Kimi no Na wa. Rediscovering the Future

1. That strange feeling

This is my first fanfiction. I am a Spanish native speaker with English as a second language. I already published this story in Spanish as "Reencuentro con el futuro", but I also wanted to share it for English speakers.

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Thanks you.

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On Friday, April 8, 2022 early morning, near the Suga Shrine in Tokyo, a man and a woman, still in their twenties, looked anxiously at each other standing only a few meters away on a public stairway.

The boy, dressed in a somewhat tight gray suit, was looking down at her from the top of the stairs. The girl, dressed in a simple yet elegant outfit, was looking back at him from the middle of it.

They were both restless, not knowing what to say to each other. The boy decided to take the initiative:

"Do we know each other?"

The girl felt that too. A tear began to fall down her cheek.

"I think so."

Suddenly a question came out of their mouths at the same time.

"What is your name?"

The unexpectedness of such synchrony made them laugh for a couple of seconds. After some hesitation, the boy walked to the other side of the central red handrail that divided the staircase in two, and he started walking towards the girl.

He felt that she was that person he had been searching for a long time, although he did not really know who she was.
The girl was waiting for him anxiously and she had that same feeling that he was the person she was looking for, but she couldn't recognize him either.

When the boy reached her, he looked down at her, somewhat embarrassed.

"My name is Taki." he introduced himself, with a shy smile.

"I am Mitsuha," answered the girl.

A tear also fell down Taki's cheek. The feeling of knowing the woman in front of him was intense, but he couldn't remember how or where he knew her from. «Mitsuha, Mitsuha, Mitsuha! Where did I meet you?» he wondered, but a dark haze seemed to hide any kind of memory.

"When I saw you on the train, I felt that I needed to find you, but I don't understand why," Mitsuha questioned herself, a little embarrassed when thinking about the race she had given.

Both had seen each other minutes ago, while traveling on different trains. Each of them was standing in front of the windows of the doors of the car in which they were riding, when by chance the train lines ran parallel for a while, moving both trains in the same direction and leaving them one in front of each other for a few moments. Just by seeing each other those few seconds made them feel the other was that person, someone they had been searching for a long time. Without being able to say anything more than just looking at each other, both had gotten off at the next stop of their trains, at different stations, and ran towards each other, praying that the other was doing the same. And in some mysterious way, their mutual intuition had been correct.

"I felt the same way too, and I was worried you weren't, well... here."

"Where did we meet? In Hida? In Tokyo?"

"I have always lived in Tokyo. Do you come from Hida?"

"I come from Gifu prefecture, from... Hida-Furukawa, although I've been living in Tokyo for years."