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The apartment is dark a little too dark and there isn't anybody else in the apartment except a three year old Haruno Shiobana and he is scared that his mother won't come back home.
It has been two hours or maybe six hours since Haruno's mother left the house and Haruno was trying not to cry.
His mother hates kids that cry.
Instead of crying he was biting his finger and trembling and he was doing that for hours. It hurts, it hurts so much the feeling of a sharp fang, his fang biting down his own finger was painful but better than crying because crying was useless for Haruno it only made things worse.
Every time even a single teardrop came from Haruno's eye his mother would stay out of the house longer. The times when his mother says anything to him is just her saying stuff like ‘shut the fuck up or I will be out of the house for six hours’ or saying that he was a mistake, useless, wortles and a waste of time.
More time has passed and Haruno's finger is bleeding from the biting. Haruno can taste the blood comeing from his finger and the blood tastes like blood but for some reason good?
Haruno hears the apartment door opening and his mother walks in and she looks tired, maybe the most tired Haruno has seen her in his life. Haruno's mother ignores his presence in the apartment like always and walks over to her bed. She collapses on her bed and falls asleep easily.
An hour has passed and Haruno is feeling tired and he tries to go to sleep as well but he can not fall asleep. For some reason Haruno can never fall asleep easily. It's properly because he's afraid that his mother will be gone when he wakes up in the morning.
Eventually at some point Haruno fell asleep.
Haruno woke up to his mother cursing in the kitchen. Haruno couldn't hear what his mother was cursing at but she didn’t sound happy.
She never did.
Haruno stayed in his bed and waited for his mother to come to the bedroom to pick him up from his bed.
He waited for like 20 minutes and his mother was still in the kitchen. Haruno decided to get out of his bed himself but it wasn't easy because he was in a crate bed. And crate beds were the worst. And crate beds look like a cage with no roof and with a madrees for a floor and that makes it harder to get out. Luckily for Haruno the bed's railing was low enough for Haruno to get over it.
Haruno got over the railing and he was holding on for dear life on the railing. But he wasn't strong enough to hold on to the railing and he fell to the floor. He hit his head on the ground and he almost started crying.
He heard footsteps, they were his mother's footsteps. “what the hell was that sound!?” he could hear his mother from the other room and she didn't sound happy.
Haruno's mother came into the room and said something to Haruno that Haruno didn't listen to because he was too focused to not cry.
Then Haruno's mother put him in front of the tv and then she put on some children's show so that Haruno doesn't disturb her. And then she went back to the kitchen. For Haruno this is the normal morning routine. He already knew that his mother was making food for herself and something small for him and then she would leave it on the counter for him. Then she would leave the house and then Haruno would be all alone for the rest of the day.
It didn't take that long for his mother to leave home to go to work.
Some time had passed and Haruno was hungry. He made his way to the kitchen to get something to eat. Haruno saw the food that his mother left him but it was out of reach for him. Haruno tried his hardest to reach for the food.
He couldn't reach the food.
After trying for some time Haruno gives up and goes to see if he finds something else to eat. But he doesn't find anything so he goes back to watching tv.
After watching kid shows for hours Haruno started to wonder.
Does everybody else have a loving family or are loving families only in shows for kids?
And if everybody else has a loving family why doesn't he have one?
In the shows he watched every character's mothers were nice and loving to their children. But why was his mother cold and mean to him?
Haruno took the remote and changed the channel to some nature document. Haruno was excited that the document was about frogs. Haruno liked frogs and other animals and bugs. He thought that animals like sharks, seals, cats and all the other animals in the world were awesome. But his favorite animals were frogs and his favorite bugs were ladybugs but butterflies were also cool but he liked ladybugs more. So he was very happy watching the document and he hoped that his mother would come after the document ended.
For some reason his mother didn't like the documents he was watching. He didn't understand why she didn’t like the nature documents. Because to Haruno nature documents were the best thing to watch on the tv.
Haruno had a fun time watching the document and he learned more facts about frogs and some new species of frogs that he didn't know. There was going to be a document of the animals of the amazon rainforest but he didn't get to see more than two minutes of the document because Haruno heard his mother outside of the apartment door.
Before his mother could come back inside the apartment Haruno quiqly changed the channel back to the kids shows his mother put on before she left the house.
His mother enters the apartment and ignores Harunos existens in the apartment and went to the bedroom to change to the clothes she wore to the clubes she went to during the time she left Haruno alone in the apartment.
She came back and went to the kitchen to make food for herself. Then she noticed that the little bit of food she left for Haruno was still on the counter. She didn’t look very happy about it.
“do you fucking think wasting food is a fun way to pass your time? You think that food is free? Is this what you fucking do after I spent my time making you food and giving you a roof over your head!? Do you want to be fucking homeless?” she shouted.
Haruno started to cry, he didn't like it when somebody shouted.
He did something bad
“stop fucking crying and tell me why you didn't eat the food I gave you” she was shouting even more.
He didn't mean to
“I am sorry mama.” he cried
“I-I didn't eat the food you made me b-because I wasn't able to reach it.” He was crying and stuttering now and he knew that his mother won't like that
“c-can you put the food s-somewhere where I can reach it next time p-please?” he stuttered while speaking to his mother. He didn't know why he always stuttered while he talked to her. Was it fear that made him stutter? He didn't know.
“no” she said coldly
“I think I won't. starting from tomorrow you can only get food when I get back home from work and only then. But if you behave I will give you something small before I leave the house after work.”
“Do you understand Haruno?” she asked
“y-yes mama”
“good, go back to watching those stupid kid shows and you are not getting any food for the rest of the day”
Haruno went back to the TV and continued to watch the kid shows. And he could only think ‘are happy families only in kid shows or does everyone else have happy families? But why didn't he have a happy family? Did he do something to deserve this?’
Some time had passed and his mother was leaving to go partying again and Haruno was left home alone again. His mother put him in his bed and before she left.
Haruno was hungry, he hadn't eaten in a long time. He hoped that when his mother would come back he would maybe get some food if he asked her. He had hoped that his mother wasn't making the rule that he could eat only when she came back home from work. But he was wrong.
After hours Haruno's mother came back home and Haruno was starving at that point.
“mama, can I have something to eat? I haven't eaten anything in a long time”
“are you fucking stupid? I clearly said to you that you can only get food when I come back home from work. Did you think that you can get food when I get back home from parting?” she shouted.
Haruno started to cry. He was in pain from eating nothing for a long time.
“stop fucking crying, your fine” she shouted
“are you trying to make my life miserable?” she shouted louder
“I-I'm sorry mama”
“and so you know I didn’t fucking want you. You were the worst thing that happened to me. Your luckily that I didn't leave you in the fucking streets”
“I-I'm s-sorry mama”
“shut the fuck up and don't talk to me. You are wasting my time”
Haruno wanted to be loved by his mother like the kids in the kid shows he has seen. But every time he tried not to be a burden to his mother she still didn't show any love for him.
When Haruno turned four his mother married an Italian man. Haruno and his mother were moving to a place where everyone spoke italian.
At first Haruno didn't know what was happening. One second he was outside of the apartment that had been cleared from all the stuff that he and his mother owned. And then he was somewhere he didn't know and saw his mother in a white dress and some man next to her in a suit. Both of them looked happy and he didn't know why.
Then the man started to walk over to him.
“Haruno, could you come with me to your mother?” the man spoke
“the man over there is going to take a picture of us three” as he pointed his finger to the direction where there was somebody holding a camera
Haruno nodded and followed the man to take the picture. Haruno thought that the man was nice. Unlike his mother he didn't yell at him.
Haruno got to know that man was going to be his step father. Haruno was happy at first because he thought he could at least have a loving father.
He was wrong about him being nice.
When he and his mother moved to his stepfather's house he got to know that he would have his own room. Haruno was happy about that and very grateful too.
His bedroom was small but it didn't bother him that much. The only thing that bothered him was the way the furniture in the room was put.
The bed was next to the window in a way that, if Haruno went to sit on the bed where his pillow would go, he would see out the window. Then the table in the room was next to the boor in a way, if Haruno opened the door it would hit the table. The only furniture
in the room that had a good spot was the closet, dresser and the bedside table. Well the bedside table was in the wrong spot with the bed but at least it was next to the bed.
Haruno decided to move the furniture in his room to better spots. First Haruno moved the table in front of the window and rotated the bed so that the bedframe is against the wall where the window is. Haruno was clad that there was enough space between the table and the bed for his bedside table.
It took a while for Haruno to move the furniture in his room. And after the hard work of moving the furniture he was happy with the result. Then he decided to go lay in his bed for the first time in his new home.
The bed was not the most comfortable bed but it was better than his old bed.
Haruno was tired. The move was a very tiring process. Moving stuff around and everything that was happening was confusing.
For Haruno the confusing part was when did his mother meet his stepfather? How did they meet? And why didn't he know anything about it before the move.
Before Haruno could think more about the move and the fact that he has a stepfather now he heard somebody coming up the stairs and coming towards his room.
The door opened.
It was his stepfather.
“Hey kid me and your mother are leaving the house for a little bit”
“okey”
Before his stepfather left he turned back and looked at Haruno in disgust.
“and don't leave your room while we aren't at home but you can only leave if you need to use the bathroom”
Then he left.
Haruno thought it was odd how his stepfather acted. It was strange that out of nowhere his stepfather didn't like Harunos presens. Before he and his mother moved his stepfather was nice to him. But why wasn't he nice at that moment? Did Haruno do something wrong? Haruno didn't know what he did wrong to make his stepfather mad at him.
After a few days Haruno got to know that his stepfather was only acting nice to him when his mother was around.
It was morning and Haruno was in the house with his stepfather. His mother left the house some time ago to go to something.
Haruno was getting a glass of water from the kitchen and accidently dropped the glass of water to the ground.
Then his stepfather was behind him. Before Haruno could notice him he hit Haruno with a belt in the back. After getting hit with a belt, Haruno's stepfather started shouting at him.
Haruno couldn't understand what his stepfather was saying to him because his stepfather was speaking italian and Haruno didn't understand that much of italian yet. But out of nowhere his stepfather called him a blood sucking vampire.
Haruno didn't understand why his stepfather called him that.
Was he a vampire? He did have two sharp front teeth and he does have pale skin and then after moving he found out that he got very badly sunburned when he was outside. But does that make him a vampire? Haruno couldn't think more about it because his stepfather was shouting more at him and hitting him with the belt harder.
“Are you listening to me? Wash the mess you made you useless brat”
“okey”
Then Haruno's stepfather hit him with the belt again
“you say yes sir when I fucking ask you to do something”
“y-yes sir”
Haruno started to wash the mess he made. He tried to glean the mess the best he can and thought he did a good job. But his stepfather didn't think the same as Haruno. Then his stepfather started to hit him even more with the belt and it hurt a lot and after it stopped Haruno got bruised very badly in his back.
Going to school wasn't easy for Haruno either. He got bullied a lot at school but at first it wasn't as bad as how he was treated at home but it got worse over time.
For some reason his very badly getting sunburned turned into him feeling very painful pain every time sunlight touched his skin. It kinda felt like he was set on fire without him even getting set on fire and also him getting very bad scars on the spots the sunlight touched. It took a long time for the scars to heal and if they were bad enough there would be a permined scar on his body.
Because of that Haruno started to wear clothes that covered most of his skin and also he started to use his yellow umbrella to avoid the sun.
At school Haruno's bullies noticed this.
“hey freak why the hell are you useing a umbrella when it's sunny” one of the kids said
“what are you a fucking vampire” as the kid said that he took Harunos umbrella.
It was unlucky for Haruno because that day Haruno was wearing a T-shirt instead of an long sleaved shirt.
Immediately after the umbrella was out of Haruno's hand he started to feel the awful pain in his arms, neck and face but mostly in his arms.
Haruno crouched down and tried to hide his arms from the sun as much as he could. Haruno's bullies noticed that he was in pain after the umbrella was out of his hand and then they started to make it so Haruno was in the sun as much as possible.
The kids that bullied him crapped and made him the sunlight in his arms, face and neck.
Haruno started to feel even more pain and it was properly the worst thing that had happened to him.
When the bell rang for the first class of the day Haruno's bullies stopped and ran away so they wouldn't get in trouble for being late to class.
Haruno was left on the ground.
Why did this have to happen to him?
It took some time for Haruno to get to class and Haruno was late for class and his teacher looked disappointed in him.
When he got to class all of his classmates looked at him weirdly and whispered to each other. Haruno didn't know what they were whispering about but he had a feeling they were whispering about him. It was properly about that he spoke Japanese and didn't know that much Italian or about the scars he had on his arms.
Some of his classmates properly saw him getting bullied and because of that he had no friends.
Why did this have to happen to him?
Haruno hates his school. None of the teachers didn't even care that people in the school were bullied and they were also mean to students that were not doing well in school. And Haruno was one of those students that the teacher didn't like.
Haruno's life got worse after moving and Haruno wished that his mother didn't meet his stepfather.
But Haruno's life got a little better after his mother got a call from someone that said that they were family to Haruno from his biological fathers side of the family tree.