Request From Archive of Our Own
Mido's P.O.V.
When I was younger, I met a boy with shiny black hair and matching midnight eyes. He was ten while I was fifteen when we first met. I remember everything, every little detail of the day we first met.
***
"Mimi sweetie?"
I turned my head from the TV. "Yes mother?"
"Can you get me some eggs? I've run out."
I sighed, "Of course, mother," I said as I got up from my seat.
"Thank you, Mimi!" My mother said as she pulled out some money from her bag.
"Here you go," she handed me the money, "be careful Mimi, sweetie."
I grabbed the money, "I will, mother."
***
I was walking past the park when I finished getting the eggs. I turned my head and I saw a boy. He just laid there in the grass, looking up at the clouds. I don't know why, but I got curious. Something drew me towards him, so I walked up to him.
I bent over, casting a shadow over his body. He looked up at me, his eyes void of emotions, but I didn't mind and just smiled at him. "Hey there, kid! What are you doin?"
He opened his mouth, "I was looking at the clouds, but now I can't because you're in the way."
I chuckled at his response, "You're quite blunt. I know you're looking at clouds, but why are you looking at clouds?"
He looked at me as if the answer was obvious. "Because I want to."
My eyes softened at him, "Haha, can I watch the clouds with you?" I asked as I laid down next to the boy.
We stared at each other, "Why?"
I gave him the same face he had given me when I asked him the same question, "Because I want to."
He looked at me for a few more seconds. "Mn."
When he gave me his answer, we both looked back at the sky. We laid there for hours, looking at the clouds passing us by in all types of weird shapes. Some even slightly looked like actual objects.
I would point them out each time and talk a little about them, but he would never say anything. He would only slightly react when he saw an animal by saying one-word remarks.
He would always be the first to point out an animal-looking cloud, except for one. I noticed one really realistic cloud and pointed at it, "Hey kid, look at that one! It looks like a rabbit."
He looked at where I pointed. His little doe eyes, for the first time, were anything but dull. They lit up at the puffy rabbit cloud. "Bunny!" He exclaimed with happiness.
'How adorable!' I thought. "Do you like rabbits?"
"Bunnies are cute."
"Yes, very cute." I then thought, 'However, you're far cuter.'
***
After that day, I would go to that park, hoping to see the little boy. Every day he would be there, looking at the clouds and every day I would lay with him.
I learned that his name was Aishi Ayoshi and that he loved animals, especially rabbits. So I would always bring him little bunny-themed gifts. He loved them, and I loved watching his little round face light up, well, as light up as it could get.
This was our routine for an entire year… until I had to move. I had to move my entire life because of my mother's job. I had never cared before, why would I? I never grew to care for anything at any place we've moved to.
I never grew to care for anything until you, Aishi Ayoshi, my first friend. I didn't want to leave him behind… but I had to.
My heart hurt the last day, the last day I would see Ayoshi.
***
I walked up to the door and knocked. The door was opened by a woman who looked similar to Ayoshi. "May I help you?"
"I'm here to speak to Aishi Ayoshi."
The woman looked at me weirdly. "How do you know my son?"
"I'm Rana Mido. I'm the one who looks at clouds with Ayoshi."
The woman's face lit up, her lips forming a huge smile, "Oh! You're my son's–"
"Mother, who's at the door?" I heard Ayoshi ask.
The woman turned her head, "Sweetie, look who's here," she said as she opened the door wider.
Ayoshi noticed that it was me and passed his mother to get to me.
I smiled down at Ayoshi and bent down to his level. "Hey kid."
"Hello."
I sighed as I grabbed his small hand, "Ayoshi, I'm going to have to leave tomorrow. We might not see each other for a while."
Ayoshi's eyes widened, "Why?"
"My mother is moving and I have to go with her."
Ayoshi threw himself in my arms, "I don't want you to go."
I wrapped my arms around him, "I don't want to go either, but I have to. I promise, though, I will come back to you." Ayoshi still looked at me unsure, so I grabbed something out of my pocket and I showed it to him.
Ayoshi looked down at my hand, "Bunny?"
In my hand were little bunny clips, "Yes, I got us little bunny clips," I said as I opened one of them and clipped it in Ayoshi's hair. I then handed the other one to Ayoshi. He touched the bunny clip in his hair and tightly held the other. I smiled, "These bunny clips will keep us connected until I come back."
"You promise to come back."
I chuckled, "I never break my promises."
"I believe you, but if you break your promise, I'll come after you," Ayoshi gently clipped the other bunny clip in my hair, "but for now I'll wait for you… my precious senpai."