Chapter 1-The Wind's Kiss
I woke up. Remembering that I was so close to dieing earlier. I was going to give my life to save Himeno's life. Did Himeno make it? I asked myself. Please, let Himeno had lived and my sacrifice had been for nothing.
I saw white boots coming my way as I still lay on the floor. White boots? I thought. It couldn't be, could it? It's not Mannen, because he would have a smaller shoe size. I glanced up and saw the last person I thought it could be. "Sasame? How did you?" I asked a little confused.
"Himeno," I heard Takako say as she tried to stay calm before she burst into tears. "Himeno brought Sasame back to life."
"She did?" I said. "That's great!"
Takako turned away from Sasame and myself and toward the group of Himeno's family and my fellow Leafé Knights, covered her face, and started crying.
Why is she crying? I asked myself. When I stood up and when Sasame moved aside to get a better view that is when I saw Himeno. "She became the legendary White Prétear all on her own?" I asked in disbelief.
Himeno was lying down on the pink flowers. She was surrounded by most of her loved ones. I saw her family, Kaoru, Natsue, Mawata, and Mayune, on one side of her, and I saw the other five Leafé Knights, Goh, Kei, Mannen, Hajime, and Shin, at the base of her feet weeping.
I made a fist with my both of my hands as I walked up to her. No, I thought. This couldn't have happened to her. That wasn't her duty as a Prétear, but it was mine as a Leafé Knight. I never got the chance to tell her what I had to say. She had known I wanted to say something to her, but now she will never know what is in my heart.
I heard some of Himeno's family and my fellow Leafé Knights talking, but I couldn't comprehend what they were saying to me or to each other for that matter. I was too wrapped up in my own grief to worry about any and/or all of them.
I kneeled over Himeno. "Himeno," I said, but not remembering talking to her like this, but remembering thinking like this of her. "While I knew what was in my heart, I didn't have the courage to tell you face to face." I lowered my lips to hers. It was just a brush of the lips against each others.
Please, I thought, let this work. Just let her look at me one last time. I want to see my one and only's eyes one last time.
Where had that come from? Sasame? Sasame had told Takako that when she went from princess of disaster to herself again.
Maybe that's where I heard it before, but no, I thought, it came straight from my heart. Oh my, God! I shook my head, because it didn't matter what my head thought anymore of Himeno, and I couldn't turn my head away from the truth anymore. The truth being that I love and am in love with Himeno. I couldn't deny that fact any more than I wanted to, but saying what was in my heart would be a whole another story.
That's when I saw Himeno open her eyes and smile up at me. "Hayate," she whispered a little hoarse. I knew I was the first person she saw kneeling over her.
My eyes blurred a bit. Thank you, God! I thought. "Himeno," I finally said as I gathered her in my arms. I love you, Himeno.