Ephemeral <Naruto>

One: I am...

"What if life is a dream and death wakes you up?"
-Anonymous

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"Miss, are you alright?"

I blinked as the light hit directly at my eye and it stings a little.  It took me a while to let myself adjust to my surroundings.  The first person I saw is a woman, but my vision is still hazy and I probably assume that she's either a nurse or a doctor.

I tried to respond, but my mouth only let out a low moan as I attempted to sit up.  However, that person gently pushed me down, telling me not to move much in a soothing tone like they are talking to a kindergarten.

"It's a miracle you've survived from losing all that blood." She added as she injected me with some of like it is called...dextrose?  Strange The last time I had one, it usually spread something warm into your body.  Somehow, I don't feel anything at all.

I lazily moved my head to her as an answer and I winced every time she touches me which she pretended not to notice.  She wrapped a cloth around my eyes before I could feel her applying more needles in my body, which is odd, until I feel completely numb.  I can't comprehend my surroundings. It feels like I can't move properly at all.

If you ever wonder what happened and I got into this situation, it's because I was taking a visit to my relatives at Japan.  After all these years of dreaming to travel independently, I was able to earn enough money to buy a plane ticket of my own.  Not until bad luck came in the way and an accident happen.

Days have passed and I'm still lying on my bed  which is a futon.  Do all Japanese hospital beds are like that or it is just the hospital that got the idea?  I sighed.  At least they finally get rid of the acupunctures and it hurts a lot.

When I try to sleep, I never had any dreams and I stayed conscious as I could feel something circulating in my body.  This giddy energy feels itchy that I might scratch my skin until it turns red.

I finally regained myself after the Nurse left the room.  Carefully, I sat up and kicked my feet off the futon until they touched the cold floor, using the stand to sustain my balance.  The Nurse says its fine for me to walk around as long as I'm using the crutches and I am free to get rid of the blindfold.

Wanting to walk on my own, I mustered up my strength and forcibly stand up which I staggered a bit.

I wonder why everything seems so small.

I don't know why, but everything, including myself, feels so off and too foreign.

I gritted my teeth as my head began to throb in pain and soothed it which I now noticed that my hands are covered with bandages.  Great...

I trudged towards the nearby sink with the crutches supported under my armpits.

I scrunched up my brows at the sharp pang on my stomach.  Instinctively, I pressed my palm on it, feeling the hard bandages brushed against my skin.  I don't remember having that.

I subconsciously scooped the water on the basin, rinsing the sticky, leftover blood off my fingers.

I wonder...

What I look like now?

Would be there scars on me now?

Deciding to answer all the questions now after, I looked up at the mirror to see myself-

"Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!"

I shrieked and the girl in front of me does the same thing.

We were never even matched because her appearance is a different story.  Despite how pale, bloodied and bruised she looks, her facial features are completely that I neither possess.  Her hair is red.  Pure red. Not my usual dark brown ones.  I was never born with lighter skin too!!

This is not me... This is not me at all!

I recoiled until my back hits the wall and she did as well.  It wasn't for long the door slammed open to see the nurses at the front. It didn't reassure me at all!  Almost all of them are wearing out-dated kimonos and that's not what they are supposed to be wearing in the modern era.

"My Lady, please refrain yourself!" One of the nurses tried to reassure me.  Lady?!  She tried to reach out, but I smacked it away.

"Stay away from me!" I snapped and barged out from the stunned nurses and stumbled out of the screen door thanks to the stand.  Curse these wounds and crutches!

"Toyotama-sama, enough of this!"

I ducked and slipped pass through every shocked doctors, nurses, and patients lying on their respective stretchers until I reached to the main hall.  I ignored my surroundings once I reached to the exit and barged my way out free.

Outside, Cherry blossom petals frolic on the compound creating a scenic view to an old Medieval Japanese compound.

Stunned, I fell on my knees. It's too much.  The faces I had seen, their way of clothing, and... Everything.

Unknowingly, I spluttered out the words,

"W-Where am I?"

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Fact(s):
*There's no edit or some proper fixture in the fic, so CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM is allowed, so hit me what you got because my writing skills is shoddy nowadays. I need to polish them up again... 〒_〒 There's also might be a possibility that I will revise this after I finished it.
*This fic is a mixture of anime and manga with some slight alterations.