Disclaimer I do NOT own Hana Yori Dango
AN: this is my first time....so be gentle (.)
..............Prolong.................
As I walked up the over grown trail up to the old tree house I thought about my younger days, well younger and younger it was only about seven years ago as a matter a fact since I was here last. I wondered if the old tree house would still be there. I made my way trough the bunches and winced a bit when the branches scratched my bare arms and occasionally hit my face.
But after a little while I was standing under the tree, I glanced up and yes the tree house was still there, I smiled as I remembered how me and my friends had ordered the servants to build it, how inconsiderate I had been back then, and my smile was replaced with a somewhat sadder expression. Yes I had been selfish and inconsiderate but then again I was only nine at the time the others were ten, but that was all in the past before my father passed away and I was forced to leave Japan and go to America, the family business had reached near death and my mother worked her back of trying to keep it running, I was left alone in the mansion with my tutors, my mother was always away working I barley saw here, if it hadn't been for xmas and my birth day, I doubted that I would had seen her at all.
But I had my nanny and that's who I saw as my real mother the one who was there always when I had trouble sleeping the one who gave me a kiss goodnight and all those other important things. I hadn't really gotten to know my birth mother as I referred to her, but how could I have, when I only saw her two times a year for about 4h total, but I did revise the best gift ever on my 16birthday from her, witch I was utterly grateful for.
FB
A maid woke me up in the middle of the night, shaking me gently
"Kushi-sama, your mother is on the phone, she whants to speak with you" the maid said softly.
"Ano, un....ah...ok tell her ill be right there, thank you Anna you may go", I glanced over at the clock 'what does my dear old birth mother want now! At 2 in the morning at that, what is she thinking, oh well she probably has no thought about the time difference and no consideration that her only child would be sleeping. Oh, well, I might as well indulge her and see what bright excuse she has for not coming to my birthday yesterday.
I stirred a little before I rose up from my warm queen sized bed with white silk sheets.
I looked at the phone for a bit before I picked it up.
"moshi moshi Kushi speaking" I said
"ah, i'm glad that you are awake tskushi" my mother said, with a voice dripping with a lack of emotion." I'm calling to apologize about not coming for your birthday, but turning 15 inset so important as turning 16, you known what the say sweet 16 right so ill make it up to you next year, when u turn 16, ne that's ok right?" her voice had turned a bit softer as she spoke
"Gee dear mother I thought you had employed better secretaries that that" I said my voice oozing with sarcasm "I turned 15 last year, yesterday was my sweet 16, didn't your assistant tell you that...nee?" I was pissed not only did my good for nothing mother wake me up in the middle of the night nooo she also had no clue what so ever how old her only childe was, gee who wouldn't want a mommy like that huh?
"Oh....well i've been busy you know with the business, but I hear you have been working hard and all your tutors say that you're an excellent student. And soon you will take over the business too" my mother said, trying to change the subject.
I decided to put her mother out of her misery and end the call ASAP.
"So.....I can hear that u have a lot of work to do so I won't take up your time any longer Good ni...." Was all I could say before my mother interrupted me.
"Tskushi wait, please, listen too me, I know its late but please." my mother said demanding but yet pleading
"well i'm already awake, I have no why but please go ahead and ease your concision" I was tired angry and upset, my mother had never been there but I still carried the hope that she would one day return and turn in to the ideal mom, from cookies to shopping spree to telling her to dress warm and so on.
"thank you, I know I have never been there for you, and I knew that when your father passed away, not only did you loose him but you lost me in the process, and i'm sorry, i'm sorry I haven't been there for you as I should have, but I honestly only did my best, I thought that after awhile the workload would become less and I could spend more time with you, except what happened was the opposite. That is something I can not do anything about, but I want to try and make it up to you, the only way I can." my mother said with a shaky voice
I was blown away by her mothers emotional words, I had no idea that my mother thought like that, I had thought she thought of her like a bug a nuisance that was in the way of her ambitision. So all I could reply was...
"Uh hu...."
"Will you let me try and make it up to you, in the bet way I can?" my mother said
"Uh hu...I guess" was all I could get out, my mind was totally blank, was this really my mother speaking, the cold ice figurine?
"I want to give you something, but I have no idea what you like, I don't what to do things like i've always done, and ask your nanny what you'd like as a gift, so i'm asking you, what do u want? It can bee anything, anything at all." She said
"Anything I want..." I said trying to let it sink in, what did I want.
"Anything" her mother said
"I want....I want to go home, home to Japan, to Tokyo" I said determined, Back to Tokyo were the only friend I'd ever had was, Home
My mother fell silent "Are u still there......mother?"
"Home....to Japan?" my mother replied
"Yes I want to go home, I miss them, I miss my friends, I can go there right, please u said anything....I can go to there I've already studied everything there is high school and some university, please mother please let me return home, Okaa-san Onegai.....Onegai" I begged fighting the tears that was burning behind my closed eyes
"Wakatta, to Japan you shall go then, go home Kushi....home to Japan" my mother whispered so low I would not have herd her, had I not pressed the phone so hard to my ear
"okaa-san arigato, honto ni arigato" I cried 'I'm going home, home, home to Japan
FB
It had taken about a month with the preparations to get the old mansion up and running again and hiring new staff, to fill the spots from the ones I could not bring with me from the states.
But a month, I could live with, now I was finally home. Home, standing under my old tree house. I had walked straight here as soon as I came back to the manision. Out the back trough the garden, out under the fence and into the small forest. I smiled again brushed a strand of dark brown hair behind my ear.
I walked closer to the old tree. My fingertips traced the bark, as I kneeled down on the moist ground. I looked closer on the bark and peeled of some old moss, and there it was. I trailed the inscription with my finger "together forever the F5" I read out loud.
I hadn't told them that I was coming back; I would see them all tomorrow. 'I wonder if they will recognise me, I laughed a little 'I wonder if I will recognise them, I thought. It had been seven years after all, we were all little kids back then, together forever huh?, I wonder if they will still be my friend, I left them behind after all, that's how they would see it. I thought of them everyday as I was locked up in the mansion not allowed to leave outside the gates.
The only people I ever talked to was my nanny, the servants, my bodyguards, the tutors and the optionally swift meetings with my mother. I wasn't even allowed to contact them.
Now you may wonder why I was locked up, yes. I did too, until Nanny told me. I was thirteen I think when she told me how my father died, he was at a business meeting, doing business with some people that were less that legal, and apparently my father was not so keen on following the lawful ways of living. He had done some fowl play with the wrong people. They didn't care that he was one of the welthyest men in Japan, they had there own ways of dealing with people who ad stepped on there feet, so the stormed the meeting and shot him until he stopped breathing. I was nine and had no clue about what was happening. All I knew is that when I came home that day from the tree house I was whisked away to America and locked up in a new mansion with new everything. Mother disappeared dealing with the family business making everything legal again. And there I was locked up with nothing more to do than work with my tutors, all I did for seven years was to study, if I wasn't learning self defence it was language, or something else stupid.
I leaned all a lady from a high society who would eventually take over the business should know. Oh well I did happen too meet people my age too, I wasn't totally isolated, but they were moor or less higherd by my mother to hang out with me, a new one came once or twice a month. It more or less bothered me; all it did was make me remember my friend back in Japan and how much I missed them.
But tomorrow, tomorrow I would see them again. Rui, Aki, Jirou and Kasa, I could barley wait.