LIKE RAINDROPS
Synopsis: A storm, a meeting and memories. What had been forgotten is remembered, what had been held onto fades as new bonds are made and game will be played in the calm of the storm.
AN: This is the last of the flashback chapters, the next is in the present and the last one is in the future. This is the shortest chapter but I liked it too much to change it anyway so here it is. Thanks once again for the favourites, follows, reviews and just read this! Enjoy the chapter!
PART SEVEN
Hikaru woke up like normal that day. He quickly ate breakfast and went out for his morning run. He didn't even realize anything was different. Pushing go out of his mind so much, he created a wall that blocked out everything go from his memories. While Sai had been like a friend or a big brother, he had eventually been forgotten behind the wall that blocked go from his conscious thoughts. Hikaru didn't realize when he didn't remember his dreams when he woke up, not remembering as he battled with Sai and other opponents that Sai once played in his subconscious every night.
Hikaru played soccer. He was Kaio's soccer captain, the star of the team, called the ghost general of the field because of his famous disappearing acts and quick strategies and judgments that carried the team to become district champions. Hikaru studied. He was in the nineteenth place in school rankings, highest in his class, and shocking everyone who didn't know the boy and thought Hikaru was just an athlete. Hikaru hung out with friends, those who he played soccer with and those he studied with. There were even several girls who hung around him, with hopes he would someday be looking for a girlfriend.
Hikaru thought that he was happy. He wasn't sad per say but he did, deep down, feel that something was missing. When the announcement came that classes were canceled because of the rain, Hikaru was glad to escape the same monotone day as the last. Something was going to happen today, he knew it.
That morning, the sky had been clear so Hikaru ignored the weather channel and his mother's warning about rain and left without his umbrella. Looking at the rain as it poured down on the leaving students, he assured his friend his mother would be there to pick him up shortly and he soon found himself in an empty coat and boot room. While he was glad for the silence that came after the last student left, he wondered why it felt like he should be listening to someone talk. When the dripping wet boy came out of the rain, Hikaru took the chance to talk. The feeling of destiny, that something was going to happen, came again.
Then the boy, Touya Akira, introduced himself and suddenly Hikaru remembered.
TBC
- REW