Samezukan Love(Free! Fanfiction)

Chapter 12: Their Past

"S-sorry... I dragged you here..." Wakana-chan sniffled and blew her nose on a tissue. "It's just...."

"It's alright Wakana, now um... Can you tell me why your crying? It kinda hurts to see you cry after I've been so happy lately..." I asked and she only smiled, well tried to at least.

"Y-you wouldn't really understand but I guess I should tell you... It's about Morizono..."

"OH MY F*CKING GOD!! Did he make you cry?! I swear I am gonna beat the damn sh*t outta him when I see him and slaugh—"

"N-no! It's not because of that... Look... I'll just tell you OK?"

"So... Well, Morizono or should I say Ita-chan and I go way back. To preschool honestly. Back in preschool I would get bullied alot for no reason like because of my height, my hair style or what I had for lunch so everytime I got bullied I would just sit on this lonely, creaky swingset in the playground and cry as the other kids played with each other. Ita-chan, who was a few grades higher than me always seemed to be around when I cried so he was always the one who comforted me. Back then he was just the older kid who I admired and saw him as somewhat a protector. He was the only kid who would actually play with me, I would be his 'princess' and he would play various roles like the knights, princes and kings. To the point we were always around each other...

But then one time I just happened to be wandering off to some unknown place when I heard these three voices, two of them I didn't recognize but the other one was a voice which I had learned to memorize like the alphabet. It was Ita-chan's so I decided to listen in. I couldn't really make out most of it but from what I heard they were saying things like 'Your such a loser for playing with that ugly girl!' And 'Seriously we won't be friends with you anymore if you keep playing with her!' It hurt. But I was used to it. However there was something more painful to it then that. I heard Ita-chan screaming, in pain. When I turned to peek I saw his lip bleeding and the other two boy punching and kicking him in the stomach. It was horrible, the only person who was ever kind to me was being beaten up for being seen with me. It hurt so much that I just couldn't do anything but watch as they beat him from what I thought almost to death. And when they finally left I ran up to him forgetting everything and just asking if he was still alive and tried to fix his wounds. He was unconcious for a small period of time until he woke up. But there was something different about him, his eyes were lifeless and when he looked at me he looked at me cold before grabbing me by the collar and lifting me up. Suffocating me as I squirmed under his grasp. For a second I thought that he was a stranger, he wasn't that same guy who played with me in the sandbox until the sun went down or the same guy who would walk home with me just to protect me from all the bullies. He was different. He then punched me in the face and kicked me onto the muddy ground, it had just started raining when he suddenly started beating me and calling me names like 'horrible', 'ugly' and 'worthless' it hurt so much more than all his punches and kicks. I would've taken it all if only he hadn't called me those names. He was acting just like my childhood bullies were. So all I did was break down crying and screaming I'm sorry as he beat me in the rain. It was getting cold to the point I didn't even feel the pain anymore because the rain had already numbed my body. I don't really remember when but I fainted at one point to wake up in a thunderstorm with Ita-chan no longer there. So I got up and decided to drag myself home.

I hadn't really seen Ita-chan after that. So when I got into elementary which was when I met Otori. He was one of the kids at my old preschool who would honestly just stand by and watch me get bullied because he was too scared to stand up for me but one time in 6th grade he went up to me and apologized, at first I didn't get it until I had a good look at his face which was when I recognized him. We instantly became best friends after that and I thought it was all gonna be OK now that I had him with me and it did end up being OK.