Shidora and his life with a harem

Chapter 1: Saito on sight

      Being my age, 17, is not as different you might seem. My original parents don't even know where I am, but I haven't seen a wanted poster of my face anywhere. I honestly don't care about my dad anymore but not being older, I feel bad for my mom a lot. She had to deal with a drunk asshole of a husband. That guy treated me like shit and deserves to rot in his grave. My dad gave me so much torture throughout my days, I had my sister at least and my mother had us, her last reason to be alive. After my sister's death, My mom was destroyed, and probably after I ran away, she probably didn't know what to do.
     But I can't let that stop me though. My new family loves me and I can't bring myself to tell them. Honestly, they'd probably freak out and scold me for lying to them the whole time. Been thinking though, can I go back to them? My old family?
      I was on my way to school when suddenly,

"Yo ShiShi" Ryoko Saito yells from behind me. I should probably tell you how I know her and how we met. Well for starters, remember that family that over the one girl when my family had friends over, piece it together. So you might recall that she stood in my room anonymously while I'm sleeping peacefully in my bed. We were very distant from each other. My little 10 year old self was very distant around new people. I was even distant from my new parents back then. But Saito was different. My new mom, Shino Hagumatsu, would usually hold my hand through everything till I was 13, then she told me I was old enough to be free from her grasp. My new dad, Iguro Hagumatsu, is the opposite of my old dad. He's cool, carefree, but protective of me and made me learn lessons that my old father never did.
Back to how Saito and I met. That night when she came into my bed room and just didn't leave me alone, we locked eyes. My eyes were blurry so she held my hand, like I was some kid (as I was 10 at the time). She was 3 years older than me! I didn't know at the time though, I just thought she was some kid who just broke into my room.

"Who are you?" My younger voice sleepy. "Im just trying to rest my eyes for the night."

"Oh sorry friend." She said, her younger voice was a little lower than I expected. "Sorry for barging in, your parents didn't know if you were sleeping or not. They sent me so that they could talk my parents about grown up stuff. Eugh."

That's basically how we met though. She honestly made me whole after all the shit I up with my life. That one moment changed my perspective of the world, is this what love is like? That moment was like how time stopped. I owe her everything. We always had each others back in basically everything. She didn't have notes for a test, I let her copy mine. I'm out of shape, she trained me to be fit. I'm getting bullied at school, she always beat them up back. Now though, she's out of school, but I've earned more respect than anyone else because Saito is and always my best friend.
"You see my max lift yesterday? I dead lifted 350 pounds!" Saito exclaimed. She's a tomboy, a girl who basically shows guy characteristics. Like participating in sports, wearing clothes that man would wear kind of (but still a bra), and have some of the same interests as what guys would have.
"I wasn't at school remember? I was sick." My grogginess kicked in like a freight train. "But on the plus side, you pushed yourself. I can still lift more than you sucker-" Saito cut me off.

"You take that back this instant!" Her competitiveness kicking in. "You know damn well-" I cut her off.

"I'm only kidding, I'm strong but not as strong, I still need to work myself up to you." I jokingly chuckled at her, trying to lighten the mood, which it did. Saito was competitive, she competed in every boy sport she could. Base ball, Basket Ball, Karate, you name it. She was a stronger, faster and most of all, a gorgeous human being who could light up a room. Her personality was energetic and positive, she could be on a Japanese sitcom. How she looks though is kind of what people think. She had a sun-kissed complexion, spiky but smoothed out hair with a green tip. She wore cargo shorts and a tang top, but that was only during summer. Whenever I looked at her, I could always see her, smiling. She always did though, the only time I ever saw her cry is when her boyfriend broke up with her. He was an asshole either way, always telling her to, "Clean your hair up," or, "Sometimes I wish I dated free ex someone else." That sort of toxic personality. Glad they broke up though, she was a better person after that. I'm not being mean but, that guy was a really toxic person.
     "ShiShi, do you think that you'll ever date someone, I mean you got gains dude!" She nudged me in the shoulder and then she continues. "If you ever need dating advice, come to me. Yes, I did fall for the wrong person but that doesn't count me out of a good girlfriend."

     Got to admit, she was a good girlfriend, to her ex I mean. Never once she was ever toxic to him. But something was off about her today, she never really talked about dating ever since that day he broke up with her. I put my hands on her shoulder.

      "Hey, You doing okay, you never talked about this, you never bring up your ex unless something is bugging you." I try to find out what she's up to, but her facial expressions and body language were too complicated. I sat on the bench by the buss station, waiting. She sat down next to me.

       "Are you excited for your birthday tomorrow ShiShi?" She asked all cheery, like she was a kid or something. I nodded at her, not taking my eye off her. Her golden eyes glistened in the sun, so majestic that you could see the light in one of the darkest rooms.

"I honestly never have thought about it though. I mean, I'm turning 18 and I haven't really got that prepared yet. I'm in the middle of this one." I honestly had nothing in my voice there. Yes, I've waited a life time to turn 18, but something feels off. Saito, seeing me a little more depressed goes into her "Motherly" manner.

"Hey, it's okay. Nothing that special turning 18. When I turned 18, we partied till you were pasted out on me." She tried to light the mood, with her energetic but also sympathetic voice. I looked at her and blushed, but it slowly sunk in. She sounded like my sister before that tragic, ever lasting memory of when she was tragically hit by a car. I suddenly flash back to the full memory. It was so vivid. The blood splattered on the window, the broken glass on the ground, people surrounding her lifeless corpse while rotting every second it laid there, dead. My own sister. Dead before she ever got the ground with a thud.

"Saito..." I murmured in a low whisper. "Just promise me one thing"
"What is it?" I question a little.
    "Promise you won't change."

       I didn't know what she meant by, "change." I was speechless loss of words. I took a breath but no words come out. After 3 minutes of a long and awkward silence, I say, "What do you mean 'won't change.' I mean, sure ages 15-21 your life changes but, what do you mean?"
      
         "It's nothing, just that I had bad memories turning 18. I'm sure, you'll be as tough as me. Hah,  just kidding, you'll never be as strong as me."
         She was trying to cheer up the mood, and honestly, it did. I smiled at her and then the buss rolled up. She got up and waved at me goodbye playfully. Her smirk made me blush a little, but I didn't let her see it. She would have on my ass about it and would've never let me down about it.

      (Shidora, a guy who's just trying to live his life. Sometimes you can't always see it in people but, love was sparkling in Saito eyes. Her eyes were on Shidora, her future. FYI, she had a crush the moment she laid eyes on him.  The age gap would be suspicious, she never really did make a move on him. Will they ever be together, or will Shidora not get the hints of glorious Saito. Next chapter, Academic Meltdown.)