Why do you like the rain?
Rain, Rain, Go away.
Come again another day.
"Natsu, shut up." A kick deliberately made contact on the young boy's head, making his forehead make contact with the hard, cold glass.
"Ow… Heiwa." He agonized as he rubbed both his head and his forehead from his twin's violence. The Kazeru twins were inside their own home after they returned from the teachings of doomsday, and the clouds were already pouring down to make their lives more miserable. Natsu wanted to go outside to play with their friends, but because no one wanted to go outside in the rain, he had to do the same with his twin sister. They watched the scene drizzle and drip, and Natsu whined again.
"Man. I wish that the rain would just go away." Heiwa gave him an annoyed glance, wanting to throw the pillow at her stupid brother. However, she retained herself from lashing out and looked back to the window.
"Even though the rain keeps us inside, it's good to watch it." Natsu gave her a confounded look and turned his whole body around to converse with her.
"Why do you like rain so much? You used to hate rain before." Heiwa blinked in confusion and wondered herself. It was true that she used to hate rain when she was a toddler, but now she didn't hate the rain anymore. She didn't know the reason why the malice disappeared against the rain, but the rain was… quite nice to observe.
"I don't know. I just… like it."
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"Heiwa. You're going to catch a cold if you stand in the rain. Urahara-san is going to have a fit about his gigai damaged." The teenager turned around to see her captain holding an umbrella over her head. In the middle of the forest where the battle used to be, she was just standing, getting drenched by the pouring rain. They were in their gigais already, and her gigai was soaked from the head down to her shoes.
"I'm sorry, Captain." Shuuhei Hisagi sighed and asked.
"What were you thinking?" Heiwa blinked and looked up to the grey clouds under the umbrella that was shielding her from the droplets.
"I just remembered what Natsu was asking about." The ninth captain stood beside her and looked at the rain with her.
"What did he asked?"
"He asked me why I like the rain before I used to hate it. I couldn't answer him because I was a child at that time." Heiwa took her palm up to catch and feel the rain that collided against her skin.
"When I looked at the rain, I wonder myself. Why do I like the rain? What reason does the rain exist for me to first despise it and later love it? I keep asking me the same question over and over again, but I couldn't find the answer within me." They stood in the middle of the forest for quite a while, listening to the sound of the water hitting the shield above them and watching the clear lines going down to the ground infinitely. Shuuhei didn't look at her, but he asked.
"So, do you know why you like the rain?" Heiwa was stumped and was bewildered at the sudden question. She looked at her captain who had a smile on his face.
"What?" Shuuhei looked at her, but he repeated the same question.
"Do you know why you like the rain?" Heiwa stared at him for quite a while before looking back at the rain that was slowly stopping for the sun to come. She remembered stories about how the rain can appear. People say that the rain came from the angels' tears because something terrible occurred somewhere far. Others say that the rain is the connection through people's emotion if they are grieving or crying in frustration. Another is known that the rain can hold many memories, reminding the people about a special event in their lives in certain places. Sometimes, people wanted to feel the rain and to understand the rain better.
Heiwa remembered her childhood days through each emotion and memory she held close to her heart. There were times that she, Natsu, and her mother spent the time together watching the rain under the porch silently even though the twins hated the rain, and she cherished those times with her mother. There were times that she wanted to cry because she could never obtain what she wanted or lost the people she considered dear to her. When she was young, she wanted to know why the angels continued to cry, even though there are many good days. She wondered why she wanted to dip her feet in the flowing river when there is no rain or why she wanted to play in the rain and to stomp on the puddles. Heiwa may be considered a genius in both worlds, but she wasn't smart on reasoning her true intentions.
"I don't know." She smiled slightly as the sun began to shine through the clouds.
"Probably, it's just my nature to like the rain."