Cure Narrative 53: There

Season: Hugtto Precure

Characters: Emiru A.

Summary: Love. Forever and always. Remembering us the way we were. Yours still.

Please note:

1. The dates in this chapter are written based on the assumption that Hugtto's events started in spring 2018 and ended right after New Years in 2019

2. Japanese school years start in April

3. Some parts may be confusing, especially the third part in this fic because it involves the question of whether there is one or multiple timelines in Hugtto. So if there's anything you don't understand, even if it's just one specific sentence, ask me. Comments or pm, I don't mind at all. I will be both grateful for your feedback and happy to answer you ^^

11 January 2019

Dear Ruru,

This is dated a week or so after your departure back to the future. How are you doing? These days feel so strange. I guess it can't be helped, we've spent nearly a whole year together after all. Saaya-san noticed how I seem to be dejected all the time and suggested I write a letter to you.

Things over here are peaceful once again. And that's a good thing, my final exams in elementary school are almost upon me, I definitely would not want to mess up. I've been considering enrolling in L'Avenir Academy for a while now, it simply would not do if my grades are not good enough.

I wonder if there's any way to send this letter to you. Maybe I can make a time capsule to put all my letters in and bury it in my family's garden, maybe it will magically appear in this location in the future where you may find it. It's a shame that you can't write back though.

I think I'm feeling a little better now. I'll write again. Thanks for being here for me, Ruru. I'll keep sending letters regularly, alright? ^^

Love,

Emiru

27 April 2020

Dear Ruru,

I bring with me happy news today! With the graduation of the previous vice president, I became the vice prez for our school's Light Music Club! We have quite a few new members this year. Remember the girl I mentioned in last week's letter? She joined as well. Now we have three vocals including me!

I truly think my experience in the Light Music Club will help in my path to become an idol. Our president just decided that we should do more performances, so some of us will go busking starting next month. I can hardly wait!

I rearranged Friends with You a little by the way, let me write down the new lyrics:

There's something I wish to say, I wish you'd hear

Everything that I loved about you

Now our hearts are still connected by a red ribbon

Even now we are forever friends

I recall

(Won't forget)

Your smile and tears

(Anything)

Tell me what's this strange feeling inside?

Moving on, 'cause I know, you're waiting for me

Though it seems you and I can't meet again

Scattered in different times, entirely different worlds

Even so, if we try, overlapping our hearts

Don't you think it'll all be okay?

Even now you're

(Never changing)

right by my/your side

'Cause even now we're connected by a ribbon

Forever and always,

Emiru

15 June 2023

Dear Ruru,

Today is my 16th birthday. And I've been thinking about some things.

I'm not my naive 12-year-old self anymore, Ruru. Where are you?

Is it okay to have faith? Is it okay to still place hope in your promise? What did you mean that day? What did you mean by you would wait for me in the future? Did you only mean that you await the day I become a successful idol? Or did you mean you would watch over another me, a me from your time, who would probably have given up on the guitar without you and the others?

And what of you? How are you faring? How is the future faring? Come to think of it, I never asked you how was the future you returned to? Is it the colourful one we (hopefully) rewritten or the forlorn darkness you once knew? Every day, I am overwhelmed with the fear that it's the latter, the fear that our Precure power was not strong enough to rewrite your future. The fear that you returned to your original time only to suffer again.

If you didn't get to live in a brighter future, then what did we fight for four years ago?

I don't want to think about that, but it just pops up in my mind every now and then. So please… if there's some kind of spectacular technologies you can make use of in the future to send me a sign, to give me an answer, a little bit of reassurance, I implore you to do so.

Tell me, where are you?

Remembering us the way we were,

Emiru

22 October 2030

Dearest Ruru from my past,

It's been quite a while since my previous letter, I've been very busy with my career recently. I have another concert in three days and my new album will be available for sale soon.

Regardless of my job, let me tell you some joyous news! Hana-san finally gave birth yesterday! Hagumi was brought into this world as a healthy little one, Saaya-san ecstatically reported to us. I wonder when can I free up some time to visit Hugtan, after all these years.

Speaking of children, Ruru, I met you again. She's not exactly you, of course, you don't exist in this time. But Dr Traum created her with the same concept in mind, 'an android that would grow in both body and heart'. She's a child now, but surely she will grow up just like you. I'm tasked with looking after her (I volunteered), and I'll make sure to do my best. I'll shower her with love as if she's my own daughter. I'll give her the warmth you never had the luxury to grow up in.

I'm not expecting her to fill the hole in my heart. It wouldn't be fair, to her or to you. She is not you. She will play a different role in my life than you. I truly thought about everything, and I acknowledge the fact that we are never going to meet again. Being separated by time is a distance farther than anything I could conceive of all those years ago.

But I don't mind anymore, we both have our own future to pursue, no matter where you are. We both have our own loved ones to tend to. We both have our own music to spread. I'm okay now, I'm all grown up now. Even if your promise back then was a white lie, I understand those were words to motivate me who was about to cease moving forward.

Thank you, for being there for me back then, for being my strength even now. And I wish you the best as well, wherever you are, whatever your situation looks like, I believe you can do anything, you can be anything.

Fure, fure, Ruru.

Yours still,

Emiru

End of Chapter 53

A/N: Yes you can actually sing to Friends with You with those lyrics. It's nowhere near as good as when I pour all my effort into rewriting English lyrics for my actual song covers on YouTube though. Honestly I'd love to sing it but there is no instrumental track for Friends with You T^T