Haku's Love Interest [Ouran Fanfiction]

A Painful Reminder

I shouldn't have told him off like that, I didn't mean to really. Before I could stop myself I had already spoken. There wasno going back anymore, I was already deep into this mess and there was no way I could be saved. I walked into the cafeteria and thankfully no one starred at me plainly. I didn't mind being starred at in secret, by that I mean the gossip about what had happened with Tamaki yesterday spread fast and by now everyone knew, but everyone just out right starring at me made me sick to my stomach. I was glad I had brought my own lunch, I probably wouldn't have been able to pay for one at this school anyway. I sat down at one of the farther away tables so I wasn't near anyone. Unfortunately I was confronted by another host. The host called out, and I knew he was talking to me. I looked up, expecting to see just one host but instead I saw the two orange haired boys I had seen the other day. They spoke, each taking a turn to finish the others's sentence but I wasn't listening. I starred at them with a slight bored expression on my face, I knew I had that expression because it was forced. I was truthfully interested in their eyes. Something about them was very familiar. I continued to stare, and they continued to talk. A minute or two passed by and as I continued to stare a familiar face crossed my mind. It was a face I knew all too well. The structure to it, the cheekbone outline, that slightly pointed chin, the soft pale skin. I remembered what it looked like, the eye's always dark black almost like empty space, the small black piercing in one ear, the dark slightly shaggy yet slightly short hair. There was almost always bags under the eyes. The rest of his face was shaded by the dark hoodie that was alwaysy worn My eye widened in the sudden shock of the memory almost long forgotten. I stood, turned, and walked towards a nearby exit leaving the lunch I had laid out onto the table. "Hey! Wait!" I heard one of the twins call but I was already halfway out of the room by now No matter which way I went that face would return, pooping up in the corner of my eye but vanishing when I turned to look. I didn't know where I was going but it better than being in that lunch room. My walk turned into a jog, which turned into a run as I passed down hallway after hallway. The more I ran, the more of the body to the face I saw. When I finally stopped running I was on the bottom floor in a hallway with windows. I took a deep breaths and looked out the window. I sw him, he was standing in the front of the pond outside. I turned and ran outside and before I knew it, I was yelling it, I was telling his name. I knew it was his name because he turned to look it me. Yoh, he answered to Yoh. It was the only name that came to mind because I remember him, as I ran towards him I felt the warm tears stream down my cheeks. He turned completely around to look at me, and smiled A mile I loved with all my heart. He said something, I couldn't hear him because I was to far away Just as I reached the edge of the pond where Tok stood, he vanished. Gne without another word. What did he say? Was it important? I couldn't think of that right now. All I could think of, was the day Yoh died.

Yoh Nishimura was a normal boy who had cancer since he was very little. The doctors found it quickly but they said he needed to stay in the hospital for a few days. Those days turned into 6 years before Yoh was able to leave the hospital. His personality turned from a outgoing fun kid to a shy and closed up kid. He spend most of his days inside and sometimes in school when he really had to go, which was mostly of the time. Around the last few weeks of schoolfor that semester a new girl hadbeen transferred to his school and ended up in his class also. She was shy in the beginning, just like him but she quickly adjusted to her surroundings and opened up a little. What Yoh found odd was the girl seemed to really want to talk to him. She'd comeup to him with any question, no one else, and he'd give her an answer and she'd smile and thank him. This went on for a few days and Yoh became used to having the girl ask him questions. One day the girl came up to him and asked, "Will you be my friend?" Until the day Yoh passed away, he never once forgot that moment. It became secial to him, more special than anything you could ever think of. From that day on Yoh and the girl became friends. Years passed byand the became best friends, they were so close they could talk for each other and understand how they felt just by looking at their face and watching their actions. One day Yoh ended up in the hospital and the routine started again, but this shorter. The doctors would run test on Yoh and do their own things but when they weren't doing tests, the girl came to visit him every day, except for the last day. The day of Yoh's passing he refused to let the girl see him saying he didn't want her to remember him in the state he was in. He wrote a note, two notes actually. One to his mom, who was his only family at the time, and one to the girl.. Thenote to his mother stated that she give his favorite hoodie, the one he wore all the time, to the girl to remind her of him. The note to the girl went like this:

"I know you hate me for not letting you see me today, I didn't want you to remember me like this. not all sick and thignslike that. I want you to remember me as your best friend, someone who was healthy, laughing and playing stupid games with you. I just realized, after the years we spent hanging out and talking together, I really never learned your name. Sad really but since I don't know your name, how about I give you a name that I'll call you frm now on? I'll call you... Haku"

Yoh ever really finished writing the note. That was all he had time to tell her before passing away. The girl was given the note a few days after his passing and upon reading it she decided to be called Haky from now on and until the day she dies.