Disclaimer: I don't own KHR or stuff.
To Live Life As Is
Hayashi Nana or as she is now known as, Sawada Nana, was born in Kailua, Hawaii. Namimori was the town her grandmother had been born and raised in before she moved to the island of Oahu and settled there when she met her grandfather.
The reasoning behind the sudden move of her mamay was one she never asked, the look in her eyes was enough of an answer as to why she fled the fledgling town of Namimori and told enough of the pain that her mamay had been through - even she always spoke about the peace and beauty of it, Namimori was painful for her mamay.
For her family, Nana strived to do her best, and she did.
She had tried her best and come out nearly on top when she graduated from Kalaheo. Around this time came her chance to explore her mamay's home when she was accepted into one of the Universities of Japan.
Tokyo City University offered the child development courses she was interested in, along with giving her the chance to live (if only for the next four or so years) on what she considered to be her true home? She wasn't crazy to miss out on it.
Hayashi Nana succeeded where everyone else would have thought she failed. Two years into her stay in Japan, almost completely integrated – her accent wasn't as obvious, her darker skin wasn't as looked down on as she found friends who accepted her (even if she was a few shades darker than those around her, why did they look at her as if she was dirty? That she didn't understand.)
It was when she was travelling around Namimori, the town her mamay had always spoken so fondly of, did she find exactly why her mamay felt as she did.
It was a peaceful place, Namimori was, lush and green, and almost surrounded by mountains (the next town over was at least a thirty minute or so ride). There was something calming about it and now she was as curious as ever to find out why grandmother left.
Going back when she had free time, Nana had decided that if there was a place for her in Namimori, she would take it.
Another year of school – one that she completed with such fierce intensity and determination, that she graduated a year early – Nana was barely 21, enjoying a small waitress job while her paperwork was processed and she began earnestly looking for a job in one of the schools in Namimori.
Hayashi Nana had her dreams planned and were halfway accomplished when she met a charming fellow, whose smile was contagious and made her stomach do odd flips.
It was here she realized that even the best laid of plans could be easily torn to shreds.
Sawada Iemitsu – she didn't know much about him other than that he had been born and raised in Namimori and upon the death of his grandmother was taken to Italy by good friends of hers.
The fair haired man had eventually found his way into Nana's life and by his fifth visit to Kimiko's Diner, Nana could say she was smitten with the Italian-Japanese man.
(More so, that she could relate to the stares he received, for she had been under the same eyes as well).
Perhaps giving him the chance to take her out had been when she lost control of her life. Infatuated by what she would call her first true love, Nana choose him. Barely 23, she was just a year married and had recently given birth to the two most beautiful babies she had ever seen.
Insistent on naming the boy Tsunayoshi, Nana allowed it as long as her baby girl was Natsume. Tears stained her cheeks as she looked over what she had and Sawada Nana couldn't have been happier.
Is To Be Happy As One Is.
AN: This goes into my We Are Two series.
Go mama Sawada.
Extra, extra?
Hayashi (Japanese meaning 'forest') Nana (Hawaiian meaning 'star').
Mamay (what Nana called her grandmother).
Natsume (Japanese meaning 'summer eye').
Tsunayoshi (Japanese, Tsuna meaning 'bond', Yoshi meaning 'star', mostly name as tradition through the Sawada line).
Til next time~
Sorugao
