Sanguine Island

1.Always and Forever

(5 Years Before Sanguine Island)

"Happy birthday Ken !"Early in the morning on Saturday, my family came running into my room with a small birthday cake."Happy 15th son your one step closer to manhood". "If your ready we can take you out for your special day."Uh Yeah, dad just let me get washed and dressed I should ready to go".I looked over behind my parents to see Katsumi, my younger sister, smiling in the corner  with her hands behind her back." Whatcha hiding over there". She then ran over to me jumped into bed and handed me a small box."What's this"? I then open the box to find a locket that had an old picture of me inside but it looked a little torn."Ah man, I remember this day like yesterday, we played all day outside with the kids down the street". Katsumi laughed."Yeah, you skid your both of your knees that day". Katsumi's expression changed as she finished talking, I'm guessing remembering what also happens that day with other kids." Hey, it's an amazing gift I love it, I will never take it off". She cheered up and threw a towel at me."Thanks and dad said to be ready to go in an hour he has reservations at Ruthless Ramen". Ruthless Ramen was my favorite restaurant. Ruthless Ramen is a ramen buffet, they let you put anything you want in your ramen. I always got the same type of ramen when I went, double barbecue meat extra celery". "I hate Ruthless Ramen though. That whole buffet and not one sushi bar". I laughed then said, "Maybe next year on your birthday we can go to some sushi even though it tastes like shit".We are laughed but was interrupted by loud noises sounding like hitting our front window.

Katsumi and I both run to the living area and open the front to see some old kids we used to play with egging our house and screaming and laughing."Katsumi's a monster, Katsumi is a freak"They yelled."You should just kill yourselves, blood freaks like you guys shouldn't be with us normal people."Katsumi then ran to her room and slammed her door, I then gave a death glare to then slammed the door behind me. I then ran to Katsumi's room to try to comfort her to see if she would come out." Hey, Sumi please open the door those guys were assholes they don't know what they were talking about."I got no luck with her opening the door. I couldn't blame her, she was having a hard time adjusting to her new life we were born blood weavers after all. A year ago, when we're playing with other kids in the park, I skid both my knees and could barely bend them to walk. Katsumi without hesitation put her hands over my knees and her blood-covered my scratches and in seconds they were healed. One of the kids yelled out"How the hell did she do that?"One of the other kids said, "She's one of those blood freaks".I couldn't get her to stop crying that day, she lost all her friends all because she was different. Katsumi couldn't even use her powers for fighting like some others could but regardless she was treated like an animal. I still this day don't even know what my powers are or how the work.

In this world, you have two types of people, blood weavers, and norms. Blood weavers are looked at like monsters, animals, killers but those are just some of the people with powers who ruin the reputation for the rest of us. We live on a specific side of town with designated apartments. The grocery stores call police escorts to watch us while we shop. I don't know who would dare to kill someone, they would end up in the worst place for anyone to go, Sanguine Island. That's the place where blood weavers go when we commit crimes like murder and robbery etc, They honestly find any reason to lock us up in that place. The police and other armed guards have special bullets infused with antibodies that neutralize our powers. They also have it in the handcuffs they use on us. They always seem ready for war.

Eventually, I gave up and went to get ready to leave for the ramen buffet. Where we lived in Japan everything was within walking distance so it wasn't a need for a car. On the walk over I finally got Katsumi talking. We talked all the way over to Ruthless Ramen while talking I realized she had a necklace similar to the one she gave me this morning."Hey, Sumi what's that around your neck?"She looked down and grab the locket, "I got this along with yours".She then opened up the locket to reveal the other part to the picture in my locket."Oh, now I remember when we took this picture. This was back when we first went to the amusement park in the states."Katsumi smiled and said, "Bingo that was the happiest days of our life, now we can always look at these and go back to how we felt that day."Shortly after our talk, we finally reached the ramen buffet. I ate so much I could barely move a muscle. Every birthday dad tells different stories about him and mom or us when we were little."...then you slipped and fell right on your ass."Katsumi laughed"Man that story will never get old. Man Ken you were even clumsy then as you are now, no balance at all haha."I sarcastically laughed, "Oh haha, I bet you're going to be eating those words once I finish up my muay Thai lessons."Normally a blood weaver wouldn't have the luxury of learning how to fight but since my powers hadn't awoken yet we had no problem getting in."Will those lessons teach you to balance because you have none haha". I replied, "Yeah that's actually one of my last sessions, balance, and control".