Chapter 1: A Day For Happiness

This is a story dedicated to all you HonoUmi shippers. This ship seriously deserves more stories and art. Let's get going.

Disclaimer: I don't own Love Live or the characters


A normal morning, the usual neighborhood, but a different air in the Kousaka residence. A happy ginger lays on her bed humming a tune well known to the world. Start:Dash! was heard from outside the woman's window. The gentle breeze passes and slowly moves her Orange hair from her shoulders. As the wind stopped, a car halts before her home and she smiles at the sight of a person with long, dark blue hair exiting the vehicle.

The woman who had just appeared closes the car's black door. She grins as she looks above only to see her beloved with her usual Blue shining orbs. "Honoka!" She shouts

The person being called out giggles then inhales. "Umi-chan!" She shouts back with a charismatic tone with some birds flying away.

"Geez, what are you still doing up there? Get down here already." Umi blushed due to the embarrassment of being heard of her soon to be wife's neighbors. "They're all staring..." she mutters to herself

Honoka, deciding that she teased her fiancé a bit too much, gets up from her bed and turns off her music player. The things that she needed for the day was prepared ahead for the bluenette told her to pack up so that she doesn't need to wait out in the open then leave with the ginger forgetting something.

"Place this in there..." She muttered and found another thing then inserts it inside her bag as well. "Oh and also that-"

"Honoka!" Umi shouts again.

"I'm coming Umi-chan!" She jumps down from the staircase to be greeted by her family as she rushed to wear her shoes. "See ya later Mom, Dad, Yukiho!" She waves goodbye and closes the door.

Honoka runs towards the woman while panting heavily. "Whew...I'm here Umi-chan."

"HO NO KA." Umi comes closer and flicks the ginger's forehead. "I told you to prepare everything ahead didn't I?"

"I-I did! There were just things that I couldn't place inside my bag even just for a night." She defends herself as the other woman was just staring at her strangely. "I swear Umi-chan!" She wines

"Oh alright. Even now, you never change do you?" Umi teases with a goofy smile she picked up from being with muse's energetic leader since forever.

"Hehe." Honoka smiles sheepishly with her head scratching the back of her head. "Is that a good thing..?" She asks

Umi was surprised that she asked but remembered that her lover had a side that was conscious of almost everything she does, be it appearance or personality. "Of course it is. That is why I love you after all." The archer kisses the part where she had just inflicted (inFLICKted) pain upon. "Now, let's start our day shall we?" Umi bows, giving Honoka her hand to hold on to.

"Yes, we shall." She replied. The two burst into laughter and wanted to remain there for a few more moments but time, would not wait for anyone so the two got inside the car and went.

The pair decided that going to the movies was a good option so they went. Honoka being Honoka, chose an action and comedy filled movie and now is one of the choices. Umi on her part was calmer and so she picked something more serious. The two respected each other's choices so they did't reach to a conclusion. There was another movie that was about romance and so they picked that. Almost every scene with the lovers, Umi would face away, hold Honoka's hand, or just stare.

"Umi-chan it's just a movie y'know." She joked, hoping to appease the girl. "It's not like they will do that anytime soon."

The bluenette comes out from hiding under Honoka's sleeve and quietly says "Judging by the looks on their faces, I'd say otherwise..." and hides once again

"Oh alright." She brings Umi closer to her. "There there. Everything is gonna be alright." Honoka caressed Umi's blue strands of hair and humming a tune with a gentle tone.

The movie finished without all the shameless acts. The ginger got hungry so Umi proposed to go to a new restaurant that had just opened recently but Honoka had different plans. Honoka suggested that they go to the park instead and didn't reveal her surprise.

"Umi-chan here here!" The energetic girl picks a spot from the large space with grass and lays her cover. "I prepared these for us." She said, getting out packed bento's.

"Thank you." Umi smiled to her. "Let's dig in?" She asked

"Yep! Thank you for the food." And they began to chow down whatever was inside.

The moment the two finished, the talked about the members of muse like how they were doing in the present. Nozomi runs the shrine, Nico works for the Idol agency, Eli teaches dance, Kotori in Paris is learning fashion, Rin is now a famous athlete, Hanayo runs the rice shop she and Honoka ran past when they jog, Maki now owns the Nishikino hospital. Honoka runs the Homura Bakery and Umi runs the Sonoda Dojo. Everyone went separate paths but the bonds they made in highschool kept them together.

"We should get going now, Honoka."

"Yeah. We probably should." She stood up and helped Umi up as well. "Are we going home already?"

"No, there is still one more place I want both of us to go to."

The duo packed their things and got in the car. The archer's destination wasn't far so they arrived to it in minutes went out the car.

"Hey Umi-chan. That tree over there, it's kind of beside the ocean isn't it?" Honoka asks the girl she's holding her hands with.

"I suppose." Umi replied

The tree was located on the cliff beside the sea. Sure it would be dangerous to stay there but at least it wasn't hanging down. Honoka looked at her lovers eyes asking for her permission to head over there with her.

'As if I can stop you'

Umi nodded and smiled a bit as they walked towards their destination. The scenery was beautiful as the sun was setting and dandelions were flying around, gracefully landing on the floor or away from where they were originally from. Umi rested her back against the trunk of the tree and Honoka was lying down, resting her head on Umi's slender legs. The cool breeze passes by and disappears just like the fading light emanating from the lowering sun.

"Honoka." Umi said while admiring the scene before her. The sunset, ocean, beautiful skies, petals moving slowly, and Honoka, her beloved fiancé.

"Yeah?"

"Your love for me won't disappear like the sun's light right now right? Even though we fight almost everyday and have different opinions. You won't leave me alone will you?" She asked with a saddening tone that could only make Honoka get up and hold the blue archer's hands.

"Umi." Honoka said, leaving out the honorific in the blue haired girl's name. "I promise that I will never leave you. Even if you got really mad at me that you would refuse to talk to me or something else, I would still love you."

"Honoka..." Umi murmured as Honoka hugged her lover as tight but as gentle as she could to not hurt her. "I promise you that as well." Umi gave out a weak and tender smile.

Honoka went beside the blue haired archer and Umi snuggled up close and rested her head on the ginger's shoulder as the sunset disappeared into the horizon.

I love you they said to each other then shared a kiss that wasn't rough but gentle. As the final rays of the Earth's dwarf star disappeared, their kiss ended and the two went back to the car. The drive back home was silent but it was comforting with no words needed to be said.


/Authors note

Well that was just beautiful. I really just thought of a tree beside a cliff near the sea when I wrote the last part. That's all for me in this chapter and I hope to see you in the next one.