Author's Note: This is my second story, although I still have not finished "Sailor Moon, The Untold Story" yet. I could not help but want to start this one. I was looking around and found my tankoubon of Clover (by Clamp). I reread Clover 4 and just decided to write this. This is of course going to be involved around my favorite character in Clover, Ran/Lan (Not sure how you would translate that to English. I guess it would be Ran, so that is what I'll call him). For those who haven't read Clover (by Clamp), I must say, it is not the best story (plot), but the art is amazing. does a good job of translating Clover 4 (look under Clamp Rukuen). Oh, before I forget. SPOILER! And it's during Sailor Moon Super S.
Summary: C escaped the lab and A. But C never met Lieutenant Gingetsu, but rather more a certain Sailor Soldier. So what now?
Disclaimer: All characters from Sailor Moon belong to Takeuchi Naoko and Clover belongs to Clamp. The song "RAINBOW" belongs to Hamasaki Ayumi.
Rainbow
By: Sailor Moonac
Prelude: Lost and Found
C walked barefooted and drenched in rain through the crowded streets of Tokyo. The crowd of people, stolid to most, barely glanced at the boy as they walked under their umbrellas towards their warm and cozy homes. C walked alone, wondering if anyone knew he had escaped. Yet, even if they find out, he did not care. He just wanted to escape from that horrid cage. Wanted to escape from him...A.
A, B, and C. All twin brothers. All with the same powers, but with very different personalities. A's personality was violent, and A had murdered B. C just had to escape from A, no matter how much he loved him. He just had to escape.
'I can't go back. Not ever. Especially since A is so keen killing.' C stopped at the base of Tokyo tower and looked up towards it's glowing blue, yellow, and red lights. 'But...where will I go? I can't go back to the cage. A three-leaf clover surely can't live very long outside of the cage-'
But the sudden absence of the cold rain shooting needles onto his body startled C. C glanced behind him and saw an umbrella over his head, shielding him from the rain. He looked over to the bearer of the umbrella and saw a girl holding a bag full of food. She had long blond hair in ball shaped pigtails that nearly reached her ankles. Soft cerulean blue eyes stared back to him filled with concern. She had to hunch over a bit to be eye level with C and if she stood in full height, C would barely even reach the brooch she wore on what looked like a school uniform.
Finally after what felt like and eternity of silence with only the sound of beating rain and cars passing, she spoke to C. Surprisingly calm and soft to C.
"You're completely soaked. Why are you out here in the rain?" She smiled at C and continued. "Are you lost? I think I can help you if that's so. Here, are you hungry?" She reached into her bag and pulled out a wrapped pork bun. She smiled at C some more with that same calm demeanor.
"No...I'm not lost. I'm running away." C looked away from her eyes then. He could not look at her eyes and feel content. She was probably the only person who ever looked at him in such a way that was also not bent on testing his powers. It was those fake smiles from the scientists that made him obey.
"Running away? Why? I think your parents would probably worry." The girl stood completely tall then and took C's hand. "Here--"
"No!" C yanked his hand away from the girl with such ferocity that it surprised her. "I'm not going back! And I don't have any parents..."
The girl bent back down to C's level. "I'm sorry...did you run away from an orphanage?"
C thought it was a stupid question really. At least at an orphanage, he wouldn't be alone...alone with A. "No."
"Then...what are you running away from?"
"I can't tell you."
The girl stood tall once again and took his hand again while her other hand balanced the umbrella and the wrapped pork bun. "Okay, don't tell me." She smiled down at him again. "But lets go to my house. At least to warm up and eat something."
She handed him the pork bun and he took it. "Uhm...all right."
She led C back through the crowded streets of Tokyo towards the suburbs of Juuban. "By the way, my name is Usagi. What's yours?"
"C."
"C? Is that your real name?" She looked perplexed at that name.
"That's what I was called."
She stopped and C stopped with her. She looked around and spotted a sign. She looked down at C again. "How about I call you Ran?"
'Ran...Ran. I guess it's better then C...' For the first time in C's life, he smiled a genuine smile. "Yes. Okay."
"Then Ran it is! I have a little brother named Shingo and a daugh---uhh...sister named Chibi-Usa. They're right about your age. So I'm sure you will all get along."
'Strange, I wonder why she paused with a name. And...she's talking like we are going to live together.' The newly named Ran turned to the nearby radio and stopped walking. "Usagi, can I listen to that?
"Huh?" Usagi stopped as well and looked over to the radio. "Rainbow. That song is called Rainbow."
/From somewhere, gently
As if I was hearing it at some time
I intended to have been near you
I was forgiven by forgiving
My intentions to heal the past
Already long ago and far away were healed
If I notice those, in that way
I who tried to keep love away was being saved by love
From somewhere, you fell down
And no matter when, you transmitted to me
The happiness that is near to me
While I support you, I am being supported
Snuggling close to you little by little
While I protect you, I am being protected
This will turn into confidence
I who tried to keep love away have been saved by love
If there are wounds which it seems we won't be able to make it over
Shall we share them together and walk?
Shall we gather the happiness that we can't hold
And share them together and walk?
Now, I'll sing only for your sake
Now, I'll sing only for your sake
You're my special treasure
You're my special treasure/
Usagi smiled and sung softly to Ran, "No rain, can't get the rainbow." Usagi sung this small phrase the entire way walking towards the Tsukino house.
"No rain, can't get the rainbow."
Well, there it is. That is the prelude for "Rainbow." I just didn't feel like writing "Sailor Moon, The Untold Story" this week. Back in high school, and thankfully I have a different English teacher. I hope my last year teacher does not ask me how my other story is going. Oh well, I think I like this one better. It's a shame I did not do anything else on a GOLDEN WEEK WEEKEND WHERE I HAVE NO HOMEWORK! Oh well. Oh, and do not take the lyrics, it takes too long to translate. But I think you could find translations on the Internet. Please read and review.
-Sailor Moonac