Disclaimer: I don't own any portion of Hana-Kimi. This story is for entertainment purposes only.
We'll always be together. That's what you promised.
We'd been together since we were little. Father kept you as my playmate and friend, but I never knew where you came from. Who your parents were. I wonder if they were some of my father's servants.
I didn't care.
It never mattered to me.
You were my Mizuki and that was all I needed to know.
You were the only one that was always there for me.
Whenever I needed a shoulder or a friend, there you were.
I never thought of you as a servant.
The last time I saw you, you were crying and I was yelling at you.
I couldn't understand why you didn't want to stay with me.
Why you refused Father's offer to go to school with me.
No matter how much I pressed, you wouldn't change your mind.
I stormed away. Left for school.
Didn't speak to you.
Only a month later, Father came and got me from school.
He brought me home and talked to me.
He said you were dead.
That your body had already been taken care of.
He's lying.
I know he is.
He has to be.
How can you be dead?
I fled the room and looked for you.
You have to be here.
Here, in this place that has always been ours. Where we played in the garden for hours as children. Where we dared each other to climb trees. Where we first kissed.
I'll go there.
To the place we first kissed.
I was getting hysterical.
I know that.
Father knocked me out before I could leave the house.
I only woke up a little while ago.
One of the servants had dressed me in my sleeping clothes.
They must have also been assigned to watch over me because they were there in the room with me, but they had fallen asleep.
It was easy to sneak out of the house, to go to the cliff where we first knew each other.
You said, if we ever had a fight, that this would be where we'd meet to make up.
But you're not here.
I've waited and waited.
It will be light soon.
Father will be up soon.
I can't let them find me.
Not until I find you.
Are you really dead?
Can I not find you anywhere in this world?
If I can't find you here, then I will find you there.
In the next world.
I'll follow and find you.
The rocks of the cliff are so cold, and my feet are numb. They feel like lead as I shuffle forward.
The drop is so far down, and the boulders at the bottom are so sharp.
Are you down there?
I'm coming Mizuki.
I step over the edge….