Quick note before the story (tee hee) it might start out slow but this is a shoujo ai/Yuri story so please obey the rule: Don't like, don't read. Thank you
Darkness is all I see. Mostly, I see only black leading into a never ending path forward. Sometimes I'll see a faint light in the midst of the darkness. Now you, reading this, might think that I am unhappy or sad with my existence but I am not. I have memories, of a time where I laughed with friends and family. I say that was me but in truth, I don't know for sure if that really is me. I might just be seeing somebody else's life like a movie. I probably don't even have an "existence". Getting back to the light, the light that fills my heart with life, I don't know what it is either. I spend most of my time searching for the light threw the darkness.
It was that time when the darkness spread and I was set free. Free from dark, into this "light".
When I came too, I was laying on slate, or rather smooth rock. I tried to sit up and looked down at my palms. My long hair fell at my sides and I noticed I was sitting in some red liquid. It wasn't blood, as I first thought it was. I looked around and it appeared I was in a cave or some kind of undersea portal. It was all too surreal. Just a moment ago, I was staring into the darkness. Now I was, dare I say, alive. I was alive with a beating heart and lungs that breathed in the cool air. I thought to myself 'but how did I get this form'?
"On your feet."
I turned around abruptly at the voice. A woman stood over me, with her arms folded across her chest. I noticed that she was quite pretty and very young looking. I tried to stand up but my legs gave out under me and I fell against the cold slate once again.
"Jeez! 600 years in a cocoon make your legs broken? Eh Chikane?" She grabbed hold of my arm and helped me stand. 'Chikane? Was she referring to me? She couldn't have been…she said the name with such intensity and yet she said it with a smile.' I thought as I stared at her.
"Chiiikaneee! Did that cocoon infect you with stupid? I command you to speak!" she said to me. Amazing, how she acts and how she looks are complete opposites. She was beautiful and gently looking but when she talked, it turned her into a different girl. She was commanding with her voice and had quite a tone. Yet I didn't sense any hostility from her.
"Am I Chikane?" I asked. She looked at me as if I had asked some impossible question. She replied with "Yes, yes you are. Don't you remember?" She appeared concerned. 'Concerned with me?' I thought 'but why? I just met this girl and she was worried for me?"
Suddenly a memory flashed before me, I was walking with my friend. I've seen this one before.
"Chikane-chan~ Hurry or we'll be late again." The girl said.
"I'm coming, I'm coming-"
Himeko-chan!"
I blinked and I saw the worried girl looking even more worried than before. My body was convulsing. I soon realized that I was being shaken by my shoulders. "Are…Are you Himeko?" I asked. She seemed to relax a bit and smiled "Yes I am Himeko. I am impressed with your guts to call me my name without any honorific."
"Himeko."
"Himeko."
"Himeko" I kept repeating the name. It seemed so familiar yet I don't believe I ever heard it before.
Suddenly my thighs felt drops of water and I looked around and didn't see any water dripping. I was crying.
"Himeko."
"Himeko." I wiped my eyes, wondering why her name brought so many tears to my eyes.
Quick note before I go- If you watch the anime, I use their faces and some bits from the story. This isn't going to be a lot like the anime. It's my own thought with their faces and bodies. Thanks for reading