Guardians

Chapter 2: Isuzu Sasori

There was lot of noise outside in the streets. I hoped that it isn't what I thought it is. By the time I got up and went up to the main door the commotion had grown large. As I opened the door and stepped outside I heard some people conversing among themselves..

#random person 1: who the hell did such a mischievous thing?

#random person 2: isn't it obvious? It's that damn brat again. Always creating some kind of ruckus, trying to get attention to himself with all these silly things .

As I continued to hear other discussing my fears were becoming true.
As I was searching for that kid, I saw that the streets of the capital 'Sagittarius' (capital of the constellation sect, one of the 8 sects of the world) were all filled with some silly cartoons painted on the walls, this confirmed my fears of who this kid was. After sometime of searching in the streets. I heard someone saying that the kid was caught by someone and he was tied up. I immediately headed towards that man's house.
When I reached that man's house, the whole place was crowded people were gathered near an electric pole near the house. After passing through the dense crowd and reaching the incident place I saw him, A noisy kid tied to a electric pole.
His name was Isuzu Sasori and unfortunately I happen to be his mother (yup! That noisy little brat is my one and only son).(Isuzu Sasori, a 16 years old teenage boy of average height, he had a spiky hair style and a band aid on his nose. He  was wearing a red colour hoodie and blue jeans). Sasori was being scolded by an old man (probably of age around 60's) first. The compound walls of houses with these silly cartoon drawings this was his 1000th of his stupid drawings on somebody else's wall and he is proud of this so called grafiti, I was getting tired to clean up his mess, sometimes I feel why can't Sasori be more like other kids why did he had to be so hyperactive and impulsive from the moment he was born with such things running in my mind I entered the scene where the old man was scolding my son.

#old man: Young man, you are in a lot of trouble.

#Isuzu umiko: excuse me! I am his mother. What happened? did he trouble you?

#old man: Miss! your son here has drawn some kind of crazy cartoon figures on my walls. This is not the first time he has done such things. I plan on complaining about him to the local police authorities.

#umiko: oh! Please can you overlook his mischief for this last time, I give you my word that this won't happen again. I will punish him myself this time.

#old man: hmm….. . Ok I will take your word this time  and leave him, However this better be the last time.

#umiko: You can count on that.

After the conversation with the old man the crowd starts to disperse. The old man also left us  alone.

Sasori looked up and grinned .

#umiko: seriously! This is the kind of behaviour I get for taking my eyes off you for only a few hours. You're gonna get a serious punishment for this.You're not gonna get off that easily this time.

#Sasori:Aw! Come on mom it's no big deal.

#Umiko: No! I am not gonna hear anymore excuses. Now for your punishment, you will have to do the household work for the entire time until your school starts again.

#Sasori: for the rest of my holidays?!

#Umiko: yes

#Sasori: That sucks.

#Umiko: well! you are the one who did this, so you are the one to suffer.

#Sasori: great!......

#Narrator( A role introduced from now on to describe and explain the scenes going on around the character who is in spotlight): umiko dragged Sasori back to home.....

#Sasori: My name is Isuzu Sasori, I live in the constellation sect, one of the 8 great sects, and this is the story of how I became the greatest guardian....
After reaching home My mom took me straight to our dinning hall and closed the door and started staring at me, I could feel all her anger just through her stare.

#Umiko: This is outrageous, why would you do such things behind my back. Can't you be a normal kid and study to become a great doctor or an engineer or something else. Why would you always go get yourself in some kind of trouble. Do you want to become something worthy in your life or not?

#Sasori: I didn't answer that question. I didn't know what to say , Infact I myself wasn't sure of my goal and my future , until now I just followed the path shown by my mother. It never crossed my mind about considering what I really wanted to do. I was unsure of what I wanted to do, The only thing I knew was that I didn't want to do anything regular, I wanted to do something cool. I was totally lost in these thoughts and totally forgot that my mom was standing right there.

#Umiko: Well?! Have you decided about what field are you gonna choose for your high school academics?

#Sasori: umm.... No.

#Umiko: Huh?! What do you mean 'no'?

#Sasori: I..... I'm not sure what I exactly wanna do.

#Umiko: You're kidding right, that's unbelievable. Every kid of your age has planned out his or her future and you're the only one who has no idea what to do.

I spoke to my mom keeping my voice low and avoiding eye contact with my mom.

#Sasori: it's not necessary that I should have a clear Idea, of what I should do in the future, just because everyone is having one.

#Umiko: HUH?! IT'S NOT NECESSARY? ARE YOU SAYING THAT IT IS OKAY FOR YOU TO STAY WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING FOREVER?

I was little annoyed about how she was taking the whole thing.

#Sasori: That's not what I meant, All I am saying is that just don't compare me with the others, just because they know what to do
Doesn't mean that I have to know too.

My mom was a little suprised at the way I talked back to her
Before talking again she calmed herself down.

#Umiko: Ok, I get it I won't compare you with the others and also I won't pester you about choosing a course . I will give you just one month time, you have to tell me before that about the decision, If you don't come up with a decision by then you will have to join a course of my choice. Is that clear?

#Sasori: What?! Why do you have to fix a deadline for that?

#Umiko: Because You don't have like 'forever' to make a decision every course is going to start at the end of two months from now and also it is the only way to make you serious about your future, If left free you will be busy drawing all those silly cartoons on others compound walls.

After she brought up the topic of my drawings, I just stopped arguing,  because I didn't want to make her more angry. According to me facing a volcanic eruption was more easier than facing my mom when she was angry.

#Sasori: Ok fine! I will tell you when I decide upon something.

Saying that I silently walked out of the hall , As I was going to wear my shoes and go outside, I heard my mom's voice again.

#Umiko: And also as a reward for the creativity on the compound wall of Mr. Yamanaka's house you will have to do the dishes for the whole week.

#Sasori:  Aww! Mom come on!

#Umiko: whatever you sow you shall reap.

#Sasori: great!

#Narrator: saying that Sasori tried to leave the room.

#Umiko: where are you going?!

#Sasori: Relax! Okay. I'm just going out for a walk.

#Umiko: Huh?! Do you understand your situation? You aren't going out right after you make a mess on somebody's wall.

#Narrator: Umiko seemed to know what was going to come now.

#Sasori: That's not some stupid mess, it's  graffiti okay? And I love doing that. I can't  understand why all of you seeing it just as some sort of scribbling, why can't you see the fun in it?

#Umiko: That's because it IS some sort of stupid scribbling and of all the people I especially can't see you wasting your precious time on this idiotic stuff. You should be focussing on your future and plan out your career.

#Narrator: Sasori gave an irritated look.

#Umiko: Anyways you can't go out till evening.

#Sasori: Awww! Come on you gotta be kidding.

#Umiko: No more arguments, Now go back to your room and start thinking about the field you want to choose for your college eduacation.

#Narrator: with a totally disappointed and somewhat irritated look, Sasori left the hall, started to climb the stairs right next to the hall's sliding door.

#Umiko: come down for lunch in 3hrs.

#Narrator: Sasori went back to his room without responding to his mother.
The whole house was left in silence throughout the afternoon. During lunch both of them did not talk to each other. Both of them finished their lunch silently, after lunch Sasori avoided eye contact with Umiko and quickly tried to go to his room while she was washing the dishes.
( imagine nobita's house in doreamon as Sasori's house).

#Umiko: Sasori...

#Narrator: Sasori stopped near the kitchen door, he seemed to know what his mom was gonna say, he regretted for stopping and listening to her.

#Sasori: Mhmm?

#Umiko: listen Sasori this can't go on forever, you have to decide quickly about what you are gonna choose for your further eduacation. You have 2 days from now to select a course of your own choice, if you don't decide by then then you have to enroll for whichever course I say. Is that clear?

#Narrator: Sasori resisted the urge to argue with his mother, he felt that it was pointless to argue, since his words were going to fall on deaf ears. He silently nodded and left the kitchen. He killed his leisure time in his room by laying on his bed and reading manga, after a while of reading manga he felt his eyes slowly getting heavy and after some time he was suddenly in floating in space, he looked around and found that view was quite ecstatic, as far as he could see the space was really colourful, he observed that in every direction it seemed like space was divided into different coloured areas, there were lots of coloured areas, some colours occupied more area in the space than the other colours. Suddenly he felt as if his view was being zoomed towards the yellow shaded part of the space, he realised that he was being pulled towards the yellow region, he entered the yellow region, after travelling in the same direction for a while he suddenly stopped at a spot. Sasori had no clue of what was going on, at first he thought that this was just a dream but after some time passed he felt as if this was all really happening, it didn't feel like a dream, he could feela and see everything very clearly there was no sort of confusion that he generally feels when he has dreams, he felt as if he was stranded in an unkown place which had no sign of life, except talking to himself he didn't know what to do or rather he could'nt do anything , after some time had passed he heard lots of sounds of explosions and also some kind of bashing sounds, he looked around to find out what was the source of the sounds, when he looked above him he saw that some kind of battle was raging on between two powerful fighters.
Normal beings wouldn't be able to track those fighters with their eyes, to the normal eyes it would seem like a battle between the sources of light and darkness. The battle was going on somewhere in another dimension (or a different universe) , called 'The energy domain', as the name suggested this universe has mixture of different cosmic energies (they have different colour shades) of different deities. The dark fighter and the light fighter seemed to be on equal terms. After a long barrage of attacks (both physical and energy based attacks) from both the sides. The fight started to seem ito reach its end.

#dark fighter: it seems that I've underestimated you, I never expected you to be this strong. But this time I refuse to be defeated by you, this time I will make sure to defeat you and absorb your energy.

#Narrator: saying that the dark fighter closed his eyes and started to concentrate, the light fighter took a defensive stance at a distance and started observing the dark fighter. After a moment or so the light fighter observed that a large amount of energy was accumulating around the dark fighter, the energy (black in colour) was so dense and strong that it was bending the light rays which were emanating from the energy that was surrounding the light fighter and were being sucked into the energy layer that was around the dark fighter. It was as if the dark fighter had created some sort of void around himself. The light fighter felt that he was going to be in trouble, he flew back some distance and started acumulating energy (orangish shade) in his two hands by placing them near his waist. The light fighter stood side ways keeping his hands in the same position and kept amassing lots of energy ( just like goku's kamehameha ). There was total silence in the atmosphere, after few moments the light fighter made his move.

#light fighter: don't know what you are upto, but this ends here, with this attack I am going to erase your existence completely. Take this SOLAR STORM BLAAAAST!!

#Narrator: The light fighter unleashed all the energy he had accumulated by moving his hands towards the dark fighter, the energy was travelling towards the dark fighter in form of a large beam. The dark fighter had anticipated this move, he didn't seem to be taken a back seeing such a large scale attack. Suddenly the dark energy cloak around the dark fighter thickened. When the light fighter's attack reached near the dark fighter, it suddenly deviated from its course and went into circles around the dark energy cloak of the dark fighter, slowly the attack which was moving in circles was absorbed by the dark energy cloak, the light fighter was surprised to see this, while sasori had a bizzare look on his face he didn't know whether he should be impressed of such feets or should he be scared. After a moment or two the attack of the light fighter was totally absorbed and the dark energy cloak around the dark fighter had dissipated, now it felt as if the dark fighter has the upper hand in the fight, he smiled wickedly, he now flew nearer to the light fighter and stood in front of him, it was as if he was mocking the light fighter. The light fighter was totally infuriated and started attacking the dark fighter by trying to land some punches and kicks on the dark fighter, which was not effective because it seemed that the dark fighter was able to deflect those attacks and defend against those attacks effortlessly. Slowly the light fighter seemed to loose his energy the orangish energy cloak around him also started to dissappear very quickly than it was supposed to, at a point it apppeared as if the light fighter's  energy was totally being drained by something, he continued attacking the dark fighter with a barrage of punches and kicks which were easily deflected by the dark fighter, it appeared as if the dark fighter was more faster than the light fighter, compared to him the light fighter was very slow. seeing this the light fighter was irritated.

#light fighter: Stop being a coward, come and show me what you got.

#Narrator: saying that the light fighter tried to land a punch on him, now the dark fighter instead of dodging it or deflecting it, he grabbed the fist  of the light fighter, the light fighter tried to punch him with the other hand which was also grabbed by the dark fighter. Now both of them were locked position. The dark fighter suddenly gave a wicked smile, after a moment or two he closed his eyes, the light fighter kept on trying to free his hand from the dark fighter's grip, they remained in the same position for few seconds then...

#dark fighter: you wanted me to show you what I was capable of right?, well! Here is a small sample for you.

#Narrator: The dark fighter moved his chest forward towards the light fighter, and then after few seconds a light was visible at the center of his chest, the light got bigger and brighter, the light fighter realized that the dark fighter was going to release an energy blast right at him, he struggled a lot and tried release himself from the grip of the dark fighter, but it was too late, the light got more bigger and brighter

#dark energy: here I think this was yours. BLAZAR BLAAAAST !

#Narrator: saying that the dark fighter produced a large energy blast wave (the energy blast wave was a lot similar to the stellar storm blast attack of the light fighter)  towards the light fighter. The light fighter was totally enveloped by the blast wave, the light produced by the blast wave was so bright that Sasori who was watching the whole thing couldn't see anything for few moments. After few moments the blast wave dispersed into the space and slowly it dissappeared. When the view was clear Sasori observed that there was nothing but dust particles in the place where the light fighter was there before, Sasori couldn't believe when he realised what had happened to the light fighter, the light fighter was reduced to nothing but dust. Sasori was terrified, he never saw a murder before, he never saw a person taking life of another person, he didn't no what to do, he started to freak out and started very long and deep breaths, While the dark fighter was laughing wickedly, after some time the dark fighter stopped laughing, he closed his eyes and started to talk to himself, A moment later Sasori realised that he was having some kind of conversation with someone else, but Sasori wasn't able to figure out who the other person was, As far as he could see there was no one else near them. The dark fighter seemed to have a serious conversation with whoever it was. After some time the dark fighter seemed end the conversation.
#dark fighter:  yeah! I am coming back to our place.

#Narrator: The dark fighter turned around and was about to go (fly) , but he stopped suddenly. Sasori was just watching everything, he had no clue of what was going on. The dark fighter turned and stared right at Sasori. Sasori was scared to death, he didn't know what to do, the dark fighter was seriously staring right at him, the dark fighter wasn't able to see him , but it seemed as if he sensed some kind of energy source very faintly from the spot right where Sasori was standing. After a moment or two the dark fighter suddenly launched an energy blast wave towards him, on his scale it was a small attack but for Sasori it was big enough to destroy him. Sasori wass terrified, he couldn't even try to move from the spot because of fear. The blast wave came nearer and nearer, out of fear Sasori closed his eyes, the blast wave passed right throught him, it was as if the blast wave phased through him, after the attack had passed through him, Sasori just dissappeared into thin air, the attack kept on going in the same direction and after few seconds it was out of sight. The dark fighter was puzzled for few seconds but then he simply turned around and flew away.
#dark fighter: must've been my imagination or something.

#Narrator: after some time of the departure of the dark fighter something mysterious started to happen, right where the light fighter was annihilated, the dust which was left after the blast started to accumute at one spot and it started to shine.

#Narrator: the last thing that Sasori remembered seeing was dark fighter releasing an attack towards him. When Sasori opened his eyes he was back inhis room, he had nl clueof what was going on ,  one moment before he was in space where the two fighters clashed with each other and the next second he was in his room lying on his bed. He couldn't tell whether it was dream or reality, it felt too real to be a dream and it was too extraordinary to be reality. He got up and sat on the bed and kept on thinking about it, suddenly his mom shouted to him from downstairs.

#Umiko: Sasori, I am going out for a while, I will be back in about 1hr, if you want you can go out now, but remember no more painting on the walls or any other things that make our neighbours complain about you okay?

#Sasori: Okaaayy!

#Umiko: oh yeah! And also koharu has called for you, you better call her back before you go anywhere.

#Narrator: koharu is a childhood friend of Sasori, she stays in the same sect and in the same city as that of Sasori ( constellation sect, sagitarius city ). She is of same age as that of Sasori. Both Sasori and koharu were close friends.

#Sasori: okay!

#Narrator: Sasori got out of his bed and went to wash his face, he decided to forget about the vision he had, but since it felt so real he had a small regret that he was unable to do anything that would have avoided the light fighter guy's death. He decided that it was just a dream and tried to suppress the regret feeling he had. He went downstairs and went to the hall area to sit on his favourite couch, he then reached oit to the telephone on the table which was in front of him. He took the telephone and dialed koharu's Number, after few rings koharu lifted the phone.

#koharu: Hello! Yamomoto's residence.

#Sasori: Hey Koharu It's me, Sasori. You called?

#Koharu: Hey! Ya, I was getting bored just sitting at home, thought of taking my dog to a walk. Wanna come.

#Narrator: Sasori thought for a while.

*Sasori: rather than being at home thinking  about the dream and also the deadline given by my mom and getting disturbed, it's better to go out for some fresh air.

#Sasori: ya sure! I will join you

#Koharu: great! Come outside and wait for me, I will be there in few minutes.

#Sasori: ya 'kay.

#Narrator: It was cold outside, Sasori wore his jumper suit and black tracks. He went outside and started waiting for koharu, after few minutes she showed up with a cute little pug.

#koharu (she is a girl with bluish hair, she is of same height as that of Sasori,  she wore grey sweatshirt and black tracks): Hey! You ready?

#Sasori: yeah! Let's go.

#Narrator: they started to walk together along the footpath.

#koharu: I was totally getting bored at home, My god! I didn't expect our free time after graduating from high school to be this boring, I hope that my college starts soon

#Narrator: koharu has joined a college for higher eduacation in physics .

#koharu: by the way which course have you choosen for further eduaction? You know almost every course is going start after two months, so you have to get enrolled in a college and choose a course by then or else you will have to wait ...... year......... frustrating......

#Narrator: koharu was continously speaking to Sasori, however those words were falling on deaf ears. Even Sasori decided not to think about the dream he had, he was unable to forget about the light fighter.

*Sasori: What would have happened if I would have jumped in to save That guy?, what if he is still alive out there somewhere?, who is the other guy who attacked the light fighter?, would I have been able save that guy if I would have jumped in?

#Narrator: both of them came to a busy main road, and kept on walking.  In the same street there was a guy sitting on a bench on the roadside beside the footpath that these two were walking on. The guy on the bench was sitting holding his head with his hands, it seemed he was in a total depressed state. It also seemed that he was talking to himself. For everyone it appeared as if he was talking to himself but actually he was hearing a voice inside his head.

*guy on bench: what the hell is going on? What did I do to deserve such harsh situations? Was being righteous and dedicated to my job was a fault on my part? What's the point in being so sincere in my duty and being a good citizen when you don't receive the thing you deserve the most?,........

*voice in the guy's head: you won't suffer this way if you pledge to follow me and choose the path I show you

*guy on the bench:  who's that?

*voice in the guy's head: don't get freaked out just consider me as a deity who is also your well wisher. living the way I tell you to, will give you immense pleasure, there is no such thing as good and bad in this world, you have to just surrender yourself to me for attaining true happiness and pleasure, I will give you immense power, power that is equal to that of guardians, with such power you can achieve anything, all you have to do is to pledge your loyalty to me

#Narrator: those words were acting like a magnet for that guy, he wanted to taste the power that rivals the guardians, but he had little consciousness left in him only a little more push was enough to turn him over.

*guy on bench: what does the path, that you want me to follow, involve?

*voice in his head: there will be no regrets in this path. All you have to do is act against the people like those who killed and claim to be righteous . Infact every person who claim to be Innocent and righteous are dirty inside. Hence you have to annihilate the likes of them, in away you are doing justice to life itself. There are many people like you, you have to help them. I will be unable to help everyone of your kind, you have to save them and help them in their fight against those people who claim to be righteous. Not only guardians who claim to protect these people who say they are normal and do ordinary work to survive. You have to annihilate those people too, its because of their selfish mentalty that such incidents can't be avoided. Those people who have killed your love arise from these citizens who claim to be ordinary. Initially they maybe truly be ordinary and citizens but they will change without a doubt in future, so you have to annihilate them. There will be lot of slaughtering but ultimately it will lead to peace. In this world you can only trust people like yourself, you have to treat them as your own brethren, everyone else is or going to be a cheat.

*guy: ya! You're right! I was totally blinded by these people and couldn't see the truth. Now you've made me realise what I should do, I will follow you no matter what.

#Narrator: the guy on bench was now totally under a trance, he was totally brainwashed. Just a word from that was voice was enough to make him to do anything.

*voice in the guy's head: great! Now I grant you powers and when you attain these kind of dark powers and when you start to use these powers on so called citizens, they will start calling you as a savage. Don't mind them, they just don't know the sweetness in this power and the cause of your actions. Here you go from now on you can use dark powers. Use your powers on someone around you to test them and also to make your mark to say that the saviour of the world has arrived. You will instinctively know how to use the power

#Narrator: right after that the appearance of the guy started to change, he was changing into red colour, his body started to become more muscular and his face started become more ferocious by every second. He took of his shirt (which was torn by his growing body) to checkout his body (everyone started to see his body and were gathering around to see his abnormal features, some people were walking further away from him as a precaution.) He was totally impressed by what he was given in return of his humanity.
He stood up and swung his left hand backwards which struck the bench he was sitting on , the bench flew away and fell down far away like it was made of paper or something light. He then walked onto the footpath ( same one on which koharu and Sasori had just arrived) behind him, he looked around , his eyes were suddenly fixed on one spot, he was looking directly at a person wearing a red sweatshirt on black tracks ( who was standing opposite to Sasori and koharu .i.e, to the left side of the guy who had just turned into a savage.) Who was staring right back at him lretty shocked.
The savage guy closed his fists and brought them to his waist level and kept some distance between his feet and started to yell ( just like dbz fighters, here from now on it will be known as power up stance) after few moments he raise his left hand in the direction of red sweatshirt guy.

#savage guy: get ready to say good bye to this world pal!

#Narrator: suddenly a large energy blast (not as large as that released by light fighter) was released from the palm of his left hand, the energy blast passed through the chest area of the red sweatshirt guy, the savage guy then closed his fist, the energy blast wave slowly got dispersed. Everyone saw a big hole on the red sweatshirt guy on his chest area, poor guy immediately dropped dead on the footpath, a lot of blood started to flow out of his body onto the footpath. There was total silence in the air, everyone could feel the murderous intent of the savage guy nobody moved from their places rather nobody could move from their places due to fear. The savage guy started laughing wickedly watching at the guy dying on the footpath. Seeing the guy dying on the footpath Sasori remembered the vision he had that afternoon, he again started to have the regret feeling of letting a person die without even trying to help, but more than that feeling he was terrified to see so much blood on the footpath, he was terrified to even look at the savage guy.

*Sasori: how can I save a person who is in life and death situation, when I can't even hold myself together just after seeing such situation.

#savage guy: Ahhhh! This feels sooo good......... Now let's see whose turn is it.

#Narrator: the savage guy turned and looked at everyone slowly, after some time of looking his eyes were fixed in a spot and to the disbelief of Sasori they were looking right at koharu. Koharu didn't know what to do , she was frozen due to fear. The savage guy raised his right hand and released a energy blast in the direction of koharu. Sasori immediately did the first thing that came to his mind. He dashed koharu and pushed her away from the place where she was standing, koharu fell sideways, Sasori had only a fraction of a second more to act again and get out of the way of the blast wave, It seemed as if the blast wave was going to hit him before his mind could respond.........

Next time on "Guardians"   :
Chapter 3 : " A young guardian's resolve"