Hello there, darlings. Back I am with another work (when I should be finishing the ones I have going, eh heh…) to stir things up.
This is kind of like a companion piece to Guns and Roses—it's written in the same style and it's also Izumi x Meroko. However, this story takes place in between Izumi and Meroko's break-up (seen in the first side story of Volume Three) and the beginning of the main series. So you don't need to read Guns and Roses to get this, of course.
(But if you want to, I'm not stopping you; I never will be happy with its low number of views…)
Ahem. Anyway…here we go again. Enjoy.
The rain pours down, lightning shoots across the sky, and Meroko Yui runs until the world blurs around her, runs until her body is pounding and her legs threaten to give out.
She wants to give up. To lie down, curl up, sob until the world disappears. Never wake up again.
Still she runs.
Finally, she slips and falls, and with a cry, she falls onto the street. She lays there for what seems like a long time, too weak to get up.
Izumi…
Izumi…
Don't leave me…
"Why?" she chokes out.
The rain doesn't respond.
"I—I did my best, right?" she tries again, her voice shaking dangerously, near the breaking point. "But—why—why—?"
She thinks of all the times she ran after Izumi, breathless and eager, trying to catch his attention. All the times she told him she loved him.
All she gave.
Izumi…!
And then the breaking point arrives.
The rain strengthens, falling harder with each passing second, and Meroko succumbs to the sobs, letting the despair overtake her until she's swept away in a deluge of pain, with rain and tears on her face and his name coming from her mouth again and again as she cries and cries.
I actually have this thing almost entirely written already—that's what Christmas break will do to you—so you can probably expect an update every couple of days. Woot!