At the End of the Rainbow: Chapter 2
"Time to wake up, sweetie."
The young Tomoyo Daidouji opened her eyes and blinked rapidly at the bright light coming from the window. The young child stretched and yawned as she tried her best to shake the sleepiness away from her. Sonomi's face came into view as she looked up and smiled.
"Mommy!!!" Tomoyo squealed and hugged her mother.
Sonomi laughed and lifted the little child gently before setting her down again. Little Tomoyo was already 3 yrs. old yet she could already speak as well as understand a little bit of English and Japanese. Since she was raised in England, she was more exposed to the English language, thus making her such. She was often brought to Sonomi's work, so many of her clients liked and knew the unusually bright and gifted little Tomoyo.
"Work, mommy?" Tomoyo asked.
"Yes sweetie. But unfortunately, I will be going alone today." Sonomi said softly as she combed Tomoyo's curls with her hand.
"I'm not going with mommy?" The child replied in question, her head tilting to one side.
"Yes. Today will be your first day in Pre-nursery school." Sonomi replied in loss for other words to explain.
Tomoyo merely stared at her and blinked.
Sonomi smiled.
"Tomoyo, school is a place where you learn more things," At this the child smiled. "But mommy will not be with you there, you will meet your teacher, like your mommy too, she will let you learn things in school. And there will also be many other children in school. You can make many friends there so you won't be lonely."
The child frowned a little.
"Tomoyo will live there?"
"No dear. When school finishes everyday, Hana onee-san will get you and bring you back to mommy, ok?"
"Ok!" Tomoyo nodded and smiled shyly.
Sonomi wasn't sure if the child understood. She half expected school would have a bad impression on Tomoyo immediately. But apparently, she had taken it much less violently.
Sonomi dressed her daughter in her school shirt with puffy sleeves and her white and blue plaid jumper dress over it. She tied Tomoyo's shoulder length curly hair into 2 pigtails with a white ribbon and gave Tomoyo her bag. Sonomi decided to bring the little child to school herself since it was her first day to school.
When their limo arrived inside the school premises just outside the nursery entrance, some of the children stared. It's not as if they hadn't seen one before, it was an elite school so there were probably more people with limos. Tomoyo hesitated to leave the limo at first, but when her mother kissed her goodbye and whispered words of encouragement, she finally let go of the hard grip she had on her mother's skirt and moved to leave the limo where Hana had opened the door for her. When Tomoyo alighted from the vehicle, she didn't move at first. She gripped her skirt and bowed her head.
Sonomi smiled and waited. Tomoyo was a very curious child. In a few minutes she would probably be going on alone herself. And she did. With a last glance and wave at the car she started walking forward. The limo drove on and turned on the curve. When Sonomi looked back again, she saw a faint figure of Tomoyo walking towards the playground. Sonomi smiled and sat back. Then again, Tomoyo would probably be taking this in very easily.
Little Tomoyo walked slowly with her head down. This place was new to her, and she had no idea what to do. Her mother told her to stay in the playground until her 'teacher' comes. But what would she do in a playground alone? She didn't even know anyone. Tomoyo started blushing as she slowed her pace. She started looking around the place for something to do. She was standing on the way towards the building in front. On her sides were both very large open-aired spaces. On her right was the very large and wide playground where many children played. On her left was a large field full of materials that were probably for their 'P.E.' class. Tomoyo smiled as she remembered watching a TV show wherein the children always enjoyed their so-called 'P.E' class. That was the only 'non-kiddy' show she could watch.
Tomoyo started walking towards the playground but stopped midway when curiosity changed her mind and headed to the left side. She peeked inside the small gate before walking inside. Inside were several bars, sports balls and a few benches. Tomoyo ran towards the several benches to find 2 people sitting there already. She stopped so suddenly that she caught the attention of the people sitting on the bench. Tomoyo smiled nervously and bowed suddenly. She stood up straight again when she remembered bowing was only used in Japan.
"Uh---I---I---I'm so sorry." Tomoyo stammered to the two without looking at them.
When there was no response, Tomoyo assumed the two were angry with her. So she turned around and started to run away.
"Matte." A firm voice spoke up.
Tomoyo froze and looked back. 'Nihhon...?'
Tomoyo wasn't far enough not to see their faces, but they were positively smiling.
"Daijoubu yo." The girl on the bench said.
Due to her curiosity, Tomoyo started walking towards the bench and stopped just in front of the two who had already stood up. The two people were a male and a female. It was clearly obvious that the girl was older because of her size. She was tall and thin with orange eyes and long orange hair that was pinned back from her face with 2 green clips. She was wearing a white and green long sleeved uniform shirt and knee-length olive green plaid skirt. The boy, however, was probably about her age since he wore the same uniform as her except he wore a white and navy blue sweater over his collared shirt and blue shorts reaching his knees.
The girl knelt before Tomoyo and smiled.
"Konnichiwa. Watashi wa Mizuki Kaho desu. Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu." Kaho smiled softly and pointed towards the boy. "Orewa Hiiragizawa Eriol desu."
"Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu." Eriol smiled and bowed. "You're probably wondering why we know how so speak in Japanese."
"Uhm..." Tomoyo was stunned and speechless.
"It's ok. What's your name?" Kaho said.
"D---Daidouji Tomoyo desu. Call me Tomoyo." Tomoyo blushed.
"Well Tomoyo. You look like you're new here," At this Tomoyo nodded. "But don't worry, Eriol here is new too. You could be friends with him. Unlike you two, I'm a grade six student so I won't be here with him"
"Oh." Tomoyo smiled. "Thank you."
Kaho put her hand on top Tomoyo's head and smiled.
"So we're friends?"
"Yup!!" Tomoyo nodded and smiled brightly at finding new friends again.
Just then, a faint voice came from the playground. Kaho glanced up.
"Oh dear. I guess that's your teacher already. We'll just see each other later, ok? Run along now. Or the teacher might look for you."
"Ok!! Good-bye, sister!" Tomoyo waved and started walking away but she glanced back.
"Eriol, you're not coming?"
"No it's ok. You go first." Eriol replied and smiled.
"Ok!" Tomoyo then ran for he playground.
When Tomoyo disappeared, Kaho looked sad and looked up in the sky. Eriol glanced up and his eyes blanched.
"So it's her, isn't it?" Eriol said to Kaho.
Kaho didn't reply.
"You don't look like her."
Still there was no reply.
"Why don't you just tell her anyway?"
"There's no use." Kaho finally said. "Since I will be forgetting all about her anyway. He told me so. It's sad..."
"So? Since the both of you will be forgetting anyway, why don't you just tell her and see how she'll react?"
"I can't, Eriol. I can't. He told me not to... but I... want to. It's hard seeing her like that when I'm different."
"Ouch, that hurt."
"Oh I'm sorry." Kaho looked away. "She's still so young. And she has no idea of what will be happening to her in the next few years. I wonder if she'll recognize me..."
Eriol was silent.
"Anyway, let's just tell her we're cousins, ok?" Kaho said.
"Cousins? We don't look anything like each other. She even looks much like me than you."
Kaho glared at him.
"Soooory... Ok, ok fine. I'm going. See you later." Eriol took his bag and walked away.
"Grandfather...it's not that I'm complaining...but why do we have to do this?" Kaho whispered to the wind.
And miraculously, it whispered back.
'She needs it, Kaho...she needs it...'
End short chapter
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