Darkness...
Naru stood reluctantly in the darkness, her blonde hair hanged gently over her shoulders. Beats of sweat started dripping down her forehead. In her mind, she screamed.
Where am I?
She started to panic, walking and walking aimlessly in the darkness for a way out, but there were none.
It wasn't right for someone as cute as her to be in this kind of situation.
Her pace quickened.
She started to run. Oh god please let there be a way out. She ran and ran as long as her feet could take her, until she saw a dim speck of light in the distance. It sparkled at her arrival, and with the remaining strength she could muster, she chased it. She didn't know what 'it' was. She didn't know where it lead. But anywhere would we better then where she was standing then.
She chased it, and with every moment that passed, the speck of dot gradually enlarges, until she finally reached it. The speck of light turned out to be a old wooden door with a rusty golden doorknob to it's left. Spiders seemed to abandoned their homes and left the surrounding area lifeless. Something was coming out strongly from inside the door. What is it? What's inside?
It was light...
She walked closer, and out of her curiosity, she placed her right shaking hand onto the golden doorknob.
The Light grew brighter.
She turned it and heard a 'click'.
The Light shined even brighter.
She pushed the door opened with a 'creak...'
The Light was blinding.
Using her free hand, she shielded her eyes from the light and as if pushing the door against a hurricane, she stepped in, taking one strong step as a time, her heart racing faster then she could ever imagine.
The rays of the shining light gradually faded until it was finally bearable to look. Removing her hand from the doorknob, she walked in deeper and deeper until she heard, Laughter...
Naru unshielded her eyes with a gasp and scanned the surrounding area. She saw the bright green trees looking as fresh as ever standing straight and tall with several branches stick out from its side. The crystal clear skies and the radiant sun warming her back, and the familiar smell of cherry blossoms filled the air, she could recognized this time anywhere.
Spring... How could anything as wonderful as this be abandoned?
She spun her head around clockwise to check how the wooden door would bring her to such a magnificent place. How could it ever be abandoned? She turned only to see the similar view as she noticed in front, the trees, the grass, the skies.
The door... Its gone?
She turned back around to focused her attention on the Laughter. Slowly, she walked towards the direction of the sound, through the trees as the sound became louder and louder, until finally, she reached a clearing, where three children sat.
All of them were vaguely familiar to her, yet she could not put a finger on it. The three children were playing in a sandbox together, each looking around 3 to 5 years old. One of them, was holding on to a very familiar stuffed bear. She had short blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes. She gave out a natural smile as she spoke to a young boy sitting beside her, making a sandcastle. He had short brown hair and looks very cute, having a twinkling of cerulean in his eyes.
"Kei-Kun, did you know... If 2 people who love one another can enter Tokyo University together, they will live happily ever after?" the girl spoke as she added the finishing touches to the sandcastle she was making and leaned close to the boy, "So, when we grow up together, lets both go to Tokyo U!" She smiled and finished her sentence by giving the boy a brief kiss on his cheek.
The boy blushed heavily, as Naru gave out a light giggle. The third child, was a very young girl, sitting on the corner of the sandbox, smiling at the two playing together, as a single teardrop fell from her eyes.
It fell, and fell, until it touched the ground. The ground vibrated, as if a single raindrop dripped onto a lake.
'BOOM!" a loud thunder crashing was hear. Not far from her, rainclouds began to enveloped the skies as lighting could be seen. The lighting stroke the ground below Naru as it split in two, separated the children and her, but the children didn't seem to notice at all, and continued playing with their sandcastle.
Wha...What's happening to me!?
Soon, another thunder was hear and the ground below her shook again, splitting the ground into twos again, this time, engulfing her as she fell.
She looked at the children in fear as they slowly drifted further and further away.
"No... Don't go..." she whispered, and fell into the depths of only one possible place she could think of... oblivion...
'BOOM!' Naru woke up, staring as the crystal clear skies above her.
She found herself lying on the road. Where am I this time?
"Beep Beep!" a honk of a car sounder. She turned around and came face to face with an incoming van only meters away coming straight for her.
This is the end, there is no escape for me now... Was this how this was supposed to end? Dying at the fate of a van?
With the last of her breath, she gave out her loudest, her final scream.
The van continued coming, heading straight for her, as Naru shut her eyes for the end. However, as the van was about to made contact, instead of a heavy impact, she felt a chill down her spine as the van wen right through her. She didn't exist in this world.
Naru opened her eyes and heaved a sigh of relief.
"Bye Bye Kei-Kun!" a voice sounded from the van, as a 'BOOM!' was heard, cracking the very image that was in front of her as if it were glass.
A young familiar boy went passed Naru and chased after the van, holding up his hand as if he was trying to say, 'Don't go'.
"When we grow up, we must meet again in Tokyo U!" the girl shouted.
'BOOM!' another crack...
"Promised me ok!?"
The boy feel to his knees and the girl went further and further away, "I..."
'BOOM!" a final thunder crack was heard before her world in front of her began to shatter, leaving her in the familiar darkness.
As she finally returned to reality, she finally realized. It was not spring that was abandoned, not trees, not grass, not skies.
It was Memories...