A Reason to Live
Prologue
Natsuki placed her hand on Riku's cheek. "I want to live my real life, I've been from my dimension for a long time now." The girl kissed Riku on the cheek and stepped back. "If you leave this world you would have to start your life again from the moment you are born as a baby, would you want to do that?" Riku placed his hands on Natsuki's shoulders. Natsuki looked away from Riku's pleading face. "If losing my memories is what you're worried about, I won't. I'll still have them it's just I'll be reborn with the memories I have right now." Natsuki took Riku's hands in hers and then she started to fade till nothing was left of her.
Chapter 1
"Natsuki! Hurry up! We're going to be late for marching practice!" Tiffany and Ashley screamed into the house as Natsuki was franticly searching for gloves, only to discover they were in her pocket. "Argh! Stupid me!" Natsuki ran out the door to meet up with her friends to walk to her school.
Ever since Natsuki came back to live on earth, she lives a basic life of a regular person. She still carries the memories she has of Riku and the rest. Time passes by faster in this world for some reason, 14 years here would just be 2 weeks over there. Natsuki kept writing letters and sending them to Riku, to keep him updated. It seemed like Natsuki had everything, friends, family, and a boyfriend, what more does she need?
Then everything started to go down hill… To what extent do people love you? For parents to love you, to be acknowledged and accepted in a community where you thought was the one true place you belonged? Natsuki thought to herself everyday as she took abuse from her family.
"Natsuki? What's this mark on your arm?" Natsuki quickly placed her hand on her arm quickly and smiled. "It's nothing, nothing at all." Her boyfriend spotted the mark on her arm and came over. "Natsuki, you can tell me anything." He took her arm and examined it. "Did your parents hit you with a waffle iron?" Natsuki laughed, Andrew always knew how to make her laugh, and this is what she loved about him. "A waffle iron, how original Andrew, how did you come up with that one?" Natsuki said in between laughs. "Dunno, just feel like eating waffles." Natsuki couldn't help but laugh more. She knew that even though her family didn't love her Andrew would, or that's what she thought. The next day Andrew came up to Natsuki. "Natsuki, you know I'll always be here for you as a friend right?" All the emotions in Natsuki's mind were building up inside of her. "Why are you saying this?" Natsuki feared the worse. "I don't know, all I do know is I can't keep pretending that I like you over Brianna…"All the emotions that were bottled up in Natsuki spilled out. It started to grow darker and darker. Natsuki held out her hands and a weapon appeared. Tears streaked down her face as she pointed it at Andrew's face. She then noticed about 12 feet away from her, darkness was forming and she saw a face.