Oceans of Time

~Chapter Three~

Makoto gasped as she tumbled forwards landing on her face. That hadn't just happened, she thought as she shakily pushed herself up from the ground. She coughed as she filled her lungs. There was a smell so bad in the air she could taste it. She looked up and found herself to be surrounded by two long rows of buildings that much resembled the appearance of portables at her elementary school. Smog blocked her vision of anything else. Her eyes widened. This wasn't where she had been a minute ago.

"I leapt."

But where? How? She tried pushing herself to her feet but that made her feel nauseated and she fell back down on her hands and knees. Black spots filled her vision and it was getting hard to breathe. She convulsed and threw up what little she had had for breakfast. She fell onto her side to avoid landing in it and clutched her chest. She couldn't figure out what was happening to her. Was this the effect of the time leap? It couldn't be, this hadn't happened all those years ago, the other times she had done it.

She couldn't think anymore, her head was pounding and her lungs were burning. She gasped for air. Each breath made it worse. What was happening?

Just when she was about to pass out she was lifted into the air. When she opened her eyes again she could make out the blurry outline of a orange head of hair hovering above her.

"What the hell are you doing here?"

10 minutes earlier

One moment she's being attacked from behind and the next she's on the ground with a face full of grass. She spat the grass and dirt out of her mouth as she quickly stood up to defend herself from her attacker only to find that she was not in the alleyway anymore. Her eyes widened as she spotted two figures embracing up the hill a little ways from where she was standing. They were so focused on each other that they didn't even notice her.

"I'll be waiting in the future," he said.

The girl smiled widely, "I'll come running."

She screamed as she fell through that all too familiar timeless space. She was surrounded by clocks and absolute whiteness. She plunged downwards into the black strip full of red numbers. The next thing she new was jerking forwards in bed.

She breathed heavily, "Just a dream."

"Hey! You sounded like you were dieing in here," Yuuka said peering in her doorway only to see that the the bed was empty.

"... Freaky..."

Customers and employees at the book store turned their heads in the direction of a loud bang as magazines fell from a shelf only to see that there was no one there.

"I'll be waiting in the future," he said.

The girl smiled widely, "I'll come running."

Not this again, Makoto thought as she felt herself jerking forwards once again.

"Ouch," Makoto screeched as she landed face first on the tarmac. Someone grabbed her arm and hoisted her to her feet. It was the man from earlier.

"Get off me!" she tried pushing him away with her free arm.

He grabbed her wrist and got uncomfortably close to her face.

"It's always difficult to jump out of your timeline for the first time but you just need to focus!"

She froze. She could see the river, the grass blowing in the wind and the two figures.

"FOCUS!" he said snapping her out of it.

"Don't try to change the outcome of what has already happened!" The cool breeze...

"I'll be waiting in the future..."

He shook her, "Focus on where you really want to go! Don't focus on what happened in the past! Focus on the future! Focus on him!"

"I'll come running!"

And she leapt.

Just in case it isn't clear, the first section of the chapter is where Makoto ends up after she does all the leaps. The rest of the chapter is looking back. Tell me if that wasn't clear, capish?

Big thank you to my reviewers! Yukiko Ami Owari, TheSecretUchiha (Pffft! You pervert you lol. No it wasn't that!), OtakuHarunaHimawari, Crystal-Wolf-Guardain-967, TheBlackRabbit, NOBODY loves me123 (I've yet to read the book, just the manga based off it. I really want to though!), and Tbonechick2011.