Title: Sewn Clouds
Published: March 5, 2013
Author: Ribbon
Target: Yukimura Seiichi
Default Name: Honjou Chiharu
Author's Note: I'd just like to apologize to all the people who hoped for a different ending. Please don't hurt me LOL.
So I'll tell you again.
Make your dreams.
Build a staircase of your own.
Make it, or you won't survive.
I'll help you, if you want me to.
Because that's what I'm here for.
I made a promise, and I want to keep it.
Take my hand, Seiichi.
/
They carved his favorite quote on the gravestone, about captains and friendship. He always said that he would give his book of quotes up to her when he got the chance, but he never did. The book was to stay by his side forever, in death as it had in life. She is tired. The movements of the people around her and the words they whisper are making her tired. Some part of her has gone with Seiichi: perhaps the hope and faith she nurtured, that he would pull through his.
Sanada was by her, perhaps even more drained than she was. The weight of his loss, in tennis and in his best friend's death, proved to be too much. She expected that, in his tire, his mouth would sleep. But he spoke. "It's started to rain."
Overhead, the clouds are silver. She turns her face skyward to feel the raindrops, but there are none. She hears a sound beside her, and when she tears, she sees him shedding a teardrop for the silence that has existed for too long.
It's a sign of commencement. She doesn't think her own tears are far off. There is a fine line between disbelieving laughter and mourning tears, and she is caught somewhere in between.
"It sure has." She says, the ghost of a hollow smile claiming residence to her face.
Princo & Ribbon
April 14, 2014.