That Day

When I was a child before being adopted by Katsuo's aunt, I lived in a big house with my mother, father, and older brother. I was an accidental pregnancy, my mother didn't believe in abortions so, after a few natural attempts to get rid of me and failing, she decided to keep me.

"Mama, look what I drew," I said excitedly to show her what I had made. She took the drawing and gave a quick look at it then tore it up in front of me. I was hurt that she did that but at least she looked at it this time.

"Scarlett, why is this thing troubling me?!" my mother yelled as Scarlett came running into the room. I smiled at the fact she acknowledged me, Scarlett came and picked me up.

"I'm sorry Misstress, I looked away for a second and she ran away," Scarlett said apologizing while holding me in her arms.

"Just get it away from me and make sure it doesn't come back," my mother said turning around, showing her back to us. Scarlett carried me out of the room.

"Please don't do that next time alright? I don't want anything bad happening to you," Scarlett told me.

"Did you see that Scarlett? She noticed me," I said happily.

"She did but did she tear your picture?"

"Yes, but she looked at it before tearing it up,"

"What did you draw?"

"I drew mama, papa, brother, you, and me,"

"M-me?" Scarlett said blushing, "Why would you draw me, I'm only a maid,"

"I know but you're my family too," I said hugging her.

"Oh sweetie, thank you and you're my family too," Scarlett said hugging me back. "Be careful though alright, I don't want to lose the only family I have,"

"I will, I promise," I said smiling at her, Scarlett had told me that not long after I was born she was given the responsibility of taking care of me. She's always been like a mother and big sister to me. "Can you play with me now?"

"Sorry, I have some cleaning to do," Scarlett said putting me down in front of my room door, she then bent down and whispered to me "But a little birdie told me that your brother is free right now," I got excited and thanked Scarlett as I ran to my brother's room. I knocked three times and he opened the door letting me in.

"Hey, brother can you play with me now?" I said jumping on his bed.

"Not now, sorry I've got homework to do," my brother said as he sat down at his desk. 

"Please only 10 minutes, it doesn't have to be a long time,"

"What about Scarlett?" he said writing in a book.

"She's busy clean-"

"Shh," my brother cut me off, he then picked me up and put me in his closet, closing the door. I sat in the closet, covered my mouth, and listened carefully.

"What's all this noise?!" I heard the voice of my father as he stepped into the room.

"Sorry about that Father, I was testing the limits of gravity for my science homework," my brother said covering for me.

Father sighs "Silly child, just don't make too much noise next time," Father said as he left the room, I heard my brother sigh. He opened the closet door and helped me up.

"Will you play with me now?"

"I can't just yet and you know how Mom and Dad get when they see us together,"

"Why don't they want us to play together?"

"How do I explain this?" my brother said to himself as he bent down to get to my height, "Mama and Papa think that one kid is good to get all the stuff they worked for but having two kids is too much because there isn't enough stuff. Mama is also very busy trying to make the world a better place,"

"Scarlett says Mama has tons of money though and you always share with me whenever you can but if you don't wanna share that's ok too,"

"I'm going to tell you something you shouldn't know ok? Don't tell anyone I told you this," my brother tells me and I nod my head, "Mama and Papa both have powers that are really special for this world ok. When I was born I got those powers too and maybe one day you'll also get those powers but it's a family tradition to only have one kid so Mama was upset she had two,"

"So is Mama angry with me?" I said worriedly.

"No, no she's not angry with you but she's upset with herself and sometimes lets out that anger on you but it's not your fault alright?" he said as I nodded.

"So that's why Mama always rips my drawings? She's angry with herself?"

"Yeah exactly,"

"I don't understand, if she's angry with herself why does she rip my drawings?" I said scratching my head. Scarlett then burst into the room, she picked me up and grabbed my brother as she ran through the house.

"Scarlett, let me go! What are you doing?!" my brother yelled.

"Your parents have been found, they decided to take them on and we were told to get you out of here," Scarlett said running out the backdoor.

"Scarlett! What are you doing?!" A butler yelled. 

"Shit," Scarlett said under her breath, as Harry, the butler called her from behind.

"Where are you going with the child? You know the mission we were given," Harry said approaching us.

"Your mission?" my brother said looking at Scarlett, who had an angry glare staring at Harry. My brother then grabbed me out of Scarlett's arms and started running.

"Where are we going? What were they talking about?" I said to my brother as he sprinted trying to get away from them, they were starting to catch up with us.

"Listen to me okay," I nodded as my brother kept running, "Scarlett and Harry are the bad guys Mama and Papa protect people from and the people they train me to fight against. If we don't get away now they'll for sure kill us,"

"But why? Scarlett is my family," I said as tears formed in my eyes watching Scarlett and Harry get close to us, my brother held my head and started running faster. We started getting close to the forest on the outskirts of our estate and my brother leapt up into the trees.

"Scarlett is not your family, she's one of the people I warned you about time and time again," my brother whispered to me as we hid in the trees. "I'm sorry it had to be this way, I know that Scarlett meant a lot to you but right now we need to focus on survival. Right now we don't know where Mom and Dad are or if they're alright, so for now it's just you and me,"

"Ok, so what do we do?" I whispered, clinging to him.

"Dad has some family abroad, we can go there until we hear something from them," my brother said as he leapt from branch to branch trying not to make too much noise, "This is the fastest route to the harbour, once we're there we'll get on a boat and everything will be alright," he looked down at me as tears streamed down my face, "Remember the candies ubcle used to make for us? What were they called?" he whispered to me.

"He called them a ball of sunshine," I said quietly remembering the little yellow lollipops my uncle made for us whenever we went over to his house.

"And why did he call them that?"

"Because they made everyone happy whenever they were sad, like when the sun pokes it's head out on a rainy day,"

"Exactly, you'll have a ball of sunshine soon ok?"

"Alright,"

"Found you!" Scarlett said grabbing us with her manifestation, Scarlett had the ability to create an extra body parts out of thin air. "Please listen to me,"

"No, let us go now!" my brother yelled at her.

"Good work Scarlett," Scarlett turned around to see Harry behind her smirking.

"How did you-"

"I knew if I had just followed you, I'd be led right to the little brats,"

"Crap, I can't get my hand free," my brother said to himself as he struggled in Scarlett's embrace.

"Listen, I won't kill you guys I promise," Scarlett said trying to convince us.

"Save it we don't believe you,"

"You believe me right?" she said looking into my eyes, her eyes looked gentle and honest.

"Save it Scarlett, you've already captured them, let's just kill them and get it over with," Harry said pulling out a knife.

"No!" Scarlett said as she made a hand and pinned Harry to the tree, "Listen sweeties, you guys get to that harbour and I'll hold him off, consider it an apology for tricking you all these years," Scarlett said releasing the both of us, she smiled at me. My brother grabbed my arm and started running towards the harbour, I kept looking back to Scarlett I wanted to make sure she was alright.

"Don't look back, it'll just make things harder,"

"Will she be ok?" I asked my brother as we ran.

"I don't think so, but we can hope she will be,"

"Director?!" Katsuo yelled snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Why did I just remember that?" I said to myself.

"Remeber what?" he asked.

"Nothing important," I said.