Fic-Post: Over the Rainbow: Prologue
Over The Rainbow
Prologue:
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Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
In the land that I heard of
Once, once in a lullaby.
☆
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare you dream
Really do come true.
---
Hikaru could still hear his Mother's voice as he climbed the stairs to his bedroom, but her words were lost on him. His emotions were racing, and as he reached for the handle of his bedroom door he almost froze, almost too afraid to open. Anticipation and dread, excitment and fear, light and darkness, and he was sure that if the battle his emotions were raging within him could be played out upon a Go board then it would surely be the game in which the Hand of God were found.
The door handle was cold, and the room it opened onto colder. He had left the window open. The draught was peaceful, a breeze that barely lifted the corners of the issue of Weekly Go laying neglected on the carpet. The emptiness was cold though: an empty room and an ultimately empty, unfinished game.
Innoshima had been a wasted trip, gaining him nothing but a few memories and a promise to himself to have at least a two week break before having to face Kawai-san again.
But still the problem of Sai remained.
Sai hadn't been at the Institute, or at Torajiro's grave. He had checked the grave at Innoshima and the shrine in Tokyo and there had been no sign of the (until recently) ever-present ghost. He had considered many places in his search, each one ruled out barely moments after entering his mind. Of all the places he had been with Sai there was nowhere he could think that the ghost would want to return to. Sai wouldn't go to Haze Jr High because the school would be closed. Sai wouldn't go to NcDonalds or the Ramen shop because ghosts don't eat. Sai wouldn't go to the internet cafe because ghosts can't use computers. Even of the many Go salons they had visited together there was no reason he would return to any of them because...
And then he knew. Hikaru knew, because he had to be there. If he wasn't there then there was nowhere else he would be, and Hikaru couldn't think of anyone else that had really mattered to the ghost other than himself and Torajiro. Reasons why he wouldn't never made it to his mind, because they couldn't, because if he wasn't there...
Hikaru could still hear his Mother's voice as he sprinted down the front path of his house - his trainer almost falling from his foot because he hadn't bothered to put them on properly - but her words were lost on him. Nothing she could say could be as important as the realisation of what he'd been missing. She wouldn't know where Sai was.
And if Sai hadn't gone to Touya Meijin then neither would Hikaru.
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Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds
Are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me.
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Author's Note: A short prologue I realise, but the chapters are longer and really I didn't want anything major happening here. Chapter 1 I promise to be full of angst and much confusion for the entire Touya bunch as Hikaru shows up at their house. Big thanks go out to my Beta-san lamantis whom I have conned into reading this entire thing before it gets posted.
Prologue:
---
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
In the land that I heard of
Once, once in a lullaby.
☆
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare you dream
Really do come true.
---
Hikaru could still hear his Mother's voice as he climbed the stairs to his bedroom, but her words were lost on him. His emotions were racing, and as he reached for the handle of his bedroom door he almost froze, almost too afraid to open. Anticipation and dread, excitment and fear, light and darkness, and he was sure that if the battle his emotions were raging within him could be played out upon a Go board then it would surely be the game in which the Hand of God were found.
The door handle was cold, and the room it opened onto colder. He had left the window open. The draught was peaceful, a breeze that barely lifted the corners of the issue of Weekly Go laying neglected on the carpet. The emptiness was cold though: an empty room and an ultimately empty, unfinished game.
Innoshima had been a wasted trip, gaining him nothing but a few memories and a promise to himself to have at least a two week break before having to face Kawai-san again.
But still the problem of Sai remained.
Sai hadn't been at the Institute, or at Torajiro's grave. He had checked the grave at Innoshima and the shrine in Tokyo and there had been no sign of the (until recently) ever-present ghost. He had considered many places in his search, each one ruled out barely moments after entering his mind. Of all the places he had been with Sai there was nowhere he could think that the ghost would want to return to. Sai wouldn't go to Haze Jr High because the school would be closed. Sai wouldn't go to NcDonalds or the Ramen shop because ghosts don't eat. Sai wouldn't go to the internet cafe because ghosts can't use computers. Even of the many Go salons they had visited together there was no reason he would return to any of them because...
And then he knew. Hikaru knew, because he had to be there. If he wasn't there then there was nowhere else he would be, and Hikaru couldn't think of anyone else that had really mattered to the ghost other than himself and Torajiro. Reasons why he wouldn't never made it to his mind, because they couldn't, because if he wasn't there...
Hikaru could still hear his Mother's voice as he sprinted down the front path of his house - his trainer almost falling from his foot because he hadn't bothered to put them on properly - but her words were lost on him. Nothing she could say could be as important as the realisation of what he'd been missing. She wouldn't know where Sai was.
And if Sai hadn't gone to Touya Meijin then neither would Hikaru.
---
Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds
Are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me.
---
Author's Note: A short prologue I realise, but the chapters are longer and really I didn't want anything major happening here. Chapter 1 I promise to be full of angst and much confusion for the entire Touya bunch as Hikaru shows up at their house. Big thanks go out to my Beta-san lamantis whom I have conned into reading this entire thing before it gets posted.