I saw a painting of two people, they look like good friends. One of them was the man who freed me but his face wasn't cracked and had green eyes and the other one man was someone that seemed really familiar but I don't remember seeing him before. That's when I realized who he was... It was impossible. IT WAS ME! "IS THIS ME!!!" I shouted, I was older, way older, around the age of that man. I was surprised and shocked. Hina walks over to me see what happened, she put her hands on my shoulders. My heart rate started to increase, "What happened Yuki, you ok?" Hina put her head on my shoulders to look over. My heart started racing. But I quickly snapped out of it, I showed Hina the picture and said "This is me... but older, how is this... how is this possible". Hina looked at the picture and stayed there... on my shoulders. Then she took the picture from my hand and put it on the bed, she brought her hands down and wrapped it around my stomach and put her face on my back. She was hugging me from behind, as a 16-year-old I've never been hugged before. Her warmth felt pleasant, the feeling of her hands on my chest felt... nice, she loosened her grip and turned me around. She put my arms around her and hugged me tightly, I hugged her back. I don't know why but I started crying, it's almost like she knew I need a hug after 16 years of misery. I hugged her tightly, the feeling of being hugged by her was relieving
It was a similar feeling when the gem was melting inside of me. All my stress was gone and the only thing I could feel was comfort. We hugged for over a minute, I was still in tears, she put her hands on my face and looked at me and put our foreheads together. She closed her eyes "Thank you for 3 years of happiness, I would have never been happy if I never met you in those woods". I blushed, My face was hot and I was embarrassed. I was thinking about how cute she looked at the moment. I never stopped to look at her in this way, I realized how pretty she looked. She pulled back and looked at me in the eyes, her warm hand still on my cheek. She wiped away my tears gave me a warm smile and went back to her dresser. I just thought that she was just saying thank you and nothing else. I watched her walk back to her dresser and I realized how pretty Hina is. I snapped out of it, I sat on the bed and looked at the picture. I looked at the person that was me. He looked just like me, there was no way this was a coincidence. I look at the back of the paper. I saw something.
Hina was still looking through and sorting things out. I read the things on the back, It said the names 'Daichi Takahashi' and 'Yuki Inoue'. I was confused. My name was on the back of this paper, then I realized the other name, Daichi Takahashi. His name was in the book about the purple gem he put in me. There was also a date "June 1516", this is a 500-year-old painting.
I got up and started walking to the door holding the painting, Hina said "where are you going?" "I have some questions for him," I replied, there was a short pause. Hina grabbed my hand and said, "let me come with you". I said "fine but don't say anything stupid this is serious!" She gave me a smirk and said "fine". I opened the door and walked over to his room, his door was open and he was sitting down at a table with 2 other chairs. "Sit down kid I have some explaining to do".