I want to thank Mireille for her help!! She corrected my most terrible grammar mistakes!!
Here it is Mireille! The prologue of my brand new fanfiction :D I hope you'll like it and review it! The first chapter will be coming soon! It will be: Mistuki's song. Guess what it is about!
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Author's note:
Hello Everyone!!
Here's my second fanfiction on Full Moon Wo Sagashite!!
I really hope you guys will like it as much as My Sister's Boyfriend.
This is also an alternate universe, but I follow most of the plot from the anime but with the characters' depth from the manga… I don't seem clear here… Well you'll have to read it then :P
I plan on using my own song for this one. I hope it won't turn out that bad.
By the way, if I'm not mistaken, Takuto would have been twelve years older than Mistuki if he hadn't die wouldn't he? Well I'm sticking to that in this fanfiction!
Is it wrong to love someone with a big age difference? Since her parents' death, little Mitsuki had been living at the orphanage. There, her father's band mates visited her frequently until the day her grandmother took her in. After that, Takuto went missing. A couple of years later, he reappeared, passing over a line that he didn't want to cross.
This is a story about the hardships of love and how a small girl overcomes it with lots of determination.
Disclaimer: I don't own Full Moon wo sagashite. I'm not making any money out of this. I'm just borrowing the characters and some part of the storyline to write a fanfiction.
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Could Be Childish Determination – Prologue
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Changes of a Lifetime
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"In this life"
"I'm missing so much things out"
"For every whim"
"For every word out of your mouth"
A brown haired sixteen years old girl was singing on stage. Her longs curls were swinging around her as she danced to the music of her song. She seemed fired up, a serious expression on her face.
"In this life"
"I'm tired of me, tired of you, tired of this"
"It's not like"
"You will ever make up for what I missed"
She closed her eyes and twirled with the dancers behind her. The guitarist went up to the front for his solo part. He smiled at the singer as she hopped from side to side, clapping in her hands; the crowd imitating her. She returned him a sad smile as she started singing again.
"I won't take this anymore"
"I'll just walk …"
The words were lost as a deep pain ran through in her throat. She let go of the mic and fell to the stage floor. She couldn't move, it hurt too much. Tears started to slide on her cheeks and she couldn't stop them. She heard the crowd panicking, the dancers, even though their voices seemed so far, were around her. She heard her manager. She heard her producer. She heard the guitarist. She could only cry, the pain was too violent, too unbearable. Why, why couldn't he love her? Why couldn't he be honest? Tears continued to fall down. She couldn't hear anything now, even though the ambulance's siren was noisy, even though it was crowded and everyone was shouting. Everything started to get blurry and turned black as she fell unconscious.
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Two figures were walking side by side on the sidewalk. The older one, around twenty-five years old, was ignoring the aggressive attitude from the sixteen-year old one. They were an odd pair to see; a grey haired teenage boy wearing some hooded shirt, necklace and earrings arguing with his senior who was in formal clothing, his brown hair shorter than it used to be. Enraged with the conversation the grey haired boy shouted loudly:
"Can't you go by yourself, Keiichi… I don't care about her. I'd rather have Aoi-san and Hazuki-san bac…"
The boy didn't end his sentence as Keiichi yanked him by the collar near to his face. He glared down at the teenager and said very slowly:
"Don't ever say that in front of me ever again. I'm warning you, Takuto. I won't let you hurt the girl so you can satisfy your own little misery."
Takuto just stared back at him, his features showing his anger but he didn't add anything. When Keiichi let go of him, he folded his hands in his jeans' pockets and looked the other way. He kept the older man's pace as he conducted them to the orphanage.
Shouts and laughters from the children resonated from the backyard as the sun shone brightly. Keiichi opened the gate and walked in, soon followed by Takuto. The older man closed the gate as Takuto walked to the backyard. The teenager glared at the children that were happily playing together. The kids were so engrossed in their games that they didn't seemed to notice the new comer. The boy was about to turn around sharply just as he felt something tugging at his jeans. He was about to shout at whatever was touching one of his clothes but he saw two big pools of chocolate brown staring up at him.
It was a little girl, her pigtails were dancing softly as she smiled timidly up at him, her small hands clutching his pants. He was about to brush her off but something kept him from doing it. His hand, as if moving on its own, placed itself on her soft hair and she smiled softly.
"Don't go. Please, stay and play with Mitsuki!"
She wasn't more than five years old. His eyes wouldn't have widened more if she had say the dumbest thing on earth.
"My name's Kouyama Mitsuki. What's yours?"
"Kira Takuto."
Without even realizing it, he answered. That's when it hit him. Kouyama Mitsuki. She was the one. The one that had taken away Hazuki and Aoi. She was the "replacement". He looked down at her with disdain. She smiled sweetly at him. It made him sick. How could she smiled after her parent's death?
"Where are your parents?"
"In paradise."
She kept smiling at him.
"You're not sad? You're not angry?"
The small girl looked up at him and she clenched his jeans tighter in her small hands.
"A little. Sometimes. But Mitsuki can't be too sad because mama and dada are watching over Mitsuki from the sky. My dada was a singer, you know. And my mama loved songs very much. Mitsuki love singing just like mama and dada. That makes Mitsuki very happy!"
He couldn't help but smiled. He ruffled her hair and she pouted a little. He bent down to her level and put his hands on his knees.
"Hey kid, if you ever get lonely, I will come by. Okay?"
The four years old smiled at him. She took his hand and yanked him to the playground. The teen followed her with a bored look. The little exchange didn't go unnoticed by Wakaouji Keiichi. The man smiled. He knew bringing Takuto along would result in something good.
The teen came to see the little girl every day after school. They sat and talked; about music, about life. It was strange how much comfort the teen was able to get just by talking to the little girl. Mitsuki was always waiting for him to arrive near the white fence's gate. Sometimes, mostly every week, Keiichi went to see how Mitsuki was doing. He wanted to kept in touch with her because she was the precious little girl of Aoi and Hazuki.
The little girl didn't have many friends to begin with. Since her first day at the orphanage, she had been mostly alone, playing by herself. Her only friend was an older little boy, around eight years old. She called him affectionately Eichi-kun. When Takuto wasn't there, he was always with her; like a guardian angel. But every time Mistuki went to wait near the gate, he left her alone; he respected her privacy with the teen that came every day just to see her. It's because of Eichi-kun she was so knowledgeable and could talk with Takuto about almost anything.
Mistuki didn't want to remember when Eichi-kun left. It was too painful.
At the age of ten, her grandmother took her in. She almost had her own house in the backyard. Since her mother's health was really poor, it had been built for her. In had not been used for so many years that Mistuki's grandmother gave it to her. Mitsuki had never been to school and her grandmother didn't want her to go in a special class so she hired a private teacher. Lucky for her, a student full of promises had just gotten out of university. And so, the grandmother hired Wakaouji Keiichi, not linking the elegant looking young man to the long haired prince of Route:L. Takuto stopped coming to see her after she moved into her grandmother's house. He didn't stopped being a singer and he knew that her grandmother wouldn't allow Mitsuki to see him since she hated singers and anything related to music. He started exchanging letters with her through Keiichi so they could keep in touch. The man, now twenty-two, had grown quite found of the ten year old girl.
Time continued to pass and the letters stopped coming. The last time the girl had had news from Takuto was when he left for America for a surgery because of a throat cancer. He never gave any news after that. She was twelve years old at the time. Keiichi was still her private teacher, and a friend; since she had trouble making friends, he was the only one. Years passed by. Nothing much changed.
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This fall, the air was only just getting a little cooler as the trees coloured themselves with yellow, orange and red: it definitely was the nicest days of fall. A feminine figure hopped skillfully on the sidewalk. The sun was just beginning to show its sleepy rays, but the brown haired teen didn't seem to care as she hummed some song to herself. A smile was gracing her lips as she murmured lyrics quietly. Her big chocolate eyes wandered to follow a lone butterfly that didn't fit in the scenery. Without thinking she followed the peculiar flying being that flew over a massive white house that she knew well.
Sadness graced her features when she looked at the familiar orphanage, where she lived for over six years. It seemed the orphanage has gotten so much older over the years. She walked toward the entrance, delicately passing her hand over the wooden white fence that separated the sixteen years old on the sidewalk from her memories.
She always hoped that someone would come out as she walks by the old building. Someone she has been waiting for and will wait forever. Her cheeks turned redder as she thought of Eichi-kun and his love confession before he departed. She never had a chance to answer him… she never will.
The orphanage's front door opened soundly. Quickly the girl looked up. Her cheeks turned red as she moved so she could see more of the man that just came out of the orphanage. Her heart was beating so fast in her chest that it was resonating in her eardrums. She had been waiting for so many years to see him again. Her mouth felt dry as she tried in vain to gulp. The man was truly handsome in her eyes. His eyes were mostly covered by some loose grey bangs that didn't fit in his ponytail. He wasn't smiling and when she caught his eyes: they felt cold.
She stopped breathing. He was gazing right through her, his eyes staring directly in her chocolate ones. She saw the surprise that flashed for a second on his face.
"Takuto?"
He looked at her. His eyes told her he recognized her so why wasn't he greeting her?
"Takuto… Takuto…"
Mitsuki's eyes watered. It was as if reality just woke her up from a nightmare. She jumped over the fence, ripping her skirt in the process but she didn't care. She ran to the man and launched herself in his chest. She held onto the man's shirt and cried. He didn't do much to comfort her, only put his hand on her shoulder. It's like he was frozen in place.
She wrapped her arms around his chest and pressed her face against the warmth of his chest. A small smile graced her lips.
"I'm so glad you are back, Takuto. I'm so glad I found you again. Don't leave again. Please don't leave me again. I was so worried… so… so worried…"
The girl started crying again and the man couldn't take it anymore. He wrapped his arms around her small frame and pressed her to him. Some tears made their way to his eyes but he hide his face in the girl's hair. She smelled of summer. A never ending summer. He smiled in her hair and they stayed like that for a little while. He walked her home and presented himself to her grandmother.
He had been a band mate of Aoi, a friend of Hazuki.
He wasn't into music anymore, he was studying to become a doctor. He didn't give much details about the change in career; only that he started studying in America and that he came back in Japan a year ago.
He was liked by the grandmother and thus had permission to see Mitsuki.
This is how they started meeting every Friday, after her lesson with Keiichi. He would bring her out, visit different places, eat in restaurants to talk about what had happened in their lives after that many years.
They never talked about music, it seemed taboo to even mention it. She respected that. But over the years, her love for music just grew more and more. She was determined to follow her promise with Eichi-kun and become a singer.
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Review to tell me what you think. Constructive critics are welcome, I really want to improve my writing.