Elementis: When Fates Align...

Chapter One: I'm Gonna Be A Hero?

⚠️TW death of a family member⚠️
Side note: italics are Suhans inter thoughts and Bold Italics are Future Suhan's comments...

"In here! They're in here!" I heard the shouts. The firefighters were here. It's over, we're saved.

"Help us please..." I groaned. My back was killing me. The searing pain of the heat burning into my flesh was almost making me see colors. I heard a loud bang and looked down at my little sister.

"They can save us." That's when everything went black...

When I awoke I was in an ambulance wrapped in a blanket with an oxygen mask. I couldn't see my little sister but I saw a bag. It had a body in it, a small one. Dread filled my body. A tall firefighter came over to talk to my parents who were standing over me to the left. How had I not noticed them before?

"From what we could tell the fire started in the five-year-old's room. Somewhere on the bed." My gut dropped. My bed, I started the fire? "The two-year-old girl, from what we can tell, was in the bed with your daughter. As smart as she was, your daughter fought fire with fire and created a wall of fire to stop the fire from reaching her younger sister. Unfortunately, the added heat was too much for the two-year-old. And she died from heat exhaustion and a stroke, but was unscathed by the fire."

The words hit me like a truck. I failed. I failed to save my baby sister. I'm the reason she's dead. My mother spoke up first.

"So not only did this dreadful beast cause the fire but she failed to save the life of the sister she deliberately put in danger?!"

"Now ma'am... you have to realize your daughter's age and experience. She did her best to save that little girl. You can't expect a five-year-old to account for every situation. She did the what she could—"

"But it still wasn't enough, was it?!" She yelled this time, turning her attention to me. "IT WASN'T ENOUGH YOU LITTLE MONSTER!!" She lunged for me. My dad grabbed her while the firefighter stood in front of me. "YOU STUPID USELESS MONSTER YOU KILLED HER!!" I started to cry. My sobs ricocheted through my body.

"I'm sorry!"

"YOU KILLED HER YOU BITCH YOU KILLED MY BABY!" Dad's grip tightened as mother tried even harder to reach me.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," I whispered. I wanted to die that night. I shouldn't have survived.

...

That was 7 years ago today. And here I am... still not dead... at a post office of all the fucking places to be.

"Hi box 439."

"Suhan Taniguchi...." I looked up at the post office lady. She's wearing a slightly disapproving slightly concerned look on her pointy face. "What are you doing here... Another letter from the pen pal?" I smiled a very fake smile.

"Something like that." She frowned and went to grab my mail. She came back with a yellow parcel and a letter.

"I'm worried about you sweetie. How old are you?"

"I'm 12."

"You've been coming here for 4 years, which means you were 8 when you first started coming here." She had me there, but what was I supposed to do? Tell her and Hero Protective Services that my parents hated me so much that I'm living on the other side of town from them in a small apartment alone. So the only reason I received these parcels are for money and letters of updates of their lives. I'm not allowed to write back or anything just have to hear about their rich fancy lives. Yeah hi I was basically abandoned by my family because they can't stand to look at me, but I'm doing fine.