TITLE: Don't Look Back: A Burst Angel Fic
AUTHOR: MikeJaffa aka Michael Gallagher
SYNOPSIS: Five Years after the events of the series, a mysterious woman resurrects Kyohei's memories of the long dead Jo and Sei.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Burst Angel.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I only recently stumbled on this anime and got this idea. However, from what I can see of the complete lack of fics with this pairing, I may be completely wrong. But have fun anyway.
"Onegai shi-" Kyohei Tachibana said to the Japanese woman coming over to him in the Aikido dojo and broke off, blinking. She had long straight hair, blonde highlights in it, not drawn up into a bun, but her eyes were the same color, she was the same height, looked to be as old as Sei would be now, and her chest ….
Kyohei couldn't help himself. "Sei? Is that you?"
"Excuse me?" she asked. Her voice sounded a lot like Sei's, too.
Kyohei shook himself. It couldn't be Sei. No, just someone who resembled her. But not Sei.
"I'm sorry," Kyohei said. "You look like someone I used to know."
"Does she practice Aikido?"
"She's dead."
"I'm sorry to hear that."
"It was years ago, and we weren't very close, but thank you. I'm Kyohei Tachibana."
"Yukiko Okimura."
They bowed to each other, and Kyohei slipped into hanmi stance, extended his hand, and moved into the cycle of throwing and being thrown, but he only half paid attention to the rest of the class. The girl's resemblance to Sei had opened old wounds.
Sei was dead. Jo was dead. Even without watching the viral video on his phone again, it was burned into his brain. They had died in the explosion that had taken the top off the RAPT building. Amy, Meg, he had no idea what had happened to them, and he had no idea how to find out. But they could find him if they wanted to, and they hadn't, so either they were dead or had written him out of their lives.
'And I'll just have to go on without them,' he thought. 'It's not like I liked that job.' But the thought failed to quiet the grief that had welled up inside him.