Scarlet Memories

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Reminiscence 04 – The girl in his dream

When Kurapika arrive to his homeland, a certain dream was the first thing that came to his mind. That dream was actually the reason for his visit in his homeland. It was his dream about the little girl with long, light-golden hair.

'Please, go back,' her words reverberated in his mind. Kurapika continuously contemplated on the thing as he walked the lush forest the surround his village.

'Who actually she really is, and who is the person she was calling to?' he asked himself. He continued walking on the forest until he arrived at the entrance of his village.

As Kurapika walks the entrance slowly, he cannot help but to feel a kind of anxiety in his heart as if something is not right in the place. In his memory, the place was destroyed by a huge fire. But why it is like this? Every single house in the place is standing still. There are few damages, though, and dark marks of the fire are everywhere.

Kurapika continued walking until he reached the center of the village, but then, he suddenly stopped as he felt a presence in one of the houses in front of him. 'Is there someone here?' He looked around to find out what it was and his question was answered by the sound of a door that was being opened.

Kurapika turned his head to where he heard the sound and his eyes widened upon doing so. Indeed, there is a person in this place and it's not just any person.

Standing beside the completely opened door was his worst enemy: Kuroro Lucifer, wearing a black trouser, a white polo shirt with a black jacket atop. With his hair down, in which Kurapika have seen for the first time, he thought he looked younger that he is supposed to be. The man was equally shocked with him, but then he smiled as he recovered fast.

"It's you," he said, as if glad to see the Kuruta, and then he walked toward the unmoving Kuruta in front of him.

"Kuroro Lucifer?" Kurapika asked in disbelief. His voice is wavering and his eyes are almost turning to scarlet, still in the state of shock.

"No other than me," the man answered with the smile plastered on his face. He stopped walking when he was just a few feet away from Kurapika.

Kurapika glared at the man upon recovering. "What are you doing here?" he asked, agitated.

"Looking for someone," Kuroro answered truthfully. 'Or should I say, waiting?' He added to himself.

Kurapika furrowed his eyebrows. "Someone?" he asked, confuse at the man's words. "Are you expecting to find someone here even though you know perfectly that no one is living in this place for five years?" he asked in annoyance.

"That's right. And I did found you," Kuroro answered as he pointed to Kurapika. Then, a thought suddenly entered in his mind. "Oh! And one thing," he said.

"What?" Kurapika asked, still glaring at the man.

"This," he said as he summoned his skill book.

Upon seeing what the man is doing, Kurapika's eyes widened in horror. 'No way' he thought. He can still feel the chain on Kuroro's heart. But how can the man use his nen when he is still bound?

Kurapika shrugged the though and immediately dropped his baggage to ready himself with a fighting stance. He then summoned his chain as his eyes turned scarlet.

Seeing the Kuruta's reaction amused the spider head. 'Interesting,' he thought as he smirked. He walked toward Kurapika with the book on his hand. Then, the battle began.

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Kurapika continuously made at attack to the spider head with his chain, but his attacks are all useless. Kuroro dodged all his attacks so easily with his ridiculous speed. He is too fast, too fast for Kurapika to strike him even once.

Kurapika continued on launching his attacks when suddenly… the man disappeared.

'Where did he-?' Kurapika did not finish his mental question as he looked around to find the man. With his peripheral vision, he saw a small light to his side. And when he turned to that side, it was too late. A nen ball was lounge onto him and he was struck by it, but at least he managed to cover his body with his nen as he raised his hands in front of him.

'Oops! I over did it.' Kuroro thought when he saw his nen ball strikes Kurapika.

And then he heard sound of something. Its sounds like a crystal had been broken. 'What was-?' He didn't able to finish his question when a blinding light suddenly spread throughout the place coming from Kurapika.

Kuroro immediately covered his eyes with his left hand and banished his skill book to also use his right hand as a cover. It's too bright and he can't see what is happening.

"Kurapika!" he shouted to the Kuruta. He didn't really mean to harm him. He just wanted to see the Kuruta's reaction, that's all. But before he knew it, he was already enjoying in fighting (or playing in his part) with the Kuruta.

After a few minutes, the light disappeared. Kuroro opened his eyes to see what had happened and immediately saw the unconscious Kurapika lying on the ground.

"Kurapika!" he called as he run toward him. He knelt to reach Kurapika's neck so he could find out if he is still alive. When he found the pulse on his neck, a sign of relief escaped his mouth.

The pulse is still there. It's week but it's there and that is what important to him. He then looked over Kurapika's body to see if something is missing. But instead finding a missing part, he saw a change in the blonde's body. He frowned.

'A girl?' he asked to himself. Then, he remembered the sound of the crack he heard earlier. He looked at Kurapika's left ear and his suspicion was confirmed. The earring (he remembered that Kurapika wears an earring on his left ear) was gone.

'So, that sound was from the earring. It did not able to handle the force then,' he thought. 'Wait... Force? ... Could it be?' He looked at Kurapika's face wonderingly. 'Now, this is something,' he thought as a smile formed on his lips.

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Gentle snow drops are falling from the sky, slowly covering the ground. A little girl with long light golden hair is running around, playing with the snow as gentle laughter escapes from her small lips.

Then, the little girl stopped from running and turned as she faced toward my inexistent body. I'm not there, and I know it is not me she is looking at.

She smiled and started playing again.

As the little girl run, a blinding light started to envelop everything. I tried to open my eyes. Endless whiteness surrounded me. And then, the scenery changed. I am now floating with the clouds. Bellow me, is the village that I loved dearly. Happiness surrounds the place as the people joyfully doing their activities.

The scenery change again, going back to the endless whiteness and memory started to flow in my brain. And then, I remembered. The girl standing in front of the burning scene on my beloved village, anxiously waiting for a certain person to return by her side... I know it is not me she was waiting for, or the onii-san she called at the last of my dream… but when she said the words 'go back,' my heart was deeply troubled… in my dream, it was as if it is directed to me. Right, it was directed for me to go back to myself and return to her; she is after all, the original me whom I unconsciously left behind.

Memories continued flowing in my brain. But wait; there are some other memories that are not mine. What are these? No, they are not memory. They are like some sort of information. As they continuously flow in by brain, I also started to realize what they really are until there is nothing more to flow.

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