manga
x
if i can't have you
subaru x seishirou
yui miyamoto
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Disclaimer: X is by Clamp, the awesome four-some.
And “If I can’t have you” is a disco song by Yvonne
Elliman.
If I can’t have you…
By Miyamoto Yui
I was actually up at 3 am in the morning. You
wouldn’t have thought so when you knew how I loved to
sleep early.
I was healthy. Then.
Well, okay, except for the eating part.
I looked at myself and laughed. I didn’t know if I
was laughing at the memories, myself, you, or at
everything crashing together inside of me.
Maybe everything.
I looked outside of the window as the rain had begun
to become such a disaster. I thought it was strange.
Nature had such a disposition to love me so much.
It cried with me.
It showed all the emotions I couldn’t.
I was at some lonely corner in Tokyo, Seishirou. Can
you believe it?
Of course you can.
You drove me to this place. You put me here, didn’t
you?
My hands are folded as I lean my chin upon them. I
look like I’m planning something conniving.
You’d laugh at me. I know you would.
Me? Subaru Sumeragi thinking vindictive thoughts?
“Oh, you must be mistaken.
That’s the little boy I shattered years ago,” you’d
think.
I smiled to myself with an anger that wouldn’t even
want to wake from its sleep. And so I continued to
look out the window carefully.
Cautiously.
With much concentration.
The tears streaming down and it’s clouding up because
I’m so close to the window.
You used to love me being close to you.
I used to kiss you on the forehead and you’d either
get mad at me or look at me in surprise for doing so.
I remember that day in the rain.
Do you remember is what I’d like to know.
I had not seen you for years and yet after that day, I
saw you randomly. It was raining like this.
I looked down to ignore you.
And like the devil you are, you called out my name,
“Subaru-kun!”
I tried to turn around and walk away, but there you
were. Stunned, I didn’t even want to take out my
umbrella.
I wanted to get drenched that day.
I wanted to get a cold.
I was sick.
I loved you, didn’t I?
Correction: I do love you.
Still. Stupid me.
You held out your umbrella to me as if we were good
friends who had no time to see one another. Then,
you hugged me briefly.
“How are you?”
“…”
“I’ll see you then.” You bowed your head.
I didn’t say anything.
And as I was going to take my first step away from
you, you came back. You gave me your umbrella.
You pushed your glasses into my hands. “I always
wanted to give these to you.”
Sadistic…
You are a cruel man.
A face and talk so sweet to my ears but daggers into
my heart.
And you knew _exactly_ what you were doing.
As you always did.
I walked with these things in my hands. Feeling the
aura left.
“I…”
Stupid Subaru.
I looked at the umbrella that you had given me. It
was the one you used to shelter me in the rain.
It even had a little patch that you couldn’t really
notice. But I always saw things like that.
You…
You kept this…
This was mine, you dummy.
The glasses…
I got them from my trenchcoat and felt them in my
fingers. The ones that I had taken out one day so
that you could really look at me.
It was the pair I took off at the time I really kissed
you.
“Look at only me,” I had said to you.
I want you back.
Everything.
Even if it’s all broken like this already…
It was then that I got up from my seat and smiled to
myself. To increase the pain, I wanted to feel happy.
A paradox right? Nothing ever makes sense when it
comes to you.
I wanted to see you again, despite everything.
That’s what I had realized when I saw you after nine
years.
Even if you break me to pieces,
Like a fool, I’ll come back for more.
But I know…
You also do the same.
You can’t lie to me, Seishirou.
Even if you wanted to.
I’ll always find out the truth.
I put some money into a music jukebox. One of few in
the area. And I put on a song that always reminded me
of you,
”Don't know why
I'm survivin' every lonely day
When there's got to be no chance for me
My life would end
And it doesn't matter how I cry
My tears, so far, are a waste of time
If I turn away
Am I strong enough to see it through?
Go crazy is what I will do
If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-huh, oh
If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-hoh
Can't let go and it doesn't matter how I try
I gave it all so easily to you my love
To dreams that never will come true
Am I strong enough to see it through?
Go crazy is what I will do
If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-huh, oh
If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-hoh
If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-huh, oh
If I can't have you
I don't want nobody, baby
If I can't have you...uh-hoh
Oh! If I can't have you...”
I sang along and tapped my fingers on the table.
Getting up with my trenchcoat in one arm, I gave my
money to the cashier and left the café.
The door closed behind me and I looked up to the
pouring rain.
“If I can’t have you…”
As I walked in the rain, the water immersed me in my
own tears. I was soaked all over, but I was as happy
as any madman walking through the quiet Tokyo I had
become accustomed in the dead of night.
Even in a sea of flooding water.
I love you to the point of insanity, intoxicated by my
memories and thoughts of my past and future.
I laughed aloud, “I know you do too, Seishirou.”
If I can’t have you…
I never could answer that when you were with me years
ago, Seishirou.
I still can’t answer it.
I’m still trying to find out.
A single sakura petal fell into my palm splattered
with rain.
I smiled to myself even harder.
I know you haven’t found the answer either.
I looked up to the shadow that had formed around my
body as it jumped away.
“Because if you did,
you wouldn’t always search for me.”
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Author’s note: * sniff, sniff * This song is so
perfect for them. I heard many today, but I
remembered someone with this song and thought this was
the best one.
This is dedicated to you…even if you’ll never read it.
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~IroIrona_fanfiction@yahoogroups.com no genki owner~
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Iroirona_fanfiction/?yguid=80649087
How can you possibly miss someone who doesn't exist...
How can you bleed just to touch a non-existing character?
Am I losing my mind to love this sincerely?
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