Author's note: ~This was a request fanfic. It's based off the idea that maybe Asch, Luke, and Van have had many past lives together. The three have always been reborn in same line: Van first, then Asch, followed by Luke. Meaning that in Abyss, Luke was MEANT to have been replicated from Asch, thus continuing the pattern. Everything gets explained by the end and sorry if it seems a bit rushed at points, I just didn't want each chapter to be that long.
"Luke! ….Luke!", yelled the voice of an elder man.
The old man was standing just outside the door of a shop. He was yelling at the blond haired boy who was just standing there looking up at the sky aimlessly.
"LUKE! Pay attention and move these boxes already!"
Luke finally snapped back into reality and shook his head. He looked at the man and nodded.
"O-Oh yes sir! Move the boxes. Got it.", Luke replied, rubbing his head and smiling.
The old man chuckled lowly and went back inside the store. Luke took one last look up at the cloudy sky and sighed.
"…Looks like it's going to rain…."
Luke shut his eyes and went back to work. He had to move these boxes before the rain fell. There were a lot of boxes to be moved, outside of the store. They had just received a new shipment earlier that day. It was up to Luke to push all the boxes from the front of the store, to the back.
The old man eventually came out and sat down for a smoke. Luke kept on working hard on moving those boxes. Luke stopped pushing the box he had been working on and stood there for a moment. He used the back of his hand to wipe the sweat from his brow. He glanced at the street for a second. He looked back to the box and then stood there wide eyed when he realized what he had seen. He looked back to the street in a hurry and looked back at the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.
The girl had long blonde hair and stunning green eyes. She was walking with two other girls. The two girls said something and the blonde girl in the middle giggled lightly, which caused Luke to blush. They continued walking down the street and didn't seem to notice Luke gawking.
"That girl is way out of your league Luke…", said the old man as he sat there smoking still.
He had seen Luke's reaction to her. Luke ignored what he said and watched her walk all the way down the street and disappear from view. Luke looked to the man.
"… What's her name?", Luke finally asked, the blush from having seen such a lovely sight was fading.
"…Asch…. But she belongs to the family that owns this town… There's nothing a simple shop boy like you can do… So get those thoughts out of your head now…", he warned, caring for the orphan boy that he had been taking care of all these years.
"Asch….", Luke said as he shut his eyes and remembered her face.
He thought it was a pretty name, though a bit harsh sounding. Like a warm fire on a cool spring night, though the fire could turn and burn everything to ashes. He blushed and the old man smacked the back of his head, telling him to get back to work. Luke rubbed his head where it had been hit and smiled nervously. Enough day dreaming for now. He went back to moving the boxes.
The rain had started falling just as Luke had finished moving the last box. He ran under the front covering of the store and looked at the street. He took a deep breath. He was having trouble forgetting that beautiful girl from earlier. That's when he saw her. She was running down the street alone. She seemed to be looking for something. She was all wet now from the rain, but Luke thought she still looked gorgeous.
Asch ran off down the street. Luke took a step forward and then noticed that her friends from earlier were at the other side of the road, they seemed to be looking for her too. Luke thought maybe they had gotten separated and so he ran after Asch, wanting to tell her that her friends were in the other direction. It started raining a little harder as he ran after her.
She ran pretty fast, faster than Luke had expected. Luke had to pick up the pace just to catch up. He called out her name. Once she heard it, Asch ran into an alley. Luke blinked and ran into it as well. However, Luke hadn't been paying close attention to how slippery the alley was and slipped, falling to the ground and into a puddle. Luke sat there in the puddle with his eyes closed. He felt like an idiot. Asch had stopped running and looked at him. She laughed at him. Luke looked up once he heard it, he had thought she would have been long gone by now. He blushed at that adorable laugh.
"… What do you think your doing, boy? You should have no business chasing me like that.", she said as she looked down at him.
"Ah…. I…. just…. I thought you might be… Looking for your friends…. Who were on the other side of the….street looking for you….", he said slowly, the blush as he looked at her grew and tried to freeze his words.
Asch looked at him with a colder stare than before.
"…. Those stupid girls are not my friends… I didn't lose them… I left them there….", she informed him with a low tone.
"Huh? W-Why?", he asked surprised at that.
"..Tch… What would a commoner know about it?… Just stay there in your puddle, Dog, and leave your master's to play their games alone.", she said In a condescending tone.
She turned to leave and started walking away. Luke jumped up out of the puddle and grabbed her hand.
"W-Wait! Don't go yet!", he cried.
Luke was amazed that something so beautiful and warm looking could sound so cold as ice. It made him want to know more about her. Asch looked at the hand that held hers and then glared at Luke.
"How dare dreck like you touch me!", she yelled at him.
Asch tried to pull her hand away, but Luke tried to stop her.
"I just want to know what your doing!", he said, as if begging to know.
"That's none of your business!"
She tried to pull away again, but in the struggle she started to slip. Luke tried to keep her from falling, but slipped a little as well. She ended up with her back against the wall, having turned around to hit him off her. She had shut her eyes once she thought she was going to fall. She opened them and saw the boy's chest there. He was standing right in front of her. One of his arms was on the wall to hold himself up and the other was still holding her hand. She slowly lifted her head up. She was only a tiny bit shorter than the boy so she didn't need to lift it too far to see his face.
Luke was looking right at her. His face was red with blush. He was very close to her. She blushed a little as well, never have ever been that close to a boy before. Luke just couldn't help himself, he slowly leaned his head closer to her. Asch didn't move and she stood there frozen. Luke moved his lips and put them over hers. She looked surprised. Asch slowly shut her eyes and turned a little more red. Luke held that kiss there as the rain slowly stopped.
Asch's "friends" could be heard calling for her. They sounded close. Luke leaned back and looked at Asch. Luke didn't have time to say anything to her before she moved away from him and started walking away.
"AH! Wait! Asch! Where are you-", he panicked and took a step towards her.
She stopped walking, but didn't look at him.
"I'm just going to go home for now Dreck…. Be a good Dog and go back home yourself…", she said in a low voice as she walked out of the alley.
Asch's friends ran over to her once Asch stepped out from the alley and could be seen. They both fussed at losing her and Asch put on a fake smile for them. Asch walked away from the alley so that they wouldn't notice Luke. Luke stood there blushing from it all still. He grinned and walked back home himself.
Luke was glad it had stopped raining. His grin never faded as he walked. Once back at the shop, the old man was standing there waiting for him inside. The old man saw the grin and pink on Luke's face and hit him with the broom he was holding.
"You never did learn to listen… Sweep the floor and get those damn thoughts out of your mind Luke.", he said.
He tossed Luke the broom and left the room. Luke rubbed where he had been hit, but still smiled. He was too happy from the events of today to be down. Luke grinned and swept the floor. He hoped he would be able to see Asch again soon.