La Corda D'oro, A Hanako Story

"Keii-kun! Let's go! Let's go!" Hanako said as she grabs the wrist of Keiichi Shimizu.

"Where are we going?" Keiichi spoke in his usual smooth voice.

"Have you forgotten? I told you we were going Sakura Viewing today." She looked at him with a little annoyed frown on her face.

He looked at her for awhile before replying. "I must have fallen asleep." She sighed. No matter how much she tries, Keiichi's cycle of going to sleep, waking up, playing the Cello and going to sleep again cannot be changed easily.

She dragged him out to the school's garden. It was a beautiful place with Sakura trees surrounding a small clear pond. Hanako laid the mat on the floor next to a huge Sakura tree.

"Sit." She said with her hands out towards the mat and a slight bent in her knees. Keiichi did as she said and sat on the mat leaning against the tree. She smiled before sitting next to him. Her hands reach out to grab the picnic basket at the opposite end of the mat and pulled it onto her lap. Keiichi opened the lid of the basket to find his favorite food. Onigiri. Hanako took one out and brought it close to her Keii-kun's face. She reached down to grab another for herself after he took it away from her hand.

"Itadakemasu." Both voice said to the same time but in different pitch and rhythm. Two of them ate their Onigiri under the Sakura tree as the pink petals of the blossomed trees drifted in the wind until they reached land. Some of them touched the green grass. Some of them touch ted the clean pond while others touched either black or blond hair. The colors in Seiso Academy during that spring day of late afternoon was mixed together to enhance each other. The orange setting sun builds up the rainbow of color.

Once the basket was empty, Hanako leaned her head on Keiichi's shoulders. She looked at the colors around her before speaking in a voice slightly louder than a whisper. "Keii-kun, it's beautiful here. I want to hear a song that will let me remember these colors for the rest of my life." There was no reply for her request so she closed her eyes. Thurs completing this scene.