Pain - BokuAka

Chapter 1

I suck at writing angst, I'm sorry!

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Fear. That was the only word to describe what Akaashi was feeling all the time.

People were jealous of him. He was the son of one of the most important rulers. If his father died right now, he was the one who had to take it all over. It used to be so easy, so peaceful, so perfect. 

But everything changed when Oikawa died.

His son Tooru, only one year older than Akaashi, had taken over. There were new rules, mostly bad. The land of Oikawa was the most powerful. They had the best soldiers with the strongest wings, they were the most rich, and the citizens were the healthiest. Never had Oikawa used these powers against any of the tribes, but Tooru did.

It took him a month. No one had ever thought that that month would be the last month of peace. Thousands of innocent people had died already. Tooru attacked village after village. He didn't care who he crossed on his way to a new kingdom, everyone had to serve him or die. 

The tribe of Daichi and Sugawara were the first ones to fall. Half of their village had died only because they didn't agree on serving Tooru. Akaashi didn't know what happened to Daichi and Sugawara, but deeply inside he wished that they died. If they served for Tooru and attacked his village it would be harder to fight. They were very strong but simply didn't have enough members in their army to defeat Tooru. Their tribes used to exchange clothing, spices and members for their army's. The citizens were allowed to marry each other and have children signed up in the tribe of their choice. But it was all over now.

Akaashi looked out of his window. The sky was dark. It had been like that for months now. Just dark and cold with loud thunderstorms heard in the distance. He looked down and saw two little kids playing with a ball. Their wings were still so small. If anything happened right now he wouldn't forgive himself. By the large gates on the end of his village, Akaashi saw the guards changing duty. It was close to nightfall so the strongest guards were now in front in case someone would attack. The chances of being attacked at night was the greatest. 

He wished it would be over.

But not like this.

Loud screaming woke Akaashi up. Not one scream, not two. No. The whole village. Screams of names and fear mixed with a.. a crackling sound? Akaashi shot out of his bed and opened the curtains. Never had his eyes been this wide. 

Fire. The village was on fire. 

He rushed towards his door and tried to open it only to discover that it's stuck. He pressed his hands against the wood to give it a push but quickly took a couple steps back. The door was flaming hot. The fire has reached the castle. 

"Mom!" Akaashi screamed for his life as he slowly walked back to the window. "Mom! Dad!" 

The door caught flames and smoke immediately filled his room. Akaashi started coughing and shielded himself from the flames with his wings. His eyes started tearing up as his bed caught fire too. There was only one way to escape;  through the window. There was no way his wings were ready for a flight from as high as this. It was either burning alive or the risk of falling. 

He didn't have time to make a decision, it was now or never. He shielded himself with his arm and jumped through the window. He could feel his arms being sliced open by the broken glass as he started to fall. He flapped his wings like a bird that got thrown out of his nest, desperately to stay in the air. He still felt himself falling down but not as hard as before. 

Akaashi landed on the ground. Not peacefully at all but luckily not heavily injured. His arms were bleeding and there were several pieces of glass stuck in his skin. There were people running around him. Everyone was screaming, crying, praying to the god they believed in to save them. He started running, he didn't know where. There had to be some way to save these people. He passed a man whose wings were on fire. He couldn't think about his parents or his little brother. 

"Please" he whispered, his vision blurry from the tears and smoke. "Please let them be save."