My Childhood with You
Chapter 5
~Flash to Future~
Hotaru sat at the tower of her bedroom, looking down at the still-beautiful garden. Snowdrops still bloomed like they had so long ago. Snowflakes danced in the breeze like they did many years ago. Ice butterflies still fluttered around crystal flowers like they did ages ago. Kamui and Subaru were absent from the garden as they should not have been for years and years.
The golden-eyed girl regretted her ignorance and silliness the day Seishiro emerged from the depths of her dark memories and wrecked havoc. She was kneeling on the floor, close to tears, elbows on the windowsill and thinking of the days she enjoyed so much. Hotaru had cried her heart out when Kamui and Subaru left-because of her. And their leaving had been reflected around her.
That night, she had cried freely and her tears spilt on the floor, each one increased the beautiful waves of ice forming, covering the walls and floor. Hotaru was a magical disaster, letting her energy reserves pour out around her, with no care. She had cried since that night, celebrating her brothers' escape as well as mourning over their absence. Now, she stayed alone, in the beautiful, frozen hell she had created for herself and stayed away from the grand piano, or at least, never touching the keys she used to love to tap out melodies on.
~Return to Past~
Kamui waved the scissors around in the air absent-mindedly. He was currently debating on whether or not to snip this certain flower off its stem. Snowdrops, cyclamens, white roses, lavender and lilies were Hotaru's favourite flowers, snipping off one from her little flower garden was on the top of her black list. Akemi did not know this and coincidentally asked Kamui to make a nice arrangement of flowers, if he did not, she would force him into a skimpy maid's dress and order him out to get the same arrangement from the florists' anyway. Naturally, he was highly against that suggestion so he agreed to Akemi's absurd request.
Subaru sat inside, reading a book on the large, black velvet couch and occasionally stealing glances at his twin brother outside that was dangerously waving around a pair of scissors that he might throw explosively somewhere at moment's notice. Deep down, he pitied his brother but was also thoroughly amused, currently forgetting that it may be his turn the next day.
Hotaru was sitting at her grand piano, and Kamui happened to disappear into the spot she couldn't see from her sitting position-which was also where her flower garden was…she paused her elegant playing and stood, entering the white garden where Kamui was kneeling over her garden, "Kamui-chan."
Kamui felt a shiver down his spine and turned, looking up at his sister, "Hi, Hotaru."
"Why are you waving a pair of scissors above my flower garden?"
It was an extremely difficult question and situation to wriggle out of. "Okaa-san told me to make...um, an arrangement of flowers with snowdrops, cyclamens, lavender, lilies and roses,"
Hotaru sighed knelt beside Kamui, no doubt Akemi had included that he wasn't allowed to go out and buy them. "There's a patch of cyclamens in the trees there, you can have two white roses, there's lavender in the trees and by the front door, you'll have to find your own snowdrops, it's easy, as for lilies, have a poke around the stream."
Kamui brightened up when she spoke and he hugged his sister tightly however, when he let go, she had an evil grin on her face, "After you get all the flowers, feel free to hand out the washing, pack away the drying dishes, dust the three bookcases in the study, clear out the cupboard infested with spiders and carry the new miniature plant that arrived by the door this morning to this end of the house."
Author's Note: all the flowers listed don't bloom at the same ^^ but I think they look nice together. And don't flame me for the first bit .