THE DAY I MET DEATH

Haruki ito was five years old when he stopped smiling .                                      Other kids play together laugh,smile but Haruki only stand at distance starig at them.                                             His mother used to hold his face and say "why don't you ever smile haruki".   He didn't know how to answer it he felt everything but his face didn't learn to show it .at twelve his class mate Star sayig he is cod boy .It's not like if his class mate hated him they thought he is the one who don't like them.          Now he is seventeen.                              He walks alon ,eat alone , he has gotten to whisper.Now his class mate Star making distance from him . Heartless cod boy.                                    But he is not heartless he just don't show imotions, feelings or he just don't know how to be propper human.                                                        Today is his birthday but nothing new for him .for him it's like a normal day he wakes up like usual he come down stairs in a room where everyone is waiting to whish him but he don't care his mother asked him if he wanted to make a wish but there was nothing he wanted.                                                      On way back home from school it's was raining .Road empty .                         Headlight too bright too fast.                He didn't even have time to be scared . Then silence. He stood in middle of road . ITs felt like everyone and everything's has stopped. Rain has stopped too he felt the bizarness of cold wind that was blowing. He Opend his eye in front of him stood a man  .    Black coat ,pale skin ,cold eye as his own but beautiful as death itself .He looked at haruki and said ,                       "your time is over haruki ito .I'm your death".                                                         Haruki didn't moved a inches.                  Although it was main road but somthing was strange as like time has stopped when the pale man came .the road was silent.too silent that he could hear his own heartbeat.                " I thought you would say something" that pale skin man said.                          Haruki finally looked up  with his cold empty eyes .                                              "If my time is over,then why are you still waiting?".                                               He smiled but it wasn't a human one    Because I want to see if you  will beg for your life .                                              Haruki stood there silently.                     He  come a little closer to haruki and said " you don't understand do you"?   I'm not here to kill you.im here to collect you.                                                  "Collect"? Haruki said in low voice.        Every soul has expiry date. your time is going to over soon.                                Street was empty. light flickered .As both of them stood silently for a moment.                                                    Haruki clenched his fist."who are you"    I have many names." Poleple call me grim reaper, shinigami, soul reaper,the end but you ... You can call me death" .                                                   Haruki stared at him for second then said in low voice.                                        "You don't look like death ".                    He raised an eyebrow "what"?                You talk too much , smile too much death should be silent .                            He was surprised.no one has ever talked to him like that.                              What you want to call me then ?             Kairo ."I will call you kairo ".                    He smiled again. It was cold sharp smile .He looked at him with empty black eye and said                                     people scared of being even stand in front of me and you... you are giving me a name.well fine you can call me by that name .                                          "You don't sacred do you".                      It wasn't a question but a confution.    Haruki was still standing close to him.  When I go to people and say that they are going to die soon . first they start laughing but to see my cold appaernce they realised soon enough what's happening. They start crying, begging screaming even running.I have seen all of  them turning pale to shaw me  but you know this is the first time someone is able to stand front of me without shaking,dare enough to look at me , questioning me . why aren't you scared. I want to see you crying, begging shaking.                           You are the first one haruki.The first one who didn't flinched .                        There was arrogance and pride in his voice who wants that boy to trumble It's felt like boy insulted  his reputation as  death.                                                    Because I don't have anything to lose. "You can't scared someone who is already empty".                                    For a moment death didn't say anything.He was staring at him like he has seen something new for the first time in thousands years .                         He smiled again.this time it was real smile . small but real.                                "Now you got my attention .And  believe me human ... That's it much more dangerous than death"                Haruki sighed ."what  ever you are just do your job".                                              He closed his eyes and spread his arm.                                                          "Take my soul and get it over with ".      Silence.                                                      He opend his one eye . Kairo "death" was standing there looking at him with unreadable expression.                            What ? Why are you standing? Do it .     I can't.                                                        Kairo finally spoke with calm voice .       Haruki frowned. "What do you mean why you can't ". You just said my time is over.                                                         Not today. he said with smirks in his face.                                                             So I'm not going to die ?                          Oh ! You will. Just not yet few more days, weeks or months .                           So why you are already here ? He asked with frustration.                             "Well 'it's my job to tell the person before his time come. so they can fulfill their wish or whatever they wants to" .                                                  Cruel .how cruel and brutal you are !     There was  anger in his eyes.                 You come to people only to tell that they are going to die soon . Only to make tham more scared and confused.what will they do in remaining time nothing but wait for there death . you are heartless, Just playing with human heart.                       His voice wasn't low this time . He was even more angry. For the first he felt somthing in his heart but he wasn't sure what it was .                          Go .go back and don't come to me till my time come.                                          Kairo  looked at him . His dark eye glitterd .                                                      "No . A reaper must not leave his assignt soul alone before it's time come  . Until your last breath... I will stay with you".                                          Haruki's eye widend." What? you  will stay  with me"                                             my work is to assist you through your last journey and witness your death so I can collect you... Your soul. Bedside were else I will go ? You named me haruki now you have to deal with me . "I will go everywhere you go . Every breath you take  can  be counted, i feel your heart , you will see me ,Haruki only me "                                       there was strange aroma in the air.His words were terryfing like a curse  that would never leave him . But his voice... his voice was strangly calm like a lullaby that promised he would never be alone again .                  When haruki was frozen in his place.  trying to understand what's was going on ,kairo disappeard like a guts of wind leaving Haruki in mess .                   He noticed the strange aroma was gone ,rain was even heavier than before.                                                        A sharp voice came frome behind screaming at him "what's wrong with you boy? don't block the way like that move away "!                                             He realised his surroundings beame normal again .He start walking again even slower.His body was moving but his mind was still trying to figure out what just happened?                               He questioned himself "what just happened was my imagination or reality"?