Chapter Text
'Thinking'
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??? pov:
"Omg have you seen that new chapter of One Piece?" my friend asked.
"Girl I don't have the time to keep updated with One Piece. I quit that when I was barely 40 chapters in." I answered in a joking tone
"Come on! You should totally get into it. It g-"
"Gets good as you go on, I know. You tell me this every time we talk about it," I interrupted her, resulting in a childish pout.
"Because it's true. The same thing goes for all of the good animes," she said matter-of-factly.
"As I've said, I don't have the time to watch hundreds of episodes that only barely affect the plot and you constantly don't know what's going on."
"Not all of them have hundreds of episodes. Like Naruto it only has like two hundred!" my friend tried to defend herself, but I could tell that it was a lie.
"First off, it's concerning that you think that that's a small number. Second, doesn't Naruto have multiple series and hundreds more episodes?"
"Come on! Imma get you to watch one of them eventually, even if I have to trick you," she said in a defeated way.
"Once I'm dead maybe," I said as I pat her shoulder in fake pity while laughing.
"Geez you're so stubborn."
"Just now realizing that? Oh, I think my bus is here," I said as I made my way to the line of people waiting to get on. I waved my friend goodbye then got my airpods to listen to music. I am almost obsessed with music. Do I have hearing damage from listening too much? Maybe, but I have got to appreciate a good song. I wish I had Spotify Premium though, these ads can be so annoying.
As I put on a playlist that I had labeled 'Hype' I saw the people in front of me moving I got on the bus and squeezed my way to my seat, I was in the middle of the bus. Thankfully, the person who was assigned next to me was absent today, so I had the whole seat to myself. I sat in the seat, put my bag beside me, and used it as an armrest. Since I was alone today I opened the fanfic that I had been reading until four o'clock this morning. And I ask why I'm tired. It was from an anime I had never watched bc why not. I was like forty chapters in and I was addicted, even if I had to look up the characters every two paragraphs.
Thankfully, I had a while to read and a somewhat smooth road ahead of me. I started to read, thankfully remembering most of the characters. I was enjoying it until I felt knees pressing into my back. Now, I'm not one for confrontation, that's a lie, but trying to read while people are kneeing my back? No, thank you. I pull out one of my AirPods and peek around my seat to see someone I remember from track season.
"Arron, Arron, Arron!" I see my efforts are not seen so I poke his leg.
"Oh bro, what do you need?" He said as he also took out one of his airpods.
"Dude, your knees are digging in my back," I say as I jab my thumb towards the seat.
"Sorry bro." He said as he rested his knees lower where they were on the frame of the seat instead.
"Thanks, dude," I said as I went back to how I was before, feeling weird from the amount of bros and dudes that were just exchanged.
I got resituated and continued to read while "Die Young" by Kesha was playing in the background. As soon as I had gotten back into the flow of reading I heard shouting from the kids on my bus. I looked up to my right to see a kid screaming and pointing behind me. As soon as I turned my head I saw an eighteen-wheeler right in front of me.
I don't know what I did after that. I probably screamed or closed my eyes and waited to die. I don't remember what happened though. All I felt was warmth like a hug engulfing me. I have tried to open my eyes but they are just met with a dark abyss, while my ears are met with a nice silence. I don't mind though. It's comforting I feel as if I am swaddled underneath a huge, soft blanket. I want to stay here forever, and it feels as though I have. Like I have been here for a millennium and even more time before that. The life I had lived was fading into the distance as I was engulfed by the comfort surrounding me.
I loved it, but no good things last. I quickly snapped into my senses and opened my eyes. I was disappointed, to say the least, it looked like a little thicket of forest. I would have sat up but I was already sitting. My back was against a huge brick wall. It was unpleasantly cold, not just the rock, but everything. I wanted to be back to the dark abyss, not in a cold forest. It was pretty though, the sun was shining practically right on my face, making the skin on my face warm up a little bit.
As I was mentally complaining about my currently cold state, I suddenly froze. Then everything sank in. My mind was rushed with thoughts and questions, most of which fell along the lines of 'What the f*ck.'
I just kind of sat there as I processed everything. Got hit by a truck, dark abyss, now in a forest. I had no clue what the full story could have been, but put together something so I wouldn't go spiraling, mentally.
'I'm dead so either I'm in heaven, highly unlikely due to me not being religious, or I got reincarnated?'
Looking at myself closely the latter was looking more and more like the answer. As I looked at my hands I saw that they were short and stubbier than they should be.
'Ok, not my body, random forest, don't know where I am. Did I get reincarnated, or did I just go mentally insane? What should I do?'
As I was just pondering what the frick just happened to me, I heard the crunching of leaves. I looked towards the right since that was the direction the sound was coming from. I was looking back and forth along the line of trees where the sound could have come from when I saw a little boy coming from along the rock edge. The boy looked to be a child with greyish-blueish hair and looked lost and a little scared.
Then all of a sudden I felt an overwhelming sense that he was in the same situation as me. It was as if there was a link between us.
??? pov:
Sorry for the pov switch mid-chapter.
I was on the bus just waiting to get home to watch a new episode of one of my favorite anime's. It was honestly one of the only consistent things in my life. No matter what happens in my life there will always be a new episode every week or two.
Having just moved that consistency was a lifesaver. So you can imagine how excited I am to be able to go home, chill on my bed, and enjoy the new episode. Unfortunately for me, I still had another 20 minutes on this creepy bus.
A creepy bus is a weird way to put it, but it definitely wasn't normal. It was the replacement bus for an older bus that was in a freak accident last year. Now it may not be the same bus but still feels weird. Considering most of the people on here were on the bus that day doesn't make it any better. What makes it worse is that I sit in the same seat as the girl who died! Like seriously creepy!
I was just anxiously waiting for my stop to come when I got a notification from a friend from a different state.
Jerterd:
Bro have you seen the new Boruto episode!?
AllInU:
No?
I haven't even started on Boruto yet
I am still rewatching Naruto bc that world is wayyyy too complex
Jerterd:
Good
I wouldn't even recommend watching it
I think the og is wayyyyyy better
AllInU:
That's so disappointing broooo
Jerterd:
Exactly!!!
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I turned off my phone. I felt another notification on it but I couldn't focus on that. All I could focus on was the bony ass knees digging into my back. It is so uncomfortable. I would just scootch over because I would rather die than ask the person to move, but my seatmate was already there so I readjusted myself to where my back was slightly off of the seat and turned so I wouldn't feel it.
To say I was upset was an understatement. I had another 20 minutes and I was going to be uncomfortable for all of it because I can't bother to speak up.
I just internally yelled at myself for a bit before picking up my phone to see the text my friend had sent me. Then all of a sudden I heard a few kids screaming and my seatmate quickly got out of his seat and ushered to do the same.
I scooted a little towards the other end of the seat, ending up in the middle. Then I turned what he was telling me to get away from, thinking it was just going to be something gross. I didn't expect to see a whole truck heading right for me.
I scrambled as quickly as I could but I, apparently, wasn't fast enough. I felt myself getting enveloped by a warm feeling. I was uncomfortable, like wearing a sweater in the summer. I felt uncomfortable. I quickly moved my arms frantically trying to get it off the started panicking when I couldn't open my eyes. Then I realized that they were already open, it was just pitch black everywhere. It was also eerily silent I could hear my heart and my breathing it made my skin crawl. My body felt anchored to nothing yet everything all at once. I felt weird like I was visiting an old place but seems as if I never left it in the first place. Like I had always been in this state. I want to get out. I want to leave. I do not want to be here
And almost as if whatever being that put me in that place had pity on me. I was able to open my eyes and was met with grass. I sat up and looked at what was surrounding me.
'A forest. What? I live in the city. More importantly, how am I not dead? Truck vs. Me. Truck definitely wins.'
As I was questioning what had happened it clicked.
'Reincarnation! Halleluiah! Whatever is up there thank you! I've always wanted to get reincarnated. I hope that this is like a world with magic or powers.'
My happy moments were, rudely, cut off by angry voices shouting something I couldn't quite understand. Either it was a language barrier or just too many voices on top of one another, was not something I had the liberty of getting to know. Why? Because I just heard a f*cking explosion. Now I'm not dumb. I'm pretty sure that is a sign for me to get the hell away from the group of approaching people.
So, being reasonable, I quickly got up. Only to be burdened with the fact that my body is small and child-like, frick me.
Since the new predicament of my new body, I decided to move a little slower, so I wouldn't fall flat on my face. I looked around for a place to go to and saw a cliffside.
'Great I'll treat this like a maze and just keep my left hand on the wall. Hopefully, I will have a main character's luck and find somewhere to stay with nice people.'
I somewhat waddled to the cliff, put my left hand to it, and started to walk. It was a little painful because I was barefoot, but thankfully there was nothing sharp just some leaves. I continued my way along the cliffside watching carefully around me in case one of those people from earlier was nearby. One of the times I was looking around, when I faced the front again I saw a clearing up ahead. It was honestly really pretty. It was sunset, or sunrise, I couldn't tell, and the sun was shining through the tree branches casting a beautiful shadow along the grass. I walked towards it and as I got to the edge of the forest and the clearing, I saw a girl with brown hair. She looked confused. She was already looking in my direction with a confused face.
Then, we made eye contact.
'She also got reincarnated.'
I don't know how I knew that. It was as if we were the same. The same experiences. The same past. I felt as though we were intertwined.
