Running and running my body unconsciously guided me toward my home, wounded, scared, and panicking. My memories were a mess and all over the place, but I want to go back home, back to my safe haven.
Somewhat during my run and between my laborious breaths, I would occasionally flash in yellow light, id didn't pay attention to it as I just wanted to reach my home faster...
Time seems to flow slower the more despaired tor each home I became, but after what it felt like hours I was finally in front of my house door.
I picked up my keys and tried opening the door, but my hands were trembling and I barely could hold the key, they fell. I pick them open again, and this time more slowly opens the door.
I close the door behind me and lock it, and finally, I break down. Sliding down my door I started crying right there. My emotions in turmoil, my hands trembling, a guilty surfacing. I am a killer.
I killed someone... I didn't mean to I just reflexively reacted to his attack... But, he hit his head and died... I... don't know what to do.
I look at my trembling hands, which look incredibly pale right now, but sometimes between my breath, I could see a flicker of yellow light.
Mother... My victim... Dad... Images of them keep flashing in my mind, my guilty keeps rising and I feel so lost, I don't know what to do...
Pain... the wound on my back... In my adrenaline-fueled state, I must've forgotten about it, I need to...
I blacked out.
.
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I woke up.
The first thing I see is blood, a lot of blood. I start panicking, but after two deep breaths, I can calm down a bit. Let's recount the events.
I discovered that my mother has an unknown sickness... I went to get some water but a guy attacked me injuring my back, on reflex I retaliated and punched him back on the face, sadly the punch was stronger than expected due to my poor emotional state resulting in poor control. My assailant lost equilibrium due to my punch...
and...
fell...
*Crack* some flashes of the moment where I became a killer surfaced... No concentrate...
After that, I panicked and run towards my house, and after locking the door I blacked out due to my injuries... wait injuries? but I don't feel any pain? I can clearly remember the pain from yesterday, and there is literally a pool of blood on the ground to prove me right.
Wait that yellow light... could it be? I concentrate a little, trying to remember the few moments where I felt the yellow light, the sensation of that moment, the revitalizing energy. A deep breath and suddenly I could see yellow sparks flowing from me This is... [Ripple]...
Now it makes sense why I don't feel pain anymore, when I blacked out I must've used [Ripple] unconsciously, and as the primary function of the [Ripple] is helping wounds and aliments with the positive energy of the sun which is produced by the user breaths.
Now is not the time to explore my new JoJo powers, I need to figure out what I need to do. First, let's clean the entrance, this much blood close to my door is a bad thing.
I picked up some cloths to clean the blood and after a bit of water and some scrubbing, it looked as clean as it could be.
Now a bath, my blood-soaked clothes are definitely going to be a pain to clean. I enter the bath and start cleaning myself and after some minutes under the shower, I was relatively clean. Looking at my reflection in the mirror I looked like shit, I am pale and my eyes are downcast if I hadn't taken a bath you could probably see my tear marks. I turned around with my back facing the mirror and I was extremely surprised to see that the wound didn't even scare me, my skis were as smooth as it was before I was wounded, such an incredible thing is the [Ripple].
Now, what to do... I feel kind of lost, to be honest, it appears in this new life that I get to lose everyone I care for one after another... No don't think like that, mother is still alive, just sick. You only need to find a cure or make it.
Yeah, no moping, no depression, I need to step up and take my fate and the fate of those around me into my own hands, if I stay passive I will only die full of regrets. So let's take these problems into my own hands, if the world wants to deal a bad hand to me, I will show it how strongly I can punch it back.
the first step is to enroll in the Nine Dragons Highschool, this step is basically finished, I just need to take my papers to said school and be done with it.
The second step is to utilize this time of the school break to train my new and evolved power, I know [Ripple] has a lot of potentials and I can definitely get some advantage against those martial artists as they will never expect something so Bizzare Like the [Ripple].
I close my eyes and open them again, but this time there is something different, instead of the two tomoe I was accustomed to, there are three now. And my eyesight became something so potent, so spectacular, focusing on my hand I could even zoom in the cells, the world further slowed down and my field of vision further expanded. But what changed the most was my skill of predicting the future, just looking at my own hand while I move it I can see like a phantom indicating its future action, it is so easy to predict the future now. It's nothing crazy of course just a mere half-second, but half a second or someone who has the [Sharingan] might as well be an eternity, principally when we are talking about battles.
And while I was admiring my new eyes and cool JoJo powers my phone started ringing, my mind immediately started to wander thinking of all the worst negative scenarios that could've happened, but when I see who is calling I took a sigh of relief.
It was Wei.
"Hello, Jin talking."(Jin).
"Ha thank god you are okay. What happened dude, I got the news that your mother was hospitalized and the first thing I did was calling you but you didn't answer, man I thought the worst. What happened to you?"(Wei).
"...sorry I kinda just blacked out last night, I was stupidly tired. Mother hospitalization hit me, hard man, I was really hoping it was just a nightmare... I don't know if I can pass through everything again... I..."(Jin).
"Calm down bro. If you need anything I am here, don't go down that abyss again, this time you may not get out."(Wei).
"Ok... Talking about it... just made me remember everything again... *sigh*"(Jin).
"... Just don't do something stupid or that you will regret later."(Wei).
"No I won't, this time I will try to be proactive and do things on my own. I was already close to registering at Nine Dragons Highschool."(Jin).
"Good to know that I didn't lose my friend again... That time was already a pain..."(Wei).
"Indeed, this time I won't let It grip me."(Jin).
"Good to know. now I've got to go, my mother is calling me. Bye"(Wei).
"Bye."(Jin).
*Sigh*, I didn't think that talking about it would bring up those memories again, but I guess running away from them won't help. Let's do something proactive first and register me at Nine dragon Highschool.
The online part went without a Hinch, But I still need to go to the place to give my papers to them, it's not that far, to be honest, if I go running I can reach there in less than an hour.
Registering myself didn't take more than the normal amount of bureaucracy, but I was able to do it. With my sunglasses still on I was able to explore my new view of the world with my now evolved [Sharingan]. the world is way more beautiful and filthy than I could've imagined, I didn't know some things could be so dirty yet have such a clean appearance.
Reaching home I think I will try to mess a little bit with my [Ripple], I need to prepare a training plan too as [Ripple] only works if I am breathing correctly, I need to make it second nature to me and not something I need to be constantly aware of. After that I need to get used to my new [Sharingan], liking it or not the upgrade was quite significant and I need to use it to its full potential. It is also a great way to free my mind from the painful thoughts...