The Rising Truth

Bonds repaired

There will be an update on Sunday and Monday. I have SAT testing on Saturday and I will be on vacation from 6/7-6/11. I am finishing this at 11:36 pm but the wifi is turned off. I am too sleepy to proofread. I hope you all like it.

Yuzuru pov.

He tried to pull me off him, but I wouldn't budge. "No! I'm not letting you go until you hear me out. I'm not letting you get away from me again."

"Yuzuru there's nothing to explain. You don't want me in your life and that's that. I'm not good enough, whether it be as a skater or as a person."

I hate it when he repeated the words I said to him. I didn't mean them, but they still hurt.

"I didn't mean them. I was angry, but I don't mean them."

His voice was quiet and lifeless. "If you didn't mean them, you wouldn't have said them. A part of you means them."

I was shocked by that. He was right, a part of me did mean them. I hated that part of me, but I couldn't deny it. A part of me hated him for not opening up to me. It wasn't reasonable, but tit was still there.

My arms loosened and he left my embrace. I panicked and grabbed the bottom of his sweater. 

"Don't leave. I can't live without you." I must've sounded so defeated, but all I got back was silence.

Shoma pov.

  "Don't leave. I can't live without you."  

I freeze. I was tired. I had given up on our friendship the other night, and he already showed that he wants nothing to do with it. So why the change of heart?

"You've lived without me for this long." I just wanted him to give up. It would be better for the both of us. He could go back to being the top skater in the world and I could go back to being a failure.

"Just because I walk, and talk and breathe, doesn't mean that I am living. I've waited so long for you. I really did want to be your friend again, but I didn't tell you because I thought that you had forgotten me. I didn't want to chase you away. Why can't you understand that what I said earlier was in anger and that it wasn't the real me? Please, don't go Shoma."

I was shaking. He cares. He actually cares about me. Turning around I wrap my arms around him. "Okay, let's be friends again. Let's try again."

He embraces me tightly and rests his head on top of mine. He starts crying into my hair, whispering, "Thank you. Thank you." He repeated it endlessly like a prayer.

Once he lets go of me, we stand in silence. Each of us unsure of how to continue on from this, when my stomach growls. I hadn't eaten breakfast yet, and I wanted to eat before I returned to Nagoya. He laughed, and I blushed.

We end up in the cafe together, ordering breakfast. As I'm halfway through my bacon, he looks up at me. "Why did you snub me during Nationals?"

I set down my bacon, "Because you didn't recognize me, so I assumed that you forgot about me. You were so distant, so I assumed that the only reason you talked to me was that I was a fellow competitor. I was already nervous about you remembering me in the first place. so after that, I guess I just gave up."

"What? What do you mean? I only saw you when the competition started."

I shook my head. "The day of the drawing, before the competition started, I went up to you to strike a conversation. You didn't acknowledge me at all. You treated me as if I was just a fan. Nothing more.

Yuzuru pov.

I remember. It was the day before the drawing, and that kid looked familiar but I was so sleep deprived that day that I didn't notice anything around me.

I was so nervous for Nationals that I only slept for 3 hours. I was sitting in the room waiting for the drawing to begin when I short kid can up and talked to me. I was too tired to listen so I shooed him off. Later, when I actually met Shoma, I came up to congratulate him. He thanked me but was extremely distant and when I invited him to go out and eat, he refused.

So if was my fault that this mess got started. All because I was stubborn and didn't get enough sleep.

"You were that boy that came up and talked to me. Oh, I'm so sorry Shoma. I was got 3 hours of sleep that day so everything was a blur. I didn't mean to ignore you and give you the wrong impression."

He smiles at me. I was unworthy of it. Because of my recklessness and stubbornness, I caused him to think that I had forgotten him.

"It's okay Yuzuru. We're friends now."

I smile back, "Yeah, we're friends now." I'm happy that I'm friends with, and I know that I have to take things slow. but sitting here with him is making me fall more in love with him.

We part ways after breakfast, and I cheerily walked back home. Saya was there waiting for me, "Are you going to eat breakfast?"

"No, thank you though. I already ate with Shoma."

"Are you guys friends now? I heard you fighting last night."

"Yeah, we are."

Saya pov.

I sat in front of my laptop, waiting for the video call. Yuzuru was out on a photo shoot and my parents were asleep. My earbuds were plugged in so my video call wouldn't wake them up.

The ping came up, and a person appeared. Marianne.

"Did it go well?" she asked

"Of course. They had a fight but they made up this morning. Yuzuru was practically bouncing when he walked."

"That's good. I was starting to get sick and tired of Shoma pining for Yuzuru."

"Say, I know that you have Shoma delivered the box in person. Exactly how did you get him to do that instead of him mailing it?" I inquired it.

"He's heard me complain about the postal service in the U.S. and that because of them I don't trust any postal service. Being a foreigner has its perks" She gave a mischievous smile.

"And the train crash?"

"Oh, that was pure luck. I was going to tell him to stay the night since if he comes back from his trip, it'll be really late."

"Did you know that they are in love with each other?"

"I do, but let the lovebirds figure it out. They're old enough." and with that, she left.

I smiled, finally, my brother will stop moping around the house over the fact that his best friend doesn't remember him.

I met Marianne at a lecture she was giving at my university, and we later found out about our relation to each other. We both got tired of their pining, so when Marianne went to the U.S. she bought a ton of books, and when she enacted our plan. I knew my brother always brought that photo with him, and with Shoma over, it was only a matter of time before he found it.

Leaning back, I open The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and take a sip of champagne, in celebration of my victory.

I want to write Yuzusho drabbles because I need to sort out my really good ideas from my really shitty ideas (ie. Shoma dying before he could confess to Yuzuru.) I was actually really close to including this but then decided against it. Anyways it going to be just random short stories (there will be really raunchy scenes). I've written one already, but I don't know if I want to publish it. This will not affect the updates for this chapter. Should I do it?