Crystal Eyes
Ohayo
minna-san! This is Madoushii Michirure again
with another fanfic…and how could I resist it's Umi and Clef!! Anyway this is a
romantic songfic. This is a song sung by Clef's Japanese voice actor, Sasaki
Nozomu, it's actually a character song from Ronin Warriors (as we know it here)
he plays Cye of the Torrent, the Water Guardian
:: wink ::wink:: ^_~ He's played lots
roles but I think this song is very pretty and it relates to Rayearth, but
never mind me in my twisted world everything relates to Rayearth one way or
another…UMI & CLEF FOREVER!!…. Clef copes with Umi returning to her world….
I love this song!!
All was over, and the danger that
threatened Cephiro had ceased to exist, now that the Magic Knights had defeated
Debonair and had altered the pillar system. Yes the work to restore his world
would be long and strenuous but to save the world he loved he was willing to
sacrifice just about anything. In fact he had… his whole life had been
dedicated to not only the sanctity of the kingdom and the princess, but to
rearing the children who are now grown adults holding dominant positions in
Cephiro. He had raised them as if he were their father, training them, watching
them grow, and then watching them outgrow him. He felt as if they held no need
for his presence any more, funny he had always been a father yet, he himself
had never had a family of his own. Yet another thing given up to the duty of
his position. Clef walked along one of the beaches of Cephiro continuing to
ponder when a beach ball had come across his path and a small child, not too
much smaller than himself, ^.~ ran
towards him in effort to retrieve it. Clef picked up the ball and handed it to
the child, "thanks, hey you wanna play with me?" not recognizing the Master
Mage of Cephiro out of his usual robe filled attire. Clef smiled softly,
"That's quite alright little one, but why don't you go on and have fun…" "Ok thank you then…bye!" the child waved as
he ran back to his parents who were then embracing, and upon noticing their son
the father picked him up as the couple walked hand in hand up the rest of the
beach disappearing out of sight. Clef gazed after them for sometime, but then
focused his eyes on the ocean before him. "It's so beautiful, I love the ocean,
it reminds me of…"
Clef stopped midthought as the wind blew
and rippled his white long sleeved shirt and baggy blue pants tight around his
small frame.
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You give me memories
Countless times, memories locked up
Eyes like crystal
I want to believe we'll meet again someday
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Closing his eyes, he could still see the
ocean there, locked within the depths of her beautiful blue eyes. Eyes that
held an air of arrogance, yet just as the ocean is deep, so was she. Beneath
the arrogance of the course wave, lied the calm still peaceful deep that was
the heart and embodiment of the water. At oceans first touch it is course and
cold, however, when exposed to the still water underneath the water develops a
certain warmth and quiet gentleness about it that makes leaving it all the more
difficult. To be suddenly jerked from the water that has become so warm makes
the coldness of the outside that much more apparent. Umi… she was taken from him
just when… "Just when what Clef…?" he questioned himself "just when we were
about to what…fall in love? How could she possibly… with someone like me…more
so how could I… " It couldn't be denied even as hard as he had tries he
couldn't forget… everything reminded him of her…that's exactly why he was there
at the ocean at that same moment.
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Silence falls in the blue-green ocean
I wish your semblance branded on my heart
We meet with serious faces
Nothing more to say, us two
Anyone understands only when they meet
How long I couldn't forget
Even if we don't meet again for eternity
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Standing there as the waves crashed down
upon the shore, Clef could have sworn that he heard her soft sweet whisper, but
in turn was mocked with silence. "How amusing, the very thing I have always
longed for, is the very thing I wish away at this moment." One side of Clef's
mouth tilted up as he recalled the first time they had met, when the little
girl from another world had tried his last nerve with her crude and obnoxious
behavior. She was loud, snotty, and tall which made him all the more
infuriated, yet even then, something about her was so dreadfully enchanting. He hadn't even realized minutely, until
their second encounter, what was there under her outer façade. Holding her hand
that night he had felt something, but he wasn't convinced it was anything until
later on. Whenever he saw her with Ascot, or more precisely whenever Ascot was
smothering her, he was filled with an immense jealousy and contempt for the
poor boy, who didn't deserve it in the least. It was then that he was aware of
his feelings for her had begun to emerge, and believed them to be returned with
her various actions. After casting the spell to save them from Debonair, Umi
bolted to Clef and held his almost lifeless form in her lap. "Oh Clef are you
ok?" When she said that, she sounded like it was her that had been hurt, her
eyes showed it….
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You give me memories
Even the sparkling summer becomes the tear's
color
Eyes like crystal
I'm breathless, seeing that beautiful color
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Clef once again opened his eyes, as big and
blue as the sky itself, and marveled at the vast array of blue that had
displayed itself before him. True, blue had been his favorite color since he
could remember, but now he needed it to be around him always. Blue, everything
blue, like her, her eyes and her hair… as beautiful as the ocean was, she put
it to shame, for hers' shone a much more radiant shade of blue. His own eyes,
which he had been told were the most magnificent blue, were paled in
comparison. For an instant though his attention returned to where the young
child and his family had been. "I know it's a simple dream but I would trade my
position in a heartbeat to be a father and have a family of my own." Clef's
eyes softened greatly and he struggled across a fake laugh, "I tell Ferio and
Lantis not to kid themselves into thinking that the Magic Knights will come
back, yet that is exactly what I am doing."
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Whenever I dry a wet T-shirt (Don't ask me what
that has to do with anything, cause I don't know)
Perhaps a smile returns to you
Within my eyes, waves crash
The blue-green ocean is sad
From someone's heart, a loving person
Important memories
That even words can't express
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His heart screamed
at that mentality and bade him to confront and recognize his feelings, however
strong they may be, and however weak they made him feel. The feelings that clouded and confused him,
ones that he had forced himself to ignore, had become more prevalent and ever
so much more unavoidable. "I don't even care anymore", he said as he glared up
at the cloudy sky, 'if the simple act of standing here and having my heart call
out to her would reach and comfort her for just one moment than my life would
become so much more worth living." 'I would be content to simply watch over and
protect her if nothing else' "I want
everything in the world for her and pray that she gets it, and even if her
feelings reside not with me, but with another, I wish her all the happiness in
either world. Somehow I hope she knows this."
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You give me memories
Summer's footsteps approach now
Eyes like crystal
Begin to sparkle in my distant memory
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At that time a gust of wind
parted the clouds and gave way for the brilliant sun to cast it's rays down
upon the water. A breathtaking shimmering blue cascaded about the horizon as
the gust blew Clef's free lavender hair into his face and then off and back
again. Coarse sand now burned at Clefs feet and he seemed hypnotized by the
specter before him. A hope that seemed so outlandish and distant, yet it was if
Umi shared it with him… here he felt her … and he was no longer afraid of his
most secret feelings…
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You give me memories
Countless times, memories locked up
Eyes like crystal
I want to believe we'll meet again someday
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Clef smiled gently at the ocean and strode up to where
it met the shore. There the lonely dry sand was content with the soft kisses it
was grazed with by the waters edge. When the tide was low it would always have
that feeling and that knowledge that someday the water would return, come what
may, the bleating sun or the fierce wind couldn't take that feeling of
contentment or need away. A drop of water fell from Clefs sky blue eyes into
the deep blue ocean, then one after another they poured to contribute to its
mass. Clef bowed his head down, toward the water and whispered… " I love you
Umi…"
All of the encounters, all of the
moods, gestures, memories would never leave him, they would be there by the
ocean. And there, is where one of the strongest hearts in all of Cephiro would
go day after day believing with all of his will that he would one day be united
with the one taken far from him. The one that had captured his heart and
adoration, the one he loved so dearly, his own beautiful sparkling ocean …… his
Umi…
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Alright I hope that tides everyone off for a little
while so that I can finish the chapters on my other story. It makes writing
stories difficult when I also have English papers due….eck…... But I will try
my best to work on them when I can. ^_^ As always let me know what you
think..all the kind words encourage me to write all the more!! You know I'm thinking if I should write
another from an Umi point of view using another of Clef's songs but I don't
know…let me know what you think….. all of his songs are just so beautiful if
you're interested in hearing them I got mine from here à http://www.lovesenshi.com/shin/main2.html the sites called namida no rhapsody which
is another of his songs that means Rhapsody of Tears…. All his songs have to do
with water….weird ne? Oh well…
Ja ne minna-san!
Madoushi
Michirure
^.~*