Reflections

D. Ant

About Reflections

Sometimes when I hear a song I will kind of gaze off into space and random things come to mind. These images are either brought upon by the lyrics, music or video of the song. And sometimes they have nothing to do with either, but are brought on by whatever mood I'm in while listening.

Most of these mental thoughts and visions are either things from my past, things I wish for me to do or things for fiction stories I am working on.

The rest of the time it's random Lupin crap. And if it seems to stick with me, I will attempt to write out what I imagine as the song plays. Sometimes it doesn't come out as planned, but that's all thanks to my annoying thing of being unable to write out what I see.

And so, this is where I will stick all of these stories. Some I really enjoy and others the whole idea got lost while writing it. There isn't a set category, as the stories seems to be many different kinds. But so far they mostly seem to be dramatic ones. Oh, me and my drama. xD Anyway, I hope those who bother to read enjoy.

One - Hoppipolla (Sigur Ros)

Jigen stood on the top of a small hill, the warm wind blowing in his face, the sun beating down on him. His eyes gazed off at the horizon while one of many memories from his childhood ran through his mind.

"Come on!" the older boy shouted happily, his short and messy black hair bouncing as he ran, the fallen leaves crunching under his feet.
Behind him ran a similar looking boy a couple years younger and behind him ran a small girl, about a few years younger than the oldest.
"Wait for me!" the girl whined as she tried her hardest to catch up.
"Hurry up!" the older boy shouted as he stopped and waited.
The girl caught up, the younger boy taking her by the hand as they continued to run.
Ahead of them stood a hill, looming over them as they ran towards it, scrambling to get to the top.
The younger boy let go of the girls hand as he caught up to the older boy, the two of them pushing and shoving playfully as they tried to each make it to the top.
"Ha!" the older boy said in triumph as he stood on the top.
"You cheated," the young boy accused him.
The older boy stuck his tongue out.
The girl had occupied herself with rolling down the hill, giggling all the way down.
"Let's have a stick fight," the older boy suggested, the two boys finding sticks on the ground, preparing them as a fencer would his epee.
They fought fearlessy, big smiles on their faces the whole time, the girl sitting up at the bottom of the hill and watching with big eyes.
The younger boy backed the older boy against a tree, finally able to knock the stick away, a grin on his face.
"Oh yeah?" the older boy said as he leapt at his foe, both falling to the leaf covered grass as they play wrestled.
They rolled around, finally rolling down the hill, both stopping at the bottom, laying on their backs as they laughed.
"Tag! You're it!" the younger boy said as he got up and ran, laughing the whole time.
"Hey!" the older yelled as he got up, running after him.
"Wait for me!" the girl whined as she ran after the two.

"Jigen."
Jigen broke from his thoughts, turning to see Lupin standing behind him.
"You okay?" Lupin asked. "I've been calling your name the last five minutes."
"Huh? Oh, I'm fine. Just...just thinking..." He glanced down, a bare stick about three feet long at his feet. "Hey, Lupin," he said, looking up with a smile on his face.
"Hmmm?" Lupin had started down the hill, turning and looking at Jigen.
"You want to have a stick fight?" He kicked the stick up with his foot, snatching it in the air and holding it in front of him.
Lupin grinned, looking around for a stick, finding one about a foot longer than Jigen's. "En garde," Lupin said, holding his stick up.
The two fought with speed and grace, Jigen avoiding Lupin's stabs while Lupin ducked Jigen's swings. The fight was even until Jigen found himself backed into a tree.
"You have fought a good battle," Lupin said with a smile, "but I'm afraid I am the better swordsman." He knocked Jigen's stick away, holding his stick to Jigen's throat. "For today, victory is mine."
Jigen relaxed as Lupin turned around and started to walk away. "Oh yeah?" Jigen said, running up and tackling Lupin.
"Hey!" Lupin shouted in surprise as the two fell to the ground.
"Never turn your back on your opponent," Jigen said as he was trying to pin Lupin.
"That's cheating," Lupin said, using his legs to toss Jigen away and then diving on him.
"Cheating only applies to games that have rules," Jigen said as he tried to fend Lupin off.
The two continued to wrestle until both rolled down the hill.
Lupin scrambled to his feet, snatching Jigen's hat, which had come off halfway down the hill. "Got your hat," Lupin taunted as he put it on and ran.
"Hey!" Jigen got to his feet and gave chase.
The two smiled and laughed as they ran through the park, Lupin touching the trees and calling "Safe" so he could catch his breath before running again.
Goemon and Fujiko stood by the car and watched the two. Fujiko smiled, running to join in, soon Jigen having two people to chase, Lupin and Fujiko passing the hat off to each other.
"Kids," Goemon scoffed, a smile soon coming to his face as he ran to join them, teaming up with Jigen to help him get his hat back.
The four played as the sun slowly crept towards the horizon, ignoring the odd looks others in the park gave them. They didn't care what others thought, for they were having too much fun. And sometimes, reliving your childhood wasn't all that bad.

I wrote this story back in November of 2007 and was inspired by the video for the song. Even though I don't see this writing style as my strong point, I'm very happy with how it came out. Although with what I wrote when I put it in my lj, I didn't like it too much when I first wrote it. xD It has grown on me or something. And I guess that's all I have to say about this story.