ext_9800 (![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
issen4.livejournal.com) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
31_days2010-03-29 11:15 pm
issen4.livejournal.com) wrote in 31_days2010-03-29 11:15 pm
29 March/Hikaru no Go/Spirited Away crossover/Twice the River 24/26
Title: Twice the River 24/26
Series: Hikaru no Go/Spirited Away crossover
Day/Theme: 29 March/The quiet moments while the city's still dark
Chihiro came to life, gasping for breath.
"She's alive!" Someone exclaimed. "Look, she's alive!"
Shindou, she identified, and the blurry image in front of her eyes solidified to show the young Go player.
"Are you all right, Ogino-san?" Shindou asked.
She tried to answer, and had a coughing fit that made her feel as though her throat was splitting in two. Someone helped her to sit up. Touya, she thought, after the coughing had passed.
She blinked, looking around, not bothering to answer Shindou yet. They were in a park of some sort, she thought, noting the neatly trimmed lawns and shrubs. A park that she had been to in the past, it seemed like. Light came from a row of streetlamps that reminded her of where she had found Haku.
"What happened?" she asked.
Shindou shrugged. "I'm not sure. Your... the person you were searching for--the one who looks a bit like Touya, he appeared," he swallowed. "Sai recognised him, I think, because he turned pale and looked like he was going to faint, and he said he was going to bring all of us back home, and then--" he frowned. "I don't remember anything else after that. Touya, what about you?"
Touya shook his head, and that was when Chihiro realised that all of them were soaking wet. Again.
"More water, I think," Touya said after a long pause. "We woke by the pond, but Ogino-san was lying down in the water. We thought you had drowned."
"Pond?" she turned around wildly. No wonder the place felt familiar! She tried to get up, succeeded, and grabbed Shindou's arm. "This is Haku's pond, right?" she demanded of Shindou, who only looked puzzled.
"Who is--" he started to ask, but a third person appeared just then, his long shadow falling over all three of them.
"Sai!" Shindou exclaimed. "Where have you been? Touya and I were helping Ogino--and you just walked off, saying you said you saw something--"
"Not something--someone," Sai interrupted, giving Chihiro a look. It was a look Chihiro could not immediately decipher, but for some reason it reassured her. Haku had been found. He would be turning up.
"Someone--" Shindou started to ask.
"Shindou," Touya said in warning.
The two of them traded a long, speaking look. Finally Shindou looked away. "Right," he said, almost to himself. "Right, right, right," he said, each word louder, until he seemed to regain his usual exuberant tone. "Sai, where are we, do you know?"
Sai looked around. "We are at the place where I was found," he said, then gave a shudder, as though remembering a time when his body slumbered, unheeding of the passage of time.
"Oh." Shindou seemed to turn pale too.
"Yes," Sai said. He looked around the place. "It was so quiet," he said softly, almost to himself. "Moments like this, so early in the morning," he said, "I could almost hear myself think."
Touya said, "I thought we would return to the hospital room."
"Me too!" Shindou said.
Chihiro shook her head. "It was a real journey," she said, "for all that it started with a Go game. We've been travelling almost the entire night," she said. "The city's still dark. And before it grows light," she went on, looking at Sai, "we need to finish the game, Fujiwara-san."
Series: Hikaru no Go/Spirited Away crossover
Day/Theme: 29 March/The quiet moments while the city's still dark
Chihiro came to life, gasping for breath.
"She's alive!" Someone exclaimed. "Look, she's alive!"
Shindou, she identified, and the blurry image in front of her eyes solidified to show the young Go player.
"Are you all right, Ogino-san?" Shindou asked.
She tried to answer, and had a coughing fit that made her feel as though her throat was splitting in two. Someone helped her to sit up. Touya, she thought, after the coughing had passed.
She blinked, looking around, not bothering to answer Shindou yet. They were in a park of some sort, she thought, noting the neatly trimmed lawns and shrubs. A park that she had been to in the past, it seemed like. Light came from a row of streetlamps that reminded her of where she had found Haku.
"What happened?" she asked.
Shindou shrugged. "I'm not sure. Your... the person you were searching for--the one who looks a bit like Touya, he appeared," he swallowed. "Sai recognised him, I think, because he turned pale and looked like he was going to faint, and he said he was going to bring all of us back home, and then--" he frowned. "I don't remember anything else after that. Touya, what about you?"
Touya shook his head, and that was when Chihiro realised that all of them were soaking wet. Again.
"More water, I think," Touya said after a long pause. "We woke by the pond, but Ogino-san was lying down in the water. We thought you had drowned."
"Pond?" she turned around wildly. No wonder the place felt familiar! She tried to get up, succeeded, and grabbed Shindou's arm. "This is Haku's pond, right?" she demanded of Shindou, who only looked puzzled.
"Who is--" he started to ask, but a third person appeared just then, his long shadow falling over all three of them.
"Sai!" Shindou exclaimed. "Where have you been? Touya and I were helping Ogino--and you just walked off, saying you said you saw something--"
"Not something--someone," Sai interrupted, giving Chihiro a look. It was a look Chihiro could not immediately decipher, but for some reason it reassured her. Haku had been found. He would be turning up.
"Someone--" Shindou started to ask.
"Shindou," Touya said in warning.
The two of them traded a long, speaking look. Finally Shindou looked away. "Right," he said, almost to himself. "Right, right, right," he said, each word louder, until he seemed to regain his usual exuberant tone. "Sai, where are we, do you know?"
Sai looked around. "We are at the place where I was found," he said, then gave a shudder, as though remembering a time when his body slumbered, unheeding of the passage of time.
"Oh." Shindou seemed to turn pale too.
"Yes," Sai said. He looked around the place. "It was so quiet," he said softly, almost to himself. "Moments like this, so early in the morning," he said, "I could almost hear myself think."
Touya said, "I thought we would return to the hospital room."
"Me too!" Shindou said.
Chihiro shook her head. "It was a real journey," she said, "for all that it started with a Go game. We've been travelling almost the entire night," she said. "The city's still dark. And before it grows light," she went on, looking at Sai, "we need to finish the game, Fujiwara-san."