Ki no Monogatari [A Tree's Story]
Back to posting with a story that I finished a while back. I'm doing a series of stories for Valentine's; it'd be my personal project. Meanwhile, I'll give this to you♥~ :3
Title: Ki no Monogatari [A Tree's Story]
Pairing: You x anybody you like :3
Notes: Dedicated to yatsuiko_chan :D
Summary: It was their special place, as well as the special place of other people...
I sat in front of that tree, immobile yet full of life, inanimate yet teeming with secrets and memories. I placed my hands against it, feeling the pulse of life under my fingertips, just under the gnarly surface of the tree trunk. I am envious of its peaceful life, seeming to go on without concern except that it gets enough water and sunlight to live, while us humans seem to need a hell lot more. Although I do not begrudge it of its existence, I do admit that I envy its tranquility... The fact that even if it only minds its own business, it still nurtures the lives of those whom it encounters, in ways both small and huge in its own right. Fierce storms are no match against this wooden behemoth, standing firm and stoic as the rain and wind lashed against it... Unlike me, who cannot even withstand a little rain from life. I envy that tree, who was witness to all my problems, that almost unwilling shoulder to cry on when I have nobody to turn to, that shock absorber of countless problematic souls.
...If only I can be a tree...
Those softly falling footsteps called me back to earth, almost indistinct in the many sounds surrounding me. A smile slowly crept its way up my face us I realized who this disturber of my selfish universe may be. Although there are times when I would rather be alone, he is the only one who could willingly enter into that space, that place where I have unconsciously marked as my own. He is the only one who can climb over the walls that I have built around me, break through the barriers that I have put against outsiders. He is the only one who can coax me out of my shell, that veil of insecurity that I had always hidden behind. He is the only one who can get through my shield. With him, the strongest lines of defense fall apart in my inner kingdom... and yet, I will still gladly surrender.
I felt his arms wrap around me... And just like that, all inhibitions were erased. I melted into his embrace, no longer feeling that crushing fear and anxiety. It was as if a part of my brain that I didn't know unlocked and simply accommodated him. I was here and I was alone, and I didn't mind it one bit. And yet when he came, I realized how deep deep down I was yearning for one more presence to join me. I was here, he was there, we're both here... and for some reason, it was all that matters...
You fight like a married couple, you talk like best friends, you flirt like first lovers, and protect each other like brother and sister. You have the weirdest and most normal of those relationships that no one can't really well explain, and yet it doesn't matter. You just treasure the time that you spend with each other, and simply revel on the fact that nature seems to take its course and let you be. You walk totally different paths in life, and yet nature has decided that it would be a fun idea to let you meet each other, on that place that the both of you mutually claim as your own, and see the interesting results that it may produce.
You fight like a married couple, you talk like best friends, you flirt like first lovers, and protect each other like brother and sister...
Obviously it's meant to be.
You both like to think that way, although the other one doesn't know that you really feel that way.
Oh, let's just not complicate things shall we? You love each other, and that love will surely last. You're soulmates after all. It's that simple.
...Or do you need him to kiss you to prove it to you--
Forget it, he already did.
That tree waved its branches slightly in the wind, watching yet another pair of star-crossed lovers under its guidance, another love resolving before the whole world to see yet protected from other prying eyes, letting them savor this moment to themselves. Another story formed and kept. Another tale to share to the next person to meet this tree, and another happy ending to follow those before it... and yet creating a new path of their own...
Yet another love story formed under that tree... another promise between you and me. A promise as strong as that place where we made it, passing gracefully through the seasons and timeless in the feelings it will always resurrect and make us remember.
Thank you for your love :)
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I wrote this while I was attending the QRosary Mass at UST. There was a huge tree blocking my view of the priest... and then because I can't hear the priest, I started talking to the tree. I was like 'What stories do you have?' and 'What kind of people have you met?' while my classmates who were sitting next to me have a 'WTF why are you talking to the tree?' expression on their faces xD This fic came from my one-sided conversation with that tree. And yes, I am crazy xD Random quotes from different places are ♥
Thanks for reading :))
Title: Ki no Monogatari [A Tree's Story]
Pairing: You x anybody you like :3
Notes: Dedicated to yatsuiko_chan :D
Summary: It was their special place, as well as the special place of other people...
I sat in front of that tree, immobile yet full of life, inanimate yet teeming with secrets and memories. I placed my hands against it, feeling the pulse of life under my fingertips, just under the gnarly surface of the tree trunk. I am envious of its peaceful life, seeming to go on without concern except that it gets enough water and sunlight to live, while us humans seem to need a hell lot more. Although I do not begrudge it of its existence, I do admit that I envy its tranquility... The fact that even if it only minds its own business, it still nurtures the lives of those whom it encounters, in ways both small and huge in its own right. Fierce storms are no match against this wooden behemoth, standing firm and stoic as the rain and wind lashed against it... Unlike me, who cannot even withstand a little rain from life. I envy that tree, who was witness to all my problems, that almost unwilling shoulder to cry on when I have nobody to turn to, that shock absorber of countless problematic souls.
...If only I can be a tree...
Those softly falling footsteps called me back to earth, almost indistinct in the many sounds surrounding me. A smile slowly crept its way up my face us I realized who this disturber of my selfish universe may be. Although there are times when I would rather be alone, he is the only one who could willingly enter into that space, that place where I have unconsciously marked as my own. He is the only one who can climb over the walls that I have built around me, break through the barriers that I have put against outsiders. He is the only one who can coax me out of my shell, that veil of insecurity that I had always hidden behind. He is the only one who can get through my shield. With him, the strongest lines of defense fall apart in my inner kingdom... and yet, I will still gladly surrender.
I felt his arms wrap around me... And just like that, all inhibitions were erased. I melted into his embrace, no longer feeling that crushing fear and anxiety. It was as if a part of my brain that I didn't know unlocked and simply accommodated him. I was here and I was alone, and I didn't mind it one bit. And yet when he came, I realized how deep deep down I was yearning for one more presence to join me. I was here, he was there, we're both here... and for some reason, it was all that matters...
You fight like a married couple, you talk like best friends, you flirt like first lovers, and protect each other like brother and sister. You have the weirdest and most normal of those relationships that no one can't really well explain, and yet it doesn't matter. You just treasure the time that you spend with each other, and simply revel on the fact that nature seems to take its course and let you be. You walk totally different paths in life, and yet nature has decided that it would be a fun idea to let you meet each other, on that place that the both of you mutually claim as your own, and see the interesting results that it may produce.
You fight like a married couple, you talk like best friends, you flirt like first lovers, and protect each other like brother and sister...
Obviously it's meant to be.
You both like to think that way, although the other one doesn't know that you really feel that way.
Oh, let's just not complicate things shall we? You love each other, and that love will surely last. You're soulmates after all. It's that simple.
...Or do you need him to kiss you to prove it to you--
Forget it, he already did.
That tree waved its branches slightly in the wind, watching yet another pair of star-crossed lovers under its guidance, another love resolving before the whole world to see yet protected from other prying eyes, letting them savor this moment to themselves. Another story formed and kept. Another tale to share to the next person to meet this tree, and another happy ending to follow those before it... and yet creating a new path of their own...
Yet another love story formed under that tree... another promise between you and me. A promise as strong as that place where we made it, passing gracefully through the seasons and timeless in the feelings it will always resurrect and make us remember.
Thank you for your love :)
______________________________________________
I wrote this while I was attending the QRosary Mass at UST. There was a huge tree blocking my view of the priest... and then because I can't hear the priest, I started talking to the tree. I was like 'What stories do you have?' and 'What kind of people have you met?' while my classmates who were sitting next to me have a 'WTF why are you talking to the tree?' expression on their faces xD This fic came from my one-sided conversation with that tree. And yes, I am crazy xD Random quotes from different places are ♥
Thanks for reading :))