fandom:
Tokyo Babylon Entry 11 –
title: Rainbow Laughter
pairing: Kakyou +
Hokuto
rating: pg-13
description – Seeing Tokyo through its
many eyes (…and maybe those who possess something called a
heart).
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Disclaimer – This title doesn't belong to me but I love its characters too much to stop writing for it!!!
Rainbow Laughter
By Miyamoto Yui
4 / Green – Keyboard and All.
She had always wanted to stop here again whenever she passed by on the Joetsu Line.
There were apartment buildings on each side of the wide river, and on one side, there was a small slope of grass that extended for many, many meters that it seemed not end when you viewed it from the start of the cemented pathway. It was as if the Summer grass were clinging onto the best of its color and refused to change into Fall, which slowly changed the tree-lined roadway above.
At the bottom of this small 'hill', Hokuto sat down and listened to her cd player while looking out onto Sumida River. To her left, there was a bridge that she felt she had seen a dream many years ago when she was little.
Even though it was cloudy, the day was so bright and comfortable. She dressed in brown overalls and a burgundy t-shirt. Her bracelets were a combination of red, yellow, and green. Her heels were simple, dark green ones.
It was very peaceful and as an occasional boat passed by, she waved at the people. She was taking a book out of her big bag when someone started to play on a keyboard a few meters away from her. Dropping the book back and taking off her dark pink headphones, she turned her head to listen to the musician in front of her.
Then, she took out some candy drops and ate them.
Her eyes opened a little wide because she already knew the melody, but it wasn't a song on the radio. How would she know?
The person with the long reddish-gold hair avoided looking into her direction. His fingers just kept on lustily playing on the piano as if he were to die if he didn't. The green of the grass and his humming blended together calmly and passionately.
Her heart was beating faster and faster as if the song was meant for her and her alone.
No one came onto the path and the only people who passed them were those on motorboats. Everyone who walked passed them were on the path at the top of the slope.
When Hokuto got up, she walked towards him. She wanted to tell him so much that the refrain was so familiar to her, as if it were a song from a past lifetime connecting to this one.
Instead, she found herself throwing one strawberry candy piece to his left side, touching his hip and the grass. Without knowing why, she announced in a mellow voice, "This dream will end soon. I have to wake up soon."
He stopped playing and turned his head to her with his soft light, brown eyes gazing at her earnestly, yet with a bit of wistful restraint. "Yes, I know."
She was as breathless as if he had already kissed her.
Unable to step any further, she stood there looking at him and he smiled at her.
Suddenly, she turned around when Subaru looked at the both of them on the path and waved. She looked at the man in back of her and he nodded his head in recognizing Subaru. So somehow, the apprehension washed away.
However, while she watched Subaru come over to them, the man was gone, keyboard and all.
She blinked her eyes again and she was staring into the ceiling of her bedroom. Of course, she couldn't recall the melody no matter how much she tried.
Even at Clamp Academy, her mind wouldn't let go of the dream for that river was the place where Subaru and she had gone to when they first arrived in Tokyo and pretended that they were ordinary people with no titles or special abilities.
And for someone to make her brother look so relaxed and genuinely cared about the both of them…she would hold onto that dream until she faded from this lifetime.
Tsuzuki…/To be continued…