A quick heads up this is set 10 years before Yang joins Beacon so their will some year skips before we get to the present time where she is in Beacon. This is also my first story I've written so this could go either way, by that I mean either good or bad.

*Warning Self Harm*

10 Years Ago

I don't understand why I was treated differently, was I a mistake or was I made wrong I would never know but i know something, Pain and blood something a 7 year old shouldn't know yet but I did. I've known pain and blood for the past two years of my life. I couldn't ask why they treated me differently compared to Ruby otherwise I would have been punished more. Nobody I knew could help me, Ruby is only 5 years old so she wouldn't understand it whereas my Uncle Qrow is a lot older than me and Ruby but he's is either on a mission or drunk in a bar so he was no help at all.

I could never ask my father, Tai, or my step-mother, Summer, for help because they caused the pain that I felt every single second of my life. From first thing in the morning to last thing at night. I couldn't stand this pain anymore, the constant blood that is pours out my body is beyond me. That when I thought of the idea that would change me forever, a chance to live again and this time a normal life for me. To run away from this house and to never look back again but I would feel bad for Ruby even though where not allowed to see each over at all.

Today was the day I would make my great escape but I had to get though the day first. I woke up like usual, on the cold, hard, dirt floor which I've slept on for the past year and a half, I guess you could call the shed my room even though i have a bedroom in the house. I started to get up of the floor when I felt a surge of pain across my back remembering that my farther punished me yesterday with a belt across my back, only he would know how many times I blacked out after the fifth strike but with this pain I fell like he did it another five times making it ten stikes across my back. I still got up, now standing with the pain in my back and walked over to the mirror in the shed but I always wondered why there was on in the shed but I guess i couldn't ask anyone.

Once I was opposite the mirror, I looked at myself to see someone that looked like they wanted to die only to remember that its my reflection looking back at me. I sigh and looked down and rolled up my shirt only to see some of my ribs behind my shirt, this showed the bruised that ran along my body and how you could see some of my ribs as well. The bruises from my fathers beating whereas the ribs I can see are from not being fed, I was lucky to be fed once a week at most but I never receive much food but I was supplied with water so I guess their was a good thing about this. Once I finished looking at the damage I rolled my shirt back down unable to keep looking at it.

I looked to my left once I rolled my shirt down to see more dried up blood, but my farther or step-mother didn't casue that blood. I did instead. Everyday for the past few weeks I had be cuttting myself, at first it hurted but now I'm use to it but I can't lie and say it didn't relieve me from the pain I feel. I grabbed the stanley knife and removed the blade from it then I looked down at my arms to see the wounds I cause, I sigh and placed the blade in my left hand first and looked at my right arm. I never felt bad for this bit but it was gonna sting. I quickly slashed the blade across my right arm and felt a little amount of pain so before the pain was to unbearable, I placed the bladed in my right hand and did the exact same to my left arm then placed the blade next to the stanley knife. Then I looked down to see a river of blood flowing down each arm and didn't care about it, I looked into the mirror one last time then walked away from it and sat down in the corner that was furthest away from the shed door so that when my farther got me it would take longer.

I had no clue what the time was but guessed that my farther would get me soon so it looked like nobody was in this shed for the night. Even though summer abuses me, she didn't know I slept in the shed I think but to be honest I didn't really care what she thought. Then I hear them, I heard my fathers footsteps and I knew then I was gonna be collected. As the footsteps got louder and louder I thought of what punishments where gonna happen today, but as I was in my thoughts, my fathers footsteps stopped right outside the door and I could hear him grabbing the lock and opening it so that he could enter the shed. The next thing I knew was that the shed door opened and the sun light came through the door which could have blinded me, then he came and approached me. I was looking down at the floor so that I didn't have to look at him when he grabbed my hair and pulled me up of the floor with no care the world about how I felt. By the time he pulled me up he let go of my hair which I was thankful for but then slapped me in the face which was gonna leave a hand mark. I noticed him walking away knowing that I needed to follow him towards the house. As we entered it was quiet like nobody lived here. He stopped so I stopped behind him where he turned around and looked at him.

I was scared in case he would hit me but he kept looking at me until I looked up at him where I could see him looking at me. Then he spoke to me with a voice of hatred, "Go and was yourself and change your clothes, once done that you know what to do," and then walked away from he heading towards the kitchen. I only nodded then headed upstairs to my room and grabbed some fresh clothes and walked towards the bathroom to wash myself. As I collected my clothes and walked down the corridor heading towards the bathroom, I was thinking about my biological mother who I didn't know but then reached the bathroom and closed the door behind me.

I was in the bathroom for about ten minutes when I exited the room and headed towards my bedroom again to leave my dirty clothes their. I entered my bedroom to see it was the same as always and placed my dirty clothes on to the bed and walked back out of my room closing the door behind me and then walked towards the attic. This was a daily thing for me but only my farther knew about me in the attic because it was his idea, I pulled down the rope that was on the ceiling so that the attic door would open and the ladder would fold down. I climbed up the ladder into the attic and switched on the dull light first so I would be able to see what I'm doing once I close the door. I walked back towards the door in the ceiling and pulled up the ladder up then the door and made sure it was locked correctly.

Once I made sure it was locked I walled back towards these group of boxes that I usually look at which was stuff that involved my dad, step-mother, Uncle Qrow and this mysterious woman. I would always look at this photo that was in summers box which was a photo that contained my family and this mysterious woman, maybe in one of these boxes was the answer but I wouldn't know if the answer was right in front of me or not. On the back of this photo was a message that summer wrote, 'Never to be beaten in battle, my team, Team STRQ' I never understood the message until one day I realised that it was the first letter of each of their name but I never understood who was the letter R connected with. But I had a long time to figure it out while I spent hours in the attic.

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