The Hunt

Chapter One: Katie Azuma

The sky was orange, purple, and blue with white clouds as the sun was rising at 7:39 am in the morning just like every other morning in Japan for a girl that lives with her grandmother in a two story house. Her name was Katie, the second daughter of the Azuma family. She had red hair like a rose and blue eyes like a blue mocking jay, her mother and father would never pay attention to her even when she did good things...but whenever bad things would happen to her, scars would appear all over her body.
Until then, Katie's parents were divorced and never came back..that's when she decided to live with her grandmother at the age of 14. Her grandma always treated her nice and loved to dress her up like a doll for special occasions but Katie would never smile for anything good that happens to her even until now, since she's 26 years old now.

During that day, Katie went off to go to the forest where she always goes in mornings before her grandmother (Marline) would wake up.
There were mocking jays chirping and singing as Katie was walking through the forest, she then found her favorite tree where she would hide her bow and arrow and weapons to hunt. Just as soon as she grabbed her bow and arrow a deer was 6 feet away from her, surely she was shocked to have a deer come up to her instead of chasing after it but she stayed calm and took out her arrow, slowly aiming the arrow at the deer she closed her eyes and let go of the arrow.
The arrow had shot through the deer as the deer fell to the ground laying their not moving but suffocating from the arrow in its chest. Katie didn't smile after seeing it die, she took out the arrow of the deer and dragged it to her house without getting noticed by anyone. Marlene opened the front door of her house and saw Katie with a dead deer, her eyes widened and she slightly smiled:
"You...you killed the deer?"
"After years and years of training, I caught it."
"Th-that's great, Katie! But..you should clean yourself up..your covered in animal blood since you dragged it over here."
"Yes, ma'am."
Katie took off her shoes before entering inside the house as Marlene then grabbed the deer and started to peel the skin off of it.
Later that night, Katie was in the backyard doing her daily training while Marlene was setting up dinner for the both of them as she then was talking on the phone...with Katie's mother.
"You need to convince her on joining. Or I'll have you sign her up behind her back!"
"Jasmine, she's been through enough. She can't kill a human being."
"But she can kill a deer! Just do it please! I know I messed up...but I want to see my daughter grow up and have her experience what it feels like to be abused as a child of my own."
"Fine! Only for you to leave me and her alone."
"Deal."
Marlene hung up and leaned her head against the cabinet shelf as she placed the knife on the cutting board since she was cutting up the meet of the deer
"Ugh...what if she says no...I don't want to force her..."
"Force me to do what?"
"Gah-!!"
Katie was sitting down with her arms and legs crossed as she glared at her wanting to know who she was talking to, Marlene hesitated but calmed down and stared at her trying not to stutter or not to get her mad.
"Your mother...wants me to have you join an Assassination Class...to see what it feels like to be abused as a child..."
"And she has you force these things for me to do? Jeez, what a pathetic woman she is."
"That's your mother your talking about!"
"The mother that abused me and the father that raped me when I was nine. They sure don't sound like a mother nor a father to me."
"....do you want to join or not?"
Katie sighed, at the same time she didn't want to do it but she wanted to become stronger and get it over with to make her so called mother feel happy. Marlene could see it in her eyes, but instead of regretting to ask her she continued to cut up the meet of the deer.
Katie left to her room, locking the door and throwing knives in the ceiling, she then checked through her phone. A missed call? Possibly. She called the number that she didn't answer before it wasn't any one she knew from high school it was a guy from the owner of the Assassination Class Black!
"So you finally answer my call? Katie Azuma."
"And just who are you?"
"Why goodness me, you agreed to join Class Black and you don't know who I am? Well, I'm just the owner OF Class Black! Hahahaha!"
"Nice to meet you sir, what was the reason you called me?"
"Jumping to conclusion, I want to give you information about the Class Black."
"Go on."
"Surely, I am the owner of the company but I am your teacher as well so I'll be sending you riddles for you to find out on your own for the next 5 days while your in class. But for a head start...I have your first riddle prepared."
"Spill it out already!"
"What does it feel like to be abused? That is the riddle."
Katie paused..her eyes widened and her teeth chattered. She then hesitated and stayed quiet, she was about to hang up but something in her head was stopping her not to.
"Oh~ did I make you feel nervous? My apologies, but anyway you have one day to answer the riddle. But before I go I have one more question for you...do you find killing pleasurable or do you find pleasure as killing?"
"Tch! Your not making any damn sense! Moron!"
Katie hung up and through her phone on the bed, walking downstairs and eating dinner with Marlene but not talking to her at all.

(To be continued)