#windom-chan | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

vkiera · 7 years

Text

The Good in Goodbye

This fic was originally written for the 20th anniversary of Magic Knight Rayearth.

Theme: Future

The Knights do not return, but they do not regret. Sometimes there's 'good' in 'goodbye'.

“Someday you'll see the reason why

Sometimes, yeah, sometimes, there’s good in goodbye”

It'd been nearly twenty years now.

Twenty years since they had last been to Cephiro.

Funny, it somehow didn't feel like it could possibly have been that long ago. Sometimes it felt like it could have been yesterday that they'd been whisked away from the top of Tokyo Tower and landed on the back of a giant flying fish.

Going back the second time had been both a blessing and curse in its own way. They returned to a land they'd come to love and set it on a path to a far brighter future, but in doing so they had to leave behind all the people they had come to love in that land. That last goodbye had been the most difficult of all. It had been a goodbye that was beautiful and painful and the most heart wrenching thing all at the same time.

The first year was the most difficult, she had often lain awake at night and thought about him, and all of the other friends they'd left behind. Was he well? Did he miss her like she missed him? She had lay there until her bones practically ached with the yearning to see him.

It took Fuu until she was out of high school to stop looking back over her shoulder every time a young man with green hair passed her on the street.

At the time she had still worn his gold ring, nestled close to her heart on a small chain around her neck, much the same way Hikaru had worn her mirrored pendant. She still had the ring, but now more often than not it sat snugly in her jewelry box. Umi had no such trinkets to carry, but perhaps in the end that had been a good thing for her.

She was the first one to marry after all.

Umi had met him while attending university, a smart young businessman with amber eyes who was quick to give Umi a run for her money when it came to sharply worded comebacks.

Their relationship ended up being more a dance than a marathon and after six years they'd separated, leaving Umi a single mother of one beautiful little girl. It was difficult for her sometimes, but she'd pushed through with Fuu and Hikaru with her all they way. They were after all the ‘best aunties’ in the world.

Hikaru had taken up travel, jetting off around the world after she finished high school. If she wasn’t backpacking in Kilimanjaro, it was mountain climbing in Tibet, or white water rafting in Colorado. Every time she came back with a dozen stories and plenty of souvenirs for everyone, including her brothers.

Recently she'd taken up talk of slowing down and perhaps helping her older brother run their family dojo, with her two other brothers off on their own adventures he could use the help.

She had not dated at all during that time, much to all of her brothers’ relief. Fuu had asked her about it once, about a year after Umi married. The two of them had been sitting together, enjoying a cup of coffee after the redhead had returned from one of her grand adventures.

Hikaru had smiled wistfully at her question and looked away for a moment watching the crowd pass by on the busy sidewalk out the café window. “I go months sometimes, without thinking about him, but you know just the other day I passed someone on the street wearing a blue scarf, it made me think of the color of his eyes.”

She took a sip of her drink, enjoying the aroma and pleasant warmth is provided from the early autumn chill. “But that’s okay, to think of him, to remember him. I don’t want to forget him. He was my first love after all.” She’d winked at Fuu with a playful smile, “But right now I’m in no hurry, really, besides I can spoil Umi-chan’s little one all I want to as a distraction. That is after she gets here in December.”

Turns out Hikaru didn't have to wait long. Umi had given birth exactly two weeks later and Hikaru had ran all the way to the hospital, nearly plowing over a nurse on her way in the door.

A few dozen apologies later, the nurse had asked for her number.

Fuu did not pity the man when it came time to meet Hikaru’s family a few months later.

ooo

At the ten year mark of their first meeting at Tokyo Tower the three of them went out and got matching tattoos. They sat for hours and reminisced about their journeys in a way they had not allowed themselves to do since their return.

They laughed, they cried and all the while wondered how their friends were back in Cephiro and contemplated how ten years could change so much and yet leave so much just the same.

When she returned home for the holidays her mother had disapproved of the small green symbol on her ankle, as close a she could remember to Windom’s great seal, but she was 24 and living on her own, about to finish her studies, her mother’s will no longer held as much sway as it once had.

ooo

Hikaru’s first son was born the day after her graduation. Fuu could not help but smile a little when her friend told her the boy’s name.

“Eagle.”

It was quite adorable how protective Umi’s daughter became of her playmate, despite the age difference and her being at the ‘eww boys’ stage of grade school.

ooo

Life has a funny way of leading you down a different road than you expect it to.

She'd met her husband later that year, while giving a lecture at her old university on computer programming.

He became only the second person in her life to call her an idiot.

He really looked nothing like Ferio, except for maybe when he grinned, but he shared the same tough guy with a heart of marshmallow gold trait that she'd once been so fond of in the Cephirean Prince.

Umi had approved of him right away, giving Fuu a gentle nudge in the ribs the first time she introduced them and asking where she'd been hiding him all this time.

He asked her about the ring once.

She smiled at him, while rolling the gold ring between her fingers, “A first love” she told him, “A long, long time ago, in another world.”

He seemed curious, but could probably see the sadness in her eyes and he didn't ask about it again.

They were married the following spring.

ooo

There were a few grey strands now amongst her blond ones.

Umi had flicked her own hair back over her shoulder in her trademark gesture and said they all made thirty look good. If the former Knight of Selece had any grey hairs to show for the years she expertly hid them. Fuu giggled and looked up at the clock on the wall and then back to Umi who was busy combing out her daughter’s hair, now as long as Umi’s had once been. Hikaru had come bursting in the door a moment later, her youngest son swung on her hip and Eagle running in behind her. “Sorry I’m late, I ran all the way here! So what’s the big news Fuu?”

She and Umi exchanged amused glances.

Some things never change.

ooo

Her own son had been born in April the following year.

Everything leading up to his birth had been planned and organized to the ninth degree. If she thought Umi had made for an enthusiastic bridesmaid, she'd been wrong. Umi topped herself with being an overly enthusiastic aunt to be, somehow even more so than Kuu.

Yet even still, she somehow wasn’t quite ready when the nurse came in (funny enough Hikaru’s husband) and handed her son to her and she'd looked down into eyes that looked just like hers.

ooo

Fuu took a quiet walk in the evening, strolling in a park not far from Tokyo Tower. Her son, now eight, was at home, probably on the floor in their living room playing his newest video game.

Tomorrow would be twenty years.

Their time in Cephiro had been on her mind more often in the last few weeks leading up to the anniversary than it had been in a long time.

She sat down on a park bench that faced the tower; the sun had already sunk below the horizon, the sky was awash with it’s fading colors.

She would be meeting with Hikaru and Umi tomorrow, but tonight she had sought out a moment alone. Taking his ring out from her pocket she held it in her palm, running a fingertip over its smooth surface. It’d not taken a scratch or even tarnished the tiniest bit in twenty years. Still as bright and warm as the day it’d been given to her.

Time had been good to all of them really, not just the ring.

Somehow, despite what she had believed when they had returned from Cephiro, she felt like she had ended up exactly where she should to be. Given the choice now, if she could have somehow returned to Cephiro she didn't think she would. Or if she did it would not have been to stay. If she had gotten the life she thought she'd wanted back then she would have lost so much she now couldn't imagine living without.

She could not think of a life without her son, without Saturday morning cartoons and patching up scraped knees with bandages and kisses. She would not want a life without her husband, coming home after a long business trip and sinking down beside her on the sofa, burying his face at her neck in her soft curls with a sigh of relief, happy to be home.

She would not give up this life for anything, not even Cephiro.

She did not regret her time in Cephiro, she did not regret giving a part of her heart to a wild eyed boy at fourteen. The time she shared with him she would not forget; in many ways because of him she’d ended up right where she belonged.

Though in some small way, she was still holding onto him, she was still holding onto someone she had to let go of. That she should have let go of a long time ago.

The park lights began to flick on one by one as darkness settled in so she stood to make her way home. Crossing over a small footbridge she stopped halfway across and looked down into the water of the small creek below. Her reflection stared back at her in the pale moonlit water.

As bad as it was then, as much as it hurt to say goodbye, it had made her stronger and put her on the right path for the life she now knew was the one she was meant to have. That last goodbye had eventually given her so much in return.

She stood motionless for a moment and then held out her hand, fingers trembling.

The gold ring caught the moonlight as it slid from her palm and dropped quietly into the water below.

A quiet sigh escaped her as she finally let go.

She stepped back from the edge and continued over the bridge, back home, back to her family, back to the life she had made for herself.

From now on, goodbye would no longer haunt her.

Sometimes there is good in goodbye.

#Magic Knight Rayearth #FuuWeek!#Fuu #Hikaru #Umi #Fic #fanfiction

15 notes · View notes

mihsignultra · 6 years

Video

youtube

001 - ANA La Kyushu

002 - ANA

003 - Kao Blaune

004 - Kao Biore U

005 - Kao Essential

006 - Kao Merit

007 - Kao Attack

008 - Kizakura

009 - Kizakura Sake

010 - Yamahichigo

011 - Canon Video-i

012 - Nissin Cup Noodle

013 - Nissin Donbei

014 - Nissin Donbei

015 - Nissin UFO

016 - Toyota Exiv

017 - Toyota Carina ED

018 - Toyota Corona

019 - Toyota Carolla

020 - Toyota

021 - Iseki Sanae

022 - Kizakura Ton

023 - Canon Genesis

024 - Oronine H

025 - Meiji Tiramisu

026 - Meiji Chocolate

027 - Meiji Chocolate

028 - Meiji Korotsuke

029 - Book Loan

030 - Bellco

031 - Morinaga Cheesecake and Mille Feuille

032 - Kid’s E Norn

033 - Takara Norn

034 - Kincho Koryonko

035 - Green

036 - Kansai Denryoku

037 - Circle K

038 - Kinchan Ramen

039 - Matsumoto Hikkoshi Center

040 - Kit Kat

041 - Elite Bag

042 - Nippon Kinken Bansankan

043 - Nippon Kinken

044 - Suntory Water

045 - Nippon Lever Pure Silk

046 - Coca-Cola

047 - Coca-Cola Light

048 - Toyo Shutter

049 - House Soup Spaghetti

050 - Lion Be4

051 - Lion Hi Top

052 - Lion Ban

053 - Taiko Seirogan

054 - Taiko Seirogan A

055 - Nissin Ciscorn

056 - Fujicolor

057 - Charle

058 - Miki Prune

059 - Sangetsu Romane

060 - Hayashi Doggyman

061 - Sangetsu

062 - Reigo

063 - Reigo Konoyaki

064 - Takara Standard Lemure

065 - Niko Niko Nori

066 - Banyu Pharmaceutical

067 - Friend

068 - Friend

069 - Menard Juniper

070 - Pedigree Chum Mixer

071 - Wail Wrap

072 - Marudai Foods

073 - Snow Brand (Yukijirushi) Ninokono Pasta

074 - Mobil F1

075 - Asahi Super Dry

076 - Asahi Z

077 - Asahi Draft Beer Horoniga

078 - ITJ

079 - Pom Juice

080 - Jusco Mother’s Day

081 - Jusco Mother’s Day

082 - Kirin Beer

083 - Kirin Lager Beer

084 - Kirin Post Water

085 - Kirin Dance

086 - Taisho Lipovitan D

087 - JR West

088 - JR West

089 - Nescafe Can

090 - Nestle Milo

091 - IHI

092 - Sapporo Hokkaido

093 - Boutique Joy Gran Joie

094 - House Soup Spaghetti

095 - Volvo 960

096 - Dole Ice Cream

097 - Virginia Slims

098 - Sharp Windom

099 - Maki Camelia Diamond

100 - Takara Can-Chu-Hi

101 - Prima Ham Premor

102 - Sumitomo Step

103 - Meiji Brouges

104 - Hino Super Dolphin

105 - Salem Hawaiian Breakout

106 - AB Road

107 - Mizuno

108 - Mercian Peachtree Fizz

109 - Mitsubishi Gaskaraku

110 - Chugai New Guromont

112 - Bing

113 - House Hash Beef

114 - Panasonic Gao

115 - Panasonic Video

116 - Isetan Clinique

117 - KDD

118 - Iona

119 - Fuji Safari Park

120 - Bobson Pro

121 - Honda Civic

122 - Honda Ascot

123 - Honda Prelude

124 - Minami

125 - Smokey & Co. Whisky

126 - Suzume no Oyado

127 - Ings

128 - Hankyu

129 - Mizkan Vinegar

130 - National Caninstar

131 - National Power Handbrush

132 - Nikon F-40

133 - Movie in Session

134 - Nabisco Premium

135 - Izumiya Chanel Egoiste

136 - Shiseido Center Inn

137 - Shiseido EX

138 - Itoham Pow Witz

139 - Fruit & Beer Hashi Muscat

140 - Kampo Total Plan Huhu

141 - McDonalds Cheese & Burger

142 - JTB

143 - Look JTB

144 - Capcom

145 - Namco Chibi Maruko-chan

146 - Parabola

147 - Yamanouchi Minon

148 - Yamanouchi Maquiron

149 - Eyestar

150 - NEC

151 - Fibe-Mini

152 - Jaccs

153 - Johnson Fusso Coat Grand Prix

154 - JT Halftime Kacha Kacha

155 - Kanabe Aspra Ace

#japanese #commerical #logos

0 notes