Reunion

Slowly opening my eyes, I found myself in the arms of a beautiful woman with medium-length pure white hair and icy blue eyes. She wore a tired smile but I could feel a deep love radiating from her. She spoke softly to me in a language I recognized as Japanese.

I could somewhat understand what she was saying due to me being somewhat of a Jrock geek in my last life. I found myself instinctively reaching out my arms toward her only to realize my hands were now short and chubby. As I flexed my hands the fact that had really reincarnated was cemented in my mind.

…

It had been about 10 months since the start of my new life and I was currently being carried to the house of my mother's friend. They had met about 7 months ago at one of those Mommy and Me classes and they really hit it off. Ever since then, I had been subjected to regular play dates with her daughter as an excuse for them to hang out. I didn't mind this as I was happy that my new mother had somebody she could hang out with.

I had noticed a distinct lack of a partner for both of them as I had never seen my father in person but from the way my mother talked about him, I assumed he was dead. From the pictures she should me I saw he had black hair and the same violet eyes I did while my hair matched my mother's, having the same snow-white color. His name was Yuki Akio while my mother's name is Yuki Shiro being their son my surname is of course Yuki while my given name is Akira.

It only took a short time to get to my mother's friend's house.

"Shiro your here come in quickly!"

"Alright, alright it's good to see you too Ai"

"You can put Akira in the playpen with Airi let's catch up" The aforementioned Ai's full name is Asahi Ai her last name fit her quite well as it meant morning sun. Her daughter on the other hand didn't quite suit her namesake.

As my mother placed me down my gaze turned to my fellow prisoner. She had short blonde hair that didn't match her mother's. As I watched her just sitting there in a daze like she always was, I realized that I couldn't remember her ever laughing or even smiling for that matter. Not that I was the most cheerful baby but at least I put on an act in front of my mother, seeing how happy she was when I called her 'Mama' made me happy as well. Judging by the conversations I overheard my mother and Ai discussing her, she was like this all the time.

Letting out a sigh I decided to drop my baby persona, making sure that the adults were out of earshot I turned to Airi and said,

"I've never seen a baby with depression before, are you sick or something?" When she heard my words her dark pink eyes widened and she turned to me.

"What the fuck! Why is a baby talking!?" She screamed looking terrified. Fighting back my surprise I deadpanned,

"I could say the same for you what kind of baby says fuck?"

"W-What I'm not a normal baby I'm a special case."

"Maybe not as special as you think."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"I mean maybe we're the same"

"There's no way what are the chances?"

"I'm not sure I don't have enough information"

"I was being rhetorical…"

"Oh"

"Wait just so we're on the same page you're saying you're a reincarnater too"

"I am"

"What was your name," she asked with a modicum of hope.

"Why should I tell you that?"

"Just humor me."

"I guess it doesn't matter anyway. My name is-was Eren" When she heard my name she looked taken back but quickly changed her demeanor.

"Did you go to Midtown High?" When I heard her question, I took a sharp breath.

"How did you know that? Did you know me?"

"I-I might have but I'll ask you one last question… where did your best friend get their first tattoo and who gave it to them" I could tell she was getting worked up but she manage to squeeze out another question. I was getting annoyed by this sudden interrogation but that all fell away when I heard her question.

"What are you-you're saying you're Alice?"

"Just… answer the question"

"It was on your ass it was the fire nation symbol from Avatar."

"And who gave it to me?"

"*sigh* I did"

"Holy shit it's really you I didn't want to give myself false hope but it's really fucking you," she said jumping on me as tears started to fall from her eyes. As I unconsciously tightened my grip on the girl who claimed to be my best friend Alice from my previous life, I felt myself tearing up both in happiness that we had been reunited and anger that we had both died so young.

After some time had passed the mood seemed to grow heavy when the fact that we had both died truly set in.

"Okay, okay so you're saying your Alice, you asked me all those questions so lemme at least let me ask you one before you jump on me"

"*sniff* *sniff* ok"

"What movie gave me nightmares as a kid?" I asked even though I already believed that it was her as much as I didn't want to accept that I had failed to protect her I really just needed an excuse to lighten the mood.

"Hahaha that stupid movie about the rabbits" When she started to laugh I knew my attempt worked.

"Yeah, stupidly terrifying I still don't get how that's considered a kids movie" Watching as she continued to laugh a smile crept up my face. But it quickly disappeared when I heard her next words.

"Haha, I'm surprised I thought you would ask me where you got your first tattoo."

"Ughh don't remind me"

"Haha hey you lost that bet fair-"but before she could finish her sentence our parents came over with shocked faces.

"No way! my baby girl is laughing she's never laughed before let alone smiled." She said as she hurried over quickly picking her up and hugging her.

"M-Mama" she cried out clearly not enjoying being picked up without permission, but it only had the opposite effect and Ai immediately began to cry. Airi immediately looked to me for help but I just shrugged and enjoyed the show. Luckily for her, my mother stepped in.

"Ai calm down you're gonna end up smothering her. I know how worried you were but if you overreact, she might end up reverting back."

"Oh, sorry about that Airi I just got a little excited you've never spoken before I was just so happy" Airi seemed a little embarrassed but quickly stretched out her arms to return her hug reciprocating her mother's love for the first time.