30 - Vignette- Post-Game


Gaps

It took her a while to notice.

At first, she's just too shocked at Neku. Shocked at how the moody boy she had spent a week with could have changed so much. It was Beat and Rhyme who had filled her in on the two weeks she missed.

And she's touched that she was important enough to be taken as Neku's entry fee.

Perhaps sentimentality was what clouded her eyes for a while.

As time went on and her vision cleared, she began to be bothered by the fact that not once - not even once - had Neku talked about his partner in the second week. From what she gathered from the Bito siblings, he was the one who turned out to be the Composer. She had heard herself that he was the one who had killed Neku. They couldn't tell her much else.

But she had the feeling that he was must have been someone important, someone more than a Composer to Neku. Every now and again, Neku would just stare up at the sky and she knew that it had something to do with the Composer.

She decided to ask him about it one day. "...What was the Composer like?"

He flinched at her question. "Why?"

"I just...wanted to know what he was like." Seconds passed and she was beginning to regret asking. "I-I mean, he's the one who runs the Game and you got to be his Partner and all so..."

After a painfully long stretch, Neku finally answered. "I don't know. Not really."

And by his tone, Neku had closed the conversation.

She shouldn't really care. It was his business, after all.

The gap of time for those two weeks - she already knew that it could never be made up.

Still, she had hoped that the gap between her and Neku could be lessened. She thought that he was starting to open up to her.

So why did she still feel so far away?


A/N: Tadaa! Happy 6th TWEWY Anniversary everyone! Hope you guys had a good one :) I didn't get to fully watch the Crossover concert, but I'm sure it was great *O* I did upload a TWEWY GMV collab on my channel, so check it out x3 So, about this chapter...I figured Neku would still have some issues over Joshua just betraying him like that and not coming back to visit and all and Shiki was blacked out for two weeks so she can't really understand. This could take place before all my fluffy feels chapters, I guess xD

Anyway, thanks for reading! Review on this special day? :D