Chapter six: Sakuragi
Weeping tears fell, dark drops upon the ground…hunched over, I wrapped my arms around me tightly….against the cold, against the desolation….
Irreparable pain tore into my soul….bit by bit…..
It hurts…..nande…nande…no one can hear me….no one will listen…..
It hurts….
My teeth gritted together, trying to stifle the pain clutching my heart, but to no avail….my cheeks are wet, my breath gasping as the wind ruffled through my red hair…
It wasn't so long ago…..talking to oyaji…..joking with Yohei…..girl-watching with the guys….seeing kawaiee Haru….Haru……Haruko-chan…
Now……
It hurts….sobs broke through the tough red-headed bad-boy exterior…
No more…never again…how will I survive….my life is over….
How could this have happened…..sadness coursed through…
Flashback~ an adorable 3 year old Sakuragi looked up guiltily and muttered in a small voice, "Ko….komen…." In his hands, layed the tattered pieces of a small doll. A tearful girl, her lower lip quivering, gave a sudden sob, then ran away, " KIRRAI! Kirrai, Hanamichi!" The small Sakuragi lowered his head once more…~
Go away! I don't want to see…..nande..
AHHHHHHH! I shook my head angrily……why must you keep tormenting me!?! Go away……..
Flashback~ A scruffy-looking youth cheerfully opened the door, "Ta daie ma!" he called out….he stopped in his tracks…an elderly man was sprawled on the floor. Sakuragi's hands twitched, as his brown eyes widened in horror, "Oyaji…oi, oyaji….."~
Iya….onegai…..iya….more tears splashed on the ground….. yah mah tae…onegai….. I slumped forward on my knees…
Flashback~ A blushing young girl timidly turned back, " Komen, Sakuragi-kun, demo, I like Oda-kun from the basketball club." The crushed Sakuragi sprang back in shock as his 50th crush was……crushed…..~
So….or…..
Flashback~ "Gori!" The ball flew determinedly into the hands of….a Kainan member…..the faces of Shohoku's starting members stared back at Sakuragi in disbelief…….~
I Y A ! ! !
I threw myself upon the ground, cries wracking my body…
As the darkness closed in, a crouched figure was left alone amidst steady unblossomed cherry trees…..alone with his tears and bleak thoughts…
Bringing together,
Smiles and tears
Epilogue
A blossom encased in ice,
Will it be frozen in time,
As the wind carries it,
A thousand more years will pass,
Along with a thousand more memories,
A leaf falls,
Unseen, unheard,
Will it be forgotten,
Till a voice within darkness cries out,
And the wind responds,
Bring together,
Smiles and tears,
A blossom will fall,
Yet remembered.
Taka: Shoka, ano…this is how Soul Song turned out…weird, neh?
Kei: Che……it makes no sense at all…my Sakuragi fics are better.. *giggles evilly*
Taka: NARNI? HIDEI! Anatawa…hontorni….
Kei skillfully skips out of the disgruntled Taka's way, while waving a small Tensai Hana flag gleefully *hehe*
Taka responds by picking up a basketball to throw at the chortling Kei, but was tapped on the back by a certain raven-haired kitsune look-alike with half sleepy eyes. Rukawa looked at the sheepish Taka with half-opened eyes, " Practice…ball….now…"
Taka falls over in a daze…as Kei happily waves his flag from the stands, while looking at Sakuragi…..