Intro Song: / Walk in the Park - Beach House
That day...
I walked like...
There was no tomorrow...
How could there be?
How could...
There be...
I...
I let her...
Break us up...
I let her...
Break herself...
I let her...
...
I stopped in my tracks...
The wind in the air was turning cool...
The bittersweet orange and red hue all in the distance filled my eyes...
And just as the dead leaves were dancing and swerving all around-
I sighed...
"Maybe you and I..."
"Are one of the same..."
"Huh...?"
"Koyo-san..."
I lifted my eyes upwards, my neck cracking in the process...
The sky was turning into the familiar violet we all know it would be...
"It's getting late..."
"I've got to pick her up-"
"Oh right..."
"That's over now..."
My footsteps trampled on the autumn-leaf-covered streets...
The rustling of the such beneath me-
Didn't bother me that much...
My lips quivered at the thought-
What was I thinking?
That I could be your savior?!?!?
I can't even...
I couldn't even save you...
And now...
"I always loved your music taste..."
"Guess even after everything..."
"You're still with me..."
"Nayumi-chan..."
/ Bahala Ka Na - Zild
Can I even save myself?
...
Her earphones were still with me...
She said she'd get it back from me...
The next time we'd meet...
But wasn't that-
Yeah...
I know...
"They're mine now..."
"Aren't they?"
I drilled them into my ears-
And filled myself with her own mindset-
Post-punk and indie rock galore...
I bit my lip...
Clicking it...
"I miss you so much..."
"How was it lost?"
"Whatever..."
"It's up to you..."
I sang with my feeble little voice...
The illumination and the sensory overload was all I could focus on-
Muscle memory was how I got home at all...
For the first time...
I couldn't even think straight...
I always had so much time to introspect...
But this time...
It's like-
The rug was pulled from underneath me...
So suddenly-
There was no time to react...
And before I knew it...
"IT'S UP TO YOU!" THE MUSIC SWELLED AND THE SINGER SCREAMED AS HIS VOICE FADED INTO THE VERY DEPTHS THAT STARED BACK-
THE GUITAR WAILED-
And I...
I...
I was sobbing on the way home...
My face twitching...
My tears warping...
I didn't know I felt such things...
I really was right about it...
"You and I..."
"We're one in the same..."
"And that's why..."
"We can never be together"
...
I couldn't really fathom it all-
All of our memories would bleed in...
Those...
Of the such...
Became my own thoughts...
I didn't really know...
What this feeling was...
Sure...
I've been sad before...
But this...
This is something else...
Each and every day...
Didn't really compare to like before...
None of what I did...
Could've ever compared...
To what we were...
And yet...
I wasn't really lamenting my own grief...
As much as I was with hers...
But I know I would be lying...
If I...
If I...
If I didn't say that...
I didn't feel hurt...
I mean...
How couldn't I be hurt?
…
/ Duwag - Zild
Everyday really was the same...
The same old thing-
Was this what she felt?
Wake up
Eat breakfast
Go to school
Get through class
Eat during lunch breaks
Laugh around with your friends and lie to their faces saying-
"I'm fine, don't worry about me"
"Besides all that-"
"Didn't you hear about-!"
Go home
Slack off and do your piles of homework
Eat dinner
Go to sleep
And...
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A-and...
Repeat...
No wonder...
You felt that way...
No wonder...
You always looked over to the horizon...
And yet...
I...
I still have friends...
I may be hurt...
But you...
You don't really have anything nor anybody else...
Do you?
If only...
I could bear your own weight for you...
Get rid of it-
Make it mine...
Just to make you happy...
If only...
If only...
IF... ONLY...
Huh...?
My love...
But after all this time...
I should've forced my way into helping her...
I shouldn't have let her break us up...
I should've been more forceful...
I should've been less of a...
...
Aren't I the...
The real coward...
Out of the both of us?
...
"Hey!"
"Watch where you're going!!!!!!"
Eh...?
"Hey!!!!"
"Answer me!!!"
...
"ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A FIGHT?!?!?!?"
"YOU FUCKING RUNT!!!!!!!!"
...
EHHHHHHHHHH??????????????
I wasn't actually paying attention to my surroundings-
Everything was on autopilot for me...
Just another day I thought...
One day...
I'll move on from her...
Koyo-chan...
But I didn't imagine that this would've ever happened to me...
I would be able to help...
To save...
Another person...
Just as I couldn't with Koyo...
But this person...
Our meeting...
I didn't think-
It'd happen like this...
And by the time my mind was coming to...
...
I was dodging left and right-
Up and down-
So swiftly...
It was like I was...
Possessed or something...
Whoever was trying to hit me...
Was really good at it...
Sure...
An experienced fighter or soldier would call this person's movements sloppy-
...
My dad would certainly say so...
But compared to what I'm capable of...
Even when he...
Tried to train me in anything...
I couldn't have compared to the people who have a natural knack for fighting...
It wasn't that you couldn't train hard enough to be...
As good as them...
As good as an Ishiin...
But I really thought at the time...
Reflecting upon this...
How could I have gone face to face with such a brawler...
Like...
Her...?
It's like we were performing some weird interpretative dance....
With how hard she was trying to beat me-
For her hits to even connect-
My body was dodging so gracefully-
You would've taught I was some professional dancer or even a ballet dancer!
We...
We were right in the middle of the park-
Just as the sun was sinking...
The leaves were still swaying-
The wind was cheering us on-
There wasn't much people on the side where we were fighting (...?) from...
I gritted my teeth, trying to catch up with my own body, my own movements had a mind of its own
Sliding on the wet sprinkled grassy terrain, her own arms and stances were heavy in the way she moved
She kept shouting at me:
"STAY STILL YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!!!!"
"WHO SENT YOU!?!?!?!?!"
"CAN'T YOU BASTARDS EVER GIVE ME A BREAK!?!?!?!?"
"I KNOW I JUST KICKED YOUR ASSES A DAY AGO, BUT JEEZ!!!!!!"
"STAY IN LINE AND WAIT FOR YOUR TURN!!!!!"
"UGHHHH!!!!!!!!"
She groaned and wailed in frustration as I avoided every single one of her attacks with such ease-
It's like I turned into water incarnate-
I whispered to myself:
"Is this what dad was talking about...?"
"Moving so fluidly, it should be effortless?"
The last thing I ever noticed was...
The wind wasn't just blowing around us...
It was coming from me...
From within...
How...?
Is this...?
"Is this?"
She suddenly kicked me from beneath, my own thoughts distracting from the present moment-
And as just she was going to hit me hard...
For good...
...
Her clenched fist getting ever so closer to my face, risking the biggest and only black eye I'll ever get-
To think my first fight ever...
Was from a girl...
Let alone a juvenile girl....!
...
My eyes and spirit were suddenly shook to the core, seeing such a feat and sight...
Right before my eyes-
Her figure was sent flying so many meters away from me, her crash landing-
On a nearby bench, whose entire exterior was shredded by the sheer force of my whatever had made her fly to such a degree!
She coughed up blood and gasped-
Her head low...
Her very first defeat...
Not by any of the enemies she's made in the past years of her transgressions-
But...
By a scrawny inexperienced kid...
Like me...
The very moment was humorous...
But even this...
Made her so mad...
She gritted her teeth loudly...
Her breaths were filled with such rage...
Steam was raging out of her gaping mouth...
In shock and disbelief at what had just happened-
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"YOURE GETTING IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"YOU FUCKER!!!!!!!!!!"
But she struggled to even move a single muscle-
Let alone her own body...
Her words couldn't match what she wanted to do to me...
She didn't completely open her eyes...
Or rather her view-
Cause what calmed her down was seeing me-
An extremely potent white aura raged on right before her...
The winds were swirling from me, the dent of such power that protected me from her
Created powerful dents in the concrete pavement of the park below me-
"This is just a big misunderstanding!" I tried to reason with her, and yet-
My own form was pretty much a contrast to what I had just said-
Even if was in earnest...
"OH YEAH?????"
"THEN WHY DID YOU BEAT ME SO BADLY???"
"I'M COUGHING UP BLOOD HUHH?????????"
I shook my head, sniffling my nose and rubbing it
I groaned in reply
"I don't even know how I got her in the first place!!!!"
"YOU BUMPED INTO ME!!!!!!"
"AND THEN YOU DIDN'T EVEN APOLOGIZE!!!!!"
"YOU MUST BE ONE OF THEM THEN!!!!!!"
"STARTING A FIGHT!!!!!!"
"UGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
She complained and roughly spoke with such vigor, you'd think she could own up to her words-
"Calm down! Calm down!"
"I'm sorry alright!!!!!"
"I don't know what you're talking about!!!!!"
"I don't even know who you are!!!!!"
"HUHHHHHH?-"
"Huh....."
Her voice dropped and so did her energy-
Judging a change in her demeanor, I got closer to make amends-
But my guard never did lower because of her actions against me...
In noticing my figure getting closer, she starts to look up at me, her eyes squinting-
"Oh wait..."
"You're not one of them..."
"Man..."
"I'm sorry 'bout that"
"BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU COULD BREAK ME IN HALF NOW DID IT????"
I shook my head once again-
"Yeah yeah I'm apologizing to you now alright????"
I whispered softly-
"I'm really sorry..."
She sighs, signalling that I should at least come help her up
I nod, my arms grasping her own
My shoulders were as welcoming as they could ever be
"Apology accepted"
"But tell me..."
"How come a little runt like you, has such abilities like that?"
There was a slight pause, I sensed she was searching deep in her mind to recall something
"How come... you have ishii?"
"You're familiar with ishii?"
"I mean... my dad works with Ishiins, sometimes some would get on him- their aura y'know?"
"Some would even come home, to discuss with him"
"I see..."
"My dad is also-"
"Well he's an Ishiin"
"His name is Atsushi"
"Oh??? That name sounds familiar"
"Maybe my dad did work with him after all!"
"I was always so curious on how Ishii works..."
"I just found him... my dad..."
"To be so weak!"
"Ugh..."
Her breath was on my neck, I didn't really know how to feel...
But...
This was certainly...
An interesting meeting...
That was for sure...
"He's not an Ishiin, I mean sure he can sorta use it..."
"But it's only just for intel..."
"He's so awkward! He doesn't even know how to deal with me..."
"It's like he always avoids me because of that..."
"My other sisters... they get along better with him..."
"I'm not even sure he even loves me..."
"Unlike them..."
I reached to grab her hair and patted it-
I didn't realize I had done this-
It was just something I used to do with Koyo-
Whenever she felt insecure about something...
A slight touch would always calm her down...
The girl...
Didn't know how to react to this sensation-
She stayed silent-
"I'm sure he loves you... y'know?"
"And how do you know that?"
"My dad... is a big shot Ishiin..."
"I barely get to see him at all..."
"But whenever I do... just his presence and smile..."
"Would make my day..."
"If you want to feel love from him..."
"Isn't him trying... even if he avoids you because of that"
"Proof that he does love you after all?"
"Proof that he's trying to understand you?"
I glanced over right at her face-
What I saw...
Was something I had never seen from Koyo...
It was...
She was...
Crying ever so silently...
...
I made us stop walking...
She...
She looked straight at me...
"I never taught about it like that..."
"This is weird but..."
"Do you think us meeting right now..."
"Has some sort of special meaning...?"
"You think so?" I replied grasping her in place, unknowingly-
I was giving her my own aura, restoring her ability and energy ever so slightly-
"I do..."
"I do... y'know?"
"I..."
"I always felt so alone..."
The wind around us gave us the chills, and so did this moment-
But such warmth emanated from the both of us...
Something...
So special...
"I know how that feels..."
"My name's Jisei..."
"What's yours?"
She stared at me deeply, her glassy eyes such a huge contrast from...
Hers...
"It's Manaka..."
"Tell me..."
"Can we..."
"Keep hanging out starting from today?"
I nodded slowly
In wiping her tears, she suddenly hugged me-
I...
I felt something I hadn't felt in a long time...
I suddenly felt like I was alive again...
I...
To think...
I'd fall for a girl like her...
I gave my own vulnerabilities to her...
In return...
My eyes...
Were breaking apart and releasing the tension I was bottling up for so long...
She notices this...
"It might be too soon..."
"I never really felt this way for boys..."
"But let's just see where it takes us..."
"Alright?"
"Yeah..."
"Yeah..."
...
"Manaka-san..."
...
"I'm glad I met you..."
"Jisei-kun..."
...
"Likewise..."
"Let's get home now..."
She hummed ever so prettily...
From that moment on...
It...
It felt like…
She was THE ONE...
-To Be Continued-
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Ending Song: / Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye
