The Father I Haven't Seen In Eight Years

. Chapter one - the father I haven’t seen in 8 years

I am Ken, Ken Tatsura. As a child, I was abused by my father, Lin Tatsura, both physically and mentally. The physical abuse was worse than the mental abuse, but I never truly felt pain until my 10th birthday, when my father decided to gauge my left eye out. “You, your mother, and your sister before she left are all useless!” Those were the last words I heard from my father before he left. Although he was right, I was useless. In this world, every kid that is born has an 80 percent chance of gaining powers, known as an ability, I was of the 20 percent that didn’t gain powers. Some people use their ability for good, and are known as “hero’s,” and some people use their ability for evil, and are known as “monsters.” When my father left, I thought my pain was over, since I still had my mother, at least, until I became 12, 2 years later, I had awoke at 7 AM on a Sunday, and my mother wasn’t in the house, and I walked outside to see her running, I don’t know what it was, but she was stressed. The last words I heard her say were, “Ken! Run! He’ll get you next!” After she said those words, a huge, and I mean huge, hand tore through her stomach. When I saw that, I ran away, for my life, until I reached an alleyway, where the strange man didn’t see me. I was all alone now, with no family, my sister had suddenly disappeared when I was 9, and I never saw her again. The next morning I ran straight to an orphanage, and lived there for the next 6 years. Now I am 18, and work at a grocery store to keep up with rent at an apartment.

I was trying my best not to fall asleep when I hear my name at the other side of the counter, “Hey, Ken. It’s been, what, 8 years?” I look up and see someone I had never before seen. “Who the hell are you?” I ask. “Lin Tatsura, your father,” the man says. My eyes widen, he looks completely different from 8 years ago, “Father, what do you want?” He then says, “I don’t know what I want, perhaps I want…” he paused, then says, “to have a second chance as your father.”

I look at him, surprised, before I laugh, bitterly, “A second chance? Yeah right! I’m not falling for your manipulation again! Now, if you aren’t buying anything, get out!” My father went from a little happy to hurt, he turns around, and leaves, the next customer walks up to me, wearing a hood, he doesn’t say anything, he just places a gun and bullets on the table, wanting to buy it, I become fearful, but scan his items and he leaves, a few hours later, I get paid and leave to my apartment, but when I get to my apartment room, 249, I see an eviction notice. I look down into my wallet and see that I don’t have enough money to stay at any other apartment complex, so I go around, knocking on people’s door, hoping they let me stay for a few days, but everyone says no, until I run into that same hooded man, and he says, “Yea, go ahead, make yourself at home.” I thank him and run inside, I first go to his guest room, for me, and place my stuff down, then I go explore, I explore the entire house until I get to his basement, and I go down just to see broken glass, blood, and that gun he bought.

I am shook at the glass and blood, when the guy suddenly comes down, and he removes his hood, revealing a man in his 50s, maybe even 60s, and he says, “Did I say you could go down here?” He then suddenly kicks me down against the wall and grabs the gun, shooting at me. My eyes are closed, so I don’t see anything, the only thing I hear is the bullet, and someone jumping in front of me, I feel blood on my face, I open my eyes and see… My father. My eyes widen in shock and my father then says to the old man, “Still the same person as ever, I see, father.” He then falls to the ground, dead. I am shook, the man who just killed my father, and is trying to kill me, too, is my grandfather? I rush to my father’s side, trying to wake him, when another bullet fires, straight into my head.

Every person in the world who’s ever gotten shot in the head dies immediately, I don’t know why I’m different, because it took five minutes to die. When I finally lost consciousness, I awoke, in an abyss, the only thing I see is a man, who looks like he’s around 90, he says, “I am your great grandfather, Yusho Tatsura, here’s a little secret, not super secret, but you’re the second person in this entire family line to not have a power, every man in this family has had a power passed down onto them, it’s more so known as ‘The Ring’, as this family likes to call it. You and your father are the only people who don’t have it, the way it works, you won’t be able to control it yet, but it gets its name, ‘the ring’, because a ring surrounds your body and you turn into a… a demon, none of them have names, so I’d like you to name them yourself, but every man has a different ‘demon’ they turn into, I will be passing down my power onto you, you’ll be the first person known to this family to have the same ‘demon’ as someone else in the family.” I try to say something but I can’t speak.

Slowly, I open my eyes, and see my grandfather walking out of the basement. I see a bright glow around my body, and I’m being surrounded by rings. My grandfather looks back at the light, to see me, slowly getting up. The rings completely cover my body and I see nothing but blue. A slight pain goes through my body, and I slowly grow to more arms, and a third eye in the middle of my chest, and my shirt suddenly rips up. The rings disappear and I am face-to-face with my grandfather.

“I see you’ve finally gotten an ability,” He says, “I recognize your demon, it’s my fathers. He must be vastly disappointed in me. But he’s not the point.” My grandfather raises a hand up, and fire starts emerging from his finger. “Ability: Gun of Fire.” The fire from his finger shoots at me, and I dodge the bullet. “This is insane!” I yell, “You’re my grandfather?! And you’re trying to kill me?! Why?!” He says nothing, just keeps shooting fire at me. Eventually, I  do end up getting hit, and I get thrown down to the floor. Then he finally speaks again, “Yes, I’m your grandfather. And yes, I’m trying to kill you. But why? You don’t need to know why.” He points at me again, fire emitting from his finger. He’s about to shoot me when a regular bullet goes through his forehead.

“Take that, father.” My grandfather's dead body falls into my lap, and I see my father, but now he looks like when I saw him 8 years ago again. “F-father!” I yell, “But, How?” My father looks at me with boredom, “It's my ability, inherited from your grandfather. I come back to life. Everyone who inherits this ability has a different change. For me, I change personality and appearance. Your grandfather, he gets stronger.” I look a bit shocked, “So, he’ll come back? And stronger?” He sighs, “Yes, but we don’t need to worry about that right now, get up, and get his head off your lap before he bleeds so much they think you're on your period.” He gets up, and I do too. We both walk out of the basement.

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