Chapter 3 - Taken

We were born two

I say past tense because

It was

I was born first

I remember I was home

Then I felt expelled

I looked at the bright

It looked back and we shared our panic

I was born in a cool room there were only three people there

A red haired man who delivered us, A gray haired older looking man with two swords and Mother

They were speaking in a foreign tongue I never heard before but somehow I still don't understand, I understood

The nurse man took me and said

"He is a white haired boy"

And absently added maybe as an afterthought

"breathing but not crying"

The grey haired man chuckled and the bloody woman I came from just shouted 'HURRY!'

I was disconnected

But right after losing the feeling of something stripped away

I saw hope

And thats when 'she came out'

Wow my bright was ugly and red

Very red

Wait, is her hair red

Oh my, my my mine is white

Ahhh

I remember we already went over this

That's why I was put aside

The nurse boy cleaned her up with some white water magic thing he did

And he said in a grim kind - of jovial voice

"She's a girl of red hair and it cries"

My mother seemed to have expected it and didn't seem to give up right at that moment

But you could tell a light went out

It wasn't dim for long though

She looked at me

And I felt like the main character of the room

It seemed I noticed myself too

I personally believe we nodded at each other

But mother says I just cocked my head at her as if to ask "what, how does this involve me?"

she adds that I did it in quite an un-intellectual manner if that's even a word or possible at all!

The nurse guy decided to ruin our moment by saying

"Would you like to hold her?"

And the spotlight was back on bright crimson

Both Ashina & Mother reacted on opposite spectrums but in the exact same way

"NO!"

It was the loudest quiet I ever heard

Ashina sighed and then walked to the young boy who practically helped deliver us

And he outstretched his hands

His aura screaming "give me what's mine!"

He wouldn't have given her up faster if the grim reaper himself told him to

He practically threw the poor red girl at the chopping block like curling

In his head he might have even screamed "Jordan"

Rolling my eyes at this fool

He even has the gall to look at me and shrug.

I turn away from that clown, he's such an oddity conversing with a baby, who are you?

Then I looked at Darth Vader

Ashina held her comfortably she looked like she belonged, then he looked at me

Gripped her red hair tighter and looked away

More like Lost interest

Whatever see if I care old man

He looked at my mother and said as if declaring an epitaph

"Any Words"

My mother for the first time took her eyes off me

But not to look at Ashina, she closed them as if she were blind

She simply said with the most poisonous voice that has grated the earth since the snake greeted Eve

"Ashina, take care of her."

And then they left

It was just me & mother in the room

I don't know how long that moment lasted

But maybe a second passed and I CRIED

And secretly I don't think I was the only one