Night Guard (Book 1)

“Kurayami!” I awake suddenly. I look over at the clock. It is 7 am. School starts at seven thirty.  “I’m late!” Ijump out of bed and scurry across my bedroom to my bathroom. I don’t have time to take a shower! I think to myself. I open my closet and throws on her school uniform. I brush my hair and takes a quick look in the mirror. Then I am out the door and out to the diver waiting for her in the driveway. “Pulling a tight one again Ms.Mori.” “Yeah. Can we just hurry, Kei?” Kei drives out of the front gates and onto the road. “Do you have something to do before school?” “I have to show the new student around school.” After about ten minutes in the car, Kei pulls up to Shuosway Private High School. I gather my things and am out the car door in a flash. Its seven twenty!  I run as fast as I can. I’m running up the front steps when I knock into someone.  “Sorry.” I say “You should really pay better attention to where you are going.” I look up. Purple eyes. The guy I knocked into has purple eyes, and those purple eyes are gorgeous!  “Sorry.” I say again in a smaller voice. He looks at me and walks away. I walk to the office door. “Pulling a close one again, Kurayami.” My best friend Sayuri says. “Is the new kid here yet?” The office door opens and in walks the guy from before. He walks over to the office attendant and says something to her. The office lady gets up and moves from behind her desk. She leads him over to where I am standing with Sayuri.  “Kurayami?” “Yes.” “Kurayami, this is Ren Ito. Ren, this Kurayami Mori.” His name is Ren “Shall we go?” Ren looks at me and nods his head towards the door. “Oh, right. May I see you schedule?”  Ren hands me his schedule and I take a look at it. Ren is in class 3-B.  Class 3-B is right after my class, 3-A. We walk in silence to his classroom. At the door I tell him “This is your class. I’m in 3-A, right before this class if you need anything.” Ren just stares at me then opens his classroom door and walks in. How rude. I walk back towards my class and make it in my seat just as the last bell rings. The teacher walks in. We all stand up and bow then sit back down. “Hello class. I hope you all enjoyed your weekend.” I stare out the window next to my desk, the cherry blossoms are starting to blossom. Spring is near.                          

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“Kurayami!” my father yells. Once again I have messed up on my skills completely. Being the one in my family to inherit my powers is a real pain. Being from the legendary ice family, the Mori’s, mean that I have to practice the skills of ice with the sword of ice, Kouri.  “Again!” my father calls out. Right now I am outside of our mansion in Saga, a small city in the southern part of Japan. The cherry blossoms are blooming and my father has taken it upon himself to teach me how to control my ‘inner soul’. Apparently my ‘inner soul’ is where my ice magic comes from. From my understanding, my ‘inner soul’ connects with my sword and then my sword generates my magic and makes it come into form. Once I asked my father why I was the only one that could do this, and he replied “You are the only one with an inner soul, Kurayami, only a person with a true inner soul can connect with Kouri and then together make ice.”    Ice, is something known as cold and is made in the winter , as normal people would describe it. But to my father and my family, ice, is represented as a moment after, which then means that ice can freeze the moment to show the future. but dont get me wrong, ice is deadly. 

"Kurayami! Get your head out of the clouds and start doing this right!" my father shows me the movements to higher level sword fighting. What my father doesnt understand is that I know all this stuff already, but again, he refuses to listen to anything I have to say. I move into a fighting stance. My knees are slightly bent, I am at an angle to my opponent, and my sword is held out by both of my hands in front of me. Taskhimu stands in his fully armored body, waiting for me to strike.  I observe my opponent. I notice his hands, shaking as my holds onto his average katana. He is scared of me, just the way I like it. Taskhimu charges forward, with fear in his eyes. I close my eyes, and take a deep breath. A wave to cold rushes through my body, into my arms and out my hands to my katana. My katana, Kouri, generates the power into ice that creates teh ice around my sword. I open my eyes. Taskhimu is almost here. I run the rest of the way, our swords collide. I push my force on his sword and he finally falss back on to the ground. I look at my father, he doesnt look very pleased. His arms are crossed and his eyes are closed. He opens them and says "We are done." then he walks back towards the house. I sheath my sword and head to the weapon room. As I walk across the pratice field, a crash sounds out. I look towards the stone wall. A person hops over the 9ft wall and runs onto the field. As he gets closer to me, I notice who it is. Ren.