Okay, this is a story about Saeyuki before they getting married. July, 1994, 7 am.“Oi Sae, hurry up!! I should be in the office on time”, said midlife man.
“Alright! Alright!”, a teenager out of from house to garage. And then, the car are moving to school and office.
“How could you oversleep, huh? Today I should leaving earlier than usual because I have a meeting, and you know that!”, The midlife man protest.
“I’m sorry, dad! It’s my bad”, Sae replied with bread in his mouth.
“So, what are you doing last night, huh?”, the midlife asked.
“Nothing!!”
“Don’t lie to me, kid!! I know your habit very well, Sae”“Sorry, last night I was watching a DVD that I borrowed from Akimoto. It’s a horror movie, and I ended up with no sleep until 3 am”, Sae regret.
“You know you're the coward with horror stuff, but why you can still watch that movie, huh?”
“I don’t know that was a horror movie, dad. Akimoto just give it to me without explain it’s a horror movie or not”
“And congratulations, you has become the target of his joke. Hahaha…”
“Dad!!”, Sae sulked.
Sae and his dad has reached the school…
“Alright, dad! Thanks for the ride and good luck with your meeting”, Sae dropped out of the car and say goodbye.
“Oi, Sae.. You want me to pick up later?”, the midlife shouted.
“Thanks, dad. I will go home with Akimoto. So, you don’t need to pick up me”, Sae waving his hand.His dad move to the office…
Came from back,
“Morning, my man!”, Akimoto greeting – hit Sae’s shoulders.
“Bakaero! Don't surprise me like that! It's your fault, gorilla. Because movie that you gave it to me, I can’t sleep until 3 am”, Sae pinch Akimoto’s shoulders.
“Ha.. Ha.. Ha.. Ha.. Because you’re coward with horror stuff, it’s so fun to do that”, Akimoto laugh.
When walking on corridor, Sae accidentally hit a girl. That girl fall down and her books are messy. Then, Sae try to help her.
Sae: “I-I’m sorry. Are you okay? Did you hurt?” (collecting books)Yuki: (shake her had) “I’m okay. I should apologize because I can’t see you in front of”Sae: “It’s okay. Can you stand up?” (help Yuki to stand up)Yuki: “Thanks” (smile)Sae: “Since your books are heavy, let me take it”Yuki: “Don’t! I can myself”Sae: “It’s okay! I don’t mind” (smile) – “So, what’s your name?”Yuki: “Yuki, Kashiwagi Yuki”Sae: “Sae, Miyazawa Sae. Nice to meet you, Yuki”Akimoto, Sae, Yuki: (walking to class – silence)Akimoto: “Seems we have a Romeo and Juliette here” (laugh)Sae: “Akimoto!” (stare Akimoto) – “I’m sorry, he always like that.Yuki: (smile – blushing)Akimoto: (lend his hand) “Akimoto, Akimoto Reyden. Nice to meet you, Yuki chan” (smile)Yuki: “Nice to meet you too, Akimoto san”Sae: “So, where’s your class, Yuki?”Yuki: “Right here!”Akimoto: “Aah, class 2-2, right?”Yuki: “Yeah…”Sae: “Okay, here is your books” (give the books)Yuki: “Thank you, Sae san, Akimoto san” (bow)Sae and Akimoto continued walked to their class, 2-3
(2nd Years, class 3).
“She’s beautiful, right?”, Akimoto asked.
Sae pensive and replied,
“Huh?”“Kashiwagi Yuki, a girl that you hit earlier. She’s beautiful, right?”, Akimoto chuckled.
“Yeah..”“C’mon, my man. You’re more quiet after the incident earlier. Don’t tell me that you’re….”
“Me what?”
“You’re in love with her?”, “Bakaero! That’s impossible! We just meet today. How can you tell that I’m falling in love with her, huh?”
“Don’t you ever hear about falling in love in first sight?”
“Falling in love in first sight? Baka! I don’t believe that!”
“Be careful, Sae. Your word is your prayer, man”A teacher came and the lessons has started…
12 pm, The bells was ringing, and they have a break time for lunch. Sae and Akimoto went to the cafeteria.
“Aaahh.. Thanks goodness the bells was ringing. Takahashi sensei lessons was boring like usual”, said Akimoto.
“But you sleep well in the class, gorilla”, answer Sae.
“That was… Forget it! Haha.. I want eat some ramen now. What do you want, Sae?”
“Go ahead, Akimoto. I should gotta go now!”
“Where you’re going?”, Akimoto shouted.
“A toilet!!”, Sae replied.
“Sae man, Sae man”, Akimoto shake his head.
Out of from a toilet, Sae meet Yuki for second time
(it’s okay, Sae was clean)..
“Aah, Yuki..”, greeting Sae.
“Sae san..”, she smile.
“Drop the San, please”, he laugh.
“Just call me Sae, okay?”“Okay..”
“Are you going to lunch? You can go out with me to cafeteria”
“Alright!”While walking to cafeteria, there’s someone took Yuki away from Sae..
“Nabe san?”, Yuki shocked.
“Hey, what are you doing, man?”, Sae let go off Nabe’s hand from Yuki.
“It’s not your business, so stay away!”, Nabe threaten.
“Let me go, Nabe san!”, Yuki try to let her hand off from Nabe.
“No, you should go out with me, Yuki! You still have to explain why you broke me up”, Nabe pull Yuki’s hand forceful.
“Everything was clear. I don’t want to be with you anymore. I am not like your stash girl, Nabe san”Nabe stopped,
“My stash girl? What do you mean, huh?”“Sashihara told me everything. She told me that you are being together with other girls in the hotel last night. But you know, that day we should going out to cinema, and you had promise with me”, Yuki is crying.
“This is the second time you did it to me, you have destroyed my faith on you, Nabe san”, Yuki leaving Nabe and go out with Sae.
Nabe stare Sae deeper,
“Who the hell are you, bastard?!”Yuki bring Sae away to rooftop, a place where Yuki could feel calm and also stay away from Nabe.
(in other words, a rooftop is a secret place of Yuki)Sae: “Ano, Yuki, are you alright?”Yuki: (wipe her tears) “I’m okay, Sae”Sae: “Here..” (give handkerchief to Yuki)Yuki: “Thanks”Sae: “He’s your boyfriend?”Yuki: “EX-, he’s my ex-boyfriend”Sae: “Right!!”Sae sent a message to Akimoto,
To: Akimoto
Sub: Help me!!
Hey, Gorilla. Please buy me 2 mineral water and 2 bread. I was on the rooftop now.
Yuki: “I don’t understand why boys always cheating when he already had a girlfriend”Sae: “Hey, I’m not like that”Yuki: (stare Sae)Sae: “Sorry!”Silence…Yuki: “What do you mean with you’re not like them?”Akimoto: “Because he never have a girlfriend, Yuki chan” (suddenly appear)Yuki: “Akimoto san? How do you know here?” (confused)Akimoto: “That boy was telling me” (pointing Sae)Sae: “I’m sorry, Yuki. But don’t worry, he can keep a secret! Right, Akimoto?”Akimoto: “Yup! You can counting me, Yuki chan” (give a mineral water and bread to Yuki) “Here!”Yuki: “Thanks, Akimoto san”Akimoto: “And here is for you” (throw a mineral water and bread to Sae)Sae: “Hey, gorilla!”Akimoto: “What’s wrong?”Sae: “Can you give it slowly to me without throw it?” (protest)Yuki: (laugh)Akimoto: “Sorry, my hands slip. Ha.. Ha.. Ha..” Sae, Yuki: (eat their bread)Akimoto: “So, what happened to you both?”Yuki: “Just a little problem” (smile)Akimoto: “Problem? Because of he?” (pointing Sae)Sae: “Oi.. Oi.. What do you mean because of me?”Akimoto: “Yuki chan told that she has a little problem, and you’re with her now, right?”Sae: “Yeah, but it’s nothing to do with me, gorilla”Finally, Yuki was cheered because they both. And they back to the class…
3 pm, school activites was over. Time for Sae and Akimoto go home. They took a train. When they walking, there was a man who obstruct them. Right, Watanabe, Yuki ex-boyfriend.
“Hey, you!”, Nabe called Sae.
“Who is he?”, Akimoto asked.
“Kashiwagi ex-boyfriend. Stay here, okay?!”, Sae explain.
“Alright!”, Akimoto confused.
‘Kashiwagi ex-boyfriend? Hm, aah, Yuki chan ex-boyfriend, huh?’, he thought.
Sae came closer,
“What’s wrong?”“Here!”, Nabe pinch Sae’s face and Sae was fall.
“Sae!!”, Akimoto shouted.
“Stay away, Akimoto! (Sae shouted) I’m okay!”, Sae stand up. “What’s your problem, huh?”
“That’s for steal my girlfriend”, replied Nabe with angry face.
“Your girlfriend? You mean Kashiwagi?”
“Yeah..”
“But she told me that you’re her ex-boyfriend, so she isn’t your girlfriend anymore, Nabe kun”
“She’s still my girlfriend!”
“Not for a man who cheating her twice”Nabe looks so angry, but Sae told,
“I don’t have a business with you, Nabe kun. Moreover, I’m not steal your girlfriend. We just meet today. If you want to looking for foe, find it somewhere else”, Sae leaving Nabe.
“Let’s go, Akimoto!”“Alright! But are you okay? What’s that man problem?”
“He said that I steal Kashiwagi from him”
“Steal? Are you robber, Sae man?”
“Don’t give a joke, Akimoto”They reached Akihabara station and suddenly meet Yuki there.
Yuki came closer to Sae and Akimoto,
“Konichiwa”, she bow.
“Ah, Yuki chan. Konichiwa”, Akimoto replied.
“Konichiwa..”, Sae replied too.
“You took a train too, Yuki chan?”, Akimoto asked.
“Yes, Akimoto san. I took a train to Hibiya”, Yuki answer.
“Saechan? What happen to your face?”, Yuki asked and touch Sae’s face.
“Ah, nothing! I just hit a door when out from class”, he laugh.
“Mou, Saechan. You need be careful later, okay?”
“Okay!”, he smile.
A local train headed for Hibiya is approaching on line three.
Please stand behind the yellow line.
“Ah, that’s my train. Then, Akimoto san, Saechan, good day”, Yuki say goodbye.
“Bye bye, Yuki chan”, Akimoto greeting back.
“Let’s go, Akimoto! Our train has come”, Sae talk.
On the train..
Akimoto: “Oi, Sae..”Sae: “Huh?”Akimoto: “Why you didn’t tell her about that man?”Sae: “For what?”Akimoto: “For.. Remind her, maybe”Sae: “Baka!”Akimoto: “By the way, why she call you Saechan?”Sae: “I don’t know”Akimoto: “Don’t tell me if she…”Sae: “Not again, gorilla”Akimoto: “Ha.. Ha.. Ha..” At the house, when Sae just come home..
Dad: “Oi.. Oi.. Hold on!”Sae: “What’s wrong, dad?”Dad: “What happened to your face, huh? Are you fighting?”Sae: “It’s nothing, dad! I wanna take a shower” (move inside)Dad: “If you fighting for a girl that you loved, keep her!” (shouted)Sae: “Yes sir”8 pm, time for doing homework..
‘Aah, it’s really hurt (he touch his cheek). That man!! What’s his problem? I just meet her girlfriend today, and he accusing me stealing his girlfriend’, thought Sae.
“But Akimoto was right, Kashiwagi are beautiful. I never seen her before”, talking alone – smile while imagine Yuki. There was an incoming message from unknown number to Sae’s phone.
From: Unknown
Sub: Good Night
Good night, Saechan. Are you busy right now?
“Saechan? I don’t have any nickname with Saechan”, he talking alone.
To: Unknown
Sub: Re-Good Night
Good night, too. I’m not busy right now. But, who are you?
“Wait a minute! The one who called me Saechan was…”Yuki: “I’m sorry if disturb you, Saechan. It’s me, Kashiwagi”Sae: “Kashiwagi?” (shouted – not replied the SMS) “Oh my God! I just thinking of her few minute, and now she’s sent me a message” (jump on the bed – happy) “Wait, how do you know my number, Yuki?” (he asked now)Yuki: “Akimoto san give your number to me”Sae: “Akimoto?”Yuki: “Yeah, I was on phone with Kana chan, she said she know Akimoto. And then, she give me Akimoto’s number and I asking your number to Akimoto. Sorry, Saechan.”
Sae: “No, no, it’s okay, Yuki. You don’t need to apologize to me. So, what are you doing now?”Yuki: “Nothing! Just relax while watching TV. And you?”Sae: “I just finished doing homework, he.. he.. he..”Yuki: “Nee, Saechan..”Sae: “What’s wrong, Yuki?”Yuki: “That bruise on your cheeks was from Nabe san, right?”Sae: “No, it’s not”Yuki: “Don’t lie to me, Saechan”Sae: “I’m sorry!”Yuki: “What he does to you?”Sae: “He just pinch my face, that’s all”Yuki: “He didn’t say anything?”Sae: “He told me that I stole you from him”Yuki: “He said that?”Sae: “Yeah..”Yuki: “I’m sorry, Saechan. I didn’t mean to get you in my problem”Sae: “It’s okay, Yuki. You don’t need to worry about me”Yuki: “How could I not be worried about you. You’re were hit because of me”Sae: “I said, it’s okay, Yuki. This hurt isn’t seriously”Yuki: “Really?”Sae: “Yeah.. It’s over 10 now. You should sleep now, Yuki”Yuki: “Alright, you should sleep soon too, Saechan”Sae: “Oyasumi, Yuki”Yuki: “Oyasumi, Saechan” ♥♥“What’s wrong with the heart sign in the end?”, he smile.
“Don’t tell me that she was….”, he laugh.
“But wait.. Where's she know that Nabe kun hit me? Ah, gorilla. It was you, right!”