The Woman that lived Alone.

The sound of the bus hissing roused her from her slumber. 

"Mph." 

Without fully come to, she looped her arms through her backpack in the seat next to her and grabbed her suitcase. 

By the time she realized that it was dark out and the bus stop was in the middle of a dark forest, the bus had long left. 

"Hah..." Pulling out her smartphone the girl checked the time. 

3:52 AM

"The witching hour?"

As she continued down the street she began to film the road ahead of her. 

"Minasan, O.hai.you Go.zai.ma.su!" (Good. Morn.Ing. Ev.ery.One!) Chihiro greeted. 

Viewers quickly entered the chat. 

[She's back!]

[This crazy bitch!]

[The Bearer of Bad News. Horror Priestess!]

[Where've you been?]

"I'm surprised to find people up this hour, truth is, I'm visiting a relative and just got off the bus. And since it's so late, I thought that what better place to tell a story than in a creepy area like this?"

[Why are you walking all alone?]

[That's dangerous.]

[I'm glad I stayed up tonight.]

"Alright then, without further ado, let's start our storytime shall we?"

More viewers flocked into her stream as she spoke. 

"There once was a woman who lived on a hill, she lived all by her lonesome. 

A villager foraging for herbs in the neighboring woods got lost and fell off a cliff.

When he woke he was in a house he didn't recognize. The woman there nursed him back to health, the man was touched by her kindness.

He told the woman he was an orphan, that no one had ever cared about him even if he collapsed in the middle of the street starving. The woman confessed that no one visited these parts of the woods, so she was just happy for the company. She wasn't particularly kind or anything." 

[sounds like something a tsundere would say!]

[tsun tsun!]

"Shortly before the man became healthy again, the two fell in love. After some time the two got married and the woman became pregnant with a child. The woman was very happy, at long last she would have a family, her lonely days were over."

[I'm waiting for it.]

"Time passed by, the woman was tending to her vegetable garden when her water broke. She called out for her husband. Everything seemed to be unfolding sooner than she thought. Her husband quickly ran out of the house..."

[what was he doing indoors?]

[is he a bum?]

[how can a man let his pregnant wife work?]

As she gave birth in her room, her husband's face was pale. 

"Wife," he said. "I remembered it today. When I fell off the cliff, I lost my memories, I an orphan, had married, and already have three kids." 

[wtf]

"The woman was very shocked, she fainted shortly after giving birth successfully to her child. While she slept, the man took the child and thought, "If I get rid of this child, no one will believe her if she says I am her husband." The man was scared of his wife. He quickly filled a basin full of water and held the child down inside it. Slowly, slowly, until the newborn took its last breath. That was the last the man could remember. 

Then he woke up at the bottom of a cliff. It was the same cliff he first fell but the man didn't know that. He had lost his memories again. Again the man was rescued by the woman and again the two fell in love and got married. However while making love to the woman, the man sensed something was off. The woman got pregnant again and she gave birth, seeing her give birth the man recalled his 1st memory again. He fell unconscious again and lost his memories when he woke up.

[What the hell?] 

The same following events unfolded again and again and again.

The man recalled his memories for the seventh time and as he tried to drown his child he paused, in the reflection of the water he saw the reflection of his wife limping towards him. 

"Dear?" he asked. "Shouldn't you be in bed?"

"What... are you doing there?" she asked him. 

"I'm bathing the baby."

"You... have to bathe babies in warm water not cold." his wife said. 

"Oh..." The man paused. "How do you know that? Were you a midwife before?"

His wife leaned against the wall and said nothing. Her shoulders began to shake, teardrops stained the floor. 

"Give me back my baby..." she weeped. 

The man stood with the baby in hand, he had decided to kill the thing some other time. But as he handed over the baby he realized the baby was already dead. It was pale, grey and veiny, as if it had been stuck in the water for a very long time.

"Give me back my baby..." The woman weeped. 

How could the man break the news to her?

"Give me back..." The woman inched towards her husband still limping, her head snapped up revealing blood-red eyes, tears of blood leaked from there, her face was very pale, her limbs were very thin. "MY BABIES!"

Somewhere nearby a Father and son were passing by a cliff where an abandoned house remained.

"Be careful not to go to the north side of the woods my son, there's an evil spirit that lurks there that takes pleasure in killing children, he was once a human child, that married a young woman. He had three kids with her, but after an accident it was believed the kids and the Father died. That woman resigned herself to living out in the woods alone. But one day that person came back to her, he couldn't remember anything so the two got married again. And this time, well, everyone died." 

"But... how?"

"No one knows. It's believed that as the woman bled out after giving birth, she bashed in the head of her husband who had killed their child."

"But...why, would he kill his own child?"

"Well... it started with the Father's Father, he had tried to kill his own child when he was young, but the child forgot about it after fainting, from a very early age... that child developed dementia."

"Dementia... but, how do you know this Father?" The son looked to his Father who simply smiled and patted his head. 

"Should you ever find yourself in those parts of the woods, call out for your mother. The mother of the deceased will come to protect you from the evil spirit. While they fight. You should always run far, far, far, away from the cliff you hear?" 

The child seemed confused but nodded. Like that, the two continued down the forest trail. 

The End."

[Wtf?]

[Wtf?! How did that guy know?]

[Exactly, that makes no sense, who is he?]

The time was now 4:09 AM

Chihiro hummed as she gazed up at the sky, she had finally emerged from the forest. Her feet were killing her but within the dark sky, she was beginning to see a dark blue hue.