Hana Matsuri – Flower Festival (花祭)

By Hal

Disclaimer: All characters belong to Inoue Takehiko. I do not own them and I won't dare to say the ideas for this novel are purely original. No literature work nowadays is purely original; we all get our inspirations from somewhere.

Mooooona & Lack_Honesty & loyalizta_01: You can now read chapter 9 here: http:// haerjun. wordpress. com /2008 /12 /24 / hana-matsuri-chapter-9 / . Remove the spaces please. =3

Harry Draco Malfoy : (poor Hana, why the hell Rukawa attacks Hana...I hope the full explanation will be explaine in the epiloque or in the 2nd arc?) Because… Rukawa is a killer. The simple reason is this as of now.

(BTW, do also explaine the status and what sendoh said 5 peoples who didnt want to reveal there status? Who is that 5 people and how many status are there?) This will be known in Arc II because it has something to do with the hereditary.

(Prince? Hana is a prince? but is he a good or bad price since all of them seems like awnt toprevent his awakening or something...) Again, Arc II contains the explanation. It is not that everyone doesn't want him to awake, just that it is too dangerous for him to awake in the current situation.

A/N: I am wrong in making you people wait. .||| Been busy with Cosplay and making clothes for my BJD. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Epilogue

Before Rukawa had moved into the house, Sendoh once told Hanamichi of a story about love. He said it was something that he heard from his teacher.

There was once a girl who was in love with a man. The man died and she committed suicide. She stood before the Buddha after her death. The Buddha asked her if she wanted to reincarnate. She replied, "I don't think there would be any love that could be as perfect as the one I had. Buddha, you once said that to have the destiny to walk past each other in this life, we must have five thousand times of eye contact in the previous life. And to have the destiny to meet, we have to walk past each other for five thousand times in the life before. So to be able to fall in love with each other, how many times we do have met in our previous to have such fate? If I were to give up now, how could I find it again? So I would rather reincarnate, and meet him again."

Sendoh paused and asked the innocent boy, "Hana, do you think she is right?"

Hanamichi nodded, then shook his head, but nodded again, confusion showing on his face. "Hmm… I don't know."

Sendoh laughed and continued the story.

Buddha said, "Since you believe in karma, then let me bring you to the beginning of your fate with him."

The girl followed Buddha through space and time, finally stopping beside a lake. There was a corpse at the lake side. A woman's body.

"This was you before the many rounds of reincarnations, you've been dead for a few days, but no one bothered."

At that point of time, from afar, came a young hunter. He saw the corpse and took out a piece of animal hide to cover up the dead body before leaving.

The girl replied, "I see it now, Buddha, let's go." But Buddha asked her to wait.

One day passed by, and then two days were gone. The body began to rot. On the third day, a passing scholar saw the body full of maggots. He began to dig a hole and it took him one whole day to finally dig a big enough one. He slowly carried the dead body and put it into the hole before burying it properly.

Buddha said, "Did you see that? He is your true love. Back then, the spirit of yours came to me and swore that you will marry this man."

The girl wept, "Then why, Buddha, why did he leave me in every of my life?"

Buddha shook his head and replied, "He didn't leave, he kept waiting for you. It is you who didn't wait for him. In every life, you will meet that hunter first, who is now your dead boyfriend. And in every life, you mistaken the hunter as the one you are waiting for."

"What about the scholar?"

Buddha laughed, "Every time he came by, you have already killed yourself because of the death of the hunter. Therefore, you two didn't even have the chance to meet. The scholar had come crying in front of me for many times too. Little miss, will you kill yourself again?"

"Haha," Sendoh laughed. "Hana, that girl is a very determined girl, so she went through time and space to verify the situation again and again. She realized, maybe what Buddha said could be true."

"Of course, he is Buddha."

"Right, he is trustable, but he doesn't have to be obeyed."

"What?"

"That girl thought, one day, if she falls in love with the scholar, it will not be because of reincarnations and karmas. The only bond between her and her lifelong partner will be pure love. Hana, that girl said, 'I don't believe in Buddha, but I believe in love. Reincarnation is nothing, but a dream.'"

HANA MONOGATARI ARC I: HANA MATSURI

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A/N: This is just a story that I read from somewhere. I wanted to write it to show Sendoh's view on love. He wants Hanamichi to truly fall in love with him out of true love, not because of anything else.

Ok, Arc I is over. Please continue to support Arc II: Hana Maizou. =3 It will not be a separate story, I will continue posting under this title.