Story: Tomoyo's World - Part 3- Beyond Their Wildest Dreams (chapter 8)

Authors: Risa Kaijuu

Back to chapter list

Chapter 8

Title: Chapter 7


Chapter 7


A little later they were having tea with Nadeshiko while Fujitaka worked in his study.


"It has been wonderful having you living here with me, Sakura." Tomoyo1 smiled, "I keep thinking of all the fun we have had together. Life has been so very sweet! The strange part is I never really appreciated just how lucky I was! It just seemed normal that you and your mom and dad would be living here with me and mom." Tomoyo2 added.


"I know what you mean," Sakura agreed. "I thought it was just the way things were suppose to be. I even remember asking mom if it was okay just having you, or if I needed to have a husband too." Tomoyo chuckled at this.


"I remember that." Nadeshiko smiled and looked at Tomoyo. "I decided it was time that I explained things to Sakura." She looked thoughtful for a moment before continuing. "I remember saying, "No dear. You don't have to have a husband. If you really love Tomoyo-chan, then she is all you need to have. Most people have only one person that they love, but I was...perhaps too fortunate. I fell in love with two people who both fell in love with me. And this made things more complicated." You see, I had loved Sonomi-chan for years before I fell in love with Fuji-chan. And I thought she loved me the same way. But she couldn't bear the thought of me loving him, so she stopped seeing me which made me very sad. I married my Fuji-chan which was wonderful, and then I had my boy, Toya. But deep inside I was still sad. When I had Sakura and she was so beautiful, I lost my sadness for a while. Then, just as my sadness was coming back, my Sonomi-chan came to my door and back into my life."


xxxx


Flashback: 15 years 7 months and 21 days earlier.



"Sonomi-chan!" Nadeshiko cried. "Have you come back to me?" She continued hesitantly.


"Yes I have, and I shall never leave you again." Sonomi said firmly as she tightly hugged the one she loved so very much and the happy tears rolled down her cheeks. "She is alive and in my arms again! I have a second chance at my life! And she will live this time. I will make it happen!"


"I have been so lonely for you!" Nadeshiko said through her tears.


"I knew that when I left her." Sonomi accused herself. "But I was so young and so full of myself, I thought she had betrayed me. How very STUPID I was!"


After a minute or so, Nadeshiko spoke again. "Won't you come in and sit down? I'll make some tea." But Sonomi couldn't seem to let go. It took several more tries before Nadeshiko got her to finish coming in the house. Even then she wouldn't wait in the living room, but followed Nadeshiko into the kitchen and stayed within arms reach as the water was heated and the pot prepared.


Finally they were on the sofa sipping tea and Sonomi started telling Nadeshiko the story of how she had come back from the future. "Our girls will have such magic power? How wonderful!"


"She believes my strange story! She is such an amazing person! Sonomi thought to herself as she continued. "Yes, it is. Remember how we would dream of being Magic Girls? Well they actually are! And..." Sonomi hesitated finishing her sentence as the thought still stunned her. "I have some power as well. I was able to use Sakura's Magic Card to grow wings and fly! It was a dream come true indeed." Sonomi finished as she smiled at the memory of what Sakura had done for her. "But that was NOTHING compared to this!" She realized.


"It sounds wonderful indeed. I can hardly wait until Sakura and Tomoyo are old enough to show me their Magic!" Nadeshiko smiled happily and suddenly Sonomi became very serious.


"Tomoyo sent me back here to this time for a very important reason. In my Timeline you died of Cancer about three years from now. And I didn't know until it was almost too late, so I only got to see you for a very short time before you were gone." Sonomi finished painfully.


"In three years? I will be so sad to leave this wonderful world and the ones I love." Nadeshiko said softly.


"No! All you need to do is get a mammogram so they can find the cancer while it is still small and they can almost certainly cure you. This is why I came back. To change events and save you. And even if I can't save you, I am glad I can be here, to be with you for these last three years. I was terribly sad after you died and I tortured myself with the knowledge that I could have spent ten years with you except for my own selfishness. I am so very sorry that I rejected you, just because you fell in love with that man. I love you so much! From this moment on, I will do what ever I can to make you happy. Anything in my power is yours. Anything at all!" Sonomi finished in a tortured voice.


Nadeshiko was very impressed by this confession and apology. And something came to her mind that she had dreamed of when her husband was away on a dig and she was lonely. She wondered if she dare say it, then as she looked at Sonomi's tear streaked face she decided. "There is something that you can do for me, that would make my days wonderfully happy."


"Name it and it's yours!" Sonomi said without hesitation.


"My hearts desire is to live with all the people I love in one house." When Nadeshiko saw the puzzled look on Sonomi's face she smiled and continued. "You live in that great big house with just your little Tomoyo to keep you company. I would love it if you would invite me and my family to share your house with you."


"Only my Nadeshiko would think of something so audacious. But why not? I want to be as close to her as I can. Nothing else really matters."


"I do invite you and your family to come and live with me. Any time you wish, just let me know and I will have all your things moved to my house. There is a fine suite in the south wing next to mine that should be large enough for the four of you."


"Really! You really mean that?!" Nadeshiko practically squealed.


"Yes. I really mean it. I have missed you so much I felt like dying inside. It will be a delight to have you living in my house." Sonomi finished with a smile.


"But will you be nice to my Fuji-chan?" Nadeshiko wanted to know.


"Yes." Sonomi said without hesitation. "I will treat him with honor and respect. But do you think that he will agree to such an unusual arrangement?"


"The more I think about this, the more exciting it becomes!" Sonomi smiled to herself.


"I don't know. But I will try my best to convince him to agree." Nadeshiko replied hopefully.


xxxx


That evening Fujitaka was surprised and delighted to find Sonomi at his house, as he was well aware of how much his wife missed her cousin. And even more surprised when she was polite to him and agreed to stay for dinner. But the biggest surprise came after dinner as they sat in the living room.


"I would be pleased and honored if you and your family would come and live with me in my house." Sonomi announced.


Fujitaka was understandably startled. "Sonomi-san! That...is most generous of you..."


"Please Fuji-sama! I want to live with all the people I love in the same house. I love you, and I love Toya and Sakura, but I love Sonomi as well. Would it be wrong to live together?" Nadeshiko pleaded.


As his wife was pleading with him it suddenly made perfect sense. It must be a plan that Sonomi had thought up to try to take his Nadeshiko away from him. One would think that this would anger him, but that would be only if you didn't know Fujitaka. He was no ordinary man. And his love for his Nadeshiko was no ordinary love. Above all he wanted his beloved wife to be happy, and he knew that she loved her childhood friend very much. Perhaps as much as she loved him. And in her childlike way she wanted both of them. As he looked at Sonomi he wondered if it might actually be possible to give such a gift to the one he loved so very much.


"Sonomi-sama, do you wish Nadeshiko-chan's happiness above all else?" He asked her and she replied instantly.


"Yes! That is what is most important to me." she said clearly.


"Yet you knew that staying away from her caused her sadness and you did it anyway."


"I know!" Sonomi cried with tears in her eyes as she slid to the floor on her knees. "Please forgive me for being such a fool!" This was so different from the Sonomi that Fujitaka knew that he wondered if it were the same person for a moment.


"You have had a sudden change of heart?" He probed.


In this time she had avoided Nadeshiko for over six years. "Yes! I realize now that my love for Nadeshiko is far more important than my foolish pride." With this she turned on her knees to face Fujitaka and bowed until her forehead touched the floor. "Please do me the honor of coming and living in my house."


"I must convince him that I am serious about this!... Yes! That may do it!"


"I will accept you as the head of the household." She announced clearly but humbly.


Nadeshiko and her husband were both shocked by this incredible offer but in spite of his shock, Fujitaka could hear the love in Sonomi's voice. As he looked down at the proud woman who had just offered him everything she was, he decided that this was not a plot by the old Sonomi but an act of love by a new Sonomi. He stood up, bent over, took Sonomi's hand and pulled her to her feet. "That is not necessary." he said as he bowed deeply, "Nadeshiko and I, and our children will be honored to come and live in your house. And I insist that you remain the head of that house."


Then Nadeshiko was hugging both of them with happy tears running down her face.


 


Back to chapter list