rain

Disclaimer/etc.: Weiß doesn't belong to me (alas), it belongs to Takehito Koyasu and many other people. This was the first fic I wrote, and as such it's none too great. *sigh* As always, I crave comments.

Wake up, wake up!

Do you know what day it is today, niichan? You can't trick me, I know you do.

Today's my birthday. And today will be our perfect day, that's what you said. You said a day with just us, all by ourselves. And there's so much we're going to do, so much I have to tell you.

The sun's shining, it's going to be a beautiful day. There's not a cloud anywhere, even the weather is happy for us. And today we're going to the fair! See, I have my dress laid out already, isn't it pretty? Mother got it for me just for today. So come on, hurry, let's go!


Oh, look at those flowers! They're so pretty, all red and velvety. I think roses are the most beautiful flowers, don't you? If you were a flower, I think that's what you'd be, a dark, red rose. But right now I want to see everything at the fair, not stand around talking. After all, we'll really have all the time in the world together, to talk and think. Tomorrow and the day after and the day after, I'll be there to talk to you. So come on now. Niichan, you're so slow! There's so much to see, so much to do.

Niichan, you know you still haven't gotten me a birthday present. I'm ashamed of you, your own sister! See how pretty they are. They'd look lovely with my dress, don't you think? And you know I haven't had new earrings in such a long time. You want us to hurry, right? And you know I'm not going move until you get them. Oh, thank you so much! They're even prettier out of the case. But you know what it is makes them look more beautiful even than before? You bought them for me, and that makes them the best. I love you, niichan.

It's raining! Come on, let's run, I don't want my dress to get all wet. But I don't really mind the rain, because it makes you laugh, and that's better than a dress any day. You don't laugh enough, you know that. You ask me what I want for dinner, you say I can have anything I want. But I'll be happy whatever we have, because we've had our perfect day together.


Look, we're home already, and it's still raining. Today was fast, it's over now and it seems only a moment ago it was morning and the sun was still shining. But that's all right, I'm glad that we're home now. Tomorrow the sun will shine again and it will be another day for us. Now I'll go call mother and father for dinner—oh!

You come running when you hear my scream, you stop when you see why. They don't move, they don't answer. You yell at me to run, run away, but I can't move, I can't answer. I can't even stop staring at mother and father, lying there silent on the floor. Answer me, wake up!

Then the sky turns upside down and the ground shakes. I'm alright, but I'm farther away from you now. You try to come to me. A light stares at me from out of the darkness, for the second time I can't move. I'm transfixed. The light comes out of the rain, heavy and fast and white—it's getting closer and closer—and then everything is darkness, darkness and silence and pain. It's dark and raining outside and it's raining inside my head. But I won't worry, niichan. I won't cry, and I'll come back soon. I'm just going a way for a little while, like the sun behind a cloud. But you know I'd never really leave you, and you'd never leave me, your own Aya-chan.