Submission #11 - Cygni, "Reminiscence"
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Title: Reminiscence
User ID: Cygni
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Yuzuriha, Inuki
Warnings: None
Summary: She’s been watching the TV screen before her for days now.
She was watching the screen now, a little smile playing on her face. Sounds of laughter she could recognize seeped out of the speakers of the electronic system. She laughed along with the people shown before her. A home video of some family perhaps or maybe they were just her memories playing with her. She didn’t know anymore.
They seemed to be having such a good time with each other. The group was sitting on a large blanket in the middle of a park and placing plates of food all around. Something about the park seemed achingly familiar but she couldn’t quite place it. She let the thought fade away as she continued to watch the scenes unfurl before her.
One young boy was flirting with a girl but she didn’t seem to be paying attention. She laughed a bit when the girl hit him and again that twinge of sadness played at the back of her head but she ignored it continuing to watch. A woman was soon shown before her and she was laughing at the girl saying something about girls playing hard to get. The indifferent girl shook her head at the enthusiastic reply from the other boy.
Well she couldn’t quite call them a boy and girl. They seemed older than that… Another boy showed up and she knew he was definitely younger than the other two. He had a pair of mauve eyes- such sad eyes, she thought- and a pale face. But he was smiling a bit.
She too smiled at the image of the boy smiling before her. She didn’t know why but she just did. Something about the boy made her want to see him smile even more but she was fairly certain she had never talked to this boy. Then another man came into view- he had a pair of green eyes. She felt another twinge of sadness when she saw him. As she continued to watch the video she saw him smile softly but each smile was forced and held something else behind it. She couldn’t help but wonder why.
Another man came before her; he had glasses and wore a suit. She looked at him curiously tilting her head to the side. She wanted ice cream now. It seemed everyone was there now. Or not?
A small shout in greeting could be heard coming from behind the cameraperson and in so the person turned. A young girl was running forward smiling and waving. She squinted trying to figure out who the girl was but soon the image stopped.
She frowned then shrugged. The video always did that. She yawned slightly and looked about her. The grass was growing more and more now maybe she should cut it. But the notion of doing so was driven away. No, the grass liked to be free and to grow (Someone had told her that before). She stretched out before it and laid her head down comfortably closing her eyes.
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The sunlight was bright and burning into her eyelids. She awoke with a start and looked around. She heard sounds. She spotted the TV sitting on a rock a few feet from her. (Had it moved?) She crawled over to it eagerly. What would it show her today?
There were people running on the ground, rubble of buildings in their way, fire chasing them as they hopelessly attempted to escape. Who were these people? They seemed so ordinary and so innocent. Then the scene changed again to those of two people that she recognized. It was the boy with sad eyes and the man with sad smiles from yesterday. The man with sad smiles was bleeding from an eye socket and the boy with sad eyes had injuries all over him.
She watched in horror, unable to stop tears from forming in her own eyes.
The scene changed again. She closed her eyes waiting for the image to sharpen. It didn’t. Instead she heard only a few sentences.
“I make a lot of people worry about me. But in the end all I worry about is myself.” She knew that voice. It was that of the man with sad smiles.
“That’s not true! You are a kind person. So please promise me! Don’t take it all upon yourself. If anything happens call on me and Inuki!”
Inuki…
The scenes were changing rapidly now. She barely had time to think on the name from the video when suddenly a sharp image came before her showing a girl’s face on a large TV screen. She was asking something but it fell on deaf ears as she concentrated only on the blurry image of another person standing before the screen yelling.
This girl. She was the same one she couldn’t see before. Why couldn’t she see her? Suddenly just as before, she could spare no more thought as the scene continued, wires were leaping forward. They made her recoil in fear from the screen. She couldn’t watch it. But she could still hear. A girl was crying now. But she wasn’t shown again as the larger TV screen crashed into the building she was upon.
She shook her head as the screen slipped into static. She didn’t like what the camera showed her this time. It hurt her to hear such things happening and being able to do nothing. She would just sleep now and wait for the next day the camera would show her new things.
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The screen flashed into a scene rapidly as she sat down before it. She had moved to another place now and somehow the TV had shown up as well. She sat on a nice rock by the edge of the water where she could hear the current. She waited for the image to come into focus.
It was that same girl again. She was all right. She was talking to someone though. It was a man with casual clothes and a smile. The girl was happy.
The scenes were changing so fast before her eyes. She could hardly keep up. It was still the same day and now the girl had become inured again after healing. She had a new dog now. Inuki.
She paused for a moment, looking away from the screen to listen to the water’s currents hurrying down below her. It was such a small body of water rushing forward to join another. She looked down at it as it flowed down and around the bend, it would pass by the grass growing over the buildings that had long since fallen.
She turned her attention back to the screen; a new image was coming into focus now. It was the same girl again but this time she was with the girl from the first day, the one who was indifferent to the other boy’s advances. They were fighting against those same wires as before- those wires that were being controlled by that girl that had killed Inuki before.
Inuki.
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She awoke heaving another yawn. She rubbed her eyes trying to get the sleep out of her eyes. She stood up, ignoring the TV for a few moments as she rinsed her face with water. She wiped her face free of the water with her sleeve. Walking back over to the screen she sat down, turning up the volume for her to hear.
“The Final day?” She whispered.
The scene this time was of the girl again, this time she was walking with the boy with sad eyes and they were in a hospital. She wondered whom they were going to see. Then she remembered. The other boy had saved the indifferent girl yesterday.
“Sorata,” she smiled.
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So much water… This was Tokyo. The Promised Day. Kamui-san. She was watching the TV, waiting for it go on. The Final battle, it was about to end. The Kamui of the Dragons of Earth had his shinken, so did Kamui-san. But the screen had stopped playing. The image was frozen. Kamui held the shinken over Kamui-san’s heart but he did nothing.
No one was moving. The scene had stopped. She closed her eyes tiredly. Maybe this was how she had remembered it. Maybe not. She wasn’t sure anymore.
Yuzuriha took hold of the electronic system and clicked off the screen. This could have all been just a dream. Maybe it was just her mind playing tricks on her. But the camera had shown her those memories again. She didn’t like to remember these things that had happened so long ago. She had to look to the future.
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“Ah! Inuki you’re back!” Yuzuriha smiled looking at the spirit dog before her. “I guess this means you didn’t find them did you?”
The dog whined putting its paw over its head as it leaned forward into her lap. She laughed and lifted his head up to look at her.
“We’ll just keep looking tomorrow Inuki. I’m sure we’ll find them.” She ran her hand through his hair, smoothening it down, “for now, let’s go to sleep okay?”
She got up walking away from the stream and heading towards a tree, climbing up onto a branch. She sat back on the limb and looked up at the night sky, her spirit dog lying down on the grass below the trees. The stars were shining brightly tonight. How long had it been since she looked up at them like this? How long-?
“They’re fine,” she murmured hugging herself tightly. “Everyone should be fine.”
Title: Reminiscence
User ID: Cygni
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Yuzuriha, Inuki
Warnings: None
Summary: She’s been watching the TV screen before her for days now.
She was watching the screen now, a little smile playing on her face. Sounds of laughter she could recognize seeped out of the speakers of the electronic system. She laughed along with the people shown before her. A home video of some family perhaps or maybe they were just her memories playing with her. She didn’t know anymore.
They seemed to be having such a good time with each other. The group was sitting on a large blanket in the middle of a park and placing plates of food all around. Something about the park seemed achingly familiar but she couldn’t quite place it. She let the thought fade away as she continued to watch the scenes unfurl before her.
One young boy was flirting with a girl but she didn’t seem to be paying attention. She laughed a bit when the girl hit him and again that twinge of sadness played at the back of her head but she ignored it continuing to watch. A woman was soon shown before her and she was laughing at the girl saying something about girls playing hard to get. The indifferent girl shook her head at the enthusiastic reply from the other boy.
Well she couldn’t quite call them a boy and girl. They seemed older than that… Another boy showed up and she knew he was definitely younger than the other two. He had a pair of mauve eyes- such sad eyes, she thought- and a pale face. But he was smiling a bit.
She too smiled at the image of the boy smiling before her. She didn’t know why but she just did. Something about the boy made her want to see him smile even more but she was fairly certain she had never talked to this boy. Then another man came into view- he had a pair of green eyes. She felt another twinge of sadness when she saw him. As she continued to watch the video she saw him smile softly but each smile was forced and held something else behind it. She couldn’t help but wonder why.
Another man came before her; he had glasses and wore a suit. She looked at him curiously tilting her head to the side. She wanted ice cream now. It seemed everyone was there now. Or not?
A small shout in greeting could be heard coming from behind the cameraperson and in so the person turned. A young girl was running forward smiling and waving. She squinted trying to figure out who the girl was but soon the image stopped.
She frowned then shrugged. The video always did that. She yawned slightly and looked about her. The grass was growing more and more now maybe she should cut it. But the notion of doing so was driven away. No, the grass liked to be free and to grow (Someone had told her that before). She stretched out before it and laid her head down comfortably closing her eyes.
.
The sunlight was bright and burning into her eyelids. She awoke with a start and looked around. She heard sounds. She spotted the TV sitting on a rock a few feet from her. (Had it moved?) She crawled over to it eagerly. What would it show her today?
There were people running on the ground, rubble of buildings in their way, fire chasing them as they hopelessly attempted to escape. Who were these people? They seemed so ordinary and so innocent. Then the scene changed again to those of two people that she recognized. It was the boy with sad eyes and the man with sad smiles from yesterday. The man with sad smiles was bleeding from an eye socket and the boy with sad eyes had injuries all over him.
She watched in horror, unable to stop tears from forming in her own eyes.
The scene changed again. She closed her eyes waiting for the image to sharpen. It didn’t. Instead she heard only a few sentences.
“I make a lot of people worry about me. But in the end all I worry about is myself.” She knew that voice. It was that of the man with sad smiles.
“That’s not true! You are a kind person. So please promise me! Don’t take it all upon yourself. If anything happens call on me and Inuki!”
Inuki…
The scenes were changing rapidly now. She barely had time to think on the name from the video when suddenly a sharp image came before her showing a girl’s face on a large TV screen. She was asking something but it fell on deaf ears as she concentrated only on the blurry image of another person standing before the screen yelling.
This girl. She was the same one she couldn’t see before. Why couldn’t she see her? Suddenly just as before, she could spare no more thought as the scene continued, wires were leaping forward. They made her recoil in fear from the screen. She couldn’t watch it. But she could still hear. A girl was crying now. But she wasn’t shown again as the larger TV screen crashed into the building she was upon.
She shook her head as the screen slipped into static. She didn’t like what the camera showed her this time. It hurt her to hear such things happening and being able to do nothing. She would just sleep now and wait for the next day the camera would show her new things.
.
The screen flashed into a scene rapidly as she sat down before it. She had moved to another place now and somehow the TV had shown up as well. She sat on a nice rock by the edge of the water where she could hear the current. She waited for the image to come into focus.
It was that same girl again. She was all right. She was talking to someone though. It was a man with casual clothes and a smile. The girl was happy.
The scenes were changing so fast before her eyes. She could hardly keep up. It was still the same day and now the girl had become inured again after healing. She had a new dog now. Inuki.
She paused for a moment, looking away from the screen to listen to the water’s currents hurrying down below her. It was such a small body of water rushing forward to join another. She looked down at it as it flowed down and around the bend, it would pass by the grass growing over the buildings that had long since fallen.
She turned her attention back to the screen; a new image was coming into focus now. It was the same girl again but this time she was with the girl from the first day, the one who was indifferent to the other boy’s advances. They were fighting against those same wires as before- those wires that were being controlled by that girl that had killed Inuki before.
Inuki.
.
She awoke heaving another yawn. She rubbed her eyes trying to get the sleep out of her eyes. She stood up, ignoring the TV for a few moments as she rinsed her face with water. She wiped her face free of the water with her sleeve. Walking back over to the screen she sat down, turning up the volume for her to hear.
“The Final day?” She whispered.
The scene this time was of the girl again, this time she was walking with the boy with sad eyes and they were in a hospital. She wondered whom they were going to see. Then she remembered. The other boy had saved the indifferent girl yesterday.
“Sorata,” she smiled.
.
So much water… This was Tokyo. The Promised Day. Kamui-san. She was watching the TV, waiting for it go on. The Final battle, it was about to end. The Kamui of the Dragons of Earth had his shinken, so did Kamui-san. But the screen had stopped playing. The image was frozen. Kamui held the shinken over Kamui-san’s heart but he did nothing.
No one was moving. The scene had stopped. She closed her eyes tiredly. Maybe this was how she had remembered it. Maybe not. She wasn’t sure anymore.
Yuzuriha took hold of the electronic system and clicked off the screen. This could have all been just a dream. Maybe it was just her mind playing tricks on her. But the camera had shown her those memories again. She didn’t like to remember these things that had happened so long ago. She had to look to the future.
.
“Ah! Inuki you’re back!” Yuzuriha smiled looking at the spirit dog before her. “I guess this means you didn’t find them did you?”
The dog whined putting its paw over its head as it leaned forward into her lap. She laughed and lifted his head up to look at her.
“We’ll just keep looking tomorrow Inuki. I’m sure we’ll find them.” She ran her hand through his hair, smoothening it down, “for now, let’s go to sleep okay?”
She got up walking away from the stream and heading towards a tree, climbing up onto a branch. She sat back on the limb and looked up at the night sky, her spirit dog lying down on the grass below the trees. The stars were shining brightly tonight. How long had it been since she looked up at them like this? How long-?
“They’re fine,” she murmured hugging herself tightly. “Everyone should be fine.”