FLCL Overloaded: Genesis
Disclaimer: I do not own FLCL.
AN: This is the last chapter of Genesis and Samejima Mamimi has to make a choice now...before she gets someone hurt. Will she choose Naota or Tasuku?
Chapter 3: For Love of the Game
'Everything she did...was for love of the game...'
"Mamimi...where, where are you?" he called through the darkness, looking for Mamimi-san. He opened his eyes and realized that he was back at home, in his bed. He went downstairs and found Mamimi sitting there, watching the TV all alone. "Mamimi!"
"Oh -- hey there, Naota," she murmured sleepily. He sat beside her and snuggled into her side, remembering how she had held them earlier that day. "Tasuku and your dad said I could stay here tonight. I'm supposed to watch you because Tasuku went out of town for the weekend and won't be back until Monday night. So, I told them I would watch you. Is that ok, Naota?"
"Yeah, sure, Mamimi," Naota said, snuggling down beside her as she pulled him into her warm embrace as she fell on the couch, onto her side. He moved in to fit with her, comfortably. She smiled. "Thank you, Mamimi."
"No worries, Naota."
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The next morning, Naota woke up alone, just as he had the night before. He felt weird on the inside, almost like something wasn't sitting right with him. He heard the distant sizzling of a frying pan from the kitchen and thought his Grandpa was in there cooking something. He went into the kitchen and saw Mamimi-san cooking away and she had a rice ball in her mouth, clenched between her teeth carefully. When she saw Naota, she smiled at him, her eyes bright with joy.
"Hello, Mamimi-san," Naota said, smiling at her gently. She walked over to him, the hot frying pan at arm's length from her, and kissed his forehead.
"Naota, breakfast will be ready soon, k?"
"Alright."
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"What do you mean you have to leave for America?" she screamed into the phone, tears streaming down her face as she listened to the cries of her boyfriend. "And for some silly game? What the hell! What about us?"
"Mamimi-san, calm down please -- I'll only be gone for a while," he said. She began to cry even harder, realization now setting in. He was leaving her for some game. "And then maybe you would want to move out here with me later."
"And leave Mabase? Are you insane? This is my home, Tasuku, and it's your home too, you moron! How dare you even mention something as absurd as that? I am from Mabase and I will remain in Mabase forever."
"Fine. Stay there all your life if you want. We can have a long distance relationship, right?"
"Those never work out, Tasuku."
"Ours is different, Mamimi-san," Tasuku said gently. "I promise."
Ok...Takun."
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Mamimi was sitting under the bridge again, her legs pulled to her chest. She looked so demure, so peaceful. She was innocent for that one moment, and never again. She had been crying earlier, remembering her conversation with Tasuku a few days earlier. She hadn't seen Naota since then. She was too afraid of what she would see in his eyes.
But he somehow managed to find her...
"Where is my brother? Where is Tasuku, Mamimi-san?" Naota asked later that week. I haven't seen him around in a while. My dad is back, so where is Tasuku? Have you seen him?"
"He's gone, Naota."
"What? Where did he go, Mamimi?" Naota asked, coming to sit beside her on the lake.
"He went to America --," she barely stuttered out, tears threatening to spill once more. She sighed deeply and looked Naota in the face. But then she saw him, she saw Tasuku in his face. Naota was Tasuku. "Tasuku went to America, Naota..."
"Why are you crying then? He's gone now and we can be together, can't we Mamimi-san? Can't we be together now, Mamimi-san?" Naota begged, shaking her shoulders until she looked at him. He saw the emptiness in her eyes that were once filled with love. Now she was just empty. "Mamimi, talk to me please."
"He made me promise that I would try to upkeep a long distance relationship with him," Mamimi said. She was on the verge of tears. Naota let her go, seeing she was inconsolable.
"But those things never work out, Mamimi... You know that --."
"Yeah, I do, Takun," she murmured.
"What did you say?"
"I said I know, Takun."
"Hm."
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AN: that's it. and before any of you say 'Mamimi was OOC' -- that was the whole point. this happened before the series, well, that's my POV. So naturally, the Mamimi we know and this one are different. She and Naota changed over time. Now review for me and I will start devising a sequel to FLCL, my way. Take a vote...plz. I need the reviews. my morale is so very low...