Konichiwa!
Yay! The last chapter!
Disclaimer: Yuu Watase is the owner, not me.
Chapter 6In love, nothing is impossible
It was a cloudy afternoon, cold and gloomy. The sky was warning that rain will come soon. Chidori stood in front of the restaurant she called home for the past week. She was obeying her second conscience's wish: to see Yuuhi.
"Are you really leaving us, Chidori-neesan?" Chiriko cried, tears pouring out of his eyes.
Chidori smiled and patted Chiriko's head, "Don't worry. I'll visit you from time to time."
"B-but I don't want you to go."
"Chiriko, Chidori needs to go back to her true home. Her love ones are worried about her," Mitsukake said softly. Chiriko just continued to sob.
"Anyway, I really need to go," Chidori said. She turned her head to avoid looking at them. She needs to go now or she might change her decision.
"Are you really going?" Tasuki asked. They were all shock to hear that from the brat that hated Chidori.
"Yes. I need to fix some things first," Chidori answered. She picked up her bag. It was a little bit heavy from the food Nuriko prepared for her.
"Please be careful," Miaka said, "It was really nice having you here."
"Can I walk you to the train station?" Hotohori asked. He eyed Chidori.
"Of course," came Chidori's response.
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The walk to the train station seemed long for the two. Silence ruled them. It was Hotohori who broke it after a while.
"Do...do you have an answer now?"
Chidori mentally slapped herself. She forgot all about it. Yuuhi preoccupied her mind. She stopped in her tracks. Hotohori followed.
"Sorry but..." Chidori started. Hotohori sighed.
"I...understand." Hotohori said. He patted Chidori's head.
Chidori faced Hotohori, "I know you'll find the one for you...just look around..."
"Maybe..." Hotohori said. Chidori can't help but feel sorry for him.
"I'm really sorry...but, you see, there is someone else who loves you more then you think," Chidori smiled mysteriously. We all now who is that 'person', right?
"I can't understand you," Hotohori admitted.
"Aw! You'll see," Chidori said as she giggled, remembering the incident last night. At last, they reached the train station.
Hotohori watched Chidori board the train. She sat near the window to have a little chat with him.
"Please be careful and if that man makes you cry, go straight here and we'll give him a piece of our mind," Hotohori threatened.
"Yeah..." Chidori laughed a little. "That is not impossible," she murmured. Hotohori didn't hear it.
Whistles were heard as the doors of the train were closed. The train started to move.
"Bye!!!" Chidori said. Hotohori waved back. He watched as the train moved farther away until it turned in the corner.
"Good luck," he murmured as he made his way back to the restaurant, still thinking what Chidori said.
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Yuuhi stared at his watch. It was past lunchtime but he has no intention of eating. His mind was so preoccupied with a certain pink-haired girl that he lost his appetite.
He was again finding any traces of Chidori. Their encounter yesterday was lingering in Yuuhi's mind. Who could have thought that he will be meeting her in the hospital? That really shocked him and gave him the hope that he will somehow see her again.
Maybe yes, maybe no.
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Chidori sat near the window, admiring the beautiful view. She smiled. She remembered the picnics they had when her parents were still alive. Her mother would prepare the best dishes while their father picked the best destination. Of course, that all changed because of the C project.
She clenched her fist. Remembering the painful memories the C project gave her was unbearable. Her parents died, not to mention she also died. She smiled. The prospect of thinking your dead then again alive was just so unbelievable. Anyway, she shoved the thought out of her mind and focused on her mission.
To see Yuuhi.
Seeing the great chef maybe wasn't a bad idea, except for Chidori. Deep inside, she really wants to see him, to tell him that she was all right. But every time she tries to, a picture of Yuuhi kissing Aya kept flashing in her mind.
She was still in doubt of seeing Yuuhi. It was as if her second conscience was ruling over her.
'Aw come on! You know you are the one who decided all of this!' avoice belonging to her second conscience was heard in Chidori's head.
"Stop it," she murmured. The lady sitting beside her looked at her curiously. "Er...it's nothing," she laughed nervously. The lady just flipped her long black hair on her shoulder.
'It's all your fault!' Chidori mentally scolded her second conscience.
'Anyway, what are you planning to do? You are already here.' Chidori snapped out of trance. She realized that it was already her stop.
"Wait!" she got up but the train started to move again. The people in the train looked at her curiously. She just made her way back to her seat.
'Now what?' her second conscience asked.
'I'll go back to the restaurant. It seems as if fate doesn't want me to see Yuuhi again.'
'Aw come on! You possibly would allow the chance to pass?'
'Hello?! We passed our stop long ago!' Chidori sighed. Who would have thought that second consciences were this annoying?
Her second conscience decided not to answer.
'Good,' she smiled. At least, she won the battle against her second conscience.
Aw, Chidori, haven't you realized that you are fighting with your self?
Anyway, going back to the restaurant after leaving it for less than an hour was quite weird, Chidori thought. So, she got out on the next stop to kill some time before going back. She could also make up some excuse on why she is back.
After going down, she looked around her. The names of the streets were familiar, the shops too.
"I wonder why?" She asked herself. She crossed the street.
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Yuuhi sighed for the millionth time this day. He was stunned to see that the sky had already turned dark. Night was falling.
"Time flies so fast..." He whispered.
He decided to have a drink so he went to the nearest vending machine. He smiled bitterly, remembering the little incident with the vending machine yesterday.
He got some money from his pocket and placed it in the vending machine. The vending machine gave him a can of cold coffee in return.
Gulping down the content, a voice echoed at the back of his mind.
'Will you go home now?'
He was quite shock at first. He hadn't heard anything from his second conscience for a while.
'Home? Are you joking? I still haven't found Chidori.' He answered.
'You are already worn out! Could you PLEASE have some sympathy to your body?'
'I'll do that after I find Chidori.'
'You are so stubborn! Do you really think that she'll come back?'
'Yes, and I am certain.'
'You are in doubt.' Yuuhi flinched. Okay... second conscience is right: he is in doubt.
'Nothing's wrong in wishing.'
'Aw! Come on! You used a lot of energy today! Could you just continue your search tomorrow?'
'No.'
'Yes.'
'NO!'
'YES!'
Yuuhi could foresee a headache coming if he would continue fighting with his self. Unlike Chidori, Yuuhi regarded his second conscience as himself.
He sighed mentally. 'Okay, in one condition.'
'WHAT???' He can sensed that a part of him was already pissed off from lack of sleep.
'I'll go to the park.'
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Chidori sat in a bench in the local park. Her head really hurts, like the headaches people with amnesia gets when remembering their past.
Okay, maybe that was exaggerated.
But that was the kind of headache she has. Even she whacked her brain, she still can't remember why she can remember this place. It was more than remembering, it was as if she lived here.
But that can't be.
Chidori's thoughts were distracted as she looked up at the large TV screen in the nearby department store. She closed her eyes as she listened to the song being played.
- Whenever sang my songs
On the stage, on my own
Whenever said my wordsWishing they would be heard
I saw you smiling at me
Was it real or just my fantasy
You'd always be there in the corner
Of this tiny little bar -
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Yuuhi made his way to the park. He really didn't now why in the world is he going there. It was only his instinct.
But instincts can be correct, right?
He smiled as he heard a famous song being played in the large TV screen.
- My last night here for you
Same old songs, just once more
My last night here with you?Maybe yes, maybe no
I kind of liked it your way
How you shyly placed your eyes on me
Oh, did you ever know?
That I had mine on you -
He made his way to the center of the park where the fountain was located.
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Chidori, feeling tired of sitting, walked to the nearby fountain. It was a very nice fountain, it was located at the middle of the park. Different colored lights were placed near it to give added effect. Water sprouted out of the different holes tubes.
She smiled as she swirled the water in the fountain. It doesn't matter anymore if she can't remember why she knew this place, what matters is that this place has a good calming effect.
What she didn't know is that her question will be answered.
"Chi...Chidori?" Chidori turned to see the least person she expected.
Aogiri Yuuhi.
Neither of them made a move. In the background, water sprouted in the fountain all together, producing a very nice sight. The song in the background reached its chorus.
- Darling, so there you are -
Yuuhi took a step forward. Droplets of water fell from the sky.
- With that look on your face -
"Yuuhi..." Chidori whispered. It began to rain.
- As if you never hurt -
People in the background were rushing to get in a shelter. No one noticed the two teenagers who were still standing in the middle.
- As if you never down -
Yuuhi took another step forward...
- Shall I be the one for you-
and another step forward...
- Who pinches you softly but sure -
...and another step forward. He was now a foot away from Chidori.
- If frown is shown then -
The two just looked at each other, too shock to react and even notice that they are already soaking wet.
- I will know that you are no dreamer -
They hugged each other, as if there is no tomorrow. Tears fell from Chidori's eyes.
She now remembered why she knows the place very much.
It was here that she first saw Yuuhi.
The event that changed her life completely.
"Yuuhi, I...I...am..." Chidori started. They still didn't let go of each other.
Yuuhi just placed his finger in her lips. "No need to apologize..."
The only thought that is on the head of these two is that they have found each other.
Like they said, true love need not to be verbal.
"I love you so much, Chidori. Please don't run away like that again," Yuuhi whispered. He wiped Chidori's tears.
"I will never do that again and...I love you too..." Chidori said. The two looked at each other's eyes. Yuuhi bent down kissed Chidori.
Now, that's what we call a true kiss.
Not a kiss brought by an accident.
------ Weeks after ---------
"What! CONGRATULATIONS!!! " Chidori screeched in the telephone. She decided to check Nuriko and the others.
"Hey! That hurts!" Nuriko said from the other line.
"Aw!! You are going to marry Hotohori!!!" Chidori couldn't help but giggle.
"Why? You are also going to marry Aogiri-kun, right?" Nuriko said.
Chidori blushed. She still couldn't believe that, weeks from now, she is going to marry Yuuhi and be Aogiri Chidori.
"Chidori-san! The dressmaker is here!" Suzumi called.
"Nuriko, I'll call again. Don't forget to invite me in your wedding! Bye!" Chidori ended the call. She rushed to the living room to meet the dressmaker.
Suzumi was having a little chat with the dressmaker when Chidori entered.
"Chidori, this is Kasumi Karen. She will be the one in charge of the gowns," Suzumi said. A lady with short red locks bowed at her.
"Hello," she smiled. They all sat down.
Karen took out a magazine, a pen and a paper. She smiled sweetly at Chidori. "What kind of design do you like for your gown? If you want, you could pick here," She handed Chidori the magazine.
"Um..actually, I already have a gown," Chidori said. Karen and Suzumi looked at her curiously.
"What do you mean?" Suzumi asked. Chidori excused herself for a while to get it.
"What could she possibly mean?" Suzumi asked Karen. Karen shrugged her shoulders.
Chidori came back to the living room holding an off-shoulder, white, silky gown. Suzumi gasped.
"Are you serious?" Suzumi asked. Karen looked utterly shocked.
"Isn't that the gown I designed that was bought by..." Karen's eyes went wide. She was the one who designed that gown. Yuuhi, saying it would be beautiful for 'her', bought it. Luckily, she did not know that it was used for the funeral of Chidori and Aki.
"Really?" Chidori looked surprise. "Great! I will wear this for my wedding!"
"Are you serious?!" Suzumi looked at Chidori as if saying 'you wore that on your funeral! Isn't improper?'
Chidori smiled, "Because I promised Yuuhi I will wear this on our wedding." She hugged the gown and whispered.
"And also, it reminds me of the saying 'In love, nothing is impossible...'"
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
Anais Nin
=========== The End!
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