There was a family of five living in a cruel kingdom. The family had a mother, a father, and three brothers. The oldest brother was named Hikaru, the second oldest was Mason, and the youngest was named James.

Him and his brothers loved to mess around and play outside but their father would always grow angry and yell at them, occasionally hitting them.

Their mother was usually busy in the kitchen, preparing food for the family. She would witness her husband hitting the brothers but she didn't seem to care, since she thought of it as a suitable punishment.

Each day Hikaru grew worried for his brothers, hoping they wouldn't get beat by their father. But each day their hopes would disappear.

To make things worse, their mother told their father that she didn't love him anymore and was planning a divorce.

The father grew angry at the mother and beat her to death in front of the three brothers.

"Momma!" Exclaimed James as he outstretched an arm towards their now dead mother.

"James be quiet," Mason said quickly, but but was too late. Their father had head Mason and turned to the two brothers.

Hikaru remained stiff and trembled in fear.

"You better not tell this to anyone got it?" Their father hissed as he grabbed James's throat and lifted him off the floor.

"Father stop it!" Mason exclaimed as he tugged on his father's arm to release James.

"Shut up!" Their father yelled as he threw James onto the floor and punched Mason in the stomach.

Hikaru snapped out of his trance and went up to his father. "Father stop this and calm down. We won't tell anyone we-"

Before Hikaru could finish his father slapped him across the face.

Hikaru's cheek stung as he looked at his father.

"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" His father yelled angrily, slapping Hikaru each time he said the "shut up".

"I won't believe you!" His father growled as he grabbed some of Hikaru's white hair and pulled it roughly.

"Leave big brother alone!" James yelled as he got up and rushed over.

"James stop!" Mason and Hikaru yelled.

Their father grabbed James and slipped out a pocket knife.

The pocket knife shined in Hikaru's eyes, illuminating off his teary eyes.

Before the other two brothers could react, their father slit James's throat.

Mason's eyes widened and Hikaru began to tremble once again.

"Y-you. . . You bastard!" Mason exclaimed as his father tossed James's lifeless body onto the ground.

"Mason stop," Hikaru managed to mutter as he looked at his brother worriedly.

"You killed our mother out of rage and now you've gone and killed our little brother! What the hell did they ever do to you?!" Mason continued to yell as tears streamed down his face.

The death of James was heart breaking mostly for Mason since he was the one who played with James all the time and took care of him whenever their mother was busy.

Their father turned to Mason with dark angered eyes.

Mason trembled a bit but stood bravely in place as his father walked towards him.

~flashback start~
"Mason? I'm scared," James said as he snuggled up to Mason in the closet as their father yelled at their mother. Hikaru stayed silent in the corner as he waited patiently for the yelling to stop.
"It'll be alright James," Mason reassured him. "What will happen if we all end up dying?" James asked as he sniffled and began to cry quietly. "Hey, I won't let that happen alright? I'll protect you no matter what. And if you're ever in trouble I'll save you, even if that means my life being taken instead," Mason said with a slight grin. James smiled softly and hugged Mason. "Thanks but I don't want you to die either," James said making Mason laugh. "It's okay, I'll try not to get killed when I save you okay? And I'll protect you from ever getting hurt," Mason said with a smile. "Promise?" James asked with a his cute innocent smile. "Promise," Mason said with a smile.

~flashback end~
Mason shook more violently as the image of James smiling flashed in his head. Their father was now up to him and stabbed the pocket knife into his chest.

'I-I'm sorry James' Mason thought before he fell to the floor.

Hikaru glared a bit at his father but stayed quiet, not wanting to be the next to be sliced.

His father approached him and tossed the bloody knife aside. He then grabbed Hikaru's chin in his hands and forced him to look up at him.

"Since you were a good boy, you get to live. But since you also glared at me, you're going to be punished," he laughed as he shoved Hikaru onto the floor and began to kick him.

He kicked him roughly in the stomach multiple times and kicked him in the head.

He then picked Hikaru up by his hair and began to throw punches at him. Punching him in the face and stomach.

He threw Hikaru onto the floor and kicked him many more times. After 30 minutes of this his father pulled him into the kitchen and searched the cabinets.

His father took out some pills and forced Hikaru to eat them. Hikaru refused and fought against his father but his father shoved a hand full of pills into Hikaru's mouth.

Tears streamed down Hikaru's face as the pills he was forced to take made the pain in his body worse.

His father then went back to beating Hikaru. Occasionally he'd shove Hikaru into furniture, like bookcases, tables, and chairs.

He took the bloody pocket knife and made cuts all over Hikaru's neck, arms, and legs.

Hikaru cried in pain as his father did so and he tried to fight or crawl away but his father would drag him back and continued to make cuts.

Once Hikaru stopped moving since all the pain was too much, his father dropped the knife and ran out of the house.

Hikaru laid on floor, barely alive when suddenly guards flooded into the house and quickly picked him up. Then everything went black.

||time skip||
Later on Hikaru woke up and looked around to find himself in King Sam's castle. He weakly got up and saw that he had bandages around his arms, legs, and neck.

Suddenly the memory of the events that had happened flooded through his head.

He felt like crying and feeling sadness, but . . . He couldn't. He glanced at his reflection in a nearby mirror and saw that one of his blue eyes had turned red.

Soon the king himself walked in and smiled kindly at him. "Hello there, I'm sorry to hear about your family. But if you'd like you can stay here with me since it seems you don't have any other family members. I've also been wanting a son."

Hikaru thought for a moment before making a slight smile and nodding his head.

'Why can't I cry? Why can't I smile or be happy? What was sadness again? What was happiness?' Hikaru thought, confused.

The kind then went up to Hikaru and patted his head gently. "I'm looking forward to you staying here with me. Maybe once you get better I'll even send you off to school. Oh, and my guards are searching for the killer."

Hikaru just stayed silent and nodded his head as the king talked. He didn't want to sound disrespectful and didn't know what to say.

||a few months later||
Hikaru has now gotten better and was ready to go off to school. He has bonded with the kind as well and later on the kind even got a wife.

But the bad thing was that since the kind was married the queen wanted him to move to her kingdom for a little while.

"Hikaru, I'm going to be staying at Maria's kingdom for a while okay? Will you be okay on your own?" King Sam asked as he looked at Hikaru.

Hikaru nodded his head. "Yeah, I'll be okay."

"Okay, the guards will be taking and picking you up from school. See you in a few months," King Sam said as he waved and left with his new wife Maria.

Hikaru sighed and walked with the guards to get to school.

||time skip||
Hikaru didn't like school that much. Even thought it was his first day there, kids already started to pick on him. They told him that his hair was white like an old person and that his mismatched eyes made him look weird.

But Hikaru didn't mind at all. He mostly focused on his education and not on the bullies around him.

One day at school a bully shoved Hikaru and teased him. Hikaru didn't know what to do in situation like this and just stayed quiet.

But when he did so the bully began to mouth off about what he heard about Hikaru's family. Like what happened to his brothers and how they died.

Hikaru widened his eyes and felt some anger build up in him. He was slightly glad that he was getting angry since he hadn't experienced any emotions in a long time.

But once he was ready to yell angrily at the bully, pain surged through him and he began to shake and tremble violently.

The pain became unbearable and his blue eye began to cry. The bully grew scared and fled, leaving Hikaru on the floor a shaking mess.

Soon a teacher spotted Hikaru and called the guards at Sam's castle.

After that incident Hikaru couldn't go to school anymore since his seizures could cause him hard and he needed to be supervised by guards.

So now he stays on his throne, bored out of his mind he occasionally sat upside down on his throne to entertain him.

-A/N-
Heyo! I hoped you liked this sad backstory! ;w; poor Hikaru. Well now if you role play in my royal x peasant Rp and role play with Hikaru you now know what happened to him and why he's emotionless! Also the next sad story I'm writing is one based on my OC Micah Makuda •w•