Mana Wizard Academy

Souta's Past

-=Chapter 17=- -=Souta's Past=-

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-=Souta Raitoningu=- -=Flashback=-
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I ran as fast I could with my tiny legs. Each of my family member dies right in front of my big blue eyes. I ran to my mother with dark blue hair and to my father with black hair. I hugged them tightly with fear.
"Where are you little boy?" Said a witch.
I wined a bit, trying to hide behind my parents. The witches attacked my big family, because we contain a rare power, lightning.
"Shhh, it's going be okay. Your safe here." Said my mother with a smile.
My father looked unhappy, he stood up from the corner of my house, and pulled out his wand.
"What are you doing?! Your not going out there!" Mother shouted quietly."
"I need to! I want to save my family, I want to save you. I want to save our only son." Dad bent down to me and pat my head. "Don't worry son, you'll be safe, I promise." Father gave me a smile.
I smiled as well.
"Right! I will also protect mommy for you!" I said.
"Sure thing little man." Dad said. Dad looked at my mother and they both nodded. Father got up stayed near us.
Our wall got destroyed, sand and dust flies thru the air. A little girl, around my age, appeared. Her red hair relfects from the dawn sunlight.
"Oh there you are." Said the girl. The little girl with red hair looked my father with his wand out, and my mother hugging me, protecting me. "Tch, I had thought I had killed everybody. Don't matter."
"You will not hurt my son!" My father shouted.
"Hmmm? Is that so? What about your wife." The girl smirked.
"What?" My father looked at us, my mother was being taken away with some kind of dark magic.
It grabbed my mother's waist and brought her in the air.
"Mother!" I cried.
"No! Let her go!" Father shouted.
"Then let me have the boy." Said the witch.
"Honey, it's okay. Protect our son. Please! I just want our son to be safe." Mother said with a smile, yet tears in her eyes.
"No! I want to protect both of you!" Father cried.
"You can only save one." Said the witch.
"...Then kill me." Father said. "Kill me and let the both of them live, please." My father cried.
"Sure thing." The witch put my mother down and mother ran to my father.
"No! We need you! We can get out of here, the three of us!" Cried my mother.
"Listen, protect Souta. Remember, I love you." Said father.
"I love you too." Said mother,
"Mother, father..." I muttered.
"Boring, know what? Why not I kill you both." The girl said with an evil smirk. She used her dark magic to attacked them.
The next thing that happened, both of my parents died right in front of my eyes. Tears ran down in my face, I cried and cried. I don't know what to do.
"Aww, it's okay, they are in a better place now. If you want, I can take you there. But it might take a while because I will have fun killing you."
I looked down, finding my father's wand on the ground. The wand of lightning. Move legs! Move! I'm too weak! I cant move!
The dark magic came to me, I ran and dodge the attack, and grabbed the wand. I pulled up the wand towards to the red headed witch.
"What?! Why didn't the wand shattered? When the host dies, the wand dies as well!" The witch shouted.
I concentrated my magic energy with all I got, large amount of lightning strikes out of the wand.
"Nooo!" She screamed.
I closed my eyes to not see what happened. When my attack finished, I slowly opened my eyes, and I see the girl using her dark magic to protect herself.
"Ha. You failed you job. You've ran out of magic I bet. I'm all out too, I used it all on that shield. How about we fight next time. So that I will be able to kill you." She smirked. She used her last of her dark magic and disappeared.
I dropped the wand and fell on my knees. I crawled to my mother and father, I continued crying.
"Mother! father!" I cried.
"S-Son..." My father spoke.
"Father!"
"I'm sorry that I couldn't protect you. But you did well on your first fight. Please-" My father coughed out. "Please protect the person who you care about. Protect the person, and become strong. Don't worry son. I will always be with you." My father said. "The wand."
I looked at the wand behind me with tears.
"The wand is now yours. Please make the Raitoningu family strong once again, no, much stronger. I believe in you." Said father. "I love you, Souta." My father said his last words. He smiled with his eyes closed.
"Father, father!"

Days later after my family's death. The witch left only me alive in my family. I was taken to the funeral for all of them. I carried my fathers wand tightly. Father, I promise, I will become strong, and I will protect the future person. A women with dark brown hair and black eyes walked to me, and bend down.
"Souta, deary. It'll be okay."
"No it's not." I muttered.
The women smiled.
"You don't remember me do you. Well you were just a baby. I am Tsubaki Yukimura, I'm very good friends with your mother and father." The lady said.
"Yukimura? Your from the Yukimura clan?" I asked.
"Yes, I am.
"Aunt Tsubaki?" I questioned.
"See, so you do remember me." She smiled. "Do you want to live with me?"
"What?! But I barely even know you-"
"Mommy!" Shouted a little girl with bright brown hair, and sparkling blue eyes. The girl hugged aunt Tsubaki with a bright smile.
"Rinkuta, this is Souta." Aunt Tsubaki said.
"Um... Hello. My name is Rinkuta... Nice to meet you." The girl named Rinkuta said nervously.
"Hello.." I muttered. I blushed lightly, as I stare into the girl's blue eyes, it reminds me of cold ice reflecting the warm sun.
"He will be living with us from now on." Said aunt Tsubaki.
"What! I didn't say anything about living with you guys!" I shouted.
"So you're not staying with us?" The girl said with a sad tone.
"...Sure, I'll live with you." I muttered.
"Yay!" Rinkuta hugged me tightly.
Uh...
"Now come one, let's get going." Aunt Tsubaki stood up and grabbed Rinkuta's hand.
"Hold my hand to." Rinkuta said.
"R-Right..." I slowly grabbed her hand, and we walked together to my new home.
Is Rinkuta the girl who I'm going to protect? I want to protect her, I want to protect her and see her smile everyday. I blushed lightly, and held her hand more tighter. I think I like Rinkuta.
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-=Present=-
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I thought of how I met Rinkuta. I looked at my hand where I held her hand. I will find you Rinkuta, and I will protect you. I will also find that witch who attacked my family, and finished our fight. Because I love you Rinkuta.
"Hey, Souta, are you okay?" Asked Haru.
"Why do you want to know? It's not like you asking about my feelings like that. I'm starting to believe your not Haru." I said.
"Oh shut up! Never mind." Haru said stubbornly. "Hopefully Rinkuta is safe." He muttered.
"Of course she's safe! She's Rinkuta! She's strong! You just don't know that because you don't really know her." I spat.
"I do know her!"
"No you don't! I grew up with her and became strong because of her! Because of her, I wouldn't be able to put on a smile for her, I wouldn't be able to get over that." I muttered.
"Guys! Stop shouting! You're making it harder for Miyu to concentrate!" Shouted Haruhi at us.
"R-Right..." Haru and I stayed quiet, we both at Miyu. We see her struggling trying to search for Rinkuta, or at least Dark Witch Academy.
"I'm sorry Fujimoto-san." I said.
"I'm sorry too..." Haru said stubbornly.
"It's okay. Thank you for understanding." Miyu said as she concentrated. "We need to find Rinkuta. And I need to find her." Miyu muttered.

By: Melanie Moreno