[Fic] Unfair World: Hiroomi
Characters: Hiroomi, Ryuji
Rating: G
A/N: Congratulations to Sandaime J Soul Brothers for winning the Japan Record Award once again! A good time to post up the final short of this series, I suppose.
Related Chapters: Naoki | Elly
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He knew that he was dying long before he actually did.
He also knew that she was dying along with him, life taking its toll on her.
Of course, with his rapidly failing health, he had eventually succumbed to death. He watched as she crumbled, weeping silently at his funeral as people murmured their condolences to his family. He watched as she was forced, once again by circumstance, to grow up, to leave her inner child behind.
After all, she was now the eldest in the family, the only one left to make ends meet.
He had voiced out his worries to another man he had chanced upon, one who was also wandering this earth for reasons unknown. He shared with him fond memories of their childhood, how she was full of life when they were growing up, curious about everything the world had to offer. That was, before people started telling her to stop behaving like a child, and not to ask so many questions, for this sort of behaviour would inconvenience others greatly.
Of course, he had kept a watchful eye on her. Watched her wither away in the “adult” world. Watched as she had eventually gotten so sick of her mundane life that she had run out of her apartment in her favourite dress on a whim.
And run she did.
His worries increased in bounds as he followed behind her, eyes widening in horror as she collapsed in the middle of the road miles away from her original location from sheer fatigue.
His first thought was to run forward to help her up, but he felt someone catch him, restrain him.
“No, Omi. Don’t. We can’t interfere with that world anymore.”
He fought Ryuji’s hold, tried to push him away, reaching and calling out to his sister in vain. He vaguely heard the other man’s cajoling, telling him the consequences should he try to save her.
He saw her exhausted face relax into a gentle smile, one that was reminiscent of her childhood.
Her eyes closed for the final time.
Rating: G
A/N: Congratulations to Sandaime J Soul Brothers for winning the Japan Record Award once again! A good time to post up the final short of this series, I suppose.
Related Chapters: Naoki | Elly
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He knew that he was dying long before he actually did.
He also knew that she was dying along with him, life taking its toll on her.
Of course, with his rapidly failing health, he had eventually succumbed to death. He watched as she crumbled, weeping silently at his funeral as people murmured their condolences to his family. He watched as she was forced, once again by circumstance, to grow up, to leave her inner child behind.
After all, she was now the eldest in the family, the only one left to make ends meet.
He had voiced out his worries to another man he had chanced upon, one who was also wandering this earth for reasons unknown. He shared with him fond memories of their childhood, how she was full of life when they were growing up, curious about everything the world had to offer. That was, before people started telling her to stop behaving like a child, and not to ask so many questions, for this sort of behaviour would inconvenience others greatly.
Of course, he had kept a watchful eye on her. Watched her wither away in the “adult” world. Watched as she had eventually gotten so sick of her mundane life that she had run out of her apartment in her favourite dress on a whim.
And run she did.
His worries increased in bounds as he followed behind her, eyes widening in horror as she collapsed in the middle of the road miles away from her original location from sheer fatigue.
His first thought was to run forward to help her up, but he felt someone catch him, restrain him.
“No, Omi. Don’t. We can’t interfere with that world anymore.”
He fought Ryuji’s hold, tried to push him away, reaching and calling out to his sister in vain. He vaguely heard the other man’s cajoling, telling him the consequences should he try to save her.
He saw her exhausted face relax into a gentle smile, one that was reminiscent of her childhood.
Her eyes closed for the final time.