Clannad
In Our Early Days
Heart Chapter 1
The Day I Met Button,
The Day She Calls Out My Name
As everybody hearts opened chapter by chapter...
A New heart slowly begins to be born...
Within the new heart
Is a road
Towards a Miracle
Ryou couldn't help but to stand in the middle of her sister's door way when saw a lump in the middle of the bed, cover in sheets. The lump was of course Kyou, hiding away beneath the bed sheets, hiding herself from society, like a snail. The younger sister sighed to herself before she enters eventually kneeling down in front of the bed and staring at the lump.
"Did hell freeze over yet?" a muffled voice came from the lump on the bed.
"Onee-chan, it's nearly 7:30 in the morning. You're going to be late if you don't get out of bed," the younger one said softy.
"I'm skipping today!"
Ryou eyes widen with her answer.
"But onee-chan. You're the class president; if you skip then you're creditability will be hurt," Ryou replied trying to convince her sister.
"My reputation is destroyed! Who cares about creditability as class president?" Kyou jumped out of her bed sheets, sitting in front of her sister. "You have any idea how humiliate I am? Me, dress up as a bride, and Sunohara dress as a groom! On Tanabata!" she yelled falling back on her bed practically crying. "How in the world did Tomoya get a higher test score on me?" she sobbed.
Ryou made an awkward chuckle as she saw her sister sobbing like child in her bed.
A couple days ago on before Kyou made one of the worst mistakes, which in back then, seem like a genius plan at the time, made a bet with Tomoya. A bet that would backfire, something that will damage her reputation that will not be able to recover.
During her second year as class room president in Hikarizaka High School, with both the infamous delinquents Okazaki Tomoya and Sunohara Youhei cause her many headaches. The two of them were always late and mostly skipped class, and when they don't to either of the two things, they sleep during lesions. This of course put pressure on Kyou from several of her teachers including Koumura, Tomoya's teacher from last year. Of course she had to spend most of her free time, in which she hardly has, to think of ways to keep them from both in line. If she had to choice, she quickly drop Sunohara, and focus more on helping Tomoya; however due to Koumura highly influential request, she had to help them both together.
Her plans to keep them in line always trail towards failure.
It was close to the end of the second term and with the third term approaching she need to improve the overall class score percentage, or else she would be stripped from her title of class president. In order to do that, she needed for Tomoya and Sunohara to get a high score on the term test. The only way to convince them to do so is through a deal, which will greatly benefit them, their stomachs any way.
She cloud still remembers that fateful day...
"You got it Tomoya and Sunohara? If you get at least 70% test score, I will make you both full lunches until the rest of the year, if you don't... I make sure the only time you can eat food is through a tube!" Kyou threaten as she clench her hand into a fist.
"Really? Awesome, hey Okazaki let's do this." Sunohara beamed.
Tomoya shrugged his shoulders.
"No deal," he quickly replied.
"What? Why?" Sunohara eyes widen as his chance of actual food disappeared.
"Yes Tomoya, why not? It happens to be a great deal that I have to spend my precious time to prepare you lunches," she slammed her fist on his desk.
"Food doesn't interest me as much as Sunohara. Win or lose, I get food in the end, if you really want my attention then you must risk the very thing important to you, that is equal to your sister," he answered sitting back on his chair.
"What do you have in mind Tomoya!" she stared at him with a cold glare.
"Your reputation!"He smiled.
"What do you mean?" she asked her stare glowing colder
"If I get a 70% on my test, then you must dress as a bride, if I get 70% and a higher score then you, then you must dress as a bride with Sunohara being the husband. If I don't get 70% score, I will dress as a bride during the whole week!" he offered with a devious smile offering his hand.
"Deal," Kyou answered quickly shaking Tomoya's hand without even thinking on it.
"He got a 93 score, only two points higher than me!" she cried into her pillow. "How in the world did he do it?" she muffled into her pillow. Ryou couldn't help but watch to see her sister so devastated, all she could do, is rest her hand on her sisters shoulder.
***
"Rematch!"
Is the first thing that Tomoya could he hear when he woke up from a hard punch on the back on his head. The force was so strong that the desk that his head was resting on became dented in with the form of his face.
"Ouch, damn that hurts Kyou. Do you really want to start a new school week like this?" Tomoya rubbed the back of his head as he raised his head up to see a very irritated Kyou forming a fist in one hand and the other 5 huge dictionaries bundled into one in the other hand.
"Rematch!" she kicked the bottom of his desk hard, shaping the dent in his desk back to normal.
"What are you talking about Kyou?" he frowned, his headache getting worse.
"I want a rematch, it was an unfair battle last time, and I need my reputation back! Starting with win against you!" she yelled.
"It was a perfectly fair match, you're just a sore loser, besides don't you have anything better to do with lunch period?" Tomoya cross his arms mocking her.
"Don't make hurt you!"
"If you're going to hurt someone, why not Sunohara, after all he was your 'husband'," he smirked.
"Don't say such disgusting things so directly, besides I can't find him!" she blushed wildly.
Before they could say another word the class room door slide open and then a sudden cheer from a very familiar voice.
"Hey Okazaki, guess what I got!" Sunohara cheered with glee with his eyes closed not even seeing Kyou standing right beside Tomoya, waving a picture in his hands. His eyes slowly open to see Kyou tapping her foot with her arms cross and giving him the 'I kill you!' look.
"Argh Kyou I didn't see you there!" his voice choked as he quickly place the object in his shirt pocket and chuckled as he slowly step away. "You two seem busy, so I won't get in the way," his body started to shake with fear.
"What was in your hand, Sunohara?" Kyou walked slowly to him. Her 'I kill you!' look, swiftly change into "I torture you first so you wish for me to kill you!' look.
"Nothing was in my hand!" he laughed.
She took a step forward.
He took a step backward.
She took a step forward.
He took a step back.
"S-U-N-O-H-A-R-A!" she yelled.
"I got to go, see you later Okazaki!" he ran out the door. "Revenge death for me Okazaki!" his voice grew further away.
"Come back here!" she chased after him.
Tomoya yawned and let back to sleep.
Sunohara ran through the halls ways for his life, with a tailing Kyou right behind him. Many scary thoughts infection his mind of Kyou torturing him, knowing Kyou, most of them would involved his balls being ripped off, which made him think, what is her obsession of his balls to begin with?
His thoughts disappeared as he found himself nearing dodging a couple of students carrying some AV equipment by sliding underneath in. He quickly looked back to see Kyou gaining ground, he needed to get out of the school if he stood a chance to escape, The only place that has the highest success rate is the old school building.
Kyou desperately tried to keep up with Sunohara, his speed ridiculously fast yet it seems that he gaining more speed by the minute. She knew he had something embarrassing about her, but she didn't know what, he had that stupid look of his like he usually does.
Stupid Sunohara! You're not going to get away from me!
The old school building, this is used to be the main building before the school expanded, lately many of the newer and weirder clubs seems to surface here. Thankfully this building had many exits that lend directly out of school, something to his advantage he knew the streets very well, unlike Kyou who only stick to the streets where she only used to.
He entered the first door that was left unlocked.
"Excuse me, don't mind me!" he said to a brunette girl sitting down reading a book as he pass by her and jumped out of the window.
I wonder if she stubborn enough to skip the rest of school to chase me? he thought.
Kyou could have swore she saw Sunohara enter the reference room, when she got by the door way she saw a distinguish figure of him in the distance.
"Sorry for the interruption, excuse me," she said to a brunette girl sitting down reading a book as she pass her and jumped out of the window giving chase.
I wonder if he thinks I'm stubborn enough to skip the rest of school to chase him?" she thought.
The girl blinks a few times as she witness them both pass by her and jumped out of the window. She then turns her attention back to her book, looking back on the sentence she just read over and over.
"After you chant it three times a random encounter will pass by you, this encounter will be a strong rival for you in the distant future," she read. "Interesting," she added.
Sunohara looked behind him to see Kyou there.
Damn it! He thought.
The chase lasted a few more minutes until he found himself in the shadiest streets, he didn't know how he got here. He stopped when he notice a couple rough looking people at the corner of the street by a pickup truck, preventing the chance of getting notice he took a few steps back behind the corner of a building. With the corner of his eye she saw Kyou right in front of him.
"Sunohara give...." she gasped as Sunohara swiftly grabbed her by the waist and pulled her towards the wall of the building his body press against her own.
"Shush," he started down in her eyes with serious in his eyes. "You want to get caught by those thugs?" he asked.
Kyou blushed when her face was close to hers and his body press up against hers, his hands still touching her waist. Then she finally realize where she was, one of the worst streets to be in, her body started to tremble. She heard of many harsh stories of what happen to many female students that wander in here, many of them were rape stories and their were also stories about selling innocent animals to butcher them for food .
"Sorry, I didn't attend to bring you here Kyou," he whispered in her ear. "Come on lets go," he took her by the hand.
Kyou looked at him and nodded.
Then a few animals' cries grabbed her attention.
"Shut up!" a voice yelled towards the animals on the back of the truck. "You sure that the deal is here?" the same voice asked.
"Yes I'm sure," another voice answered. "Our buyer is giving us a lot of money for these baby boars. Just be patience according to my connections this buyer is legit," he added.
"You mean you haven't met this buyer before?"
"No, but the password is Doodie,"
Kyou and Sunohara peeked from the corner to see the two men chatting away not even noticing them there.
"Those bastards! How can they sell innocent animals to slaughter," she whispered. "Come on Sunohara we need to save them," she told him.
"Are you crazy? You see how huge they are?" he whispered back.
Kyou eyes widen.
"Sunohara... how can you say something like that! These are baby animals, were talking about," her eyes went misty.
"Kyou this is how the world works, bad things always happen,"
"Bad things happen because people like you don't prevent it happening," she pushed him away as she ran towards the two rough looking men.
Baka Sunohara! Why do you always run away when someone depends on you she thought?
"Wait Kyou!" but it was already to late when he saw Kyou attack the men.
Can I actually help... or will I fail again like last time someone depended on me.
No... You can't, just walk away. It was her choice to do this, let her suffer for it.
But...
"Youhei," Kyou cried out as she slams against the ground near his feet.
"Kyou!" Sunohara cried out as he notices her on the ground wincing in pain, and then his attention rose back to the two men standing in front of him. "Big mistake," he hissed out he charged to them.
Are you seriously going to help her?
I need to protect her.
Whatever, you're going to regret it in the end.
***
"Kyou..."
Her eyes opened to see a very bruised up and bloody Sunohara kneeling in front of her.
"Are you alright?" he cried.
"Yeah my head hurts though," she groaned as she sat back up. "Why didn't you come earlier?" she yelled at him.
He hugged her.
"I'm sorry, I'm useless," he apologized.
"Hey come on," she pushes him lightly away. "You showed up when I depended on you. That's all that matters," she patted him on the shoulder. "Just don't hug me again, or else I really going to hurt you," she laughed.
"Okay, okay," he chuckled. "Oh yeah I already called the police about this, so the animals will be safe when they get here. As for the guys, well let's just say there trapped somewhere until garbage day. Come on, we need to go," he offered his hand.
Kyou nodded with a smile and took his hand.
***
"You know I think its best not to go back to school," Kyou finally said as the made their way back to the school gates.
Sunohara stopped beside her.
"Eh? Wouldn't be strange for both the class president and a delinquent who have been seen running out the school together during lunch, to not return?" he asked.
Kyou shrugged her shoulders.
"It will be even stranger to even show up like that," she answered while poking his black eye. Then at her black eye.
Sunohara sighed.
"I'm sorry about the black eye Kyou, I should have been by your side from the beginning," he apologized.
"Don't worry about it Youhei..." she smiled. "Like I said again, you still came to me," she nodded.
"Hey, you just called me by my first name!" the young blonde man gave his signature grin.
Kyou blushed wildly.
"Shut up! Don't read too much into it, Youhei is shorter to call in battle then Sunohara," she snapped her face getting blighter.
"But were not in battle right now!" his grinned getting blighter.
"Shut up Youhei! I mean Sunohara!" she forms her hand into a fist. "It would be bad, if I have beaten you up despite you saving me!"
"But it makes me happy that you call me Youhei, it's like were friends... actually friends. I just always thought you only friends with me because I'm friends of Okazaki and you only interested in him," he replied giving a half smile. "Thankfully I was wrong," his eyes beamed.
Kyou shook her head.
"No, you're right; I'm only interested in making friends with Tomoya," she cross her arms. "You actually thought we can be close friends just like that?" she laughed. "Sunohara, you read too much into things, honestly did you have friends before Tomoya?" she asked.
"Yes, A very good friend, I consider him like my brother..." he answered.
"Well he must be pretty stupid to be friends with you..." she stopped mid sentence as she saw Sunohara crying. "Hey what's wrong Sunohara?" she asked.
"Forget it, I'm going home..." he put his head down walking away.
You were right, I did regret it later.
Of course I'm right, let's go.
Kyou sighed to herself.
"I guess I stepped over the line," she said to herself. "He didn't deserve that. After that he did come to me when I cried out to him," she sighed again.
"Puli Puli," a small voice grabbed her attention.
The girl looked around for the noise, until she felt a small tug on her leg warmers; she looked down to see a brown baby boar at her feet staring back at her with a smile.
"Oh hey, you're one of the baby boars we saved!" Kyou picked the baby boar in her arms. "Are you lost?"
The baby boar shook its head.
"So you mean, you followed me all the way here?"
The baby boar nodded.
"Why?"
The baby boar snuggles tightly in her arms.
"Oh I see, you want me to become your mother?" she smiled.
The baby boar nodded.
"Okay then, I'll be your mother, is it okay if I call you Button?" she asked.
"Puli, puli," the boar nodded.
Kyou giggled.
"Okay then, Button it is..."
A/N Chapter 6 Will be up by the end of the week.