How many different shades of brown could there be? He wondered as sunlight slowly spread across the sleeping girl's figure. Hazel blended into golden light that filtered through the rustling trees. Where one shade of carmel chocolate ended and the subtle hue of honey dyed yellow began seemed indistinguishable to the appraiser as he lazily ran his fingers through smooth ringlets.

It was funny how before he met her, everything had been divided into existing tones of monochrome gray and the only thing he could see was the stark contrast of a neon yellow tennis ball. The yellow no longer hurt his eyes to look at, because now various degrees of color tinged his vision with confidence.

The male gave a tiny smile as he mused, who would've thought that the pillar of Seigaku drew its strength from this small slumbering form? A soft clear voice stirred him from his reverie inquiring,

"Ryoma-kun, Daijoubu?"

He looked down into warm brown eyes. He was wrong when he thought brown could only contain the color brown, because within those eyes he saw the multicolored world reflected back at him.

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Sakuno had loved Ryoma-kun from the very beginning, and the more she thought about it the more she realized how much she had changed. How funny she thought, that everywhere she looked she saw flashes of deep emerald winking at her in the glistening sunlight. She had always possessed a broad range of color throughout her life, no matter how shy she seemed to others.

She knew the sky was made of many scattered colors, reflecting only the steady stream of clear blue. Nevertheless, ever since she met Ryoma-kun even the sky reflected hints of the emerald green buried beneath. Now her world had been dyed a permanent monochrome emerald that would ever so often peek through. She was determined to leave behind her shyness and her stutters as this new bewildering emerald quickly took hold of her life.

It seemed she no longer held her head down, if only to look at the emerald-colored sky.


Just had to get this out of my head...hehe. As you can probably see the theme here is color. No matter what I do I just can't seem to get away from the topic of art...artist by nature isn't that what they say? Anyway please review! I'll give you a cookie ;) Bribery? O: naw...