WARNING
MENTIONS OF ABUSE
AREA : SETAGAYA.
10 YEARS AGO, TOKYO, JAPAN.
The alcohol bottle shatters, and the sound echoes throughout the room.
"You fucking bitch!" the man angrily yells.
The man slaps the woman, and her cries echo throughout the room.
"A fucking guitar? For what? For the kid?!"
He yells.
The dim lights flicker. The floor is covered with blood spots and tears.
"You spent all the money we had, bitch!" he shouts at her, and she cries softly.
"Its his birthday." She glares at him, and he snaps, and she is helpless on the floor.
The beatings worsen.
Raikun's hands shiver at the noise. He grinds his teeth.
He holds his guitar as he's outside the room, holding back his anger and tears.
"Fuck… why would Mom even…" he whispers to himself. "I can't even help her."
He looks at the guitar as tears fill his eyes.
He wipes his tears as he takes the guitar and proceeds to go outside his house.
He walks into alleyways as drones roam over the area outside.
There was a boy sitting outside a dimly lit warehouse.
"Yo, Raikun, what's up?" a boy shouts.
"Oh, hey, Kain." Raikun tries to act calm as Kain comes up to him and throws his hand over his shoulder.
"You okay, man?" Kain asks, and he smiles at him.
"Come on! Cheer up a bit, dude." He smiles as he looks at the guitar, then at his face, as Raikun looks down at his guitar.
"Come on, let's go inside." He smiles. "You've got that, right? We can play now."
Raikun says, "Yeah… we can." He looks at the guitar and thinks to himself, "But at what cost?"
They both go inside the warehouse. Three of the band members were waiting for him.
"Raikun finally got the guitar?" a guy laughs, looking at Raikun as Raikun holds the guitar closer.
"Cut it out, Cev," Kain says.
"Sorry, sorry," Cev says sarcastically.
"Raikun, I'm happy for you, man," Kento says as he smiles.
"Yeah, man. I'm happy for you," Niko says.
Raikun slightly smiles, but as the realization comes in, he grips his guitar again, regretting.
Kain goes to the drums, and Cev stands in the center as the vocalist. Niko gets his piano ready, and Kento holds his electric guitar.
"Come on up, man," Kain says.