Running again.

Running again through the endless forest, brilliantly colored leaves falling all around her. It was deathly silent, save for the song that kept on playing on the radio, repeated again and again like a broken record. All of a sudden her feet caught on something, sending her tumbling down an incline, where she smashed straight into a tree.

Natsuki laid there in a daze, trying to sit up before a bolt of pain ran down her leg. A familiar pain bringing back memories of all those years before. A glance towards her leg confirmed it. It was broken again, her left leg bending at unnatural angles.
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"Aah... Do you remember this place?"[/color] Tsubaki spoke, appearing out of thin air. [color=fff79a]"Hmm... everything was almost like it was that day. Almost. I wonder what's missing...." [/color]Tsubaki flickered for a moment, her image temporarily changing to someone familiar.

With inhuman strength, Tsubaki picked up a large branch, shoving the splintered end into Natsuki's stomach. 

[b][color=a2d39c][center]~Natsuki's possessed body~[/center][/color][/b]
She dropped the stick, clutching her body, before letting out a loud inhuman howl. The dark miasma grew darker still as it seemed to thicken around her. Collapsing, it seemed she could do nothing more than writhe in pain as the darkness pulsed around her.

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Her screams echoed around the forest.

[color=fff79a]"Ahaha~ Don't you remember? Hey? Do you remember now?"[/color]

Natsuki gritted her teeth as Tsubaki pulled the branch out, grinning all the while. Or to be more precise, she was looking at herself pulling the branch out. All of a sudden everything clicked in her head, something so obvious it hurts. That was exactly why she couldn't see it. It hurts a lot to be confronted by by yourself. 

[color=7ea7d8]"I see..."[/color] Natsuki grasped the fake Natsuki's hand, pulling herself up, enduring the pain from the hole in her stomach. She couldn' exactly stand up with a broken leg, so she just hugged the fake Natsuki to keep upright. [color=7ea7d8]"...I'm sorry... I didn't realize..."[/color] Everything... everything here was her own feelings. 

Her own selfish desire.

[color=7ea7d8]"Eh?" [/color]

She was standing in a white space, devoid of anything. Her wounds has disappeared, and she was herself again, no longer trapped in her child body.

No, the white space was not empty, there was a... a person, hovering in front of her, his cheerful demeanour and his smile seemingly beckoning for her to come closer. She moved closer, feeling as if she knew this person.

[color=00aeef]"That's right."[/color] Came his voice. His smile grew wider, and somehow more mischievous. 

[color=a2d39c][center]~Awakening~[/center][/color]

As suddenly as she began, Natsuki started retching, coughing up nothing before blowing black gooey chunks all over the pavement. The odd stylized crow masque fell to the ground as she did so, making a very undramatic clack against the pavement. The words of that man echoed in her head.

[i]I am but the faint light of a candle. Though against the brightness of day I am unnoticed, through darkness I will guide you.[/i]

[color=7ea7d8]"Wha-"[/color] She coughed a few more chunks of the black thing, before collapsing on her feet.[color=7ea7d8] "Where..."[/color]

Her head hurts a lot, like someone was drilling her head in both ears and the bits are meeting in the middle. Natsuki was still a bit more than a bit dazed from all the sudden changes and revelations she just had.