Chapter 10: Dream
"Ummm... Who are you?" Chito asked the girl as she stood up from the bench and stretched her arms. She was wearing a summer dress with a swimsuit underneath and sunglasses on her head. Chito had only seen girls wear these types of clothes in the 21st Century, in some of her books.
"I could ask you the same?" the girl replied as she sat back on the bench. The weather at this mysterious place was quite warm and the gentle fresh sea breeze brushed through their hair as they kept looking at each other with equal confusion in their eyes. In the near distance, they could hear the sea waves and the gentle wind rustling through the field. They both felt like they were looking in a mirror and were still unable to comprehend what was going on, was this reality or just another dream. "I've seen you so many times in my dreams. I always felt like I was dreaming a whole story and that post-apocalypse world was something that I had envisioned, but after some time I discerned that you might my descendant and you live there in the future."
"What do you mean the future?" Chito asked her back, she was still confused as to how she found herself in this place, and who this person that looked exactly like herself was. Chito had also seen this girl a few times in her dreams and the last time was when she was in a coma. Chito also thought that it was only a recurring dream, but here she stood talking to her and it felt surreal.
"I can't explain it, but I think we are somehow correlated. It's strange because I also read online that a small number of people had similar dreams that they lived in the same kind of reality in the future. They explained in great detail the aftermath and even some of the wars in the future. Sometime in the future they almost met themselves, in similar circumstances and never again afterward." the girl replied as she looked in the far horizon. "I thought I was going insane when I read these stories and the whole thing was just some viral hoax, but - here we are... and what do we do? What do we even talk about?"
"Oh…" Chito sighted in confusion as she looked back at the girl, she was left speechless. The girl moved her belongings away from the bench and gestured to Chito to sit next to her. "Cmon… don't be a stranger." The girl smiled as Chito moved closer and sat on the bench next to her, staring into the far horizon. The gentle waves rushed towards the beach as the sun illuminated the sea into thousands of shimmering lights. In the far distance, several fishing boats were scattered across the sea gently floating on top of the deep blue sea. "But... why are we here? What is this place?" Chito finally questioned the girl.
"Well… I came here to enjoy the sunset and must have fallen asleep reading my book and listening to music." She responded yawning softly. "I don't know why you are here though... Oh, by the way, this place is just close to a town called 'Enoria' in Greece, and that is the 'Aegean' sea right in front of you."
"Greece?" Chito read about the name of a country in a book before the nuclear bomb was dropped on Europe and the heavy radiation made the continent uninhabitable for 3000 years. Europe was composed of many countries joined as one and they all had different names, cultures, and languages. One of these places was called Greece and it was supposed to be a picturesque country with beautiful beaches, mountains, and food, but sadly this beautiful country was also turned into a nuclear wasteland. This was just after the end of World War 3.
"Mhm..." The girl replied as she looked back at the sea. "Well we have been planning a trip to Europe for years now and we just took a long vacation. I just finished my master's degree. Yuuri and her sister opened an Udon restaurant in 'Kichijoji'. It's quite successful and I am so happy that she is now a wonderful cook. But yeah... we went on a 2-month journey around Europe on our motorcycle." she pointed towards the vehicle parked close to the bench where they were sitting on. "That is what we have been driving for the past 2 months."
"What is that?" Chito asked as she looked at the strange motorcycle in front of her. On the back it was tied up with storage containers, the motorcycle looked like it was outfitted for extended journeys.
"It's been our ride for the journey. It's called a 'Suzuki DR 650' that we rented in 'The Netherlands' and it has been our home for around 2 months now." The girl smiled talking about her motorcycle "But I am really sad that we have to leave it behind. Next week we have to catch a flight to 'Tokyo' from 'Athens'. It's pretty much the end of our journey in Europe. But hey it's not as cool as your 'Kettenkrad'!"
"Wait.. how do you know about our 'Kettenkrad'?" Chito asked as the girl smiled again. "Well, as I said, I've seen your journey in my dreams. I've seen you drive it so many times and the most interesting thing is that before these dreams I've never heard that this vehicle ever existed. Yuuri and I saw it on display in a war museum in 'Berlin', and I told Yuuri we should just ride it out of here. She sat down on the back and I sat on the front just like in the 'dreams', but then they threw us out." she replied and smiled, but then her expression changed. "Oh… I am sorry - I just realized it was inconsiderate of me. I never discerned before that you were real and, I know that vehicle probably saved your lives… but yeah... we are out here having fun and everything seems so easy at the moment…" she replied as Chito looked back at her. "...I could see some events from your life in that desolate and ugly place, I just don't know what happened to your world and I hope you both are safe."
"It's ok, and you are right that vehicle did save our lives," Chito replied as she looked back at her. "I know that a lot of bad things happened to our world but we found the most amazing place with Yuuri. However I miss the 'Kettenkrad', it broke down on us and no matter how much I tried I could never repair it. It's probably still down there among the ruins." Chito with saddened expression reminisced about ojiichan's vehicle.
"But what happened to you both?" The girl asked "I haven't seen you in my dreams in 4 years. The last time I saw you both in a blizzard walking towards a wall and that was it - that's all I remember."
"Well…" Chito sighted before as she continued speaking "We made a really dangerous choice to see what's on the last layer of the city, and it almost cost us our lives. But some wonderful people that live up here saved our lives from the blizzard. Sadly, I broke my hand because I was so frustrated when we didn't find anything there again and I kept punching the wall with all my force. But Yuuri - she lost her leg due to frostbite and she was in a coma for 1 month, I almost lost her as well. All of this happened 2 months ago - on the outside - we almost died..." Chito replied as the girl held her hand to her mouth, she was almost going to cry. "I sat beside her for 1 month waiting for her to wake up, I was so sad fearing that she wouldn't wake up, but she is a strong girl... she woke up in the end."
"Yuuri lost her leg and she almost died? What?" The girl with a sad tone asked Chito back. "Yeah - But she is going to get a new leg soon. Something called a neuroprosthetic. She doesn't seem phased about it, not even a little bit, and is so happy that she is going to have a new leg. She is a strange girl but that is why I love her so much" Chito replied with a smile, the girl sitting next to her was almost ready to cry. "But don't worry we are safe, she is just probably sleeping right next to me, she didn't want me to sleep in the other room. I've been having a lot of nightmares and I usually wake her up with my shouting - I swear if I find my hand inside her mouth again..."
"Aww…" the girl exclaimed almost wanting to hug her, but she perceived in one of her sci-fi books that if you hug yourself from the future the world might implode, she didn't want to try this on her 'alternate reality' self or her 'descendant'. "And, just earlier - Yuuri and I were fighting for a ridiculous reason." The girl replied as she brushed a tear from her face.
"Oh - what happened? I was wondering why you were alone and not with Yuuri. In my dreams, I almost always saw you with Yuuri and - I kinda saw you when you both kiss as well..." Chito replied and blushed as the girl smiled and started speaking.
"Well… we kinda fought, back at our hotel. I guess, in a relationship as long as ours even huge fights might be inescapable. Usually, when we get angry at each other we don't speak for 2 hours and afterward we act as if nothing happened, but this time I guess we were just yelling insults at each other." the girl replied as she searched through her backpack and took out a small leather bag showing it Chito. "And the whole fight was for this… it's her wallet. We were getting ready to go to the beach just before sunset and then she couldn't find her wallet and her passport is inside it. And I guess I kinda snapped at her cause she can be so clumsy sometimes and now she lost her wallet and her passport at the same time." she sighed replacing Yuuri's wallet into her backpack. "I called her an asinine d-cupped airhead and she called me a dull bookworm geek and then I stormed out of the room. I drove off to look for her wallet and found it back at the restaurant where we had lunch with her passport inside. I was so angry that I just wanted to cool off on the motorcycle and then I drove here... I read my book listened to some music and fell asleep. I mean we were here yesterday sitting on this same bench while we looked at the sea and ate this thing called a 'gyro pita', which is just a typical tasty Greek dish from this thing that looks like a meat tornado." the girl smiled, she was still sad about her fight with the Yuuri from her world and felt it was for completely ludicrous reasons.
"I am so sorry!" Chito replied as she looked back at the girl, who had a sad expression on her face. "I sometimes got angry at Yuuri as well, because she did stupid things too. She almost burned a book that I like - but in the end, it was all for pointless reasons, we had to burn all our books and even my journal so we can survive the cold on the outside. Everything else in life even books can be replaced, but nothing could ever replace her..." Chito replied as the girl sitting next to her sniffed and brushed her nose with her hand. "I guess I stopped getting angry at her even for the most insignificant things, I am just glad that she is happy and alive. I love her more than anything in the world, and I could never forgive myself that I hit her that one time... I feel like such a terrible person..."
The girl, scoured through her backpack again and pulled out a small black box and handed it to Chito. She wanted to show Chito something that she has been carrying with her throughout her journey in Europe.
"What is that?" Chito replied as she carefully examined the small black box. "Well - you can open it, don't worry it won't break." Chito with ease opened the box and looked inside. It contained a ring with three beautiful blue rubies on top of it, it looked old and worn as it has been passed through many generations. "It's my otoosan's ring that he gave to my okaasan when he proposed to her. I guess in my family the eldest son or daughter got this ring as an heirloom and after they found someone they loved they passed the ring on." the girl replied still staring in the far distance, the gentle sun rays felt warm on their skin as they sat on the bench. "Before my otoosan passed away, he wanted me to have the ring for whenever I found the one I love, but my okaasan held on to it for many years. Sadly my okaasan wasn't always welcome of my relationship with Yuuri because she always wanted me to have a husband or boyfriend for some reason. But just before my trip with Yuuri she wanted to see me and asked me 'Do you truly love Yuuri that you would marry her?'. I replied to her that if it wasn't for her I wouldn't know what to do in my life and that I loved her more than life itself. Then she gave me otoosan's ring and told me 'You should propose to her then.'" the girl smiled and held the box tightly in her hands after Chito gave it back to her. "I hugged okaasan so hard and I was so happy that she finally accepted for who I am... I planned to propose to Yuuri tonight - I know she enjoys 'Greek' food a lot and I planned to surprise her at this wonderful restaurant that I read about online. But now - I don't think she ever wants to see me again." the girl looked down on the bench as few drops of tears fell from her face.
"I know that's not true, she loves you as well," Chito replied looking back at the girl. "I've seen you both so many times in my dreams and I know that she loves you more than anything in the world. It was you both that inspired me to share my feelings for Yuuri when we were out there in the last layer fearing for our lives. I thought that we were going to die out there, but I am so happy I could tell her that I loved her all my life and even if we died in a short while I was going to be happy that she knew that I loved her." Chito replied and blushed softly looking at the girl. "And then she gave me a ring and said she wanted to get married when we found our home - and the ring was just a grenade pin that she found somewhere on the bottom. But I think I lost it while we were out there in the snow. I wasn't able to find it since then and I didn't have the heart to tell Yuuri. I don't want her to be mad at me."
The girl smiled and replied, "Both our Yuuri's are such gorgeous sweethearts. If I never met her in my life I don't know what I would have done. When I was in high school, I was the shy and depressed introverted girl that sometimes people made fun of for no reason - just because I really enjoyed reading books and listening to music some people might find 'weird'. I guess that even got worse when some of my classmates found out that I wasn't interested in boys like them - but then I saw Yuuri one day. She was the popular girl that every boy presumably wanted to pursue in high school, but I presume she also had a secret like me. I guess I had a major crush on her the first time I saw her, I knew I had to get out of my comfort zone and somehow talk to her one day. Then one day we met at a high school party just after we graduated and we started speaking, I was shy at first but... alcohol helps in these situations." The girl giggled and blushed before she kept talking about how she met Yuuri.
"She was so fascinated with my knowledge of literature and music, and even my tendency to start talking about all kinds of insignificant philosophical concepts. That summer break we started hanging out as friends almost every day. We went to shopping malls, to coffee shops, to the arcade, I even managed to make her come to a music festival with me, and one day after we went to the cinema, I confessed out of nowhere that I loved her. I was sooo flushed and I knew that she will hate me forever and never speak to me after that, but she just took my hands and looked me in the eyes and said the same thing. She confessed to me that she had seen me back in high school and always wanted to talk to me but never had the chance and she felt shy. I don't know what brought us together that night at the party, but could it have been destiny? We had our first kiss, sitting in the park after all the 'Asahi' beer we could drink." The girl smiled still reminiscing to Chito about how she met Yuuri from her 'world'. "I guess our love is so strong that - somehow we relive it again in the future. I can't explain it at all. I just really hope you are still alive and that you both found happiness in that world in the future."
Chito carefully listened to the girl with a wide smile on her face, it felt impossible how destiny brought them together with Yuuri again in the future. Maybe through some kind of special bond, she shared an extraordinary connection with her ancestor. Or maybe for Chito, this was all just a dream and she somehow imagined this girl, as some kind of happy coincidence and comfort that she would one day be able to find happiness and home with Yuuri while they were out there on the outside looking for a home. I guess when she found her home, she had to tell her all about it.
"Do you think that I have been given a second chance to meet again with Yuuri in the future?" Chito asked the girl looking at her. "Maybe our souls share a special bond that after years of different kinds of reincarnations, we are again together in a reality that was sadly destroyed by wars, machines and human greed. And we were both left to survive for so long and finally found our home."
The girl kept looking far in the distant horizon, holding the black box with the ring tightly in her hands. "I don't - know..." she replied. "If you are really from the future, that means we have been dead for a long time. I can't conceptualize time as one constant, but maybe we exist in all kinds of timelines, realities and possibly everything is on a loop since the existence of our universe. Maybe after my death, my soul traveled through all kinds of forms, different lives, and yet in your reality - somehow we share the same name, same appearance and even the same 'Yuuri' in the future. It's unexplainable, but it makes me so happy - that we have been given another opportunity of life together, no matter how challenging it appears. I guess it shows - our connection is strong that we would reincarnate even in the most difficult of circumstances, and our destinies would cross paths repeatedly." the girl smiled and placed the box back in her backpack. "I know that in my timeline I have to propose to her. I want her to accept and that she will be my side as long as I am alive. I love her."
"I am sure that she will gladly accept. I've wanted to give her a ring I found earlier but we were having so much fun listening to music and drinking beer I kinda forgot. It was the ring from the canned fish that we opened for lunch. For now, I think fish is her favorite food, but she has been eating so many different kinds of food I think she just loves all the food in the world..." Chito replied and kept looking at the sea "I pulled the ring out of the can and thought 'well this will be perfect for Yuuri'."
The girl turned back to Chito and smiled as well. "Well, its nothing different, Yuuri has been obsessed with Udon for sooo many years now."
"What is Udon?" Chito asked, she almost felt like Yuuri asking all of these questions to the girl that lived in a completely different era.
"Well udon is a sort of food that is made from wheat flour, you can turn it into a soup and add all kinds of ingredients." The girl replied. "Her family's recipes are actually quite amazing. Yuuri was having trouble with her university studies back then and then she decided to drop out, after that she started working really long shifts at a supermarket until she finally got fed up with it. One day after her shift she just came home and all of a sudden blurted 'I WILL OPEN A RESTAURANT!'. I just looked at her from my book and said 'ok', I was so lost into my book that I didn't notice that her sister suddenly came over and they made plans about the restaurant almost all night and drank 2 liters of beer. They decided to open it in this stylish suburb in 'Tokyo' called 'Kichijoji' and their business went huge... suddenly Yuuri was all kinds of cute wearing a chef uniform and making Udon with her sister, appearing on all kinds of social media and even national television. I am so proud of her."
"Well - of course! Yuuri makes food in your reality." Chito laughed softly "I guess I have to look that recipe back home. You will probably see us struggle to prepare it again in your dreams."
"Oh - " the girl sighed and looked back at Chito with a sad expression. "The thing is - I read that after this dream that we might never see each other again. We never have been able to talk before but - I guess this is some kind of an epilogue to our dreams. I guess - we both found what we wanted in our lives. You found a home and a happy life with Yuuri, and I went on an unforgettable journey with the one I want to spend the rest of my life with. I don't know what life will bring next when we get home. I know that I will have to look for a job, and I am afraid of what I will do with my philosophy degree. I always wanted to teach or maybe I might start writing a novel, or a travel diary or write for music magazines - But I know that it will all be for nothing - everything in the future will be forgotten and meaningless..."
"Hey." Chito replied "You know at our home up at the last layer, we have this thing called the 'archive'. They told me it contains almost 82% of the information that was created back in the old centuries. So I don't think it's all for nothing. When we left the village from the bottom, I recorded our journey in a book, but then we had to burn it to keep warm. I plan to rewrite it again from memory and have it stored in the 'archive' so people in the future will know of my journey with Yuuri. I guess people in the old world created all this information for the future as well for the present, but they never knew that the world might be like that. However, most of what people created was stored and kept safe."
The girl listened with fascination and smiled widely. "I always imagined about what would happen to the things we create in the future, to our music, art, literature, movies and almost everything people used to create. Will they ever be able to live on afterward? I couldn't imagine that the 'internet' would exist for a long time and would be able to store all our pieces of information on drives - eventually, everything crashes in life. There is so much wonderful music, movies, books, art in this world that I always thought that one day it would all be forgotten. It's almost unfair..."
"Well... I remembered that name you said 'Asobi Seksu' from my dream." Chito replied "We looked it up with Yuuri and suddenly this wonderful girl's voice started singing something so beautiful, I never heard something like that in my entire life. It was so full of hope and happiness and the words were so beautiful. Their music survived and we heard so many other songs and kinds of music from the world. We were so touched by what the people in the old world created..."
"What? How do you know about 'Asobi Seksu' how?" with a surprised reaction she looked at Yuuri, suddenly tears started flooding her eyes again "What... How do you know them?" She was suddenly overwhelmed with an emotion of happiness and sadness that she started sobbing. Chito with confusion looked at her and was unsure what to say "What's wrong?"
"They... they are my favorite band ever... It just... hurts so much - I - I listened to them when I was feeling so down - I listened to them when everyone hated me and - felt the whole world wanted me to die - I listened to them when I almost overdosed on 'Prozac' and wanted to just disappear from this life - and then we listened to 'New Years' when Yuuri kissed me the first time - and then we listened to them whenever we were together and made love - they helped me get through a lot and every time I listen to them - it reminds me of her beautiful eyes." the girl sobbed even louder laying down on the bench. "I am so happy - that you were able to listen to them - I am so happy that their music lives on and everyone else's - I am so afraid that we will be forgotten in the future - I am so afraid that she will say 'no' - I can't live without her - I just can't live without her by my side - I love her..."
Chito looked at the girl that just broke down and cried next to her, she was just so unsure what to say or do anymore. She felt the same way so many times in her life, suicidal thoughts seemed to be so frequent in every kind of reality. It only took her a split decision to use the explosive on the wall instead of themselves. Thinking about it, Chito never felt so ready to kill herself along with Yuuri and end their sufferings back then. She didn't want her to suffer anymore because this reality was too cruel for such a pure soul like hers... But if she did, they wouldn't have been alive now, their souls probably would have been lost again in the universe. Yet they found each other again beyond the wall at their new home and it felt just like paradise.
"Yuuri will never say no - not in your reality not in every other reality. Our destinies crossed paths in so many different realities, she loves you more than anything. I know that just like the 'archive' our love will live on as long as it can and even in every kind of future iterations of our world we will be together again." the girl brushed her tears off and slowly composed herself as she looked back at Chito with a smile on her face. "When you give her your ring she will be the happiest girl in the world."
"Thank you so much - I know what I will do tonight - and I will propose to that girl - and I will do all I can to make her the happiest girl in the whole wide world," she replied with a wide smile on her face sniffling softly... "But I hope you both enjoy the music that was created - It's the most beautiful thing in the world - I'd write you so much music recommendations on paper, but just like other dreams I don't think you might be able to take the paper with you." the girl glanced at her headphones down on the bench and took them. "Oh wait I hope somehow my playlist has manifested in our dream."
The girl took out a device of her pocket and gave one earpiece to Chito. "What is that?" Chito answered looking down at the weird thing that the girl just gave her. "It's called headphones, you just put it in your ear like this and you can listen to music." The girl smiled and showed her how to place it in her ear.
"Ok... let's see..." The girl kept scrolling down through her device and pressed on a song called 'Ride - Pulsar' "Here! I love this song."
The song began with an odd almost bell-like sound until an electronic bass and rhythmic sound washed over the vocals, it was in a language that she never understood but the music was so similar to the stuff Chito and Yuuri listened to the first night at their new home and it felt so happy. Chito with fascination listened to the song that the girl played to her and after it finished she had even more questions. "But what language was that? I heard it so many times I can't understand it. What did the person in the song sing about."
The girl smiled as she scrolled through her device and opened up the lyrics to the song in Japanese. Chito leaned down and tried to read some of the words that she could understand. "The song is in a language called 'English'. It was widely used around the world so people from all kinds of countries, cultures, and places were able to understand each other. Maybe you might be able to learn it if you want to understand some of these songs."
She tried to read the lyrics and could understand some of the words as they appeared in Japanese.
You can never see me shine like I always wanted you to
There's something in the way, Or you miss it again and again
Still shimmer holding out, always beaming over to you
So very far away, I hope it gets there still
Like the summer always fades and the wind gets cool on your skin
You know that something was, will never be again
We glimmer in the dark of a life we haven't known
Sometimes another one can let you know that you're there
Always keep your eyes on the pulsar
Guiding you home from wherever you are
We're on our way home from another star
It's been so long and we've come so far,
We've come so far
"It reminds me of our journeys. We always travel somewhere in life through hardships and difficulties, but we always keep our eyes back home. I know that next week when we go home to Tokyo, we will be engaged and one day we will get married... and it makes me so happy that we get to spend our lives together." The girl replied smiling.
Just like Chito, she was also so full of life and happiness and she suffered through a lot of difficulties in life. She was determined to spend the rest of her life with the one she loved so much no matter what. "Oh, I have even more music to show you."
They spent the rest of the hour listening to music, laughing and reminiscing about their journeys. They each had a journey in life to go, and it never felt like the end no matter what reality it was.
"Hey... did you notice that the sun never moved?" Chito asked still with an earpiece in her ear. "Oh yeah... I think time doesn't move that fast when you are dreaming. I think I might be still sleeping on that bench, hope no one robs me in the meantime and steals my motorcycle. Then Yuuri's wallet and passport will be gone again! ughhh..."
The girl stood up from the bench and looked back at Chito scratching her head "Oh... so... umm... yeah - I guess this is goodbye... Oh! Wait! I always wanted to try one thing!" She raised her arm and jumped a few times in the air, cursing after a few tries.
"What are you doing?" Chito again looked at her with confusion as the girl jumped up and down cursing.
"Well...crap... so much for flying in a lucid dream." the girl pouted as she took her backpack and placed it on her back. "I only ever managed to do it once and it was for 3 seconds until Yuuri woke me up with her mumbling!"
Chito smiled as she kept looking at her, both of their eyes met and it still felt like she was looking at a mirror. The girl standing next to her was just a few years older than her but still looked the same as her.
"I guess it is goodbye," Chito replied with a smile. "I hope you both find happiness in life as well. I also really want to spend the rest of my life with Yuuri up at our 'unit' and I want to help the 'traveler' rebuild our old world. Maybe in a different future when we meet with Yuuri again, we will live in a much better world. I know that we have to fix the future that our ancestors ruined somehow."
"Thank you so much for everything..." the girl replied as she placed her helmet on her head and sat down on the motorbike. "I will never forget you, I hope you find some of my books in the future. Maybe my name 'Chito Okada' will show up somewhere in your future!" she smiled and started the motorbike and drove away...
"But wait... isn't she still dreaming?" Chito replied in confusion as she looked at the girl riding off on her motorcycle, she wasn't going to get anywhere like this... "- and we didn't talk about the square stone behind me - "
"Uhhh... Huh?" the girl abruptly woke up still laying down the bench. The day was almost over and the sea grew calmer. Looking down on her wrist to check the time, she suddenly panicked "Oh... crap! I fell asleep again! Hey other Chito, I gotta ru-" she looked around but the girl from her dream was nowhere to be found. "Huh - guess it was just another book fueled dream! Thanks 'Yossarian'!" she looked back at the book and shoved it back in her backpack, still yawning and brushing her eyes.
"Shit! Hope no one robbed me!" Checking her backpack she carefully opened it, Yuuri's wallet, passport and the black box with her otoosan's ring were neatly tucked in. "Phew... crap! Our reservation the restaurant! Yuuri will be so worried! ughhh..." she placed on her backpack and her helmet and started the motorbike driving a little bit in the distance before she stopped and turned around.
The bench and the wheat field were just behind her, it felt like she had another vivid dream where she talked to her friend from the future at this odd place. Maybe this was an epiphany that she didn't have to take everything for granted in her life and enjoy it for what it is, she had to live in the present and enjoy these moments. For now, she had a huge decision to make, and that was to propose to the only person in the world that meant so much to her.
The girl never noticed that odd weird-shaped stone structure that stood just in the field behind the bench before. It was covered in all kinds of weird graffiti and some odd circular symbols, it even had some words written in greek that glow in a blue light that she couldn't understand. She could swear at one point she heard the stone make some mysterious electrical noises but decided not to pay attention to it. "Huh... I guess it's just an odd-looking electrical substation." she shrugged as she drove off in the distance.
"MmlmlmlmlmLMLmlMlmlmmmpmpmlMLmlmlllmlmllll"
"Uhhh... Huh?" Chito woke up in her bed to a weird but familiar sound underneath the blanket and her hand was wet again. "Ughhh... cmon Yuu-chan... not again!"
Her hand was deep in Yuuri's mouth again, she drooled all over it. Yuuri must have tried to eat her again in her dream. Pulling her hand out of her mouth she looked at it as it was drenched in Yuuri's drool "eughh.." she exclaimed in disgust, wiping her hand from the side of the bed. With a sigh and a smile, she turned back to Yuuri who was sleeping next to her on their new comfortable bed. She kept mumbling again in her dream...
"Chii-chaaan, you are so wonderful and tasttyyyyy I wanna eat you all oveerrr...mmmmlmlmlmlmlllmlll" she kept drooling with a wide smile on her face, as Chito blushed and leaned gently kissing her cheek. "I love you so much Yuu-chan." she gently whispered before she turned to her side of the bed.
She couldn't sleep most of the night contemplating her dream. Was that girl in her dream real? She couldn't have imagined all of the things she spoke of, because she couldn't understand most of what she was saying. She was from a completely different century a really long time ago, no matter the similarities she was a bit different than her. Of course, the girl grew up in a different century.
"Oh wait..." Chito thought to herself as she took the device that Yuuri gave to her as a gift and turned it on. Just on the corner, there was a 'search' box that she pressed just like the black screen in their living room and typed the words 'Chito Okada' on the device. Several books under that name and something called music magazine publications came up. Chito's eyes opened wide with happiness as she looked at the picture of one of the magazine writers. "She was never forgotten." Chito smiled as she thought to herself. The girl looked like an older doppelganger of herself, she had black hair and a beautiful smile. She wrote all kinds of things that she enjoyed about, mostly about travel and music. She kept reading on about her publications and one of her last books was called 'Canada on a Motorcycle 'dedicated to my wife Yuuri'. She wanted to read it whole in one night, however, she turned to look at the last page where the biography of the author was written and kept reading until she came to a halt.
The words from the biography kept repeating in her mind all night with tears in her eyes. '...'Chito Okada' passed away by assisted suicide at the age of 63, after she finished writing the last of her travel memoirs dedicated to her wife. Chito's wife 'Yuuri Okada' passed away at the age of 61 due to complications from a stroke, they were both involved in a motorcycle accident in Canada in the year..."
With tears in her eyes, she turned to Yuuri who was sleeping tightly next to her bed and snuggled her gently. "I love you - so much - Yuu-chan." she whispered and leaned down Yuuri's chest, listening to her gentle heartbeat until she fell asleep.