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Breaking the Barrier
An Anime by: Michael Phillips
1.
The morning was beautiful. It was around noon in Tokyo Square, the lilac and Roses were in bloom with the lotus and cherry trees in full bloom. The petals of the plants and trees littered the ground, giving almost a regal attribute to the sidewalks and streets. The Shops were a flurry of Commotion; people shoulder to shoulder each one with their own specific activity of the day. The Sun was gleaming through the broken cloud’s smiling to rest of the day at hand, reflecting off the cars, street lights, and windows. Some people sat under the Giant Ash tree in the square eating their quick stop lunches, others simply were sitting on the grassy Hill and stone steps leading to the Temple. One such person was Johnathan Michael Kiseragi.

The Youth was smug. The smile on his face, the closed eyes, and the Pink Cherry-cotton candy flavored bubblegum that he was Loudly popping bubbles with. His Blue hair shimmered in the partial light that came in through the Cherry and Lotus trees each strand just hugging his face enough to give it a sharp and defined look. Soon he layed back onto the grass and put his hands behind his head for a pillow. His uniform though, that was a dead giveaway. He was a truant from Kinotomi High school for boys. The older men going to the temple were shouting at him, everyone could hear them, except Johnathan. He had his headphones on max volume blaring out ‘move your body’ by Eiffel 65. one of the older men had rolled up a newspaper and was heading over to Johnathan when the bell rang at the High school. The old man just shook his fist at him for being lucky. Johnathan could feel the vibrations of the bell ringing and stood, shutting off his CD player and dusting himself off.

“Another day wasted… thank the Gods.”

He gave a small laugh and a stretch, immediately giving a slow chase to the old men walking the steps. Johnathan watched everything closely. Everything, no matter how small, held beauty. He was an artist, always had been. Even the teachers he hated at School told him he had talent that needed to attention. Sadly, he was a juvenile delinquent. He preferred to waste days looking at clouds, and wondering how exactly he would paint them later tonight. About five minutes later, he reached the temple. The beautiful cherry wood temple was on a four-foot leg rise covered by the canopy of the Cherry and lotus trees surrounding it. The trinket counter was on the left outside the temple because selling in the temple was forbidden.

“Thanks…”

Johnathan said gently as he purchased a small charm for luck. Putting it around his neck and tucking it into his shirt, he removed his shoes and took a step into the temple, then knelt. The Temple was sacred to him. Anymore, no one really believed in what the temples stood for, but cloud knew, in his heart of hearts, that something had to be right for as old as it was. His mind wandered as he knelt and prayed. He lit the sacred candles, and closed his eyes chanting. He quite literally, except for the priest, was the only person in there because everyone else came for the trinkets of cheap metal outside. Yes, he liked how they looked, but he really did not hold much store in them.

“Johnathan, I have not seen you for some time…”

A voice from behind Johnathan chimed. Johnathan gave a small smile, his rather large earphones clunking about around his neck. He gently stood after completing his prayer; the dim light from the candles was now emitting a rather calming shadow about the room. He about faced on his heel and bowed to the Priest.

“I’m sorry Priest Jumi… I…”

Johnathan broke his chain of thought a moment. No one, not even the priest, could know what had been going on the last two weeks. School, women, So many things ran through Johnathan’s mind at that moment. The Breaker Children… so many of them emerged at once, the news reports, the fear, the excitement, and the anger.

“ Is the latest news troubling your soul my child?”

Johnathan simply nodded. The priest extended his hand to Johnathan a moment and Johnathan without a second thought took it. Things had become so hard for Johnathan to understand, and now the news was making things harder. They traveled down the hallway, step by calm step, each of them staying silent for the moment. Entering the back room that said “private” on it, they knelt at the table inside and shut the screen door.

“It’s horrible how they’re treating these Young Teens…”

Johnathan said pointing to the TV on in the corner. On Channel 9, the news channel for Tokyo, the latest and most dramatic things were unfolding. The arrests of over forty Young Teens from Kinotomi High, along with the bordering schools, were in the process of happening. These ‘threats’, as they were called now, to Tokyo had to be ‘contained’.

“It is typical for the masses to think irrationally when new things face them”

Priest Jumi said looking down at the table. Johnathan had something on his mind, and he was having a hard time with it, Jumi could tell. Neither spoke for a moment again. Each one avoiding eye contact. Johnathan rung his hands together under the table, hoping to just disappear right now, alas though, it never happened. Finally, Priest Jumi looked up.

“Please, speak your mind young Child, I shall not be judgmental.”

At this point, Johnathan’s walls fell. He set his CD player and headphones on the table, a sign of concede for Johnathan. He looked up, brave as he could, but still scared and spoke very lowly.

“ Their blaming the hospital for contamination with radiation to the children born sixteen years ago Jumi… that's not it. It is evolution; it is a leap too. We are people just like everyone else, but they are treating us like horrible creatures. I am worried though, because inside every good person is just that, a horrible creature. If they find an unstable person with these powers…”

Priest Jumi held his hand up, silencing Johnathan for a moment. He shook his head and nodded understanding already what Johnathan was about to say.
“It is bound to happen…absolute power corrupts absolutely Johnathan. It is only a matter of Time…”

Johnathan nodded sipping his tea quaintly for a moment only to put on his Headphones. Jumi knew well enough, once the Headphones were on, he was defensive again. Johnathan had been scared lately, and Jumi did not understand why.

“Johnathan…”

Jumi paused. Johnathan’s head lept up with a bewildered, almost a lost mock glare.

“Yes Priest Jumi?”

Jumi stood, Johnathan immediately acknowledged with a small nod. It was an unspoken fatherly relationship, and so it was treated as such. Jumi led the train, always, and Johnathan kept the right side, always.

“Your Tree has flourished Johnathan, it is our biggest Lotus tree in the orchard.”

Jumi said slipping his sandals on and went Down the steps, onto the soft gravel path, while Johnathan took his time leaving the room. Leaving his CD player on the table, he made the decision to get up and follow Jumi. Johnathan once again was off in his own little world, his hair falling in his face as he looked down slipping on his shoes. He shook odd feeling quickly and ran to catch up tripping on the final step a moment.

“Your off balance again… you’ve been skipping school haven’t you?”

Johnathan saw it coming, the lecture of yin and Yang. He knew it, forwards and back, and the other way around; inside and out, and in three languages too.

“The world is made of balance. Good versus Evil, justice versus injustice, Yin and Yang. Without one, the other would destroy itself by shear loneliness and corruption.”

Johnathan just kept nodding trying to get this over with as soon as possible, Priest Jumi just gave a small laugh at his memorization (made obvious by his lips mocking word for word priest Jumi’s words). Johnathan’s attention was everywhere, the birds in the swaying branches, the beautiful breeze with the crystal blue sky, and the sound of the gravel under their feet. It was so peaceful; Johnathan could feel himself relax, it was a wave calm coming over him, then everything stopped. Things got Eerily quiet; the quiet was then followed by a loud, Destructive Crash. The temple gave a creek and groan from the shake that hit it. Johnathan looked at Jumi, then to the road, and with a split decision, ran to the Front of the Temple. Johnathan bounded down the stone steps of the Temple and froze midway in his tracks.

“ In the Name of all things holy…”

Johnathan’s hair fell into his face; the power felt was all around Tokyo square, people were running, hiding in terror. The shops had been broken into, cars were flipped onto their tops and in the middle of it, all was single Brown haired boy, his hands glowing an odd purple. Johnathan looked to the boy, taking one step at a time towards the lad. The boy looked up and Johnathan immediately recognized him as Koji Suramoto, a freshman at Kinotomi High school.

What is he doing? How is he doing it…

“Johnathan… help me…”

The look on Koji’s face was heartbreaking. The sadness, the tears, the desperation, and the sobbing…

“Please Johnathan!”

The young man Koji was crying uncontrollably now. Johnathan kept his slow pursuit forward with one cautious step after another. Koji hit his Knees and placed his hands on the ground. The purple light from his hands were like vipers, filling every small crack in the street causing the Ground to rumble more, and around Johnathan, the pieces of Street were floating with the same strange Aura.

“Koji! Calm Down!”

Sadly, Johnathan’s voice was quickly muffled as the ground broke under him. Car alarms began to sound, people were screaming, and almost as if they anticipated this to happen, the newly formed BCA, or Breaker Containment Agency, swarmed the entire square.

I need My Music…

Johnathan was afraid, but despite his feet feeling like lead, he ran back into the temple for his CD player and headphones. Each step was precious, if he did not hurry they were either going to Kill Koji, or be killed. Johnathan remembered the first broadcast of the Breaker Children ever:

- Today is a tragic milestone in history. Today, at Five forty-seven in the afternoon, a sophomore at Kinotomi high school was Shot through the heart to neutralize what could only be described as his uncontrollable Powers. Three other people are dead today due to this incident when their Heart exploded in their chests. Witnesses of the incident said a strange distortion to the things around the Student could be seen. We can only hope that this is just some sort of scientific problem…

Just like that, Johnathan was there, In the Private room, looking down at the Cherry oak wood table with his Music on it. He shook his head, thinking, just for a second that he must have just blanked. That had to be it, no one can move that fast… well almost no one.

“I can not deny what I am anymore… if I do, they might kill him.”

He gave a long sorrow filled glance to his music a moment, and then placed the headset on over his ears. Pushing the play button, the song “ Going under” by an American band called ‘evanescence’ came into his ears. Soon he was leaping and bounding quickly down the stone steps; finally, about half way down, he gave a bounding jump off the stone steps into the square. There was a circular bust in the cement under his feet; he had not realized he had jumped from over seventy feet from the top of the hill down into the courtyard. Looking at himself a moment, in complete disbelief of what was going on, he took a fighting stance.

“Koji, direct it at me…”

Koji looked at Johnathan for a moment, and then shook his head.

“No! I don’t want to hurt you!”

Johnathan could not hear Koji, could he? He had no choice now, he dashed at him, and with a black aura covered fist, planted a firm right hook into Koji’s nose Bridge. Johnathan was trying to get him mad, mad enough he just might fight back. Johnathan, just before he was thrown into the front wall of the general store, realized his plan had worked just a little to well. With a sickly wet Thud, he hit the ground. His entire back was bleeding, he could not see straight, but he could see the black Aura around his hands. Video games, it was the first thing that came to his mind. What would he do in video game? Projectiles yes that was it! Johnathan stood wearily and faced Koji once more. The face, that is what scared Johnathan more than anything was Koji’s face. Koji had turned into an Animal, a blank, rage filled stare that would Haunt Johnathan forever.

“Koji, I know we don’t know each other very well, but you have to calm down!”

Johnathan Leapt to the side barely dodging a running punch from Koji that decimated the wall behind Johnathan. It was then Johnathan Realized he would not win, it was too much power. Once again, he was charged at, but this time he had nowhere to go. With desperation, he put his hand in front of him, bracing with his other hand on the wrist, and almost instinctively blasted Koji in the face. Koji fell to the ground, his scrawny body falling to the ground, his hair completely burnt off, and his face black. Johnathan jumped to his feet and felt for a pulse, luckily, Koji was still alive. The noise, it was getting louder. The people talking, the sirens, and the cocking of pistols was heard.

“He’s one of them too! Fire at will, fire at will!”

That feeling of wanting to disappear again came, except this time, it happened. Johnathan was somewhere, surrounded by blackness, nothing but blackness. Next to him was the unconscious Koji, breathing rhythmically, a good sign. Then as quick as he had gotten into the blackness, He was behind the temple. From the bright moon shining down on him, Johnathan could tell it was about midnight. Koji still was next to him, but he began to stir and moan.

“Johnathan… Why… Why did you hurt me like that?”

Koji said, coming back to the conscience world. Johnathan looked down at him, still in Johnathan’s arms. Johnathan just shook his head and set Koji against a tree.

“I had too… you would have killed all those people Koji. I had to get you too direct everything at me, not them…”

Koji looked at Johnathan in disbelief, not quite wanting to accept the power he had unwilling unleashed. The dew on the trees was beginning to form, the cold was hitting their bodies, but they seemed to leave it, unnoticed. It was then Johnathan realized something, they were not just ignoring it, they could not feel it. They were so cold it was actually a little warm to them. Johnathan began to look around, for some sign of the place around them being warm, but there were flakes of snow in the air, and icicles! Was it that cold in that dark place they went?

“Johnathan…”

“Yea?”

“Thanks… I didn’t want to hurt anyone…really”

“I know Koji, c’mon lets get you home…”

Johnathan thought about that a moment. He frowned thinking about it himself now, they could not go home…where could they go?

“We can’t…”

Johnathan could tell Koji’s mind was on the same track now.

“I know…”

“Where can we go then?”

“I don’t really know…”

It was then the entire area filled with beautiful dragonflies, thousands of them, all glowing in the dim full moon. The smell of Lavender and lilacs, along with the lotus trees, filled the air around them; it was calming, relaxing. Johnathan wearily stood, neither knew what to think.

“There is always someone to turn to boys…”

The voice was angelic, soft-spoken, and yet very stern. Years of wisdom could be heard in the eight words the woman spoke. Johnathan did a quick spin to face her, quite literally nose to nose. She gave a smile, her face rather gothic in nature. Purple lipstick, purple eyeliner, crystal blue eyes with very light cloud blue hair going just to her shoulders in a very spiked out nature. Her hands were in fishnet all the way into her blouse shirt that seemed almost Victorian/Elizabethan. She had a long black dress on, Cloud immediately thought a gothic Alice in Wonderland. She Kissed Johnathan on the nose and gave a rather demonic giggle

“Hello…”

Johnathan could help but take a step back, he had no idea where she had come from, nor if she was a threat or not. Koji tried to get to his feet, but sadly stumbled down again, the pain was still very real in his body from His and Johnathan’s previous engagement.

“You’re a Shadow dancer aren’t you…”

Johnathan looked utterly clueless to her, he had no idea what he was anymore.

“You are! I can tell…”

She gave that same evil Giggle.

“Who are you?”

It was not a question; it was a demand on Johnathan’s part. His logic was, if she was going to kill him, he might as well know who to haunt forever…

“My Name is Komi Wotai…”

Johnathan immediately recognized the name. He had remembered the newscast over a month ago about a missing girl of the very prestigious Wotai family.

- This evening, the daughter to the fortune of the Wotai family, Komi Wotai, disappeared. A kidnapping is believed to be the problem. The search for the daughter will begin tomorrow afternoon after everyone in the immediate family in this region is questioned. The number one suspect is an uncle by the name of Kunai. Interestingly enough, as you all, I am sure, have noticed is that his name is fashioned after the historically famous assassin blade, the Kunai. The uncle showed up over two weeks ago, and has been seen carrying around a wooden sword on his back horizontal to the ground in a leather sheath. If you see this man, call the police immediately

“Your… you’re the missing girl aren’t you?”

She smiled and nodded.

“Yes, I am. However, I am not missing, I am running.”

Johnathan looked at her quizzically, looking for some kind of answer. Why was she running away? Why would anyone want to run from that kind of lifestyle? Johnathan jumped back about three feet looking at the man behind her come from a thick area in the Lotus trees. His gruff appearance looked rather frightening at first. His face and neck had very fine scars on them, each one looked like a blade cut. The wooden sword on his back was the give away.

“You’re Kunai Motamori aren’t you?”


Kunai nodded softly, he was a gentle man, but rather…well scary. He wore the outfit of an assassin, and it was obvious from his emotionless face that just might be his job… Johnathan gave a brief look into his eyes; they were like staring into a mirror, seeing nothing but a reflection.

“What’s it to you…”

That voice, ran a definite chill into Johnathan’s entire body, Koji, who had stayed quiet most of this time gave a squeak. Johnathan looked back and helped Koji up to his feet.

“Is he alright?”

Wotai asked Johnathan looking rather concerned.

“No, he probably is hurt rather badly, but we have no where to go…”

She shook her head.

“I told you, there is always somewhere to go.”

Kunai looked over to him and cocked his head telling them to follow. Koji was limping badly, and Johnathan was having a hard time walking a straight line, he probably broke something, but right now, any help was good help.

“You see, there is a place for us…and there are more of us than you realize Mr. Kiseragi…”

Johnathan looked shocked.

“I never told you my name…”

She grinned

“You didn’t have too.”

She pointed to her head a few times with a smirk, Johnathan immediately understood that she was a telepath. Koji was having a hard time staying awake, Johnathan knew they had to hurry.

A bit confusing with names, but very good!

oh my! i didn't realize i had kept switching names! sweatdrop i get so caught up in writing my brain overrides my thoughts sometimes.

once i can find some time to sit down i'll be able to write more. thank you everyone for your input! 3nodding