I got stuck on Computer Angel. Don't know if I will continue it or not.
So, this is my very first KumiNon fic. I don't really have a confident on this fic.
Meet My Death
by caghaunt
A 5 years old girl slipped out from a room. Peoples inside the room she was in a second ago confusing her. They murmured altogether, following what the bald man in front of them said. She didn’t understand. She saw them crying over her grandma’s body that is lay on a futon in the middle of the room.
‘Why are they crying over her grandma? She’s just sleeping. Yeah, she’s just sleeping.’ She sat on the edge of the terrace outside the room and looking around at the garden in front of her. In the distance, she saw a girl wearing a black hakama and carrying an unsheathed katana.
The door behind her opened and revealed a woman about 20 years old.
“Kumi, what are you doing here alone? Are you bored?” The woman called out.
“Nothing. I’m just confused. Mom, why are those peoples crying over grandma? She was just sleeping, right?” Kumi answered and asked her mom. She turned her head to looking at her mom.
‘As expected from a 5 years old girl,’ her mom thought and sighed. “Yes, she was sleeping. For a very long time… Come on, let’s find some food for you.”
Kumi stood up and following her mom. She paused for a moment and looking back to the garden, looking for a girl she saw earlier. ‘That girl was gone. Where did she go…?’
“Kumi, come here!” Her mom called her, not too loud because of the funeral.
Kumi looked at her mom and walked slowly.
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3 years later.
The once a little girl is an 8 years old elementary school student by now. At this age, she knew why those peoples at her 3 years old childhood were
crying over her gandma’s body. Her grandma was dead. And at this age, she was able to questioning something she hasn’t known. She was once asked her teacher, “What is death? What is death looks like?” Her teacher couldn’t answer it. So she decided to finds out herself. At that time, she hasn’t met that mysterious girl from her grandma’s funeral again.
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She was 11 years old now. She just came back from school. She was in her way to went home. She passed an interjection and witnessed an accident.
2 cars collided with each other. All the drivers were dead due to the high speed. The accident happened in a street near her home. There, she saw that girl. The same girl at her grandma’s funeral. She also wears the same black hakama and carrying a katana. Shocked because of the accident, Kumi just stood there, stiff and still. She saw the girl before her unsheathed the katana and swung it over the cars’ drivers’ body just an inch above them.
After the girl sheathed back her katana, Kumi spoke, “Who are you, miss? I saw you at my grandma’s funeral. What are you doing here?”
Startled, the girl turned to Kumi. “You… you could see me?”
“Why not? You are a human, right?”
“No. I’m not a human. I’m Death. I’m here to cut their existence in this world because their time to dead has come.” And with that, Death started
walked to the darkness around them.
“Wait.” Kumi called out, “Will we meet again?”
Death paused, and then continues to walk. “Maybe. If you were dead or near to any dead people.”
Kumi watched Death blended in the darkness and smiled goofily.
“So she is Death. I thought Death was supposed to be all skeleton, wore a black clothes, and carrying a rusted sickle instead of a VERY cute girl with a loose twin tailed-hair, who wore a black hakama like a samurai, and carrying a katana like a samurai. She also has a beautiful voice. But I think its better that way.”
‘That and the possibilities that I could see her when I’m near dead peoples,’ she thought and continues to walked home.
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Kumi is 14 years old. As three years passed, she often came to the hospital. She scratched her skin until its bleeding, or accidentally slit her wrist with a knife. All she did with one purpose, have a reason to be near hospital’s morgue, Emergency Room or to commit suicide. And then, she could meet Death again.
Know what? She met Death.
Once, when she accidentally slit her wrist, her condition was critical and she fainted. When her soul woke up, she blinded by the sudden light. After she blinked for a few times, she saw Death sat in front of her.
“Am I dead?” She asked Death.
“Almost. You’re in a critical state. Those doctors – mortals – are trying to save you.” Death answered her with an emotionless face.
“Are you… going to cut my existence?”
“No. Not yet. It isn’t your time. I guess it will take time for those doctors to make you come back among humans. Why don’t you sit here and wait for
a while?” Death turned around.
Kumi took this opportunity to really saw where she was. She was in a white and bright room with a table and some chairs in the middle of the room. Death’s katana was on the table. She saw Death sat on a chair, she followed her moves.
They sat in a comfortable silence. Death staring to the empty space in front of her while Kumi observing her.
“Your face… is beautiful. Why did you want to be Death? You are lonely, aren’t you?” Kumi said out-of-the-blue.
Death’s big black eyes widened. She was slightly taken aback because of Kumi’s statement and question. She lets out a sigh.
“Want to be Death? No, I never want it. It just happened. I don’t remember what’s happened. Lonely… you could say I am.”
“But when you realize, you’re not protesting at all?”
“Could I? For me, become Death is a kind of job for me. I can do nothing against it.” Death smiled sadly.
“But—“
“Oh, look. Your body has saved. You have to go back to your body.” Death cutting off whatever Kumi is going to says.
“…I guess so...” Kumi looked at herself. She looks transparent. “Could I meet you in the future again?”
“Maybe…? Just wait for your time to dead, Kumi.”
With Death’s last sentences, Kumi was engulfed in the darkness. And then, she knew that she was back to her body. She opened her eyes and found her parents towering over her.
“Kumi, are you okay!?” Her dad asked.
“Don’t you dare scaring us like that!” Her mom yelled at her.
Forcing a smile, Kumi replied, “I’m okay, mom, dad. I’ll be fine.”
‘Death, I hope we’ll meet again, soon,’ Kumi wished silently.
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Month by month has passed since her last meeting with Death. Kumi always thinking about her. Death’s loneliness that couldn’t be avoided. ‘She said Death is a kind of job for her. Could it be ... She actually has a real name, other than Death?’
Since her last meeting with Death, she slowly pulled herself from the society. She closed herself from all the noises around her. Her mom and dad worried about her. But she just told them that she was fine and nothing to worry about her.
Indeed, she’s right. Her grade in school isn’t bad. In fact, she always managed to get the top 10 in her classes. She kept her health well. The only thing that made her closed from society is just her thought that always seems to just about Death.
What she didn’t know is Death also kept thinking about her. Because it was the first time she had a conversation with a human who isn’t dead, yet. And that conversation is the longest ever since she became Death.
She also thought about her loneliness. After all this time, she used to ignoring it. Death was supposed to emotionless and cold. She didn’t think about her own need of companion or anything. But now that someone had brought up the topic…
She made a decision.
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Summer, Yagami Kumi, 17 years old, declared dead because of a hit and run by a drunken car driver. Once again, her soul woke up in a bright white room. She looked around to looking for her Death, a very cute girl with a loose twin tails.
She found Death, sat elegantly on a chair in the middle of the room. But this Death is different. Yes, she has a pair of big black eyes. But instead of a loose twin tails, her hair was straight without any ponytail or twin tails. She also has a face of a Japanese ojou-sama.
“Who… are you?” Kumi asked.
“I’m Death. Yagami Kumi, your existence in the earth had been cut off. You do no longer exist in there.” Death answered firmly.
“I know… I’m already meet Death before this. Are you new to be Death?”
“… Yes.”
“I see. I’m used to see Death as a very cute girl with a loose twin tails instead of you.”
“Oh, the Death before me. She gave her job to me half and a year ago. Why? Are you looking for her?”
“Yes. Could you tell me where she is?”
“Just go passed this room. If you really are looking for her, you’ll find her.”
“Thanks.”
Death didn’t answer. Kumi walked passed the bright white room immediately. At first, she didn’t know that there’s a door since the color is the same as the wall. She opened the door, revealing the former Death, standing behind the door.
“We meet again, Yagami Kumi. Are you really dead this time?” The former Death smiled sweetly at her.
“Yes. I’m really dead right now. Why are you no longer Death?” Kumi blushed a little.
“I’m thinking about your sayings at the last time we meet. I decided to give my job as Death to Matsui Rena. You’d met her, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Well then, come in. We are not going to aged or sick or whatnots in this place.”
“Wait. Before I stepped in, I want to ask you some question.”
“Go ahead.”
“You said we’re not going to aged. What is Death’s age?”
“Matsui Rena… she’s 19.”
“How about you? You are definitely not looked like 19 or near that age. And now I knew that Death has a real name, you never tell me about your
real name. What is your real name? Do you want to be my companion in here?” Kumi demanded.
“Well, you never asked me about it. Let me introduce myself, then.” Kumi waited patiently.
“My name is Kimoto Kanon, 14 years old since a long time ago. And yes, I want to be your companion.”
So... How is it? Is it good? Or bad? Please give me your honest answer.
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