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Bringing You Back – Rewritten!

Hooray! I'M FINALLY REWRITING ALL MY SUCKY FICS!

Now, I won't be deleting the old version, just so you can see how messed up and terrible it was because I just wanted to write a fic and blah. That is, if you want to see it. Which, if you don't want your eyes to be horribly, horribly scarred because of my stupidity, well…Don't read it.

But anyway, this version will probably start off retardedly. Because it does.

Chapter One:

To say I hated my life was an understatement, yet, strangely enough, an overstatement.

Could you really blame the fact that I hated myself? I blame myself for everything that happened that made me change, even if it wasn't my fault. I blame myself for everything that happened that made me become a dark, closed individual. To tell you the truth, I wasn't always like this. I used to be a happy, cheerful girl, and if you knew me then and compared the old me to the person I am now, you would have thought that I was from an alternate universe.

You might be asking why I'm here, all emotional. Well, let's put it this way: I let my second youngest sister, Anna, get killed. And by god do I hate myself for it.

Yes, Anna wasn't really my blood-related sister. My family adopts. I was the only one truly born from the Sakura clan. But I had friends, people I called my siblings. And I let one of them die.

Anna was ten when she died. She would have been fifteen, like the rest of us, except for Aoi. Five fucking years of dead silence, and it was torture to not hear her voice for so long.

One has gone – and so four more to go. I wonder who'll die first – Hotaru, Nonoko, Aoi...or me.

Nonoko has been a walking zombie ever since Anna died. Nonoko and Anna went through a lot together. Their parents threw them out when they were seven, for no reason at all, and they became best friends very fast. They knew how to survive the hard way. Then we found them and they were ecstatic to meet new people and finally become part of a family again, not to mention being legally sisters. But then Anna died, and all of a sudden, there came a different side to the chatty Nonoko I once knew.

She holed up in her room and listened to music all the time, full blast. She always had this empty look in her eyes and would either be blank or angry whenever she talked. She changed the way she dressed and I knew she cried every night even if we didn't hear her. Anna was practically her twin. Nonoko loved her so much. It was so unfair.

True, we all changed. But I knew it affected Nonoko the most and probably me, the second. After all, I stood there and let her die, didn't I? I was a murderer. That was what I called myself.

I was freaking useless.

It all started when Anna got lost.

Well, not exactly...

What really happened was, well, Anna and Nonoko and I liked to run a lot. Not to mention we were the fastest between the six people in our very weird family, and we were three of the fastest people in our class, maybe our whole school. We all liked to race too, so one day we went outside and raced.

"Ready..." Aoi started. Aoi and Hotaru were always in between, halfway from the fence. It was easier to see and hear that way. We had a big backyard and I loved it.

"Set..."

"GO!" And then off we ran. At first we all kept the same pace, but then somehow, Anna went about a meter ahead of us. And then two meters, and then three meters – right up until she reached the end of the fence and won.

Her time was 12.76, according to Hotaru. That was a great score.

'Wow, Anna, awesome job!' I would have said, that is, had she been there. But when Nonoko and I reached the end (it was a tie, by the way. Our score was 13.09.), she wasn't there. We ran back and told Hotaru and Aoi. We figured she was inside, ready to congratulate us for a job well done with a grin, but nope, no Anna.

We found that very queer.

"Anna?" We called, all over the house and in the backyard. We couldn't find her, and so we went to our parents and asked them if they saw Anna. When they said no, we told them what happened and asked them to help look. We searched everywhere at least nine times, but when she wasn't there, we went back to bed, worried.

The next day I really hoped she was there, but she wasn't. We made and scanned some 'missing child' posters and gave them to everyone in our neighbourhood, and posted them everywhere. But she still didn't come.

After five days, we were restless. But then we heard a piercing shriek that could only be Anna's. Anna screamed a lot in school plays. She always picked the screaming type of character; said it helped her vocals.

Hotaru, Aoi, Nonoko and I ran to the direction of the shriek as fast as we could. It was in the woods. The Black Forest was what everyone called it. No one went there because it was rumoured to be haunted, and now I wondered if that rumour was right.

When we got there, there was Anna, with her back pressed up against a tree as a cloaked figure advanced towards her.

"Leave me alone!" She yelled. "I didn't do anything to you! Think about what you're doing!"

I was curious. Was there something behind this? Something she knew, but not us?

"Shh," Nonoko whispered. "We'll get her in a while." We nodded.

"You know perfectly well what you did," the figure hissed. "You freed her." Anna stood still.

"It was unjust of you to keep her there."

"Then you shall die. Nobody defies me and lives to tell the tale." The figure cackled.

"I haven't said a word to anyone."

"What utter lies." I was stupid...I went and ran out from the tree I was hiding behind. What was he, or she, talking about anyway? If Anna said anything about...whatever they were talking about, she would have told us! And if I didn't know about it, and Hotaru and Aoi didn't either, then Nonoko was sure to have known.

I was certain of it.

"Leave my sister alone!" I shouted. I could practically hear Hotaru smacking her head and saying, "God, what an absolute idiot."

The figure turned to me. "So," he hissed to Anna, "You haven't told anyone? I beg to differ, my dear," he whispered venomously.

"Mikan," Anna breathed. "What are you doing here? Do you want to die?"

"No, but I heard your scream and-"

Ss...

A blast of light was directed towards me. I was startled and didn't move, but Anna did. She ran with wide eyes and lunged towards me, blocking the light from hitting me as I shut my eyes tightly, waiting for impact.

I was knocked down.

I opened my eyes, ever-so-slowly, and then there was Anna, lying in a heap on my lap. I shook her.

"Anna!"

And then Nonoko came out and dropped to her knees as she shook Anna like her life depended on it.

Did this mean she was already dead? I had thought. Nonoko turned to the figure and glared. "You are going to be a very sorry man. I will avenge her."

"And so see if you can," he hissed darkly, disappearing into a cloud of smoke.

God, no, was my last thought.

So, no OCs so far but probably some slight OOC, and...Uh, yeah. It was rushed in my opinion. But I wanted to hurry up. XD.

Do you like it? Hate it? Love it? About to ask me if you can marry it? Do you want to burn it into the fires of hell? (Err, last one is too extreme...) Then review me!

I'm pretty sure this first chapter is at least one percent better than the original. So I hope. Heh.

Please review! :D

(Oh, and also, I have a new fic – The Malevolent Bane of Her Existence. Check it out and see if you like it! :) Don't forget to review! :D xD. To the people who have read it, I'm going to update and I already know what I want in the chapter except I dunno what to put for the start of it, so yeah. That part might take long.)

-r-r.p