End of them, Beginning for us || BNHA

Learning how to be a Ghost

I followed Hitoshi out to the back garden. 'Being a ghost is strange. The whole concept on stepping feels like I am walking on some sort of floaty feeling, like on a bed...' I pulled my foot back and forth and bumping into the wall. 'Oof.'

I felt a hand grab mine and I paused. "Oi, don't run into the wall. I don't want to pull you out again."

Holding my hand, he dragged me outside. I stared at the hand, perplexed. 'When was the last time I held someone's hand?'

"Why are you staring? What, you never had someone hold your hand before?" He says snarkily

"The last person to hold my hand was my mother and that was when I was very young." I say looking at my hand in his and then at the ground.

Hitoshi's eyes flash to me, then he looks to the garden. He then yanks me further grumbling something I couldn't quite hear.

'What was that about?' I wonder as we floated our way to the back garden. 'Ah, we're here. Come to think of it, I didn't have a good look at the garden.'

Floating out into the back garden, there is a dark stone stair from the house down to a gravel area. In the gravel area there is a rectangular koi pond. In front of the koi pond to the right there is a small tree leaning over the pond. To the far left, elevated, is a garden trellis with wisteria vines strung all over. The garden is quite small, but also very calming and beautiful in its own way.

"Hey." I jumped. I saw Hitoshi stare at me calmly. "You there?" He said with a slightly worried expression. He let go of my hand.

"Yeah." I tried to straighten up. "So what do you want to teach me?"

"So in order to phase in and out of things, you need to first need to focus. Take a couple of deep breathes. Loosen your body out, like this." I stare at his form as it seem to fade a bit.

"How do you do that?"

"Oh, you first need to relax your arm."

"Relax my arm?" I stare at my arm. So... I wiggle my arm a bit and I watch it fade a bit.

"Oh no, not too much. Just enough to pass through the wall."

"What happens if you do too much?"

"..."

"Don't I want to know?"

"No." Hitoshi paused. "So after this step, you need to phase the rest of your hand. Otherwise..." He placed his hand on the wall and pushed against it. "See, my hand go through. So as I phase the rest of the wall, you need to focus on keeping everything faded, or..." His arms stopped. "This happens." He tried to move his arm, but to no avail. "In order to get out of this, you need to relax your arm and fade it...then" He pulls the arm out. "There, that's how you get it out."

"So how do you fade the entire body?"

"Well, you will have to allow the whole body to relax and keep it relaxed until your whole body goes through."

"Alright." I stare at the wall.

"Wait a second, you're going to do it."