[Filter Chapter] Dream Forest
Thursday, January 26 | 0 comments
Snow flakes are falling onto the streets of Dream Ciel, making everything around more cold than usual and the empty streets successfully made as if the place is haunted by ghosts or mystic creatures. Nevertheless, there's a young boy with silky brown hair standing on the road, trying to get some warmth by snuggling into his scarf, deepen his raccoon hat and place his hands into his pocket. He been waiting there for hours without moving from where he standing and not caring that his body already shivers because of the snow and his breath is turning more cloudy and clearer to see. He then turned his violet eyes to the white and cold ground, sighing lightly, "He... isn't coming... Isn't he?"
he questioned himself while moving his hands, making the scarf around his neck tighter and warmer.
he questioned himself while moving his hands, making the scarf around his neck tighter and warmer.
Suddenly, an umbrella is held up to cover the raccoon boy from the snow flakes falling onto him. The violet eyes doesn't even turn to the owner of the umbrella because he knows that isn't the person he is waiting for so, he just ignore the person completely. "Aki..." the umbrella owner called the raccoon boy's name. "He isn't coming..." he mumbled and continued with three words, "I am sorry..."
Aki smiled weakly, looking down before turning his face to the older boy. "Heh heh I know..." he laughed but tears are about to gather at his eyes, couldn't stop thinking why is he so stupid; believing in miracle. Before his tears could fall from the cloudy violet eyes, the older boy wipe it slowly, touching Aki's face with his cold finger. "I-I am sorry... But I'm alright. Don't worry about me, Zhen-NiiChan!!" Aki tried to be cheerful, giving fake smiles.
However, Zhen already used to his little brother's personalities so, he can see right through his little brother. Zhen smiled slightly to get Aki feels better and then he placed his arms around Aki's shoulder, giving some warmth and making his younger brother feeling secured from any harm. "Let's go home. I'll make a hot-chocolate for you~" he comforted his younger brother. Aki only replied with a nod and lead closer to his brother to get some of more his brother's warmness until both of them reached their home, warming under the kotatsu, drinking hot-chocolate with their mystic animal inside the kotatsu.
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The Ar Ciel Academy's bells rang loudly as a sign of recess for high classes students while the middle classes students went back to their own classrooms to continue on learning something new from the high classes seniors or the teachers. Only a small amount of students gather themselves to the cafeteria to buy something to eat because snowstorm came yesterday so, some students may busy cleaning their houses or dorms. The principle also giving a green signal regarding it's winter plus, exam already over so don't mind much about it.
A certain brown haired boy, managed his scarf around his neck and enter the cafeteria with one of his best friend who is beging such a loud mouth, talking about the bookstore he and Yukiro managed together. "... last night was sooo cold, but thanks to the heater and the animals around the bookstore, it was't so cold. They are veeery warm and fluffy and how is Haru? She alright last night? I hope she is." the neko-like boy speak up and ended with a question for Aki to asnwer, titled his head to is right shoulder where there's a violin bag hanging on his back shoulder.
"Huh? oh, Haru is alright." Aki answered shortly and began to day dreaming again.
Aki's friend blinked twice and turn forward, walking at the food court, searching for some yummy and delicious food to eat with Aki and also Yomi who is still a little busy handling a girl that looks like going to confess to him though Yomi actually already have a certain school prefect in his mind and they are going out but it's a secret between them, a request from Yomi's partner. "Yummy~" he sounded when saw fish burger on the menu. Without waiting for Aki to decide his menu for recess, the neko-boy swap the burger and pay it cash.
After that he looked curiously at Aki with his teal eyes, wondering what will Aki buy today considering he always changes his appetite everyday. Then, emotionlessly, Aki grabbed a melon bread and pay it before noticed the teal eyes is staring at him. "What? Why are you staring me like that, Natsu?"
Natsu smiled, a sign that he got a target for teasing which made Aki back-steps, knowing Natsu's smile is directly at him and for him. "Say~ That person is coming home, rightt? Good for you~" he tease, poking Aki's cheek. Surprisingly, Aki blushed and wow~ it's rare to see him blush though Natsu and Yomi already been his best friend since they went here in ArCiel Academy. "He said he'll be back in this winter, right~ You must missed him a lot since the parting at last Summer Festival, nee~? But when is it? This month or the next month or the next?" Natsu asked with a question mark n his head.
"Who knows... " Aki answered shortly, sitting on an empty chair and a warm smile appeared at his lips making Natsu come out with more idea to tease his best friend. "Don't even think about it, Natsu." Aki warned before Natsu could even say a word.
"Aww~" he whined but smiles childishly along with Aki. Suddenly, Aki turned to his back, feeling that someone is watching him from afar. His scent tells him that the person eyeing on him is someone familiar to him. The brown hair blinked twice before turning back to Natsu who already finished his burger and tried to take a bite on Aki's melon bread. "NATSU!" he yelled when Natsu already successful ate half of his bread. "m-my... bread..."
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Another cold breath came out from Aki's mouth as he is hugging himself now, trying to get some of his own body warmth. Slowly, he stared up to the sky thinking it's already late and plus, someone is watching him from afar. The person is none other than his older brother. Disliking Zhen-Nii to stay longer in cold, Aki decided to head home and gave up on waiting for today.
Hearing a small 'thud' and small footsteps sound, Aki turned around only to get something jump onto him, making Aki falls down. Good thing that the snow is soft. "Ha-haru~" Aki called the creature on top of him. Haru is a small four legs, dragon-like creature with a beautiful white wing attached at it's shoulder given by Yukiro when Haru still inside her egg. It's wings reminded of spring season and a dear friend that died along time ago. So, that's the reasons why Aki called the little creature Haru. Aki lifted Haru high to the sky with a gentle smile to the small dragon. "Haru, you don't need to worry about me~ And tell it to Zhen-Nii too!"
"!" Zhen shocked when his name is mentioned and coughed lightly before walking away; knowing his little brother is going home anyway.
Haru nodded and struggles a little for Aki to release her so that she can jump onto her favorite spot, Aki's shoulder or on Aki's raccoon hat. Her wish is granted right away as Aki release willingly for him to get on his feet and while that, Haru quickly jump on Aki's shoulder, nuzzling her master's cheek lightly. Aki giggled lightly and began to walk toward his home along with his little creature.
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"Aki! Aki!!" Natsu rushed to his classroom calling the brown raccoon-boy who is talking to another two person who is named Yomi, his classmate and Mizora, his senpai who is a huge anime otaku fan, the same as Aki. Natsu rushed and stopped in front of Mizora, bowing as a sign that he respect his senpai before continuing panicking. "Aki! AKII~!!" the dark-brown yells loudly almost everyone in their class ---or their academy can hear him. "Do yo-"
Without waiting for Natsu to finish his words, Aki suddenly extended his left hand while his violet eyes still reading the book he just got from Mizora. "Melon bread." The raccoon speaks emotionlessly and then bookmark the manga, turning to Natsu.
When Aki noticed that everyone is staring at them thanks to Natsu's loud voice, he can't helped but to stare at them and later, followed by Mizora and Yomi feeling amazed at the situations. For real, Natsu can be loud mouth but whatever he speaks brings smiling faces to others, no wonder he can be popular. "Ahh~" Natsu sounded and everyone turned to him. Natsu grabbed his violin bag and took out a melon bread, placing it on Aki's hand before placing back his bag on his shoulder. Then, Natsu couldn't help but to turn around and blinked a little when saw many eyes staring at him. "What? Am I being toooo handsome today~" he smiled, making his classmates also smiled and laughed before returning to their previous activities.
Aki smiled and opened the melon bread, releasing the sweet smell and then took a bite of it before turning emotionless back. "So, what's the fuss about?" he asked and showed his hand again to Natsu while his eyes, reading the sinopsis of the manga again.
The teal eyes blinked twice and grabbed a mineral to Aki from his pocket and three sweets for Yomi, Mizora and himself. "Actually... I saw something interesting today." Natsu stopped talking when he has removed the sweet's from it's container and eat it right away.
"What did you saw? Stop giving the suspend!" Yomi speak up, feeling curious, wanting to know what his friend just saw.
Natsu scratched his head and still didn;t said anything after hearing what Yomi said and then, his teal eyes stared on the floor. "I SAW SOMEONE butIcan'trememberwhoit... was..." Natsu speak in fast pace but everyone caught what he just said because Yomi, Mizora and Aki already used to being around him and this one is nothing. ---Natsu can even talk one paragraph in few seconds.
Mizora smiled, laid his back on the chair. "Oh, well. Tell us when you remember, okay?" comforted the glasses girl, patting Natsu's back and pulled a chair for him to sat down, joining the group.
After that, they talked about many things to each other. About anime, Yomi's Moonlight Cafe, Natsu's Mystic Bookstore and Aki's pet; Haru. Since there are no teachers coming to the class and also, to Mizora's class, they all chit-chat until the school final period is over. When the bell rang for the final time, everyone ready to pack their bags except Mizora because her bag is inside her class. While packing, they still didn't stop talking to each other until a name is called.
"Mizora!" someone called the glasses girl name, making everyone turned to voice owner.
"Oh, TsukasaKun." Mizora said, blushing lightly when saw a boy; the same as her age is standing in front of her kouhai's class with her bag on his shoulder beside his. ---a smirk grew at Natsu's lips right away when saw Mizora is blushing. "I-I have to go now." mumbled Mizora and walks to Tsukasa in fast pace as she noticed that someone is coming up with a teasing ides and of course everyone knew who it is.
"Have a nice date with each other~" Natsu yelled happily taking everyone's attentions to Natsu and then to both Mizora and Tsukasa whose is blushing right now before disappearing from the class's sight. "Now~ packing, packing, packing. A lot works waiting at the bookstore." Natsu uttered cheerfully while placing his comics inside his violin bag. Oh, and for everyone's info, Natsu place his violin inside a violin box and the box is inside the bag. It's kinda heavy but Natsu doesn't want to far away from his violin considering it's the last gift from his mother before she passed away. The violin represents a memento of his mother.
"I have lotsa work to at the cafe. My sisters demand me to return right away." Yomi sweat dropped before turning to Aki. "Coming there, Aki? Before returning to your home?"
Aki placed the manga he borrowed from MizoraSenpai inside his bagpack and nodded without looking at Yomi. "ZhenNii said he has work to do till midnight, so he told me and Haru to stay with friends till then."
After Aki's words, silent fell on the three of them for a few minutes Aki's eyes suddenly caught someone familiar down below at the school gate through a window beside his seat. At that time, his expression changed. The emotionless face gone completely and his eyes widen as he looked closely through a window and accidentally hits a chair next to his leg making both Natsu and Yomi turned to Aki with question mark on their heads.
"What is it?" Natsu rushed to the window next to Aki, feeling really excited to see what made his friend shocked. The dark-brown hair rolled his eyes up and down, left and right searching and figuring until his eyes caught someone with royal-blue hair wearing the same academy uniform as them but different tie showing that he is a sepai; the same as Mizora. "Ah! That's the person I saw!" he yelled out.
Yomi pushed Natsu away and looked at the person Aki and Natsu is staring. If you looked closely, the person's eyes is different in each color and only one person have those crimson and saphire eyes. "Ceh, he has returned but didn't greet us. That's mean. Natsu! Aki! Let's attack him tomorrow." the blond began to planned an idea.
"Heh heh" a smile appeared at Aki's lips making both of Natsu and Yomi felt amazed by it and couldn't help but to stare at it.
"Finally, his old self going to return soon..."
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A small humming can be heard at the usual street where a familar raccoon hat boy stands alone but not today as Haru is here with him as well and not for long another person will appear too. "Haru~ I can't believe it. Ryou finally return~ I can't wait to meet him! It's been awhile and I wonder whether he found his missing twin or not but I'm really excited right now~!" Aki smiled happily, hugging Haru tightly but gently in the same so that the little dragon won't be crushed by the excited raccoon. "I missed him alot..." Aki snuggled into Haru's warm fur trying to calm himself while Haru nuzzled Aki's scarf, also feeling happy seeing her master's reactions.
Looking at the dark blue sky, Aki titled his head a little and speak up, "Ah~ You know Haru, I've been waiting here since winter start because I don't know when is the time he'll return. I have waited for long now now and finally... I waiting has reach it's end." Aki smiled warmly looking at Haru's sky-blue eyes before continue speaking. "This is where I last meet him in last summer. This place has many memories of us and this is our first meeting place and this is the place where we promised to meet up, talking to each other again. That's why I didn't chase him after school. I want to kept my promise to him."
After a few minutes passed, Aki stopped talking and stared at his watch. "It's getting late... ZhenNii would probably looking for us now if we don't hurry back." he said, staring down on the ground. Then Haru suddenly nuzzled Aki's cheek, cheering him up making the negative emotions go away and it works, Aki smiled once more.
Suddenly, a footsteps can be heard making both Aki and Haru twitched. Both of them turned to their left and saw a shadow walking toward them. Aki smiled happily and turns to the shadow. "Ahh~" All of sudden, Aki stopped smiling and looked away. Haru blinked when looking at her master's reactions and tried to take the shadow's scent. The scent is a familiar scent but it too familiar... She suddenly growled.
"Ah~ Aki."
"ReikaSenpai... and... Renai... senpai..." Aki murmured, laying his back against the wall with a small sigh, wondering why they meet up with each other. He doesn't care if he meet up with Reika because their bad history together already erased and they become a normal kouhai and senpai now but not with Renai. They will NEVER make up with each other.
The ember hair guy smiled warmly, brushing Aki's hat. "You've got snow on your head." he said slowly and suddenly began to ruffles Aki's brown hair hardly making it all messed. While Renai just glare at the raccoon boy, why did he always get her brother attentions anyway whenever the meet with each other? That stupid Raccoon. She began to death glare at the younger boy like she wanted the boy dead by now.
Aki didn't give any respond to Renai and just manage back his raccoon hat quietly while Haru jumped on Aki's shoulder, glaring at Renai because she really dislike other peoples glaring at her master like that especially that pink haired girl. "Grrr..." Haru growled but hushed by Aki by patting her head and hugged her lightly.
"What are you doing here, Aki?" Reika speaks gently but still has no respond from Aki. The ember smiled lightly and grabbed something from his plastic bag, giving a warm milk tea to him. "Here, you must be cold." he gives the tin to Aki but Aki still just stay silent till Reika chuckled and lain the warm tin at Aki's cheek.
"Ah!" finally, Aki responed as he blinked and looked at Reika's ember eyes with his violet eyes before accepting the tea. "T-thank you." he blushed lighly as he began to panic a little. "A-and what are ReikaSenpai doing here anyway?" he speaks with cheerful face.
Suddenly, Renai snapped. She walks toward Aki, pushing him hardly to the wall. "DIDN'T I'VE told you to STOP acting like HARUMI?!!"she yelled loudly as her heart desire.
"Oi!" Reika sounded, pulling his little sister away from Aki. "Aki, I'm sorry for Renai's behave."
Renai snapped her brother's hand away, getting more annoyed. "NIICHAN! There are no reasons for apologizing! Because HIS existence, Irino DIED! Kou Died! Harumi and even HARUKA DIED!"
The raccoon boy startled by what Renai just said. It's as if a dagger just stabbed at his heart. Those are the words that really painful for him to hear. As he stared down at the snowy ground, his feet suddenly moved away from both of the siblings slowly. However, his movement suddenly stopped by a strong grip of Renai.
"Scared of the truth?" she teased but Aki just kept quiet without looking at her face."Remember back then when we're living at the mansion? If you didn't run away that time, Irino wouldn't have to join the battle, Harumi and Kou didn't have to die. I had a perfect plan of surviving and you're ruining it... You're the reason for their resistances." she uttered as she tighten her grip. "If only you never exis-"
"RENAI!" a sudden yelled coming from her brother as he covers Aki from her sight and slapped her cheek making her stumbled and release the grip. "Who are the real criminals in that story you were telling?"
When the grip is released, Aki quickly walk away from the siblings. He doesn't want to hear anymore and he doesn't want to remember the peoples who he has mourn for many days. It's too painful. He can hear that voices are calling his name from behind. He is sure that is Reika and Renai's voice but somehow... The voice is fading and the same goes for his sight. Suddenly, he felt something cold touching his forehead and hands hugging him tightly. Aki wanted to figure who it is but his head is kinda spinning a little. When he closes his eyes, tears are flowing from his cheek as he lost his consciousness.
"I'm sorry." a sound rang in his ears before completely lost his consciousness.
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"AKI! Aki! Are you there, Aki?" The violet eyes are closed for a few seconds before revealing back and turned to the brown hair and teal eyes neko named Natsu who is snapping his fingers to get Aki's attentions. "Aki... Are you alright? Want to go to the clinic?" Natsu said softly.
"Don't worry, Natsu. I'm fine. I'm not that weak..." he defending himself.
"Then how come you fainted five days ago? You know you've been out for three days straight." Natsu speak up and looked at Aki's violet eyes curiously before touching his friend's forehead to check up the temperature. Good thing it's normal but a little bit warmer... Its fine, isn't it?
"No wonder I can't find you, stupid raccoon." an annoying voice came towards both of the two boys. Aki looked away from meeting Renai's eyes while Natsu just smiled cheerfully at his senpai. "I still didn't finish talking your crime, killer."
Hearing that, Natsu rolled his teal eyes, looking at the sad violets eyes. So, something did happen before AkiChan collapsed... "Heh, heh let me hear what his crime is too~ Renai... “He smiled innocently and continued, "Renai-Stupai."
Annoyed by what Natsu called her, Renai fixed the error angrily, "Where your manners? It's Renai-Sen-pai."
"Whatever, Stupai." Natsu continued smiling innocently.
Ah, this brat is annoying... "I want to warn you, killer. Don't know what happen between you and my brother but STAY AWAY FR- AH!" Renai yelped when suddenly, something cold was thrown at her. She quickly hugged herself and glared at the guilty person.
"Ah~ My hand slipped!" Natsu yelled but inside he is really proud of his works, protecting his close friend, Aki. He really doesn't want Aki to hurt more and the way to do that is shutting Renai up by spill the water from his plastic glass to her. "I'm sorry~" Natsu smiled and apologized childishly.
Seeing and knowing the reason why Natsu did that has made Aki laughed and smiled warmly. Natsu, he is the best. He isn't only Aki's guidance to reach Dream Ciel but he is his closest friend as well and always stood by his side in bad and good times. "Heh, thanks, Natsu." The brown hair whispered to the dark-brown hair. As a reply, Natsu nodded and gave Aki his rare; sincere from his heart smiles.
"You're welcome, AkiChan~" Natsu replied, calling Aki's only close friends can call nickname
This situation has successfully made Renai reached her boiling point. She can't stand watching those two; doing anything they wanted especially that brown hair! "Grr... Why you..." angered Renai and was about to slap Natsu.
"Excuse me. Coming through~" a familiar voice uttered and it belong to a certain blond person with emerald eyes. It is Yomi, Natsu and Aki's classmates. "Aki, Natsu! The recess almost ended, let's return to the class and have you bought my onigiri?" Yomi said to both of his classmates. His actions successfully made Renai stopped her movement and she just stared at Yomi's face. The face that is the exact same as Irino.
Renai looked down before walks away from them and realize that someone is behind Yomi and not only that, when she looked away, she saw someone that very, very familiar to her, Aki and Natsu... "That traitor is back..."
"Sakuraba-San! You're here too?" Natsu gazed at the blue, cross-dressing prefect with sparkles in his eyes."Are both of you just gone dating before arriving here?" he asked out of curiosity.
Hearing what Natsu just said, made Shirogane blushed hardly while Yomi just smiled. "Yeah... Kinda~" Yomi said without blushing or feeling shy about it.
While Natsu, Yomi and Shirogane talking to each other, Aki shows no interest toward the conversations as he just placed his sight away from the three person, looking around until he noticed a familiar person standing, not far away from where he is and that person also looking straight at Aki along with a small chuckle. The raccoon boy's cheek turned slightly pink and he quickly faced away to cover his blushes. When she glanced back at the person, the person mumbled something at his lips. At first, Aki just titled his head aside and when the person mumbled in one again, Aki nodded. The message is delivered. "See you tonight, Ryou..." Aki smiled.
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At that night, the same Raccoon hat popped out in the dark alley, under a light street lamp. The sky seems dark like always but the snow didn't pour out today or maybe, the snow will fall to the Dream Ciel later. The violet eyes just stared at the sky before looking in front of him while snuggles inside his warm scarf around his neck."Sheesh, what am I thinking? Why did I waited here one hour earlier than the promised time?" he whined and then turns to his right shoulder where Haru just sat on his shoulder and rubbed her cheek against Aki's cheek.
"Haru, don't worry about me. Even though I just recovered from the collapse, I'm fine." Aki uttered with a smile at his lips as he pulled Haru closer to his neck and then, placed Haru inside his clothes and scarf. "So... warm..." Aki mumbled as Haru nuzzled herself against Aki's jaw. She really doing her best to kept Aki warm, isn't she? She is really like Haruka who always concern about Aki... Both of them are really alike...
Suddenly, a sound of footsteps can be heard by both of the brown hair and the mystic beast. Both of them perked up their ears and turns to where the sound it's coming from. "Ryou?" he called the waited person name but he receives no answers at all.
In the violet and deep-sky blue eyes, there's a shadow in front of them but somehow... It's weird... If it's Ryou, he would never appear like that. He usually just hugged Aki from behind but this one... Very suspicions.
Finally, the shadow revealed itself and that shadow isn't Ryou but... "Hey, killer." Renai greeted. Before neither Aki nor Haru could do anything, Renai dashed forward, pushing Aki against the wall and choked his neck. Haru who just fell on the cold ground, quickly balance herself and flew to the light-ember haired girl, biting her hand. However, thanks to her tick clothes, she didn't receive much pain at all.
"I should have done these years ago. You're better of disappear from this world. Your existence brings misfortune to my life!" she yelled out as she tightens her hands on choking Aki's neck, looking at the violet eyes with her ember orbs.
To her surprised, the violet eyes just looked at her eyes without emotion at all. Nothing can be read from his eyes and there’s no expression at all. It's like the raccoon boy just turned to a doll. Then, without warning, Aki's left hand suddenly gripped Renai's right hand roughly. Renai tried to endure it but the strength is too much that made her slowly loosen her grips at Aki's neck.
At that time, both of them just silent with their eyes meeting with each other and the long staring made Renai become annoyed. "WHAT IS IT WITH YOU?! If you HAVE SOMETHING to SAY, just speak it OUT!" Renai yelled but Aki just remain as a doll. This has made Renai completely snapped, "YOU ARE SOO ANNOYING! WHY do YOU exist anyway!" he yelled out loud in the empty street.
"ALL my PRECIOUS PEOPLES DIED BECAUSE OF YOU!" She yelled and finally, releasing the grips on Aki's neck. Aki also did the same and just watched the light-ember hair began to fall down to the cold ground with her hands hide her face. "Harumi, my best friend. Haruka, the person that believe in me though I am a bad person and Irino, the person I'm in love with..." she cried and tears began to fall from her cloudy ember eyes. "It's your entire FAULT they leave..." she sobbed before continued, "They leave... never come back without even say goodbye to me..."
While Renai yelled out her true feelings, Aki just titled his head as his eyes watching her emotionlessly and expressionless.
"AND YOU ALWAYS THE PERSON WHO ABLE TO KNOW THEIR LAST WORDS!" She yelled out again as she feels she is one that been left out by the peoples she loved. "Why can't I be the person who knows their last words?" she cried and the tears don’t seem like its stopping.
Suddenly, a warm hand touched Renai's light-ember hair. Without wiping her tears, Renai looked owner of the warm hand and the owner is none other than the person she hated the most or rather... The person she envies the most. "Nee... Want to know what's their last words is?" Aki whispered as his eyes began to glow to unknown colours. The colours are often changed into violet-like and crimson-like but the real color can't be confirmed.
In the same time, a glimpse of memories appeared inside Renai's memories one by one.
'Tsubasa' she heard someone calling her alias name. When Renai looked beside her, she saw Harumi is hugging her arms with that warm and innocent smile, "TsubasaSan, you are the BEST! If I were to lose my memories again, I don't want to forget about you guys especially you, TsubasaSan! You are like a big sister for me~! I take the memories of you and all the peoples that lived inside the mansion till my life comes to an end."
"And... your wished already come true, Harumi..." Renai mumbled before another scene appeared in her ember eyes. It's the bloody scene where many of the peoples inside the mansion died and scattered.
There's one boy that resembles Yomi stands in front of Renai. His face and his blond hair is covered with blood but his emerald eyes shows that he successful on protecting his survived friends. Then, the words that Renai couldn't hear before become clear to her. "Thanks for loving me, TsubasaNeeChan but I am not the person who you should fall into. There's another person that I'm sure you never expect to fallen into. That person... I am sure he will make you happier than I able to." Irino said with a warm smile before sword stabbed right through his chest.
Seeing the scene again, made Renai shocked because that scene is where Irino died. She quickly prevents her eyes from seeing it again. Then, tha warm hand appeared on Renai's head again. "Gomen, you have to see that again..." Aki apologized before holding Renai's hand and pulled her to other forgotten scenery.
The scene is the scene that Renai never appeared as there's only Aki and Haruka appeared, standing on a very high cliff. The scenery is unknown to Renai. She never saw such a beautiful place in her entire life. The cliff is high but countless of beautiful plants and trees appeared everywhere and the air is very fresh. Clouds are covering everywhere and she can only see the blue sea from this very high mountain.
"Aki... When the battle is over... Please remind me that I have something to confess to Renai... " Haruka smiled as both of he and his best friend; Aki feeling the wind blew gently through them. "However... If I were unable to make it... Please never mention about my feelings toward her because I don't want her to become sad... Sometimes, there are things that better unsaid, right?" he uttered as he brushes his ember-brown hair, looking at Aki with his sparkling ocean-blue orbs.
"Heh, gomen, Haruka... " Aki mumbled and finally, both of Renai and Aki return back to where both of them suppose to be. When they reached at the familiar streets, in Aki's orbs he saw Renai crying after hearing the precious people's last words to her. The raccoon boy could only smile, feeling empathy to his senpai and then, he decided to hugs Renai gently and brushed her hair smoothly.
"I'm sorry, RenaiSenpai. I should have told you what are their last words about you but I never get the chance to do that because of that battle, my powers are limited and thanks to that my memories a little bit scramble. I know what their last words are but it just can't get out from my mouth. When I want to said it to you, my head become empty, unsure there is it really the truth or fake words. Now... that some powers have return... finally... finally... I able... to tell you... those words..." explained Aki before his vision become blurry once more as his consciousness slowly faded away because of using his just recovered powers and now... He will need more time to recover completely. He thought that going to fall on the cold ground but instead, he falls into a warm and comfortable place and he knows what's the comfortable place is...
"Tadaima..." Ryouwhispered as he tighten his hugs, giving Aki his warmth.
"Okaeri, Ryou." Aki replied.
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Actually... There's more but... *blushes hardly* I just c-can't do the final scene! I-its just too embarrassing! *covers his head with his raccoon hat*
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