Hibisha: I know everyone is after my blood and all but here's a story to keep everyone happy.

TOBF: How are you sure it'll keep everyone happy?

Hibisha: Because I made it so. At least I tried to. Enjoy~ Oh and I own nothing of Inazuma Eleven. That pleasure itself belongs to Level 5, those lucky bastards.


"Prologue"

I could feel bile rising in my throat as I watched the one person I held dearest to me walk away. Maybe I did behave coldly and slightly detached but he couldn't walk away from me. Not now-not ever. I needed him. Needed him more than anything in the world.

"Are you really going to leave me?" I whispered. Gone were all the airs and graces I carried about myself-even my pride had deserted me. Suddenly, I felt like I was 10 again-I didn't like that feeling. My body was shaking horrible.

"I'm sorry Gazelle-but I just can't take this anymore." My hand instinctively reached out and held on to the back of his leather jacket and an image of my past flooded my mind; same boy, same jacket, same situation. But he had stuck around back then. I saw myself in those golden orbs-a frail, weak, vulnerable child. I was no longer the frigid person I showed myself to be. but the inner small boy who was desperately clawing away to get to the surface. I was drowning.

I didn't want to be abandoned-not again. My breath was slowing becoming more rapid and I could feel my eyes becoming moist-something that had not occurred for a long time. I saw him look back at me and falter slightly. Would he not leave me? Would he not walk away as she had?

But his hesitancy was only for the slightest moment. Shrugging my hand off, he walked out of the front door, not even looking back. I felt my world shatter and crumple to the ground like dust. A loud sob clawed its way out of my throat, then another. Tears cascaded down my face and I touched my cheek in amazement. I was crying. I hadn't cried for a long time so the tears had been stored inside me. Well, maybe 'stored' wasn't the word-'captured' was a more appropriate word because mow they were all in a mad rush to escape. I felt as if one of the walls supporting me had disappeared and now I was once again reduced to that weak creature I had once been.

My body felt heavy and I slid down against a wall, my legs not supporting my own weight.

"Please Nagumo, don't leave me. You promised you wouldn't leave me like she did." I watched his figure disappear into the darkness, "Please. Come back."


Hibisha: Well that's that. I hope you liked the prologue.

TOBF: You hope they like everything!

Hibisha: As an author, there is no higher honor than that. Review!