Intertwined Destiny

Chapter 8: Mayuzumi Chihiro

Chapter 8: Mayuzumi Chihiro

The vivid memories of his family started when he was adopted into the Kuroko clan. People saw him as an unwanted child, a cursed child. Like children who are abhorred as cursed, he was badly abused and bullied, often coming home besmeared with dirt and injuries. He lived in the countryside along with his only mother. His mother had a hard time raising him, working nightly hours at a bar, coming home in the mornings. The small child he was, he was exceptionally perceptive for a child barely reaching five years of age. The boy was ten, when his only mother had passed away. Her cause of death had remained unknown. Not a single soul had mourned for her sorry death. After the inexplicable death of his mother, he was approached by a man, claiming to be his father.

The name of the boy was Mayuzumi Chihiro.

"Who are you? My mother doesn't have anyone. She told me my father is dead." His apathetic nature had begun to resurface.

The man had smiled. "That inscrutable personality, I am positive you are my child, although it appears that I was a little too late." The man was dressed in a pale blue kimono, the sun shone had made his illuminated unworldly pale blue hair. "My name is Kuroko Tetsurou."

Mayuzumi had puffed, the skepticism of the words of a stranger held no evidence. He had frowned, scrutinizing the man for the slightest discrepancy and inconsistency. To his consternation, he had found none. "That expression, you do not seem surprised at all. Perhaps you must have surmise at a certain point?" The man had a tranquil smile. "Won't you come with me?"

It was a fated day he was adopted by the Kuroko clan. Mayuzumi wasn't an ignorant child. He knew the true form of the Kuroko clan. That day, he gained a younger half-brother. His name was Kuroko Tetsuya. Observing the innocent soul making his best effort to make him open his heart, Mayuzumi had a new goal. He had come to love his new family, and his brother. To protect and avoid his brother from walking down the same path he had. Mayuzumi had also discovered that the Kuroko clan were cursed, possessing peculiar characteristics that the people had despised them for. The Kuroko clan was a family descended from a family of spirits who specialize in vanishing arts, making the Kuroko clan perfect assassins. Mayuzumi was also trained and taught ways of the Kuroko clan, along with his younger half-brother.

The Kuroko clan was often disregarded with malignance and cynical nature of the humans. Members of the Kuroko family descended from a spirit of named Kyoka Suigetsu, the underlying meanings that illusions that can be seen, cannot be touched, its elegance is a reflection. Descendants of the Kuroko clan are capable of vanishing and appearing, like the legends had recorded of their specialty of vanishing arts. They are exceptionally skilled at martial arts, including various forms of weaponry such as firearms, swords, knives, spears and archery. People were terrified of their combat skills, the Kuroko clan were capable of combining their spiritual properties, completing the deadly techniques which was feared by the people across the lands. Throughout the long history of man, armies, squads, assassins, specialists of many have attempted in eliminating the Kuroko clan, none have ever succeeded. It was then, the birth of Mayuzumi Chihiro and Kuroko Tetsuya, were prodigies. They possessed special abilities, even among members of their clan. A spiritual seer had once performed a divination.

To conquer the challenges of life, you will experience an extremely dark path. The unstoppable fates of destiny, the rising dragons bestowing strength, challenges shall be conquered.

The new life Mayuzumi had was just a fleeting dream. On Kuroko Tetsuya's seventh birthday, the Kuroko clan was ambushed, destroyed and betrayed by the brother-in-law of Kuroko Tetsurou, their uncle, Kisaragi Amaya. Mayuzumi had harbored inmmense levels of Pyrrhonism against Kisaragi Amaya. His nature and disposition had rubbed the people of the Kuroko clan the wrong way. Their faces were often scathing vitriolic each time Amaya had visited the Kuroko manor. The impression they had of Amaya was scheming, cunning and calculative. The Kuroko clan learnt the truth the hard way. The inconceivable acts of Kisaragi Amaya betraying the notorious Kuroko clan. His sister, and also Kuroko Tetsuya's mother, Kisaragi Amane, had beseeched and pleaded her brother for mercy.