(All Alone on a Seesaw)
By Pan
Yay! Fast updationess! :D Anyway, I have to say... thanks for all your reviews! And some of your questions are answered in this chapter. Enjoy! As for OOC [On One Condition]: Writer's Block. =P
Disclaimer and Credit: Still nothing belongs to me, yadda yadda. From
now on, this will be the disclaimer for all proceeding chapters.
Note: I looked on Anime Lyrics and the lyrics for this song are
translated and broken up in different ways, so I changed the first chapter's
lyrics. This fic WILL be 10 chapters long. =)
The cold blue sky
With both hands in my pockets
And a pebble tumbling in my heart.
Yamato gaped at the angelic figure leaning on the seesaw. Everything about her was the same. Her bouncy curls, her creamy skin, and her wonderful brown eyes. He reached out to her and the girl turned around immediately to be face-to-face with an unexpected visitor.
"Oh! Gomen nasai... I thought you were someone else." she apologized. Yamato blinked furiously and stared at her. With a dazed look on her face she asked, "Excuse me, anata [sir], but why do you keep on staring at me like that?" He broke out of his day-dream and shook his head continuously. "Ahh..." he replied.
The young girl giggled and said, "It's alright. My boyfriend was supposed to meet me here. And he's late, so I thought that he was you playing a trick on me." she scratched her head. Yamato's face fell but he shook it off. "O-oh. Well, I'm not him. It's funny 'cause... I sorta thought you were someone else too." he stuttered.
She tilted her head and said, "I see. Ahh... sorry, I guess I wasn't her then." she smiled slightly. "Mi-chan!" a figure cried out while running towards them. The girl turned around and Yamato looked past her. Finally, the man caught up to them and bended over, resting his hands on his knees.
"Mi-chan... I'm so sorry I was late." he said in between breaths. She chuckled a bit and replied, "It's alright Taichi-kun. Are we going now?" The boy named Taichi nodded and looked behind her, "Ahh, who's that, Mi-chan?" he asked her.
'Mi-chan' looked behind her and said, "Oh! Umm..." she laughed a bit, "I don't even know your name and we've been talking for so long! My name's Tachikawa. Tachikawa Mimi." she held out her hand and Yamato got wide-eyed. Everything seemed like it was playing in reverse. "Hello...?" Mimi asked and broke his thoughts.
"Ahh, gomen... I'm Ishida Yamato." he took her hand and shook it. Then it dawned on her that he'd met him sometime before. "I-Ishida...?" she stuttered and stood back a bit. Taichi looked at her and asked, "Nani? What's wrong?" Yamato furrowed his eyebrows a bit and looked a little sad.
Mimi calmed down and looked at Yamato. 'I thought he looked familiar...' Taichi looked back and forth at the two's staring contest. He waved a hand in front of Mimi's face and she blushed furiously. "I think I should get going now..." Yamato said as he broke the silence. Surprised, Mimi jumped and stammered, "Ahh, w-wait!"
Confused, Taichi sat down on one of the benches and listened to Yamato and Mimi's conversation. "Hmm?" Yamato turned around and looked deep into her eyes. "I-Can we meet here tomorrow? I want to talk to you about something..." she asked, looking off to the side to avoid eye-contact. Yamato looked at her confused and then nodded, "Hai." he said plainly.
She smiled slightly and then added, "This time, I promise to come." and ran off towards where Taichi was sitting and soon left.
Leaving Yamato disoriented, he gaped his mouth open a bit and thought to
himself, 'Mimi-san, why now...?' and trudged off back home.
~Taichi and Mimi's Date~
Taichi had taken Mimi to a nice, quiet restaurant near the sea. Mimi, absent-minded, looked out the window towards the ocean waves and played with
her food. Taichi had seen this and soon broke the silence that had fallen upon
the two, "Mi-chan..." he started.
Mimi didn't answer and still placed her gaze out the window. "Mi-chan...?" Taichi place a hand on hers and she came back to reality. "Yes, Taichi-kun?" she asked, a little surprised. Worried, Taichi looked at her and asked in a low voice, "Mi-chan, who was that guy just then in the park?" She tilted her head and said, "Hmm? His name was Ishida Yamato."
This made Taichi shake his head and reply, "I know that. What I meant was... do you know him from somewhere? It seemed like that wasn't the first time you two had met." Mimi looked at her plate and her hair shadowed her face a bit. "Y-yeah... I knew him when I was a little girl." "Ehh? I thought you just moved here 6 months ago!" he said somewhat loud, which made some people in the restaurant look at the couple.
He looked around and sweat-dropped, then turned back to Mimi to see her looking at him with saddened eyes. "I broke a promise to him when I was still six years old." Taichi grabbed a hold of Mimi's hands and looked deeply into her eyes. "Err... you don't suddenly have strange, emotional feelings for the guy, do you? He is cute—but ahh! Haha... I'm not gay, watashi wa chikau [I swear]! It's pretty obvious that he would be a ladies man, sono naze [that's why]...!" he said playfully while scratching the back of his head.
Mimi giggled and replied, "Iie [no], it's not that I like him or anything—you know I love you—it's just that... I still feel guilty for what I did and I sorta want to make it up to him." Taichi flashed a smile and said, "Yoroshii [O.K.], Mi-chan. You can visit him tomorrow if you want." She looked up at him and grinned, "But I didn't even ask you!" Chuckling, he said, "I know, but I'm just watching out for my favorite girl." and winked.
Giggling, Mimi leaned over and gave Taichi a
tiny kiss on the lips.
~The Next Day~
Yamato was waiting by the seesaw in Odaiba park, wondering why Mimi had asked
him to meet her there. 'Saa [Come on] Ishida... What possible reason would she
ask you to meet her here?' he thought to himself while pacing back and forth. A
couple of minutes had passed and someone had tapped his shoulder. Yamato turned
around and was face-to-face the slender, chocolate-brown haired girl he had
recently met up with again the other day.
"Ohayo, Ishida-kun!" she said with a smile on her face. Yamato went back a step with a slight blush in his cheeks and replied, "O-ohayo, Tachikawa-san." He regained his posture and Mimi smiled even brighter towards him. Yamato couldn't help but smile back at her and they both sat down on one of the benches near the playground.
There was silence between the two and they both stared at the ground. Mimi had certainly wanted to say something and thought to herself, 'I should say something... I don't want it to be like this all day.' While this happened, Yamato was arguing with himself, 'Argh, say something, Ishida! You can't just sit here and stare at your feet all day long!'
With these thoughts in mind, both of them looked up at each other and started to talk. Stumbling on each other's words, they both looked towards their lap and then both looked up at the same time.
And they both couldn't help but stare deep into each other's eyes.
****Ahh, changing the lyrics screwed up the whole plotline and I had to make everything slower -_- I hope this was a good chapter, although I know this fic kinda sucks. I'm kinda getting to the point where I have no idea where to go with the fic. So please, any and all suggestions are appreciated. And don't bash me for making Michi a couple... you'll see how all this affects the storyline later =)