Disclaimer: not mine.
Pairing: UmixFuu, Ferio+Fuu, Clef+Umi, Lantis+Hikaru
Summary: Fuu talks about love. And life.
Okay so it's late and this story hit me. i finally got around to watching the last DVD of the series and was upset. i might keep writing but i have a lot of open projects.
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Courage
Lying in Umi's arms seems so right that it's hard to believe that we met in such a surreal way. Cephiro changed us. Sure, we never would have met without our two journeys but there's more to it than that. We grew immensely. Umi. Hikaru. Me, too. We fought for the fate of a strange world. We fought to protect people we had only just met. We strove to be strong to evolve our hearts and thus our swords. We fell in love with three powerful and uniquely Cephiro-jin men. Men we would see again only in our dreams. We were fourteen.
We saved Cephiro twice. Hikaru's wish granted a new, improved Cephiro. We were not to stay and see it. We were the girls from another world. We had done our duty and therefore must return. That didn't make the events less real. And while we were not filled with regret and sadness, as accompanied by our first return, we did feel lonely—I think that's the right word—that we would never see our friends and loved ones again.
The three of us continued to see each other almost on a weekly basis. No one else could relate with us. No one else had shared what we had.
School, exams, families…. Other things filled our lives, but we were always there for each other. Sometimes we would talk of Ferio, Lantis and Clef. Sometimes of our friends in Cephiro, Autozam, Chizeta and Fahren. Sometimes even of Emeraude-hime and Zagato. Sometimes we wouldn't talk at all.
I was sixteen, and change, when Umi admitted to me her feelings for me. She said that, for some time, she had viewed me as more than a friend. We've been together for maybe six months. Sometimes I think Hikaru is upset that we've abandoned Ferio and Clef. We haven't. She's proof enough that a heart has room for more than one love.
I will always love Ferio. And Umi will always love Clef. But we love also each other. Being close to Ferio was magickal, but being close to Umi feels right.
Hikaru… Hikaru wears Lantis' necklace everyday. It was a trial for her, I think, in many more ways than for us. Hikaru will never truly be happy until she can return to Cephiro. Until she can return to Lantis.
We all want to return.
Only, when I look at her face, her beautiful sleeping face, I wonder if I really do want to return. I would loose her, if I did. And Umi is the best thing to happen to me. I'm terrified that she would leave me to pursue Clef. I'm tarried I might be torn between Umi and Ferio.
Tomorrow is the fourth anniversary of our first journey. As I lie here in Umi's arms, I try to tell myself I'll be strong enough. Traditionally we go to Tokyo Tower and look over the rail and wish to return. I don't know if I can do it.