Look, dying wasn't on the agenda when I'd left the house that morning. I'd just wanted to grab some fucking milk and go home. But it seemed that fate would be against me on the matter.

I got mugged, I'm not going to go into detail on it because I'd rather not remember dying.

What? Did you think that I was just going to immediately tell you what happens when you die? Recount something that I have nightmares about just for your entertainment?

Fuck No. That ain't happenin' and if you don't like it. Fuck. Off.

Now that that little tangent is over and done with, surprise, surprise, I died. Then I woke up.

To be honest, when I woke up, I wasn't really aware of it, everything was blurry and nothing made sense. I didn't really understand where I was, the passage of time escaped me and I couldn't hold a thought together to save my life.

'Course that changed shortly, when the dark, enclosed area I'd found myself in started fucking squeezing me.

Ah, the wonders of childbirth. That shit was traumatising folks, I couldn't see anything, and there was noise for the first time in I didn't know how long. So I did what any sane person would do in this situation. I bawled my eyes out.

I didn't know how long it took for me to regain my senses, it seemed like an age before I was able to see anything with great detail. Of course the first thing I would see with this returned gift was a huge face. I am not ashamed to admit that I may have shit myself at waking up to see this sight.

Hey! If you saw a huge ass face in front of you, you'd also shit yourself, though it didn't help that I still couldn't control my bowels. The mortification.

"Hello, my little Mariko." I didn't recognise a word coming out of the lady's, and if it wasn't a lady then holy shit this guy was pretty as fuck, mouth. I tried to tell her that I didn't understand her but all that left my mouth was a gurgle.

And that was how I understood that I was now a child, an infant to be exact.

Fuck me.

It didn't take long before I learnt that the woman I had first seen was my new mother.

I… didn't take it well to say the least.

For me, my mother was a short, chubby 5'4" woman, with dimpled cheeks, green eyes and long brown hair, not tall and lean, with raven hair and grey eyes.

I threw tantrums whenever she came near me, I was a child from hell. I knew that it wasn't her fault that instead of a normal, childish infant she'd gotten me, someone who literally remembered dying and then being born again. But I couldn't help myself.

I guess I didn't realise how badly my treatment of her affected her. It wasn't until I'd seen her crying quietly above me while I tried to sleep that I tried to change any of my behaviour.

It… probably wasn't the best way to go about it, but I stopped throwing tantrums in her presence completely. I cried a lot, but I did it quietly, when the moon hung high in the sky and the night was dark.

It took me a while to notice, but I'd never been visited by a male, maybe my father left after discovering my new mother was pregnant? It wouldn't be the first time that such a thing had happened.

I threw the thought from my mind with new-mother, and I really have to find a better name for her don't I? Arrived, I let a small smile appear on my face and gestured towards her in the universal, 'I want to be picked up.' motion.

Complying with my unspoken request she lifted me into her arms, "Ah, Mari-chan, soon you will be too large for me to carry you," through the time I had spent in this new world I had learnt some of the new language, though I had yet to show my new-mother any mastery over this new tongue.

Though, perhaps… perhaps it was time. "Mama." And thus, my first words were spoken.

I hadn't expected her to immediately burst into tears and hold me tightly, I winced, too tightly against her chest.

Awkwardly I pet her arms, "Mama…."

And with that I decided to accept this new chance at life. I'd never forget my past life and the friends and family I'd had in that life… but I would move forward.

It's not like I could have gone back anyway.

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So New Story, I'm really inspired right now so I'll probably belt out a new story every so often. Anyway tell me what you think in the reviews!