Little Fairytales | An Aikatsu FanFic

The Talk

It was too late for Yume and Subaru to continue traveling through Contefee, it's two moons could only provide so much light. So they stopped at a near by glade, Subaru took a camp fire out of his hat, and they sat.

"So ... about what happened in the cave," said Yume

"What happened in the cave?" he asked "You mean that endless climb on the rope? I know right! I should have dropped hours before we started climbing. You know, I had a feeling I should have dropped in the first place, but Raichi was climbing, you were climbing, so I thought I might as well climb. Goes to show you should always go with your gut -"

"That's not what I meant," said Yume "I meant the part with the story about -"

"You mean the one in the room?" Subaru interrupted "Pretty comfy, right?"

"I was only in it for a while -"

"Well that fire's pretty warm, I swiped some before we left. See? It's the same fire!" Subaru pointed to the camp fire they had set up.

"No, Hatter, I meant about the story!"

"You mean the story about me? I have a wild life right?!"

"Hatter. It's just, when I'm sad about something I like to talk about -"

"What's there to talk about!?!" Subaru snapped "I'm an orphan! you realize how many orphans there are on Contefee? A lot! And I'm one of them! Why can't you just let things be ... be left alone?!! Why can't you just be happy with what you have?!" 

Subaru scowled, he was angry. No, he was mad.

"I'm ... I'm sorry," There was a long pause, Yume felt the guilt pile up on top of her for asking. She shouldn't have. "Um ... how close are we? To Ice Flower, I mean,"

"Hmm ..." Subaru took off his hat, reached in, and took out a broken clock and put his ear to it. "Not too far. We just need to go through these woods, pas The emerald City, past more woods and we're there! It's closer then it sounds,"

"Okay ... how long should it take for us to get there?" Yume asked

"Uh ..." Subaru tasted the clock "A day or too, not long. We should get these this Wharfle,"

"Huh?"

"The third day of the week," There was another pause before Subaru asked "Why did you ... why would you ... why ... back in Agraba ... why did you kiss me?"

"Eh?"

"You kissed my nose, remember?" he said "And then I turned back into ... well ... me. But why did you kiss me, are you a princess?"

"Me? No, I'm not!"

"But I thought only a kiss from a royal could break a spell like that," said Subaru "But that's not the point. why did you kiss me in the first place?"

"I ... I ... I dunno," Yume answered with a shrug

"You don't know?"

"Yeah I don't know!"

"Do you have a thing for me?" Subaru asked

"N-NO!" Yume exclaimed "Look it's not like that! It was more like ... like when Snow White Kissed Dobby!*"

"But that doesn't really explain why!"

"Why do you need a reason? you've never needed a reason before!"

"Well I want one now,"

"Why, haven't you ever been kissed before?" Subaru didn't reply. "Oh ... I'm -"

"It's fine," said Subaru "It's not a big deal, I think my mother kissed me when I was a baby but I can't be sure,"

"What happened?"

"Dad told me Elza Forte killed her," Subaru answered "I was just a baby, I don't remember anything about her,"

"Oh, I'm so sorry," said Yume

"It's ... it's fine," said Subaru "At least I had dad, and he gave me his hat before he died,"

"Is it a nice hat?" Yume asked. Subaru tilted his top hat up. "Oh, so that's why that hat means so much to you,"

"It's a nice hat," said Subaru "We made it together, we had a lot of fun,"

Yume smiled. "And he never kissed you, like on the forehead?"

"No, the closet thing I got to a kiss was this," Subaru reached into his hat and took out a thimble "Alice gave it to me when we first met!"

"Alice? Is she that girl you ... " Subaru blushed, Yume bit her lip. "Never mind,"

"Uh ... y-yeah, she was," Subaru answered "Alice was so ... different, kinda like you," Yume smiled "I was having a tea party with Asahi and Ichigo, we were all having fun and then she came over. The first thing I thought was 'Wow ... she's beautiful'. Her hair was so shiny and wavy! Like clouds! And her eyes were sparkly and pretty like my favorite tea cup,"

"She sounds wonderful," said Yume

"She was! She laughed at my jokes -" 'I like your jokes'  Yume thought "She was amazed by everything I pulled out of my hat!" 'You don't think I'm not amazed by the CAMP FIRE you took out of a fabric hat?'  "I wish she could have stayed," 'I .... Oh.'

"I ..." Yume started, but she couldn't find the words to follow it with and there was yet another silence.

"What's up with you guys and homes?" Subaru asked "Why can't you ever be happy with what you have. So you're stuck here. Fine! Live with it. I have, and I love it here!"

"But ... it's my home," Yume tried to explain "With my friends, my family," Yume wondered if it was the right choice of words.

"You guys are too sentimental,"

"Subaru, I'm sorry," said Yume "But I love my home, I love my family. Don't you miss your family,"

"No," Subaru answered

"Not at all,"

"Not after seeing what they do to people. Make people leave, not having fun because all they want is to go home. It's pretty selfish to ask me to stop playing so I can take you back you know,"

"Oh ... well ... thank you," said Yume

"Huh?"

"Thank you ... for stopping your fun to help me,"

Subaru smirked "I only did it cause I wanted to to leave, Yu -Toma - I just wanted you to leave,"

Yume smiled. "Can I have a hug?" she asked

"Hm?"

"Don't tell me you've never been hugged before,"

"Well, yeah, I've been hugged," said Subaru "But why do you want one now?"

"I'm sad,"

"Oh ... okay," Subaru sat down next to Yume and put his arms around her, she put her arms around him, determined not to cry. "Will ... will we still be friends?" he asked "Even after you go home?" Yume nodded.

"Yeah," she said right before she fell asleep.