Chapter 1: Rebirth
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New Author here with a new story... don't know what to say here yet so I hope you just enjoy the story!
Darkness
That was what greeted him as soon as his eyes closed for the final time.
Everything was slowly being swept away by the darkness surrounding him. Memories of the past were slowly fading away being swept up in the eternal darkness.
Peace
Faces of both friends and enemies passed through his mind before they are taken by the darkness. Events both memorable and not are briefly remembered before they are soon forgotten. Every single emotion that he has felt in his brief time in this world are felt one last time before they are consumed by the darkness leaving him with nothing but the sense of being in peace. Peace coming from, as his fading memories is telling him, a life that while short was still very much fulfilling.
Everything was slowly being taken away from him but he does not fight it letting the darkness consume everything until all that is left with him is a single memory. His last living moments lying down on a bench on the lap of a smiling girl whose identity he has forgotten on the roof of a building which the name off he has been long forgotten.
Slowly but surely his last living memory is fading away into darkness until all that is left is darkness and peace.
Time waits for no man
He doesn't know how long he has been in this darkness. Be it hours, days, months, years, or even centuries. He doesn't know for he doesn't want to keep track of time.
Time has no meaning inside the darkness so he deems it unnecessary to try and keep track of it. All that mattered to him right now is the peace that he is feeling.
It delivers us all to the same end
He can sometimes feel the presence of others around him and he idly wonders if they all feel the same peace that he is feeling.
The thought quickly passes and soon he focuses back on the peaceful trance that he once was in.
No
Suddenly, a light flickers to life off in the distance and even though it is quite a ways away from him he tries to look away from the blinding light.
No matter how hard he tries to look away though the light seems to be constantly calling out to him. Drawing him ever closer and closer to its blinding glare.
There is still something that you must do
Feeling is slowly returning to his once lifeless body. Sensations that he had once forgotten is now returning to him and when it does he is filled with pain. Unimaginable and crushing pain filling his whole entire body with it.
He tries to scream but no words come out of his mouth and all this time his is slowly getting closer and closer to the light.
There is still someone that you must save
His arms jerk back to life and with them he tries to cover his eyes to block out the light but no matter how hard he tries, just as the darkness before it, the light soon envelops him until there is nothing around him but the blinding light. The pain he feels all over his body is slowly getting stronger and stronger just as the light that surrounds him is somehow getting even brighter until all the he can feel right now is nothing but pain and the light that is surrounding him.
He does his best to fight it. Both the pain and the light not wanting to feel any of the two at the moment wishing to return to the darkness. But no matter how hard he tries to get away from the light and the pain that it brings he is slowly being drawn right into its center where he knows that if he reaches that then there will be no returning to the darkness.
He can feel himself slowly being swallowed by the light feeling his entire being with it. He struggles against what he now knows is inevitable, doing his best to stay away from the source of the light.
The pain he feels soon dulls as he nears the center. He has lost the will to fight and lets the light draw him closer and closer to its source. He can feel his body being filled with many different sensations both pleasant and not filling him with a sense of both hope and dread.
A word soon starts forming in his mind the closer he gets to the center and curiosity fills his entire body. He reaches out for the light wanting to know desperately just what the word in his mind is. Closer and closer he gets crawling inch by inch wanting, asking, and pleading the light to give him the answer. As soon as his hand makes contact with the source of the light the world around him shatters and the word finally forms.
"Minato!"
He screams and soon both darkness and light disappear before him.
4/6 Monday
Late Night
Minato gasps as he sits up from the bed he was sleeping in having been awoken by such a weird dream.
"Where am I?"
He asks himself as he scans the unfamiliar room that he is now occupying. Panic starts to rise from the pit of his stomach and just before he jumps out of the bed and bolts out of the room he finally remembered where he was.
"This... This is my room in the Male's Dorm." He tells himself in order to reassure himself as he takes a look around the small room he was provided.
He has been staying here for a whole year now and never had he felt that he was unfamiliar with it until now. He idly thought of moving his bed to the wall farthest from the door and placing his study table right next to the nonexistent window to the left of his room and wasn't there a sink and mirror next to the door?
He shakes away these thoughts not wanting to waste his time rearranging his dorm room to soothe the weird feeling he was suddenly overcome with. He picks up his phone and flips it open to check the time and lets out a yawn when he sees just how late it is.
"It's almost midnight." He says as he puts down the phone and lies back down on his bed.
'I need to get some sleep, classes already start back up tomorrow' He thought to himself as he pulls up his blankets to cover his body before he closes his eyes wishing that no weird dreams bother him this time around.
Doing his best to ignore the sudden empty feeling inside of him, he soon drifts back to sleep not noticing as the whole world around him turns into a sickly shade of green.
4/6 Monday
A Few Minutes Earlier
"Mmn..." A young female mumbled a bit as she slowly opened her eyes. She rubs her eyes before letting out a small yawn after waking up from her small nap on the long train ride to her destination of Iwatodai. She scans the passenger car of the train she was on and only sees a couple of older men and women with her.
Her eyes spot a glowing blue butterfly outside of the train in her field of vision and quickly turns her head to look at it. Just as soon as she notices the butterfly though it quickly disappears from her view.
'I'm not still out of it am I?' The girl thinks to herself as she blinks a couple of times to see if there was anything wrong with her eyes.
"Due to a malfunction in the switching system, today's rail schedule has been greatly altered"
Thoughts of the strange butterfly soon disappear from her mind as she hears the announcement. She lets out a sigh before shaking her head to clear her thoughts. No need to get angry about something she has no control over. What's done is done so she just has to move on.
Noticing that the earphones that are hanging around her neck are still playing music she quickly picks them up and places them on her ears letting the soothing music of her MP3 player calm her down.
"We apologize to any customers who were in a hurry. The next stop is Iwatodai..."
She quickly stands up from her seat and smiles when she hears the announcement glad that her stop is finally here. She makes her way towards the passenger train's door and only waits for a couple of moments before the train finally slows down to a stop. She practically jumps out of there as soon as the doors open and she quickly scans her new surroundings.
She notices on an overhead clock that it is nearly midnight and she quickly makes her way out of the station hoping that someone is still awake at her destination. As soon as her foot makes it out of the station though everything suddenly turns dark and a creepy green tint suddenly covers the entire area. To top it all off, her music player just suddenly stopped playing as well.
She stops and takes a look around the now dark city idly wondering if there was a black out as she puts her earphones back down to hang on her neck.
'I really shouldn't have left them on to keep playing while I slept...' She thought as she starts to make her way through the eerily quiet city. She hopes that she can find the dorm that she will be staying on even with this black out and tries to remember the directions to said dorm that she received.
'T-Those aren't coffins... right?' She thinks to herself as she spots a couple of them at the sidewalk. She lets out a nervous laugh and tries to ignore the opposing red coffins but despite her dismissal of it she soon finds herself walking slightly faster and hoping that she'll find the dorm soon and that she wont get lost.
4/6 Monday
Dark Hour
It was nearly an hour before she spots the familiar building that she saw on her pamphlet and she is glad to see that the building had some lights that are still on.
'Is the black out over? or maybe they have their own generator...' She wonders to herself as she looks around the still dark and, hopefully not as, dead city.
'Stupid directions...' She curses to herself as she makes her way inside the building.
"whoa..." She says as she sees the interior of the building. She marvels at how beautiful the inside of the building looks despite the ever present green aura still dominating the whole place. She smiles and nods feeling happy that she somehow managed to get assigned to such a nice dorm.
She hears someone chuckling to her side and her head quickly turns towards where she heard the voice to see a blue haired male with one of his blue eyes being covered by his bangs wearing a light gray double-breasted jacket sitting behind the counter. He gives her a charming smile once he sees that he has her attention.
"You're late. I've been waiting a long time..." He says and she is taken aback by just how handsome and charming the boy is.
"A-Ah I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be this late... you see I-" She tries to explain but he raises a hand to interrupt her.
"Don't worry. You do not need to explain yourself. You are here and that is all that matters..." He says as he pulls out a blue folder from behind the desk and opens it up revealing a single piece of paper inside. "Now that you are here, we can finally proceed with the... formalities..." He says as he pushes the piece of paper towards her. She leans in to take a look at the paper expecting to see a long list of rules but is surprised to see that it only had one line of text and a single line underneath it where she is to sign the paper.
"I chooseth this fate of mine own free will..." She repeats the line before looking back up at the boy. She lets out a small gasp and nearly jumps back when she sees that his face was only inches away from her.
He lets out a small chuckle at her reaction before he pulls out a pen from behind the counter and proceeds to give it to her.
"I'm going to need you to sign this paper should you wish to continue..." He says as she looks back at him and notices that there is a mischievous glint in his single visible eye. "Don't worry. It only binds you to accepting full responsibility for your actions. You know... the usual stuff."
She sighs as she starts writing her name on the paper. Minako Arisato.
"You're not the devil are you?" She asks as she finishes and pushes the pen and paper back to the mysterious boy.
"I can be if you want me to..." He mutters with a mischievous smile on his face as he picks up the pen and paper. He puts away the pen and quickly scans the document before letting out a small chuckle.
"What? is something wrong..." She asks hoping that he isn't laughing at her less than ladylike handwriting.
"It's nothing..." He says as he puts the paper back inside the blue folder. "It's just that you really are my counterpart."
She looks at him confused for a bit before letting out a gasp as he picks up the folder and it suddenly disappears out of thin air.
"How did you-" She stops when she sees his blue eye staring intently at her.
"Time waits for no man..." He says before reaching out and gently grabbing her chin holding her head in place. "It delivers us all to the same end..." He says as he starts leaning in towards her.
"W-What are you-" She stammers out as she sees his head slowly get closer and closer to her making her blush uncontrollably. She tries to pull away but finds that she is unable to do so because of his hand on her chin.
"You can't hide inside that cute little head of yours and wish for it all to go away..." He says as he continues to lean in towards her. She closes her eyes not knowing what else to do in this kind of situation. She can already feel his warm breath on her lips knowing just how dangerously close he is.
"... Who's there!?" A voice calls out and as soon as she feels his hold on her chin loosen she quickly pulls away from the boy and looks at the source of the voice. She sees a auburn haired girl wearing a pink cardigan standing at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the second floor. She looks over to where the mysterious handsome boy was only to find an empty space at where he used to be. She looks around her immediate area to try and find where he went but she can find no traces of him whatsoever. She shivers a bit when she hears him chuckle again seeming to come from everywhere around her before she hears his final parting words.
"And so it begins..."
Just testing the waters here with this one... see if it gets any attention or whatnot... I'm still a fairly new author so tell me what you think of this and any feedback or suggestions you can give me for this story will be greatly appreciated!
