Disclaimer: Full Moon Wo Sagashite and Eternal Snow does not belong to me.
Inspired by FunkieCookie's and Dylislily's fanfics! Be sure to check them out, when you have the time!
Prologue: A New Beginning
Let's start anew
When one is lost;
Find another…
A raven- haired boy looked up to the heavens, his azure eyes watched the moon with great interest. Slowly, he closed his eyes to sing...
Kimi wo, suki ni natte
Dorekurai tatsu no kana?
Kimochi, Fukurande yuku bakaride
Kimi wa ko-
"Takuto," a woman tapped lightly on his door, "Prince Takuto, his highness is calling for you,"
The boy glared at the door before answering through gritted teeth, "Coming, grandmother..."
Takuto, who was wearing a soft-cotton blue shirt with matching dark purple pants and a pale white cloak tipped with silver, stepped lightly down the steps.
When, finally, he descended his last step, his sapphire gaze landed on the door at the end on the hall. As he walked toward it, he heard voices.
"But he's too young!" A soft, loving voice yelled out.
"That's why he needs this experience!" Another voice, harder and stricter, answered.
Takuto sighed as he tapped softy on the door. This wasn't good. His parents always argued, his mother, on his 'safety', his father on his 'well being.' He was tired of having his parents decide his clothes, his rules, his life… but it wasn't like he could have a say anything about it. He opened the door and pondered out loud, "What is it father?"
"Ah, Takuto come in," His father answered in his 'almighty' voice, "Your mother and I were deciding your punishment for singing again! I told you many; many times that singing is against our strictest law for the well being of our nation! So we decided it would be best t-"
"No, you can't!" His mother screeched, locks of brown curls fell from her face revealing flaming blue eyes, "He's too young to live in the human world on his own!"
Takuto froze. So that's what they have been yapping about. The human world… a world were you could sing you heart out… So beautiful, so wondrous, and yet… so deadly… this could be interesting.
"No, he's not!" The King agued, "He's eighteen, for heaven's sake!"
"But! You still can't!" Tears fell from her azure eyes, "Please! You're too harsh on our child!"
"You know well enough why the human world became a wasteland! It was because they sang their hearts, their minds, expressed themselves, which angered the other humans, which lead to wars! Battles! Deaths!" The father yelled.
"Mother…" Takuto whispered with uncertainty.
"What is it!" They both snapped at him.
"I think it might be a good idea for me to live in the human world," he added with growing confidence. After all, in the human world, he heard that you can be free to do as you wish, go where your heart takes you… oh, what a wonderful world!
"Bu-" The Queen whimpered.
"You heard the boy!" The King interrupted, "He wants to go! Then it's decided!" He turned his head towards his son, "You will be sent to the human world at dawn on the 'morrow!"
The Queen broke into a fit of sobs, while his father, who strode out of the room, seemed to be pleased with himself. Takuto, on the other hand, smiled for he was happy with the choice he had just made.
Earth, he thought to himself, it has a pleasant ring to it.
The next day…
"No!" The Queen screamed, "You can't go, my son!"
Takuto turned as he headed toward the portal between both worlds, "mother, please, I want to go. Do know what this means? After all these years, I can finally choose my own decisions. Trend on the path I chose. Write my own story. Sing my own songs! Don't worry. I have spells and runes to protect myself. I'll be fine."
"But, Takuto…" His mother silently sobbed into her hands, her dark brown curls fell carelessly to her side.
Takuto sighed as he stared into the color-changing gateway.
Is this the right choice? He considered. Well it wouldn't hurt to try…
He quickly paced inside.
Bright beautiful colors flashed before him but he took no notice. Instead his mind was in the high clouds of thought of what his father said to him before his departure.
Flashback
"You will arrive on the island of Japan," the King replied with a grave expression, "from there on, you will live in the home not far from where you've landed."
"How would I know what house it will be?" Takuto questioned as he eyed his valuables wondering which ones would be important on his trip.
"The address is written here," the King passed a piece of paper to Takuto, "Three more things: first, it would be wise if you didn't tell the humans where you came from," at this Takuto nodded, knowing all too well what might happen if a human found out who he was, "Second, you will be attending 'school' for both educational and social purposes…"
"What!" Takuto interrupted, dropping a delicate grass swan that his aunt sent him for his birthday, thus shuttering it into many small pieces. He groaned as he disposed of the mess with a single flick of his wrist. He never like that swan...
"It is for your own good that you learn what you can while living in the human world," the King coughed, " and having a social background would help you get by as well. Next is when you get there," He looked up at his son with the most grim expression Takuto ever seen on him, "it will be night."
"Huh?" The raven-haired boy inquired while packing the last of the materials that he thought was needed on the trip, "What's so bad about night?"
"The human world is…" The King paused of a second, rubbed his beard in deep thought, "frightful… at night."
"So?" Sapphire eyes met gray ones, "I went through many frightful situations before," he check his list one last time, wondering if he missed anything in particular, "how would this one be any different?"
"I guess," his father laughed, scratching his jet-black head with uncertainty, "You fended for yourselves at times of need… I guess you would be just fine… but…"
Takuto looked up at his father with questions in his eyes, as the King paced toward him, put a shaking hand on his shoulder, "Be careful."
Flashback end
Boots softly touched the soil before him indicating that he finally arrived on Earth.
The stars gave a warm glow in the darken sky; as if to welcome him to this strange new planet, dazzling him with the presence of a full moon. It was such a wondrous place to be, beautiful… just, beautiful. Night's wind flew through him, wishing him to spread his wings and fly with them. He smiled at the moon; it's luminous light that smiled back at him seemed say, welcome, little one, to heaven in the living world. Then, without a thought, Takuto closed the curtains over his eyes, tilted his head back to sing.
Kimi wo suki ni natte Dorekurai tatsu no kaNA?
Kimochi Fukurande yuku bakari de
Kimi wa Kono omoi kidzuiteiru no kana?
Ichido mo kotoba ni wa Shitenai kedo
Yuki no youni Tada shizukani
Furitsumori Tsudzukete yuku
Hold me tight Konna omoi nara
Dareka wo suki ni naru kimochi
Shiritaku Nakatta yo
I love you Namida tomaranai
Konnan ja Kimi no koto
Shirazuni ireba Yokatta yo
A stunning angelic voice accompanied him, while wondering whom it might have belonged to, he continued singing to the last note.
Hold me tight Konna omoi nara
Dareka wo suki ni naru kimochi
Shiritaku Nakatta yo
I love you Mune ni komiageru
Fuyuzora ni sakebitai
Ima sugu kimi ni Aitai yo
He opened his sapphire eyes to meet chocolate ones, which were gazing back. They belonged to a girl whose soft coffee-brown hair flowed with the wind, bathed in the moon's smile. A slight blush betrayed the girl's thoughts, and before Takuto could even think of walking toward her, she ran into the dark shadows of a Sakura tree, and was gone.
The young prince let out a sigh and started to find the house that he was to live in.
Ha ha ha… hope you like it… even though the ending was bad… Please Review… I except flames… After 2 reviews I'll post up the next chapter…