Two Tragedies (Juuzou x reader)

IX

I floated back up above the bathtub water, slicking my hair back with wet hands. I sighed and sank down just to my chin. I leaned back and laid by head against the wall. It was silent in the apartment, the only noise were the sounds of cars rarely passing by.

"Baby, did you know that when you are good, good things happen, right, which is why I do this, because you are good!"

The back of her head hit the floor and she winced at the pain but she couldn't do anything. Her hands and legs were tied together and she simply stared at the woman she called momma.

"Such a beautiful little girl you are Y/N, so very pretty," Y/N laid on the ground, crying and screaming as another whip hit her small frame.

"Look at all your good girl points, you did fantastic today, aren't you happy!"

"Yes Momma, I'm so AH HAPPY," the blows stopped and Y/N was lifted up by her collar, she looked her Momma in the eyes, smiling with tears running down her cheeks.

"Don't cry, pretty girls don't cry or their eyes will get puffy and they won't be beautiful anymore," Y/N stopped to the best of her abilities and simply sniffles but tried to suppress those too.

"It isn't hard to follow orders beautiful," a knife, freezing to the touch pressed against the child's collar bones.

"So very...beautiful,"  SLASH.

I opened my eyes, sitting up a bit more. My hand moved towards the old scar. It hadn't gone away, the same 'XIII' she made that night.

I submerged myself underneath the water once again. I let out bubbles of air, the moment feeling more calming than anything. The sound of the bubbles under water rising up and then bursting. The sound you hear when your head is surrounded by still liquid.

"I heard she ended up drowning herself."

I sucked in water, shooting up and coughing profusely. My throat and lungs burned as I continued to let out violent coughs. I stood up out of the tub and wrapped a towel around my body.

"I can see her in you Y/N, you're so alike."

I frowned at my reflection. Trying to decipher what I was looking at. The person in the mirror was practically a spitting image of my own mother.

I touched the mirror, splashing water on it and wiping it down, trying to change what I was seeing, but t remained the same.

"I hate you...so much, you didn't have to do that, you could've stayed, you could've saved m...you could've done something," I placed my hand on the mirror.

"Why couldn't you stay for me."

The shatter of the mirror snapped me back into reality. I saw the glass all over the sink and the floor.

"You didn't have to do that, I thought I was you're treasure, why did you do it, why?"

Sinking down onto my knees, I let out the tears I should've held in. I tried to wipe them but the wouldn't stop. I placed my forehead on the ground and grit my teeth trying to not lose my mind. I felt like I was going insane.

In a desperate act, I called out to her, wanted to hear what she had to say. But no one ever said anything.

~

"So you got it last year but took the ribbons out two months ago," Rei and I were walking down the street near Anteiku. We often stopped to look at dogs or squirrels and sometimes, cats.

This wasn't the first time we hung out, I texted him the day after he gave me his number and we went out that same day. We didn't spend much time together but it's been two weeks and it hasn't been bad.