Full Title: "Black Drive"
Author: Trinity
Series: GouGou Sentai Boukenger/GouGou Sentai Boukenger: The Next Generation
Rating: PG-13, with swearing, sexual content and dramatic elements
Pairings: Belle "Rin" Inou/Souta Mogami, Kei Takaoka /Satoru Akashi, Eiji Takaoka/Sakura Nishihori-, Natsuki Mamiya/Masumi Inou, Aurora "Hikari" Inou/Kando Takaoka, with appearances by Satoshi Akashi, Tsubasa Mogami, Sakurako (Little Miss Voice), Makino-sensei, Kaze no Shizuka and Zuban.
Summary: Can Rin and Souta overcome the ghosts of their pasts to walk down the aisle together?
Spoiler Alert: This fan fiction miniseries, takes place after the end of the main story of "GouGou Sentai Boukenger: The Next Generation" (and before the second of its three epilogues). It spoils both the fic and the entire series of GouGou Sentai Boukenger, including the movie "GouGou Sentai Boukenger The Movie: Saikyou no Precious".
Prologue: "Heart of Blue, Heart of Black"
"Rin-chan, wait!" Akashi-Takaoka Kei screamed as she chased her best friend, Inou Belle, affectionately called "Rin" out of the small church. "Rin-chan! STOP!"
But Rin didn't stop. She simply picked up the skirt of her white wedding gown and ran down the street, tears falling down her cheek, accentuating her running mascara. Kei could still hear her sobbing and she eventually gave up, pausing and placing a hand on her swollen stomach. She gasped.
"Kei!" Akashi Satoru, Kei's husband, called, having caught up with her. "Are you all right?"
Kei exhaled and looked up at her husband. She shook her head, too winded to speak. "Rin-chan…. she bailed. On her own wedding! What sort of bride leaves her groom at the altar?"
Satoru and Kei turned back to the entrance of the church and saw the small assembled party and then watched slowly as Mogami Souta emerged from the crowd and watched as his bride to be ran down the street and vanished from view.
Souta wasn't the type to cry in public or to show any signs of something being wrong, but as he stood there and watched the love of his life vanish into the distance, a tear slowly made its way down his cheek.
Rin ran until her legs gave out and she just collapsed. She couldn't make herself do it. She couldn't marry Souta in good conscience. She just couldn't. She crawled into a park and sat on an empty swing, her body racked with soft sobs. She could still hear the taunting calls of her past, "Inou Baka! Inou Baka!" and she remembered those lonely days from childhood when she was known as Inou Baka or "Idiot Inou". She remembered being an awkward, clumsy, somewhat ugly young child, who was always getting into some kind of mess and how much she suffered for being a klutz. She remembered Kei always being there to help her. And she remembered wondering, would she ever become a beautiful swan, like her "super cute sister".
And then she remembered looking in the mirror earlier that morning and being unable to recognize herself. And then she wondered about what Souta would think of her. She wondered if Souta would look at her or treat her the same if she was beautiful today and then went back to her usual self. She knew he loved beautiful girls. Would he still love her once he saw her as she truly was? Would he still love her when she went back to being "Baka Inou"?
Rin swung back and forth slowly and cried, her tears staining her dress. She looked up to the sky and sighed. How stupid could she be to believe that she could leave the image of Baka Inou behind?