Disclaimer: Beyblade is own by Takao Aoki. Not me, I only own this fanfic but none of the characters are mine, except the long-haired Japanese girl in this story...
[Warning: Still with the grammar mistakes and a little OOC-ness...I think. Enjoy!]
{PART THREE: The Truth Reveals (1)}
It has been 2 week since the incident that almost breaks Hiromi's heart passes by, and now the young Japanese brunette had almost forgot about it. She decide to not believe what she had heard and keep on moving, although Hiromi notices that there's no news from Kai after he sent the message to her. But, Hiromi didn't worry much about the two-toned blue haired beyblader since she knew very well that Kai can take care of himself. Something else is more important than Kai; her date with Takao this evening...
"Oh, no! Oh, no! What should I wear? What should I wear?" mumbles Hiromi as she explores every single detail of her closets. Her clothes are everywhere in the room, since she just throws away anything that she thought might not suitable for her date. Girls...
"No, no! This makes me look fat!"
"Yuck, I look hideous in this!"
"There's no way I'm going to wear that!" Hiromi threw a dress across the room and the dress landed on her table. She continues searching and suddenly shrieks.
"Yes, it's perfect! Why I haven't worn this before? Now, all I need is to find a matching shoe for this dress..."
As Hiromi was about to move to her shoe rack, suddenly she heard a vibration came from her mobile phone and storms towards the table. Unfortunately, she accidentally steps on one of her dress and fall down. Her head hit on something hard, and Hiromi groans. She touches her head and look in front of her.
"Huh?" Hiromi said when she saw a medium-sized, wooden crafted box in front of her. She slowly sat down and pull the box near her. A thin smile appears at her lips. 'How on earth did I forget about this?' she said in her heart. Hiromi opens the box, and stared at all the object contained inside. Most of the stuff in the box are pictures from the time when she was with the Bladebreakers, later known as G-Revolution. 'The precious moments in my life...the time when all of us are still together as a team...'
She took out a picture frame. The picture was taken after they manage to safe the world from BEGA by winning the battle between Justice 5. It was supposed to be a picture of the winning team, but thanks to Takao's invitation, all of the team under BBA and the Justice 5 joined them. A warm feeling crawl inside Hiromi, and she admits it that she missed the moment.
Hiromi put the picture frame back into the box, and her eyes caught on a piece of crumpled paper. She took out the paper, read it and once again a smile appears. 'This love-note...Hm, I guess Takao was the one who wrote this, but he never spoke about this before.' The girl let out a sigh 'Maybe he was too shy to tell me...'
The brunette put the paper back inside the box and closes the box. She stood up and took a quick glance at the wall clock, then quickly rushes towards her shoe rack. After a while, the Japanese girl is fully ready for her date tonight.
Hiromi once again look at the wall clock and whispers to herself 'Well, better get going or I'll be late!' Hiromi walk towards her study table, took her mobile phone, put it inside her handbag and she steps out from her house. She and Takao promise that they will met each other at the park before they went to a restaurant, and because of that Hiromi decide not to ride her car since the bey park is not far from her house. She started to walk towards her destination.
And forget all about the incoming message at her phone...
Soft breeze start to flew around Hiromi when she was about to arrived at the park. The brunette quickly look up. "It's going to start raining again?" she groans. "Oh, please, please, PLEASE don't ruin my special moment today! Let me have it and enjoy the time of my life!" beg Hiromi, who is still staring above while clasping her hand, praying (sort-of). But, then her eyes caught on something in front and she stop walking. A young business man was running past Hiromi while holding a suitcase at his left hand and a cell phone at his right hand.
"Yes, yes! I'll be there as fast as I can!" muttered the business man at his phone before put it in his suitcase. He didn't realize that the girl he just passed by is observing him. Hiromi felt like she's forgot something, but she can't remember what is it. She shook her head and continues walking but the curiosity started to bug her.
"Hiromi," she said to herself ",you're on a date so forget about that okay? Think about the happy moment that you'll be having soon!" The brunette turn left and went inside the park, but there's no sign of Takao. The only thing that she could see right now is a group of young beyblader who are busy fighting with each other.
She look left and right, but still the navy-haired beyblader is nowhere to be seen. Hiromi then stop searching and settles herself in on of the bench that was located in a hidden part of the park. "Huh! Typical Takao! Always late in everything even on our date. Now, where had he gone to right now?" grump Hiromi and crossed her arms. The brunette throws her gaze at one side of the park, feeling annoyed and a little worry about what will happen sooner (or later).
Then, it happens.
"So, what do you think?" a faint male's voice said suddenly.
Hiromi's ears pricks up, and quickly look around her. She stands up and turn around, trying to find the owner of the voice. But, the weird part is that the male's voice sounds pretty familiar to her. Questions start to appears at her mind as she struggles to remember where she had heard it before. Then, the voice appears again but this time, it came from behind her.
Hiromi look behind, and her eyebrows twitch. The only thing that she can see is the bench and a small forest that lead to a beautiful small lake. Not everyone in the city knows the existence of the lake, only a few had discover it. That includes herself, when Takao once brought her there on their previous date...
'Wait! That's it! It's Takao's voice! No wonder I felt like I've heard it before!' suddenly Hiromi shriek in her heart. She started to run towards the forest, following the voices that sounds like a couple of people talking to each other.
The voice grew louder as Hiromi came closer to the direction where it came from. She can hear Takao's voice very clear now, although sometimes his voice sounds like whispering. A question came to her mind, they didn't promise to meet at the lake, but why Takao is there?
Finally Hiromi met an exit to the lake, and she let out a relief sigh. At least she's not lost in the forest, even though its quite smaller than the real rainforest...and Hiromi storms out from the woods.
"Takao, why are you here? I thought that-" Hiromi's words suddenly vanished. Her eyes grew big when she saw what is happening in front of her...
Takao's lips is on a long-haired, young Japanese girl's mouth. Closing their eyes, everyone can tell that they were enjoying their kiss and didn't realize that someone is watching them.
Hiromi froze. Her strength suddenly vanishes into the air, and her mind told her to get out from there as fast as she could. But, somehow all her muscles became paralyzed. She can't move her feet or her hands, and somehow her eyes seems to disobey her mind's order to look away from the scenery in front of her. Her whole body suddenly became heavier. Her grips starts to weaken...
...and her handbag slipped from her hand, fell towards the dead leaves causing a rustling sound loud enough to warn Takao and his 'little friend' about their 'spectator'. They quickly broke the kiss and was shock to see a brunette with tears falling from her delicate ruby eyes, especially Takao.
Like a thunder of energy had just zapped her, Hiromi quickly realized from her frown. She grabbed her handbag and ran back inside the forest. Now her tears are running at her cheek to her chin. She felt like everything were snatched from her heart and nothing was left for her.
She was about to arrive at the park's main entrance when suddenly her steps was disturbed. She felt something gripping her arm tightly, not giving her any chances to speed up or break free. Hiromi look behind, and her ruby eyes came across Takao's. Right instance, anger and sadness flow through her heart. Hiromi start to struggle to let herself free from Takao's grip, but it was hopeless.
"Let go of me!" shouted Hiromi while pulling her arm. Slowly, she broke into tears and start to sobs softly.
"Hiromi, calm down!" Takao ordered.
"How can I calm down when the truth is already shown in front of me? I should have trusted to what had been told to me before!" answered Hiromi in her tears. Takao slowly releases Hiromi's arm and the brunette then buried her face in her palms.
"What had been told to you before?" Takao echoed.
"Yes! Two weeks ago, I met Kai and he told me that you might be cheating on me. I yelled back at him, telling him that you are nothing like what he said but...why Takao?" Hiromi asks "I never thought that it's true...Why did you lie to me?"
Takao was about to answer but was cut by Hiromi's word "I put all my trust, my love to you since that day you saved me. I thought that you really meant your words when you admit your feelings to me."
The navy-haired boy stared at the brunette, before let out a heavy sigh. "I meant it when I said that back then, because I really had fall for you but the feeling somehow vanished after a year we've been together." he paused for a moment, before continuing his words "And, after a while. I realized that what I had done before was...a complete mistake."
"Then..." ask Hiromi, trying to hold her tears back "...if it's a mistake, why are you still pretending that you loved me?"
"Let's just say that, when I saw how happy you are, I felt like it is just not right for me to tell you..."
Hiromi snapped "And, by letting me discover you kissing with some other girl by myself is right to you?"
Takao became speechless. Hiromi then continues "Having me discover by my own is more painful than you think!" she growled.
"Well, you can't blame everything that is happening now on me, you know! If Kai had not been telling you about this, you probably wouldn't find out and we can continue with our prefect, normal life."
At this time, Hiromi felt like her feet was giving up. She could not stand anymore of this...With a heavy and broken heart, she slowly took a look on Takao's face and said
"I guess...this is the end..."
"Yup, no more us...Bye then." said Takao, coldly before walk towards the long-haired girl, leaving the brunette heartbroken, watching him with the long-haired girl.
"What took you so long?" asks the girl loudly. Takao answered it's was nothing and they left.
Hiromi stared at the couple until they are out from her sight. Once again, she broke into tears when she realized what had just happened to her. She turn to the front, and ran out from the park.
The magnificent yellowish evening sky suddenly changes it's color to the shades of grey, almost looks like it was symbolizing the brunette's feeling. A thunder was heard not long after that, almost sounds like it's mourn for what had happened to her...
[If you notice that there are many mistakes or typos in the story, I'll let you know one thing. I finished writing this chapter at 2 in the morning, and I'd started to become all drowsy and sleepy until I didn't realize what am I writing. Sorry I took a very long time to update this and I seek for your apology if this chapter sucks. My computer is acting like a cuckoo and once again that stupid 'R.O.O.I Syndrome' attacked me. Well...three down, two more to go!]
~Duchess AnimeLove
P/S =
a) 'R.O.O.I Syndrome' is a short form for 'Running/Ran. Out. Of. Idea Syndrome.'
b) The next chapter will be updated in around March or so since I will not be allowed to use my computer (even in the weekends) for the next couple of week because of this small test held by my school. Wish me luck...
