[Multi-chapter] Oretachi no chikara (Prologue)
Title: Oretachi no chikara (Our power)
Authors: syunikiss1990 and tsuchi8562
Beta & Plot Bunny: yuuki_saya
Pairing: SakurAiba, MatsuMiya, Ohno
Genre: Fantasy, AU, Romance
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: We don't own them. We don't have that much money...
Summary: War that divided people...
MASTERPOST
King died, long live the king. This rule was alive in every part of the world, including Japan. It was 657 year of Hotaru era, and His Majesty, Hotaru XXIV, the Emperor of Japan was on his deathbed, and the only heir of the throne was only 8 years old. Many people wanted to take over the empire, but the most dangerous opponent was Kuroku family. This moment gave him the biggest chance to rule the country from the famous royal residence. The Palace of Thousand Lights was a historical symbol of emperor’s power; greatly illuminated it looked like a star that had fallen down from the sky. The lights were visible from afar, showing the way to the capital city and showing that the royal family is as strong and stable as this luminosity.
After the ruler’s death, the Great Council was asked to elect regent; normally it should be someone from the royal family, and little Hotaru’s XXV cousin was the perfect candidate, but unfortunately he was killed by some unknown culprit. After that incident the capital city fell into chaos - Kuroku family members tried to take over the palace and imprison young heir of the throne, but loyal guard manage to secure the residence. However the empire was threaten with a civil war, which lurked just around the corner. Poor prince waited in golden cage for a coronation, unaware of anything that was happening around him.
While the preparation for the ceremony, the enemy of royal family devised a perfect plan to take over the throne. It was quite hard, knowing the fact that royal army is insurmountable and big. The only way to defeat the Hotarus was to destroy their image of powerful people with high social support. That meant to destroy their symbol, their last fortress - The Palace on Thousand Lights. It was complicated, because nobody wanted to tear down the building itself, just to turn off the illumination, even just for a while. The second phase would be probably capturing the prince and force him to cooperation, which won’t be hard taking into account the fact that it was just a simple kid. Turning off the lights from the outside was impossible; there was no way to break into the mansion. Because of that reasons the Kuroku family hired an engineer and asked him to build a machine that will be able to turn off the lights from the outside. The builder was skeptic at first, but he was soon convinced that if he don’t cooperate, he will lose his life. The name of the artificer’s name is unknown, but his genius was admired by next generations, even if it was used in order to destroy peace in the kingdom.
After many months of hard work, the destructive machine was build and finally the royal family’s enemy could launch their evil plan. The date was set for July 27th 658 year of Hotaru era, at midnight - the coronation day; the time when the lights at the palace was shining the brightest. When the time has come, the creator should activate his machine, but unfortunately the Kuroku’s householder wanted to take over the control, and without knowing the true strength of the device, he set the power on the maximum level and pulled the lever. The strong magnetic pulse was released and all the lights were turn off in no time. Not only the palace became black, but the electricity in the whole country disappeared. Every single power source was totally destroyed, without the possibility of repair; the force that caused it was still effective and there was just one single generator was saved - the one hidden in the palace’s underground.
Soon after the blast the machine exploded, killing all of the Kuroku’s family members and the engineer.
The time of chaos came, and the first year of ookii yami (the big darkness) era has begun, making not only the city, but also the people’s heart unenlightened.
A lot of people were disappointed in the house of the royal family. Even more in the Kuroku family, but seeing every single member of that family had died at the day of the big incident, their anger turned to the royal family and their army for being unable to stop this disaster from happening. Only a few people, the rich and always loyal people to the royal house, stayed loyal to their young prince.
The dark times made the darkness inside the peoples hearts grow, until that darkness was big enough to take over. Riots through all the country started, but in the capital city they were at their biggest. After the people found out about the last generator, everyone wanted that thing for their own city or district. The only problem was that the machine was inside the heavy guarded palace and no one really seemed to get it working. After trying for months they finally got the generator working and soon it became clear that there would only be enough energy to enlighten and help a small district of the city.
That is were the next problem started. As soon as the people came to know that the machine would be working for only such a small part, everyone wanted to go there. The riots became bigger and bigger with each passing day and soon it looked like another war would start, with the royal army and the most loyal to the young prince on one side and the rest of the city on the other. Afraid of the big number of people in the city, the council of the prince decided to build a big wall around the district that could work on the generator.
The building of the wall started soon after the idea was formed. Guarded by the royal army the people started to build it. It took a lot more time than they had planned, seeing they had to do everything by hand as they didn't want to waste their precious energy. The people on the opposite side started to protest and had planned attacks on the builders of the wall, but the well trained guards that were with the builders could end the fights without much losses on their side every time.
A couple of months later most of the wall was finished. The people outside it were slowly starting to feel desperate, knowing if they couldn't do anything about it at that moment, they would never get their chance again and would never get some of the energy of the built in district. They set up a massive attack as a distraction to let someone sneak into the palace. Their plan worked and the murderer that had gone into the palace succeeded in killing the prince. But instead of the chaos they hoped it would bring to the district around the palace where they could taken advance of to tear down the wall, this action had the opposite effect as the wall was now finished with great speed. A city council of the most mighty and wealthy people had taken the place of the future king, deciding on a presidential state instead of a kingdom for the future.
Now the city was divided into two parts which will became known as the rich and the poor district. Both of them couldn't stand each other, the poor hated the rich for stealing the last source of energy and the rich couldn’t stand the poor for killing their precious prince. Months passed, the months became years and the years turned into centuries. After a long time the people who remembered the war and the real reason why the two districts hated each other had all passed away and slowly everything was forgotten. But the hate between them stayed, even though no one really knew why. But despite of the hate between the two districts, you could say they lived peacefully next to each other without any big problems.