First Love

Purin-chan: Yes, this is a songfic to the song First Love sung by the talented Utada Hikaru. Disclaimers as usual. I don’t own Magic Knight Rayearth, nor do I own First Love. I give thanks to animelyrics.com for the lyrics and translation, even though I did get a little nit-picky and editted the translation to my fitting (since it doesn’t look like it was translated with the best efforts...)

Fanfiction is in regular print.
Lyrics are in italics – Japanese on left, English translation on right.

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     Fuu let out a tiny sigh as she stepped through the front doors, opening her pale-green umbrella as the doors slammed gently back shut. She glanced up at the dismal, darkened sky. "I suppose Hikaru-san and Umi-san have decided to go straight home today," she reasoned in a soft voice. Slowly she padded down the rocky steps and began her lonely trip home.

     A large puddle on the sidewalk reflected the girl’s saddened expression. She regarded this for a moment, then looked ahead once more and walked through it, splashing and rippling the image, as though she were denying its existence.

     A sharp, cold breeze passed by, causing several goosebumps to form on her skin. Fuu hugged herself tightly, eyes closed in discomfort. When she blinked them open, she nearly dropped her umbrella in shock. "Ferio?!"

     "Ferio? Who’s that? Your boyfriend?"
     Fuu was startled by the unforeseen voice, and by the unexpected comment. Readjusting the spectacles that rested on the bridge of her nose, she realized the person whom the voice belonged to was not Ferio, but her classmate Kiiba.
     Without any further hesitation, and hiding the disappointment in her eyes, she replied in a voice too unemotional to be natural, so much that it sounded foreign even to her ears, "No. It’s nobody."

     He blinked at her a couple times, wondering if her coldness to him just now meant he should take a hint and leave, or otherwise?
     Deciding on the former, he concluded with a frown, "All right, I’ll leave you alone then." Before leaving, however, he reached into his pocket and pulled an object out, offering it to Fuu.
     The girl’s eyes widened as she gazed at it. "That’s...!"

     "You dropped it as you were leaving campus," he explained. With a sheepish grin, he added, "Well I had to chase you all the way out here to return it..."
     Her hand resisted the temptation to snatch it from him and run away with it, for she was afraid it might disappear if it remained out of her hands for too long. With gentle, wary hands, she reached out and took the deep-rose colored orb from Kiiba’s hands, then pressed it tenderly to her chest. "Thank you..."

     He winked at her. "No problem! Well, I’d better get going then." He turned on his heel and waved suavely as he walked away from her, paying no mind to the rain that pelted down upon him.
     Fuu paid this gesture no heed, however, as her attention was focused on one thing...
     "Ferio..."

     Tears escaped the corners of her eyes as she gazed down at the stony pavement. Her hands clutched the orb, her keepsake of her true love, tightly to her chest. "I want to see you..." she murmured, voice barely audible even to her own ears.

     After a few minutes of weeping–and becoming drenched in the rain–a new determination sprang forth to her eyes. She picked the dropped umbrella up, slipped the orb back into the pocket it had fallen from, and looked up once more to the sky...
     "Ferio, thank you for everything..."