Down the line - itto x reader

[25] Victim

Itto was worried. And you knew it, but you still decided you were going to head to Dragonspine with your brother anyways.

Thoma and Itto shared a worried glance to each other and both sighed. "Hurry up with the sappy shit, we don't have the time right now." Scaramouche muttered as he waited just a few feet from you three.

You flipped him off and heard him scoff as you brushed past him.

The both of you chatted along the way about what you were going to say or what you were going to do. "So... you know how mother went to the house uninvited in Snezhanya and you got mad?"

Your brother turned to the side slowly and his brow quirked up, "...yes. I knew you were eavesdropping! But, what about it?" He scowls and crosses his arms as he stops abruptly to look at you.

Ever since that night, you've always wanted to know why he was so angry with her and the thing's he yelled at her for.

"I just always wanted to know why you sounded so pissed off at her? Even yelled that she abandoned us..." You shrugged, taking a quick glance at him before walking away to avoid his glare.

When you found out you're not exactly human, and were created as a vessel to carry a gnosis, it surprised you. You and Scaramouche are the same but you both have very different personalities, opposite of each other.

"Because she did," he scoffed, slowly walking to meet up with you, "everything about her pisses me off. I'm sure you've seen that photo of us together when we were younger right?"

You nodded. Of course you did, how could you forget that was the day you got caught for snooping around for more clues in his office back in Snezhnaya.

He clears his throat and watches the sun set, seeing birds fly by. "When she made me, I was just a prototype just like you are. That gnosis she talked about, which I have nor will I give it to you."

Of course he wouldn't, "go on, before I end up smacking you in the head for that." You rolled your eyes as he starts cursing at you.

"Anyways! My body wasn't good enough to carry the gnosis myself and so she tossed me aside, after just seven years of me being around her. Somehow I woke up and wandered around, ended up in Snezhnaya and..." he drifts off, contemplating if he should mention what's in mind.

"Andddd? What happened after?" You urged him on, hoping he would eventually say what stopped him.

He looks at you and looked down to see a butterfly emerging from it's cocoon—flying away from a sweet flower.

"I was taken in by that crazy harbinger we met in Sumeru. He fixed me up and basically enhanced me," his eyes still watching the butterfly, "about two years go by, and I was walking around and saw you again but alone. You were very young..."

There was a weird sullen look when he said that last sentence. "How... young?" If you remember back to the 'family photo' you remembered saying you were 2 and he was 7.

"Four. You were four years old when I found you. I thought that, because your body could handle a gnosis, she would've kept you. Guess I was wrong." He shrugs as if it was nothing, but you could see that it bothered him still.

"Was that when you took me in with those people who were apparently our uh parents?'" He nods at that, continuing his pace. In a way you did kind of knew they weren't really your parents, but you always brushed it off.

Scaramouche continued saying that when he was old enough he took you in and away from the people who were your "parents." He was only 9 years old, raising you by himself even if he didn't want to.