Thank you once again everyone who has been reviewing this fic! The reviews mean so much to a writer since they help let the writer know how much they might like a story or hate it or might even give helpful hints. This is actually my second EscaFlowne story if I hadn't told you that already and so far I seem to be getting most of the names right which is a good thing. I might have said this before but it's a reminder for those of you who seems to think that violence will get the writer to write more. IT WON'T WORK: coughs: Sorry I'm hyper at the moment and well sugar + writing, it can do some strange things to you if you know what I mean. O.o Well anyway, enough of my rambling and on with the story!
P.S. Advance warning! This is a much nicer version then what I had in mind for this chapter.
CHAPTER NINE
When Hitomi woke up, she found her alarm clock blaring off at 7:00 am and the sun was shining through her bedroom window. She moaned as it was time for her to get up and her thoughts quickly went to the dream. She had been swept away back to Gaea, was poisoned and lost her voice, had then later on been married to Van and was sent back here after they just got married. Was it all just a dream? She wondered the dream felt so strangely real and she wondered why it felt as if it actually happened. She was wearing her normal pajamas which consisted of a pair of night pants and a matching shirt. There was no wedding gown or any thing else in the duffle bag, and no rings on her finger. She sighed at the sad dream and looked up at the sky, the sun had just risen and there was no sight of Gaea in sight. Then again, she had searched for it five years since she had returned to Earth from Gaea the first time. Why did she have to go through these pains of regret of ever leaving?
"Hitomi! Come down and eat breakfast!" Hitomi heard her mother shout, she wondered why she dreamt that her family had died in the car accident. Such strange dreams she had when she was under pressure. When she walked down stairs, now fully dressed in a blouse and a skirt, she sat down at the breakfast table with the rest of her family, she frowned to see that her father had already left.
"You slept in late today Hitomi-Chan." Mrs. Kanzaki said cheerfully as she put down two waffles on Hitomi's plate.
"I had a strange dream." Hitomi replied. "It felt so real though isn't that strange?" Hitomi said and then suddenly stood up and hugged her mother once her mother had put the hot pan down. Mrs. Kanzaki looked at her daughter strangely.
"Is something wrong?" Mrs. Kanzaki asked.
"In my dream…" Hitomi started to say as she choked back the tears. "Everyone had died in a car accident." Hitomi said. "It was my fault because Otou-san (father) was mad at me and you two where fighting about the time when I was…" She searched for words to describe her absence. "Away."
Hitomi's mother pinched her arm which made Hitomi break free of the hug and rub her arm. "Ouch!" Hitomi said and smiled.
"You are wide awake. Is there anything else to this dream?" Mrs. Kanzaki asked.
"Remember how I told you of that strange place? I was kind of forced to since Amando and Yukari opened their big mouths and told you that I had been swept away by a strange pillar of light and was ridding on a weird dragon remember?" Hitomi asked and Mrs. Kanzaki stared at her with a half understanding look on her face. "I dreamt that I was taken back to that world, back to Gaea and back to Van." Hitomi said sadly.
"You miss that boy that much don't you, Hitomi?" Mrs. Kanzaki asked and Hitomi sighed. "If I stayed I would have missed you and caused you and Otou-san much grief." Hitomi said. "But if I stayed, I wonder sometimes what would happen between me and Van."
"Firsts loves are always the hardest." Mrs. Kanzaki said and it was at that moment Mamoru (I think that's Hitomi's brother's name, correct me if I'm wrong.) came in the kitchen. He was now the age of fifteen, the same age that Prince Chid would be.
"Are you two talking about boys again? Gross!" Mamoru said in disgust as he sat down.
"I don't have to say anything about you kissing all over that girl, what's her name?" Hitomi snapped and Mrs. Kanzaki turned on her youngest child.
"Kissing girls already Mamoru-chan? Do I have to have your father talk to you about that again?" Mrs. Kanzaki asked with her eyes narrowed on her son.
"No Okaa-san!" (mother) Mamoru cried.
Hitomi sat down and started to eat the waffles that where on her plate, she finished eating and then kissed her Okkasan on the cheek and Mamoru-chan who was still being a brat but she didn't care, she was glad that they where alive.
"Hitomi," Mrs. Kanzaki said before Hitomi got too far away and Hitomi walked back to her okaasan. "What is it okaasan?" Hitomi asked.
"If you can find a way to go back to him, I'm alright with that. I just want to see you happy, I don't want you to do what it is that you tried to do two years ago alright?" Mrs. Kanzaki asked and Hitomi nodded. Two years ago, she had tried to kill herself since she was suffering from deep depression. Her grandmother had died and Yukari was too far away to talk to, her father had become to call her a liar and started to distrust her since that time she was gone and her mother was the only one she could trust. But you couldn't tell your mother about the man you loved, and it wasn't like you could just call him on the phone to tell him how you felt or get together, he lived a planet away.
Van woke up that morning and couldn't seem to get Hitomi out of his mind. She was the only thing that he could think about but yet she wasn't there. She would never be there. Five years had past and Van had spent a lot of his past five years rebuilding Fanelia to its old glory. It was almost back to its original state, to how he remembered it as a child. There where still parts of the country that needed work, but it wouldn't take any more then another full moon cycle and a half at least to get it done. He got dressed and scrambled up on to the roof before any one could see or stop him, he didn't feel like messing with his advisers today. He sat on the roof for what felt like hours and just stared up at the Mystic Moon.
"Your thinking about her again, aren't you Van-Sama?" Merle's voice suddenly asked and Van just sat up and looked at his child hood friend.
"I don't know what your talking about." Van lied but could tell that it didn't fool Merle.
"DON'T LIE!" Merle snapped and Van's eyes fell to the roof beneath him. "I know when your thinking about her Van-Sama, you always get that strange look in your eyes. Haven't you tried to contact her?" Merle asked and Van just sighed.
"I've been too scared to." Van replied almost too low for Merle's ears to pick up. "What if she's moved on after all this time?" Van asked. "She kept telling me that she's fine but, I don't know." Van said trying not to loose it completely. "I know that it's a strange obsession, even for a king it's a strange obsession." Van said.
"Love is a strange obsession." Merle replied. "I was in love with you ever since we where little Van-Sama and you never noticed me." Merle said and Van just looked at the floor shamefully. "I guess like you could have called it an obsession since I was so in love with you but you never noticed. I'm not using this as a guilt trip Van-Sama, I'm just using it as an example, since I have learned that I will never be loved that way by you."
"I'm sorry." Van apologized.
"I said not to worry about it." Merle snapped. "My point is, is that love does strange things to people." Merle explained. "And no one does why, you seem to loose that think before you act instinct."
"How would you know all of this Merle?" Van asked and Merle blushed.
"I've well been in love with you for a long time, but I'm not any more and when I was in love, I use to act strange around you and when other women got close to you, even just if it was a friendship thing I'd go crazy." Merle admitted blushing by her embarrassment. "You use to do something similar when Hitomi and Allen where together but it wasn't as open."
Van smiled at Merle. "Thanks Merle." Van said as he looked at his adopted younger sister.
"Your welcome Van-Sama." Merle said. "Remember, Hitomi once said that if two people share the same emotion, it should be returned." Merle said having had said that times and times before. "Perhaps she still loves you Van-Sama, how would you know unless if you never tried."
"Their looking for me again aren't they?" Van asked as he took hold of the fruit that Merle handed him and he watched as Merle nodded as he took a bite out of the fruit.
"Yes Van-Sama, they are." Merle replied and Van just smiled at his friend. "You haven't given them away my spot now have you?" He asked and Merle shook her head.
"Thanks." Van said once again. "For keeping my secret and the fruit."
"No problem." Merle replied smiling happily.
Dictionary:
Okaasan - mother( there is more then one way to say mother but this is the one that I am using.)
Otousan - father (Like mother, there is more then one way to say father in japanese so I am using this version)
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