryuu smiled,
"I'm glad I was the first." he said standing up and started to walk away, "See you tomorrow." Yanagi waved, "In this world there's at least one person who doesn't hate you."as a slight cool breeze blew.
It was a whisper of the wind, when it was heard, Ryuu was gone from sight, nothing but blackness and the light of the street lamp Yanagi sat under. Yanagi blinked, "In this world there's at least one person who doesn't hate you."
"I wonder..." Yanagi's voice trailed off, was it Ryuu who said that just before he left?
