Blackened Blade (Murasaki x OC)

Chapter 1: Changing of Seasons

It's strange how in one changing of a season, everything in the world seems to change along with it. From winter to spring the animals emerge from their hiding spots or make way back to their migratory homes, plants return seemingly from the dead, daylight itself lasts longer and longer. People always seem just a little happier in spring, more lively, dressing as if it were just a little warmer than it currently is in celebration of the release of winters cold, death like, grasp.

I had always loved spring. I was a loner kid growing up but even I would venture out and play in the streets with the neighborhood children and run around for hours and hours of the ever lengthening days. The excitement I felt only amplified by the fact that my birthday was in late spring. Early May to be exact. My birthday had been in the perfect spot for a child, warm enough to celebrate outside, and right before the single biggest thing a kid could look forward to: summer break.

However that felt like a lifetime ago this particular year. I had just turned 17 and was looking forward to a long summer break before my senior year. My few close friends and I had all sorts of plans for the summer: road trips, bonfires, late nights playing video games, and just maybe, they had hoped, help me get over a pretty bad breakup that happened just that April.

The whole event was pretty rough. The guys called it "The Blitzkrieg" because she hit me hard and fast out of nowhere and before I could react she was already moving on leaving me destroyed in her wake. I was a wreck and barely made it out to celebrate with my closest friend and parents on my birthday. To make matters worse my father found out that the company he worked for was facing hard times and would be closing down the branch he worked at to preserve the mothership back overseas. They still however wanted his expertise in the IT field and offered him a comparable position all the way over in Japan.

We really had no options, IT jobs weren't exactly jumping for men of his age. So, it was told to me on the day after my 17th birthday, that my family would be moving across the globe for my father's work. All my summer plans, all my friends, people I had known since gradeschool, the neighborhood I lived in my whole entire life, gone completely like the changing of a season.

The night before my flight I met with my best friend Kris. This guy had been by my side ever since the 2nd grade. He had been by my side through all the bullying I had suffered in grade and middle school and was my number 1 pal when I finally grew into my own in highschool. We talked for hours until the sun was barely visible on the horizon and my dad was blowing up my phone freaking out that I might make us miss our flight hours from now. There in the field where we had met, we shared a sobbing, lingering bro hug for the world to see. We promised to play all sorts of games online and I told him I'd send all kinds of souvenirs from my new home.

That early morning my father, mother, sister, and I, all piled into a rental and made our way to the airport. Our suitcases packed to the brim with what we could bring with. Everything we didn't absolutely need was either sold, donated, or given away. After we boarded our flight I had to choke back tears. My sister was already bawling and somebody had to stay strong. The spinning of the turbines as we prepared for takeoff seemed to wind my stomach into impossible amounts of knots. We took off, and I watched out the window as the only home I ever knew faded further and further away.

A/N: Hey guys this is my first fic and first writing I've ever really put out. Please be as brutal as possible with the reviews I wont get better otherwise.