"ねえ、雪さん。あなたの家族は今どこに住んでいますか? (Hey, Yuji-san. Where does your family live in now?)" I asked as I sat down on my fuuton, wiggling around to find a nice spot to lay my butt down on.
Yuki-san chuckled, and then with a suspicious smile he said, "I never told you right?" I felt confused with this sentence, wondering what his family was like. If he was a very nice and positive person, there's a very high chance that his family are like 4 beans in a pod! Weird... Not setting standards that high though.
"I'm currently living with you guys here in Aokigahara, but I used to stay in Hokkaido. Long way from home, huh?" Yuki-san chuckled, "Biei was a very nice place to live in, I would run around in the fields during the blooming season. Me and my sister would run around for hours, never came back until dark."
"Wait, Yuki-san, you had a sister?" I am questioning the fact of this strange man. Hokkaido? What would he be doing so far away from home?
"Yeah. She was the best little sister I could ever wish for. A big heart for such a small body, so generous and so empathetic. She'd always shout 'Positive energy!' at me whenever I was feeling down and tried to cheer me up, but when she ran out of options, she'd do some kind of funny dance as a last resort. I called it the 'Positive Energy dance'." Yuki-san chuckled a little. Even behind that smile I could see a little, just a little bit of sadness hiding behind those eyes.
"Not to be rude or anything but, where is she now?" Stupid Mide! You stepped on a mine! Gosh how stupid can I be to ask this questi-
"Oh, she's dead." Yuki-san straightforwardly said creepily, still managing to hold up his smiling face. I saw a tiny bit more of that sadness creep up from Yuki-san's eyes. He must've been at a great lost.
"She died a few years after we moved here. My old house is now abandoned, my parents died in a car crash last year, I've been alone ever since. I don't clearly remember my younger sister's death although, I clearly remember a note she gave me before she went."
"I'm sorry, I didn't know. I know this is very bad timing but, may I ask her name?" Oh look at this. The insensitive Mide just came creeping up at the back of my mind. Not the best time to take over. Get back in there, you little-!
"I- I don't remember." Suddenly Yuki-san's eyes started to rain. He tried to hold it in until he couldn't anymore and I his thoughts were as clear as a crystal throughout the whole conversation, his feelings like an open book. I couldn't help but try to comfort him, I mean why wouldn't I?
I could understand his loss as I had just recently lost my dad. The hole of a lost family member had a very deep crater when it struck, but to think that a missile of lost parents and an only sibling, now that is an abyss. I'm surprised that he held it all in all this time, I could only sit down and let it rain down on me when he cried. He'd been through too much.
The rain let up, huh? Finally, I thought it'd go on forever. I felt a light thump on my lap and a drop of water trickled down my pants.
Oh. He fell asleep.
That feels weird having someone sleep on your lap, but I guess this is how my mother feels every time I did when I was little.
I'm still guessing that my crater is much smaller compared to his. He has a meteorite crater to deal with. I guess that it's the lost souls crater that hurts the most.
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Short chapter this week. Sorry I couldn't post a long one this time. I'll try to make short ones if you guys like those. Please comment which types you like.
I'll try to post again next week! Hope you enjoy the new chapter!
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Unseen
General Fiction5 years ago Mide Kazuku stopped visiting his grandparents at Aokigahara, but fast forward 5 years later and he's back again. After venturing through the old forest he finds a girl that seemed familiar to him but little did he know that was his dead...
