Akumi-Chan: Well, this is still Tama-cue, I just made another account, that's all, I'm not going to write in that account for a while, so, I hope you enjoy my new story, "Unremembered Promise" This story will not be an angst, I hope you will enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters below, they belong to Toei Animation..etc.
Plot: Kouji was Izumi's best friend since they were three, but one day, his father got a new job, which caused Kouji to moved again, he promised Izumi he would marry her when he meet with her again and be with her forever. When seven years passed, Izumi still had no sight of Kouji. Her stepmother and father moved to Kyoto, Japan with her and her sister, her stepmother and father cared less for her, she became unwanted. But one day, she wandered into a bookstore and spot someone, his father told him he will marry someone…..but that someone isn't Izumi.
Flashback~
" I promise I'll marry you when I get the chance to visit you again." Young Kouji said as he stared into Izumi's, light, aquarium eyes.
" Please, don't leave." Izumi begged, she reached into her ripped lavender pocket and took out a navy blue bandanna,
" This will be my gift, please, when you come back here, put this on so I will recognize you." Izumi forced herself into a smile, Kouji nodded and gave her a tight squeeze on the hand. He wore it, and left with his father.
End flashback~
Though I was only three years old, I understood I should not ask Aunt Mizuko too many questions about my dead mother. My big sister Sumi once told me " Aunt Mizuko and mother used to be best friends. A long time ago, they worked together in a bank in China owned by our grandaunt. But then mother died giving birth to you. If you had not been born, mother would still be alive. She died because of you, you are bad luck, Izumi." As my thoughts sunk deeper, I began to think it was my entire fault,
" Maybe I am bad," I wandered out loud, while sitting beside my elder sister on the plane to Kyoto, Japan. My stepmother was a rich woman and complained about our home in Tokyo, how it was too small and she couldn't live there. I helped with the packing while Sumi watched me carry everything, she loved Stepmother Leiko, and so she tried to be like her, which I thought she looked like an idiot.
When we arrived at stepmother's home, it was huge, just like a mansion but a bit smaller. We went inside, father told us we will go to school the next day. As I slept on my bed, I thought about everyone in my family, how they betrayed me, first there was father, he bought almost everything Sumi wanted, then there is stepmother, she replaced mother, when her anger rise, she will do any torture to punish you. Then, comes Sumi, she always shows off in front of me, and will always impress stepmother any ways she could. I fell asleep, mean thought still stuck in my head.
My legs swing here and there while I sat on a silver bar, I was waiting, waiting for Sumi, to pick me up, I was really proud of myself. I had just won a medal for being kind to my classmates, my gaze focused on the painted, green door. Suddenly, it opened, out come Sumi, she laughed with her friends and said her good-byes, she saw my medal immediately, hanging down my neck, her expression changed in to anger. " What did you learn today?" She asked, playing with her brown hair,
" Kioko-sama taught us about God." I replied, yet feeling proud of myself.
" Why did God make you?"
" I don't know yet,"
" That's just an excuse!" Sumi screamed, " You don't know because you are stupid! And you don't deserve to wear this!" She grabbed my medal and jerked it, becoming enraged because I was pushing her away. " Take that! Medal winner! Teacher's pet! Who do you think you are? Showing off every day!" She cried and ran off, I stood there, feeling ashamed and betrayed at the same time. As my classmates walked out, I could see their mother holding their hands and giving them a peck on the cheek. " Mama, you're the best!" One said, I held back my tears, this is not going to happen, and just because I lost my mother doesn't mean she isn't there for me anymore. As time flew past, no one had come to pick me up, I was too embarrass to tell someone. So I thought maybe I can find my own way home, it may be my first day in this city, but I could at least try to remember my way home.
I got off the bus, traveling probably miles already. My stomach grumbled, I could smell the fresh roasted duck. 'I will always be lonely, my family probably already forgot about me,' I thought unwillingly. Suddenly, someone tapped me on the shoulders, I turned around, viewing three kind faces.
" Izumi right?" One of them asked, she had short brown hair, gray eyes and was obviously a tomboy.
" I case you forgot, I'm Ryoko, followed by my other two sisters Hinata and Ayumi." She explained, pointing to her other two sisters, they both waved.
" It's so late here, why are you still her?" Hinata asked, walking up to me. I gulped,
" No one picked me up, so I tried to walk home by myself."
" That's okay, you can call your parents." Ayumi led me into a restaurant, she handed me a phone, and I dialed in the numbers.
" Hello?"
" Da-dad?" I stammered,
" Izumi! Where have you been!" I told him my story and he came to pick me up, I said good-bye to my new friends and left.
When I finished dinner, father handed me a bowl of red cherries, I made a grab for one, but Sumi came in, giving me a death stare and grabbed all the cherries in my bowl, she knew it was my favorite fruit, I sighed and stared at my empty bowl.
As night arrived, my stepmother tucked me in bed, in my hands was a silver coin from my mother, and my stepmother immediately noticed this and gazed at me sharply. " What are you hiding?" She asked,
" Nothing!" I lied, but my lie could go much longer.
" Izumi!"
" It's nothing!" I said, trying to convince her into believing me.
" TELL ME!" Stepmother Leiko hollered, I trembled, shaking like a leave. I held out my hand and revealed the silvery coin.
" And who gave you this?"
" Ma-my mother," A concerned look immediately shot across stepmother's face,
" I AM YOUR MOTHER NOW! GET RID OF THAT IMMDIATELY! I DON'T WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN!" She slowly extended her right arm and pointed her index finger at me. I felt panic striking and saw my stepmother's long, red, perfectly manicured fingernail aimed straight at me. Then I heard her words, one by one striking my head, loaded with malice, which made my heart jump and the hair stand up on the back of my neck. " I shall never forgive you! Never! Never! Never! You'd better watch out from now on! You will pay for your arrogance!" She snared and stomped out of the room. Sumi smirked at me, while leaning her body against the doorway,
" You deserve it," She smiled and walked into her room. What was wrong with everyone? They treat me as if I'm slave, I clasped down on my bed, hoping someone will save me.
My footsteps echoed as I walked down the sidewalk of Kyoto, Japan. Ayumi, Ryoko and Hinata had invited me to their house for lunch, they had told me to wait outside Seiko's bookstore. I tapped my foot, but couldn't take it anymore, I walked into the bookstore, and saw the owner and his son talking, the boy was about my age and his back was facing me. I walked into a lane and picked out a book, that's when I heard the words coming out of the owner of the bookstore's mouth. " Kouji, you are getting married."
Ouch, my back hurts, and school is starring up, there is A LOT of Kouji and Izumi ni the next chap, so review!