Introduction
"I will transfer to a new school today, I believe it will be going well, I heard theres a kendo club there.
I also heard that 3 more students will transfer to the same school with me at the same time.
I had a dream of someone standing with her back to me. behind her was a giant tree which seemed dead, and nothing else was around us. she told me to come to her, but then I woke up, with a pendant around my neck...
Those words were written around the shape of the pendant: "When all the keys are placed together"... What keys? And why do I even have this pendant?
Strange glowing flower petals continue to fall from the sky continuously, they are lighting my room from the outside even now...
Whats even more strange than that, is that they disappear the moment they land...
Thats strange, but I might have something which is connected to that thing. Time to investigate..."
*kendo is the sword fighting art.
From the side view:
One night in the middle of the winter, at midnight, a sudden rain begins. But its no normal rain. Its a rain of strange, glowing cherry blossoms. That time at midnight, four young students which were sleeping that time, had a strange dream, involving a strange woman standing with her back to them, and a tree which seems dead. They all had the same dream, but they didn't see each other. When they woke up at the morning, they all found a pendant around their neck, each in different shape.
The shapes are:
A sword
A crested moon
A five-petaled flower (possibly cherry blossom)
A fan
In addition, there were words on each pendant, putting together a sentence.
The words are:
When all the keys are placed together
Under the PCB,
The one which never blooms will bloom,
Then the final ordeal will occur.
Back to the story, it rained unnatural cherry blossoms continuously, and no one knew when it was going to stop. It was really strange that the unnatural rain left no marks, and once the cherry blossoms landed, they disappeared. The 4 pendant owners all transferred to the same school that day. When they leave for their first day at school, is when your story starts. It starts... now.
(A picture of the dream)
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"How could you see that as an option? By taking our lives, you'll be just as bad as the one who trapped in you the first place," she replied in agreement to Riyu.
"What was done to you was unfair, but you saved thousands of lives. Doesn't that count?" Hideki asked, his expression determined but confused all at once.
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"I wanted to be alive... I wanted to live! And I still do! I tried all the methods I could think of - including slashing that tree, but a ghost like me couldn't do it... Hear me well, you four from the living... I want to be alive again, at all costs! Even if it means to become evil myself! I will prove to you... that my will to live is far greater than yours!!"
She then spread her hands, and after that, some sort of a third hand formed close to her right hand, the third hand holding a sword with a symbol of a pink five-petaled flower.
"Then I guess we have no choice... But I'll finish this with a one on one, I can't let you all get hurt. I'LL BE YOUR OPPONENT, GHOST!" Riyu said, drawing his sword and stepping forward.
"The only thing I cant do now, is to float or be immune physically like the ghost I am now, for these are the rules of the final ordeal - a fair fight. However, I'll defeat you, in this final ordeal! For my life!"
The moment after the fight has been declared, the tree responded, in an even brighter blossom. The life or death battle was about to begin now.
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Himawari didn't say anything, but she agreed with Hideki. She didn't want to stand there, worrying about Riyu as he fought the ghost. She wanted to do something, too. However, the rest of them hadn't brought a weapon with them either...
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"Well, wish you luck to fight bare handed with someone with a SWO-UGH!" Riyu was trying to say to Hideki, still with his face towards Yuuko, but was interrupted by her charging at him. They ended with their swords crossed.
"Fine, we'll do it as one on one, or two on one, or whatever it be, I don't care as long as I win! But, if you attack me too, I won't hesitate to attack you!"
Riyu then pushed her towards the tree, and then charged at her right after. Riyu and Yuuko were clashing swords all around the blooming tree, going in circles, while Riyu was being pushed backwards, and Yuuko kept on going forward in the circle.
"I... Cant let you... Ruin my chance... TO LIVE!!" Yuuko said, while slashing without hesitation.
"I keep getting pushed backwards here...!" Riyu said, sweating, while looking at the other three.
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Hideki ran towards the two swiftly, only stopping after running into Yuuko's side with his own. If she had been a normal human girl, the actions would have been beyond unacceptable; however, she was just a selfish, but hurt, ghost at the moment who did want them to actually die.
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NOW!
Riyu took the chance Hideki gave him, and kicked Yuuko, who hit the tree, and fell. She didn't want to let go of her sword which she still held tight in her hand. Riyu then got close to Yuuko, lifted his sword and said:
"You even said it, its a life or death battle..."
Yuuko was about to cry. Her great chance to return from the dreadful silence of being locked away with only the wicked cherry blossom tree, was slipping from her hands. Her tears were about to drop to the watery ground, as she couldn't get up from it.
"No... this isn't happening... this CAN'T be happening... My existance is going to end just like that? I didn't manage to do anything in my life?"
"No... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
A roaring silence was heard from Riyu, as he just... closed his eyes, and...
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((I'm leaving a place to comment, next post is the ending, and it might be surprising.))
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Himawari watched the whole scene unfold in utter quietness--a few gasps of surprise escaping her lips. She was glad that Hideki hadn't gotten hurt & that he'd gotten out of the way fast enough but before she could exhale a sigh of relief, Riyu had his sword lifted towards Yuuko. Without realizing it, she rose her hands towards her mouth & held them there. She herself was worried on what was going to come & despite never having such thoughts, she hoped that Riyu would... finish her.
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Stabbed the tree.
Yuuko closed her eyes, her tears falling to the ground, together with her sword, still couldn't beleive...
"Am I...?"
"Better get you away from this at least." Riyu said, picking up Yuuko's sword, and throwing it away.
"W-Why didn't you finish me... I'm your opponent, no?" Yuuko said, opening her eyes slowly, looking at Riyu.
Riyu didn't say a thing, except pulling his sword out of the tree, which started to make noises like fast heartbeats. Suddenly, Yuuko felt something which was like a heart attack.
"T-This pain... The tree! Quickly, get down!" Yuuko said, pulling Riyu to the ground. Right after that, a very strong wind came out of the hole Riyu made in the tree. It was strange, as the wind itself could be seen.
'so she doesn't really want me to die or what...?'
The tree's petals then all fell to the ground, simultaneously, above Riyu and Yuuko, and after a few more seconds... The tree itself, was dying again, this time getting completely black, as if it was stained in black ink. The hole Riyu's sword left in the tree, suddenly shined, and with a great light, just like earlier, they couldn't see a thing, nor Yuuko. However, Yuuko's scream was able to be heard through the whole area.
The four students were at the door of the school building again. It was like time had stopped just for them to beat the final ordeal, and with a grand success at that. Riyu looked around him, and found... Yuuko lying on the ground beside him. She was now in the world of the living.
"Are you all allright?" Riyu asked the other three students and Yuuko at the same time.
"I'm allright, but is SHE allright...?" Sherry asked, as she pointed towards Yuuko.
"I'm... living again. now I can... 'T rest in peace. Not that I could while I was a haunting ghost anyway. Now, can anyone give me a hand...?" Yuuko asked, after trying to get up without much success.
"Not in the world." Riyu answered with an angry tone.
"Oh come o~n! Its not like I can kill you now that I don't have that sword! And I don't even want to kill you now..."
"Now, should I beleive you? You should thank me that you're even existing; I could finish you back then, and instead I only stabbed that tree." Riyu was being mean to Yuuko in purpose, but he wanted to see what will be the other three's responses.
"Umm... maybe you should punish her in other ways, Riyu?" Sherry asked.
"Like what? forcing her to be my butler?"
"Don't know..."
"You're mean..." Yuuko said, pouting.
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"Me, too." Himawari was surprised when Riyu didn't use his sword against Yuuko, whom had definitely been their enemy. However, she was still glad about how things had turned out, for she had never been one for violence. But could they really start trusting her after all of that & after everything that she had told them? She tilted her head slightly to the side as she thought about it... "Hmm ~ I think she owes us. After all, it was our life that had been threatened."
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"As for what you can do, you can be our maid in turns. AS A VOLUNTEER. Well, if I help you stand, can I punch you in the process? You deserve it..." Riyu said, again in purpose of teasing Yuuko.
"Life is hard as ever... I'll stay like this then, no need for help from YOU... Just... don't leave me, ok...?" It was easy to guess why she said that, after all she had been imprisoned in a lonely place with only a damned tree to talk to. She was lonely for years, and she didn't want to lose the first contact with the new world she revived into.
"We won't leave you, we will only discuss about the punishment you will get, ri~ght? Ah, How much time we got before the bell will ring?" Sherry asked Riyu, remembering it only then.
"Less than five minutes, we'll be late if we stay here for too long. Don't move too far from here; I'll kill you AGAIN if you do." Riyu said with a threatening tone again.
"You make me want to kill you again, watch it... But come back, will you~?" Yuuko then tried to move her body, but all with wasted effort; She could only crawl on her back, scratching it.
"I dunno, someone else might as well come and throw you into the trash can, or into a bag they put the dead in..." Riyu said, teasing Yuuko again. This time, Yuuko only sighed and closed her eyes.
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The pretty teenage girl leaned over, smoothed out her skirt underneath her & sat on her heels. She then looked at Yuuko for a moment, her mind rethinking what she was about to say. "All I want is for you to be there for me, as I will be there for you," Himawari finally said in a soft, gentle tone despite being a little vexed. She smiled kindly before straightening her body back up. "However, I can't promise that I won't smack you once... even if it is with a pillow."
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"For... me...? Ah, thanks, I'll wait here for you. You go to class, you heard what he said. Not that I can do anything except waiting like this... You don't want to be late, do you...?" She said with a smile.
"We'll beat you up somehow~ You can look forward to it!" Sherry said, with a smile towards Yuuko and Himawari.
"Hey, at least let me stay alive until spring, for me to see the REAL cherry blossoms?!" Yuuko said, over-reacting.
"Dunno if I can let you do that~, anyway, I'm going to class." Sherry said, turning around to leave. Then, she remembered to ask something she wasn't sure about. She halted on her way to class, but continued walking, as she decided to remember it, and ask her later.
"Oh well, I'll just sleep here until I can move a limb or something..."
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Hideki looked at Sherry the moment she began to walk away. So, he followed after her; she'd stopped soon thereafter, which made him pause as well. "Is something in your mind?" he asked her in a curious tone as he looked at her.
Himawari smiled. "Whether I'm late of not doesn't really matter to me too much, actually," she replied with a shrug, "but I will get going. Take care. We'll be back later." As soon as those words escaped her lips, she walked away with a wave & headed towards class. She smoothed out her skirt as she did so--her actions making her calm attitude visible. However, it wasn't that she was a bad student... too much had happened to make her okay with returning to classes & homework.
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The bell rang 2 minutes after that.
Yuuko moved only a bit by then, although in the next hour, she managed to move her arms too... in the school's infirmary, with the nurse's help.
"If I tell you... that I can't really move because of a heart attack, will you beleive me?"
"Absolutely... not. I don't know even where you came here from, supposing THATS not a school uniform. In addition, its the first time I see your face here. Who you say you came here for again? Someone with a... pendant?"
'help me~~~'
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Himawari was in Painting 3 class when she finished sketching the half-blooming Sakura tree she'd seen. Moments before, she hadn't an idea of what to paint but after closing her eyes, she got inspired by the first thing that crossed her mind. The class she was in always soothed her mind, making her think clearly as her hands drew out what she saw. However, this time, she couldn't stop thinking about what had happened in just one day--every little detail etched into her mind.
"Ah ~ I'm going to take a break & walk around for a while," Himawari told her teacher before heading out of the classroom, glad that it wasn't a strict environment. She played with her pink hair as she took carefree strides from corridor to corridor, slowly passing the nurse's office.
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'Hm, they got quite the imagination...'
At the nurse's office, the nurse was just about to leave her office to ask for advice regarding the incident, as she saw Himawari walking in the corridor. She suddenly had an idea, although it seemed like a last resort to Yuuko before things will get worse for her.
"Hey, could you help me with something? Do you... know someone who got a strange pendant these days? Someone found this weirdo here who says she got here to find him or her. Do you know someone like that?"
"Hey!! Who you're calling a weirdo?! Thats rude! Especially when the person is less than 10 meters away from you!
"No need to over react like that, calm down okay?"
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"Ah ~ you mean Yuuko," Himawari giggled, finding the situation very amusing. She tucked a lock of hair behind her ear after bending slightly, leaning forward & looking around the nurse to see Yuuko there. Her smile returned to her lips as she looked at her, a twinkle of delight in her eyes. She wondered how the person that had discovered her felt... how the whole scene had unfolded. She pictured it as a funny moment.
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"That happens to be me. Wow am I lucky to see YOU here, flower. Now, TELL THIS OLD HAG SOMETHING!"
"O-Old hag...?" The nurse said, holding her anger somehow. "And you're telling ME I'm rude...! You know, I'm not that much older than you still...!"
"Um... yes? Help me, please...?" Yuuko said, realizing she angered the nurse, quickly asking for help from the pass-by student, her hands reaching Himawari.
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"I'll be taking care of her now, mm?" Himawari said as she petted Yuuko's head with her free hand. "Come on, let's go ~"
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"Yes." She said. However... as the nurse returned to the room, Yuuko put a wide smile on her face.
"I didn't say what I meant by that 'yes'... I was agreeing that I look like your age, that is all, hehe. FOOLED HER. Am I a genious or what?"
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She swung their linked hands back & forth as she walked. "Although it would be fun to have a sister. I only have a brother ~," she pouted a little but soon smiled cutely.
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"You know, I too, had my family before I died... I need to check whats going on with them, and whats going on in general. I bet when my parents see me, they won't beleive their eyes; Its been years after all. I hope they're allright... Well, if you want a sister, call me~" Her cheerful face returned.
The bell then rang, notifying the students about the start of the next lesson.
"Great, we have sports next. Lets see what is going on with that ghostly girl now..." Riyu thought, as he began to pack his stuff.
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Then, after some pondering, Himawari brushed it off. She was being too silly. She was rushing things, even their friendship it seemed. After all, what did she know about Yuuko?
"Call you?" Himawari echoed with an innocent look her face. "You have a phone?"
Hideki got up from his seat after the bell rang. He hadn't done anything in his class except for help the teacher organize his room. It wasn't so much as a tedious job as it was a little soothing. For the day, he'd only needed to separate a few papers, staple them & get them ready for the next class. It was a repetitive task, which was why he liked it. His muscles just got used to every little step he did & thus, he didn't need to think about it after a while.
The handsome young man stretched as he stepped out of the room, after waving goodbye to his English teacher & smiling at the girls that always stared at him. He was glad that it was finally time for Physical Education, for his body ached to stretch out & just run. It was his favorite class, without a doubt.
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"Well, as long as I'm alive, its ok. It would be better if I didn't have that misunderstanding with you and the other three, but its good enough."
Both Riyu and Sherry were out of the classroom by the time Yuuko finished her sentence, walking towards the entrance, and eventually reaching it at the same time.
"Ah, its you again, from that time..." Riyu said, seeing her approaching the same destination as his.
"My name's Sherry, if you don't remember. What's... your name?" Sherry asked, only then remembered that she doesn't even know his name.
"It's Riyu. Did you also come here to check on that Yuuko?"
"Y-You... could say so."
They reached the place, and discovered that Yuuko wasn't there.
"So, do you think she was sent to bury herself again?" Riyu joked about the situation
"H-Hey, you're killing her again! She won't die that easily, she has 'that strongest will to live', and all that..."
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Suddenly, Himawari remembered that she'd left her Art class & had never returned, leaving her art out in the open. She freaked out inwardly for a moment, but soon remembered that her teacher was an amazing person. Not at all like the usual teacher that everyone had. In turn, she was glad to know that her teacher would put away her things for her.
As Hideki walked down a hall, he remembered Yuuko & thought if he should go check on her. However, as soon as he thought that, he spotted Himawari talking with her just a few feet away from the nurse's office. He was very confused for the time being & wondered how she'd been able to get up. Had something happened to her & ws that why they were so near the nurse?
He walked towards them, forming a little group of three. "Hey, you two. Yuuko, what happened?" he asked, looking at her with curiosity. Then, he looked at Himawari. "Is everything all right?"
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"I'll collect all the petals. One by one, 'til I have them all. Just for you."
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