Just something I thought up after hearing a special piece of music. Like it or hate it, let me know what you thought in a review if you could.

Have you ever witnessed a death?

Have you ever gone so far with someone that you wished you hadn't? That you could turn back the clock and go slower? Make the right choices?

Have you been able to smell the burning metal from a destroyed tank with your best friends on the inside? Screaming for their lives?

To be known as the one person who ran away when everyone else counted on you?

The one who froze up in fear when you needed to load that one critical shell? The one that would seal the fate of everyone you loved?

That was the reality for Yukari Akiyama.

One particular autumn day, she was praticing loading shells for faster reload times when the whole tank misfired. The shell ruptured and there was little time to even so much as to call out for help.

Yukari had been with Miho earlier that day... They had pratically given themselves to one another before this accident. An accident that... Should never have occurred.

Yukari had gotten out of the tank quickly when the shell ruptured, it burnt the back of her body with scratches of metal against her flesh... She was like a scarred animal who had scampered away from battle.

The mere second she got home she almost collapsed.

Yoshiko looked to the door when she heard someone collapse against it, panting out of breath and sharp intakes of breath. The person on the other side had been panicking so she raced to the door and opened it - She was horrified to see Yukari on the other side, her daughter, with scars/burn marks/blood in some places and her entire uniform almost black.

What caught Yoshiko's attention more than anything else was the look in Yukari's eyes. She was terrified. Yoshiko leapt forwards - With speeds unknown to Yukari - and grabbed her daughter with a very strong hold. Yukari knew from that point onwards, that she was not going anywhere. She was safe... With her mother.

But the images in her mind haunted her. The things that went back and forth between her hesitation, the miscalculation of the tank/miswirings or whatever, the entire day was... It was now in a complete disarray. Yukari was feeling extremely dizzy but the one thing that her mother said... The one thing her mother said was something that Yukari broke down into tears after hearing:-

"It's alright Yukari. You're safe here in my arms."

To Be Continued.