NOTE: In the beginning as the chapters are short, I will be releasing two at a time. I divided the chapter as we the different ages we see Hatsumi. Once the chapters get longer as she grows older and I have more to write about her development, I will change to one chapter at a time. Prologue I had always known this day was coming, as the years went by I could feel the energy slowly growing within my body. She was in there. When I was younger and the thoughts first began to surface, I had my doubts. I thought perhaps it was all been a dream and yet it was one that clung to the surface of my mind and refused to be forgotten. Ririsu, that stupid bird and Eve... Hatsumi. The memories had slowly trickled back throughout the years as though the ice encasing them were gradually melting and returning rivulets of forgotten moments to me... Youko, Kuiru, Miruka, Princess Fuji, everyone... I know now the reason why I had always known that I would have a child and what her name would be. This was because it was Hatsumi's way of returning and coming home to me. So while I waited, I threw myself into school, into work, into everything so that time would pass faster. Pass it did but then I began noticing that even as life went by my body seemed frozen in the image of youthfulness. Of course, it was just like what had happened to those other two that had been bathed in Eve's souma. Now I am lying here on the thinly carpeted floor of that same empty room I had found myself waking up on forty eight years ago. Hatsumi's old room was what I knew it to be from my old memories of a life that didn't happen. This house was only a husk without her in it to make it warm but I couldn't have born selling it even though I was rarely there with the constant traveling I have been doing. Make up was no longer being a very effective way to hide the fact that even though I was supposed to be sixty four, I looked no older than twenty three so it became important that I was never anywhere long enough to be recognized anymore. However, I had recently met with a useful man by the name of 'Smith' who seemed willing to help me with some documents with minimal questions. I'm hoping that this will allow me to settle down again for at least sometime. Pain hit hard and fast and even as I grappled for something to hold onto my hands found nothing but air and dusty carpet. That green glow from so long ago began filling the room, emanating from my womb. Before too long it began fading, leaving me in an agonized heap and the room suddenly seemed eerily quiet but for my laboured breathing. I suppose that I had expected more lights and dazzle and less pain through this ordeal, it was not as though I had the luxury of pain medication as one would have had in normal circumstances. The pain receded and after a few moments to catch my breath I managed to sit up. Lying on my jacket which I had laid down in the corner earlier was a small, delicate infant with soft blonde fuzz and crimson eyes.
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