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It's an Animal Thing

Chapter one

A girl around the age of six was running around in her backyard with her brother while her mother and father watched, but on that day things started happening that changed her life. While playing tag, she came upon a dead little bird, she picked it up and ran to her mother, something about this bird made her sad enough to have tears in her eyes, her brother noticed she was running the other way so he turned around and followed her. Fujitaka heard his daughter's wails and saw Sakura running with something in her hands.

"Papa, why isn't this bird moving" she said showing her father, he took a look at the bird,

"Sakura this bird is dead" he said, upon hearing this she cried,

"It can't be dead; it can't be, please let it be alive" she wailed, Fujitaka shook his head, just then her mother and brother came up to her,

"What's wrong with Sakura?" her brother asked, he noticed the dead bird in her hand,

"Eww" he said picking up the bird by some of it feather on it wing and shooting it away, this made Sakura cry more, she stepped on her brother foot and grabbed the bird again and walking up to her parents

"It's only sleeping, it's alive," she started feeling tired "It's alive, it will wake up soon, it will" the last part was barley heard as she collapsed,

"SAKURA" he mother called running toward her only daughter, but stopped in her tracks when she saw the once dead bird moving, Fujitaka was beside Sakura picking her up,

"Fujitaka, look the bird" she said pointing to the bird who was now flying around Sakura, Fujitaka looked up and saw that the bird was alive and well, Sakura stirred in her father eyes then noticed the bird flying

"I told you it was only sleeping" she said waking up, she held out her hand and the bird landed on it, her whole family was shocked.

"Can you put me down now?" Sakura asked her father, He nodded then placed her down on one of the lawn chairs. He still kept his eye on the supposed to be dead bird which was now resting on her finger.

"What your name little birdy" Sakura asked the bird, it whistled and Sakura laughed, her brother walked over to her now,

"What his name Sakura" Touya said sitting on the lawn chair beside Sakura,

"She said her name is Hanna" Sakura said.

"Sakura can you understand that bird?" her father asked, Sakura nodded, Just then a squirrel hopped on the table.

"Can you help me?" the tiny voice said, Sakura looked at the squirrel,

"What do you need help with?" she asked, her parents and brother where looking at her talking to a squirrel now,

"Sakura, animal can't talk" he said trying to convince his daughter, she shook her head,

"I can hear him; he sound just like us can't you?" Sakura asked, she noticed that her mother and father were getting angry,

"Sakura stop this foolishness" her mother said in a sharp tone,

"But they are talking" she said desperately she was wondering why they were getting so angry, Nadeshiko got up grabbed her daughter by the arm and brought her inside with her father and brother following.

"Enough, animals can't talk" she snapped and pushed Sakura up to her room and locked her in,

"You're not coming out until you stop your fantasy about talking with animals" her mother said walking down the stairs, she could hear the steps of her brother and father following.

Sakura flung herself on the bed and cried until she fell asleep, when she awoke she heard taping on her window, she opened her eyes and saw Hanna, she got up and opened the window letting the bird in.

"Why can't they hear you?" she asked her head resting on her knees tears still stining her eyes,

"I don't know, but can you do something for all us animals, word has spread that you can heal and talk to animals and your parents are punishing you for something that you can't control, please just lie and say you can't hear them" the little bird pleaded,

"I can't lie to my parents" Sakura whispered not wanting her parent to hear, the little bird pleaded and Sakura gave in, she laid on her bed for what seemed like hours until the door opened.

"Are you going to stop you foolish animal talking?" her mother asked, Sakura nodded,

"I was only imagining the voices, I'm sorry mother" Sakura said looking down, her mother nodded and lead Sakura down the stairs to where were father and brother where sitting, they looked up giving Sakura glares, And for once in her life, she was truley scared of her family

"I'm sorry" Sakura said sitting down beside her family not trusting to look at them.

"Sakura" this time her father spoke, "Were moving."

"What?" she said she didn't want to leave Hanna,

"Living in this forest has proven to make you imagine things so were moving away to a city away from the wilderness" Her mother said, Sakura not wanting to be put back in her room nodded feeling the tears coming.

"Where are we going?" she asked, he head down hiding her tears,

"To a town called Tomoeda" her Father said, Sakura nodded and headed up stairs to get packed.

After a few days, they had everything packed and loaded the car, Tomoeda wasn't far away, when she told Hanna what was happening, the bird said that she would follow the car, Sakura nodded and left to her new home, not knowing what to expect.


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