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Mailbox: 5 Centimeters Per Second

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5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND
Pairing: Akari x Tohno
Category: Angst/Romance
Word Count: 245
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters.


Tohno-kun,
I had a weird dream last night...


They were in high school.
“Akari-chan!”

I was sitting, on a grassy land.
In a planet full of craters.


She jumped. And turned to the sound.
“What are you starting out there for?” they asked, pure confusion etched on their faces.
She shakes her head, and forces a smile before running to where they are.
They didn’t notice the mailbox she was staring at.

We were watching the earth, and the sun.

Years and years later.
Now there was a ring on her finger.
The cherry blossoms were falling.

My hair was blowing in the wind.

The warm, afternoon sun was shining down.
She could see the railway, so close.
And a man walking towards her, from the opposite direction.

And you were there, standing beside me.

She couldn’t see his face.
She didn’t see his face.
Until the moment they passed each other.

Tohno-kun...

She didn’t turn, until the railways were behind her.
But when she did,
The train flew by, at such an incredible speed.
How fast did trains go?

We will see each other again, right?

She didn’t care.
It was enough time for her to run.
She couldn’t bear to see his face anymore.
It hurt badly enough already.
And there already was a ring on her finger.

Someday...

So she ran.
Away from him...
Past the cherry blossoms slowly falling down.

No matter how long we take to get there.

END

A/N: I ended the movie in tears, I have to shamefully admit. It was a great one though. I badly wanted to leave it at a happier note, but I just couldn’t. I couldn’t call off Akari’s wedding and make her run to him. I couldn’t make them happy in the end. For me, that would be just the exact opposite of what the movie wanted to tell us. So instead, I just wrote of the two scenes in Akari’s viewpoint, showing how much she had also loved him.

Ah, love.

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She had written a letter that never reached him. Two snippets of Akira’s life: a mailbox and a railway. Love takes hold of the simplest things in life.
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