Chapter Ten: Library
Since the play was getting closer and closer. Haru decided to go to the Yagami Public Library to read up on Sleeping Beauty. He realized that Yagami High's version is really loosely based on the classic fairy tale. But it did sustain the same idea. Other than the fact that in the play, there are six heroes instead of one. It still had the same idea. A cursed princess is put under a 100 year slumber, and a hero goes out of his way to find her and kiss her to lift the curse. Haru was never much of a big reader, but when it came to something important like a play, he was an okay reader.
After he had some reading done, he was wandering around when something caught his eye. It was a picture book in the kid's section. Haru walked over to it, and picked it up, it was called Little Lost Ure. It seemed like an innocent enough children's book. But it seemed very different. Intrigued, Haru sat down and read it.
The book:
This is Ure and Otama (the first page shows a purple blob like character with a tail that has red puff ball character right behind him). Otama is always there behind Ure. The two of them are always together. When they were eating. Otama would say, "I don't want anymore!"
"Otama!" cried Ure, "You should eat all of your food!"
When they were walking, Otama would say, "I want to go this way!"
"Otama," Ure said, "Everybody else is going this way!"
"That's okay," Otama said, "If you want to go other ways Ure, you go ahead."
They then walked their seperate ways.
After a while, Ure tried to look for Otama.
She asked a worm on the flower, "Mr. Worm, have you seen Otama?"
"I'm so hungry, I can't move," the worm said.
"Okay," Ure said, "I'll give you some of my food.
"Thank you, Ure, I saw Otama over by the lake."
"Thank you, Mr. Worm!"
Ure kept looking around, but couldn't find her. She noticed the twins.
"Oh, twins. Have you seen Otama?"
"We only have one toy!" The twins cried.
"Then, I'll give you some of my toys."
"Thank you Ure," the twins said, "We saw Otama over by the forest,"
Ure kept looking and looking, but she couldn't find Otama anywhere.
"Otama," Ure said, "Where did you go?"
Ure finally started to cry, "Otama, where have you gone?"
"Ure," Otama said.
Ure turned around and saw that Otama was always behind her, "Ure! I thought you left me!"
"We're always together Ure, remember?" Otama said.
They both continued their walking, friends again.
The end.
Haru closed the book, exhilarated. It was a different kind of kids book. It was really depressing at parts and somehow still felt empty at the end, even though it was a happy ending. Inoue never read to Haru, so Haru did not know much about children s books. It was getting late, and it was a school night, Haru decided to go home, still thinking about the book.