Title: Home
Disclaimed.
When you feel you've lost all else, strength is what you find.
She woke up, in the middle of who knows where, feeling dizzy. She didn't recognize the people around her, or the place she was currently at.
She was alone.
Subaru-nii-san?, she thought, as she tried to stand up. She walked slowly, looking at people's faces, in an attempt to find her brother.
A few minutes had passed, but still she couldn't see him.
Where could he be?, she thought once again.
She then fell unconscious.
The inventor woke up hours later in a room, with an elderly woman seated beside the bed she was lying on.
"Who are you―where am I?"
The old woman smiled at her and gently brushed her raven locks on forehead. "Relax, child. You are safe here."
Fifteen years had passed and yet nothing had changed in her appearance. She still looked like a twelve year-old girl and her cold demeanor had gone still unchanged as the years had passed. She moved from town to town, not only because she was still looking for her brother and anyone who she actually knew, but also not to arouse some suspicions about her never changing appearance. She would live at one place for a maximum of two years, before moving on to another.
She had met a lot of people who had helped her and treated her like their own family, but still she moved away.
Hotaru Imai was a genius, and if her assumptions were correct, she was to stay like this forever.
Never getting old, never really moving on… and always leaving the ones she cared about.
Seven years more had passed, and she had finally completed her latest, and probably more precious, invention. A time machine and a locator merged into one. She could finally find her brother, her friends…
A small smile appeared on her lips, as she went inside the machine. After checking if everything was ready, she closed her eyes and thought of her old classmates, her teachers, her brother… her thoughts then wandered off and focused on a certain Animal Pheromone Alice user a few moments after.
The next thing she knew, she was standing in the middle of a very busy street somewhere in Tokyo. Her locator was minimized in a size of a pendant, which she had put on the necklace she was wearing.
Good. Everything seemed to be going according to her plans. Now, she just had to find them.
She then spotted a blonde man a few meters away from her. His eyes were cerulean blue, like how she had remembered and his kind and gentle face was still the same, even though so many years had passed. The only problem was, could he still remember her…?
Hotaru was suddenly scared for the first time in her life since she last saw him. She then gathered all her courage and walked up to him.
She gently pulled his jacket to catch his attention.
"Yes?" he asked when he turned to look at the person who had approached him, only to find a child staring up at him. He knotted his forehead. "How odd," he then murmured.
The child raised both of her eyebrows at him, as if asking him why.
Ruka then chuckled. "You look like someone I know."
He remembers, the inventor thought, a small smile almost appeared on her face.
She then smirked at him instead, before muttering, "Ba~ka. Ruka, it's me."
Shock was written all over the blonde's face, and before he knew it, he was hugging the inventor in his arms, enclosing her body in a tight embrace.
He was crying.
"Hotaru, you don't know how long we've searched for you. I―I'm glad you're finally here."
This time, Hotaru Imai really smiled, as she returned his embrace. "Me, too. I'm glad to be home."
Finally.
Author's Note: No, I haven't read GA's latest chapter yet, but I've heard enough about the ending. I hope this thing (the crappy stuff written above) happens if ever there will be a sequel (please please sequel please because ugh Hotaru) :(((
This drabble is still unedited.
P.S.: I didn't get that much into details because I'm lazy DD; lol.