HanaMakiFuji Story: Roundabout
Final
End: True Love
Night.
Fujima was walking back home.
Slowly, he stopped and turned his sight towards the clear dark sky, gazing at the slient stars.
Then he closed his eyes.
Hanagata's empty sad voice was still hanging around him, bounding him to the fact that he had hurt him deeply.
Classroom.
Hanagata rapidly loosed his enclosing, and gazed at Fujima coldly.
"You know what I meant, Ken."
Hanagata's gazing was as sharp as a knife.
Fujima found himself avoiding his sight.
The silence answered the questions deep inside Hanagata's heart.
He couldn't control himself.
"Why Maki? Why him?"
Hanagata shouted. His eyes' peeping Fujima's deep heart, his voice's forcing Fujima to face the fact.
Fujima covered his ears with his hands and closed his eyes.
"No Hanagata! What I love is you! Not him.. Not him.. Not HIM!"
Fujima then raised his eyes, shouted back.
Hanagata gazed at Fujima, with a sad eyes. It's too clear that Fujima's trying to persuading himself rather than him. He slowly ran his fingers long his fine brownish hair.
"Then why are you persuading yourself?"
Hanagata looked into those un-readable blue eyes.
Fujima found himself wordless.
"When you start hanging on with him?"
Hanagata asked in his empty voice. He was too eager to know the answer.
He want to know the answer. He need to know.
Yet Fujima just switched his sight off, didn't answer.
"TELL ME."
Hanagata's voice was calm yet did force a pressure on Fujima.
Fujima slowly closed his eyes once again.
"... I know him a day before our first match.. Long before when I were with you."
He finally picked up his courage and faced this fact. The fact that he just realized, the fact that he had escaped in the past.
Hanagata closed his eyes. He didn't even notice it!!
"... Sorry Hanagata..."
Fujima finally opened his eyes again, and gazed at Hanagata. He didn't mean to hurt Hanagata, he didn't meant to cheat him. He found himself filled with pain while seeing Hanagata's sorrow face.
Sorrow was washing every part of Hanagata. He switched his sight off Fujima, not willing to face him, not willing to face this fact. The fact that ached deeper and deeper in his heart.
"You have been covering so well."
Hanagata felt like cheated.
"No.. No Hanagata. I just realized that I love him. Not even realize it till now."
Fujima's face flashed a sign of sadness, which caught in eyes of Hanagata.
Hanagata suddenly realized that Fujima hadn't even said 'I love you' this 3 words to him in these years when he was with him.
Yes was.
All became past tense already.
Hanagata gave out a light wry.
He should have known that Fujima's heart was not with him started from the begining. He knew it, he knew it yet he just ignored it. He just simply thought that Fujima was the kind of not accepting adnormal relationship easily.
He slowly opened the classroom door and walked away.
"Hanagata!"
Fujima was about to run after, yet after a few steps, he stopped.
He didn't know how to face him.
Slowly Fujima pulled himself out from the scene, and continued his walking.
Yes, started from the begining, when he had accepted Maki's bet, his heart was already left there by his side.
Maki.
The one that had first entered his heart...
The one that gave him real pain and as well pleasure...
He suddenly realized that he was now running, running to the one that he was eagering for.
- End of End -