Crying Night

Prologue: The Moon and the Sun

"Okaa-sama, why is Otou-sama taking so long?"  I whined.

It was already late, but Okaa-sama was keeping me awake. She took me to the balcony that night, where we were waiting to watch the meteor shower that would occur at any moment.

"He's just—" Okaa-sama started with her kind voice but was quickly stopped by a blade through her chest.

"Curse you... Taiyou...!" Okaa-sama fell to the ground with these words, her blood splattering on the boy's face who killed her: a face I knew all too well.

"What? Taiyou... why... are you...?" I confusedly asked the boy, who then turned to me distraught."

"Tsukki! You've got to run away! Your entire family is—!" He tried to come to me but was halted by a sudden swing to the right, which he easily dodged.

It was Otou-sama! Something wasn't right, though. He had dirt all over his face and clothes. Even before seeing Okaa-sama's body, he was angry. Upon looking my way and seeing her corpse, his face reddened to the point he looked like a tomato.

"Why are you here? What did you do to Honoka?!"  He asked these questions with seething rage.

Taiyou smirked as his face turned to Otou-sama and declared: "I killed her, Mizuo-san."

This led Otou-sama to charge at Taiyou with his bare hands. However, Taiyou slashed him on his legs, which caused Otou-sama to fall in pain. It looked like he was hit in the gut the way he knelt. Then, Taiyou walked ever so slowly to my father, and when he got there, he whispered something into the fallen man's ear. Otou-sama grew flustered and looked up.

"You... bastard! You knew of our plans!?" Otou-sama, still on his knees, was then stabbed in the heart.

Still in shock, I looked at Taiyou's bloodied figure. Despite going against the man who was said to be the strongest assassin in the world, he was uninjured. That seemed unimportant when I looked at his face. I couldn't say anything as I shivered when I saw his smile. It seemed to have no sense of sorrow or regret. He innocently smiled, despite killing my parents.

I clenched my fist to punch him, but I couldn't get up. My knees were too weak. But, when I finally found enough strength to get up, he was gone.

"Sora Taiyou... mark my words, I will make you wish you were never even born!" I took my fist and held it to the moon, screaming my new purpose in life.

The stars fell as I made this promise to myself in the Chikara Estate, almost as if they were crying for me who did not.

My most prominent memory is of this murder committed in cold blood. I was only eight when my betrothed killed my mother and father before my very eyes. That night was the last time I smiled from the bottom of my heart.

I told myself I would never forgive him— to kill him before he killed everyone else! It was just what we did.

However, two things bothered me. What were my parents trying to do? And... why did Taiyou know about it?