Worlds Apart
Disclaimer: I do not own Love Hina or any of its characters. I do, however, own Yoshiaki Otsuki.
Author's Note: This is an AU future fic. It is written in the POV of Yoshiaki Otsuki, the hero of this story.
Chapter 1: New
Her skin was soft tanned silk. Her hair was pure white snow. Her eyes were deep bright green pools, always sparkling with hope.and hidden sorrow..
She was the innocent victim of her classmates' hatred.
She sung to the moon, the stars, the sun. She sung to the snow, the trees, the flowers. She was Mother Nature's daughter, a princess of snow and ice.
She taught me to see. She opened my blind eyes to the world, and for once, I was able to feel.
Her "family" didn't love her. She did not exist to them.
She didn't deserve to be in this world. Better yet, the world didn't deserve her.
One day, she was gone..
.Or so I thought..
I can remember the day she waltzed into our lives. A small knock came from the hallway of my high school. The teacher opened the door, and in stepped a tan girl with white hair and happy green eyes.
"Class, please welcome Takayama Yumiko. She is new here at Tokyo High School."
Yumiko smiled a warm honey smile. The unresponsive class thought in unison: Another geek.
"Takayama-san, please sit in the empty desk next to Otsuki Yoshiaki." Sensei pointed to me. Yumiko traveled down the aisle to the desk to my left. She beamed at me and sat down. Lucky me, I thought.
The teacher continued her lesson on organ systems. Her words were barely audible to me; she was so boring.
"Otsuki-san, what system does the alveoli belong to?" Sensei's question knocked me out of my daze.
"Uh.in the digestive system?"
"Takayama-san, since you're new here, why don't you tell Otsuki-san where the alveoli is?"
"The alveoli aren't found in the digestive system. They belong to the respiratory system."
Immediately after she answered half of the class, including me, turned and glared at her.
"Yoshi-kun could've gotten it," hissed Yumi. That girl had had a crush on me since the sixth grade. Every time I turned around she was there, like a fake blonde shadow you just couldn't get rid of.
By the time class was over the word spread across the school like wildfire. Yumiko walked through the whispering hallways obliviously, as if she didn't even know what was going on.
Two freshman girls gossiped as she walked by them. "Did you hear about how that new girl stole Yoshiaki's spotlight when he was answering in class?"
"Yeah, what a showoff! She probably doesn't know who he is!"
I didn't understand what the big deal was, so what if she revealed my ignorance? It's not as if she actually knew who I was, if she did then she wouldn't have answered. Most kids didn't. They were scared of me, probably because I was popular.
I walked down the halls after school ended. I wanted to get out of there as quick as possible before Yumi spotted me. A tap on my shoulder stopped me. Too late. I turned around and, as expected, Yumi was smiling at me with her seductive brown eyes. I groaned.
"Hey, Yoshi-kun!"
"Please don't call me that," I said with a rose tint on my cheeks. She always knows how to embarrass me.
"Whatever you want, Yoshiaki!" she stated. "Isn't it just terrible about what that new girl did to you?" She started to walk by my side as I headed home.
"It doesn't really matter," I answered flatly. Does she have to bring up every little thing?
"Oh." We were a block away from school. My house was two blocks while hers was around the corner. Yes, I thought. Time to ditch her.
"Hey, isn't you house that way?" I pointed in the direction of her street.
"Uhh.. Oh, yeah. Well, I'll see ya later, Yoshiaki-kun!" She waved like a rabid dog and ran off. I sighed in relief.
I decided not to go home so quickly. It was 3:13. I still had about an hour. I walked blindly until I came upon Sakura Park. There was nowhere better to go, so what the heck? I entered the big black gate into the snow-filled park. It was literally a winter wonderland. The shadows of the trees danced on the surface of the snow. Songs of the sparrows filled the air with peace.
kinoo atta
dekigoto keshiki mitai ni hanasu KIMI
yuukure no mannaka de koko wa natsu no iriguchi
Out of nowhere, I heard soft singing. It was like whispers in the rain. I walked closer and closer to the sound.
CHAIMU ni
hazikarete kakedasu sakamichi
kaze o kanzitara
nayande ita koto
mo warai to baseru kara
ashita wa hareru ne
It drew me in like a fly to honey. This song was so hypnotizing. I walked blindly on into the frostbitten trees.
koi shite yume miru mainichi daizi na takaramono
toritomenaku
osyaberi tsuzukete itai hookago wa
mada shiranai tokimeki deau setsunai yokan
I came to a small clearing amidst the trees. Snowflakes began to fall lightly from the gray clouds.
toki
ni onazi kimochi mitsukerarenakute mo
KIMI
wa daizyoobu
zibun
rashi koto ga kagayaite iru tte
oshiete kureta ne
I saw a maiden, dressed in white, with white hair. The snow made her look almost invisible if it wasn't for her tanned skin. Her slim figure swayed slightly, as if moved by the wind.
narande mitsumeru ano sora omoi o utsushiteru
RASSYU
no hitonami ni nagasarenai yoo ni
kokoro
musubitai
akogareteru
koto o zutto nakusanai de
otona ni natte mo
Then this mystery girl turned around. Her big green eyes spotted me, but her pink lips kept singing. At first I couldn't figure out who this snow-girl was. Then it hit me.
koi
shite yume miru mainichi daizi na takaramono
sugi yuku zikan no kakera ni eien tozikomete
"Yumiko?"
She nodded. Yumiko walked towards me and looked down. "Sorry about making you look bad in class today."
"Uh.. Well, that's okay. What are you doing here, anyway?"
"Singing. Didn't you hear it?"
"I know, but why? Shouldn't you be home?"
"Shouldn't you be home right now?"
"Hey, I asked you f- Oh, never mind. Bye." I turned around hastily and left.
By the end of the first day, Yumiko had earned a name at Tokyo High School: That New Girl.