Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis.
Hi guys, I know there are still a few months to go before Christmas but then I made this last Christmas 2015 still please enjoy reading. This fic was inspired by the song White Wishes by 9nine and I don't own the song as well.
"White Wishes"
On a winter afternoon in Osaka, in a nursery school called Himawari, a 4-year old new transferee girl was being bullied by her classmates. They always waited for the timing when their teacher will go back to the office and make it a chance to do bad things to her.
"Crybaby! Crybaby!" they all chanted as the hazelnut-haired girl cried because one of the boys took her star clip from her hair.
"Give that back!" the girl tried to reach her clip from her classmate's grasp.
"No way, crybaby!" he put his hand with the clip behind him while they all laughed together.
Then suddenly, someone took the clip from the boy's hand.
"Hey!"
"You guys, I'm really going tell the teacher what you have been doing to her if you wouldn't stop," a boy with silvery-brown hair stood in front of the bullied girl facing the
"You're such a killjoy," the boy who took the clip said.
"It's not fun anymore," another boy said.
They all walked away and did their own things, playing with each other or playing with toys.
"Are you okay? Here," the silvery-brown haired boy handed the star clip to the new transferee girl.
"Arigatou gozaimasu," the girl uttered as she got her clip back.
"Where are you from?" the boy asked.
"T-Tokyo."
"Heee, Tokyo, huh? Why did you transfer here?"
"Because of my father's work."
"I am Shiraishi Kuranosuke. What should I call you?"
"Mi-Miyano Aria."
"Let's get along well, okay?" he smiled at her so wide that she blushed.
KRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!
Miyano Aria, 17 years old, 3rd year high school student, woke up from the loud ringing of her alarm clock.
"Hnnnnnmm..." she groaned as she reached out her hand to turn it off.
She got out of her bed and headed to the bathroom to take a shower.
After 10 minutes, she got out of the bathroom and changed onto her school uniform which is a pair of a long-sleeved light green blazer with a pink ribbon and a light green skirt. The typical school uniform of Seishun Gakuen.
She looked onto her half-body length mirror in which her hazelnut eyes took a glance on the two photos attached to it. The first photo shows the time when she and Shiraishi graduated in nursery at Himawari and they were standing beside each other with big smiles on their faces. The second photo was taken during the time when Aria won a tennis competition in second year of middle school. Aria, smiling from ear to ear, was holding her golden trophy with Shiraishi beside her smiling as well.
Then she sighed. Aria started liking Shiraishi much more than a friend 5 years ago when they were still in their first year of middle school. That was the time when Aria and her family had to go back to Tokyo. That was also then when she realized her feelings for him.
However, all Aria could remember was how Shiraishi had always treated her like a...younger sister.
She sighed again. She recalled the time when Shiraishi called her this year's summer and told her that he finally confessed to a girl he liked and how they started going out. She could still hear inside her head the happy tone of his voice from the other side of the phone and she could tell that perhaps, her childhood friend had a glimpse of paradise that time.
She could clearly remember that the only words that came out from her mouth were just half-meant words of "Isn't that great? I'm happy for you."
After all that reminiscing, she picked up her schoolbag and went out of her room.
She went downstairs and headed to the kitchen where she saw her mother prepare the breakfast for them.
"Ohayo gozaimasu, okaa-san," she greeted her mother who have the same brown hair and hazelnut eyes as her.
"Ohayo, Aria," her mother greeted back with a smile.
"Where's otou-san?"
"He said something about a company meeting so he left early."
"I see," Aria sat down on the chair at the dining table and started eating her breakfast.
"Oh yes, Christmas is coming soon. What would you like to do?" her mother asked as she sat across Aria.
"Just as we usually do."
"You don't want to go somewhere together?"
"Hmmm...celebrating Christmas at home with the family is enough," she smiled at her mother.
"If you say so," her mother just shrugged.
While Aria, wearing her white winter coat and a red muffler around her neck, was walking on her way to school, her cellphone rang from inside her bag.
"Yukari-chan?" she uttered as soon as she saw the caller ID. She clicked the answer button and put the phone on her ear. "Moshi moshi?"
"Aria-chan!" a girl's voice cried out from the other side of the phone.
"What's wrong, Yukari-chan?" Aria asked, wondering what might have happened to her.
"Aria-chan, Ku-chan is..."
"What happened to him?" Yukari could tell that she was concerned for him.
"Ku-chan hasn't gone to school for three days."
"Eh? Did something happen? It's not like him to skip school."
"Kenya-kun told me that he got dumped by Mariko."
'Kura-nii,' Aria thought at the back of her mind.
Shinohara Mariko was Shiraishi's ex-girlfriend until three days ago. After Aria saw her at this year's Nationals, the first thing she could describe her was the word 'beautiful'. Aria was mesmerized by how graceful and elegant her movements are. 'A perfect match for Kura-nii', she thought that time.
And Aria...was the opposite of Mariko.
"I got it, Yukari-chan. I'll give him a smack to get him back to his senses," Aria tried her best to sound cheerful when deep inside, knowing how hurt Shiraishi must have been, she can't help but feel the pain as well.
On the night of 9th of December, Aria told her parents about Shiraishi Kuranosuke's condition and asked permission to go to Osaka the next fday. They allowed Aria to do so since they are close friends with the Shiraishi family. They also knew that their daughter had always like Kuranosuke.
The next day, Aria took the first train heading to Osaka, bringing with her one bag for her clothes and a small leather backpack for other necessities such as pocket money, a small notebook and a pen. She is wearing a pair of blue jeans and long sleeved beige turtle neck with red-white sneakers, along with her white winter coat and red muffler.
Sitting on the train, Aria couldn't stop thinking about Shiraishi Kuranosuke.
'I'll do anything to see you smile again, Kura-nii,' she said to herself.
She took out a small notebook and a pen from her small leather backpack. She listed all the things that she would do with him when she arrives at Osaka.
"Next stop, Osaka. Next stop, Osaka," an intercom voice announced.
"I'm here!" Aria stood up and picked up her bag.
After getting off the train, she headed straight to Shiraishi residence in hope to seeing her beloved Kuranosuke.
"Konnichiwa, oba-san!" she greeted at Mrs. Shiraishi who opened the entrance door for her.
"Oh, Aria! I miss you so much!" Mrs. Shiraishi hugged her.
"I miss you more, oba-san!" Aria hugged back.
After a few seconds of hugging, Aria let go first and tried to peek inside the house.
"Is Kura-nii...?" she tried to ask.
"Kuranosuke is in school right now."
"Eh? Is he...alright?"
"I don't know but his friend Kenya kept nagging him this morning to go to school. He had no choice," Mrs. Shiraishi chuckled a bit.
"I see."
"You can put your luggage inside Yukari's room upstairs. She told me about you coming here."
"Does Kura-nii know?"
"Don't worry, I didn't tell him."
"Arigatou, oba-san!" Aria gave her one last hug and went inside Yukari's room to put her luggage.
"How about you stop calling him 'Kura-nii'? Mrs. Shiraishi suddenly blurted out. She had been aware of Aria's feelings for Kuranosuke.
"You know how Kura-nii treats me like his own younger sister," Aria politely responded and smiled as she dashed off out of the house, wearing the same clothes as she had when she arrived.
"Really, why can't they just be honest already?" Mrs. Shiraishi asked herself.
So? How..was it?
