Fragile Hearts
~Holding your hand in mine~
An original Fanfiction by: Punky Insomniac
I see you beside me in the dark
Tonight's unlike any other night
As I sit and watch you sleep
I get the courage to be exactly to be who I want to be
The person standing next to you
Tonight is unlike any other night
Because I know for a fact with you
I am not alone.
Disclaimer:
I do not claim to own Fragile Dreams or it's characters, those belong to Xseed games, nintendo, and Kentaro Kawashima. I just didn't like the ending, love Seto and Crow as a couple, and like to write fanfictions. So I made this. Enjoy~
"I love how even when I'm with my uppity high strong feminist friends you can go to a high class party in a batman shirt, and to me it's the fancies cutest thing I've ever seen."
Chapter 3
Beside me
Days pass so quickly that life itself is constantly shifting and turning. Nothing ever stays the same as yesterday. It always changes so fast it could make those with a fragile heart have a break down. Because the world is cruel, happiness never stays, it is there for a short time and then darkness will always take its toll. Paradise will always end one way or another just like the human race will soon enough… Back in those days before the human's were added to the endangered species list I had a hold of this concept. Happiness came to me on those fateful nights with him lost and swept away in the light of a meteor that blasted across my dark sorrowed sky and disappeared leaving only a fuzzy picture of the bursting light painted itself inside my very being, the never fading light lost itself within me with its colors of every kind beauty that made my heart feel that light and color like never before lost in the middle of the eternal night then fade back to that dark sorrow that was my life.
I sighed as we climbed the stairwell down through the mall Seto, now walking on his own feet, lagged a bit behind me and I lagged a bit behind Ren. Who continued to shock me more and more with her abilities as a blind girl, I mean really? She can walk down stairs and draw? What the hell?
She was even somewhat graceful. She skipped, almost glided, down the stairwell like a precise dancer on ice. It looked almost impossible for someone handicapped by thin skates to glide across something so fragile, with such a graceful air, and dancing and swirling and pivoting their body in the exact movements. Everything so well planned. Ren was like that. Handicapped by blindness and yet she held a correct posture at all times, walking, running, skipping, she was always graceful like she knew where she was going and she knew the right way to hold herself until she got their. I guess she was one of those people who had it 'all figured out'. Unlike Seto or me, we both sort of went with the flow. Sometimes I wish I did have it all figured out.
I turned my head back to see seto tripping and scudding down each step. I fount it was so much cuter then being graceful and it caused me to smile. He seemed to trip every third step and blushed each time accidently sliding over some steps, half falling and catching himself. Damn he was rather clumsy. "Need help?" I laughed meanly.
He blushed looking up at me with deep bright eyes "Nah I think I got it. Sorry to slow everyone down."
I stopped walking a moment waiting for Seto to catch up so we could walk side by side "You aren't slowing us down." I playfully punched his narrow shoulder as he neared me "You're the life of this party." He smiled at me even though I was positive he had no idea what I meant. But I thought I'd just smile back and leave it at that as I carefully took his breakable soft hand in my gloved one.
His cheeks lit up but he held his soft little smile as he nuzzled my shoulder virtually no space between us as we walked down the last two flights of stairs to catch up to an impatient Ren waiting by a vacant hall.
I'm glade she couldn't see me, and Seto didn't much bother to look up, I was smiling like a total idiot.
Her ear twitched as she heard us coming down the last flight of stairs "It's about time" she said, her voice a little empty like the locker filled hallway beside her.
"Sorry to keep you waiting Princess Ren." I remarked with an eye roll. Ren responded by glaring in my direction and Seto pinched my arm "Be nice." He scolded. I sighed throwing my head back a little with another eye roll "Whatever let's find some Double A's and get the Hell out of here. I'd hate to have to fight anything with my bare hands… though I do have supper human strength so that may not be much of a problem for me."
Seto blushed unstitching his hand from mine "Oh yeah I forgot!" He jumped forward grabbing the suit case on my belt taking my hip with him making him blush and repeatedly apologize as I laughed and unlocked the case from said clothing. Though I found the action hard feeling slightly excited from Seto jerking my hip. But shrugged off the sexual tension sense I didn't remember much about what sex was and why it had anything to do with how I felt about Seto. Now that I mentioned it, what was sex? I shook my head pushing the notion of finding out in the back of my mind, who really cares? I thought as I handed Seto the brown accessory that had provoked such unexplainable feelings.
Seto took the case and laid it on the white table off to the side opening the carrier and showing us the items inside. Which included some mint looking candies, tuna cans, a cross bow, a katana and a steel pole.
"These could definitely come in handy" I chided.
Ren walked over to wear she heard Seto walk to "What are you two looking at?"
"The weapons I collected over the journey" Seto half sang "Crow reminded me we aren't the only ones here and we could run into something dangerous. So here" He handed her the pole and she took it hesitantly "I figure since you can't see I shouldn't give you anything with a blunt or sharp end" she nodded not offended but looking almost relieved Seto thought of her condition.
Seto then turned to me "So which do you want?"
I thought a moment and grabbed the Katana, I liked the crossbow but Seto was so fragile it'd be better to give him a distant range weapon and let me be on the front lines.
Seto smiled and took the crossbow letting me take back the suitcase and reattaching it to my belt. "So we ready to get going?" I inquired and Seto and Ren nodded signaling they were indeed ready so we gathered our belongings and set out to walk through the hallways.
For awhile we didn't have any problems as we made our way through the supply room and other halls and rooms filled with boxes, a few spooky green letters here and there but nothing to fret over.
We soon found our way out of the stock rooms no problem and made our way through to a basement area that had a door saying "Goodbye" in white letters off to the side; exit once shined brightly above it but now laid their unlit. The door must have lead to the parking garage. But there was no need to go their yet so we distance ourselves from the door we came from that read "Employs Only"
This room was very small compared to what I could remember of other rooms in the mall. It was grayed and cobwebbed over with busted snack and soda machines lining the walls up to the unmoving escalators "So where do these malls hold the batteries?" Ren inquired as we walked up those none working escalators. "Well we just made our way to the actual shopping district" I answered climbing up the grooved stairs making my way to said shopping district. I looked over at Ren and Seto whom looked at me for guidance as we stood in the tiled cross roads of what once was a mall. "Now we just need to find a store that says 'Big lot's' or 'Yuki Semi TV's" For if I correctly remember I saw batteries there a couple times."
Suddenly something caught the burnets eye and Seto scurried over to a wall that crumbled by some stairs in the middle of the cross roads.
"I'm amazed I missed this" he exclaimed as his pale fingers reach out into the crumbling moon light and snatched a paper pinned to said wall. Ren and I walked over to him to see the focus of his excitement.
"That's the malls map" I proclaimed, namely for Ren. She smiled slightly "Then we can find the batteries easier?" she then inquired "Hell yeah" I answered as I studied the map Seto held out in front of his chest.
The mall was laid out on the piece of off white paper as blue, green, pink, purple, and orange squares. All the squares had the name of the store in Japanese inside them. Underneath the lay out of squares was a map key.
Blue= Electronics
Green= Home improvement
Pink= Kid's/family
Purple= Clothing
Orange= Books
There was only two Electronic stores 'Yuki's' as I had assumed and 'Whyne's. "Well The closest one is Yuki's" I scrutinized, after all it was just around the corner "So we should go there first." I stated a little flatly.
Seto nodded and put the map away strapping it to his belt. After which I took the pale hand in mine causing my Brown haired companion to blush, which only encouraged me more. "Come on, lets get moving" I smiled as I lead the way along the crumbling roads, in which we where careful to walk across
I guess ever since Seto defeated Shin the ghosts took a hike…
Of course I spoke to soon as we suddenly heard high pitch wailing as we stepped upon the tiled floors of the shopping department of the mall. Seto tensed cowering slightly "I guess we got company." I pouted my lips in thought as we walked up the non working escalator stairs, they were banshees, I just knew it. 'They were…' a shiver went down my spin as I heart another high pitched wail, then a sick laugh… 'Very creepy things.'
Yeah… I haven't posted in awhile, but I started writing and this is what I got, I'll write the fight scene next chapter. Sorry for the delay and the short chapter. Review?