Hi, so first of all I thought that the best for these last chapters was to make them on third person, and not in first as it have been.
Another thing is that this chapter has explicit scenes, so I had to cut them beacuse of the page rules, but if you want to read it complete go to my tumblr just click
hereAnd I will take a rest from the fic because of Christmas and all, so the next update will be probably in one month or so. I hope you like this chapter and look forward to the next ones, we are really close to the end!!
Merry Christmas and happy new year
THROUGH TIME - CHAPTER 32The world had stop at the second their eyes found each other, and the only thing that matters was that finally they had each other face to face once again, it wasn’t an illusion anymore. They didn’t even dare to blink as they fear that at any second the other one could disappear if they did. The torment of thinking that maybe they wouldn’t see again felt like an eternity and was the worst among martyrdom; their days seemed meaningless, and the hammering of their hearts resounding in their ears, confirmed once again, that there is no worth life if they are not with the person they loved.
Jurina was unable to move, she had search in every single corner of the kingdom without having a single victory, but know she was in front of her, as beautiful as always and maybe more, just like an angel. Jurina understood that her life didn’t belong her anymore, and is Rena the owner of her whole being.
Rena began to slowly move forward, she forgot about space and time, and she couldn’t care less either, she belong whatever Jurina was, by being with her time disappears, not even that the sun goes down was as terrifying as the thought of not seeing her again.
Her steps become faster and faster and now she found herself running, reducing with each step the distance between them, distance than just some minutes ago was infinite and unreachable, until finally she was again between the arms of her prince, who felt backwards but without letting of go her princess, feeling again complete Jurina hold Rena tightly, it was definitely her, her search was over.
“I found you” Jurina closed her eyes, allowing herself to breathe again under Rena’s intoxicant scent.
“I thought I would never see you again” Rena lifted her face from Jurina’s nape to find those deep and intense eyes in which she wouldn’t mind get lost over and over again.
“You won’t get rid of me so easily” Jurina caress Rena’s cheek with great delicacy and tenderness, like if she could break at any time.
Without could hold it back any longer Rena close the gap between their lips in a kiss that took their breath away, along with everything they are and have, putting all of thyself in that warm touch, without even matter if there were dozens of people around, they need to feel again their beating hearts that seemed to be on fire each time they lips collide, the sensation of be floating, the sensation of being alive, a kiss that transcend time and makes them travel to another world.
Once their lips separate, they couldn’t help but curve in the most sincere smile that they had on weeks, to then get up from the grass, intertwining their fingers to finally have their other half by their side, Rena began to drag Jurina thorough the hallways, who just had realized by that moment about her surroundings, realizing that she was definitely too far from the castle, maybe an island.
People seemed way too different, and the only thing they did, was looking at her amazed and pointing at her with a kind of box that was between their hands.
“Rena, where are we?” She had to ask. She can’t remember how she got there, the only thing she knows is that she woke up and suddenly Rena was already in front of her.
Rena turned her head with a big grin plaster on her face “Welcome to the year 2016” there was so many things she wanted to show to Jurina that she couldn’t bear with her excitement, she wanted to see Jurina’s reaction to the most simple and common things, maybe she was even more excited than the prince.
“So it was true…” Jurina was amazed, it all seemed like a new world and everything fascinate her, she felt like a curious child with everything she saw.
“You didn’t believe me when I told you?” Rena wondered confused to Jurina’s comment.
“I did, but I had my doubts, everything seemed too fantastic” Jurina answered sincerely, and Rena couldn’t blame her for thinking that way, if someone had told her something like that, she would’ve been skeptic too.
Rena’s steps guide them to the cafeteria, and to the same table in which was before to find Airi, who kept on looking at her phone, just that her expression was a lot way more astonish than before, rolling madly at whatever she was looking in the screen with her eyes wide open. Rena could already tell the reason for it.
“Airi, please lend me your car” Rena asked once she was in front of her.
“Matsui Rena, can I know why are you throwing yourself into the arms of a stra-” Airi’s words got interrupted by her own surprise, as when she lift her gaze up she found next Rena the person who was the last topic in collage, who the only thing that was doing, was to look around her with amaze.
“Airi, she’s Jurina” Rena introduce her when she noticed her friend’s expression, dragging at the same time the tallest attention.
“Nice to meet you, Matsui Jurina” Said making a reverence just like she’s used to, leaving Airi even more speechless.
“Is she the Jurina?”
“She is” The silly smile didn’t left Rena’s lips and Airi almost could she sparkles coming out from her, Airi couldn’t recognize her best friend, but she couldn’t be more happy for Rena, and the Jurina sounded like a nice person based on what Rena described her.
“So… can I use your car?” Rena insisted once more.
“Sure, but be careful, you’ve never been a good driver” Airi gave Rena the key for her car not really sure if she was doing the right thing.
“I will, thank you” Rena rushed once again her steps this time to the parking lot, but Jurina’s hand stop her way, she had forgot that Jurina still maintain her manners.
“It was a pleasure Airi-san” Jurina said goodbye along with her charming smile to then leave with Rena, gaining the sight of those who were curiously looking at them. If Rena didn’t knew Jurina, she would definitely think that the prince was flirting.
“Nagoya princess just found her prince” Airi recite the news that were flooding the collage, news that she just verify with her own eyes as she saw them leaving, the silhouette of two people that seems to shine just by the simple fact of having each other.
Once they were in front of Airi’s car, Rena walked to the driver’s seat, waiting for Jurina to the same in the other side, fact that never happened. Jurina found herself frowning at the sight of the huge metallic objet with wheels.
“What kind of evolution did horses had?” Said while she tried to touch with a single finger the strange thing, fearing the kind of reaction that this might had.
Rena had to hold back her laugh when she saw the funny expressions in Jurina’s face, almost like if the car where the most disgusting thing that ever existed, laying a finger on it and then move it away quickly.
“This is not an animal; it’s a car I talked to you about it”
“I see…”
“C’mon get in” Rena went back to her seat, it’s been a long time since she haven’t drive and now she was a lot more nervous than when she did it. While she was struggling with her thoughts, she realized that Jurina still hadn’t went in “Jurina?”
“Rena… how do I get inside this thing?”
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Jurina was holding from whatever she could. She had lost the count on how many times she thought she would die, and even if the car had already stopped she was unable to move. Jurina had just experience the worst of the panics, and she had never been so relief by standing in her own feet once she went out form the vehicle that made her saw dead in front of her eyes.
“I think, that I prefer horses” Jurina easily concluded while she tried to control her trembling knees.
“I’m sorry” Rena was aware of her bad ability to drive, but this time it was worse than she remembered, and it was just at the middle of the road that she thought that it would be easier to call her driver.
“What is this place?” Wondered Jurina once she managed to calm her nerves down and taking a look around her.
“This is my house” Answered Rena while she stepped in. Her house was what can be defined as a mansion, her parents love to waste money investing in those four walls, but still Rena knew that it didn’t compare to the castle in which Jurina is used to live.
“Is lovely” Commented Jurina, everything was new and overwhelming for her, in each corner she found more and more things that she had never seen.
While she was following Rena’s steps through the stairs, Jurina found hanging on the walls the thing that had leaved her more astonished. On the walls seemed to be some paintings of people, but it were so perfect and detail that it seemed unreal, not even the most skilful artist could manage to do that. She took between her hands the one which catch the most her attention, it was the one that had a girl with long and black hair as the night, pale skin as the snow and bright smile, Jurina easily recognized who the girl was.
“This is a photograph” Rena’s voice surprised her “You can freeze a moment with it in an instant, come I’ll show you” Rena took Jurina’s hand and head to her room.
Rena rummage through the drawers for her old Polaroid camera that her grandmother had gave her, and when she finally found it she put it in between Jurina’s hands.
“You look through here, and then you push this button” She explained Jurina how it worked, and straightaway a flash took her by surprise to her and to Jurina, who couldn’t bear with her amaze as the photograph came out from the small camera slot.
Rena observed each expression that Jurina made as she saw the photo, her eyes seem to harbor a million of galaxies and her smile bright her face while she appreciate what was in her hands, as if it were the most wonderful work of art.
“You are so beautiful Rena” Was the first thing that Jurina commented as she lift her gaze, her eyes were full with so much love that it seemed to overflow, a look that leaved Rena breathless and made her heart skip a beat, making her body move by its own desire, taking Jurina’s lips in a blink, who dropped whatever was in her hands to wrapped her arms around Rena’s waist.
There was nothing in this world that could make their lips separate, exploring every inch of their velvet cave in the soft but at the same time fierce dance between their tongues, the world could be facing its ending outside and not even that could take their minds away from the warm touch.
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Both were looking into their eyes, Jurina making small and soft caress on Rena’s bare back, no words were need. The only thing occupying their minds, was the universe in which they lost each time their gazes found each other.
“What with that face?” Asked curious Rena. Jurina had an expression that she had never seen before, her factions were relax, her deep orbs seemed to sparkle more than normal, and a shy but subtle smile didn’t leave her lips, the kind of smirk that appears without you even realize it, so you can’t even control it, as the joy is to overwhelming.
“What face?” Said Jurina between giggles and lifting up her gaze from Rena’s strands of hair with which she was playing.
“That face” Rena couldn’t help get caught by Jurina’s contagious smile, which get to even look childish as it was so pure and genuine.
“I’m happy” Finally confessed Jurina, because there wasn’t another word that could describe the beat of her heart and the feeling of daydreaming.
Rena smile inevitable and hide her flush face on Jurina’s chest, listening to the beating of her heart, the one that she knew so perfectly and that ease her own one.
“Rena… why are you here?” Jurina had to ask, ending with the serenity in the atmosphere, to turn it into a tense and serious one. But there wasn’t any danger anymore, there wasn’t any Honoka nor Ryuu that could damage them.
“I knew about the deal with Honoka, and that she was threatening you” Answered Rena, and immediately she could hear how Jurina’s heart began to beat faster “I saw the both of you the night I disappeared. I didn’t want her to keep controlling you or that she could do something to you because of me, that’s why I thought that the best I could do was leave” After her confession silence rule the room, so Rena had to dare to face Jurina, jut to find her frowning mad at her.
“What you just said has a lot of errors” Jurina said, she felt deeply mad and no with Rena, but with herself, she should had known that Honoka will use the situation and twist the information to her favor “First of all, my biggest problem is when I don’t have you by my side, and second Honoka never threatened me”
Rena was found herself voiceless, if it wasn’t a threat, then what was what she saw and everything Ryuu told her.
“Then what means what happened that night and the deal which you can’t deny” It doesn’t matter how much she think about it, she couldn’t find an explanation, not a logic one.
“The deal was that I will help Honoka with her father’s work, Yudai-san fell really ill. He helped us a lot in the past and I couldn’t deny mine when he needed it” Explain quickly Jurina, she didn’t want Rena to have a wrong idea of what she saw, as she could already see her struggling with her thoughts “The night in which you disappear I wasn’t supposed to go because I had already finish with the work, but the Honoka was begging me to go and then she began to cry uncontrollable because of the state of her father and from the nowhere she threw herself in my arms. I couldn’t reject her… no in that moment”
Now everything made sense in Rena’s mind, realizing how easily Ryuu and Honoka played with her, fooling her like a child, she should had known their plan from a beginning, they took advantage from Jurina’s kindness, and Rena believed them blindfolded.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” Yet she had that doubt that didn’t leave her alone.
“You were so sick that you could barely open your eyes, I couldn’t tell you in that state” Answered Jurina like if it were the most logic thing in the world, and Rena couldn’t argue anything, because she knew Jurina was right “In fact, no one knew about it” She added, making that Rena develop another question.
“Then what were you talking with Paruru that same night if it wasn’t about that, it was about a decision too” Rena remembered that they were talking about a decision that didn’t had another way out.
Jurina had to force her memory, there were several things that she talked with Paruru that day, until a click popped in her mind.
“We were talking about Aiko. She is not able to work anymore, we all know that her age doesn’t allow it, so I was thinking to ask her to please stop work definitely, but she still will keep living in the castle, just that not like a worker” Jurina thought on telling Rena about that when she found her outside her office, but all that she could thing was on finish with her work as fast as possible so she could properly rest.
Now it was Rena who found herself mad, at the same time than frustrated and disappointed, she couldn’t believe that Honoka’s trick almost made her lose everything she loved, she had been so ridiculously naïve.
“I’m sorry. I should had talked with you” She knew she should have, but she had been stubborn and almost ruined everything, she had had the worst of luck.
“It’s ok, it wasn’t your fault” Jurina tried to comfort Rena understanding the situation, Rena just had been in the wrong place at the wrong moment so Honoka’s plan could work perfectly, and make Rena doubt about Jurina and blame herself. And she had to confess, that in Rena’s place she would had done the same, if at some point Jurina sense that her presence could harm or make Rena unhappy, she would prefer distance herself from her beloved, so she wouldn’t have to suffer.
“Yes, you are here now” Rena recovered the joy that she still couldn’t fully believe. Jurina was with her on the XXI century, and she could already imagine how perfect her life will be from now on “How did you get here?” She wanted to know.
“I’m not really sure, I just woke up and you were in front of me” Jurina sincerely answered “How did you made it to the past?” Maybe by knowing how Rena did it she could find an answer to her case.
“I made a wish in my birthday. I asked for true love, and to be honest, it couldn’t have been better fulfill” Rena said a little bit embarrassed, it’s still a little bit strange to say such cheesy things.
“I see… I made a wish too” Suddenly a vacuum appeared in her stomach, and her chest began to hurt like it never had as she recall her wish, her lower lip began to tremble and she tightened Rena’s body to hers, as Jurina realized that she would possible lose Rena again.
“Jurina?” Asked Rena confuse for the sudden change in Jurina behave, her smile had vanish and her eyes were full with angst.
“I’m so so so sorry. I didn’t thought about it. I just said the first thing that came to my mind” Jurina began to stutter, placing the palm of her hands over her eyes that overflow with tears, making that the fear reached Rena.
“What happened, what is your wish, Jurina” Rena tried to get some response but Jurina seemed to be in a state of shock, unable to listen. It was not until Rena move aside Jurina’s hands from her eyes that she could had an answer.
“I only have one week” Jurina had to finally say it. Her voice was full with pain, why this had to happened to her, it was like if life deny her the possibility to be happy, laughing in her face each time she thought she had found a way out from the darkness.
“Why?” Rena said in a monotonous voice, she was at the point in which everything seemed to slowly died inside her once again, the pain that she thought she would have never had to feel again just a couple of hours ago.
“I didn’t thought you would be in the future. I thought that a week would be enough to bring you back to the castle from whatever place you were” Explained Jurina.
Rena’s mind went blank, not even tears felt down from her eyes, there wasn’t any future together, she didn’t even know if at some point it existed, as everything seemed to be against them, it doesn’t matter how much they love each other, the universe seemed insisted on separate them.
Jurina couldn’t bear with the guilt, a bunch of “if only” came across her mind, but nothing of it matter anymore, because the reality which she has to live was another, one that can’t be change, one in which it seem impossible to be with Rena.
“Let’s forget about that” Said Rena, she was already tired of thinking, time always seemed to be against her and she was tired of worry about this one “Let’s forget about time and just focus on being together. I don’t want to think on what is going to happen tomorrow, I just want to be with you and enjoy your company without any worries”
Jurina thought about it for a minute, for the first time in her life she could ignore her responsibilities, and even if it was just for a week, she wanted it to feel like an eternity, the one she wanted to be with Rena, appreciating each second that she had with her, without thinking on anything else that it wasn’t about her princess.
“Just you and I then”
Like that, both agreed that the time they will be together they wouldn’t mention anything about it, and they would just try to live the life both dream, without worries, ignoring the clock hands that slowly approached them to the moment in which they would have to inevitably say their last goodbye, as their enemy this time was invincible.