[FAN FIC] Smudged by Coffee (Prologue)
Title: Smudged by Coffee
Length: 311 words - actual story for this chapter (chaptered)
Rating: PG-7
Genre: Adventure, family, a bit of a mystery, supernatural
Pairing: Sakumoto (main)
Summary: Sho has a mission and his friend Masaki and cousin/guardian angel Satoshi will help him.
Author's Note:
This is the final saga of my trilogy (with Heavenly Coffee and Message in a Cup). Our favorite characters are back with a new story. Special thanks to my beta saana_13.
Character Time Line
1989 - Blue, Red and Green died and became angels
2009 - Jun (Purple), Nino (Yellow), Ryo (Pink) died in the same catastrophe and became angels (Heaveny Coffee)
2019 - Satoshi died and became an angel, Nino switched jobs from a Shinigami to a guardian angel (Message in a Cup)
*Jun (Purple) and Junich “Jun” Matsumoto are two different people
Blue and Satoshi “Toshi” Ohno are two different people
Red and Sho Sakurai are two different peopleGreen and Masaki Aiba are two different people
Sho’s guardian angel is Satoshi
Masaki’s guardian angel is Nino (Yellow)
Jun’s guardian angel is Ryo (Pink)
Prologue
"Aren't you going to give me some privacy?" Sho Sakurai suddenly closed the diary that he held and protectively placed it on his chest.
Satoshi Ohno, Sho's guardian angel and late cousin, rolled his eyes. "That's Uncle Shu's diary, not yours. Let me have a look!" He demanded with a pout.
Sho continued to hug the diary on his chest as if his life depended on it. He got up from the chair and stretched a protective arm to make sure that Satoshi won’t get near him.
“I just want to see that page, Sho. There’s no point in keeping it from me since you’ve been reading the whole page out loud I almost memorized that poem the other day by just listening to you,” Satoshi pointed it out for his cousin.
Sho sighed in defeat and flipped through the pages of his late father's diary.
Satoshi sat beside Sho and they both read in silence the words written on the browning pages of the late man's journal.
Sept. 15, 1999
Kohaku, Hawaii
The once lonely cherry tree
Blooms lovely now by the sea.
New branches suddenly grew
Brought color and life anew.
A new branch broke forth
And thus hea--- -------.
Henceforth cal--- - ------.
Forever -------- ------.
Part of the poem was smudged by spilled coffee and was unreadable.
Sho had no idea what it meant. All he knew was that it meant so much to his father. He remembered seeing his father read that particular page every night and how upset he was when he accidentally spilled coffee on the page.
It sounded like a mission that his father has to fulfill. He vowed to carry on what his father failed to finish.
But what baffled him further was the date his father wrote in that particular diary entry.
It was dated 10 years after his father died.
Disclaimer: This is an original fictional work loosely based on the members of the group Arashi and does not promote any specific brand or product. People, places, and others used in this story are purely for fiction.