A run down of the relationship between Hayate and Himeno after the series sporadically. A brief history of the Takahashi family and the girl's childhoods. The main character is vaguely introduced but not described until later. The same goes with the girl's two friends. It is only Himeno's thoughts that are in the prologue and the next few chapters. Himeno and her friends' and Mawata's thoughts will be in past tense, while the girl's experiences will be present tense. The journal entries will be in italics.
During the events that had transpired between Himeno, the Knights, and Takako, Himeno had kept a journal to preserve her memories. Not knowing that in time, it would be lost and forgotten, except in the hearts and minds of those who witnessed the accounts first hand and still live. Her heroism going completely unnoticed by the outside world, only her sisters, Natsue, her father, the knights, and Takako would ever know the truth. It didn't bother her though. She much preferred to be by herself or loved ones.
After redeeming Sasame and Takako everything went semi smoothly, Mawata came to understand her family did truly love her. Hayate still was unable to find the courage for a long time to admit to Himeno, that he was in love with her. And this was only through a forced hand by the other Knights. Mawata being the master mind. It took Hayate's revelation to her before she told him she felt the same way. For although, they both knew exactly how the other felt, they had been still been highly reluctant to confess their desires to one another, for fear of being rejected. However, Himeno was a little more willing with showing her emotions to Hayate.
Countless years have gone by and Himeno's heroics live on only in her words. The girl that finds them will be someone the Knights don't suspect, but didn't exactly rule out that she would be related to one of them. After Himeno died, the Knights put a barrier around the Awayuki mansion and the Takahashi residence. This barrier shielded it from the outside world. People forgetting that these two houses existed, oblivious to the barrier. Because of these barriers, the houses remained immaculate. It also helped that the Knights would go to maintain them once a week. Only they, those associated with the pretear or one of their blood could pass the barrier with no difficulty. And this is how the girl happens upon the Takahashi residence.
As a child, the girl had an uncontrollable sixth sense. When I say uncontrollable, I mean she would never control her mouth. And thus, freak people out with the things she would see, but such is youth. When she met her best friends, she shied away from them, for she thought they just wanted to use her. Growing up in an orphanage had never been easy. She had no one until she met her female friend. Four years after meeting each other. The two girls met their other best friend, a boy.
In those years, the girl learned that she had to control her mouth. It took her each of her friends, a year of everyday persistence before letting them in, and speaking to them. Before that she would just stare and pretend not comprehend, even if the adults said she could understand things. This gave her female friend hope not to give up. When they met the boy, her friend would speak for her. The adults couldn't understand why those two wasted their time on the bizarre wallflower. For none of the other kids ever bothered to waste their time on her, neither would have they (the adults). When asked the girl and boy why they would spend time with her. They answered that she glowed. There was just something about her that they liked. They couldn't really explain it. So the adults just chalked it up to a personality trait, they had overlooked.
During their engagement, Himeno and Hayate had been so happy that they had been oblivious to the fact that Hayate would never age. Well not, oblivious. They just didn't desire to think about the topic. Because that would mean she would grow old, while he stayed young. A year after their marriage, they slowly let that fact sink in. Their first son was born a year after their wedding. Their daughter two years after her older brother while their last child, a boy happened to come a year later.
As their children got a little older, Himeno and Hayate reluctantly agreed that he would return to Leafenia and never to return. Sasame and Takako also came to the same conclusion. Only Sasame left behind two boys and two girls. The four of them knowing that even though, it pained them. Their love for each other would sustain them. Along with their bittersweet yet precious memories. Especially Himeno and Takako who were fated to die, because of their mortality. And that is how the story begins. For the future to occur, it must have a past. Even if the past has been hidden. Intertwining the girl and her friend's futures from past events through fate.
