A/N: This is what happens when I feel like writing something short, sweet, and fuwa fuwa *shot*

Oh hell, at least I enjoy writing this, so I hope you guys will enjoy it too! ^^

Summary: You were the only one, who found the lost child and always stayed by her side. Chibi Mio & Ritsu.


I Found You

"I was a lost child...none of them really cared for me..."


You can hear a voice in that sweet-smelling forest...

"Three...two...one..."

"Ready or not..."

...and it's followed by our tiny footsteps that shook the dandelion seeds free...

"Here I come..."

Eight years ago when music was unknown to us...

It was on that early summer day when you found me.


You said they wanted to play with me.

I had never played hide-and-seek with you and the little kids from our neighborhood.

...Always watching them from afar...eager to play but too shy to join...

And now they wanted to play with me.

I was overjoyed.

I looked for a comfortable hiding spot under a pine tree.

I waited excitedly for the seeker, listening to the little birds as they sang for me.

...Until they flew away...alongside time.

The sky changed color from blue to orange.

I didn't know which way was the west...but I was sure it was where the sun was now.

And I know when everything around me is showered with scarlet, darkness is coming soon.

...But no matter how long I waited behind that tree...

...Nobody came to find me.

...And despite the pain...

... I was assured... that nobody would.

"We're sorry, Mio-chan, we forgot about you!"

"Mio-chan is such an unassertive child..."

"Sometimes I don't notice her when she is there..."

"She's so boring...all she does is reading books all the time...!"

I was a lost child. None of them really cared for me.

Every time I remembered what they said about me, a tear rolled down my cheek.

When it happened...I used to tell myself, repeatedly, to cheer myself up again... 'I don't care what they say...I don't care what they say... I don't care what they say...'

But now...

I know that... there is at least one person who thinks that I am interesting...

...who kept trying to become my friend...

...who never in the slightest bit cares of what everyone else says...

...who is so happy to find someone like me...

...You.

So I pushed myself... to stay strong...

...Blink back my tears, believe that somebody would find me...

...Somebody...would...

...Somebody...

...Please...

"...Please... find me..."

The words came out from my mouth at the same time as the tears from my eyes...

'Somebody please find me...'

I lost hope...

Drops of tears fell out freely...

'I'm all alone...'

I missed your smiling face...

...you gave me when we first met...

...that makes me feel that I was found...after being lost for so long...

...that makes me feel I am the most valuable friend in the world...

...at least...to someone...

...even if it's only one person...

'Where are you...'

Ricchan...?

"...There you are."

...I thought...

... when I heard your kind voice...

...when I finally saw your gentle smile that I wanted so much...

...my tears were going to stop...

"...I found you."

...but they didn't...

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