It was early in the morning in the small town of Kuraka the streets were empty and quiet then suddenly the sound of a moving vehicle comeing down the street and coming into view was a moving truck as it mades its way through the silent streets inside a man with a scruffy bearded face was driving next to him was a woman with long brown hair who was sound asleep in the seat next to him. The man peered over at the woman to his side and grinned he then tapped her on the shoulder \"Honey, wake up were here\" he said in low tone his voice roused the woman out from her sleep she stretched her arms and yawned and rubbed her eyes \"Really?\" she asked sleepily and she turned and looked at the man. The man who was her husband nodded \"Yep, were finally arrived in our new town\" the man said the woman who was his wife looke out the front window of the moving truck \"It really is a really small town\" she said her husband gave a chuckle \"Yeah, seems like wht everyone back home was saying about this place\" he said \"It seems really\" his wife paused and she looked out each window of the truck. \"Peaceful\" she said giving a smile her husband nodded in agreement her gaze then looked to the back \"You think, it\'ll be good for, him?\" she asked her husband groaned \"I hope so, for his sake\" her husband said as he too looked back behind him.

Laying in the seat behind the two of them was a young teenage boy he had medium length dark brown hair ontop of his head was a black beanie hat with what looked like seals sewn into it he moved and groaned abit in his sleep \"I really hope nothing happens\" his mother said \"As do I\" his father said later,after driving what seemed like for hours the truck soon came to its destination and stopped. It parked in front of a medium sized house with a gate in front of it \"Well,here it is\" the father said looking at his new home \"Wow, it\'s bigger then our previous one\" the mother chimed \"Yep, this will be a fresh start for us\" the father said and the two adults looked at their new home for a while. The father let out a sigh \"Well, let\'s get things unpacked and inside shall we?\" he said with a grin his wife nodded and her husband exited the truck and went around to the back of it and the sound of the back hatch being open was heard this made the boy in the back seat stur he grumbled as his eyes opened revealing a pair of reddish brown eyes. He got up slowly from off the seat and rubbed his eyes \"Hm? the truck stopped moving?\" he said after that he let out a yawn the boy looked around he then caught sight of his mother looking at him with a smile \"Hey mom\" the boy said giving a smile \"Morning Teguro\" the boys mother said smiling bigger. Teguro looked around once more \"Are we there?\" he asked his mother gave a nod \"Yes dear, were there\" his mother said.

Teguro then pulled himself forward and looked out the window at what was his new home \"That\'s our new home?\" he asked looking back at his mother \"Yep, now that your up, how about you go help your father in back\" his mother said \"Okay mom\" Teguro said getting in the front seat he reached for the door handel and it clicked and he pushed the door of the truck open. He stood there for a bit as he stared at the house in front of him \"So, this is where I\'ll be living from now on\" he said to himself a sour expression then appeared on his face \"Until,something happens again\" he said with a sad tone \"Teguro?\" came his mothers concerned voice he looked back and he saw his mothers worried face he quickly smiled \"I\'m going to go help dad\" he said. His mother gave a smile \"Okay\" she said with the Teguro rushed around the truck to join and help his father get their stuff from out of the truck. When he got there his father saw him and looked up \"Ah, just in time, here take this would ya\' \" his father said handing a box down to him \"Sure thing\" Teguro replied as he took the box from his father. \"Boys, I\'ve unlocked the front door you can start bringing the boxes inside\" came his mothers voice \"Alright dear!\" his father shouted back \"I\'ll take this inside then\" Teguro said as he walked off. \"Teguro, wait\" his father called Teguro stopped in his tracks and looked back at his father.

\"What?\" he asked his father took a while until he said a thing \"This is a good place\" his father said Teguro felt a twisting feeling in his stomach \"Yeah, sure\" he said and he smiled and his father smiled back and went back to get more boxes Teguro continued walking \"If something doesn\'t happen...again\" he said lowly to himself it was many moments later that Teguro and his father had gotten all of the boxes of there possesions inside their new home. As his father placed the last box full on the floor he stood upand wipped his brow \"Phew, done\" he said with a contented smile. \"Why don\'t you leave the unpacking to us son\" his father said as he looked at him \"Are you sure dad?\" Teguro asked \"Yeah, me and your mother can handel this go out and explore the town\" his father said cracking a smile. Teguro sighed \"Alright, I\'l be back later\" he said and walked out. Teguro walked down the street from his new home he looked left and right at each house he passed \"Man, these houses are almost all the same size\" he commented as he continued down the road suddenly a strong wind blew and his hair fluttered in the wind as did his hat ontop his head he quickly pulled down on the hat. He stood still as he kept his hands on the hat a sad look on his face \"Your the reason we had to move here\" he said it was all because of what was under his hat that was the cause that he and his parents had to move from their hometown \"You\'ve been nothing but trouble\" he said with bit of disdain in his tone.

Teguro could still remebr what happend when his hat had come off how the kids in school reacted how his so called friends looked at him with fear in their eyes and the cold looks he would get from teachers and parents after the fact of what was under his hat was revealed Teguro bit his lip remebering every bit of what happened \"I never asked to be this way\" Teguro said. Teguro continued on his way he soon found himself in what seemed like a market area, it was a small market area which had only a few store from what he could see Kuraka was really a small town like he had heard and now tht he saw it with his own eyes Teguro understood why \"Atleast, no one knows me here\" he said \"Or what\'s under here\" he placed a hand on his hat. Teguro walked around more of the town when he got his fill he decided it was time to go back \"I wonder if mom and dad finished unpacking yet?\" he wondered as he turned around to head back at that moment he smelled a very sweet sent pass by him he looked and saw a girl she was wearing casual clothes, her shoulder length reddish brown hair flowing behind her, Teguro then caught sight of her blue eyes. Teguro had stopped in his tracks as he stared at the girl \"Man, she\'s really cute\" he said blusing as he watched her back vanish from sight then suddenly his face grew a frown \"There\'s no way someone like her would like or talk to someone like me\" he said with a solomn tone.

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Teguro turned and continued his way down the street back home all the while picturing the cute girl in his head when he got back to his home he was surprised to find that his parents had almost everything squared away \"I\'m back!\" Teguro called hearing him his mother came out \"Ah, your back were almost done getting everuthing in its right place\" his mother said \"How was the town?\" she asked \"It\'s just like what we heard its small\" he answered \"I see\" she replied with a smile \"Oh, your stuffs in your room, why don\'t you go fix it like you want\" she said \"Okay\" he said with a nod and he walked off. Teguro walked up the stairs and found his room and walked in the boxes containing his stuff was strown across the floor of the room he sighed \"Let\'s get this done\" he said and immediatley got to openeing each and every box and started putting everything where he wanted it. Minuets later, Teguro had put all his stuff where he liked it he clapped his hands together after throwing the last empty box with the others \"There, done\" he said Teguro then walked over to his bed and sat down on it he looked around his new room, he was still trying to take it all in that he was in his new home and new town. \"I wonder how things will play out?\" he wondered.

Teguro didn\'t know when but, he had soon fell asleep, maybe sleeping in the back seat of a truck that was rocking back on forth wasn\'t such a good idea, when he woke he streched his arms and groaned \"What time is it?\" he asked himself as he looked at the clock he had set on his wall it was five in the afternoon \"Geez, it got that late?\" he scratched his head he then felt that something was missing. He felt on his head and sure enough his hat wasn\'t there his expression grew dark he then gaught sight of himself in the mirror on the drawer for his clothes and scowled as his eyes peered up and locked themselves on what his hat covered he couldn\'t handel it he quickly snatched up his hat and pulled it on his head. \"It\'s all your fault\" he said in a low tone the door to his room opened \"Hey, dinner time\" his mother called Teguro looked at his mother and gave a smile \"Alright, coming\" he replied his mother smiled but before she left she looked hard at him \"Anything the matter?\" she asked Teguro kept smiling \"Nope, nothing\" he smiled \"Okay\" his mother said as she walked off. Teguro stared hard at himself in the mirror for a while until he decided to get off his bed and head downstairs for dinner.

Later, after dinner Teguro was back up in his room he was laying in the middle of his now sheeted bed looking up at the ceiling he was wearing his sleep clothes but, he stil had the black beanie hat with seals sewn into them still on his head he coudln\'t stand sleeping without it on thousands of thoughts swam through his head. Is this going to last? Can I keep \'them\' hidden? Will it be like before? and many others raced around his head not wanting to think more on the subject Teguro shut his eyes and tried hard to fall asleep as he tried images of what happened before flashed in his head which caused him to grimmace as he tried to sleep. \"I hope, nothing like that happens again\" he said witha sad tone and espression. It took him a while but, he soon fell asleep but it wasn\'t a reastful one as he dreamt of what had happened back in his hometown. He was sitting in the hallway talking with his friends he had made laughing and smiling the hat with the seals swen into them was on his head as he talked with his friends he didn\'t notice that someone was creeping up behind him. At that moment he felt the hat on his head get pulled off and that\'s when eveything went silent as everyone stared at him their eyes locked on what was ontop of his head.

The expressons on their face told him everything he clenched his teeth he quickly grabbed his hat back from the one who took it and he ran not bothering to put his hat back on allowing eeryone he passed by to see \'them\' it then cut to him being pushed around by some older kids they were calling him things like freak and monster as the took turns striking him. The teachers didn\'t do anything to help him as they were worse then the students they taught, Teguro was at his wits end with that and all together he quit school by order of his parents but that didn\'t stop the bullying. The kids would find him and pick on him, beat on him it was then his parents up and decided it was time to move before something bad happened Teguro didn\'t argue he was actually a bit happy to be told he would be getting away from it all. Then he pictured himself in his new school and the same thing happening and he kept seeing it happen again and again until it broke his parents and they too left him at that point Teguro shot up from his sleep. He was washed in cold sweat, he wiped his face and sighed \"These damn things...\" he said lowly as he touched his head once more he layed himself back down on his bed and tried to get back to sleep. But, with what he had dreamed it was a bit difficult somehow, he found a way to get back to sleep again but one thing lingered in his head \"Will it End up like that again?\" he asked himself before he fell into a deep sleep. [END]