“Those were dark days.”
Haruka had been walking for quite some time. Her feet ached along with her head, but for the most part, she ignored it. She was very focused on where she was going, it had been a long time since she had last been on this trail and so far from the school, in fact Haru had never even planned on returning to her old brunt down house, but she remembered how tricky it was to find, that was most likely why no one ever bought the land and re-built the house, it was to hard to find out in these woods, it would be a hopeless search, but when she was a child she walked these trails many times, she could find her way back if she truly wished to. Was it left right left left...or was it left left right left..? No.. She sighed and took a left on a whim, it had been years since she was here, since she had walked these trails. Since her parents had...
"I wonder where they are." She sighed quietly and took another right. She felt like she was getting closer... but not quite. Another sigh, another ten minuets of twists, turns, and restless thoughts, and then there she was. She could have recognized this driveway from miles away, she had ran up and down it many times when she was younger, she had fallen down and made mud pies in the dirt when it had rained, she remembered it like it had been yesterday when they drove down it for the last time ever. She sighed once more and slowly started up the driveway, only to stop short as a voice called out from behind her. "You've traveled a far distance away from the school Yamazaki," Haruka's heart jumped into her throat as panic set into her stomach. She had been followed out here? Asuka had followed her to the one place she never wanted anyone else to ever see?
Slowly she turned around, and frowned at the other girl. It was clear that she was just worried for Haruka, but still...she wanted to do this alone, she wanted to face her demons alone, even if Asuka was her friend, she didn't have to know about Haru's dark past. She sighed again, it seemed to be a common thing for her these days, and shrugged her shoulders in defeat. "You weren't supposed to follow me, Asuka, but if you want to come along you can, it wont take very long." Haruka reached out and gently took hold of the other girls wrist before leading her the rest of the way down the driveway and towards the large burnt down house in front of them. "This was my house..." She whispered stopping in front of it as she took in it appearance. The years had treated it well, the wood was still colored a dark black, and there was still ash on the ground, but other then the part of the roof that had fell in, everything seemed in tact, in fact most of the stuff inside the house was fine, it was just colored a dark charcoal. Haruka could remember it when she was younger, it had been a beautiful house. "Come on..." She mumbled before slipping in through the front door and into the dimly lit dark house.