Disclaimer: None of it is mine. I sit and play and wish I had pickle can too.
Characters: Mayuzumi Chihiro, Izuki Shun.
Warnings: the usual: my grammar, genderbending, crack, bad puns (if there are any.), plotless. My mind is out of control.
i. Pickle can
Mayuzumi really admires Izuki, but it doesn't mean her stubborness doesn't give him headache.
"Just give it to me." says Mayuzumi tiredly, holding out his hands.
She ignores him.
"Izuki-san." he continues.
"I've almost got it."
"It doesn't look like that to me."
She continues and after five minutes with a red face and a strained smile, she places the unopened pickle jar in the table and looks at it resentfully as if it has done something wrong.
"I'm going to open it even if I have to throw myself at the hungry eagles in my house."
"They won't harm you."
She directs her resentful gaze to him, but he holds it firmly and eventually she gives in.
"Fine, you do it."
The jar opens with a snap and he gives it to her, the corner of his mouth tugs upward.
"You can always ask me for help."
"Mayuzumi-san.." says Izuki. "My personal can opener." She leans closer. "But he'd better now open anyone else's pickle jars."
"What makes you say that?"
"Because Mayuzumean-san is a gentleman."
He closes his eyes and her breath tickles his neck.
"Definitely not."
"Not even Riko's?"
"No."
"Not even -"
Izuki was silenced by his mouth over hers. When they break out, he says.
"Princess, you worry too much."
ii. Mountain
zuki is not her sister - all romance novels and boyfriends and love. She does listen to them, though, about how strong love is and lets her mind wonder. She wonders if she has been closed off with wall too much high. She wonders if she is really that strong and doesn't believe in love at the first sight or soulmates.
And it ends up her feeling something missing - because giving your heart to someone entirely and receives theirs is alien to her. (she's watched Hyuuga and Riko and feels her heart aching that it has her wanting to cry - but she's strongandfirm and she wouldn't do that in public.)
Still, when Mayuzumi-san tells her like it's the most important thing in the world: "I could move the mountains for you." (since when did he become that cheesy?) she can't help believing in him.
iii. Riveted
He finds her alone at their usual place - that abandoned course surrounded by trees - hidden in the shadow and behind glittering tears. She doesn't look up, doesn't stop and doesn't even move because he knows she knows he's coming. He can't bear the pain that hunches her shoulders and if he can't, what hope does she have?
"I'm fire." She says, voice is hoarse and the perfect mirror of hurt that fills the world when she's away.
He knew it'd be a bad idea, no matter how close she and Hyuuga and Riko are, to attend their wedding. He noticed the strain in her smiles when she said he could accompany her but said nothing because Izuki is always so brave and so lively (so fragile and so broken.)
When the wedding finished, (with cheers and smiles and music and lights), he walked away immediately because she was no longer there. He has been watching her for years and hasn't taken his eyes off and he knows where she'll come.
Eventually, she's hugging her knees closely to her chest, stays silent and gazes the hoop wistfully and now he's left to stare at her.
"Shun." It's only her name but it sounds like a promise - i'm your friend, I will always be by your side - and he wishes she could understand.
"It was an emotional wedding. Even the cake was in tiers."
"That's why you ruined your dress?"
She's laughing and crying at the same time and he can't look away. Right now, he doesn't care she isn't his, doesn't care that she will never be whole again, and watches her like nothing else exists, because darling, nothing else does.
iv. Let go
"Let go." He says impatiently.
She shakes her head fervently, fingers clenched at the top of the bookcase, the tips of her feet balanced on one of the shelves. Someone has played a trick on her and run off with the ladder, leaving her stranded on a wall of books. It's almost laughable, really, because how can she be dizzy? She's not afraid of height, she has watched the eagles since before she could even walk, has played basketball and jumped and run for almost ten years. But it's just… so high. And the teacher will scold at her for being late, even if she comes back with the reference books and for once, doesn't bring some kinds of joke books.
"Izuki-san, let go." He says and she clears her throat. Damn, he's getting impatient.
"You don't even have your arms out." She huffs, it's not like she wants him to catch her or anything.
"Why should I if you're not going to jump?"
"I thought you were a gentleman." She says, but Mayuzumi can't see her pouting as she's facing the bookcase. (It's not like she can hide anything from him.)
"We've said about this before."
"I'm going to jump." says Izuki, defeatedly. "It… It's just."
Mayuzumi lifts his arms.
"Let go." He says.
And so she does.
A/n: Super thanks for all fav+ and alert. And please review.
-Daphne.
Until the next one.