Kingdom Hearts Book 1: Fire and Ice

Chapter 1: Separated

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts. I only own my OC and her family. Crystle belongs to my friend, Crye of the Fallen on fanfiction.net 

Warning: Implied and mild child abuse.

Chapter 1: Separated

Hikari's POV:

Four years passed since then and my life and I were never the same. My life started to go downhill. It was as if mom's death started a chain of unfortunate events that would keep going on and on forever. It had gotten to the point where all the hope and happiness in my life faded away and I was left with nothing but scars and a dark heart. The past was too painful for me. Every time I looked in the mirror, I saw my dead mother. The older I got the more I looked like her. I didn't want to be reminded of her, so I dyed my hair a dark purple and brushed my hair over my right eye.

Everyone, including my "father," was very merciless and unkind towards me. At school, I was often called demon by kids my age or older. Why, you may be asking? Well, I wasn't like kids my age. I had a very strange power. Every time I would get angry, and I mean REALLY angry, these flames would erupt around me. My flames used to be very small and they'd only form at the tips of my fingers, but they grew with my aging body. Due to the fact that I could accidentally burn someone with my powers, I often tried to calm myself down every time I got angry. But, there was that one day where I just lost it.

Flashback: (A/N: This is four years earlier. Hikari and Kage are six years old.)

It was during the school day and it was currently reading time. Of course, the teacher and I were the only ones actually reading. My classmates were conversing loudly with each other and throwing paper airplanes. I rolled my eyes as my brother ran around the desk with a book on his head and his arms spread out to the sides yelling: "Look at me! I'm a pretty little butterfly!" Once in a while, he'd either run into something or trip over his own feet. Her eye twitching in annoyance, my teacher tried ignoring them. She knew she couldn't get them to listen to her anyway. From the fact that she was always scowling at all of us, I could tell she didn't like her job. Either that or she just really hated kids. Either way, I wouldn't blame her.

I was sitting at my desk minding my own business when one of my troublesome classmates threw a crumpled up ball of paper at the back of my head. I ignored the person even after they kept throwing more of them at me.

"Hey, nerd! It's rude to ignore people when they're trying to get your attention, ya know!" a male voice yelled somewhere behind me.

"You know she won't respond to that. Here, let me try," a female voice offered. "Hey, you demon freak!" my blood boiled when she called me a demon. I took in a deep breath and let it out so that I could keep myself from lashing out at her. When I heard someone slam their hands onto my desk, I flinched. The book I was reading was harshly yanked from my hands and thrown aside. I glared at the girl standing in front of my desk. She wasn't intimidated by my glare in the slightest.

"What do you want?" I growled. The girl grinned at the anger in my voice.

"Oops. Looks like I made the thing mad. What are you going to do, burn me to death? Oh wait, you can't. You're too much of a wimp to," she insulted me.

"Why do all of you like to bully me around?!" I yelled.

"Because you're freak. You're different from the rest of us and we don't need a monster like you walking around our school. Why don't you save us the trouble and kill yourself? " she answered smugly. I clenched my hands into fists until my knuckles turned white and my nails dug into the palms of hands. I stood up abruptly from my seat and glared at the girl. She was slightly taller than me, but the height difference didn't scare me at all. Kage must have heard what she said because he ran over to stand beside me. His face held the same angry expression as mine.