Precious Days
Prologue:
"Those precious days have been scattered to the wind
How many fleeting dreams will we awaken from
before we meet again?"
Yamada Saori, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Tobenai Tenshi
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It was a rainy Sunday, and two girls were in their attic rummaging through dusty old boxes. What better to do on a rainy day than to revive old memories? Some precious and treasured, others intriguing yet forgotten. "Mou…there's nothing really good up here. I expected obaa-san to have more…interesting things around this place…"
"Stop complaining…" The one with shorter hair spotted a relatively small box that laid seemingly undisturbed for years if not centuries, "Hey Risa, look at this." The two pulled the box out into the clearing and blew the dust off, coughing as the debris was sent flying everywhere, "I wonder what's in here…" They opened it, inside laid a box wooden chest, the engraved words were covered with dust, Riku blinked and brushed off the filth. "Precious Days…Dark and Krad."
Her twin frowned, "Who's Dark and Krad?"
"Who knows?" When they opened it a little slow tune played, startling the two, but when they listened to it for awhile it became quite soothing, and at the same time, was slightly saddening. Inside the chest held scraps of paper and coins and other things, "Only junk in here…let's see what else is in the box."
They reached in and pulled out a thick book, "It looks like an album."
They opened the book, their fingers leaving prints in the remaining dust that hadn't shook off. Riku blinked, "Wow…this looks really old…"
The pictures inside looked worn out, the pictures were almost in nothing but shades of brown, most of the colors were gone, most, but it was still clear what colors were before they were replaced by paling brown. "Whoa…look at these guys…they don't look half bad…."
The first picture in the album consisted of four guys standing in front of a house, the shorter pair were in the front, the shortest one on the right had red hair along with large innocent looking ruby eyes. He had a big smile plastered on his face as he loosely hugged the boy beside him with blue, almost ice blue hair and cold calculating eyes. They held a hint of affection and a small smile played on his lips while he allowed the redhead to embrace him.
The taller two stood behind them, on the right stood a boy with a grin on his face, he had wild violet hair and amethyst eyes that glittered with mischief. He had an arm wrapped around the waist of the boy beside him who had long golden hair. Golden eyes watched the camera serenely and he rested his head on the shoulder of the boy next to him, a content smile on his lips.
The next picture caused the girls to giggle, it seemed to have been taken right after the first since they were in the same spot only everyone was goofing off. The violet haired boy had the redhead in a headlock while the poor boy looked like he was screaming and the blonde was using the blue haired boy's head as an armrest, smirking as he watched his friends duked it out. The blue haired boy on the other hand made a half annoyed and half worried face. And the next picture involved the struggling two crashing into the two on the left, everyone looked shocked, then the next picture, feet and strands of golden hair was seen, and nothing else.
Riku laughed as she flipped the page and saw the picture where they were all on the floor with the blonde on the bottom looking rather dazed. The next pictures werequite random, it was just them in random events, the redhead and the blue haired boy sitting around reading inside what seemed like a mansion. The violet haired boy with a banana in his hand looking stupefied. The blonde asleep at his desk, Riku blinked and took a closer look at the picture. On the desk was the little wooden chest they had found, "Hey Risa, I think the blonde's either Dark or Krad, look at the chest."
Her sister wasn't all the interested though, she stared at the picture of the violet haired boy, "He's such a hottie! I wonder what his name was…maybe obaa-san knows…"
Riku rolled her eyes, but the last part did make sense, "Yea…maybe she knows something…"
But before she could get up, Risa giggled and pointed to a picture, "Too bad he's taken…" She was pointing at a picture of the violet haired boy kissing the blonde who was in nothing but a towel, the next picture consisted of the blonde looking embarrassed and shocked while the other boy was glaring at the camera, his hand blocked half the picture, it looked like he was yelling something.
The shorter haired girl giggled along with her sister, "Come on, let's go ask obaa-san."
Down the stairs the girls clattered, only to find their grandmother sitting down in the living room drinking tea, their grandmother looked up, "Yes girls? What have you got there?"
The twins showed their grandmother their discoveries, she gave a small gasp, the twins blinked curiously at their grandmother's reaction, "Obaa-san? Do you know who these people are?"
Rika blinked and ran her fingers lightly over the book, "Yes…I know who they are…there's a tragic story behind these pictures…"
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Nya
Whoa! New fic! And it even starts off with Risa and Riku :O That's somewhat a first and they're not all insane-Dark-stalker-ish, well at least Risa isn't...Riku never was XP Can anyone guess the tune in the music box? XD Whoever guesses right gets...umm...something :D Yea! Something! XD I'm so smart! Hmm...yes...enjoy! X) I'm going to back to work while eating chips with salsa :D