"AChi! Come on!"
A boy yelled to his best friend, Asakura Chizuru, who was staring at a sakura tree.
"Ah, Hiroto. Hey, wait up!"
The girl snapped out of her thoughts and ran towards her best friends. As she was on a rush, she bumped into a person with black hair and purple eyes. She apologized and bowed slightly, then continued running towards her inpatient friends. The man frowned at the action but forgave her as he doesn't have the energy to get angry, he looked at the sakura tree and went into deep thoughts.
-Next day-
The girl turned around as she was done thinking about her brother.
"Ah..."
She called out as she saw the same man that she bumped into a day before. The man turned his focus from the sakura tree to the girl.
"Umm, I'm sorry about yesterday. I was in a rush..."
She said, slowly shifting her focus from the purple eyes staring at her.
The man nodded and turned his focus back to the tree.
The girl did the same.
The two were in silence when the man suddenly spoke.
"Why are you always looking at this tree?"
"Huh?"
The girl got confused, since the man was also doing the same thing.
"I mean, there's a lot of trees here, why this one?"
He explained.
"Well, it's because...it's a long story...so..."
She was hesitating, but then pointed at the bench opposite the tree. The man nodded.
"Actually, my brother died a month ago, right under this tree."
She explained while looking at the tree. The man eyes widened in shock.
"He had an incurable illness...See that splat of dark red brownish there on the trunk near the roots? It's actually my brother's blood."
She pointed at the spot. The man frowned.
"The illness...doesn't have a name yet, it's a newly found illness. our body produces blood cells, but it knows when to slow the producing and even if our bodies has too much blood, it may come out as we have sudden nose bleeds. But having this illness causes the blood cells to keep producing no matter what, and it doesn't come out either. A man will have to wait for it to come out from the mouth, or even the eyes or ears, but when it comes out, mostly all the useless blood comes out, and it doesn't comes out normally like dripping, it bursts out..."
She stopped to take a breath.
"'But a person would not die by that since they're useless blood' that's what some of them thought. But actually, this illness will lead to death, by loss of blood. The useless blood will lead the blood we need towards them, making us to spit out both the useless blood and blood we need since they flow in a vein, usually the vein closes by itself but sometimes it doesn't, causing all the blood bursting out with no control, leading to lose too much blood."
She continued and sighed.
"That's what happened to my brother..."
She harden her grip on her laps, tears started dropping.
"You've been through a lot..."
The man patted the girls head lightly, which made the girl cry out even more. The crying didn't bother the man at all, but in fact made him think of someone he loved.
"Chizuru."
He murmured.
The girl heard it but didn't bother to ask how he knows her name since she's crying and can't stop. The girl cried her eyes out for 2 hours.
"I'm sorry for keeping your time..."
The girl was still sobbing.
"It's okay. It's quite late now, you should go home now."
He said, which sound like a demand. The girl nodded.
The man waited after the girl crossed the road outside the park and walked towards the opposite direction.
Hey guys, Hakuouki : across the time is only a fan fiction, don't get surprise if you find this story in some other sites(blogspot etc.) since I'm thinking of making this famous...
I'm just kidding, none of my stories go famous...since i'm not good at writing...
oh and the illness, don't fear it, i made it up.
be sure to come back often for chapter 2! I'll try to update as soon as possible.
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