Meeting The Past

"Hmm..." I loudly sighed, as I sit in one of these four corners of my classroom waiting for my next teacher, Ihara-sensei.

Nothing new and different is coming to my life these days. I secretly hope that something unusual in one of the three worlds so Koenma-sama will give us a new mission. Oh, I better not. Many will die if my thoughts really came true. I think I'll just stay and stick to my daily life but...I still feel something else will happen to me today.

"Good Morning, class," our teacher, Ihara-sensei, greeted as she entered our classroom. "Did you do your Biology homework yesterday?"

"Yes," we answered loudly. Especially me, I have worked hard yesterday for those science researches.

"Good," she happily commented. "Now pass them all to me..."

I stood up, groaning to pass my work. This isn't unusual too. Is there something else?

~~~~~

Dismissal time once again. Oddly, I've waited for this. I usually like school. But why did I want to go home? Is there something wrong with me? I think I really better go back. This headache suddenly appeared within me.

"Minamino-san!" a male voice called me. Turning my emerald eyes, I saw he was just a classmate of mine, Susuhara Hikari. I greeted him with a smile.

"So, Susuhara-san? What's a matter?"

"There's a beautiful girl on the school's main gate," he told me immediately. "And she want to meet you...now."

Uh-oh, girls, you can't get enough of them. She's probably one of the insane girls that always run after me. I don't like the sound of it.

"Um, Susuhara-san," I called again, seeing him walking a way.

He turned back. "What, Minamino-san?" His face seems he is going to catch something.

"Uh, did she tell you her name?" I asked curiously.

"No," he negatively shook his head. "But it's obvious that she is not our school's student. She wears the Jonan High uniform. Bye! I've got a date to catch."

"Good luck Susuhara," I grinned as he went away. Jonan High? That's the one of the best high school in whole Japan. Why will someone from call me at this time? I don't know anyone from that school nor involved myself there once. Who is the girl outside? One thing to do: I better go there to meet her.

Calmly as possible, I walk to the main gate. But I knew I would be...

"MINAMINO-CHAN!" a flock of girls chorused.

Mobbed.

"Minamino-sama," Kaoru, one of the girls called. "Can you please accompany me to my ball?"

"Who needs your ball?" Mia blurted out. "He's coming with me...he's my fiancé already!"

"Says who?" other girls chorused.

"Says me!"

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah!"

Perfect time to escape. Without them noticing I am out of the crowd. I quickly reached the main gate and there she is standing shyly. Her hair was long and brown, braided nicely and neatly. Her face was filled with both tranquillity and disconsolation.

"Who are you?" I've inquired.

"Minamino-san," she chuckled, tucking some strand of her hair behind her ear. "I never thought you will not recognize me..."

"Then who are you?"

"Kitajima Maya," she uttered. "I've missed you a lot already!" Getting so emotional, she pleasantly threw her arms around me.

Maya Kitajima, the girl that somewhat changed my life. She grew a lot already. She is more womanly and beautified with the glorious rays of the sun. I hardly recognized her. She's really different now.

"Maya," I spoken lightly, pushing myself out of her affectionate embrace. "Is that really you?"

"Yes," she nodded, holding my hand as if she'll never let me go. "But before I can say more let's go out of this place. I'll be killed anytime with your fans club."

I couldn't disagree with her. Those girls are sometimes 'graceless'.

"Okay, maybe at the park?" She smiled.

"Sure."

~~~~~

"Ah, finally we are here," I sighed as I sit with her in the bench. A cool breeze gently wiped my troubles.

"Shuuichi-chan," she peacefully hailed, blushing. "It's been a long time since I've met you, isn't it Minamino-san?"

"Yeah," I agreed. "It's been a long time..."

"You know that we have a brief relationship before," Maya started. "But I cherished every moment of it. I still love you until now. Many guys loved me, but you are simply irreplaceable. I believe that you'll come back to me. Although I know..."

"Maya," I somewhat rudely cut in. "You know we've seriously talk about this thing before, didn't we?"

"I know, I know," she cried on my shoulder. "But I love you. And you know that. Really I've never love anyone as deeply as you."

"But Maya,"

She rose out from my shoulder and stood up. "I know, that you never loved me. You thought your peculiar plant can remove all my memories but even I never knew my spiritual power isn't weak at all. I've remembered everything. I've taken to heart that monster, the incident, that little man with the spiky hair and you trying to defend me. We are so young then but I always hallucinate on that...everywhere I go...everything that I do..."

My eyes grew into an impossible size hearing her story.

"You mean you remember, everything..."

"Yes, I do!" she exclaimed as tears rolled by her eyes. "And now I am stronger than before. I can see everybody's soul, past and thoughts..."

She stumbled back to the bench beside me. My face felt pity beholding her face, flushed and sorrowful. She really loves me. What can I do now?

"You now understood that I love you, right?" she asked. "I really do...more than myself."

I froze. Her heart can really understand my feelings. "You really understand me?"

"Of course..."

"But you know I can't return your feelings towards me..."

She sighed, nodding melancholy. "But can I just be with you...even one more time?"

"What do you mean?" I interrogated, grinning. "Am I not with you?"

She beamed graciously. "Yes, I am really happy with that..." She glanced at her timepiece and gasped. "But I can't. I better return now. Maybe I'll never stay with you. My dream to be a doctor must be fulfilled. I've derived joy from the small time you have spared me. Thank you..." she sadly walked away from me.

I felt I never gave her attention when she was with me. "Kitajima-san, wait up!" I called.

She turned back. "What?"

"Before you disappear I want you to give you this," I grabbed a sapphire-like rose from my hair sticking into dozens of different direction.

"Shuuichi-chan, it is beautiful," she commented pleasingly. I wrapped my arms around her.

"And this," I bend down and touched her sweet lips. The kiss seemed long and passionate but after a while we parted.

"Shuuichi-chan," she smiled as she savored the warmth of my chest. "This is like a dream..."

"And I won't attempt to erase it from your memory," I joked. We stared at each other then laughed delightfully. She pulled away from me.

"Shuuichi-chan...this won't be the last...I am sure..." she went away with all merriment in her seat of passion.

Deep inside I wonder if I feel the same way too. I might not say this to her but she is also important.

Now I wonder if she can read that.

~owari~

June 4, 2001

10:17 am

 

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