"I don't think I can agree on you with that~," Seitarou said.
"Hajime, before you go after the boys!" (Y/n) said, quickly grabbing onto Hajime's sleeve as he looked down at her. "When I get out of prison... I want to go to space... But NASA won't accept someone that has been to prison."
"And what does this have to do with me? It sounds like your problem. If you didn't want to be here, then you shouldn't have-" (Y/n) cut Hajime off.
"Let me finish talking. Since I can't get to space by having someone else build the ship... I want to build it myself," (Y/n) said. Once she did, Hajime looked at her as if she was insane. "I know nothing about engineering, but Trois is does. I asked if he would teach me, and he said he would. But I kind of need someone to bring me to his cell~... A-And It's better if I learn more hands-on and all~... S-So... Would you allow me to go to Trois cell... For him to teach me... If I... Behave?"
"... You won't be able to build one. You need to be excellent at math. On top of that, a rocket ship cost money, and it's huge. You won't be able to build one by yourself. Sorry to crush your dreams, but it's impossible," Hajime said. "From your grades in math and everything else in your files, you are average on everything but for science. Admittedly you pass most adults in science... But that can't get to space alone."
"My favorite Nebula is called the Cat eye Nebula but also called NGC 6543. It is precisely 3.3 thousand light-years away from earth. Even if I were moving at the speed of light, it would take me 3.3 thousand years to get there. But I want to see my favorite Nebula in person up and close anyway. And I will" (Y/n) said. "Nothing is exactly impossible if no one has tried. Akira reminded me of that. My father and I made a very tiny rocket ship when I was little, admittedly he did most of the work to make sure I didn't get hurt, but that ship took multiple tried to get into space. But I remember some of the things he did to make it. I can make one. Everyone thought it would be impossible to get to the moon, but we landed on the moon. I plan on proving every impossible thing in space to be possible. And I will learn about everything there is to know about it."
"You are crazy; you know that?" Hajime said, smiling at her, entertained by the way she acted.
"And what's your point? You aren't the first person to call me that. Akira told me I belong in a mental asylum when we first met. Now look at us~... We are best friends" (Y/n) giggled.
"Fine, I'll take you. But stay out of trouble," Hajime said as he ran off. (Y/n) practically started to jump up and down.
"I have to go check the cameras! Stay here with Dr. Okina (Y/n)!" Seitarou said as he ran off.
(Y/n) held her neck once again. She felt the tattoo on her. "Does it hurt?" Honey asked. (Y/n) looked at him and nodded.
"Dr. Okina? Do you have a cream for her tattoo?" Trois asked.
(Y/n) then zoned out, remembering all the fun times she and her father had. After two years of trying and failing, building that small rocket ship, being so happy when it finally was in space. Painting planets. Painting (Y/n)'s room. Reading books with her father of space. Having mini-lessons about space. Being too excited with her father when they found a new planet. Making planet and star-shaped cookies with her father. Going to the planetarium with him. Looking through the telescope, her father got for her 6th birthday and looking at the stars, and looking through the same telescope years later. Him telling her all about everything he learned at NASA. His co-worker taking a picture of her father with a massive smile on his face in his spacesuit as he was about to space. And then watching on tv seeing the ship your father was on, him finally completing his dream! That little girl thought when she got to space; she would see her father. But then watching the explosion on TV, her smiling fading away quickly.
"(Y/n)?" Trois said, snapping (Y/n) out of her thoughts. She slightly jumped and looked up at Honey and Trois as the boys saw the small tears in her eyes. "W-Why are you cringe? Does it hurt that bad?" Honey said.
"O-Oh, sorry... no, I'm fine," (Y/n) mumbled quickly, wiping her tears. "I was just thinking."
"About your father?" Okina said. "Everyone that works in this building has to read the inmate's files. That means even the nurses here. You were a pretty good girl up until now and also a daddy's girl... You and your father shared the same love for space and the unknown"
(Y/n) looked at him and looked down at her feet. "I can't even begin to imagine the lecture he would be giving me right now" (Y/n) giggled. "He would probably be saying how oblivious I am and how I don't look out for myself... How dangerous this world is... But... Even so, I know he would always forgive me."
"Were you watching his ship go up?" Okina asked. (Y/n)'s fists balled up as tears started to flood her eyes again.
"Mmhmm" (Y/n) said, trying not to cry.
"I'm sorry... A little girl shouldn't have seen something like that," Okina said, looking at (Y/n) with pity.
(Y/n) started to wipe her tears as they kept coming as she tried not to make a sound as she cried. Honey and Trois both hugged (Y/n). They didn't like seeing a lady cry. And they weren't sure what to do. "Sorry to bring up bad memories," Okina said, looking away as she continued to cry. "But aren't you scared of going to space? The same thing could happen to you."
(Y/n) looked at Okina. She never thought of it until now.
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Counting Stars (NANBAKA X Reader)
Fanfiction(Y/n) has always loved the stars ever since she was just a little girl. One night as she was looking at the stars, she met 4 men that night.
