He's Gone | Part Four to A Friend's Death |

Yumehara Chiyo

She was the average high schooler.

She was obsessed with dating and was overall very boring and unnoticeable.

And like most students under the pressure of school, she was very self conscious and very nervous.

Well, she was. Until him.

Yumehara Chiyo had a crush.

Nothing out of the ordinary, but her crush was.

He avoided her almost like he'd known she was approaching. He was lucky enough so that rain started pouring.

She'd had a boyfriend at the end of the day!

Lucky her.

That's what anyone would think.

Chiyo had gotten probably one of the worst boyfriends in the world.

And so, Saiki Kusuo was the object of her affection.

Until he wasn't.

Kaidou Shun was.

But she never stopped loving Saiki, after all. Without him, their group would fall apart.

And it did.

After Saiki's death...the group disbanded.

Chiyo stayed in touch with Chisato and Kokomi, but that was it.

Kaidou went off to college. Kuboyasu became a teacher at the other side of Japan. No one knows where Nendou went. Saiko left to inherit his father's company. Toritsuka became an artist. Nothing on Aiura. Hairo went off to the boring world of the office. And Rifuta became an actress.

And Chiyo became a director with two adopted kids.

Crazy isn't it?

Practically no one stayed in touch.

Her friends which she had come to love as a family...left. Abandoned one another.

Their friendship died with Saiki.

Saiki Kusuo.

The name engraved on the grave.

That rhymes actually. Or does it? Who knows.

Chiyo smiled bitterly at the grave.

Twenty years old and she can't get over him.

Well, she should probably get going.

Her children are gonna start missing her.

She sighed as she patted the grave and made her way to her car.

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Saiki Kusuo helped people.

Yumehara Chiyo was no exception.

She had...well, she had developed an eating disorder and it affected her greatly in high school.

No one noticed.

She was the boring and unnoticed person! No one would care...

Apparently, Saiki's other name was no one.

He looked her dead in the eye and well, he practically forced food down her throat.

Such a momma bear.

She sat down on her bed.

Saiki Kusuo.

Saiki Kusuo.

Huh...

She almost can't remember his face.

Saiki Kusuo.

Saiki Kusuo.

She can't remember his voice.

All she can do is remember his name and how protected she felt with him.

Saiki Kusuo.

Yumehara Chiyo.

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She got married at twenty one.

His name was Hino Hajime.

He was thoughtful and kind.

It didn't work out.

She was too clingy apparently.

Divorce número uno after two years.
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She got married again at twenty four.

Murano Yutaka.

He was...too...jealous.

Divorce número dos after a year.

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Takeda Kaede..

Possessive.

Divorce número tres after three years.

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Sumida Shin.

Abusive.

Divorce número cuatro after four years.

Luckily it was her last marriage.

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Thirty two years.

Thirty two years of being on this planet.

Time sure does fly by.

She grabbed a single rose and placed it on the grave.

For her friend.

Her dead friend.