danmachi- reborn into a new world with my little brother

chapter 1

The blaring sound of my alarm blasts in my ear as I wake to another day. My name is Kyla Williams, and I live a pretty shitty life.

My parents died two years ago, leaving me and my brother in the hands of my Bastards of an uncle, who only took us for the inheritance and abuse us, less food, or no food punched and kicked. I take most of it but occasionally, I could not keep my brother away from the abuse.

"Shiro! Come on we're going to be late!" I whisper-yell to my 10-year-old brother as I stand by the door ready for school. After a second he comes running down the hall before tripping on his shoelaces. *thump*

I quickly pick up Shiro and rush through the door as a voice shouts out from farther inside "who the hell is making a racket! -" I slam the door cutting off the rest of the sentence and run to the corner of the block.

*sigh* "you should have tied them before you start running, you dummy." I say as let Shiro down to tie his shoes. "I forgot" I shake my head before we make our way to school, walking a bit before getting a ride on the bus.

***

After school ended, we began our walk home, I see Shiro look at the other kids his age, run to their parents and I see it hurts him. It hurts me too. I try to take his mind of the other families.

"hey Shiro, if you had any superpower, what would it be?"

His face scrunches in hard concentration, which is adorable. After a minute he says, "super strength!"
"super strength? what would you do with it?" "be a hero obviously!"

Suddenly I hear tires screech and a crash, quickly pulling Shiro to me, I look behind me and in slow motion I see a collision, cars pile onto one another and rush toward us. I could do nothing but hold Shiro close.

Then black.

***

I open my eyes to space, stars, and galaxies surrounding me "SHIRO?!" I yell into the expanse.

"your brother is alright," a figure appears out of thin air "hysterical, but alright."

"give him to me!" I yell at him, I don't care if he is a god or the devil, but he is standing between me and my baby brother.

"Alright, alright." And with a snap of his fingers, Shiro appears "Kyla! /Shiro!" we grab each other tightly.

"beautiful, just beautiful, my favorite episode of you guys." I finally actually look at this unknown person. They were androgynous, beautiful, like the one you would see in a magazine, wearing a white t-shirt and sweats.

"now then," they clapped their hands "it's been a while since I did this, so here's how it goes, you two are dead," Shiro whimpers and hides his head in my neck, making me glare at this asshole.

"Yeah, he's sad, let's move on. so your dead, and now you get two options. Option number uno! You move on, like go see your parents and ancestors and all that jazz. Or~ you could reincarnate into a new world! New life! Whole new world!" they say, arms wide as if they were making a used car pitch.

I sit there for a while, just staring at him, Shiro has calmed down and was falling asleep in my arms. "what's the catch?" I said staring right at them. "no catch, move on and you'll see your family, or new life and you get to live again, but if you do choice new life, please~ live an interesting one, please I'm so bored" they flop onto a newly appeared couch.

I silently think. 1. We could see our parents, Shiro shouldn't live without them. 2. He didn't deserve to die at the age of 10, that's just not fair.

Steeling my resolve, I say "two tickets to a new life please."

"YES!" Shiro grumbles but stays asleep, I glare at them "yes!" they whisper shout before waving a hand, making a portal appear. Before I step through, I turn to them I ask, "what's your name?" they pause "no one ever asked me that. I don't have one."

"Hmm, well later bob" I said before stepping through.