Kill List

The Kill List

I like to cut to the chase.

I don't have time for drawing things out.

I literally never have time.

Between training, school, chores, friends, family and my part time job I have to add "Get at least four hours of sleep" to my daily to-do-list. I'd be lying if I said I always get that one 'to-done'.

I'm wasting time.

That isn't the list you need to know about anyways. But before I go off explaining 'the list' there are three things you NEED to know about me:

1. I'm a vegan.

2. I'm not a "typical" teen.

3. I'm a martial arts prodigy.

There story done. Finished. The End. I bow, you close the curtains. Over. Fini. Later, later, later alligator.... I literally WISH!

You see it's not done, not done by a long shot. 

It would be pretty fair to say it's just begun. Have I mentioned I don't have time for this?

So who am I?

That is always the first question, right? First question when you are the new kid at school, first question when you have a job interview, first question when you go on a date (or so I've heard).

OK let's steam through this. My name is Juniper Akoi. No, your name is weird, mine's cool...where was I? Oh yah, my name is Juniper Akoi. Juniper cause my mom is a total fruity artsy-fartsy type and Akoi cause my dad's Japanese. Well he's not Japanese per say, my sofuba are, that's Japanese for grandparents if you're slow on the uptake, my dad was born here. My dad is hilarious but we'll get into that much later... if we have time. 

I can not stress enough that I literally have NO TIME.

OK so my name is Juniper Akoi, it's a cool name, my dad is Japanese-sorta, my mom...oh yah my mom is tired. Like if you had her fill out her name, age, ethnicity, religion, political ethos, hopes and dreams on an official government document I would in no way be surprised if she scribbled 'tired' in every single field. What did she expect? She has three kids one isn't even a year old yet, that's my baby sister Fitz... yup she has a cool name too, get over it!

Sorry I keep getting sidetracked I have a ton on my mind.

Where was I?

Oh yah, my mom is tired. She's tired cause she has three kids and runs her own business and never sleeps and always worries and we are all in too many activities and if she even had time for a to-do list she would have to remind herself to add 'eat something' and 'maybe shower this week' to it. But if you are the sort that needs to know where people come from to picture them in your head then you will be happy to hear that other than tired she is kind of a map of Europe. Her family comes from pretty much everywhere in Europe, North, South, East, West she has a splash of it all. We can deduce two things from this. One, her ancestors didn't care about people telling them to 'stick with their own kind' and two, they must have all been like nomads, total restless souls, wanders.

OK so here we go again.

This is taking way way too long guys.

My name is Juniper Akoi, it's a cool name, I'm a vegan, I'm not typical, I'm a martial arts prodigy, my dad is Japanese but not from Japan and my mom is tired and a map of Europe.

Oh I almost forgot, I'm fifteen.

Why does every one care so much about how old everyone else is by the way? It's cause we need to count everything all the time. I think it gives us the illusion of control. Trust me guys, none of us have any control over anything. I'm about to tell you how I personally got smacked hard right between the eyes with that truth bullet. I have a baby sister Fitz and an annoying little brother Colt, yah like a horse or malt liquor or a gun...see I told you my dad was funny.

Colt isn't really so little anymore. Out of nowhere he shot up to six feet. Like one day he was three inches tall at best then I woke up and he was six feet. I would like to say it was the result of black magic or something cool like a contract with devil but Colt is way too lazy to ever lift his wrist to sign anything. I guess his biology was just hellbent on smashing all those "Asian dudes are..." stereotypes. Either that or somewhere on my mom's side there was a tribe of mountain giants she hasn't been able to connect with through intense online genealogical stalking. She should totally use the time she wastes on our family tree to sleep, or eat...or shower!

So Colt, what about Colt? Colt is thirteen going on seven, annoying, tall, annoying, messy, annoying and popular with the girls which makes NO SENSE to me at all! Oh and he is pretty good at hockey, which is weird too when you live in a climate where it literally never gets cold.

For those of you who are slow here we ago again, my name is Juniper Akoi, I'm vegan, not typical, a martial arts prodigy, half Japanese, half all of Europe, I have a mom and dad, a baby sister Fitz, a brother name Colt and I'm fifteen years old.

That there my new friends is all you need to know.

Now you're totally caught up.

We're on the same page!

We can stop wasting so much time!

Have I mentioned that I am running out of time yet?

Well I am.

I had six months to cross off six people from that stupid list.

That list is now and will forever be the WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME.

So, I had six months...but I thought it was a joke, so I crumpled it up and threw it under my bed. Turns out it was the furthest thing from a joke ever. I realized that yesterday when I went to train and found Sensi Fumiko dead on the mats. I could tell she didn't just put up a fight but must have waged a war cause the whole studio was torn to pieces. I would expect nothing less of her. All the mirrors where smashed. There was glass and blood everywhere. She had to have been massively outnumbered. She had her great grandfather's Katana lodged straight through her heart. She was as beautiful in death as she had been in life. She looked like she was just asleep, well asleep in a pool of glass and blood. That was when I realized that the list was for real.

So my name is Juniper Akoi, I'm fifteen years old, I'm a vegan, I'm not typical, I'm a martial arts prodigy, and I now have only five months left to kill the six people on The Kill List or for every person I don't kill they will kill one person I love. 

I don't know who 'they' are. 

But after I kill these six people I vow that I will kill a seventh. 

I will kill whoever is responsible for making me the worlds most reluctant teen assassin.

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