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Chapter 3 - Chapter 3 The Unknown Becomes Clear

Ill ask you another question. Why do people change themselves? Is it lo have a good public opinion, what about you just want to be a better person? Why change in the first place? We are all human, we do things for a reason, even if it seems like it's for no reason. But we learn from our mistakes, we change because of our experiences. Make sure what im about to say sticks with you for life… Have the resolve to change, be wise enough to know what is a mistake, and if someone gives you any type of advice, heed it before you trash it.

It's September 13 2002. In Kootenai county hospital in Idaho are Hal fenikkusu and ai fenikkusu. AI is giving birth and Hal is there holding her hand. "Push! Push! The baby is almost here, just a little more!" A doctor says. "Come on honey, breathe in and out just like we practiced, in and out in and out, there you go". Hal says to his wife ai. "Uuuuh. *Deep breath* uhhh". AI trying all she can to push the baby out. And finally after 14 hours in the hospital, kurai fenikkusu was born. "Isn't he beautiful?" AI looks up at Hal, and it looks like he wants to hold kurai. You want to hold him?" AI asked. Hal reached out his arms. His eyes are full of love with tears of happiness running down his face. "He is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen." Hal says while holding kurai with all the love and passion in the world. "Alright now I'm gonna give you back to your mother." Hal says. It's September 23 2002. The sounds of coughing and things falling to the ground.

Hal is having another coughing attack, but it's the worst one he has had yet. AI, being so worried for him, takes Hal to the hospital, and takes kurai along. Hal is put on a hospital bed and rushed to the emergency room. AI and kurai waiting outside of the room, ai is sitting there anxiously. Kurai starts crying and ai is holding him, rocking him back and forth saying "it's gonna be alright." In the ER you can hear what's going on in there. The sounds of many people grabbing tools and pacing around. "Get his heart rate on the monitor quickly!" A doctor yells. "His lungs sounds like there full of yuck." Another doctor says. The sound of Hal coughing frantically, it scares kurai, so he starts crying more. AI sitting in the hall singing to kurai, "don't you worry, about a thing… cause every little thing, is gonna be alright." AI's eyes filled with tears and fear. Then suddenly she hears… "he stopped breathing, his heart rate has dropped, perform CPR." Ai almost falls to her knees covering her mouth while holding kurai and crying nonstop. "It's not working, bring out the defibrillator. 1,000 volts. Stand by… CLEAR! A loud banging noise is heard. CLEAR! Again. CLEAR! Again. CLEAR! one more time. CLEAR! AI completely on her knees holding kurai and covering her mouth she cries. Her eyes filled with heartbreaking tears flowing down non stop and a cry so loud. The doctors come out, with a very disappointing… expression. "I'm sorry… but he didn't make it." AI's eyes open widely, and are rendered speechless.

It's September 13 2015, Kurai's 13th birthday. And the day kurai gets to go to a specialist class in 8th grade. "Good afternoon class, today we will have a new student. Please introduce yourself". Miss Silvia said. Kurai walks it from the hall. He is about 5'5 with black hair black eyes and a warm smile. "Hello everyone, my name is kurai fenikkusu, I'm half American and half Japanese. My hobbies are volleyball, magic and video games. I hope to get to know you all soon". Kurai said with a smile. The class clapped. You can sit right by Hiroko shimia. Kurai walks and sits down at his desk by Hiroko. Hiroko glances to her left with a gentle smile at kurai. Hiroko is 5 '2 with long blonde hair, blue eyes with beautiful skin. *Bell rings* "ok class you are free to go home, have a wonderful day". Miss Silvia said. As kurai walks out, a bunch of other kids surround kurai. "Are you really half Japanese?" A girl says. I like Minecraft, you wanna play with me?" A boy says. "How high can you jump?"

Another boy says. Hiroko looks at kurai and the other kids and has a pouty look on her face. After a little chat with many kids, Kurai finally heads home. As he passes the playground on the sidewalk outside the school Hiroko approaches kurai from behind. Hiroko with her hands behind her back leans forward and smiles at kurai while walking. They both stop, kurai smiles back and asks "what's your name?" "My name is Hiroko Shimia, nice to meet you". "It's nice to meet you too, and I like your hair". Hiroko blushes, looks to her left and starts playing with her hair saying "thank you". "So you like volleyball, me too I love it, we should play sometime". Hiroko says. "Kurai gets excited and says "isn't volleyball great! If you play it right it feels so epic and the sting left on your hand or arms when you make a spike or a receive is amazing". Kurai says with his eyes wide open. Hiroko get excited too. "Ya! And especially when you make a great play with the team it all moves so fast but it feels slow and just sends shivers down your body". Kurai and Hiroko talk all the way to Hiroko's block. Kurai and Hiroko live next to each other but on different blocks. "This is where my house is. I hope to talk to you again tomorrow". Hiroko says. "My house is just in this block, I can't believe we live so close by ''. They both have a large smile and start laughing. "I hope you have a good day". Kurai says. "You too, see ya tomorrow". Hiroko says back. Once Hiroko got to her room she jumped on her bed landing face first into her pillow giggling and kicking her feet. And when kurai goes to his room he sits on his bed looking at his closet trying to spot clothes to impress Hiroko tormarrow.

The next day.

*Bell rings* "ok everyone take your seats". Miss Silvia says. "Today we will be going into the field to practice our magic, but first before we do that let's learn the fundamentals". The whole cheers and sighs at the same time. "So can anyone tell me what the scientific word for mana is?" Hiroko takes this chance to impress kurai with her intelligence, so she raised her hand. "Hiroko". Miss Silvia says. "The scientific word for mana is magickuel's". Hiroko says. "Nice job, can you tell me what magickuel's are?" Miss Silvia asked. "Magickuel's are you, there you whole body, they make up your cells in your body and magickuel's can be stored in blood this how we get our supply of mana". Hiroko explains. "Very good hiroko. Yes in other words it our life force if we use to much we will become the spell itself thus killing us in the process so make sure not to use too much and stop anyone with little mana use any magic spells". Miss Silvia explains. Hiroko smiles and looks at kurai. But kurai seems to be taking notes and doesn't look back at hiroko. She gets a pouty look on her face and goes back to listening to the teacher. "Class it's the to go to the field so let's get moving. Chop chop". The class moves out to the field where they find targets specifically made to measure magic attack power. "I'll call you guys out by name so please step forward and release a spell when I call your name". "Jacob". Jacobs come up and releases a powder full water spell. "Your attack power is 856. Well done Jacob, that's impressive for someone your age. Now next is Mathew". Mathew releases a powerful fire spell. "Your attack power is, 1036 really well done Mathew". After 16 more kids were called hiroko gers called. Hiroko releases a powerful air spell. "Your attack power is 1,356! Your really talented hiroko." Hiroko flicks her hair and turns around looking at kurai. This time kurai looks amazed. After she get back she has a large smile. "Next is kurai". Kurai uses a powerful air and fire spell. "Wow! Two elements and the attack power of 957, really well done kurai". Kurai walks back, his chin up, smiling at hiroko. Hiroko looks amazed. After class, Kurai and hiroko walk home together talking about each other's magic. "I can't believe you can use two elements. It's not rare but it is uncommon for someone your age to learn that they have 2." Hiroko says. "Well your attack power was amazing. Especially the way you did your spell it was beautiful". Kurai says. Hiroko blushes and punches kurai and the arm and says "thanks' '. The two part ways and head back to their homes. And after many days of talking and walking home together, hiroko asked kurai to meet at the downtown park.

It's September 29th 2015.

"So why do you want me here?" Kurai asked nervously. "Well, uh… I wanted to tell you something." Hiroko says nervously. "Oh?"

"Well uh, I wanted to tell you… that I like you and wondered if you would like to date me?" Hiroko says while playing with her hair. Kurai without hesitation says yes. Hiroko smiles widely and jumps in kurai's arms. Kurai doesn't catch her so she just falls on top of him and kurai loses a little breath. The next day.

"Good morning class. Today we will be learning different spells. But first can anyone tell me how they work?" Hiroko and Mathew raise their hand.

"Mathew." Miss Silvia says. "Spells are a technique to make a spell stronger, we don't need to use spells we can just shoot it out". Mathew explained. "That's good Mathew but I was wondering how it worked. Hiroko can you tell me?" "With spells you should say specific words to make a spell take shape and increase attack power but uses more mana. You can say these words in your head which will take less mana, but it takes less attack damage too and it's common for the shape to get disfigured." Hiroko explains. "Good job hiroko. That's the basics of it but you will be learning more advanced in high school." Hiroko smiles and looks at kurai, this time kurai notices and gives a thumbs up. "We will be spread in 4 groups for each element and those with 2 elements will switch after one session."

UpAll the kids go In different groups and kurai and hiroko enter the air element group. "Alright kids, for today's spell we will learn a very basic but powerful spell. This spell takes the shape of a blade then after you say the words swing your dominant arm horizontally in front of you." Mr. Jones said. "I can't wait to learn this spell." Hiroko says. "Me too it's going to be fun." Kurai says. "Ok the words are, a clear sky flattens the wind, make it my blade." Then he swings his arms out and it creates a sound that is like a small explosion that lasts 5 seconds and slices the target in two. "Alright kids, I will call everyone up by name so come when you are called".

"Angelica". "A clear sky flattens the wind, make it my blade." Then she swings her arm Infront of her, etching a cut in the target but it did not go through. "Very good. Next is Hiroko." "A clear sky flattens the wind, make it my blade." Then she swings her arm in front of her, slices through the target and even penetrates the wall behind it. "Very well done hiroko, you could make a career of a specialist." Hiroko is happy with the outcome and jumps in kurai's arms. "Last one is kurai fenikkusu." "A clear sky flattens the wind, make it my blade." This time kurai swings his arm diagonally and cuts it in half. Kurai walks back happy. "Great job kurai." Hiroko says. Kurai smiles and gives her a hug.

It's October 12th 2014. Kurai and hiroko are In love. And what looks like on the outside just two kids experiencing what is called false first love, is true love. Even though they don't feel it yet, it's there, and is slowly approaching in kurai's mind and hiroko's. If you live under a rock and don't know what first false love is, I'll break it down. First false love is where you have your first love at a young age but you don't fully understand what love really is. Kurai and Kiroko don't understand but they will soon. Back to the story.

But today is special for both of them. Because today they are introducing themselves to one another's family. It's more stressful for kurai than it is for hiroko but still stressful. You know how fathers get when they meet their daughters' boyfriends. Anyway, kurai is taken by hiroko to Hiroko's house to meet her parents. Of course kurai dress nice and practice talking to their parents. First, Hiroko walks in and asks kurai to wait. After a minute or two hiroko asked kurai to come and take his shoes off. Kurai was shown to the dining table where they were setting up the dining table. "Have a seat next to me." Hiroko says enthusiastically. Kurai pulls back a chair for hiroko and kurai sits next to her. He nervously puts his hands on his lap waiting anxiously for her parents. Finally her mom Elisha and her dad phill sit down at the dinner table directly across from kurai and hiroko. Phill being in kurai's side and Elisha on hiroko's. *Gulp* "nice to meet you sir, my name is kurai fenikkusu, how are you?" Kurai says nervously. With an intense face phill says, "hmm. Have you been taking care of my daughter kurai?" "Yes sir I have, I'll always protect her." "Hmm. Would you like some beer or a cigarette kurai?" "No thank you sir, I don't drink or smoke, I like to stay away from those things if I can help it."

"Very good. Now what are you planning to do with my daughter?" "Excuse me?" "DAD! Don't ask that question In Front of him!" "I'm sorry sir but I don't know what you're talking about." Kurai literally didn't know what he was talking about. Phill smiles. "One final question, but first here is some water." "Thank you sir" kurai takes a sip. "Are you willing to do anything for my daughter?" "Yes as long as it is in my power to do so to the best of my ability." Phill smiles and says "then I give my blessing to marry hiroko." Kurai chokes on his water. "DAD! stop embarrassing me!" Kurai is coughing and takes another drink to make it feel better. "Now I want grandkids before I'm 40 so hurry up and get married,"Elisha said. Kurai chokes on his water again, this time forcing the water down his throat. "MOM! Stop it!" Hiroko yells. Phill laughs hard while coming over to pat kurai on the back. After that kurai eats and chats with them and heads home. "Thanks for having me". Kurai says. "Thanks for coming. And I love you." Hirok says. "Love you too." Then kurai proceeds to give hiroko a kiss on the lips.

As kurai walks away he turns back to see hiroko walking in her home… and getting teased as she shuts the door.

The next day, kurai invites hiroko to his home to meet his mom. After schools kurai and hiroko walk home, and is now standing In Front of kurai's house. "Come inside, make yourself at home." Kurai says. She walks in with kurai and proceeds to take off her shoes and sit on the living room couch. "One moment while I get my mom." Kurai says. Kurai walks down the hall. And hiroko hears them talking but can't make out what there saying. Then she hears. "She's here!" Then ai, which is kurai's mom runs out to greet her. As ai is talking to hiroko, hiroko starts to admire AI's beauty. She is tall, looks to be about 5'6 with long blonde hair, black eyes. skin that shines with not too big but not too small breast. The perfect size. A thin but In shape body curvy hips, a big round ass. Its my ideal women. Even though ai is 100% japanese she looks so american. "Its so nice to finally meet you, my son has told me a whole lot about you." AI says. "Its nice to meet you too. I've been looking forward to see you." Hiroko says. "Kurai go to your room. We are going to have some girl time." AI says to kurai. "Alright but don't do or say anything embarrassing." Kurai says back. After two whole hours of chat ai walks hiroko to kurai's room, shoves her in. And before she closes it she says, "have fun you two." And shuts the door. Hiroko looks at the ground and blushes. But kurai was oblivious to what she meant so he said, "thanks mom we will." Hiroko looks a bit disappointed after seeing that kurai had no clue what ai meant. "Did my mom say anything embarrassing." Kurai asked. "No… not at all." Hiroko says while looking to her left. Kurai notices. People tend to look to there left when think of a lie on the spot, but he didn't want to dwell on it any further. After a long chat and a bit of volleyball outside, hiroko was sent home. "I had fun today, I hope to come again." Hiroko says while turning left to right with her hand behind her back. "Thanks for coming over, I had fun too". Hiroko then quickly kisses kurai and starts to walk off. Kurai then says, "I love you!" Then notices what he said out loud in the open and quickly shuts the door.

Almost a year has gone by. Kurai and hiroko are even closer than ever before. But as kurai learns of his magical abilities, he learns that he is powerful for a 13 year old.

He starts to abuse this power, the first incident came along on June 16th. He is in town looking for something to buy for hiroko. As he was doing this his wallet was suddenly stolen from him. This thief had air element magic and boosted away fast. But kurai also learned this technique. "I call upon you, be my step and guide me". He cast this spell and was now chasing down the thief. They go into an alley where kurai catches him. He grabs on to the thief. Both their spells stopped and they came crashing down at high speed. The thief got up and tried running again but kurai used his fire magic to make a wall. Then he catches him and uses a spell called gale punch. With this he relentlessly beats the thief. After he is done he grabs his wallet. But he was tempted to search the thief. There he found tons of money. He hesitated but took it anyway. After he thought about how easy it was to use his magic in this way. So not long after, anyone he didn't like or pissed him off was beaten. He never got caught which made him do it more times over and over. But one day on September 12th, he accidentally killed a boy. As kurai was having a fight with another kid, kurai knocked him to the ground, and as he was about to use his wind magic he didn't use gale punch, he used a magic spell he didn't learn yet. It's called the squall punch. Like the gale bunch it's a powerful punch and can knock you back. Unlike the gale punch, it's sharp. And as he used this spell a kid jumped In Front not caring what would happen to him. And kurai pierced straight through. Because of the wind current the blood splat on the other kid. And the one that jumped in the way… he died. Kurai was freaking out. Crying, not knowing what he had done. He ran away while the kid tried to heal the dead kid. After a person saw the kid holding the dead kid, he called 911. And the kid was taken into custody. And found no evidence against kurai, so the kid tried to heal him. Was charged of murder. I'll explain in more detail. In the trial the kid, who is named Kevin, did not know who kurai was. And Kevin couldn't give an accurate description of Kurai's face. And no other evidence was found. What was seen was Kevin holding Todd who is the dead kid in his arms covered in blood and bruises. To them it looked like a fight that went overboard. But Kevin, Todd, and kurai knew what happened. Kevin was sent to juvenile detention until he turned 18 then transferred to a prison for 10 years. Kurai knew what happened to Kevin but never spoke up. The guilt put a huge weight in his shoulder. He never told anyone. Not even hiroko. Through the next year kurai soon left it at the back of his mind. Almost forgot about it. But it still left a weight on his shoulder.

It's 2018 April 20th. After the incident kurai grew further from hiroko. Although they were still both In love, Kurai's guilt caused him to push her away. Hiroko notices and asks to talk. "Hey babe, how are you?" Kurai says. "I'm fine. How are you?" Hiroko says with a worried face. "I'm fine too, but you look a little troubled." "I wanted to ask you what's going on with you? You've been getting distant." "What? Babe no, I love you why would I be distant?" "You've been making more and more excuses not to do stuff with me and you barely look at me anymore. Do you not love me anymore?" "What no of course I love you. I've just been busy lately." "Don't give me that bullshit! You've not been taking good care of yourself, you barely play volleyball anymore and you love volleyball." "Its nothing!" Kurai yells. And hurts Hiroko's feelings. "I'm sorry i-i didn't mean to tell." "I'm leaving." Hiroko says while tears fall down her face. "Wait please don't go." Kurai tries to grab her hand. "Don't touch me! I'm going home." So kurai lets her go. Out of frustration he punches himself in the face. Over at hiroko's house in her bedroom she sits there crying. Think how to get kurai to be closer with her again. After many months of trial and error. On September 13th 2018 on kurai's birthday. Hiroko was invited to his birthday party. And many other friends. After everyone leaves hiroko kurai and ai clean up. "Alright you two, I'm going for the night and won't be back till tomorrow. Your father is expecting you to be home by 10 pm, ok hiroko?"

"Understood, have a good night." "You kids have fun." Kurai and hiroko go to kurai's room. They sit there talking for a bit. Sense kurai has been distant it's awkward for him. So the at 10 pm. Kurai notices what time it is. "Well it's ten. I'll walk you to your house." Kurai says as he gets up to the door. Suddenly hiroko grabs his shirt. Kurai turns around. Hiroko his still holding on to his shirt and she is looking at the ground. "I want to stay A little longer. I want to know why you've sometimes avoided me. We never be this awkward with each other." "I'm not trying to be. A Lot has been on my mind lately. And I still love you so much." "Then prove it." She says as she looks up at kurai. "What do you mean?" Kurai asked. Hiroko grabs curtain and bring him over to the edge of the bed. She gets on top of him. Putting her face close to his. And with a subtle soft beautiful voice she says. "Prove you love me." They start making out on his bed. Hiroko takes off her shirt showing her bra. Then she takes off kurai's shirt. Kurai turns her on her back. And slowly kisses from her chest down to her stomach. Hiroko makeling little moans and huffing noises. Kurai takes off her skinny jeans leaving her panties on. And kurai puts his mouth on her panties. Hiroko puts her hand on kurai's head and starts moaning. Kurai turning his his left to right, up and down. Kurai then moves up. And hiroko puts kurai on his back taking off his pants leaving on his boxers. Kurai and hiroko we're half naked. Hiroko had her bra and panties on and kurai had his boxers on.

The next morning kurai wakes up next to hiroko on his bed. He notices what time it is. There late for school. AI is almost home. Kurai wakes her up and they both get dressed and hurray to school. After they got out and went home hiroko was given a talking to for not coming home last night. And of course hiroko's parents called kurai's mom. And kurai also got a talking to. But never told her what happened last night.

A week later on September 21st. Kurai's house was attacked by a demon. The demon came rushing in destroying the living room. AI told kurai to run and tried to distract the demon. But it went after kurai. Kurai wasn't fast enough to use his spell. So ai tackled the demon. Punching and kicking it. The demon hit ai across the kitchen. Her body crashed into the table destroying some dishes and breaking the dining room table. It goes after kurai again. But AI's mom instincts kick in. AI uses fire magic to propel her to kurai. This spell was called, Crimson jet. She was very fast. But inorder to use the spell, it took her left arm away almost taking her shoulder too. She stopped In Front of the demons attack and it's stabbed her straight through. Kurai sees this and yells… "mom!" With her very last strength she uses a spell, called combustion bomb. This created a very loud noise and blew the demons top half off killing it. But this spell took too much of her magickuel's. Her entire body turned to dust In Front of kurai's eyes. Her body itself was put into that spell. She sacrificed her life to save kurai. Kurai gets up. His ears ringing. His eyes getting narrow. Tunnel vision is forming. He looks at her ashes. Falls on his knees and tries to pick up the ashes. He puts his head on the floor and yells "mom!" As he cries. A three days later at ai's funeral. Kurai's grandma from Japan came. Her name is Hana kazoku. She decided to move to America after finding out she died to be with kurai until kurai can live on his own. 1 week later, kurai is still grieving ai's death, he is now living with his grandma. As he walks in to the living room, his grandma asks "how are you today"? While watching TV. "I'm doing fine grandma". Kurai says in a very depressed voice. "I need to have a talk with you, come over here and sit down" she says. Kurai comes and sits next to her. "I'm sorry about what happened. Nothing can change that. But I have one question for you". "What is it". "Do you want to prevent this from happening again"? "Yes I do. I don't want this to happen to hiroko. I want to protect her with my life". "Well over in Japan, there is a specialist school, a program that produces the best specialist in the world. I want to send you there, but there is one catch…" "what is it"? "You have to abandon everything and everyone here, you can't visit, speak, or stay in contact with anyone". Kurai's eyes widened and he yelled "why! Why would you want me to attend that! What about hiroko, what about you!!?" "You can become stronger to protect everyone." "So after all these years you finally see your grandsons and now you want him to abandon everything!" "You couldn't save your mother, my daughter. You need to get stronger." "Don't put that shit on me! Don't try to use it against me! You still haven't told me why this is a rule." "You can come back, and see her again after you graduate, you just can't see them during training." "Why not"! "Because they don't want any distractions, they are very diligent and are very hard on student". Kurai stands there, puzzled. "Let me talk to hiroko and then I'll think about it". Kurai says. So kurai called hiroko if he could come over, she said yes, so kurai heads over and they go into her room. "I need to talk to you about". They both say at the same time. "You go first hiroko". "No you say it first". "Ok, my grandma want me to attend a specialist school in Japan". "What? That's so far away will you be coming back"? "Im still thinking about it. But if I go there I can't contact anyone, I would begone for about 2 years and once I graduate I would come back". "That's so long without you, I don't think I could take it". Hiroko says as she hugs kurai. "They make the best specialist in the world, please I want to become stronger, so I can protect you". Kurai says. Hiroko sits back and looks up at the ceiling. A brief moment passes by then hiroko answers. "Ok, you can go. But I want you to come back as soon as possible". "I will' so what did you want to tell me"? "Well- uh I wanted to tell you… it's nothing, forget it"? "Really? why were you so flustered"? "Just don't worry about it! Go home!" Kurai then kisses hiroko and heads back to his house. "Fine I'll go, when would I leave". "The day after tomorrow, I've already packed the things you need to don't worry". "What do you mean packed everything I need"? "I knew you would do it eventually, so I already bought you new clothes and a katana". "Ya know grandma, I don't think I like you very much". Kurai says with a pissed off face. She smiles. "I'm just doing what's best for you". Two days later, Kurai heads to Japan to attend the school. Its October 2nd kurai arrived at the school, his stuff was taken to his dorm by a serviceman and kurai headed to the gym for opening orientation. "Thank you everyone for showing up today. As you might know our specialist stuyo-sa program is starting A new year. I know a weird time to start a new year, but the reason why we are starting this year in October is because of some rule changes. First of wich is it's a lot less strict, yes we will still be super hard on your training but you get more free time out of you day. Another rule we changed is that you are not required to give out blood every 6 weeks.". "Why did we have to do that in the past"? A new student asked. "That information is confidential. Please refrain from asking further about that topic. One more major rule change is, the better you do, in your subjects the higher your rank. The higher your rank is, we will let you move out of your dorm and into you own apartment on campus. Now there are other minor changes that your dorm manager will tell you about". And after 30 minutes they finally get done. So kurai heads to his dorm. "Welcome, your kurai right"? Kurai nods. "Great. Your room is down the hall three dots down to your left". "Thank you". Kurai says.

Kurai walks in to a not too small but not too big room. He sees a bunk bed, one side is his, and another side is his roommates. "I guess I'll choose bottom bunk". Kurai says. So he gets his bed ready and checks to see if the rest of his stuff is there. "Everything seems to be in order". Kurai thinks to himself. "Everyone out in the living room now"! Everyone's goes out there. But to kurai's surprise he sees men and women in the same dorm. "Alright everyone I'm gonna tell you the minor rule changes. First rule change wich you may have noticed, is that mean and women can be in the same dorm now. You may be wondering why this is a thing. If you've noticed there are two bathrooms in your dorm room. Because of this you are not sharing a bathroom, so we don't have a problem putting a man and a woman in the same room. There was also a survey you guys took before coming here, asking about you and your preferences, we put you in a room with the gender you both prefer. And ano-" "ya hi, uh why did you guys make that change because of our preferences"? "Having a partner whether it may be work or a partner in life, your magickuel's will grow in number, it's been proven. So if you don't get along with your partner we can have an arranged switch. But there has to be someone else who is also not getting along". "Ok that makes sense I guess". "now another change, and this Is the last one. Is you are required to do a magickuel numbers test, every beginning of the month. And that's all, you are free to go". Kurai heads back to his room. "Tomorrow they start the training day". Kurai says to himself. The. He starts to doze off.kurai then wakes up to someone poking and pushing him. His eyes sight is blurry for and sec. But he hears a sweet calming voice. He looks up and sees a woman standing there. "Hi- hiroko"? "No, I'm not hiroko sorry". A woman says. His vision is clear again. But to kurai's surprise, she looks a lot like hiroko. Almost identical. "Oh hello, I'm kurai fenikkusu". "Kurai fenikkusu? That's a weird name". "Ya, I know, in English it means dark Phoenix, but still, it's my name my parents gave me and I'll love it forever".

"Well it's nice to meet you fenikkusu, Im shinrai mujoken". Shinrai says.

"Well it's nice to meet you too shinrai". Shinrai then looks puzzled, and says. "I don't think we are close enough for a first name basis". "Oh right. I forgot, here in Japan you guys don't call each other by first name". Kurai says. "Your not from Japan"?

"No, I'm half Japanese half American, but I was born and raised in America". "Oh that's cool. What part of America are you from"? "I'm from Idaho Coeur d'alene". "Never heard of it. anyways, I just wanted to introduce myself and I hope we can become good friends". "Me too".

The next day. Its kurai's and shinrai's first day of specialist training. "Ok people. We are going to use a technique that will help build your magickuel's up. This month is magickuel training."

Mr.suzuki said. "How can you build your magickuel's? I thought you couldn't do that"?

"I'm getting to that. Now I want you and your partner, which is your dorm roommate, to hold hands". So kurai and shinrai hold hands. "Now I want you to focus your magickuel's at the palms of your hands". So kurai and shinrai close their eyes, and pretend like they're cast magic in their hands without thinking of a specific spell. The in-between there hands in in the middle is a round bright light, not bright enough to blind you but enough to tell the shape. "Good job you two, hold that for a little longer". Mr.suzuki says. "What's with that black orb in the middle"? Shinrai says.

"I don't know what that is. Should I ask the teacher"? Kurai asked. Shinrai nods and right as she was about to call the instructor, she stops. "What's wrong"? Kurai asked. "I don't know why, but I think we should keep this to ourselves". "Why"? "I don't know, it's just a feeling I've got".

"What ever you say". "Alright that's enough". Mr.suzuki says. "What was that for"? Someone asked. "Its to see your matches. Don't over think it. Anyways, now I'll tell you how to build magickuel's. What you just did just now will help you with that. If you have noticed, you should feel tired, that's because what you just did drains your magickuel's slowly but surely". "But you said it's for to see if we match". Someone said "I did, like I said don't over think it". Mr. Suzuki says.

Now for the past month, you will do this with your partner, in your dorm room, and you will eat a bunch of food while doing this. Eating food replenishes your magickuel's, and when you eat and use magic simultaneously, it will build you magickuel's, but this will only last a month, you can't do anymore than that after". "Why can't you do it anymore after a month"? A student asked.

"Your body won't allow it. We don't have a specific answer but our theory is that your body gets used to it. With is a long stretch, but our other theory is that when you build it up, you hit your max limit after a month. Now enough talking. Get started". For a whole month they repeated this every day. Nothing much happened. But kurai and shinrai got to know each other more. They soon became good friends. But even though shinrai knows about hiroko, she falls in love with kurai anyways. A love she thinks will never come true, only a dream past the sky and into the stars. But on November 3rd, 2018 kurai was called to the main office. The center director called kurai into his office. Kurai takes a seat. "What do you need mr.hasigawa"? "I'm terribly sorry I'm the one to tell you this, but your girlfriend, hiroko… she was killed". Kurai's jaw dropped, eyes opened wide. Kurai nearly falls to the floor. Kurai's hair turns from white back to black in the split of a second.

Kurai's rage filled within him. "HOW DID THIS HAPPEN"!? Kurai screamed. "She was killed by demon". Kurai's rage filled up even more, know that a demon killed another most important person in his life. "If only you were strong enough you wouldn't have had to come here". Hasigawa said. "Wait, how did you know"? Hisagaea hesitated for a second. "It was in your report your parent filled out". "If it was in my report then you know my parents are dead". "In Japan, we refer to guardians as parents". "I'm going to get my revenge. And If I find out you were the one who did anything to huroko, I'm going to fucking kill you, you son of a bitch". "I assure you, we only do what is needed to make you stronger. And your training is your only part in it". " Going back to my dorm". "Wait, before you go. As a apologies and a good job this month you and your partner will be the first to receive your own apartment. I've already sent people to move your stuff. Here is your key, your apartment number is 73, your favorite number". Hasigawa tosses kurai the key. "I don't give a shit". Then kurai storms off to his apartment room. Kurai came raging into his bedroom. "Kurai welcome back-". Shinrai tried to say. Kurai then jumps in his bed puts his face in his pellow and screams as loud as he can.

Shinrai walks in and site on the side of the bed, rubbing kurai's back and asked, "what's wrong"?

"My girlfriend, I was told she was killed. And I loved her so much". Kurai said while crying. "I'm so sorry to hear that. Come here". Shinrai then grabs kurai and puts his head in her shoulder. "Cry all you want. I here for you". She said. So kurai wraps his arms around her tightly and cried even more. After an hour kurai fell asleep in shinrai's arms. So she laid him down on the bed. But as he got up, kurai wouldn't let go. So she waited till he loosened his grip but instead she fell asleep to. The next morning. Kurai wakes up and gets ready. He walks to the living room, and shinrai has put out food for him. Slkurai sits down and eats. He thinks it's delicious, after he finished his plate he starts crying again. After 1 minute he stops and puts away his dishes. Shinrai walks into the living room and sees kurai on the couch. She sits next to him and asked, "how was the food"?

"It was delicious. Best thing I've had sense I got here". Kurai says. "Well I'm glad you liked it. Sense we don't have to constantly eat this places food anymore, I just decided I could cook for us". Shinrai said. "I really appreciate it. And for last night". Kurai starts crying again. "I came here to get stronger so I could protect her. And yet she died. And I have nothing to show for it". Kurai cries out. "I can't say anything to make you feel better. Nothing I can do will bring her back, but I am here for you". Shinrai says. kurai looks at shinrai, and kurai sees hiroko. Kurai knows she looks like hiroko, so he doesn't let it get to him. "We should head to our training. We don't want to be late". Kurai says. "Your right, let's go". So kurai and shinrai head to there training. This time they are focusing on combat. "Alright, a tournament will be held in one month. We will improve your skills with weapons in that time. Then you will fight to the best of your abilities". Mr.izawa said. "First we have analyzed your abilities, and your tests. We have created a weapon, specially made for you specifically, those who have 2 elements will have two weapons no matter what. So we will call names out by dorm number, and sense kurai and shinrai are the only ones with a apartment right now, they will come up immediately". Mr izawa explained. So kurai and shinrai wakes up to grab there weapons. "Shinrai, based on your tests and abilities, we made you this weapon". Mr.izawa grabs a big box and opens it. "Sense your element is earth, we made you, a giant hammer. One side is a big and diamond shaped. The other side is sharp. We made you this because if you infuse your magic with the weapon, you can have explosive power. And because your test showed that a big two handed weapon would suit you best". "Thank you very much". And shinrai went back in line.

Now it's kurai's turn. He walks up, and mr.izawa pulled out two big boxes and opened them. "Sense your element is fire, and wind, we made you two swords, your test results showed you mainly used your fire, and you used you wind to support your fire. So we made one sword, with chains, curved, and has a hook at the end, that's for your wind. When. You imbue it, you can use it like a giant fan, or use your wind to make it spin faster for combos. the other sword is long, but one handed, and it's curvey. Kinda like a snake. When you imbue it, it can withstand serious heat". He explained. So kurai and shinrai grabbed there weapons, and was sent to a remote location on the campus. This campus was huge so is was a pretty open area. All the way there and uring training, kurai only had hiroko's death in mind. And his anger built up as he tried to hold it back.

"Kurai, you need to ficus on your center of mass when your swinging that sword around". Mr.izuku

Said. "What do you mean by that? Its not like I'm an expert at this, I don't even know what my center of mass is"!? Kurai said. "Think of a basic boxing stance. Keep your dominant by your cheek, arms parallel with each other, your feet and shoulders should be lined up, use your hips for balance, Take a step forward, shift your weight from your hips, to your shoulders, to your fist, for a straight. But instead take a step forward, swing diagonally down when holding the chain in your dominant hand, use your other to help direct it, spin around and swing down again aiming for the ground. The basic attack". Kurai then copied his movements and did exactly as he said. It worked! "The trick is the way you take every step, every turn. Using your bodies momentum to propel your sword faster". He said. Kurai stands their, silent. He is completely focused. The only thing on his mind Is revenge for hiroko. After 2 weeks of training, he improved so much for someone only starting this. The reason for this, is the program trains the students so strictly, and every teacher is trained to train a student like this. A technique, where you take 16 hours out of your day for training, and 8 hours of sleep. Its so strict they eat while training. Its only on the weekends they get the whole day off, because working hard is admirable, but you can't work yourself to death, you need brakes.

"We have two more weeks till the tournament, you and shinrai have showed amazing progress. But your opponents might be your another student, but we produce the best, wich means you will be fighting the best. So keep training till you drop". Mr.izawa said. Another 2 weeks of vigorous training, finally it was time of the tournament. The tournament is broadcast all over the country, even many people from America fly over to Japan just to watch them fight. "Now, after all we've been waiting for, it's time for Japan's specialist training center, the biggest tournament in all of the world. We have dorm A1B and dorm B2C and dorm C3D

And dorm D4E, and finally dorm E5F. If your new this is how it works. Every student in one dorm, will compete with each other to represent that dorm. Then all five winners will compete in the finals, then the winner of the whole tournament will receive, an early graduation, taking one year off there agreement. And now what you've be-". The commenter was cut off. "Oh, I see. Ok, due to some events, there will be 7 in the finals. Two students will be competing in the finals due them being the only ones living in an apartment after such little amount of time. Now to the fight"! The commenter got impatient so he just went straight to it. Two students walk out to the arena. One was a tall man, with short blond hair, he was wearing black clothing in the left. The other was short, he had red hair, with a long one handed blade. He was also wearing black clothing on the right."on the left, is tazimakazi. He is 17 with the wind element. On the right, is takashi, he is 20 years old, with the black fire element. Now fight"! The moment kazi (kazi is tazimakazi for short) took a step, takashi is suddenly on kazi's left side. With a fierce look he swings his sword. Kazi doged and jumped far back. And took a shot with his arrow. Then fired 3 at a time. Takashi doges all but one and gets hit in the left arm. Takashi breaks off the arrow and burns the wound shut. Making sure no access wood was In the wound. Then he takes his sword brings it all the way behind, and archers his back. He imbues his sword with black fire. And says one word before swinging. "Ririsu". Then swings, it creates and giant black slash going across the arena and even slitting the ground in two. It almost reached the walls, but somebody stopped the attack with earth magic before it did any damage. Kazi doged this attack, but was amazed by the power. He was distracted so takashi came in fast right In Front of him and looked in his eyes and said. "I am the epitome of devastation".

Before kicking kazi so how he crashed into the wall making a giant gap in it. "And the winner of this match, is takashi from dorm A1B"! The commenter said. Kazi was severely injured. But survived. He was taken to medical care. And from then on, takashi won every single one of the matches, and got to represent dorm A1B.

"Now it's time for dorm B2C! First up on the left is gato, he is average height, black hair and has fire magic. With two pistols. On the right is kenji, he is tall, with black hair, and fire as his element. With one short sword. No fight"! Kenji was running in fast, and gato tried to keep his distance, firing shit after shit, and kenji dodging and slicing the bullets in two. Kenji jumps, imbues his sword with fire, and swings his sword. Creating a small slash that got longer but thinner as it moved on. Gato jumped over the attack, as he was in the air upside down he fired two bullets before loading and reloading his gun. Kenji doged. And as gato was reloading, kenji took this chance to move in. He ran so fast, gato and a split second to react. Kenji kicks gato, but gato blocks with his arms, before being sent flying. Gato quickly recovered. But kenji was still on his tail. Kenji without letting up, attacks. Swing after swing, punch after punch, kick after kick. Not giving gato a chance to counter. Then as kenji goes for another kick, gato takes a chance, he through his guns in the air along with a couple of magazines, and grabs Kenji's leg and throws him into the wall. Kenji recovers quickly, but gato already reloaded and fires a shot. Kenji panics and reacts, but he loses his attention on gato. Kenji slices the bullet, and gato came running, and as hard as he could, he gut punches kenji. Knocking him out. "Gato wins"! The commenter yells. And the crowd is screaming cheering Gatos' name. Gato won the rest of the matches, and got to represent dorm B2C. "Now it's time for dorm C3D, first we have akio in the left, he is short, with green hair, and has earth element and water element, and he has a handle with out a blade, and a small one handed hammer. On the right we have emi, she is average height, with long blue hair, and she has water element, and has one long one handed sword and double bladed handle without the blades. "Now fight". Akio leaps in the air and imbues his hammer with earth element, making a giant rock like thing to form on his hammer. And as he was falling to the ground, he swings emi. Emi quickly doges, and with her blade she I'm ues it with water magic and crease a flying water slash that barrels towards akio. Akio quickly use his sword with the handle to make a water blade, and creates a wall to block the attack with earth magic. Then counter, in a split second he goes In Front of her and swing his water blade, but emi imbues her double blad d handle and make a double bladed water sword. And blocks the attacks and quickly counters . With the white there side she swings up, akio doges but gets a small cut on the cheek. Then emi swing her other sword. Akio blocks the attack with her water blade, and gets sent across the arena, akio tries to recover, but trips. Emi takes this chance and quickly runs going above him, and the the handle she hits his head as hard as she could. And knocks him out. "That… *panting* was a good fight". Emi says. "Emi wins"! The commenter yells. After that, she manages to win every single round. And now she gets to represent dorm C3D. Dorms D4E and E5F also had amazing champions. But I'm the finals, the representative of D4E and E5F fought. D4E lost. Then E5F fought akio. Akio won. Now it was Shinrai vs Gato.

"Now shinrai vs Gato. Who will win in this fight? Let's find out. FIGHT"! Gato quickly fire 3 shot the moment he said fight. Shinrai, creates a wall using her earth magic. Then she uses a spell to send 6 giant rocks flying towards Gato. Gato noticed and started shooting the rocks to minimize damage, but shinrai expected this. She quickly runs in, imbuing her hammer, and swings at gato. Gato noticed and doged right away, the. Right before the rocks hit, he used a spell in his bullet and shot at the rocks, right before it touched anything, he made the bullet explode, the force sent the rocks flying at high speed towards shinrai. Shinrai wanted to bring up a wall, but she didn't have time, so she cover herself with the hammer, and formed rocks around the hammer to maximize the defense. Most of it hit the hammer, but 3 rocks managed to hit her let's side, cussing her to bleed. After she quickly build a wall around her self to seal the wound. Gato took the chance to reload. Then quickly jumped over the wall. But there was a hole on the ground going under. He realizes what she did. Shinrai come flying up at gato, before he touched the ground. Shinrai then hit him directly on the side with her hammer, sending Gato flying at the wall. With a broken arm and 4 broken ribs, he stood back up. Shinrai came running at gato, in a split second shinrai was on his undeoken side. And swings as hard as she could. But gato threw up his gun, in-between them before she made contact. Then he said "bakuhatsu". And the gun created a big explosion. Creating a big hole in the wall, and sending shinrai and gat flying in opposite direction of each other. They were both knocked out. Neither of them could fight anymore. "Its a draw! When ever it's a draw, both sides basically looses. There is no winner. So. Kw let's go on to the next match"!

The staff brought Gato and shinrai to the medical bay. They got treated. And they cleared the arena for the next match.

"Now, it's time for… Kurai! VS Takashi! Kurai with fire and wind, against takashi with black fire! Who will win? Let's keep going! FIGHT"!

Kurai takes the first move. He imbues his left chained sword with wind, and his right sword with fire. And swings them at the same time, creating and giant flaming slash, destroying the ground beneath it. Before it reaches takashi, he imbues his sword and swings creating a black slash. They both canceled out. Kurai then was suddenly behind takashi, kurai swing with his chained sword. Takashi doges. Kurai uses his momentum, imbues his sword. Then makes a wind slash. Takashi couldn't doge so he tried stopping it by creating a black fire wall in front of him. the attack got through but weekend it, so all it did was give takashi a medium size cut across his arms. Kurai then swings his fir sword. But takashi parried. And the countered. He imbues his sword with black fire. Swings at kurai, kurai blocks then jumps but, but takashi won't let up. He stays in him, attack one after the other. Kurai was on the defensive, trying to find an opening. Then kurai finally gained some distance. He them I'm yes his chained sword with fire magic, then swings it like a fan. Creating a flaming tornado, trapping takashi. But takashi was calm. He blast the fire around him with black flames. The flaming tornado started to turn black. The. The black flames went all the way back to kurai. It burns his hand and kurai let's go of his blade. Then takashi attacks again. Kurai parties with his other blades and tries to counter. But takashi combos were to fast. He already swing a second time cutting kurai's chest. Kurai gets thrown back a bit by the attack. He recovers. With 100% kurai imbues his sword. Then swings at takashi, screaming trying to get all the strength he can into the attack. Takashi brings his sword all the way behind him. Arches his back and swings. Kurai the. Says… "ATOMIC SLASH"!

At the same time takashi says "RIRISU"! The swords collide, creat ing a giant explosion in between them. Creating a bright red flame and giant black flame mixing. They both get sent flying. The crowd cheers. "Are they both down for the count just like last time"? The commenter said. Kurai and takashi both stand up. "There still in the fight"! The commenter yells. They both lost their weapons, now it's up to their fists. The runs towards each other at the same time. Kurai does a left hook. Takashi blocks and upper cuts kurai. Kurai take the hit, but it's not enough. Kurai gut punches takashi. The tackshi jabs kurai twice in the face. Kurai and takashi look so tired. But kurai won't give up. Kurai knees takashi in the stomach and upper cuts him. Takashi falls to the ground. Kurai gets on top of him and repeatedly punches takashi. Takashi blocking every lunch. He kicks kurai off, and gets up. Kurai the. Tried to left hook. But takashi catches his fist. And breakers his arm. Kurai screams. Then kurai tried to superman punch takashi, but he doges to kurai's right side and breaks that arm. Then takashi said, "black fire fist"! Then punches kurai in the face. He does it again, and again, and again, and again. But kurai won't fall down. Takashi throws another punch. But kurai doges, and then kicks takashi. But takashi catches his leg, and breaks it. Kurai with only one leg left, is still standing. Takashi looks hi. In the eyes. And kurai's hatred can be seen. "I will win. I won't give up. For hiroko". Kurai says. Takashi then tackles kurai to the ground. And says "black fire fist". And beats the shit out of kurai. Over and over and over and over. Kurai tries to lift up his left arm. So takashi sees one of kurai swords. Grabs it and drives it in kurai arm. Kurai screams and starts punch kurai again with black fire fists. He beats him up to the point of near death. The staff had to intervene and stop the fight. Kurai, laying there, unconscious, with a sword in his left arm. Broken arms and legs. 5 broken ribs, internal bleeding, fractured skull. Broken jaw. Kurai appeared dead when you look at him. But he was barely breathing. Takashi won the whole tournament after. Emi almost won but she was knocked out after 30 mins of fighting.

For two weeks, kurai went through surgery, light magic therapy. He had a total of 5 broken ribs, a fractured skull, a giant whole in his arm. 4 broken limbs, Internal bleeding, a collapsed lung. And with a total of 3 surgeries, 5 days of total light magic therapy, and two weeks bed written. Finally he was healed, not completely though, he went back to his apartment, but he was put on 6 months of physical therapy. The doctors told him if something like that ever happens again, his body won't heal properly, and he won't be able to fight anymore. Kurai was filled with despair. He felt hopeless, he thought how could he protect anyone, if he can't beat the best of the best. Fortunately, he was able to go to his classes while in physical therapy. But he was severely limited.

"Welcome back kurai, sense you missed out of a week of class, you will need to be doing make up work. This month we are doing a magic enhancement. Which means you will improve your magic abilities. You, only you, will be working on this every week day, and 3 and a half weekends. For this month". Mr.myajora said.

"Yes sir. I'll work as hard as I can to catch up. Thank you for the opportunity". Kurai said with a straight face. Usually people would be a little mad. But kurai was determined to become stronger. Which made mr.Myajora happy.

Pop… pop… crackle pop… through the days of gruesome training, kurai's rage was filling his heart. Like a giant wild fire, caused by a cigarette that wasn't put out. The intensity of his rage, resembles the intensity of a raging fire burning 2,500 degrees F°. Hot enough to melt steel. And it only began to get bigger. Kurai new this anger was forming, and how unhealthy it is to harbor it. Naturally humans always look for a filter. something to release his anger in any shape or form. Abuse, alcohol, love, memories, music. Something to get it out of his system. Kurai started using shinrai as a replacement for hiroko. Soon he and her fell in love. Though hiroko was always on his mind. And shinrai suspected this, but she wanted him to be happy, no matter what. But this replacement didn't stop his rage. It only slowed it down.

March 12th 2018, the three best matches, picked by votes from the viewers. People who came to see in person voted. Kurai and takashi are having a rematch. The prize is who ever wins will get special training, the best anywhere including the school.

Crowd cheering loudly. Blue bright sky, with a cold breeze to top it off and the smell of the clean air.

Kurai walks out into the arena, the crowd cheering. But Kurai dosnt hear the crowd, he doesn't feel the wind, not the tension in the air.

He feels the rage filling his heart as he gets flashbacks about the last match. Pure anger, the idea of not being able to protect shinrai, and being too late to protect hiroko, and his mom. His rage filled.

On the right side If kurai's head, one string of hair turns white.

Takashi walks out into the arena. The crowd cheers louder. Sounds like a crowd favorite.

Kurai glares at takashi I. The eyes. Takashi glares back. "FIGHT"! Kurai starts walking slow towards takashi, takashi does the same. Kurai takes a step, another string of hair turns white. Another step, another hair turns white. Kurai's anger raging, filling more clouding his mind. More strings of hair turns white. Kurai grabs his swords from his back. Takashi does the same. At this point a small quarter of kurai's hair turned white.

Kurai imbues his right sword with fire magic, and his chained sword with wind magic. All of a sudden, takashi stops. He feels a pressure being pressed apon him. The whole arena and the people watching feel this pressure. Kurai starts running, more of his hair turning white. His imbued fire sword starting turning black. Kurai screams as loud as he can, jumps and in that moment, kurai's hair turns completely white, everyone is on the floor from the pressure, kurai's flames are completely balck. He strikes takashi while he is on the floor. Cutting him in half, burning him to a crisp, and crushing his entire body. Completely killing him. Kurai's hair turns back to black, he can't remember what happened. But he sees takashi dead. The tournament is over. They were the last match. Killing the opponent is not illegal. But the tournament director's make it very clear not to kill the other person. Therefore kurai was not punished. But he was hated by takashi's family and 2/4th of the school.

Its February 12th, 2020. The sound of church bells, the warmth inside. Its silent.

"I promise to take care of you, to be there for you in sickness and in health. I promise to love you above all else. I promise to take care of our family that we will raise. I promise to be with you, as long as I love". Kurai says. "I now pronounce you, husband and wife. You may kiss the bride". The priest says. Kurai wraps his arms around shinrai tightly and kisses her, and she kisses back. The people sitting on the benches including her family cheers.

I will leave the the story of kurai and shinrai's married life for another book.