Ano Hito no Jijō (That Person's Circumstances)
by
Saddletank
Chapter Ten – I'm Introduced To The One Who'll Kill Me
I'll take you back, back to the future.
Oh, geez, c'mon, that's terrible! You can't even think without stealing old American movie titles.
Back to the day Eguchi took me to meet her middle school friends. Two weeks into the future from when I first saw her…
"Hi guys, here's the person I told you about. Ryusaki, meet my friends. This is Miyagi Yumi, she's originally from all the way over in Osaka. Fushida Ryoko is the brown haired one, the thinnest girl on record,"
The two girls nodded to me and smiled.
"And this is our esteemed leader, we just call her The Boss. Ryusaki, meet Izawa. Izawa Maho."
I looked.
She was…
the girl I had seen before
the girl who already owned me
the girl who had filled my every waking hour for the last two weeks
and many of the sleeping ones
…stunning.
I don't think I have ever seen such a beautiful girl.
Close to, I looked again.
For the thousandth time.
I knew her so well already. Ever hair, every pore, every curve.
A slim face and narrow, wonderfully slanted eyes, so dark…
...long, long straight black hair. A curtain of hair.
Beautiful hair, clean, shiny, fine...
Under her right eye a small black beauty spot.
She turned her head to me slightly.
Leaned back against a desk, long legs straight in front of her, ankles crossed.
Arms folded loosely below her chest.
Her gaze fell upon me.
"Hello Ryusaki."
And I was lost.
Even when she looked bored or mildly annoyed, as she did much of the time, as she did now, I was lost.
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13 - 14 May 2007
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