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Ha ha alright Cherry here's the first chapter of the story you wanted. It is very junk and I know it but the story style will get better. It is all part of my plan. The time period will switch sometime during this story. At the moment it is in modern times but later it will switch to a time period, either Heian or Kamakura. Anyways enjoy Cherry!!!

Chapter One:

On the evening of the Spring Equinox I will come for you…
Wait for me…Kaori.
The dark silhouette began to fade away along with the man’s voice.
Reaching out with outstretched hands she tried to run and catch him but it was to no avail.
‘Wait…wait…’

“Wait!”

Kaori sat up, right hand still outstretched in the air as if reaching out to grab someone. Biting her lip she slowly lowered her hand back to the covers of her futon.

It was always the same, ever since she could remember. The same dream, the same actions and the same bitter feelings of disappointment. It was the one constant in her life that would never change no matter what.

Easing out of her futon she crawled to the shoji screen and slowly slid it open. Outside a full moon washed her little garden in it’s translucent light. The sakura tree was in full bloom now that spring was just around the corner. The snow had melted a few weeks ago leaving puddles of water to feed the growing grass.

Smiling slightly she stood and went into the garden to sit in the bench beneath the sakura tree. Gazing up at the full moon she reflected on the dream.

Ever since she was born she had always been alone. For reasons she could never know or dream of understanding her parents had left her on the steps of a small temple in Kyoto. The family there was made up of Toshihiko san, the Shinto priest that led the temple, his wife Yuiko san, and their son Takanari kun.

Toshihiko san had taken her into his family where Kaori had been cared for. However as far as she knew it he had not given her the name ‘Kaori’. According to him she had been given the name by a spirit that watched her.

From the age of five the dream kept on occurring. Every time the Spring Equinox drew near the dreams would start. A man’s silhouette would shroud her in shadows as he repeated the same things before disappearing as quickly as he came. And every time she would wake up with that same feeling of bitter disappointment. Five years had passed already. The man in her dreams had never shown up no matter how long she waited.

Five years where she bore her pain in silence not wanting to disturb the happiness of the family that had taken her in when there hadn't been a need to.

But there were times when she saw Takanari kun being hassled by his mother about school and little things. Those times she felt a longing so fierce that it choked her and she had to run here to her garden to let out the pent up emotions that would have corroded her from the inside.

With crystal tears falling from her eyes as she reflected yet again on her life and the dreams she uttered the same phrase.

“What does not break me makes me stronger.”

The wind and a sakura blossom was the only answer she would receive. The only answer she would ever get.

Grasping the flower to her chest she silently weeped with her eyes firmly closed.

Maybe that is why she never saw the sorrow filled eyes around the corner, or the compassionate eyes that watched her from the shadows of the garden.

The sakuras hide more than one secret child. Soon you will know the answers…soon.