Hey there world! Sorry for the delay school is a BITCH! Everyone says second semester, senior year, everything coasts to a stop… BUT THEY LIE! Shit doesn't end! On top of that I'm working and eating so much because I'm stressed and I gained like 13 pounds!? And then- VALENTINES DAY!? Valentines Day and Otaku shouldn't go together…. SPEAKING OF VALENTINES! If you're a hetalia fan look for my Valentine Special! It's gonna be boss… whenever I actually write it.
The shadows of the outside ran across the walls of the train. How long has the sun been setting? How long has it been since the sky tinted orange? Why am I the only one riding along?
The train tells me where to go. Once you step on, you can't get off. The signs tell you your next direction, but I've been riding for so long it looks like the signs aren't working anymore. The train doesn't stop, so I ride along, ever on the tracks, never returning.
Uru, that was my name once. Uru doesn't sound like my name? Who was Uru, I wondered. Uru was a phantom, a chubby freckled little nobody. Uru Tomoe doesn't exist anymore. But when did she die? She was just here wasn't she? I just saw her? Maybe it was my mistake.
I ride the train until the sunsets, and even then I am still aboard. The sun never sets and I am simply frozen in time here. I don't even know if I keep riding the same track over and over again or if maybe there is no longer a track to be on. This is it everyday, every minute, and every second. And then the train hit something and when I looked down into my lap I saw a strange black book. When I touched it I saw someone else on my train.
An angel appeared… or was it an angel? I wondered what Uru Tomoe would have thought at the sight. This being did not look like a guardian, but what else could it be? And then I found my name. He pointed his rotting finger at me and gave me my new name and from then I was reborn as his. Matsuri, he called me. Fate, I called him. That was our deal.
But even though I was no longer alone on this, my train, there was still something missing. When Fate appeared the signs and destinations returned but even then I wasn't so sure as to where I was going. Each of the new place's names was strange. I wondered if I could no longer see the sunset, if maybe the train had gone deep into the sea.
And then he appeared. He returned me to the surface in one pristine rush. And when I looked outside the sun was high in the blue sky and maybe I even glimpsed upon a rainbow. There was someone else on this train, Kidd Lelliet.
It was one long sunny day after that, but I could feel Fate pulling make into the abyss to where his kingdom builds. I can't fight him on my own. Maybe Uru Tomoe could have, but I am not her anymore. I am only Matsuri, the girl with the power to choose who lives and who dies.
Suddenly there was someone else sitting on my train. I called her Melanie Cake and she was like a star shooting across the sky. She would be here to sit by me until I could someday find the will to leave this train.
Together we watched Kidd Lelliet while he sat by himself. He was always alone like me and he had a notebook like me. I found myself falling in love with Kidd Lelliet from afar and I was fine simply watching him. But the train stopped to allow another passenger on. She was Carmella and she came to take Kidd away.
And the train was underwater again. And Fate's hand waved over me and pushed me forward to fight. So I followed and I watched the destinations change again. So I went in and screamed but Carmella was louder. She called out to Uru Tomoe. Was she talking to me? My name was Uru Tomoe once wasn't it? Then who was Matsuri? Matsuri wasn't me.
Melanie pointed at the manifestation of a woman. She came to hurt Kidd Lelliet. I can't let that happen! I opened my notebook and wrote out her name and she fell to the floor. I followed when Fate's hand finally came to pull me to the bottom of the sea. But Melanie stopped the train.
"You're free."
Did I hear her right? I moved away from his hand and away from Matsuri. The door opened at my touch and when I stepped out into the world, for the first time in so long, I looked up at the sky. There it was, the sky. It was night. It was dark. I smiled and fell to my knees. So many stars.
"Melanie, I did it, I finally decided something for myself."
"Shame you had to die for it."
Tears ran down my cheeks, "At least Kidd won't hate me so much now."
Melanie smiled, "Looks like there's Itachi in you after all, my darling girl."
I looked up at the colorful lights swirling above.
"So these are stars? There are so many," I smiled.
Melanie held her hand out to me, "And now you're one of them."
I looked up and took her hand as we took to the sky.
Yeah random back story! I had this idea about how the train tells you where to go and was going to make a new fic about a character like that or something but this ended up being better because I still have to write the valentines special. Thanks!
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