Hello, I am Anaya413 and this is my first story to be posted. I am still searching for a beta other than GrimCreeper. She (if she actually said that she is male in her bio, she'll kill me... oops?) is my classmate and bro, and bros help each other, right? Welp, this is the unbeta'd version so please tell me which parts are to be corrected. Thank you and please enjoy the story.
I will only say the disclaimer once because I do not like to repeat the fact Naruto and most references do not belong to me. Oh, this prologue contains a bit of Puella Magi Madoka Magica but the rest are all Naruto.
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Chapter 0 - Dying-Death-?
Dying the way I did is not something you could call "pleasant". Nope. Not at all. Almost forgetting everything before that is really a nope, especially when you're immobile and a freaking monster is walking towards you.
I was panicking. I have no idea who I am, what's going on nor why blood is leaking from the different injuries from my red clothed body. I saw that my broken arm held a scythe that looked like a long human spine with the goat skull holding the blade in place. Was I fighting that thing? Is that why I'm gravely injured at the moment? Why the heck was I even fighting that thing!?
Due to the panic and hyperventilating, my chest felt like it was being squeezed. I'm in distress, making my blood pressure rise. I'm quickly losing the blood that my heart is pumping. The monster towering over me isn't helping me calm down.
Well, that was until a glowing lady suddenly appeared out of nowhere and floated beside me. At first I nearly had a heart attack and the next second, I calmed down. Why? I guess it was because she touched the rust colored, skull shaped stone on my chest, making it glow. I felt at ease, like the monster isn't a few feet away from me at all. Her long pink hair began to cover me up like a blanket as my eyelids are slowly closing. The pain is disappearing as warmth is replacing it.
'You've done well," the glowing lady said, her voice lulling me to sleep, "you may rest now."
And that was the last time I slept in that world.
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I never knew I would wake up, again. In a tight, dark place filled with liquid to be exact. The liquid is preventing me to breathe but it seems that I don't really need to. I can't move either. Not because I was restrained but more on not having energy to do so is the reason.
Where am I? Maybe I'm in some kind of spirit world? That's possible considering that I did die. Maybe I was only dreaming my death? You know what; I'll just sleep. I don't want my brain to override itself due to this crap.
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I did sleep but somehow, I just woke up again. This time, the place is white and wide, plain and simple. There seems to be neither a ceiling nor floor. It's like I'm standing in a white void. Dang, how the hell did I keep teleporting on different plains?
"Hello?" Wow, it echoed! "Echo!"
"Ya know," okay, so something responed to me, where is it co – "you do realize I can hear your thoughts, right?"
Now that's creepy, "Shut up."
Okay, where are you then?
"I'm right behind you."
When I turned around, I saw a girl. She wore the same clothing I had when I died. Same cherry capelet with torn hems, the skull shaped stone holding the capelet together, the long sleeved wine colored sundress with its hems torn and burnt on different parts, and the burgundy cloth wrapped around my ankles and the balls of her feet. She's even holding the creepy scythe! Her wild sunny blonde hair is tied high (I think it's as high as her temple) on one side as her bangs is let down on one side, looking like some kind of emo bangs. She stared at me with her upturned baby blue eyes like she is looking at a photograph. Her stare made me feel uncomfortable, so suddenly her ponytail became so interesting to look at.
Who are you? Where are we? I could still feel her stare burning a hole on me. My foot is beginning to bounce up and down with its heel. From the corner of my eyes, I saw that the blonde blinked and palmed her pale face as she sighed.
"You really don't really remember,huh?" Why do you think I'm even asking that then? "I'm Nozomi Rin, also known as the "cruen ta mors" or "Bloody Death"."
I stop fidgeting as I hear that. As my eyes went wide, her smirk got even bigger, clearly amused with my reaction.
Kami, "Bloody Death"? Are you – "How the hell am I suppose to kill the unborn soul, genius?"
Wait, wha – "Yep, you're not yet born. I'm actually the one who died."
Its official, my brain is melting. I mean, how on earth am I suppose to process that major information. She said that she's the one who died so casually that it's unbelievable...
WAIT A MINUTE! I shouted as I pointed a finger, or rather felt like I did, How could I know you aren't lying!?
"Oh man, why does this shit have happen?" Rin's right eye twitched as her face changed from smug to "are -you-serious", "Say –" YOU HAVEN'T ANSWERED YET! – "you wanna know where we are right?"
Yeah, I did ask tha – "We're actually in your mindscape," – stop switching topics! What's a mindscape anyway?
"You need to wake up now," Hey! Don't kick me out! "Too late~"
And that's what happened before I woke up, again.
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I could hear voices beyond the safe haven I am in. They are most likely my parents, especially the most audible one. I bet she is kickass and strong, her voice and tone are telling that message. To tell you the truth, I'm actually quite excited to meet them. I don't remember the Nozomi family so I'll make this life filled with memories of my new family.
That isn't the only reason, though. I wanna breathe again, to move every muscle and to know I will live again. It may be comforting to be here, but it's so boring. As pastime, I kick the walls a lot to get reactions. There were cooing and other funny sounds every time I do so.
But sometimes, my dad talks to me. His voice is a bit too low for me to hear, yet I knew that he is talking to me. I think he's going to be an awesome dad some day! I really can't wait after hearing more voices. I want to see their faces already.
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When I went back to my "mindscape", I noticed something different. There were floating holograms of what seems to be Rin's memories. Some of them showed her and a redhead running away from vendors they stole food from, others show their monster killing moments and the other are being compiled by the blonde herself.
"These are memories, indeed," she told me as she placed another hologram in a floating folder icon, "I somehow spilled them all over the place and made a mess."
So, you could actually do this stuff? I asked while watching Rin getting other memories. Watching her do so is very interesting to look at and you get to see something other than her standing in the middle of the void.
"Actually, not all of them are mine," Rin met my gaze as she placed the memory in the icon, "some are yours. For example," she pulled a stray memory showing what I saw one first time I "woke up", "my supposedly dying moments and the different sounds you've been hearing whenever you're awake."
"Meaning, your mindscape is practically one huge data, allowing us to view different memories like files. Since I'll be stuck here for the meanwhile, I'll the one in charge of your different memories. To make our lives easier," Rin tapped a finger on the folder and a hologram-like keyboard appeared under the icon, "I'll label the folders and separated ours and to fix your memories in order."
"Whoa, that's amazing," I exclaimed as a memory did appear in front of me. Okay, while I was listening to Rin, I was experimenting on making a specific memory A.K.A. an audio file appear. This made the whole "mindscape" thing more believable. I still don't know what that word means, but I'll figure it out soon.
The audio file looked like a YouTube bar thing only with other options on it. While I held the memory in place, I imagined that I'm wearing headphones connected to the audio file, and viola we have it. I experimented on the other options on it and found that they are actually editors of some kind. That means I would finally understand what the voices are saying to me!
"Don't get too excited," Rin advised as she peeked from my shoulder, "it may make the audio more audible, but it doesn't mean that it would make any sense at all."
Joy kill, I glared at her as the audio is being loaded, why must you insist on being a pessimist?
"I'm not a pessimist, I'm realist," she stared back blankly, "if you get too high, you're fall will hurt a lot more ya know."
Okay, she was right – "I told you so," – the audio did get clearer but I only understood a few words. Thank whatever deity out there that my parents spoke my native language, or rather Rin's native language (I'm still confused with that crap). I really don't want to learn another language because of that stupid mishap. Some words are "godfather", "father", "Minato", "tomato" and actually, I heard some punching noises.
Well, this life is really going to be interesting.
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Well, that's all for today. I'm really sleepy now, oyasumi!
Anaya413