Disclaimers: If Air Gear belonged to me there'd be a lot more nue X kana, but alas, it is the property of Oh!Great sensei.I never quite understood the unhealthy amount of female fascination for Ikki in the manga...oh well…
Air Gear
Kururu / Ringo / Simca
Black Rain
Rain, rain, go away
Come again another day
She watches from a distance, not quite understanding the bitter taste in the back of her throat. Lips move, but she hears only the tinkling melody that the raindrops play about her. The intensity of the other girl's expression scares her, a little, the desperation and the despair. But what makes her heart tremble the most, is how he looks so hard like he is trying to comprehend. And around her, the rain and the wind keeps singing.
Little Swallow wants to play
Come again another day
She hates the rain, as it drips and splatters onto her, rolling down her hair, her skin, her dress. It seeps into her flesh, into her bones and chills her as she clings to him, not even knowing why, only that she has to. He has tied her down with this foolish hope, soaked her wings wet with an unexplainable faith and she has been grounded without a fight. There can be no one but him, and for that, the swallow will give up flight.
Rain, rain, go away
Come again another day
She watches the fall of the rain around her, the water pooling at her feet and thinks that perhaps this will be it. The wind blows cold, bringing with it the whisper of doubts and shadows. He will hate her for the swallow she will tear from the sky. Caught between this side of reality and the next, the only thing she knows now is uncertainty, even as she stands atop the world and the rain, thorn queen, untouchable. He will hate her for it.