(All Alone on a Seesaw)
By Pan
Wait, don't tell me. You saw this and thought, "OMFG Pan, you actually wrote something!" Well, true, but it might take a while, as usual. I've gotten inspiration by listening to my Teenage-Wolves/Digimon CD last night, made a couple of storyboards (all in my head, of course), and thought how the song could be implemented into a Mimato. Onto the fic!
Disclaimer and Credit: Nothing but the story belongs to me; credit to
Megchan for the CORRECT translated lyrics.
Note: The fic is to be approx. 6-9 chapters. [text] means the English
equivalent of the previous word.
Chapter I - Winter Path
On a winter walking path
Without a purpose or
Anything like that, let's go walking.
In a park in Odaiba, Japan, a young man around the age of 28 was walking around in the snow with his little boy who seemed to be around the age of 6 or 7. The boy had sparkles in his eyes, seeing the white flakes fall to the ground.
It was snowing.
The elder man smiled lightly as he saw the boy dance around in the snow. The boy looked at him, "O-tōchan [Dad], I want to go to the playground!" he tugged at his father's shirt.
This made him laugh and while smiling he replied, "Yoroshii [O.K.], Yamato-chan. We'll get there as soon as we can." Yamato jumped up and down and grabbed his father's hand, dragging him as he ran down the winter path.
They soon got to the playground in Odaiba park. There were plenty of small children and Yamato giggled as he let go of his father's hand and ran towards the seesaw. His father chuckled a bit and took a seat on one of the nearby benches taking out a newspaper to read while he waited.
When Yamato go to the seesaw, he soon remembered that there were to be two people on it in order to work. This saddened him and he trudged back to his father. Tugging on his pant-leg, he asked, "Papa... can you go on the seesaw with me?"
His father placed the newspaper away and looked down at him. Yamato's eyes were big, blue orbs on the verge of tears. Confused and worried, his father replied, "I'm sorry, Yamato-chan, but I'm far too big to fit on the seesaw. Maybe another time," he looked up at the seesaw, "Hey, why don't you ask the little girl on the seesaw right now to go play with you?" he pointed.
Turning back around towards the playground, Yamato was wide-eyed and his saddened frown soon turned into a big grin. Yamato's father smiled and pushed him slightly back towards the site. Yamato soon ran towards the girl and the seesaw.
The girl saw his figure run towards him, slightly confused. She looked at him when he stopped right in front of her. Yamato plastered on a smile and asked her politely, "Umm.. can I play on this with you?" he pointed at the other side of the seesaw, slightly looking to the ground as he asked. The girl lightly nodded and smiled back.
After a while of giggling and teetering back and forth on the seesaw, the two children soon got tired. "Yamato-chan!" a voice called. It was Yamato's father. "Yamato-chan! We're going home now!" Yamato, a bit saddened to leave the girl who he had such a great time with a couple of minutes ago, glanced back at the girl and said, "I have to go now... umm, can I ask your name?"
The girl giggled a bit and placed out her hand, "My name's Mimi. Tachikawa Mimi." Yamato placed his hand in hers and shook it, "I'm Ishida Yamato. I hope we can play again soon!" Full of smiles, Mimi nodded and waved goodbye as Yamato trotted away towards his dad.
Mr. Ishida took his son's hand and walked off towards the exit of the park. "So did you have fun?" he asked and Yamato nodded, "Hai! Can we go back tomorrow? I want to play with Tachikawa-san again!"
"Alright, Yamato-chan, we'll come here again
tomorrow." his father answered. With happy thoughts in mind, Yamato and his
father went home.
~The Next Day~
Mr. Ishida and his son were back in Odaiba park.
Yamato ran towards the playground while his father tried his best to catch up.
Walking towards the seesaw, he could see that Mimi wasn't there yet. He smiled
to himself and decided to wait for a couple of hours.
One hour passed. Then two. Soon it was starting to get cold and Mr. Ishida looked worriedly at Yamato. "Yamato-chan... I don't think she's coming today. We can always try tomorrow." Sad, but still full of hope, young Yamato nodded and walked on home with his dad.
They came back the next day. Then the day after that. It soon became a daily routine until 2 weeks had passed and still no sign of Mimi anywhere. Yamato soon gave up hope and cried to himself, "Mimi-san... where did you go...?"
~8 years later~
Ishida Yamato, now 15 years old, was walking along
the winter path in Odaiba park. He was a lot more mature than he was years ago,
with golden-blonde locks, piercing-blue eyes, and an attitude to boot. He smiled
as he saw couples along the path. He remembered the days when he would go to
this park with his dad and how he would always go to the playground to play on
the seesaw.
'The seesaw...' Yamato thought, 'I wonder how everything's been in that playground. I haven't been there for ages.' He walked slowly towards the playground, remembering a few memories from the times he had there. 'I loved going there with my o-tō-chan... playing on the swings and monkey-bars. And...' "The seesaw," he said while turning the corner.
When he did so, he looked around. Everything had looked the same way as it did before, just 8 years ago. He smiled slightly and looked towards the seesaw to see a feminine figure sitting on the other side. She looked around the same age as he did.
Astonished, Yamato walked towards where she stood and mumbled a name to himself that he hadn't said in 8 years,
"Mimi-san..."
****Yay, cliffhanger! Well ok, it started off slow... This chapter's ok, right?? It's actually long for once :D Tell me what you think. And I honestly think I made them smile too much... And if you're complaining about Yama's dad being too young... come on, he's not that old! A lot of parents have children at the age of 21-23!