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mogiks
Since: Jan, 2011
7th May, 2015 06:44:39 AM
Pretty sure you're looking for the one-shot called Kon no Ki Konoha by Yumeka Sumomo.
SukaiOokami
Since: Dec, 2013
8th May, 2015 01:09:49 PM
That's the one! Thank you! I just read it again, and now I'm crying... Why do the Japanese have so many fantasy romance tragedies?
I'm putting this under webcomic, but it was actually a manga. But for some reason manga wasn't an option, so since I read it online I figured webcomic was close enough.
I'm looking for a story, I think it was a short story so it might have been part of a collection, where kids who were left to die of exposure in feudal Japan are saved by the trees of a forest. The trees let the kids (or their spirits, or something like that) live inside them. There's a girl who meets one of these kids in the modern era and they fall in love, etc. And at the end of the story she's coming to visit him and she sees the forest on fire and thinks he's died. I don't remember whether he actually did or not, and I'd like to read it again to find out. But I can't remember its title, and I don't know any other way to find it. Just in case anyone else thinks of this, it's not Hotarubi no Mori e. I've read that too, possibly very close to when I read this one I'm looking for. They are very similar stories, so it's no wonder that stumbling across Hotarubi no Mori e again reminded me of this one, but I'm certain they were actually unrelated.