A Pair of Lonely Ones

by Galantron

Haru Yoshioka (The Cat Returns) and Makoto Konno (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) are two teen-aged girls who are very much alike but are separated by the dimensional fabric of the space-time continuum, until a wormhole connects their dimensions to the real world. Now they will become friends to help each other in a new world as well as help one young man accomplish his dreams.

1. A Sunny Day in Nakano

It was a sunny summer day at a park in the Nakano Ward in the city of Tokyo, and a young teen-aged girl known as Haru Yoshioka was calmly sitting on one of the bench with her friend Hiromi.

Haru then asked her friend, "Hiromi, have you ever felt like that there was another existence elsewhere in the universe?"

Hiromi replied with a question of her own, "You mean like wanting to move to the USA or some other kind of thing?"

Haru replied with clarification, "No. I mean like the idea of seeing a world that existed beyond this world."

Hiromi then said with realization, "Oh, like encountering another dimension."

"Yes. That's exactly like what I'm thinking," Haru replied.

Hiromi added, "I don't know if I've ever felt like that. Why do you ask?

Haru replied, "Well, it's just that I feel like I have another life in that other dimension that I was meant to live out."

Hiromi said to Haru in a consulting manner, "Maybe it's just that you're searching for someone who also has such feelings."

"Maybe so. Anyway, how about we head over to the ice cream place," Haru said.

"OK let's head over there," Hiromi said in agreement.

Haru and Hiromi soon were on their way to the ice cream place on the other side of the park. Then Hiromi needed to shortly use the restroom and Haru waited outside. Then suddenly, Haru became enveloped in lights which grew brighter and brighter. When the lights disappeared, Haru had also disappeared too and was replaced by an exact duplicate of her, Haru's doppelganger or clone. The original Haru was on her way to the real world.