Wasurenai
Never Forget

By: FiendisHSerapH

One - Serendipity

Silence. Serenity. Quiet. Peace.

It had been like this for this certain person sitting upright on the rock beside the rushing stream... and so it would be the same for the night. Day and night, night and day, it would all just blur into one due to the monotony he'd been undergoing. Not even his position of being cross-legged, hunched as if he's carrying all the sins of this world, and hand lazily placed under his chin ever changed. Believe it or not, he's in meditation as of now...

Hah, meditation! Such a lame excuse for not wanting to be with the crowd who does nothing but hurt his company. If there would be a word that's fit to describe him, it would be antisocial. He had been like that. He never wanted to change... or at least he wanted to try but he couldn't - he shouldn't - or he'll just end up locking himself in his shell again. Besides, silence is fun especially when you're alone spending it with nature. In it he felt accepted and unharmed. It's his home; he and the beings inside him are one with it. And speaking of that being...

What's taking him so long? One more minute of waiting and he'll explode out of worry. He wanted to check where that being is into, but no, he shouldn't as he confirmed earlier in his thoughts. It will just mean pain... and of course, he doesn't want to experience it anymore, again and again.

Silence... and a faint sigh.

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"What is she up to now?"
"I dunno..."
"She's being weird again."

Blue-green eyes twinkled as she locked her sight at her target. She knew it's weird for girls to chase these icky creatures, but who cares anyway? She's fascinated with boyish stuff since her life as a ninja began in this academy and being amused is no big deal to fuss about, as she had been believing. Those bimbos! All they cared for is how to beautify themselves. She didn't mean that she doesn't do those things, but doing it like that is too much, gone nuts, overboard!

"They're the ones insane, not me..." she ended to regain her self-confidence.

"Easy now, easy..." she mumbled as she hid behind the bushes, eyeing closely the cricket that had stopped to munch slightly on its catch. No sooner, that hopeful voice turned irritated as the target hopped away to a place far from her grasp.

"Tch, you dreaded creature!" With stealth, she moved closer, and it jumped again. "DARN!" she hissed under her breath and positioned herself anew... and the cricket once more moved away. To cut the redundant story short, the process of jumping-hiding again-almost catching-cursing repeated itself for many times that the girl with cropped flaxen hair, being so much absorbed into getting an acquaintance, lost track of the time and the dimension she was caught into.

"This will be the end, I swear!" her thoughts spoke as the cricket rested itself on a smooth rock beside a larger one. Water came gushing nearby but heck, the chance is now! In one momentous grab, she was about to snatch the creature that had wasted so much of her time when it jumped higher than before. She looked up, and raised an eyebrow when she saw the insect already perched on an outstretched index finger. That definitely meant another person trying to claim it for his or her own pet, but yeah... she surely was annoyed of that someone who got that darned thing through just a gentle welcoming digit.

And the next thing she knew was that she's already staring into the sharp, prussian blue eyes of her so-called rival in being an insect master...

An acquaintance she wanted? Well, an acquaintance she would get.

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TBC