The Deal
Chapter 2
It has been 3 years since that had happened and up until now I still don't know why I did what I did to Fate-chan. I knew I hurt her so much because after that day I found out that Fate-chan had suddenly left for Midchildia.
I feel so empty inside now. But I guess with what is happening to me right now I guess I have no time to wallow in my despair. It seems like ever since I mistakenly cheated on Fate-chan my life has turned over to the worst side.
I became rebellious and because of that it affected my family too. The only time I realized what my actions have caused is when someone from the bank came to our home asking us to prepare to leave our home.
Apparently due to my misconduct and juvenile tendencies I was not accepted to any of the part-time jobs I have applied for and the damages that I have caused were not so little to pay for.
May parent were buried in a sea of debt because of me and as young as I was I never paid much attention to it. That is of course before it came back with vengeance. Because of these debts as well I lost my family. It also made me realize how much they loved me when I have read there will. It seems even in the most trying of time they had still manage to plan a future for me. They named me owner of the Midoriya Café.
So right now here I am doing my best to leave day by day working in my cafe to pay the debt that was mine to begin with. It was truly harsh but I guess I deserve what I got for going what I've done. The only reprieve I have is that they won't be here anymore to experience the h.
And like always here I am cleaning the cafe after the lunch mob, the cafe is still popular enough to get me by but it doesn't really help much with my debt especially after the waning regular clientele I have.
I decided to rest a bit from cleaning since there weren't any customers now that the lunch mob has ended. The place was silent except for my own hearts beating. It was never like this before even if there wasn't any customers like now. It remind me of when I would help my mother and father and they would joke around like newlyweds would and how I would smile or fake disgust at their plays. It would also remind me of my brother and sister seriously discussing some martial arts move and sequence and how I couldn't seem to comprehend them like they were speaking some foreign language. Back then everything seems to be so simple. Sometimes I find myself wishing that everything was just like then.-Sigh-
It seems that I have been becoming melancholic lately. A single tear seems to have slipped without my notice. Because when I put a hand on my face I felt moisture on my left check.
"Ah retribution really is harsh. Then again only those who deserves it, gets it. I guess I deserve what I get for my own selfishness and mistakes."
I then stood up, preparing to continue where I left off when the bell signaling the arrival of a new customer rang.
I face the door to welcome the customer when I suddenly stop dead on the spot upon laying my eyes on the new comer.
The new comer was wearing form fitting denim pant and a dark t-shirt with a leather coat to keep her warm. Her long blonde hair tied at the end by a black bow swayed as she moves. Her eyes though they were covered with a stylish shade were surely the color of the most exotic ruby.
There in front of me, back against the door is surely the person who my heart longs for and yet will never come to have once more.
In my stunned state, all I could do was call out her name in a whisper.
"F-fate-chan..."
As if she heard my whisper, she slowly came near me while taking her shades off. Then I saw them, those exotic rubies meeting my own stunned blues.
It has been far too long since I have seen those exotic rubies last. I could still remember how they darken to a shade of crimson and how depression, anger and rejection twirled within them. But now as they stare on my own blue once they betray no emotion at all. For some reason I couldn't help but be thankful that they don't show any emotions though deep within it also made me extremely unhappy because I do want to know what it is that it should have like to express like before.
The silence that resumed was awkward with both of us just staring like it was all we needed to communicate to each other but sadly nothing was communicated or express leaving me with another empty feeling within. If this was before then just one look was enough to tell me everything, everything I needed to know and more but I guess I don't deserve to know everything anymore not after that incident.
Then I heard her speak. Her slightly deep yet husky voice that was unmistakably feminine called my...
"Takamichi-san..."
Ah how my heartache. She couldn't even call me by my name anymore. I know that I deserve it yet it didn't prevent my heart from breaking again.
I composed myself though all I really wanted to do was cry and hug her even kiss her but knowing what I did to her I decided to do none of those and just faced her fully. Putting a fake smile to my face, I decided to confront her.
"Y-yes..." but then my words still came out in a stutter.
"I would like to order some apple pie and a whole black forest cake. I'd take the black forest cake out and I'll eat the apple pie here, thanks."
She then proceeded to take a sit on a corner booth. It was the same booth we used to sit in when we were still together. Ah I think I'm becoming a masochist thinking of the past knowing it could only hurt me now.
I look longingly on Fate-chan for a second muttering a soft sorry before going back to the counter to punch in her orders and then serve her apple pie.
Today really is making me melancholic but then again if you're facing the person from your past in the face like me wouldn't you be as melancholic as me.
I stood there watching for a second longer than necessary before I head back over to the counter to wait for her to pay.
Silence was once more upon us but unlike before where only my beating heart could be heard it was now added with the sound of fork hitting plate.
The silence was disturbed once more when I saw Fate-chan stood. Coming over the counter she asks for the bill and the black forest cake.
After paying and taking her cake, she left not even saying as much as a goodbye. When the bell rang signaling the closing of the door and Fate-chan's exit I cried. I let my tears stream freely from my eyes.
I felt my heart shatter into billion of pieces. It hurts. It really hurts. I wonder. Is this the same feeling Fate-chan had when she saw me with Yuuno-kun back then or is this simply just a portion of her pain?
With this thinking I realize how stupid and cruel I was towards Fate-chan. Now that I know how it feels. I realize that I shouldn't even hope to be forgiven for my betrayal. But I wish that sooner or later she could forget everything that hurt her even if it means forgetting me too.
Fate POV
As I walked out of the cafe I knew that I could not let her go just like that. Even now after 3 years had passed, even if the memories of that day is still as clear as yesterday, I could not for the life of me remain unaffected at the look I saw in her beautiful sapphire eyes.
Even now I could feel my heart beat painfully on my chest at the look of hurt I inflicted on her when I denied her, her name. The fake smile that she erupted in front of me had hurt for I know the sadness that it hides. I knew by now she would be feeling the pain I felt back then and it filled my heart with guilt to make her experience the same pain I've gone thru.
I knew I should stop this because it isn't just hurting her. It's also hurting me. But I have made up my mind. This has to happen for my sanity and heart.
Tomorrow, I will visit again and when that happens I'll propose the deal I know she couldn't refuse.
It for my sake after all.
I took another look at the cafe. Then I realize that I was standing on the same spot I stood 3 years ago on that fateful night. How ironic that all I could call that night was fateful like that of my name.
I still remember it like it was yesterday. The same night of Nanoha's betrayal, I had stood on this very spot crying silently. Back then I knew that whatever she might have said I could still believe it even if I have seen the truth.
But she didn't do anything. She didn't even run after me to explain. Here on this very spot I swore that night that I would forget her and make her pay.
But when I saw her again after burying that piece of heart I had especially for her for 3 long years. I realize that just her sight in front of me is enough to drag it back out and scream her name with longing.
I know then that the only way for me to make her pay is for that deal to pull thru with her. So for another day I would let her be free, just one more day.
Then I turned around and headed my way back home.
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Disclaimer:
I do not own any of the MGLN characters even though I wish daily to be so...Hey I could dream right...
Raven: Love is such sweet sorrow.
Hime: But love without sorrow could only be bittersweet.
Raven: I think I should make someone else cry in this fic. Don't you?
Hime: Please leave me alone. I don't want to die yet.
Raven: Why on heaven would you say such a horrible thing?
Hime: (rolling her eyes then sighed) It probably has something to do with this people standing around us with their device of doom pointed straight at our faces.
Narrator: The author was sitting inside the Midoriya Café sipping tea with her friend like everything was A-okay. Their table was full of all the goodies a child would like to have in her dreams. Around the table though stood the whole Takamichi family with the Yagami family and friends. They all have weapons held in front of their hands pointed at the said two.
Shiro: How dare you kill my family?
Narrator: Momoko, Kyoya, Miyuki agreed while pointing their katana's.
Hayate: How dare you not make me fic time?
Narrator: Signum, Shamal, Vita, Zafira while pointing their own devices at the two.
Suzuka: How dare you make my best friends cry?
Arisa holding some sort of sticklike thingy agreed.
Narrator: Somewhere near a corner a smoking pile of meat with certain kitchen utensils sticking out of its body was seen. The pile was identified as the late head librarian of a certain infinite library.
The two main characters were nowhere to be found due to extreme anger and depression. The two was sent to be keep at a secure facility with barriers of SSS surrounding them due to the estimated damage they might inflict on the surroundings.
Raven: Oh that…Don't worry and enjoy yourself. I already prepared everything for whatever might happen to us later anyway so just enjoy this feast before…
Narrator: The statement was not completed due to extreme implication of torture, suffering and blindness it might contain…
Hime: Ah is that so…Okay then…
Raven: It's not like we're not getting used to the abuse anyway…So why scream and panic when the inevitable will come anyway. Plus I knew this would happen when I decide to go with this Fic anyway..
Raven and Hime: Please read and review
Narrator: The two were given 30 minutes to enjoy their meal before the carnage started…The said carnage will not be stated due to… you know…The author and his friend decided to make you think of the way the carnage will go so enjoy…
