A bright smile yet so shallow, longsighted eyes that can't see in front of them, a boy who feels love….. yet hates the emotion.

Haruka was born to a Japanese mother and english father and spent the early part of his life in Japan. Haruka was a strange child who would always have nightmares and would make a commotion saying he saw things that weren't there, due to this he was always outcasted as a child. Sure he was strange but his life was pretty normal in the beginning living in a normal 3 person household.

Though happiness is not everlasting, when Haru was 6 his Father died in a crash causing his life to change forever, things went in a downward spiral. He was left Fatherless and his mother was never home, eventually Haru was sent by his Mother to spend time with his grandmother who looked after a shrine in a rural town much different to where he currently lived… though that didn’t end up mattering much as Haru didn’t fit in anywhere.

In the small town he lived in for 6 years of his life Haruka can't say he enjoyed it… but he would never let people see his emotions, he locked them away and put on a fake smile. He was bullied for the simple reason of being weird, this also lead to having no friends (who wants to hang out with the victim of bullying?)... and he also seemed creepy to others as Haru would have strange dreams and he even said he could see his Father at times.

Of course no one believed him and everyone outcasted him...except his grandmother who would always support him and talk to him about his dreams. At first Haru thought his grandmother was only being nice, but eventually he felt it was something more, almost as if she knew something more about his strange dreams.

Then Haru turned 13, and his worst and most vivid dream yet came to him. He remembered it all, as if he lived through it and he told his grandmother this.
‘Walking, walking, walking. I was walking for so long.
It was painful, it was hot and the clothes didn’t help.
An eternal walk, to never end.
but it did.
I lifted up something and pressed my finger.
A life ended.
then another.
After it was hard to breathe.
It hurt.
so I liked down.
and saw.
a red liquid flow from my chest.
then I awoke.’
The dream scared him, scared him so very much for it felt so real, almost as if he was someone else but his grandmother reassured him that it was only a dream and not to think about it. For weeks after that he wore a wavering smile, something built up within him.
and it exploded as a blind rage when his usual assailants came to terrorise him, for Haru was never weak… he just never had it in him to fight, but on this day he did… and the results left 3 boys injured, and one had broken bones.
Soon after he was sent off to England.
Not because of the incident, that only started more strange rumours between housewives but it was because his Mother told him to go over to England as her job had her posted there most likely permanently, and he would even get to meet his Fathers side properly.
But before Haru left his grandmother gave him her favourite Umbrella to remember her by… From that time on he would keep his umbrella close to him.

Moving was easy for Haru sure was different but it didn’t matter because he really didn’t fit in anywhere. At first it was strange calling people he barely knew family, and at times he saw the looks on his family's faces When he acted strange, but through all of that he found it ok because if he got too stressed he would just spin his umbrella around which seemed to calm him.

One can not escape their dreams.
Something Haruka learnt all too well on certain nights. Dreams of tears, Dreams of hate, the dreams became so bad Haru stopped sleeping. He hated it, the storm of many lives wirling around, the many memories within the storm and most of all he hated the eye of the storm… himself. But he never stopped smiling, even when sad… why he smiled he did not know, maybe he was afraid of showing real emotion? letting people in, so he pretended to be ok.

After many sleepless nights Haru’s mother thought it was to do with the change of environment, so he was sent off to meet his great grandmother in the countryside. Maybe the fresh air would help was the idea… well it may have not been the air but something did help.

Meeting his great grandmother wasn’t something Haru thought mattered, she was old, she would die soon so what was the point of trying to become family? It didn’t matter, he would just spend his time pretending to be happy and let the time go by.
Haru continued to smile and pretend, but it does not work so well on the old and wise. He was forced to confess to what was troubling him… So he did and he was not expecting such understanding through his jumbled talk, his Grandmother stayed quiet until the end where she got up and fetched a book, the book wasn’t anything special, it looked like a journal… And thats what it was, his great grandmothers journal, a book with plenty of surprising information about how she had similar dreams, and connections our family had to ancestors… turns out his ancestors were burnt during things like witch hunts.

Haru was surprised by this but more than anything he wanted to know how the dreams stopped, but that was not possible, for the nature of the dreams was the storms of the dead, people who died in chaos… They would never stop, and they would not help with anything… what use was the memories of the dead?
well it wasn't any use to Haru… but it made him a pretty Damn advertising meal.

The rest of the time out in the country went by with him reading the old journal as much as possible…. His Great Grandmother had traveled and seen some crazy things…. or she was just crazy… either option was viable. But on the way back to his ‘home’ the bus suddenly lost control and crashed. Well that's what it looked like at least. Somehow Haru survived and got out the wreckage while clutching onto his umbrella, he didn’t know what to do, the Bus suddenly crashed on an open stretch… was the driver drunk or something? He thought while moving past bodies of other passengers… there was no one alive so there was no point in caring so he tried to figure out what to do next instead but before he could figure out what to do he felt fear… but nothing was there, but all the sudden there was something there, staring at him… a monster… Before he could think about the ridiculousness of anything he ran and ran, running into the nearby forest. A monster, a bloody monster, Haru couldn't help but have a smile on his face… it was ridiculous, he was always strange but something right out a horror movie had suddenly appeared.
Of course he thought it was funny a strange guy would have an even stranger death. He wouldn’t be able to hide forever, and thats when he stopped. Haru was sick of everything, he would just die and become apart of someone elses storm, it would be easier… Just another storm… the monster came and attacked him… it would all end quickly, just like a sudden storm… with that Haruka blacked out.

Haruka suddenly awoke back in the room he had spent some time in out in the country, His great grandmother told him he had a heavy fever and never left. But it was in the news, a bus crash that killed all the passengers, again Haruka still didn’t care, they will probably haunt him so who cared what happened to them… the thing that caught Haru’s attention though was that the forest nearby had received storm damage… which was unexplained.

He didn’t understand what happened and his great grandmother insisted it was just one of his dreams that he saw…. But Haru felt something from it, so for some reason he decided to stay in the country working on the farm. Of course he didn’t look like farmer material but always smiled.

Over the last year he forgot about the accident thinking that it was just another dream… The only thing he remembered was the monster, it was like something in the journal.
Haru lived life normally once… until he got a strange letter that went into detail about his dream… so it wasn’t a dream? it even talked about the monster and the forest that was damaged, it even said he was the one who did it.

Interested in finding out who would have such information Haruka accepted the invitation with a bright smile… though the smile didn’t seem happy.