"Dreams"
Chapter 4
True Love
A/n: the translation of Scarlet is at the bottom of the page**
Chiharu just stared at Takashi blankly as she processed everything he had said. He shouldn't...no he couldn't love her, but he said it. Everything had suddenly become so confusing to her.
Takashi slowly got up to leave feeling he wasn't wanted. As he stood up Chiharu tried to muster up something to say, but the only words that would come out of her mouth were, "Don't leave me."
As Takashi stopped in his tracks and turned to look at Chiharu he noticed tears slowly falling from her eyes. Slowly her silent cry turned into a loud sob. He slowly bent down in front of her letting her cry on his shoulder.
This went on for what seemed to them like an eternity and the whole time all they could think about was how their lives had become so complicated. Chiharu slowly lifted her head so that her almost dried out eyes were looking directly at Takashi's.
"Are you okay?" he asked never taking his eyes from hers.
"I don't know," she said dropping her head, "I really don't know. I don't know anything anymore! Before I came here I was sure I knew what love was, what friendship was, what...what was right and wrong, but now...Everything just gets more confusing everyday!"
Takashi looked down as she said this. She was right. Everything did get more confusing each and everyday. For him it had been like this ever since his okaasan left.
Just as he thought this he remembered something his okaasan used to say all the time. Gently putting his hands on Chiharu's face and positioning it in a way in which she'd be looking right at him he whispered, "You know something, Mihara Chiharu, whenever you feel like you can't figure out what's right or wrong or which way you should go in life just listen to your heart. Trust me on this one."
Chiharu thought intensely about this for a few seconds. Listen to your heart. So simple yet so hard. Her heart...heart...love. Just as she started to come to shocking a revelation Meiling came running from the castle.
"Mihara-chan, Takashi, it's time to go back to the castle and you'd better hurry before Yamazaki-san notices you guys were out here."
"If you're here than whose making sure he doesn't find out?" Takashi said standing up and then turning to help the once again blushing Chiharu.
"Xiaolang, and that's why I said you'd better hurry before he ends up getting into an argument."
"Then let's go," Chiharu said in an unusual tone as she smiled an unusual smile.
"What did you do to her, Takashi?"
"I have no clue."
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"Yamazaki-kun, it's time to go to Science," Chiharu said yawning as she picked up her books and stood in front of his desk.
"Just 2 more minutes, okaasan."
"I'm not your okaasan, Yamazaki-kun!" Chiharu said as she hit him on the head with her book instantly waking him up.
"Ow! You didn't have to hit me that hard."
"What you want more?"
"NO!!"
"I thought so," Chiharu said laughing as they walked to Science together.
After they'd gone a few steps Chiharu stopped mid tracks and dropped all her books.
"Mihara-chan, are you okay?" Takashi said in the most awake tone he'd used all day.
At first Chiharu just stood there but then she suddenly snapped out of whatever it was she was in. "Huh, oh yeah I'm just fine. I just got a sudden headache, you know, like sudden brain freezes except a little bit different" she said in a voice that was more shaky then Takashi would've liked it.
"I thought you were having a heart-attack or something," he said picking up her books.
"Aw, you care," she said in a slightly mocking voice.
"What do you expect," he said slightly opening his eyes and giving her a look that made her blush slightly, "I am your boyfriend after all."
"Yeah, you are, but what does "boyfriend" really mean?"
Takashi thought about this for a minute. What did that really mean? Was there even a true definition for it?
Just then he noticed Chiharu's charm bracelet. He'd given it to her the last Valentine's day and she had loved it. He remember her joy as if it was only yesterday.
"The definition of a true boyfriend is a guy who loves his girl so much that he would give up his life for her. So much that all the jewels in the world couldn't amount to her worth."
Chiharu smiled as her hand gradually met his, "I see lies aren't the only things that come out of your mouth."
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Chiharu, Meiling and Takashi quickly sneaked into the castle through the back way. They were quiet the whole time not wanting to be caught. As they neared the kitchen they could here Xiaolang and Yamazaki-san argue over some petty thing.
"There you guys are," Naoko said putting a pan in the oven. "We've been wondering if you guys were all right"
"Why would you be wondering that?" Chiharu asked.
"Well it was just after this morning..."
"This morning I was just a little uptight," she stated with a big smile on her face. "Now I don't have a care in the world," she said spinning around and then ending with a curtsy.
Rika shook her head at Chiharu dumfounded. What had Takashi done to her to make her so, so unexplainably happy? They were only out there for a little while, at least not long enough to really do anything.
"Well, Miss ballerina, it's time to start fixing lunch," Rika stated laughing as Chiharu tiptoed to the cupboard.
Xiaolang came into the kitchen a few minutes later slightly steaming after his argument with Yamazaki-san. After he calmed down the teens started talking again making sure not to talk about the same subject as in the morning.
"So Li-chan," Chiharu started, "do you have a boyfriend?"
"Unfortunately, no."
"That's because she scares all the boys away." Xiaolang mumbled as Meiling once again gave him a look that would've stopped anybody else the first time she'd used it on him.
"I bet it's the other way around," Naoko said as everyone looked at her. "I mean whenever a boy comes near Li-chan I bet Li-kun scares them away."
"I would never," Xiaolang said as he made a face that had guilty written all over it.
Looking at this made everyone laugh but it all stopped suddenly as Yamazaki-san walked in. He slowly looked around until he spotted Chiharu who was looking down for fear that he'd slap her face when he saw the hatred and disgust she felt towards him.
"Hurry up and set the tables," he commanded and turned to walk out of the room until he heard a voice.
"Dog."
"What did you say!?!" he yelled facing Chiharu who looked up with a looked of pure innocence which soon turned to anger, but before she could say anything Takashi stood up.
"I said you're a dog."
"How dare you talk to me like that!"
"What, because you're the king? Well, what kind of king spends all his life bossing around people who aren't as powerful as him including his own wife."
"Don't bring her into this! She left of her own free will!"
"Honto ne?" he asked in a mocking tone. "Well I thought she left because she was afraid a jerk like you would kill her and the only person in this cursed castle that really paid attention to her!"
"If that is the reason, than why didn't she take that person with her, Hmm?" Yamazaki-san said with a grin that made it suddenly feel chilly. "Think about that before you bring her up again."
As Yamazaki-san began to leave for the second time Takashi said in a low but understandable voice, "She didn't take me because nobody, not even okaasan herself has more henchmen than the king and with all those bakas on his side there was no way she would get out with me dead or alive."
Yamazaki-san turned around and stared at Takashi with a fury no one in the room but Takashi had every seen before. He then turned around and stomped out of the room
Chiharu stood there dumbfounded. That was the biggest argument Takashi and Yamazaki-san had ever gotten into. To think it was all because of one little comment she had said.
"Yamazaki-kun," she started, head down, "Arigatou gozaimasu. That's the second time you've stood up for me in front of Yamazaki-san today."
"It's nothing," he said nonchalantly, "It's always my pleasure to teach him a lesson or two."
The girls quickly served the lunches, first to the ladies and then to Yamazaki-san and a few of the lords. When they were finished Chiharu motioned for Takashi, who decided to skip lunch, to follow her outside.
They walked through the field until they got to the tree they'd been at earlier that day. Chiharu was the first to plop down on the soft grass and relax under the shade. Takashi slowly knelt down by her making sure not to get to close.
"I love beautiful scenes like this," Chiharu said readjusting her position so she'd be comfortable in her skirt.
"Um...me too."
Getting closer to him Chiharu smiled, "You seem nervous around me, Yamazaki-kun. I don't like it when you're like that."
Takashi looked down sheepishly. By this time his face had already turned a deep red.
Chiharu laughed as she reached in her pocket and pulled out a red apple, "You didn't eat lunch, so here's an apple," she threw it at him. "A red apple for a red face."
He once again looked down but this time his head came up quicker as he replied, "But what about you, I've never seen a pink apple, so what are we going to feed you for your pink face."
"Very, funny, Yamazaki-kun, but now let's talk about what I've been meaning to tell you all day."
"Which is?"
"Well, this morning...you told me to listen to my heart, ne?"
"Hai."
"Well, I thought about it and I finally opened up to my heart and..."
Before she could utter the last part of her sentence Meiling came rushing towards them. "Takashi, you'd better go inside. Over the last few minutes Yamazaki-san has gained more of an attitude than before."
Takashi stood up slightly pleased to leave this nerve-wrecking situation, "We'll continue are talk later, Mihara-chan."
Chiharu nodded and looked away hastily. Every time she'd tried to tell him about her feelings she'd been interrupted. Why did this always happen to her?
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"Man, I wish Kibi-sensei would just be quiet," Chiharu said laying her head on her left hand. "She keeps waking me up."
"I know, I know," Takashi stated from the other side of their table. "But did you know that back in ancient Egypt when people talked a lot it meant they'd have a short life on Earth but live a long, abundant after-life."
Yawning, Chiharu said, "How can you come up these things and claim to be so sleepy."
"It's inherited, like Kibi-sensei said."
"Nan?"
"Kibi-sensei's been talking about DNA and genes and how we inherit our parents' genes and all that stuff and I know I inherited my wisdom."
"Honto ne?"
"Hai, I inherited my wisdom from my okaasan. Everything she knew I could comprehend at that age she told me, leading to my surplus knowledge today."
"You mean your surplus lack of knowledge."
Kibi-sensei went on and on talking about genes and DNA and chromosomes and a bunch of other stuff Takashi and Chiharu didn't hear because they were to busy trying to get the little bit of sleep they could. As the class drove on Chiharu's head started throbbing.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, just a little headache."
"Are you sure," he asked in a concerned tone, "because in the old days when a shogun had a bad headache it was a sign of great health and so many a shogun tried to get headaches by pounding their heads against the temples, purposely falling, anything."
Chiharu shook her head at him, "I fell in love with the most bothersome, liar in the world."
"I'm not a liar," he replied with a tone that noted that he felt insulted.
"Yeah whatever," she said laying her head down on her books, "now let me get the little bit of sleep I'll be able to get in this class."
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As the two neared the castle Meiling pulled Takashi over to a secret door in the back.
"I thought we were going to talk to Yamazaki-san?"
"I lied," Meiling said hurriedly, "but I needed to talk to you…about Chiharu."
Takashi looked away stubbornly, but soon put his head down in shame. He looked up at Meiling and sighed as he said, "I don't if she likes me, or hates me, or if she just wants to be friends or what? She's just so hard to understand especially since I told her."
"You told her! When?"
"This morning," he said casually.
"Oh my gosh! Why didn't you tell me earlier? Man I hate it when you guys do this!! Hurry up and go back there."
"But what will I tell her?"
"Make up something, you're good at it."
"Meiling, wait," but she had already turned to go into the house. "Man," he thought to himself, "why is life so hard these days."
He slowly walked back the tree partly hoping that Chiharu had left, partly hoping she was still there. As he thought about his situation more and more he started to smile. It seemed very funny to him that a girl could totally change to course of his life, then again, his okaasan told him that girls did that.
As he neared the tree he could here Chiharu singing a song:
**haruka na hoshizora ni yume wa mada miemasu ka?
osanai ano hi yori azayaka desu ka?
mune ni afurete tsunoru omoi
nemuri wasurete jounetsu no iro
tatoe tookute mo kitto tadoritsukeru tsuyoku shinjite'ta
ano hi no watashi ga ima mo kokoro de nemutte-iru
GARASU no bara yori mo hakanakute moroi no ni
yume miru koto wa naze sadame na no deshou
futatsu no yume ga ai ni natte
ai ni narenai koto mo atte
hito wa hitori da to wakariaitai no ni nante muzukashii
kotoba wa muryoku de toki ni wa gin no NAIFU ni naru
hito wa hitori da to wakariaitai no ni nante muzukashii
kotoba wa muryoku de toki ni wa gin no NAIFU ni...
tatoe tookute mo kitto tadoritsukeru tsuyoku shinjite'ta
ano hi no watashi ga ima mo kokoro de nemutte-iru
Chiharu casually leaned against the tree after she finished the song. Just then she noticed Takashi standing a few inches away.
"You weren't supposed to hear that," she said blushing.
"Doshite, you sang good?" he sat down next to her. "But where did you learn that song?"
"Scarlet? I learned it from my okaasan. When she was sad or I was sad she would sing this song and even though it is sad it always made us feel somewhat better, why?"
"Because when I was little and Yamazaki-san got upset at me or my okaasan or our old nurse, okaasan used to sing that song. She sang it so much that I memorized it."
Chiharu laughed, "What a coincident. Our okaasan's must've thought a like."
Takashi smiled, he loved seeing her smile. He just wished that there was away to make himself the reason why she smiled. He sighed and looked down at the ground.
"Yamazaki…Takashi," Chiharu said slowly, "lovable…caring…and true…true to his heart."
Takashi looked up at her. He really wasn't sure where this was going.
"Kind…compassionate…entertaining…somewhat humble…handsome."
"Chiha-" before he could finish his sentence Chiharu grabbed his hand and kissed him.
It lasted for a few minutes but once again to both of them it seemed like an eternity to both of them. Chiharu let out a sigh of relief, she'd never felt so relaxed before.
"Mihara-chan," Takashi started as he tried to think of something to say to her without messing anything up.
"That's Chiharu-chan to you, Takashi-kun," she said with a more than evident smile.
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A/n: Chpt. 4 is finally done, what a sweet ending. I was going to add some other stuff to the ending but I decided that putting that stuff in Chpt. 5 would be okay. My reason for taking so long on this chapter is that my computer has been messing up for the past month and a half and it's so annoying. I mean it skips around on Word and it can't find like a million files and you have to reboot it like 3 times every hour. Oh yeah and what did you think about me adding Scarlet in their I did it because I'm about to start on a verge of loving songs in fanfics and Pita Ten. This is because on my favorite Korean channel, Tooniverse, they play Pita Ten and Full Moon wo Sagashite because of Full Moon wo Sagashite I'm starting to want more music in fanfics and I chose Scarlet because I've heard the song a lot and the words really go with how Chiharu felt before she told Takashi. Also, because it was translated on animelyrics.com. Thank ya for reading my story when you didn't have to.
Love ya, SHA
And here is the translation of the song that I got from animelyrics.com as promised:
**Can you still see your dreams in the distant, starry sky?
Are they more vivid than they were when you were little?
When one forgets to put the emotions that overflow in her heart
to rest, they burn the color of passion.
I used to believe without a doubt that I could reach my dreams, no matter how far off they were.
Dreams are more fragile and fleeting than a glass rose,
so then why are we destined to dream?
Sometimes two dreams can turn into love,
but there are also times when they can't.
Even when they're alone, people want to share their feelings, but it can be so hard.
Words are powerless to express one's feelings, and sometimes they become a silver knife.
Even when they're alone, people want to share their feelings, but it can be so hard.
Words are powerless to express one's feelings, and sometimes they become a silver knife.
I used to believe without a doubt that I could reach my dreams, no matter how far off they were.
But that me from long ago now sleeps inside my heart.