"i will find her. whatever it takes."
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this is a heizou x fem!reader fanfic
! all characters in this story are 18 or older and will be seen as such !
art credits to eli_zhong on pinterest for the cover!!
i do not own any of these characters e...
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"thank you for your work, detective." a woman spoke. it was your mother.
"anytime, ma'am." heizou answered. "i promise we will find her someday." your mother nodded with a promising smile.
heizou then slid his hand off the table and walked the other direction.
"detective heizou!" a guard from the tenryou commission called. heizou turned around to the sound of his name. "we still don't have any new clues about the missing girl. i would think she's dead by now."
heizou crossed his arms and shook his head. "we never found her body yet. so we can't say for sure."
the guard sighed. "if you insist."
"keep searching. she's out there somewhere." heizou dropped his arm to his side. "find anything. anything at all. even if it's the smaller piece of evidence." the guard then bowed then ran off.
heizou kept searching around the city, asking all the locals if they had seen you at all. every person answered 'no.' he walked up to someone, asking them if they seen you anywhere, while showing a picture of you to them.
it was a young boy with blonde hair that was braided who had a flying companion.
"yep. that's me. and you are?"
"this is a ether and paimon is paimon." the small fairy pointed to the young boy and herself.
"we would like to help. and we might have seen what you are looking for." aether stepped in.
"huh? you've seen y/n?" heizou dropped his arm that held the missing poster and listened to aether speak.
aether nodded. heizou's eyes widened as he said those words. 'finally,' he thought
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heizou barged into his office and got all the papers he had been keeping all these years. he looked through all of the data thoroughly.
nothing seemed to make sense...
"what was i gonna say about that girl you were looking for..?" paimon placed her hand on her forehead and it was obvious that heizou was in a hurry. heizou just sighed and tilted his head up to look at them.
"nothing makes sense..." heizou leaned on the table, using his hands for support.
"what do you have so far?" paimon asked.
"we've been unsure if she's alive or not, being that we haven't been able to find the body yet." aether raised his hand, wanting to speak. "but we now know she's alive. i saw her before."
heizou stayed silent, thinking deeply into this. "but why would she only show up now? why would be just be wandering around?" he asked, confused. you wouldn't have just run away so suddenly. you never had signs of depression, sadness, or fear of any sort. so why weren't you seen all this time? and now you just show up to the middle of nowhere.
"actually, i wouldn't think she's just... wandering around."
"what do you mean?" heizou stood up straight to give aether his full attention.
"from when we saw her. her presence, her clothing, her gaze, the way she spoke. she was so... intimidating. something about her just didn't seem right."
heizou's lips parted from aether's words. "could you explain??"
aether's flashback / pov
paimon and i were walking around the woods, looking for nako weed as a request for one of the villagers.
the two of us stopped near when we came across this mysterious women. she had a hood on her head, the sleeves of her robe had fur on the shoulder area. she was just standing there on the shore, looking out to the sight of the bright moon. she looked so peaceful and mysterious. it made me curious.
i got so curious so i walked close to her.
"who's that?" paimon asked. "isn't that the girl that we saw on the missing posters?" i didn't answer and just kept walking closer.
"hello? do you-" as soon as she heard my voice, she turned her head around. the gust of wind blew her hood off her head. her h/c hair flowed nicely with the wind. her beautiful e/c eyes stared right into my soul. looking at her better, she was definitely the girl that was on the missing posters.
"you...you're that girl that we heard about!" paimon exclaimed.
"hm? oh, right. how could i forget?" she crossed her arms. her robe blew with the wind, allowing to show the clothes she wore underneath. what she wore was so complex, it looked beautiful on her. she was a pretty woman, for sure.
"i was gone for 5 years, silly me." her voice was soft, yet intimidating. already i knew by her tone of voice that something didn't seem right. from her clothing to the way she spoke, something about her seemed off.
"we should get you back to the city and bring you to your family." paimon motioned for her to follow us.
what shocked me, was that she scoffed as a response. "family? home? yes, i would love to go back home." she then turned her whole body to face us. but surprisingly, she kept her gaze on me. "as much as i miss being home with my mother, i can't go back. so, if you don't mind, please leave."
"why don't you want to come home?" paimon asked curiously. the young woman stayed quiet as if she was trying to find the right words to say.
"i guess everyone has their own secrets." she shrugged. she then walked closer to me. i took a few steps back. but she quickly grabbed my shirt as soon as i took another step back.
"what about you, traveler? what's your secret?" she got close to my face. once i laid my eyes on hers, her e/c eyes slowly started to turn red. they struck me hard enough that the air around me felt heavy. like lightning was striking my heart.
once her eyes were fully red, she place her hand on my chest and used electro to shock me.
from there, i fell to the ground. "ah! traveler!!" paimon shook my arm, begging me to get up. it was hard to keep my eyes open. but while my eyes were still slightly open, i could see her stare at my helpless body. and faintly, i could hear her sickening laughter.
and then i became unconscious. i woke up under a tree.
end of flashback
aether told the whole story to heizou. he stood there with his hand on his chin, shocked. 'is that the y/n we are dealing with?' he thought
"what the hell?" heizou mumbled.
"i don't think that's the y/n you are describing." aether added.
"not at all... i don't even know who that is." heizou tried not to believe that it was you aether saw.
"so what do you think, detective? we think that she was kidnapped, right? but why anyone let the kid run around like that? and she was oddly powerful. just with presence alone, she could put a warrior down to their knees."
heizou put this into a lot of thought...
"why would she work for the fatui..?"
a/n: okay so we got chapter 1 done!! what do we think so far? :D
