Chapter One ⎈ Exist

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Chapter One – Exist


Sakura didn't know how she came to be.


It was blurred colors flying by the corner of her eyes and dense light;bright and warm. She describes the feeling as tender and gentle, and that it made her feel really light and cause a surge of vague memoirs and emotions.


She felt waking up from a nightmare, a Sea of Imaginary Numbers.


She felt the grass covered in morning dew underneath her, the leaves of the trees rustling above, the noises of a far river, nestling birds and the sunlight peaking through. She fell in the serenade of song brought by the forest, bringing her at ease.


A trace of blurred thoughts flashed. Information stored on her memory behind multiple locked steel doors and a Sakura Labyrinth one wonders how the mind could take up many stored misplaced memories. She stirred by the slightest yet attempting to not awoke, having settled to rest mainly to preserve her mana being close to draining and at the brink of death earlier.


The leaves rustled by a nearby bush.


Her ears twitched at another presence—one with below average mana levels! Sakura inwardly moaned as his/hers (?) shuffled closer emitting a varied of aura of tense, weary and curious—a boy!If her eyes were opened Sakura might have blinked.

Before she could further investigate, he (it is a boy!) muttered lowly underneath his breath, and loudly shouted behind him, "Sabo! Lu!Come here!"


Sakura winced at the volume of his voice, and muster the courage to speak although the dryness of her throat prevented her along of some vocal problems—She needs mana now! She whined inwardly, and opened her preserve odds to fix her vocal cords slightly damage from—


She stilled as part of that memories remained locked inside the steeled doors. Her lips slightly parted forcing herself to speak up!A short cough escaped her lip, which prompted the boy to come closer and kneel beside her.


"Oi," he cautiously spoke.


Sakura frowned at his tone as someone as young as him is so... guarded.


"Prana," she was surprise at her own voice as if she was hearing it the first time.


"What?"


She repeated that word again until he come closer and whatever instinct came to her screamed to get that power! Her arms automatically grabbed him as he is the one with (low) average mana levels, she pulled him closer—embracing him and—


~*~


Ace was wondering up and above with his brothers—with him far ahead them, he briefly recalled Sabo shouting at him and Luffy's own voice—through the deep forest of Mt. Colvo.


They came to find treasure but he instead found something else.


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