Tsumi Tanake

Tsumi Tanake and the Race for the Chariot ​Chapter 1 I see dead relatives

Hi my name is Tsumi Tanake, I’m just a couple months past my 22nd birthday and I just recently learned that I am the child of a god. Not just any god, mind you but one of the big three. Hades, Lord of the Underworld.

​It can be pretty hard to imagine, the gods existing like humans and being just as overly sexual as a few corrupt politicians. You might think I'm crazy but trust me, stick it out. This story’s gonna get good.

​Growing up at many times I believed I was going crazy, hearing the disembodied voices of the dead and worst yet being able to bring them back like some sick zombie farmer! I think I had a pretty good reason to think I was going insane.

But more than anything I always wondered who my father was, and my mom Amaya Tanake always told me that he was dead. I always believed her.

​I recall on my ninth birthday my mom gave me an orange birthday cake that resembled a halloween pumpkin as part of my presents. It was pretty cool to say the least and after i blew out the candle my mom asked me what i wished for. I looked at her dark brown eyes with my own black eyes and pushed my bangs out of the way and asked “Haha, why don’t we ever visit Oyaji’s parents? That's what I wished for, to meet them." She looked away and simply put the cake down and walked to the kitchen. == I followed my mother into the kitchen and asked "Haha why can't we visit Oyaji's parents? It was my birthday wish." Her response was "It was your father's wish that you never meet your grandfather, he said he was a bit of tyrant. But I know you've been snooping around so I'll tell you how your father and I met. How about that instead?"==

He gave a nod and she continued.
== "I liked to frequent cemeteries when I was younger and while visiting America I got a chance to see theirs. They were quite unlike what I have ever seen. In the Arlington Cemetery, a very famous cemetery over there stood your father. He was tall, pale, like he hadn't seen the sun for a long time. God those stunning black eyes just made me melt! So later on we started dating and after a couple months you were conceived honey."

After hearing that story I looked at her and nodded, though in my heart I didn't believe a single word of it.==

==A couple years later I was turning 13 and as usual my mother got me my orange birthday cake and kept looking above my head as if something would appear there. "Ha ha why are you staring above my head?" She looked at me and started crying, for reason I wouldn't understand until much later.==

==I kept looking around as Obaasan came over and gave me my yearly present of 5821 yen ,as I thanked her, I could have sworn I saw the ghost of Ojiisan and he waved as i freaked out shoving Obaasan away and ran upstairs to my bedroom.

(Author's Notes Haha is a shortened version of the word Hahaoya, Obaasan is grandmother and Ojiisan is grandfather) More is coming. as soon as i send it to my girlfriend/editor.==