Note for the reader. Enjoy and kindly review. Pardon for the poor grammars. Dramas ahead.
'Thoughts'
Dialogue"
'Entities'
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It choose Hideki.
'Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!'
Blood-curdling screams was heard clearly by them.
'Grandma...please help us!'
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The toilet room suddenly changed atmosphere, room became dim with grim, the pressure decreased and caused them hard to breathe. The temperature dropped -triggered the goosebumps all over their bodies. Hideki. She was standing with her head bowed down, not responding to their calls. The spirit of a girl. The horrifying figures choose Hideki as its grudge. The toilet wall suddenly leaked with water, dripping onto the floor.
Sakura and the girls were frightened beyond believes until Miyano couldn't take it as she'd emitted an ear-piercing scream as she make away to the door. When she'd grabbed the knob. The door wouldn't budged when she tried to pull it opened. Like something was preventing them from escaped. Miyano was crying desperately in attempted to open the door. Ami and Tayuko were on the floor whimpering as they were hugging each other.
Sakura was just standing there petrified while facing her cousin state. She was shaking like a leaf, not knowing what to do.
'Let's be friends for ever... NOO!!!! You all will betray me!! Die! All of you!'
The enraged malicious voices shrieking through out the room -mirrors cracked, the walls was shaking like there was tremors and the rows of toilet doors beside the possessed Hideki banging loudly. Sakura and the girls were trembling violently frozen in place. They were huddled together at the center of the room.
'I was waiting. Always waiting. You dare to leave me!!!'The spirit began to talk. Sad. Anger. Betrayal. Those emotions washed over Sakura, affecting her greatly for only she can sense them. Sakura began to gasp for air like she was drowning. The one who had the gift to see the UNSEEN. The fate that she'd cannot escaped.
'Use this charm to proctect you from bad spirits, Little Sakura. Always wear it on wrist.'
'Grandma protection charm!' Sakura gasped when she suddenly remembered her late gradma words. She'd quickly folded up her sleeves and directed her right wrist where the charm situated to the spirit on her cousin back.
'Please wards the evil that wants to harm us. Guide us back to the light path.' Sakura prayed with all of her heart for all of them especially Hideki safety.
"BEGONE!!" Sakura shouted as she stepped forward towards her cousin. The charm at her wrist began to emitting light, blinding her vision and she could heard the spirit was shrieking in agony. And all of the sudden, Sakura sees a vision, a girl looking at her. She said something but Sakura seem can't deciphered the spoken words. There were tears streaking from her eyes as she looked at Sakura with such a sad eyes. The girl then turned her head around and that was when Sakura noticed the black creatures in the form of mist, burned by the lights from her charm.
Now she knew that the girl soul was trapped here and the negative emotions consumed her until she'd turned into a vengeful spirit. The girl soul then showed Sakura a vision, about a girl being bullied at the said toilet and that girl was the spirit herself. She was being punched and beaten by a bunch of other girls. One of them poured a bucket of dirty water onto the poor soul as she sobbing uncontrollably. That was it until the toilet room door slammed opened, then came a girl who was fierce and fearless. She had rescued the poor soul and from on that day. They became friends.
The scenes changed and Sakura saw the girl soul was crying again. And this time she was in a house in front an altar with burning incense -where a large framed of her friend's photo resided. Her friend had passed away due to an accident. She couldn't hold her sobbing as she'd mourned for her friend death.
The scenes suddenly changed again, this time the girl soul was standing in front of the mirror looking sad and lonely, she kept remembering the first time she met her friend there. The time that they spent with each other, relying one another. She never had a true friend when others liked to use her and discarded her when they're done. Parents divorced and she was forced to stay with her abusive father. Anger. Hate. Lonely. She was unhappy. Then she met her friend. For the first time she had someone who was sincerely wanting to be her friend. Never judged her by her profile. Encourage her to be strong and fight through hardships. For the first time, she felt peace.
Sayonara, watashi no taisetsuna tomodachi...
Tears steadily trickling down from Sakura eyes. The girl soul was only waiting for her friend and she couldn't moved on because she not accepting the facts that her only friend was gone forever...
The light began to diminish gradually as the atmosphere of the toilet room slowly turned to normal.
BANG! BANG!
The toilet door suddenly banging loudly and they heard the sound of people shouting from the other side of the door startling all of them until Ami and the others stood up and rushed to the door and cried for help. "Stand back all of you. Sensei will kick this door open!" A voice replied. While Ami and the girls backed away from the door, Sakura dashed to her cousin aid. As soon she had reached her cousin, Hideki started to having a seizure as her mouth began to foaming. Her whole body was having convulsion all over. Sakura panicked as she completely clueless of what to do.
THUM!! BAMM!! The door was kicked opened and the teachers rushed in. "How in the world you all girls could enter this room when it was nailed from the outside?! This place was forbidden for the students and that's why the school decided to block the door by nailing it outside. Don't you all noticed the warning sign?" Takamura-sensei questioned them. "Takamura-san! There's a student having a seizure here! Quickly bring her to the hospital!" Another teacher alerted Takamura-sensei from his lectures to Hideki situations.
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All the distraught girls were sent home by the teacher except for Sakura as she waited for her cousin at the hospital waiting room until both of her uncle and aunt arrived to check up on them. It was night-time already after what had happened, it felt like everything occurred was a dream or for a better word -nightmare. Hideki's mother then arrived with her crying face as she'd bombarded Sakura with unanswerable questions. They had rushed to the hospital second after the accompanied teacher informed them. Sakura could only watched her aunt blankly as she was heavy with guilt.
Takamura-sensei, the teacher that accompanied her at the hospital intercepted and explained everything that had occurred. They had found them at the old school property when the teachers were on patrol duty on the evening before they heard the commotions. If they hadn't check on them. Sakura and the girls would've been in danger for how long they couldn't guess it. After the explanations. Sakura's aunt blamed her for what had happened, that she'd failed to protect her cousin, that Sakura influenced her daughter to do bad things. Her uncle only watched from the sidelines, doing nothing but Sakura could read from her uncle expression that he was disappointed. It broke Sakura's heart that her own aunt accused her for such a thing. She had failed.
Then a doctor and a nurse came towards them. "Is there a patient relative's of Hideki-san here?" The doctor calmly asked the groups. "Me! I'm her mother. Is my daughter all right? Is she okay?" As Sakura's aunt replied. "Well Tanaka-san, your daughter will be alright physically. Although..there are something that's been bothering me with your daughter conditions. As we speak, your daughter actually already awake but her lack of responses towards our questions during treatment was quite worrying. Also we noticed that there were grabbing marks on both of your daughter shoulders. Does she having any problems at home or post traumatic experiences? May I know what happened before she'd admitted here?" the doctor explained everything to them regarding Hideki conditions.
"What do you mean doctor? Did you imply that my daughter had been abused? Maybe you had mistaken somewhere. We would never do such a thing to her! We both love her very much!!" Hideki's mother yelled back as she'd started to sobbing uncontrollably while being comforted by her husband. "My wife is right doctor. We both love our daughter with all of our hearts. We could never do such a thing to our precious daughter. I regret of what you've said." Sakura's uncle supported her wife as both of them .
"I apologize for the way I spoken my words but as a doctor, it is my duty to care for my patient. We will treats your daughter to best of our capabilities. Please excuse me." The doctor then pardon himself after he apologized to the couples. Then a nurse who is in charge of Hideki's care stepped in as she'd informed them her room number.
From that night, everything changed for Sakura's. Her cousin states. Her aunt's cold attitudes towards her. Her uncle's crestfallen face when looking at his daughter. Her school life. Everyone in school was blaming her of what happened to Hideki, thanks to Ami and her friends as they tried to put the blame on her, that she's the one influenced them. Peoples around her began to thought of her as a problem child. Neglected by both of her parents.
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Days turned to weeks and weeks turned to months. Seasons passed since Hideki's personality changed and Sakura's cousin still refused to talk, always gazing to nothing blankly. As if a part of her was taken away by something. After that, her cousin was placed in a special class for special child. Her cousin slowly took her steps for recovery but she still less talkative never had initiatives to interact with other peoples aside from her parents and teachers. Sakura glad that her cousin was gradually becoming okay.
The graduation day approached, cherry blossoms was in a full blooms and the breeze that carried its fragrance engulfed the area. All her schoolmates were buzzing with excitement except for Sakura. The skies were grey portrayed her feelings at the moment. Today is the marked of Sakura's leaving. Her stuffs was already had been transferred to Tokyo two days ago and her parents still couldn't attend at her graduation ceremony except for her uncle. He had forgiven her for the past mistakes that had occurred. He knew that Sakura wasn't at fault. Sakura remembered her uncle words on the day they'd packing her belongings.
"Sakura-chan... I honestly had thought you as my own child. You are a good kid. I know this passed few months we've been acting cold towards you.. I know that my wife still hasn't changed and always acting cold but... Somewhere deep in her heart she'd regretted for all of it. Could you forgive the both us ne..?" Her uncle said those words to her with a sad smile covered his face.
From the bottom of Sakura's heart, she'd never resented them for being like that instead she appreciated for all they've done. Trying to take care of her after her grandma died. Never once she would complained about it. The only thing she would felt was regret. The weakness of her heart. The weakness of her will. She'd curse her fate.
Sakura visited her grandma's grave for the last time before she'd leave. Sakura closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She then remembered the song her grandma used to sing when looking at the cherry blossoms tree outside their home.
'Little Sakura...remember the song that I always sing to you.. this song can calms down the soul of a loved ones even they had already out of our reach..'
Wasurerarenai hito no omokage,
'The memory of a person I can't forget,
Tooi sora ni kaeshitara sakura maichiru..
'Withered petals dancing above in the distant sky but know their way to home,
Kawazoi no michi wo futari de aruita ano hi,
'In the old days we strode along the riverside,
Yuki doke no mizu ga kawamo ni kirameite,
'We glazed at the melted snow in the glistening river,
Mankai no sakura no shita de kimi to mirai wo katari atta noni,
'We had talked about our future underneath the cherry blossoms in full bloom,
Wasurerarenai hito no omokage,
'The memory of a person I can't forget,
Tooi sora ni kaeshitara sakura maichiru,
'Withered petals dancing above in the distant sky but know their way to home,
Wasurerarenai hito no omokage,
'The memory of a person I can't forget,
Tooi sora ni kaeshitara sakura maichiru...
'Withered petals dancing above in the distant sky but know their way to home...
Farewell, Grandma...
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Translation: * Goodbye, my precious friend.
I don't own the song.
Done! The flashback.. The song titled was 'Sakura iro no yume' from Deemo. I wanted to express that Sakura need to learn from the spirit about how she should moved on from the dead. It may hurts but she still can cherished them by kept their fond memories close to heart. But sometimes the sense of regret that she hold in her heart prevents her from doing that.. Well, let's hope from the peoples she will encounters in Tokyo to help her in the long journey.