Note to all readers: I am currently on vacation, a cruise to be exact. Eh, since I haven't updated in a long time, I'll just give you guys an omake chapter. This was written in less than an hour! And I don't have any time to really check this since internet on a cruise ship is expensive! But I hope you guys will enjoy this chapter anyway!
OMAKE ALERT! OMAKE ALERT! OMAKE ALERT!
THIS CHAPTER WILL NOT CORRELATE OR AFFECT ANY FUTURE CHAPTER IN THIS STORY!
I do not own Love Hina or Haibane Renmei. But I do own some waffles…that have recently moved through my esophagus into my stomach.
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Keitaro was happy. He was happy with his life in Spain. After being constantly hunted down by the Mol Molian secret service upon the command of Kaolla Su, he finally found peace in Spain.
The fact that he only spoke 3 words of Spanish didn't really hinder him from having a good life in Spain. (Those words were "No hablo espanol.") He saved plenty of money from his work in Hinata Sou, and let's not forget all the pictures he sold on the internet (you know what kind of pictures we're talking about here).
Although he wasn't in Seville or Barcelona, being on the border near France gave him plenty of opportunity to work on his skiing "skills". He found a new love in an old worn-out cabin that he bought the moment he laid eyes on it. Keitaro was constantly fixing and improving that old cabin without tire.
It wasn't the most luxurious of lives, but it was rich in ways other than money. He found it a bit colder than Japan, but it didn't bother him since he had experience in the winter of Hokkaido.
10:35 AM, Sometime in January, on planet Earth, Europe, Spain, Keitaro's cabin, 301 millimeters from cabin front door.
'If your nose stings when you take a deep breath, it means its winter.'
Keitaro heard that a long time ago. It was a faint memory; he thought it came from a girl in some town he visited for a short time. His memories of that town were fuzzy; when he tried to remember anything about that town the same dream kept coming to him.
The dream was a strange one; nothing like what he usually dreamt in his sleep. He was a crow, flying high in the sky. He then saw something white, falling. Keitaro flew over to investigate. It turned out to be a girl, falling from the sky. Keitaro couldn't see the girl's face clearly, but she was dressed in a white nightgown.
Keitaro, as the crow, tried to grasp onto her gown and lift her up, pumping his wings up and down. He heard the girl try to say something. She said something about thanks for helping her, but it was useless. Keitaro let go and saw her drop, falling towards the ground.
His eyes were filled with tears each time he woke up.
Does the future come to you? Do you make your own fate? Keitaro wasn't sure, but he would find out.
Keitaro was on the 10th floor of an apartment building in Spain. He saw a cute girl with short brown hair looking out at the Madrid skyline.
Anybody could tell that the girl was thinking hard about something. Her eyes were focused; not on an object, but on a thought. Her breathing was slightly irregular, as if she ran from the 5th floor up to the 10th floor. The way the sun's light showered upon her made her look as if she was an angel, but not quite.
Keitaro quickly shook those thoughts out of his head and guarded his face with his arms and hands. Apparently, his old habits of trying to protect himself from the wrath of Naru and/or Motoko were not gone yet.
He started to turn away, but some movement caught his eye. The girl climbed up onto the railing, her balance was the only thing from dropping safely onto the floor or falling a few hundred feet to her almost certain death.
He could only stare at the girl for a few moments. Then his reaction kicked in.
Keitaro started to run to the girl, yelling, and "Don't do it!"
The girl turned her head and smiled, Keitaro stopped in his tracks. Light showered her beautiful face as she said, "Arigatou, but there's nothing else that you will be able to do. Gomen." Then the girl fell as gracefully as a swan down to the ground.
Keitaro rushed to the railing, almost jumping over to try and save the girl. Realizing he couldn't do anything, Keitaro could only cry.
Keitaro was at his cabin, shocked by the sudden suicide of the girl. He could barely bring himself up to do anything besides the basic necessities. Getting firewood, water, opening cans of food, and living in one room.
He was sad and depressed. He knew he could have done something to change the girl's fate, and that girl could be still alive right now. But his clumsiness and delayed thinking led to the girl's life ending in a horrible way.
Keitaro was out getting water from the well that was dug out a month ago. His hands couldn't stop shaking for some reason. He started to pull up a bucket full of water, but his foot slipped on the layer of ice on the paving around the well. He was knocked out after his head violently hit the well and Keitaro tumbled in. Only to die of suffocation in the cold winter water.
Is there a way to avoid any fate at all? Is somebody responsible for everything that we do?
The wretched way of human life cannot answer everything, and certainly not these questions.
END OF OMAKE! END OF OMAKE! END OF OMAKE!
Note: Yay for sad endings! If anybody here has not read Megatokyo's Circuity arc, THEN READ IT! Although short, it is a beautiful creation by Fred Gallagher based on Haibane Renmei.
Not quite 1000 words, but good enough for a short side story. REMEMBER! This chapter is not related to the plot of this story at all! This chapter is specifically for people's entertainment while I am on vacation!