http://highboys.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] highboys.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 31_days2012-05-10 06:01 pm

[May 10] [Sket Dance] and I would have met you

Title: and I would have met you (10/31)
Day/Theme: May 10 / the great open dome
Series: Sket Dance
Character/Pairing: Ryosuke/Haru/Akane
Rating: PG-13



Akane has this dream.

When she's older and her bank account is richer by a few hundred thousand yen, she'll take Haru and Ryosuke to Europe and they'll ooh and ah at all the tourist spots. Well, she and Haru would; Ryosuke would be content to stuff himself with ravioli and prosciutto in Italy, or wine and cheese in France, and he'll laugh at their disappointment when the art galleries are closed for renovation. Mostly, Ryosuke will let Akane drink off her heartache over a summer fling and listen to her whine about hot European men who can't understand a word of Japanese. Ryosuke will most likely get a black eye after picking a fight with Akane's not-boyfriend, but not before Akane gets a few punches in herself.

They'll go shopping, too, the three of them. They'll make Ryosuke carry their bags even if Ryosuke complains about how his video cam is a delicate thing and how he can't record while being their errand boy at the same time. The shots will be blurry and mostly inaudible when they get back home, but they're all happy, anyway, all smiles and blurred edges and halting attempts at barely intelligible foreign languages. Their English is barely passable, what more their knowledge of the romance languages? Still, Haru turns out to have a flair for French, and Akane will tease both of them until Ryosuke turns red and Haru hurts her back from laughing too hard.

She'll watch them get married, again, on impulse, somewhere with a memorable church that's stood for hundreds of years, with domes much larger than the ones back home and an open ceiling to let the sunlight in. They'll exchange their worn rings and struggle as they listen to the Latin words, but Akane will still cry and clap and whisk them off to an impromptu honeymoon in some private island off the coast.

And then when she's down to her last penny, they'll busk off at Vienna, Ryosuke playing a guitar and Akane singing and Haru dancing for the crowd. Someone will probably upload them to Youtube, if it exists, by then, and then they'll get famous as the three lost Japanese tourists trying to find their way back home together. It's a memory they'll laugh about with their kids, and it will be a story they'll never tire of.

Someday, she tells herself, and Akane dreams.