AN: Okay, guys, this was was the last one I had planned actually. But because I've gotten some requests for a few more one-shots, they'll be added as bonuses. Still, this is complete and it'll be a while 'till their updated, since I'll be going on a slight hiatus for the time being.
The Little Things
– In the end, that's all that matters.
There are things we barely notice, yet at the end they turn out to be the most important. For a group of friends, they were the little nervous habits they had picked up over the course of their friendships.
Like the many times Isuzu had hit Rudy over the head for doing something stupid. Now, Isuzu was a nice, chatty but timid girl – someone you won't imagine knocking boys over the head. She did do it however, when her worry for that same boy overcome any other rational sense.
As for the quasi-arrogant sorcerer – well, it was funny, really – every time a compliment truly mattered, he'd stutter and blush, like a school-girl with a crush.
Minori still stayed quiet about most things, but the more she trusted the people around her the more she spoke out. Rarely did she mumble into her chin anymore.
Her brother as well, was still the brash young warrior he'd made himself out to be, reckless as ever. Maybe even more so, but Serara was the only one who truly noticed how he carelessly threw himself in front of the enemies to protect one of his party-members.
Serara herself was still in the habit of crying over the smallest things, but nowadays she was too busy smiling. She only cried when she thought she'd failed her closest friends, even though they were from another Guild.
Some of their battles and trials were over and done with, while some still lay ahead of them. In the peaceful times between, they weren't that important at all.
After all, the little things – the bygone halcyon afternoons, the small gestures of affection, the unspoken understandings – were the ones truly mattered.
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