Title: When You Open Your Eyes
Fandom: NANA
Disclaimer: Ai Yazawa
Prompt: Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Summary: They once said, when you close your eyes and open them again; everything will be over. Just like that. HACHI X TAKUMI
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They once said; sometimes when you close your eyes and open them again, everything will be over.
She never thought this day would come. It was as if everything had just been a dream she'll never wake up from. Just a dream.
Time flew pass; happy times and hard times all the same. Yet the pain she felt right now seemed to last forever; unlike all the love that seemed to surround her. She had Takumi beside her; and Nana. They called out to her, right there to support her. She knew she wasn't alone to feel all this. Then; there was the baby.
It's been a good year since she met Takumi; and nine months since she'd been pregnant with his child. She was just a fan, he belonged to no one. But now he was hers, and she was supposed to be happy.
Her eyes were clamped shut, she screamed, she tried. She could taste her own salty tears streaming down; touching the corner of her lips, and amidst all the pain and the worries, she could feel it.
She needed to let it all go. Another cry escaped her lips, she knew the pressure, but she never felt this much. She had to do it.
Komatsu Nana saw nothing more; just blurs of her surrounding then the darkness, with the echoes of a soft voice.
"Ne, Hachi, you made it"
Then another loud cry; not hers, but her child's. She sighed with relief; and lost her consciousness.
They once said; sometimes when you close your eyes and open them again, everything will be over.
They lied.
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Her legs felt numb.
That was the first thing she noticed when she woke up. No one moved or made a sound; she could only hear the soft drumming of the rain on her window.
Hachi writhed, distorting the ripples on the white bed sheet.
"She's awake!"
Nana's voice, then a small cheer that erupted to more voices. Takumi, Shin, Nobu, Ren, Yasu and Nana. They were all there when she opened her eyes.
Takumi was holding her hand; looking at her with a smile, "hi".
She opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out. He didn't mind. Takumi didn't mind the fact that she said nothing, he had her. He had the baby.
"Do you want to see the baby?"
She nodded.
Ichinose Takumi handed her the frail child he was holding, "It's a girl"
They once said; sometimes when you close your eyes and open them again, everything will be over.
Nothing was over, it had just begun. When she closed her eyes, she felt happiness, and when she opened it, the same feeling came to overflow her every vein.
"She's beautiful"
She sat up; facing the window, with her newborn daughter in her arms. She could not help but smile when she looked at those rosy cheeks, those small hands that huddled to find warmth. Komatsu Nana had find her warmth; she had escaped the pain that came with it, and she'll face her future with a bright smile.
Small eyes fluttered open for the first time to see the world. The first things she saw were happily smiling faces that seemed to greet her eyes, then the grey sky and the soft rain outside the window.
"Hey little one, have you ever seen the rain?"
A tingling voice that rang in her ears the first time she opened her eyes. Her mother's voice. But they were all there when she opened her eyes.
So was the same voice that said, "hey little one, have you ever seen the rain?"
