βIf someone came to you, and told you they could take you away to a place where you could live in peace forever, would you follow them? Or would you stay in hell?β
Haruka was sleeping peacefully, her body was wrapped up in a comforter as a beautiful and calm dream wrapped itself around her as if she were being embraced. The dream was strange at first, she had seen her mother and father, laughing and talking, they were all laughing and talking at the dinner table, and then her parents had sent her off to bed. That's when the dream started to change. The younger Haruka had lay in her bed until her parents had fallen asleep, and then the dream had consumed her, at first all she saw were glowing orbs..and then they changed into something more...butterfly's. "So..pretty..." She murmured as she stood from her bed, her eyes still shut as she followed the pretty glowing butterfly, in the dream she had walked right out of her house and gotten lost in the woods from sleep walking, her parents had found her the next day early in the morning, but Haruka had never had that dream again until..now.
She silently stood from her bed as the butterfly flew around her head three times and then towards the dorms door, leading her out of the room. Haru walked in a sluggish manner and manged to open the door in her unconscious state of mind. She stumbled down the hall, and right outside into the rain, still asleep and following a dream. "Pretty.." She sighed in a quite voice as she reached out in from of her with one hand while the other hung limp at her side. She wanted the butterfly, it was so beautiful in the way that it glowed, it was like a beacon of light in darkness, it was trying to bring her somewhere just like it had when she was a child..but where could she go while sleep walking, surely not very far. However the butterfly started to get further and further away, leaving Haru alone in the darkness. "Choucho...?" She called out while reaching blindly at the butterfly her sleeping mind could only see.
No...don't leave me...please don't go like all of the others...I need you I need the light...I need... Haru kept walking, her bare feet hitting the rain soaked ground with light taps as she took each step. The light was getting dimmer, if she lost sight of it now she would be stuck all alone in the darkness without any light, she would be alone. What do you need...? The sleeping girls body seemed to do a strange jerking motion as a new voice entered her mind, it was so familiar and yet.. and yet so distant..so cold. What do you need? The voice sounded so young...and yet so hurt. I think you needed someone so long ago to care for you Haruka-Sama...but when no one came you gave up...you gave up hope of anyone ever coming back for you and of ever fitting in, and when you gave up on the world, the world gave up on you. The word's filled her head, as a sudden realization struck her, the voice, the hurt and broken voice of someone who had been betrayed and let down...that was her when she was a child..all alone.
The world gave up on us...
Haruka stumbled, her wet feet slipping on the cold wet stone ground. She was still asleep as she fell to the ground with a thump, her body giving out and her head smacking roughly against the pavement as if she were a broken doll. She had given up on the world so long ago, it only made sense that her butterfly, her ChΕ, her beacon of light, would give up on her as well and leave her to the darkness. We have always been in the darkness...there is nothing wrong with it..it just takes some getting used to...and just because your in the darkness doesn't mean you have to give up the light...because they coexist like yin and yang. Empty eyes opened up to stare at the sky as the rain fell down upon her seemingly broken form. Promise me Haruka-Sama... promise that you will never give up...I don't want us to die yet...I want to find our parents... Haruka slowly shut her eyes once more, she was still half in the dream world, but she let the darkness take her once more as sleep consumed her very being. She was soaked, cold, and laying in the middle of the sidewalk in only and overly large T-Shirt. And she was alone...but...maybe..maybe not...she was alive, after all the sing on the side of her head told her that much, she could feel the warm spot where the blood was mixing with the rain. She not really alone anymore...
I...I promise... Was Haruka's last thought as she allowed her sleep to take her once more. She decided there and then that she would happily step in with the darkness, but for all who were trapped within it, she would be their light, the yang to their yin, perhaps she would be that glowing butterfly, and she would be able to lead all of her new friends to a better, safer place..maybe...just maybe...