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Chapter 4-
Black's drastic changeIt was early morning, and Yuki's room was just barely light.
Yuki was collapsed on the floor, deep inside a realm of her own dreams.
Her mother slowly opened the door again.
"Yuki..."
She didn't see her daughter in her bed, and then looked and saw her feet on the floor.
"Yuki?"
She flung the door open and rushed to her.
When she saw her unconscious body, she called for her husband and Takeru.
"Honey, Takeru, come quick! Yuki's collapsed!"
"What?!"
They rushed upstairs and found her on the ground.
"Yuki, honey, wake up!"
"Yuki! YUKI!!!"
They shook her shoulders, trying to get her up, but her body didn't respond.
Then, her fingers twitched a bit and her hand slowly moved. Her hand slowly raised up, then her mom took it tightly into her own.
"Yuki? Yuki. Can you hear me?"
"...Mm...."
Yuki's eyes slowly opened and she saw her mother close to her.
Her mother felt something different in her eyes. There was light, a welcoming, warm feeling that wasn't there in so long.
"Mama..?"
"Yuki, are you alright?"
"We were worried sick. What happened?"
"...Papa. Takeru."
Takeru got up and opened the curtains.
Yuki suddenly covered her eyes from the brightness of the sun.
Then, something changed in her.
The light from the sun as it shined on her made her feel... different. She felt this way before, when she was young, and missed this feeling so much.
"Ah! Is that too bright? I'll close it-"
"N-no."
Yuki got up and stopped him from closing it.
"No..."
"Eh?"
Yuki slowly walked over and opened the window. A small basket with purple flowers growing were revealed and captured her eyes.
A golden butterfly flew over across a few flowers.
Yuki slowly took her hand and let the butterfly walk onto her finger.
She was completely captured by the beauty of such a strange creature. She actually felt happy.
"This is weird, but... But....""Y-Yuki?"
Yuki turned her head and did something the others haven't seen her do in so long.
She smiled. A bright, warm smile that lit up the room more.
"Darling, are you okay?"
"Yeah, Mama. I'm alright."
"Well... Yuki, it's just..you seem happy."
Yuki giggled a bit and kissed her dad's cheek.
"What's for breakfast?"
She ran downstairs, leaving the three in her room dumbfounded.
"Honey, is my daughter okay?"
"I don't know..."
"Takeru?"
"How should I know? She hasn't called you guys 'Papa' and 'Mama' in years."
Downstairs, Yuki was happily eating her breakfast, which, by the way, was almost completely covering her plate.
"Mm~! Oishii!"
"Ah... You seem pretty hungry, Yuki."
"Well, she did skip dinner last night."
Suddenly, Ryota started poking one of his sausages in Yuki's face.
"Marimokkori! You're gonna choke, no one can eat faster than me!"
Yuki snatched the sausage from his hand and held it in front of him.
"Hai. Ah~~~"
"Eh?"
Yuki was feeding Ryota the sausage.
He hesitated a bit, but ate it.
"Eat your meat properly. You need the strength."
"Nuh-uh! No one can beat me! Not even you, Marimokkori!"
"I'll beat both of you if you don't hurry and eat," their dad joked. They saw the clock, almost 6:59.
Ryota started eating faster, but Yuki was stuffing more down.
She held her mouth closed as she ran to the door, still holding the glass of orange juice and a piece of toast.
"Y-Yuki?"
Yuki gulped down the orange juice and threw the cup over to her dad. He panicked, but luckily Takeru caught it before it fell.
"Itekimasu~!"
She popped the toast in her mouth and ran out the door.
The rest of her family were so confused. Why was Yuki suddenly acting so cheerful and bright after she's become so dark?
They ran over to the window and saw Yuki getting on her bicycle.
"Honey... Is there something wrong with our daughter?"
"I... don't know...."
Asuka was walking up to the bus stop, checking her phone.
Out the corner of her eye, she saw someone racing down on their bike.
She panicked a bit, and ended up crashing into her.
When they fell down, she got a better look and realized it was Yuki.
"No. No no no! This is bad!!!"She imagined Yuki in rage, beating her up and threatening her. She whimpered in fear.
When Yuki got up, her bangs covered her eyes, which scared Asuka more.
Then, she slowly raised her head and looked at her.
"Ah! Kuramochi."
"E....?"
"Kuramochi, ohayou!"
Her happy eyes and bright smile tugged Asuka's heart. But, she couldn't figure out why. What happened that made Yuki seem nice now?
They both got up, dusting off their uniforms.
"K-Ka-Kashiwagi-san, I'm SO sorry."
"Don't be. I didn't see you, so it's my fault."
"Eh? She's... apologizing?""Hey, let's go to school together, 'kay?"
"Uh, no thanks... I'm taking the bus today."
Yuki frowned a bit, but then smiled again and said, "Okay. Your loss," and rode off on her bike.
Asuka just stared dumbly at her.
At school, Aki was riding her scooter and rode up to Asuka.
"Yo, Kuramochi!"
"Ah, Takajo-san..."
She parked her scooter and walked up beside her.
"What's wrong? You look a little pale."
"Um... did something happen to Kashiwagi-san?"
"Hm?"
"She was acting..different this morning."
They then saw Yuki ride in and park her bike. She was still cheery with a bright smile on her face. She was even humming a song.
"C'mon. She can't be acting THAT different."
As Yuki walked up, she saw Aki and smiled.
"Ah, Aki-cha!"
"Hm? 'Aki-cha'?"
Aki stopped in her tracks and stared at her.
"Ohayou, Aki-cha."
"O-ohayo..."
Now, Aki was just as surprised as Asuka. Yuki was acting...nice? Why?
At class, Aki approached Yuki again who was happily humming a song while reading her book.
"A-ano, Kashiwagi..."
"Hm?"
"..K-Kashiwagi, I, uh..."
"'Kashiwagi'?"
Her sudden response startled Aki a bit. She couldn't have really gotten amnesia.
"Why are you still calling me that?"
"...Because, it's your name."
"I know that, but..."
Yuki got up and patted Aki's shoulder.
"Call me 'Yuki' next time, 'kay?"
As you could expect, Aki was completely dumbfounded and only sweatdropped and said, "Uh, okay..."
As the teacher came in and started class, he announced that their class was going to have a new student.
The young girl walked in and everyone fell head over heels from cuteness.
The transfer student was none other than Watanabe Mayu, the owner of the town's new candy store.
After being introduced, Yuki ran up to greet Mayu first.
"Watanabe-san, remember me? I visited your candy store yesterday."
"Ah, yes! I remember you. Yuki-chan, was it?"
The other students came up spurting random questions at Mayu.
"But, wow, owning a candy store. I NEED to visit that place!"
"Yeah, you should. I ate one of the chocolates, they're so yummy!"
As the other students laughed, some students were still a bit confused about Yuki's behavior.
"Y'know, Kashiwagi-san, you seem pretty happy today."
"Yeah, this isn't like you at all."
Suddenly, something shot through Yuki's mind.
"Wait... they're right. I don't normally act like this. So, why am I..?"Yuki gasped and grabbed Mayu's wrist, suddenly dragging her across the hallway. She screeched to a hault in a place only Yuki knew about.
"Yuki-chan?"
"What did you do? What did you do to make me act like this?!"
"Y-Yu-Yuki-chan, calm down."
"Calm down?! Calm down-! I don't wanna calm down!"
"Yuki-chan, if you let me explain-"
"Explain? This is weird! How do you explain me acting like this?!?! How do you-?!?!?!"
*Th-WHACK*Mayu suddenly whacked Yuki's head with a paper fan that seemed to appear out of nowhere. Yuki went absolutely silent.
"...Where did that come from?""Yuki-chan, listen carefully."
She gulped for a brief moment and firmly nodded.
Mayu tiptoed up to Yuki's ear and whispered to her.
"I'm a witch."
"Eh?!"
---TBC---