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{Once, as my heart remembers,
All the stars were fallen embers,
Once, when night seemed forever,
I was with you...}
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The back room was larger then Kish expected it to be, a TV playing in one corner and a couch facing it, upon which sat a red-eyed, wet-haired girl wrapped in a dark blue-and-white-checkered blanket, sniffling occasionally.
His Ichigo.
Her gaze darted up as he came in, her eyes going wide as she saw who it was.
"K-Kish."
"Hey..." The alien answered, waving a hand, er, paw hesitantly. This change of appendages didn't escape Ichigo's notice and she scanned the rest of the costume quickly. Slowly, a faint smile made its way across her face and the sight of it made Kish have to fight not to jump for joy, tail and all..
"Y-you know... I was wondering who Ryou was going to force to wear that," she said tentatively.
"Yeah, well, I'm the lucky alien he found. So... how are you doing? I didn't get to really ask you when we..." Kish started but then trailed off. Ichigo saw what he meant and nodded.
"I'm... doing better. It just hurts..." She curled up into a tighter ball under the blanket, much like a kitten would. "Why did you leave me right when I... why did you leave earlier?"
Kish glanced away, shrugging. "Your friends don't like me."
"You're paranoid."
His eyes flashed to her and she peeked out from beneath the safety of her blanket. Kish sighed, shaking his head.
"Maybe."
{Or maybe they just don't like me. Hmmm, let's think hard about that shall we?}
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{Once, in the care of morning,
In the air was all belonging,
Once, when that day was dawning,
I was with you}
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"...ish? Kish...?"
"Oh, yeah?" He glanced up just in time to see her look at him expectantly and repeat her question.
"When you said that you loved me..." She fumbled her speech nervously, her cheeks dark red while tears tried to gather once again at the corners of her eyes.
"I'm sorry!" she said quickly, letting it rush out of her. "I shouldn't have turned you down for Masaya, I-I thought..." She choked on the words, the tears spilling mixed with hiccups.
"I thought he'd hate me if I loved someone else. If I had to lie to him or break the vow we took, I didn't want to be that way to him. I didn't want to hurt him like that!" She shouted, all of her anger at Masaya flooding out in that statement. "I didn't want to hurt HIM... so why is he..."
"Shhhh..." Kish shook his head, wiping away her tears and she didn't comment on how close he had moved to do so. He was kneeling next to her on the couch now.
"If he's that bad, does he deserve your tears Ichigo?"
"N-no..." The girl sniffled. "But why do you care...?"
"Come on Ichigo. You know," the alien prompted. "You know. You've always known. Even before that..." He paused, collecting himself. "Even before Masaya said that he loved you. You know that I love you."
"Mmhmm." The catgirl nodded, hesitantly, but then glanced away, deep in thought.
"Kish...?"
"What?"
"Have you ever seen the movie "The Wedding Planner"?"
"Um, no."
"It's about a girl who plans weddings, and, for some reason or other, early in the movie she gets hit by a car and taken to a guy's house. The guy takes care of her but he lies to her about who he is. From then on it's typical girl likes boy, the two 'date', boy reveals he is getting married in the wedding she is planning, shock and betrayal ensue and it ends with a giant wedding scene. But I hated that movie," she took a breath.
"Because at one point there's this Greek guy who is distantly related to her or something, and he proposes to her. He loves her so much, he's never lied to her, he's ready to do anything to make her happy. But she doesn't choose him and she runs off with the other one, whose done so much to hurt her. And even after the movie was over, I wanted her to go back and choose him because she'd gotten married to the wrong guy. Not the one who loved her like she needed."
Ichigo looked at him sadly, visually pleading with him to understood.
"I've gone after the wrong guy for way too long. Kish, I'm sorry and I... I love you."
The alien sat, as if frozen at a moment in time, then his arms were around Ichigo, pressing her smaller body against his.
"I love you." He whispered into her damp hair, his breath tickling her neck.
"And I'm going to protect you forever... my Ichigo..."
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{How far we are from morning?
How far we are?
The stars shining through the darkness?
Falling in the air?}
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Ryou pressed a hand against the back room door, about to pull Ichigo out of there. It wasn't healthy for the girl to-
Abruptly the door opened from the inside and Ichigo bounced out, hugging a Puchiko'd Kish happily. Ryou smirked.
"It worked then?"
"Be quiet. Go find your fish girl." Kish purred, kissing Ichigo lightly on the cheek.
/At last... you're mine.../
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{Once, as the night was leaving,
Into us, our dreams were weaving,
Once, all dreams were worth keeping,
I was with you}
{Once, when our hearts were singing,
I was with you}
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Ohhhhh man. "The Other Sister". That... was a weird movie. And it left "At Last" playing in my head. Goodnight all. It's 12:29, I've wrapped up "I Feel" and I hope you've enjoyed this fanfiction of a whole lot of sappiness. Please leave a review on your way out!
Edit (10/14/13): I apologize that it took so long (and was a disservice to readers) to not fix the errors I knew were in here. They should be more or less gone now and the feels intact. :) Thank you for reading.
-CrimsonEyedAngel99