Haku's Revival
By: Kiara Adachi
Chapter 1: I'm coming, my dear friend
Yeah, I decided to re-write this! Yeah! It was really bad... I hate when my writing's bad...
The sun burned down upon her shoulders as she walked along the bridge towards the land of waves. It was hot, almost steaming hot, and she hated it. It was so humid in places like this, surrounded by the water that caused it to be so misserable.
She took her finger, attempting to push back the chunk of hair that was always in her face, only for it to fall right back into place. She sighed. It was pointless to fight it, it never seemed to work. The looked ahead, seeing the end to the bridge coming closer and closer. Soon she would officially arrive at her destination.
The Land of Waves...
"This is where he died..." she whispered, not wanting any of the other many people around to hear her. "Haku, I'm coming."
It was cold. It was always cold, and almost always snowing in the small village which the small boy walked upon. His name was Haku, a boy that had nothing left in this world, nobody cared about him, and he didn't blame them... what was there to love? He wasn't anything special. Thats what he thought.
His clothes were dirty, as was his skin, his hair... pretty much everything. He was just a mess. The boy was still very young, as he walked down the sidewalk, his head hung down in a sad way. The few other people that were out that day, moved away from him as he came, wanting nothing to do with the small street child.
He turned, going down a small, empty alley, resting against the back wall as he reached it. He sighed, his head lowered, and he drifted off into sleep. Shivering slightly from the cold.
Time slowly passed, as he dreamed silently in the small alley. It was about thirty minutes later, when he was jolted awake by something. He lazily yawned, and looked around the dark alley.
"What was that..." he wondered, standing up, and looking around again. He waited a little bit, and a noise came again, like a muffled cry. He strained to hear.
"Hello?" he called out
He heard the cry again, but couldn't make out the words. He turned around... it sounded like it was coming from the other side of the wall he had been sleeping against. He looked up, he wasn't near tall enough to climb over it... He banged on the stone, hurting his knuckles.
"Whoever thats over there... what's wrong?"
Again he heard muffled talking, but still couldn't understand. "Wait... I'll be there in a second." he turned around, and ran down the alley, going around the buildings, until he got to the alley on the other side of the wall. He looked into the darkness of the alley, and saw what he had been wondering about.
Down the alley, there were trash cans. And sticking out of one of the taller ones, was a pair of legs, kicking around. He blinked, and ran up to the trash can.
"Hello...?" he said, tapping on the metal trash can, the voice from before came again, and this time he could make out the words.
"Oh my god, is somebody there?" the voice was that of a girl, that was probably about his age "Help me! I'm stuck in here." the words were still muffled though, and he had to try to make out what she was saying.
"Sure..." he said back, backing up. He went behind the trash can and pushed, but it was too heavy for him to tip over. He sighed, and tryed again. Still nothing.
"Come on, its hard to breathe in here!" she said.
Haku sighed, and went around to the other side of the trash cans. If he couldn't tip it over.. he'd have to pull her out... He reached up, and grabbed her legs around her ankles, and tugged. Nothing.
He tryed again, and built up his strength, giving it on hard tug. He did it, getting the strange girl out... but the whole trash can began to come towards him. He gasped and jumped back, it barly missing him. But, instead, he was landed on anyway, by the girl.
He blinked, and looked at her. "Are you okay?" she asked, looking at him. She was clearly a street child too, looking just as dirty as Haku.
"Yes... " he replied, ignoring the slight pain that had come when she had landed on him. "But.. could you get off of me?" he asked, trying to sound polite to the girl.
"Oh, yeah, sure.." she said, getting up, and standing. He sat up, looking at her, and then at the trash can.
"How did you get in there?" he asked. "I mean, without tipping it over?"
The girl looked around. "You know... I don't really remember.." she said, searching through her thoughts, after a while she shook her head. "Nope, no clue."
Haku looked at her, and then turned. "Okay, bai then." he said, beginning to walk away. "No, wait!" he heard the girl cry. "Where are you going?" she ran to him, and stood beside him. He stopped walking.
"Why are you following me?" he asked.
"Cuz you didn't even tell me your name..." she answered. "And besides, I want to follow you..."
He nodded. "My name is Haku." he said. "...Yours?"
"Kiara." she said. "Adachi Kiara." she coughed. Haku nodded. "Okay, good to meet you Kiara." he said, beginning to walk again.
"Hey, hey, you want to be friends?" Kiara said, walking with him. Haku froze.
"You want to be friends.. with me?" he asked, looking at her.
"Yeah... why wouldn't I be? You saved me from that trash can, you seem like a really nice person..." Kiara looked at him, not understanding.
"Well I... " he paused. "Never mind, Sure." he said, giving her a small smile.
"Yay!" She exclaimed, suddenly giving Haku a bit hug, catching him by surprise. He blinked. "...Kiara?" he said.
"Sorry..." she mumbled, letting go. "Just.. happy..." she looked off to the side. "I don't really have any friends..."
Haku nodded, and said. "Don't worry... I don't either..." he said.
She smiled again. "Well then." she said. "Come with me.." she grabbed his hand, and began to pull him away, out of the alley. He allowed her to pull him.
"Where are we going?" he asked.
"Somewhere.." she said. "You'll see."
Kiara continued to walk down the bridge, reaching the end finally. She looked up at the sky, and then down at the watch she had around her wrist. It was 11:30, almost noon.
"I have about a day in a half, or it'll be too late." she thought. "Time is not on my side.."
The next night would be a full moon. When a soul dies, it had till the next full moon before it is unable to be saven by even the strongest revival spells. Kiara was here to revive her old friend.. He didn't deserve to die, and Kiara was going to give him a second chance.
No matter what it took.
