This will be a fic with more of one chapter, hope you like it C:
Chapter 0 /prologue
When you fell in love of someone, the idea is that it would be forever, share the happiness and sadness, successes and failures, anger, blame, so even in more extreme cases, delusions.
You can know it’s the right person when you see yourself sharing all those things beside that someone, when you know that once that person will not be at your side anymore would be like your life doesn’t have sense, it would being to live just because you feel it as a duty to do so.
For Kashiwagi Yuki, that person had appeared as if was by magic, as if just to wave a wand, the whole world had illuminated with large spheres of light, showing a completely different landscape to which she had been seeing all those past years.
The someone chosen to Yuki was a woman, at the end, love doesn’t distinguish whether you fall for someone older or younger, for a man or a woman, love is love and for Yuki, love was Watanabe Mayu.
They met by a fate twist, Yuki being a prodigy of fencing, had her career assured, which she liked to spend her little free time visiting calm places where she could enjoy a good coffee or a cold drink, depending of the season, but for Mayu was something different, although she was very smart in the field of programming, she should pay her tuition, even taking scholarship, there were costs to be covered, and being in a not very rich family, she should lend her support somehow, and that was the reason why she was working as a waitress in a cafe, which Yuki visited in a cold winter afternoon.
The crush was mutual and instantly, only was needed to look into each other eyes to understand that they should spend the rest of their lives with each other, there was no turning back, fate had spoken and they had to meet, become friends and then be girlfriends.
The road was hard, as was expected for a same-sex couple, but eventually accepted by both families.
After two years of relationship, Yuki being older, graduated from college and continued her fencing career, after all, she was a national competitor, and had already won a free national competitions, her career would afloat, the same for Mayu, which maintained high grades in her classes and was one of the chosen to participate in a major project for a well know company.
Happier story couldn’t have been told, even in the bedtime stories that Yuki used to listen from her mother’s lips when she was only a child, but a happy ending was needed for such beautiful story.
Yuki decided to step forward and engage with Mayu, she was sure of her feelings, and she should ensure that Mayu was feeling the same.
“With this, I hope you know that my heart will always be yours, and that in the future, which I hope isn’t too far away, we can get married” Yuki said with a big smile as buttoning a beautiful necklace in Mayu’s neck, the necklace had a beautiful pendant, with two interlaced letters “M” and “Y” referring to the first letter of each of their names.
Mayu couldn’t contain her tears with so much happiness, everything was perfect, she couldn’t ask for anything more in her life than this, Yuki had become her world, and she knew very well that she was the world of Yuki, but to confirm it like this, it was a completely different level.
“I’ll make sure it’s not too far away the time that we got married” Mayu assured in tears as she hugged her not only girlfriend but her fiancee
Maybe a ring can be more correct for such occasion, but for Yuki the necklace was more, the design was made by herself, and she put so much indescribable love doing it, and Mayu knew it, the happiness between the couple was exorbitant, seeing them like that you couldn’t think of anything bad could ever happen…
But not always happen that way, sometimes happiness is simply truncated from one second to another…
“Then we’ll see in a while, right? I’m very excited by this date” Yuki said trying to contain a big smile in her lips.
“I know, I know, I will try to finish my homework first, okay? I know tomorrow you have to travel to sign some sponsors and we will not be able to see each other for a whole week, I promise I will finish my pending as quickly as possible” Mayu replied smiling at her excited girlfriend, yet she knew that deep down was sad just like she was, being separated by one whole week was difficult, but, what is better than have a romantic date before the momentary separation?
“Well then, see you in a while, call me when your ready and I’ll go for you” Yuki said showing her phone
“I will, I will, Yukirin, sometimes you behave as if you were my mom or the young of the relationship” Mayu smiled at her hyper girlfriend “I think is better to take our way before we decide to stay here and don’t move at all”
“See you then… I already miss you” Yuki said as she gave a little kiss on Mayu’s lips, which Mayu had to admit adored, her girlfriend was cheesy, and was good for the relationship, since she didn’t was like that and do that kind of actions still caused her some embarrassment, but Yuki didn’t feel that and she tanked her for that.
Without saying a word and with her cheeks pink, Mayu gave a goodbye sign with her hand and turned her back to Yuki to start her way home, for Yuki’s part, she turned around with a big smile on her face, Who wouldn’t be happy after seeing her girlfriend blushed for such a loving gesture? it was a beautiful sight indeed.
Taking advantage of her romanticism of the moment, Yuki pulled out her phone and dialed Mayu’s number, after a couple of waiting sounds she could hear the voice of the love of her life.
“We just say goodbye and you already calling me? Yukirin, you need more friends to talk apart of me” she said feigning annoyance
“You are awesome to turn down the romance of a person, Mayuyu” Yuki grumbled at the cold response of Mayu
“Maybe if you had at least waited to me to arrive to my house, I would have answered different, but I just saw you like five minutes ago” Mayu replied containing her laughter
“Okay, okay, then I will hang up and will call you when I think you already arrived” Yuki said resigned, but Mayu didn’t want her to hang up yet, it’s just that she feel embarrassed to admit that she was feeling the same as Yuki and that she already missed her.
“Hmmm… Where you said we’d go to dinner?” Mayu asked in a doubtful tone, but Yuki knew that it was her way of saying that she didn’t want to hang up yet
“I didn’t told you, that’s why you don’t remember” replied Yuki suppressing her smile, she loved Mayu, even with her lack of words of love.
“Seriously? I thought…” But Yuki couldn’t hear Mayu’s words as they were interrupted by a loud sound, at hear that Yuki stopped walking
“Mayu? are you okay? what was that sound?” Yuki asked to the phone as she was waiting scared to hear Mayu’s voice, but there was no response from her, however, strange noises were heard, until she could hear a little of Mayu’s voice but she had said something in understandable, without thinking twice, she turned her way and started walking toward Mayu’s home while she was trying to hear more clearly at the phone.
“Give me that damn necklace!” Yuki could overhear through the phone, it was a man’s voice, deep and raspy, as the same time she could hear Mayu’s voice giving a negative response, that was enough for Yuki to felt as if she was risen to a roller coaster and was just in the time of the highest drop of the same, she could feel a shiver ran down her body at the same time she felt a great anger at what she heard, Mayu was being assaulted by a man and sounded dangerous.
Feeling that her legs didn’t respond as they should, thanks to the fear she felt knowing that Mayu was in that situation, Yuki began to try to run as fast as possible, but a loud sound stopped her, a loud sound that she could recognize, it wasn’t like the thunders of the storm that was approaching the city, it was one that she had heard many times in these action movies… it was the sound of a weapon, a gun.
The cries began to resonate from one second to another, panic screams and people running in her direction, but she couldn’t run away, the feeling of her stomach become more evident, she felt like vomiting for the simple fact of thinking the worst but she couldn’t help it, not after she knew what was happening, swallowing the fear she began to run again, to the contrary direction of what several people was running, and in the distance, she could saw a group of people bonded to the entrance of a small alley, her heart beating a mile for minute, ignoring any sound of the people and even ignoring the raindrops that was starting to fall over her, she approached with a slower pace, pushing one or two persons to get close, she slowly peek up to the alley…
She could only see part of the body, as she had a dumpster which covered half of it, but a large pool of blood began to mix with rainwater, the clothes that she knew very well, covered with moist soil and rainwater, as the same time it was colored with the blood that it made look that white blouse as if it was originally red, and in her hand, which was laying on the ground, her fist still contained the necklace…
That cursed necklace by which all this had happened, the cursed necklace that she had given her, the cursed necklace by which she witnessed now this terrible scene, she didn’t realize that was beginning to move toward the lifeless body of her girlfriend, of that young woman that she felt a tremendous love and she had seen a few minutes ago, which had just listened only a few moments ago.
It was unreal, it was a dream, a nightmare, tears trickled one by one on her cheeks, every step was like a stab on her chest, breathing which was a natural function now seemed like a difficult task to realize, until she was close enough to see her face, her eyes closed as it was asleep, but a large red stain on her chest, looking down she saw her hand still holding the necklace in her fist, as it would protect it of everything… which was what happened… she protected it, even with her own life.
She couldn’t say a word, not even when the police arrived, nor when they pulled her back so she would stay away from the scene, she could only speak to answer a few questions later, she didn’t think this was real, even when she saw Mayu’s parents cry, or her parents who were there with her to show they was there at her side on this sad times.
The trip she planned was postponed, when you fall in love, it’s supposed to be forever, the idea is pass the lifetime together, but this wasn’t a story who is told to a child before bed, this was the reality, her reality, and if the love of her life was no longer at her side, nothing mattered anymore.
The funeral step as if she was seeing it in third person, the tears stopped for a while, but seeing how the soil was falling on the coffin was enough to the tears to come back, it was the last goodbye, she wouldn’t see her again, hear her again, all those moments they spent would be just memories, theres was no future, no plans, they had disappeared.
The rain fell hard again that day, all the present ran to cover from the water, but Yuki didn’t, she couldn’t separate from that place yet, it was if her legs had taken roots and decided to simply stay planted there.
It took her a couple of hours to decide to finally move from there, finding again Mayu’s parents, who treated her like a doughtier, they embraced her, she had lost the love of her life, but they had lost their all, their only daughter, words were not necessary, everyone felt the same pain, the same emptiness, the loss of the person who was the most important in their lives.
But Mayu’s mother pulled out a small black bag
“It’s better if you keep it” she said as she tried to make her words understandable after how much she was sobbing
Yuki took the small black bag and nodded, it isn’t necessary say more, Yuki parted ways and went to her home, a small apartment she had been renting since she decided to leave her parents house when she graduated from collage, which planned to share with Mayu sometime or maybe, leave it behind to find a new home with her.
But that doesn’t matter anymore, she wasn’t in this world anymore… on her way to her apartment, lost in her thoughts and memories, she passed a newsstand, turning her gaze, it was as if the world conspired to make her suffer in every possible way, in the headlines you could see the name of Mayu, and the events that had happened the day before, June 21 was the day set as the date of the fateful incident in each of them, such as a moment of self torture, she bought one and ripped the part of the newspaper that spoke of the incident, keeping it in one of her jacket pockets.
Finally on her apartment, after such a long and winding road, she lit a small lamp she had in her bedroom, what she less wanted is have all the lights on, the main light of her life was gone, and if she saw her apartment wi would be difficult not remember the moments she spend with Mayu watching movies in the living room or preparing dinner in the kitchen.
Before placing her wet jacket aside, she felt something in her pocket, she saw the note of the newspaper, but also the small black bag that Mayu’s mother had given her, upon opening the bag she saw something that she didn’t want to see.
It was the necklace with the “M” and “Y” intertwined, the reason for all this madness, she watched it with anger, but she knew that in the end she couldn’t blame only the necklace, there were more factors, and the necklace wasn’t who shot the gun, she couldn’t do more than cry again, tears hardly went out, there were no one anymore, her head ached for all the time she had cried, but she couldn’t think of doing anything else, there was anything she could do anyway.
About to fall asleep, and the necklace tightened heavily on her hand over her chest, there was only one thing in which she could think of
“I wish I had another chance, a chance to turn back time and maybe, on this time, be able to do something to save you…”