Note for the reader. Just to avoid confusion between dialogue and thoughts.

'Thoughts'

"Dialogue "

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Before she moved with her mother to Tokyo, Sakura decided to finish her last year middle school at this town which was full of memories with her grandma. Despite being able to see spirits, her grandmother always guide her on how to handle those problems and make her felt at ease. As for the villagers, they treated her normally as any other children in the community and the connection between the villagers with her grandma always friendly and respectful. Then that incident occurred which cause a disturbance...

When she was seven years old, Sakura had been missing for eight hours into the forest when she had followed her grandma to the crops field. While her grandma was working with the crops, Sakura had been bored of waiting and started to wander from the field until reached the mountain path near the shrine. The crops field are not that far from the mountain as some of the wild plants or vegetables tend to grown on slopes that had been improvised as agriculture land. The grandmother and few of the workers never seem to realize Sakura was missing. It was liked everyone had forgotten her presence -just vanished.

When the afternoon comes, when the sky looked grey and gloomy and when the workers started having their break. It was that time Sakura's grandma seemed to pick up sudden breeze that felt icy chilling. Her instinct began to alert her when she remembered her precious grandchild.

'Let's play. Let's play.'

Thump! Thump! Her heart was pounding loudly and her body froze when the breeze carried the sudden eerie subtle voice. Sakura!! It was then she knew something had caught her grandchild. "Oo..hh..h no my Sakura, where are you child..." she began to panic as one of the workers started to notice her turmoils.

"Is something the matter, Chihiro-chan?"

"My grandchild! I cannot see her everywhere. I've told her to not wandering too far from the field. Whaa..tt should I do, Kumi-chan??" As Chihiro began to tears up. "Don't worry Chihiro-san, I'm sure we will find her." one of the other workers assured her distressed. Chihiro kept on praying for her grandchild safety and to be found again. 'Kami-sama please shows us the path with light can be seen on the UNSEEN path and return for whom are not belong there.'

Later that day, after eight hours of searching by local search and rescue team -at night time, Sakura was found in the forest among the large barks of a tree and was eating amounts of dry leaves -dirty with few scratches on her legs and hands. She doesn't seem to realize as she kept eating the leaves until someone convinced her that was not eatable. People shocked when Sakura told them she was eating candies with her newly made friend. "Urmm..my friend gives me candies so I ate it..but it's taste strange. I don't want to upset her so I ate it.." little Sakura said to the rescuers. After fews check up for any sign of severe injuries or illness, she was deemed okay. Sakura was then sent back to her grandma. On that night, Chihiro embraced her grandchild as she wept with relief.

'Sakura..this is a protection charm that will wards you from any bad spirits. Always wear it on your wrist. I love you very much..you're my precious Little Sakura. Protect yourself..'

Sakura looked at her wrist where the protective charm at. The double red and white thread twisted together and a single wooden bead that attached at the end of the thread bind them like bracelet.

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Middle schools always seem monotonous in Sakura life. She was quite and alone except for the fact she's always been bullied by Ami and her friends except Hideki. They proclaimed that they were her friends and that she must do whatever they said. If Sakura trying to ignore them, they would bother her like talking bad about her loudly until the whole class heard them. No one seem bothered to intervene and some even laughs about it. How unfortunate of her, when her class seating was near them...

Her ability was kept as secret but some of her classmates noticed that she was not normal. They even caught her muttering something during class period when she looked underneath her desk. So the rumour about her being mentally unstable spreads on the school grounds. They tried to be discreet about it but Sakura can't ignore the stares she received and hushed whispers when she walked by, they thought that she couldn't heard them.

Although they dubbed her as a freak, she doesn't seems to mind as long as they didn't bother her. After her grandma died, she became withdrawn and less talkative. She was reluctantly stayed at her other relatives at the town away from the village. Sakura's parents were too busy that they could not fetched her and decided that she would stayed with her aunt, cousin of Sakura's mother from her grandpa side of family. Her uncle and aunt were nice including their daughter, Hideki, who's one of Ami friends. Maybe that's one of the reasons why she was involved with Ami at the first place. At first, things were peaceful until...

Everything's changed during her final year at middle school.

They were rumours about the girl's toilet being haunted. One of the student proclaimed that she saw a dark figure manifested behind them when she looked in the mirror while washing her hands before it disappeared. Others declared that they heard the sound of a girl weeping. While some others doesn't want to believe those rumours as they thought it was a prank. Behind all of those tittle-tattles, Sakura knew that sometimes she saw it in the corner of her eyes that the dark figured always standing at the back end of the toilet in front of the rows of toilets doors. Just standing as if it was waiting...

'Never look in the eyes! If you noticed them, they will never leave...'

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Well on this part explained the flashback of Sakura memories when she's at middle school. I decided to write this chapter to start with the flashbacks before entering the present story. Soon Bad Memories II. I hope you guys enjoy it. Please kindly review the story.