Jin never asked me about the forest. I guess he didn't want anything bad to happen. They said I had to stay inside from now on.

"Jin?" I said.

"Yes, Mother?"

"Don't you wanna know what happened?"

"What happened, where?" he asked looking into my eyes.

"Your boy is so stupid. I bet he gets it from you."

I placed my head in my hand and continued speaking. I was that scared little girl again. "At the forest."

"Yakushima Forest?"

"The one you took me to."

"I...didn't want to ask…"

"I know, but I'm better now." I smiled at my son.

"Okay, so what happened?"

"I looked at you and saw someone else. I know who it was now. Kazuya Mishima." Jin's hand balled up into a fist as I spoke to him. "It startled me and brought back things that didn't need to be brought back."

"May I hear of it?"

I shook my head, "No. I don't want you to know." Tears filled my eyes and fell silently down the side of my face. "Why shouldn't he know? You don't want him to know how you were raped and almost killed?" Tears started to fall faster. "Jin, how long have I been like this?"

"Been like what? In a wheelchair? Not very long."

"No, I mean, how long have I been having instances where I freak out and it looks as though I'm crazy?"

"Recently…You took care of me for fifteen years. I think it's my turn to take care of you now." Jin smiled.

"Fifteen years? Fifteen years and now I'm like this?" I sobbed quietly. "I don't have control over my body anymore. My thoughts. The voices in my head. They won't stop. I can't make them stop. I'm helpless. Nothing I can do." "That's right." "It laughed at me. It always does. It helps me and then it destroys me."

Jin lifted me in his arms. "Come on, Mother, enough talk. It's time to sleep now." He carried me into the room and Michelle turned on the light by my bed. I don't like the dark. At first I did. Everything gets stronger in the dark. Louder. The voices are all I hear in the dark. The demons attack me in the dark. I don't like the dark.

Michelle turned off the big light and left the room. Jin walked up to my bedside and kissed my forehead and tucked the blankets around me. "Good night, Mom." He closed the door behind him, leaving a sight in my eyes of him smiling back at me. His face flashed to the one of the older man I'd seen in Jin at Yakushima Forest. It still haunted me but I passed it through my mind so as not to bother Jin and Michelle.