"Bye Kashi!" Called out my friends sister, Yui.
It was a silent sunset over our town, Anogani.
"Bye, Nishi!" I said loudly joking with her and ignoring her presense.
"Fine, Red Cat, or should I say 'Red Kitty'?" She said over her brother, Nishioto.
'Red Cat' is the nickname that I was given because people say that I have cat-like abilities. What confuses me is that nothing about me is red. My hair is a bright white, and my skin is not much darker. Well, I do have red-brownish eyes, but I'm not albino. Earlier that day, we were working on a project that we started in May. She called me a 'Kitty' because I wimped out on trying on our invention. One that would 'enhance' our ability to direct our powers. Well, not really "powers". More like things that everyone wants that can possibly kill us for- more specifically, one famous scientist who had been after us for years in secret.
But, that was beside the point.
In my defense, I was not about to get electrocuted by some upside-down colander taped to a metal spring that was also melted and bonded with a series of circuits that used to be an alarm clock and 2 different broken cell phones. All of that mess was circled through a wire and bonded together to a usb flash drive which we had hooked up to Yui's laptop.
That's why we are only knowing each other. Well, Yui has a bookworm friend that she's in the same class with. But that's all of the outsiders that we know of.
Nishioto and Yui board their bikes, both looking back at me as I step out a little farther.
"Same time tomorrow?" Nishioto asked as he put up his kickstand on h bright teal-blue bike, the same color as his hair and eyes.
"Sure," I say smiling.
Nishi and I have been friends since we could remember.
I first met him in the winter, but it lasted through all of the seasons since second grade. We first noticed our powers when a kid was bullying me and Nishioto when I saw frozen precipitation on his arm start to form.
Even though it was snowing, it was not that kind of cold. I didn't make sense to us, at first. Until, well, after it became a trend of constant cold splurges that were occurring-even in Anogani's heat. It was really confusing for a long time.
His black jacket shone with ice.
We found out about mine when we were swimming in a pool that we made by ourselves in my mom's backyard in third grade. It was pink and had a blue wave on it. We were racing when a kid next door threw a rock and it hit me in the head.
As I was cursing this kid out (I was not afraid to get mad at someone when I needed to.), Nishi said that I was steaming up- literally.
I believed him as he believed me because our moms noticed it too.
That was before 'World's Greatest Scientist' killed his mother in a "car accident"- Or that was what we were told.
We are worried for my mom that that doesn't happen to her.
But she is an optimistic person. She lives for today even if she doesn't live tomorrow.
Sometimes when Youkai gets cocky, he'll try to capture us and take us to his lab. When he does, he'll perform experiments on us, trying to find out how we were given these abilities.
But I, Kashiri Roto, don't even know myself.
I've been stuck in this chamber for two weeks since Youkai boarded up the vents. Staring at the concrete ceiling. The whole room is concrete. No windows except for the one above us counted as the roof. The vent. That's where I've been escaping. He started to notice, so he boarded them up.
My useless powers...
So, so useless...
I was born with them and started to show symptoms of it around third grade when my mother was still alive.
Youkai killed her. Right in front of me.
And I'm sure he will have the same mercy to any others.
There has to be others, I'm certain of it.
I hear the other cell mates (especially some boys) yelling at Youkai.
Well, I know that there is a girl, but she is always quiet. But sometimes I do hear her talking to one of the boys. They always manage to escape together.
More kids just like me who have been treated beyond the point of humane all for 'science'.
But I am in a different area unlike the others, I have multiple elemental powers, ones that have no point of control. Well, more like two, (That I know of) but that's what it is the hardest to escape like the others.
Because of that, I have been placed in a more secure 'holding cell' that is right besides some others of similarity.
The research papers littered Youkai's office that was right above mine on the building floor, his constant self-talk was almost maddening to listen to.
I was already sure he had gone mad.
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Yup, that's all I've been labeled as: 'The Girl With Powers'
Not even my own goddamn name:
Ristu Reyusuke.
It has been a while since Youkai has captured anyone. I hope he has given up. What he is planning is stupid. He wanted us for information but has collected none in the eight years we have had the 'powers'.
I hope he stops hurting good people.
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"What time does your school let out, Kashi?" My mom asked me as I put away a plate.
"Around two-thirty," I say as I hang up the towel.
"Why?" I immediately ask.
Mom begins to grin, her white hair starting to fall on her face.
"Wait, what are you planning?" I say and grin with her.
Sometimes she would plan things behind my back and surprise me. What makes it funny is that she is not a good liar.
"Nothing." She said as she played with her hair in between her fingers, looking down only to look back up at me with an almost shy expression. We both start laughing. She always would do that whenever she lied. I loved it when I felt like I could talk to anyone like this, and not just my friends...
CRASH!
That was the sound of the white plate with gold riming's that was left crashing to the floor and shattering into a million pieces.
The whole house started to shake violently.
The house shook enough to knock things over. Odd for a place like here.
I could hear a loud sound of what could be a car radio, though none of the current neighbors we had were ever that loud.
As sudden as it was, as soon as it started, it ended.
I looked around the house, realizing that everything was okay. The front door swung open and slammed into our wall. And through the dust that was brought up, a figure of a person stood inside of the doorway, one that came into view pretty quickly
"I'm back." He said, exaggerating the "a". I knew exactly who it was. Youkai stood in our doorway holding what looked to be a gun. And just when I thought he would stop capturing us.
Well, that's what I deserve for being an optimist.
He eyeballs my mother, his stare was almost like they had some dark secret that they had been keeping- though they had never really met until right now. And from everything that I could observe, this was a really confusing form of déjà vu for the three of us and I couldn't quite grasp how.
What does he want with her?
