Heaven is on the Other Side of Hell

==Aoi, 12 years old==

"Hi... my name's Kale." He offered his hand in hopes of a handshake.

"Isn't kale a plant?" I take his hand uneasily.

"My mom wonders the same thing," we both laugh.

"What's yours?"

"Aoi, Aoi Myoujin."

"That's a funny name, what's it mean?" I started to think about my name, Aoi Myoujin.

"It means a blue stranger." Blue had a double meaning.

"Well, it fits, you always seem sad, every find out why?" He had these eyes, calm, gentle, that could look at your very soul, a kind person.

Kale was the closest I had to a friend, then one day... there was an accident... no...

it wasn't an accident...

it was cold blooded murder...

It was raining... we were in the back allies, a group of thugs jumped us, demanded a toll for us to cross. Kale looked dead in their eyes and said,

"We don't have any," they shot him, straight through the heart... the bullet landing right next to me... I started feeling like what I did back then, vision going red, blood coursing through every living fiber of my body. Next thing I knew the thugs were dead, I was holding a knife in one hand, a gun in the other...

...I'm not going to let that happen again...

This Gaiden Chapter is basically the rainy night that Aoi refers to in Chapter 16, and is also one that will be edited in the future.