Four Quarters: A Bleach Fanfic.

Epilogue.

My name is Hikari Anima.

I'm 16, and Dad let me borrow the car for the night... 

to try and forget about what happened to my mom.

I've been in a coma for the last three months.

I was driving recklessly after a night with my friends.

I saw some kind of... big, black, monster... with a white mask on its face,

The car swerved, and I crashed into a tree.

The last thing I remember seeing was my Aunt Kris,

That was when I passed out.

I woke up on a hot summer day, in a hospital bed. Aunt Kris and Chizuru were watching over me.

Aunt Kris: You're awake! Tobi, get in here, he woke up!

My father walked in, he looked like he'd been crying for months.

He hugged me tighter than he'd ever hugged me before.

Dad: I was so worried that I might've lost both my son and my wife in the same month...

What happened to Mom, again?

I vaguely remember the sound of an explosion when I was trying to sleep, and by morning she was gone.

I held my Father close, we'd not spoken much about her death...

Me: Dad... We need to talk about Mom. She'd want us to have a line of communication about this.

Dad: It's time I told you about the spiritual world...

Over the next few weeks, between the physical and mental therapy, my Dad told me about the nature of life and death, and suddenly all those stories they told me when I was just a kid started making sense.