Title: A Strand Colored Red
Genre: Romance/Supernatural
Theme: Mama Higurashi, Week #25
Word Count: 247
Rating: G
Pairing: MamaHigurashi/PapaHigurashi
Summary: She looked at him in awe as the string connecting their fingers shimmered and glowed. When she looked back down at it though it had mysteriously disappeared. A strand colored red, connecting them by fate.
Higurashi Ikuko was just a little girl, holding tightly to her father's hand at the train station as she hummed a cute little child's song to herself. Her parents smiled at her placidly.
As she looked about, she spotted another child, a year or so older than her, staring at her as he stood by his father's side. He blushed when Ikuko noticed him and looked away hurriedly only to slowly peeked back over at her a moment later.
She waved at him with a giggle and he returned the wave, his cheeks pink. She started in mild shock when she felt a tug on her finger as he waved at her.
Looking at her hand, she found that a red string was tied to it in a neat little bow. The string shimmered a bit as she noticed that one end of the strand led away from her finger, toward the boy. Her gaze followed the strand to the boy where he was investigating an identical red-string bow.
Her mouth opened for a moment in shock, but the train had arrived while they stared at each other and the crowd of people boarding the train obscured their vision as they bustled by. Her parents pulled her aboard the train and she scurried to the nearest window. She spotted the boy still standing outside, looking at her with a mixture of shock and curiosity. Ikuko looked at his index finger automatically but the red string had vanished.