Your World, My World
Chapter 11: A Memory of Friendship
I couldn't sleep last night.
After my encounter with Neru and Mikuo, I had to go lie down somewhere. I had to think through what they just told me. It sure did give me one hell of a headache though. I tried sleeping, but my mind wouldn't take a break from thinking.
The moment the sun rose over the horizon of trees and its soft sunlight danced through my window, I realized that I needed to warn everybody. I need to warn everyone about Neru betraying everyone else so she could restart me while every other Vocaloid dies. Why would she even want to do it though? She said she did because she wouldn't have to worry about me anymore, but why?
She is also a Vocaloid. No human owns yellow eyes. She is us and we are her...
My mind fixes to that boy, Mikuo. He is me, but I am not him. He is just a copy of who I am and formed into a new person. Is he hearing what I am thinking right now? No, we both have separate minds. He only know where I am. Damn him! Since he works for the P.M.T.S.A, he could simply tell Master's servants where I am hiding! Then us Vocaloids would have no where to hide!
I need to do something about this. I just can't sit back a wait for Neru to decide when to turn me in. No matter what, I will not let the other Vocaloids die. Including Len, since they want to kill him for kidnapping me and killing Master.
Len...
Neru never answered my question about how she knows our past. I know Len wouldn't tell anyone, including me.
I bolt out of my small bed and runs out of my dorm room. Rin sleeps peacefully in the other bed across from mine, even though she is my roommate and I'm very clumsy, she doesn't seem to hear a thing. I turn the corner and keep running until I am almost into the boy's part of the dorm where Len is sleeping. If I need to warn anyone about Neru, it'll be Len first.
Before I can cross over to the boy's side, a large figure walks out from nowhere and before I know it, we both slam hard onto the carpeted floor. When we reach the ground, a soft girl-like yelp pops out from the object. I sit up on my knees and rub my head. "I'm so sorry, I didn't see you..."
My hand drops back down to my side as a awfully pale girl in front of me places her hand on her forehead and looks up at me with bright crimson eyes. A clumsy smile places her lips as she sits up. Her long snow white hair with a hint of silver is tied neatly into a long pony-tail in the back of her head. A black bow decorates where it starts and she has long flowing bangs almost covering her red eyes.
"It's okay. I didn't expect to get bumped into while on my way to my room. My name is Haku Yowane." She nods at me and smiles again.
My eyes widen.
"Hey Clarith?" I ask, my voice warm and happy. Clarith looks at me with a confused expression and ask in a soft voice, "Yes, Michaela? "
I shyly smile at her and ask is a quiet voice, "Why aren't you happy?" I watch her as her soft face disappears into sadness. I hate it when it does that. I never mean to make her unhappy, but the reason I became human was to make all of her sadness disappear.
She stares at the grass meadow that we lay in and doesn't speak for several moments. When she turns to me, a wide smoothing smile spreads across her face. "Before you came, I was lonely. Ever since I found you by that tree, I knew I wasn't lonely anymore." She lets out a soft giggle as she leans on my shoulder. "I am happy. I'm always happy when I'm talking to you."
I smile back at her. There we go. She's happy again. It pains to me to see my friend sad. I think for a moment about what will make her face even brighter. I turn to her and say, "How about we move away from this village? Everyone has green hair but you, so why not move away where no one minds your beautiful white hair?" I smile at her.
She gasps. "What? Just us two? How will we survive?" Even though she is worried about my sudden plan, she seems to be excited about it. "We will work as maids or something. As long as you're happy, we can work anywhere!"
A soft smile spreads across her face as she nods at me. "That sounds great. I like that idea." Her soft voice is calm now. "It's settled! By tomorrow morning, we will move away from this village and work someone else for happiness!"
I will do anything to see Clarith smile.
Haku jumps backward the same time I do as we gape at each other. My hand covers my mouth as she stares, as if frightened, at me. Did she see the same thing I did? Of course she did, otherwise she wouldn't have jumped the same exact time I did.
That girl... Clarith I think it was... she looks exactly like this girl, Haku. They both have white silver hair and smooth pale skin, but why can't I remember her eyes?
In a small whisper to where I can nearly hear it, she says, "Michaela? You're... alive?"
My heart drops.
What in the hell did I just see? A vision? No, it's already happened. A memory? It can't be. I can't remember my past, how can a part of it just pop out of no where?
In a blurry moment, Haku pounces from her spot onto me and wraps her arms tightly around my shoulder and neck. Even though I can't clearly see her face and juding by the whimpers, I can tell she is crying. "I can't believe you're back. Gumi told me that your spirit wouldn't be reborn again..."
I place my hands on her back, giving her a small hug in return to her huge one. "What do you mean, Haku?" I ask, my voice quiet. This is all to confusing. This girl was from my dream. The dream I had before Len woke me up so we could escape. She wasn't exactly in it.. but I remember mentioning a girl named Clarith.
"My white haired friend." Is what I called her.
She begins to sob on my shoulder before yelling, "Gumi and you were spirits! Spirits that turned into humans! You were supposed to die when Rillianne ordered you to...! Your spirit... wasn't supposed to be reborn again..." By the time she reaches the end if her sentence, her small voice has grown weak and has flooded in even more sobs.
I place my hands on her shoulders and yank her back away from me. In an instant, I quickly and firmly ask, "What are you talking about!?"
The sudden shout made her startled for a moment. Then her small face suddenly grows dimmer and her sad expression gets worse. "I see. you can't remember anything..."
She wipes away her fallen tears and stares at anything but my gaze. After a few silent moments, I ask, "Haku. What don't I remember?"
Was she in my past life, too? How many more? It's getting on my damn nerves that I don't even remember what hurt so many people.
She quickly shakes her head. "I'm not allowed to tell you."
What..? Not allowed to tell me? Why can't anyone tell me anything!? I take a long, slow sigh as I try to calm down. There's a reason. There's always a reason. "Why not?" I ask, my gaze boring into hers as soon as she looked up at me.
In a hushed whisper, she says quietly enough so only I can hear, "If I do, you'll die."
(( If you haven't noticed, this chapter is shorter than the others. I wanted to put all the following drama in Chapter 12 because it's a lot to process. I also wanted you guys to know that I am basing this story almost completely off of the Daughter of Evil series. Almost. This is what happens after everyone died. Drama drama drama.~))