Her song
Meroko stood up on her feet; her long silky pink hair blocking her face and covering her tears. Lowering her hand just a bit
"…Takuto..." She murmured quietly.
With all her anger and poignancy she smacked him across the face. Takuto stumbled backwards, nearly falling down from the force. He stared at her in utter surprise. With tears falling from her face, Meroko phased through the wall of Mitsuki's room flying away as fast as she could.
"Meroko!" Takuto bellowed after the dismal bunny girl.
Then he gave in to the chase, instinctively knowing she would now return. She was nowhere to be found and the glee and love that filled his face was gone. He slammed his fist against a near by tree that was filled with peach blossoms, the vivid rosy pink petals ascended from the tree. A single peach blossom drifted onto Takuto's fist.
"Meroko," he sighed, taking the lonely petal into his hand. "You're my peach blossom, my spring... and I will find you."
Pulling another blossom off of the tree, he set it in his hand.
"And whatever I did wrong, I'll try to--no, I will--set it right!" he said with enthusiasm in his voice.
"Oh will you, Ta-kun?" a sadistic laughter followed the sharp voice of the blonde Shinmigami with the yellow shirt and the dark brownish black vest.
"Izumi…" a fiery expression stretched.
"Heh... and how do you know she hasn't already given upon you Ta-kun?" he smirked his usual sadistic smirk, and shot Takuto's fiery glare right back at him.
"'Cause I..."
"'Cause you?"
"I…"
"You what? You half-wit failure."
"I believe, Izumi… I believe in her and..."
"AND WHAT!" Izumi said, now moving closer to Takuto. "THE POWER OF YOUR LOVE!" his lips met Takuto's and they shared a kiss, much to add to the displeasure of Takuto. Izumi removed himself.
"That the embodied feeling of love such a feeble emotion a tie that can easily be broken. Especially as you waste your time here with me" Izumi's voice was filled with sadistic glee. Takuto looked at this knowing he had lost, but he couldn't give up not this time.
"Goodbye Ta-kun" Izumi vanished with leaving a trace of himself ever being there.
Izumi! Takuto thought. Bastard I don't have time ill deal with you later!
He flapped his wings slightly and flew off in the direction that Meroko did earlier.
Meroko…I'm sorry…
Where are you?
I feel so empty with you not by my side…
Clinging to my arm…
...or hugging me softly…
…come back…
...to me...
The bright light of the summer sun was dimming as the hours passed, with no results. In his head, Takuto could hear was that laughter over and over, Izumi filling his head.
"He just doesn't understand…" Takuto heard a familiar voice in the distance.
Meroko looked down and a small white flower fell near the empty lake she sat across from, she picked the flower from the soft earth.
"He loves me." she plucked a petal of the flower off.
"He loves me not." she repeated her petal plucking actions.
"He loves me."
"He loves me not."
"I love you." he picked the final white petal and embraced her softly.
"Meroko, I'm sorry. I don't know what I did but if you tell me I'll do whatever I can to fix it, I want you and I to be happy. I want you to know that I love you" he said with un-feigned honesty as he looked into her eyes.
" Takuto, I just…never.. could even imagine that... the song you sing to me.. to show your love… is her song." Glistening tears where about to escape her eyes.
Takuto raised a gentle hand and put it over her mouth, gently silencing her. "Shh…."
He held her close as an angelic chorus not of this world escaped from his mouth, this was the sound of love pure intention everything Meroko had wanted to the first time he sang, the warmth of his body his beat heart next to hears it was a moment of sheer bliss.
-End-