After taking this down twice and a two week vacation, I finally uploaded this on ff! I now present to you, Red Is the Strongest Color! Please enjoy!
A basic summary: Basically everyone's settled down and married, save for Gou, whose fiance, Seijuurou, has yet to come back from America, and Rin, who is in a complicated (very one sided relationship) with Sousuke. Rin decides to take a break and move back to Iwatobi with Sousuke and finds out Gou is pregnant. Very much like The Scarlet Letter, Gou refuses to tell anyone the father of her child, which throws the boys and town into chaos.
i. prologue
"Daddy, how would you describe red?" A little girl asks her father one day.
Her father looks at the girl, before pointing to her messy red hair, "It's the color of your hair. And it's the strongest color." He explains, letting the laughing little girl crawl into his lap.
"How come it's the strongest color?" She asks, red eyes filled with curiosity.
"It reminds me of your mother." A sad smile comes across his face as he speaks, causing the girl to gently hold her father's hand.
"Daddy, was mama strong?" The girl asks.
He nods, "She was very strong, all the way to the end." He squeezes his daughter's hand back, "Your mother was beautiful, sweet, and the best mother she could possibly be. You probably don't remember her."
"I remember her a little. She smelled like strawberries." The girl whispers, her little fingers tracing over her father's hand. "She always smiled." She pauses for a moment, "What was mama's name?"
The man hesitates, before looking down at the child, who looked at him expectantly. "Gou."
"Gou?" She repeats. He nods and the girl smiles, "That's a pretty name."
It was silent between the two for a moment, until the girl spoke up again. "Daddy, why are you crying?"
He laughs sheepishly, wiping a tear, "I'm just thinking about your mother. I really loved her, y'know."
"I love mama too." The girl yawns and snuggles closer to the man, "She's red."
"Red?" He echoes and the girl nods sleepily.
"You just said," She yawns again, closing her eyes, "Red is the strongest color."