This is a story about Kaoru that was about her past and even she doesn't remember that clearly. This is a tiny little flashback. I was bored… so yeah.

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"Mama! Why do I have to stay here? "I said, being a 5 year old doesn't help get my own decisions a lot does it?

"Aww...my dear Kaoru, you should come here and play with other kids just to make friends!" says my mommy.

"But I have my own friends!"

"Not including your father and brothers or toys of yours honey. Besides, it is a great chance to know them once in a while, maybe find some friends that would make you even look even prettier."

"Mama…I don't want to stay here, I don't want to make friends!"

"Come on Kaoru, it's the park! One of the greatest places for somebody your age! Learn to appreciate it!"

"But…"

"Let me show you somewhere that makes this park one of the most beautiful parks in the city!"

"What is it Mama?"

We walked to a field… a field of pretty flowers that I have ever seen.

"Mommy," I said "What are these? They are so pretty!"

"That my dear are a field of buttercups. They aren't a common flower. Now, it's just mostly blossoms and roses." My mother says, "Well let me go rest at a bench near the playground while you go play with other kids."

She left me before those pretty flowers. They were so pretty, I would want to treasure this moment forever. (*this was when Kaoru wasn't that tomboyish, she was a regular girl, but not a girly girl) When I tried to walk to the swings, there were two girls. One with a bow with a ponytail and another with pigtails, they didn't look like they knew anybody.

"Hi! Want to play with us? Do you want to play on the swings with us too?" says the girl with the red bow.

"Come on! Even we don't know each other! The more the merrier!" says the one in pigtails.

"Uh… sure." I said.

After a little while, we were done playing and they had to come home. The girl with that big bow was already gone, and the one with pigtails was about to leave but then she came up to me and asked,

"Hey! What's your name? Just so I could remember you if we ever see each other in the park again!" Her face was cheerful and was eager to meet again.

"OH! Um… my name is Matsubara Kaoru." I replied.

"Well, nice to meet you! My name is-" then her grandmother called her and she really had to go home this time. She ran and yelled, "Bye Kaoru! Someday we would meet again!"

It was still the afternoon. I walked to my mommy and I told her, "Mommy! This park is awesome!"

"See Kaoru honey? I told you so. You make new friends yet?"

"Yeah! I did! But they had to go home and do something."

"Aww… it is ok honey, go and play some more. I need to finish this novel that I'm halfway through."

"OK Mommy!" I said. This park was more awesome than I expected.

I was running to the buttercup field and accidentally bumped into somebody.

"Hey! Watch where you're going!" It was a boy that looked a little older than me, like at least a year.

"I'm sorry!" I said.

"Here let me help you up." He said. He had similar features as me. That's rare. I have never seen anybody before that had the same hair and eye color, but his hair was spiked up.

"What are you doing at a buttercup field?" I said.

"That's what I should be asking you. I'm only here to help keep these flowers safe from the future. There was a rumor that the park is going to use this area as another playground, which is already big enough. They are beautiful… I don't want them to all die at the same time."

"Really?" I said, starting to tear up, the flowers are so pretty though.

"Hmmm… you look like you care about them too. I guess I'll call you Buttercup instead of your real name, ok?"

"Sure!" I said. I like that name. It makes me feel good. But then I replied, "Then what do I call you?"

"It's ok. You don't have to call me anything. Hey there is an empty field at the other side of the park! Do you want to go? Come on it's just you and me planting one of your favorite flowers Buttercup!"

We walked to the other side. It looked about the same size, but a little bigger. But no one ever notices this spot since there are a bunch of trees in the way and I think this spot is perfect.

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It was sunset, and we were done planting more of these Buttercups. But just then…

"Hey! You kids! Don't mess with the park's property!" said an officer. I guess he saw us.

"Come on Buttercup! Run!" said the boy. We ran to a spot close to that other field.

"Son! Time to go home!" I thought that was the boy's mother.

"Ok! Go ahead I'll go home by myself!" he said. But he's allowed to do that? I wish I had that kind of freedom.

"Bye, bye! Buttercup!" Then he carved something into a tree not so far away from the new field.

3 Buttercup. We will meet in ten years! Nobody would ever to find this spot except you and me! Hope to see you when we later grow up!

I still don't know how to read yet. I wish to come back again. All the time for the rest of my life.

"Well see you in ten years in this exact spot Buttercup, in this exact day. Bye." Then he went home.

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I went to my mama. I told her everything while we were walking home. She said that it's cute that I have already made I promise to a boy and seems so romantic. What does that word mean? I wonder. She marked it on the calendar, and on my photo with a buttercup in my hand. I wonder if we even remember that long, I smiled at that thought.

Then everything became a blur slowly over time, luckily it was recorded in writing in the photo that she had found exactly a day before 10 years. She wonders if that promise was too big to handle, but she didn't want to break it. The park that used to have that first beautiful field of buttercups were now gone, like that boy said, luckily that 2nd was still standing unnoticed. She wonders who that boy was and she was anxious to meet him again in ten years…