RAPUNZEL? Finale (Nope. This is not the final chapter.)
By Aya-CLAMPGAKUENlover
Guide -again-:
Italic words - Akira's thoughts
" " - Of course… These are words coming out of the person's mouth!
Italic words with underline - remembering a quote from a previous chapter
N/-word-& - useful info at the end of the page
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It was like all hope was lost. Both Suoh and Akira assaulted the invisible magic wall with their strength. Instead of the barrier being unsealed, they received a large impact on the ground. It was hopeless.
Neither of them have magic. How could two boys break a wall they can't even see?
No weapons can go through it.
No physical strength can penetrate it.
What else is there?
"If all these things are based on Nagisa-san's final words. Maybe…" Suoh thoughts made him grab something from his pocket.
He told Akira a moment ago that, Nagisa gave him something. Her final present. She was to meet him again. It was like a prophecy.
She left me her final present.
She said that fate would lead us together again.
And when that happens, His highness would find his princess, We'll be together again and…
The land would have its eternal peace.
Akira was driven in desperation. Nothing. Nothing would lead him in seeing Utako again. Though he didn't knew what was the shining yellow aura was all about, he was sure she was in trouble.
Who would put a barrier now? Isn't it odd that at this particular time, all these things would happen?
I visit Utako-san but never encountered this. Speaking of Utako-san, how is she now?
Is she all right at this particular moment?
I keep thinking that she's in trouble.
Maybe…
"This isn't coincidence. This is not coincidence. This will never be coincidence!"
"Ijyuin?!" Suoh saw his companion trying to break the wall by his fists.
The barrier was still resistant. Blood slowly gushed out of his hand and some spilt on the floor. Suoh pulled him away by lifting from his ribs.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! You're hurting yourself!" Suoh kept stopping Akira's continued activity of persistence.
"LET ME GO! I say… TAKAMURA-SENPAI…! LET ME GO!!!!!! Utako-san might be in danger!!!" Akira kept pushing himself to that barrier.
"This is too reckless, Ijyuin! You're definitely going to die if you continue!"
What was done is done. Akira stopped his reckless activity and faced his upperclassman. Making his hand to a fist-like figure, he punched Suoh's face.
Suoh's head slightly moved and remained calm at the impact.
Akira was just stunned on what he did out of emotions. "Takamura-senpai always protected me. Takamura-senpai tells me what to do. I accept it."
Suoh released him. "I might be a bit young to really realize but, I realized that I truly want to save Utako-san! I want to save her! Even if I reach her, verging death as I think, I'll take it. I'll be stronger for her."
"For now, I'm just a boy. I'll definitely be stronger for you when I grow up. I'll be a man."
Suoh laughed, holding the place Akira punched him.
"…Takamura-senpai?"
Suoh smiled at him, showing that a punch really made him realize as well. "あリがとう 1. I come to realize that you're not the only one who's realizing. I'm also a kid. I shouldn't tell you what to and not to do…"
"I understand that you have to do that for me. You're like a big brother to me. You're actually like a part of my family." Akira smiled.
"Um… Topic Change! Take this before I get real soft." Suoh handed him a good luck charm that actually Nagisa gave him as his REAL FINAL PRESENT.
"Takamura-senpai, I thought Nagisa gave you her promise?" Akira wondered.
"Nah. I was just being melodramatic." Suoh laughed.
That wasn't really the response I was expecting… He sometimes freaks me out…
Akira sweatdropped. "Actually, Nagisa-san gave me this keepsake when fate would lead us together again. She said that it'd happen by the time would give chance for a change…"
"So this is the time where prophecy would take place?" Akira asked.
"Maybe. She also said that what holds inside this lucky charm is a key." He said.
"Then… MAYBE WE SHOULD STICK THIS LIKE SO!!" Akira cheerfully placed the charm to his hand and held it in his fist. "HOLY FIST!!!" Suoh sweatdropped.
He gave his final fist to the barrier!
The invisible barrier was actually a large wall, with a giant strange egg sitting on top. The wall seemed to have a door just in front of their very eyes.
'You mean… We have been standing here and there was a DOOR?!', Suoh sweatdropped.
"LOOK TAKAMURA-SENPAI! It's Humpty Dumpty-san! HI HUMPTY DUMPTY-SAN!!!!!"
'Sometimes, I want to know what Ijyuin is really thinking…'
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall! LaLaLaLa… Oh my gosh! Must concentrate! Utako-san and me can visit this wall AFTER I save her…
'Never mind…' Suoh sighed.
"Takamura-senpai, the lucky charm!!"
Both of them were shocked to see the Lucky Charm still intact, after crushing it to the wall with the 'Holy Fist'.
"'She' must be watching over us. I'm sure Nagisa-san must be a very nice person." Akira opened the wall door.
"Let's go!" Suoh said.
"はい2"
They went past over the wall and continued on…
"Wait! I should close the door… Humpty Dumpty must be annoyed that we barged in to his wall! HaHaHa…"
Akira closed the door and the wall went shaking.
"Ijyuin!" Akira dashed back after hearing Suoh's call.
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"That boy was very nice." Humpty Dumpty said after his departure.
"? Strange. The wall is shaking." Humpty Dumpty was already shaking then, he want falling from the sky. As they say, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, and stories like that are TRUE.
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"Dammit. I lost Ijyuin." Suoh seemed to have chosen the wrong direction and lost sight of Prince Akira. "Wait! This is an advantage!" He continued to search the place by jumping from tree to tree, keeping the low profile plan working.
"Where could Takamura-senpai be? I'm already approximately… 56 steps away form the tower." Akira hid his abacus and sighed.
"He maybe want me to do this by myself. After all, I should prove my rights to save the one I love." Akira said.
"Okay then. TAKAMURA-SENPAI! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, I'M ALREADY NEAR AT THE TOWER SO I DON'T NEED ANY MORE SERVICES!"
Suoh sighed. 'Could he attract more attention that he already has?!'
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Eri Chusonji AKA 'Legendary Sorceress' took a nap after waiting for a long time for the prince of the kingdom. The sorceress' captive, Nagisa Azuya, was wide-awake from the disturbing loud snoring.
"It's already worse that I'm stuck here, now I have to deal with a girl that drools when she sleeps." She sighed.
-BEEP BEEP BEEP-
The magical prince detector beeped as high as it could, waking up the evil witch. She secretly wiped her drool mark and waved her magical wand a little swish.
"Plan Execution Time! HOHOHOHOHOHO! I love being evil…"
After 56 steps spent, Prince Akira finally reached the tower. In his arrival, the yellow aura surrounding the tower disappeared.
What's happening, really?
Utako's ribbon-ends fell down from the high window.
"Can I climb your ribbon? I kind of injured myself on the way here." He chuckled. There was silence. Akira tried to look up, but he couldn't see Utako's face.
Strange.
A small hand slowly came out, and gave a thumbs up…
That hand made Akira smile. It was like a sign that she is in no danger whatsoever.
Akira bought it and slowly made his way up the window. Away from the tower was Suoh watching over Akira, climbing the tower. His suspicion on the tower grew bigger when he saw the hand itself.
"Something's not right in this picture."
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Eri Chusonji secretly disguised as Utako, pretended to hurt her ankle and smoke was coming from the little kitchen. Akira rushed to her and put off the fire.
"Are you all right?" Akira asked.
"It was all so sudden! I was trying to cook a cake and the oven exploded!" Eri shown her crocodile tears.
That explains the glow-like thing at the tower… I think…
But what was that push from the window…?
"よかった… 3"
Akira placed her to his arms and secured her tight. The Fake Utako grinned as she held the prince in her arms. "I'm so glad you're okay. I don't know what I'll do if I find out you're in danger."
"It's okay now, Akira-ojjisama&…" Akira suddenly realized that it wasn't really Utako.
Utako-san never,
Never ever calls me prince!
"きみわだれ4" Akira saw the fake Utako grinning. She thought she had him fooled.
"What are you talking about? I'm Utako Ohkawa! I even have my ribbon!"
"You're not Utako-san… I NEVER TOLD HER I'M A PRINCE!" Akira prepared himself, and threatened them with a slash of his sword.
"You're…!"
The Fake Utako revealed the magical gun& she hid and directed it at the prince. "So the sayings were true. The people who seemed innocent are the most observant. Allow me to introduce myself. I am the one they call the sorceress of the legend."
The legendary evil sorceress is true?!
If it is, what happened to Nagisa-san?!
"Where's Utako-san?!" Akira asked.
"I sent her off to a trip of the kingdom's giant forest. Enough about her, the important fact is you. I won't let the prophecy happen!"
Prophecy? Is she talking about Nagisa-san's prophecy?!
"I'm curious… Tell me how you feel for Utako. Tell me what is her worth to you!"
What I feel for Utako? Why?
Eri blew a bubble. It constantly grew until a lady can be seen inside it.
That outfit… That hair… That face…
"It's Nagisa-san!" Akira exclaimed.
Suoh directly heard the same voice. Blessed with great hearing, he heard Akira say Nagisa-san. He also heard a familiar voice. It was like that day he first met Nagisa.
'I closed my eyes back then. I heard the voice of a lady softly screaming six years ago. What if I close it now? It would be reality again?'
"Ojji-sama!" Nagisa banged her bubble chamber.
"NAGISA-SAN!" Suoh jumped near the tower and hid.
"Tell me! What is Utako to you?!" Eri shouted.
"She's my…"
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"Where am I?" Utako awoke in an unfamiliar place. The ground was green as grass, solid structures as trees and a great fragrance as the smell of flowers carried by the wind. It was like the scenery she saw outside the tower, but never felt that scenery. She touched the barrier that prisons her, which disappeared at the poke of her finger.
"Is this the outside?"
TO BE CONTINUED ON Rapunzel? Grand Ending
1 あリがとう - Arigatou/Thank you
2 はい! - Hai!/Yes!
3 よかった… - Yokatta…/I'm glad/I'm relieved
4きみわだれ- kimi wa dare?/Who are you? (I could also use anata wa dare but I like this one better)
ojji-sama - prince
magical gun - In the DUKLYON manga, Eri Chusonji AKA DUKLYON Special Assistant Eri carries a gun made by the mysterious choukan… I just want to put this so DUKLYON would be at least known to some that don't know much about the manga… (Some maybe wondering why this gal is in the anime…)
-SEE YA AT THE REAL FINAL CHAPTER OF RAPUNZEL?-
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