His death

As the night goes on, a new day will arise

The sakura petals are falling along with the wind with such a rhythm, almost that it was meant to be, the winds are gusty, making every household windows clang and go, the bright shining sun shunning in the bright blue sky, with the clouds so white as porcelain, with the rooster doing its usual stuff.

...

I can't remember when I felt such a feeling, within my lifeless heart, to have someone to cling to, to feel safe and protected, I never thought that something big would happen to my boring life, that will bring utter chaos or eternal peace, to brighten my life from the brim darkness of eternal chaos, that bright smile that I always sought to, was within my very reach in the palm of my hands, offering to someone like me unworthy, perhaps this is how just life goes...

H-Hideto please don't go, don't leave me alone, I begged of you. I reached out my hands to him but it was already too late, his figures started disappearing, leaving me empty to this empty world full of lies and deception, why must you do this to me, when you're the only one I have?!

I woke up with teary eyes and back sweat, shivering from the horrendous dream or fragment I have sought, leaving me wandering alone with the useless life I lived, but it disappeared when I saw him at the side of my bed, looming at the television at my room, I roll to the other side and secretly watches the news about, It was about a storm that brewed at the sky while a group playing in the field, I don't know why I got a bad feeling about this, while the group seek shelter at the brewing storm, a lightning bolt struck the head of Asahi Hideto-san, the tears roll of my eyes at the sight of that news, because of Asahi Hideto-san being naturally Tall and fastest among them all when they're seeking shelter he had a high chance of being struck,

Headline: A boy dies after being struck by lightning, August 23rd

Ah, I see... "So in other words, I'm the tallest and fastest among them all!!!" Hideto said proudly wearing a wide grin on his face, crossing both of his arms, and Looking at me.

I looked at him and snorted, "Don't be so proud about it."

The TV. Flashed a photo of Hideto to the casualty report of the accident. Then I asked him in one piece, "You don't feel weird seeing your Death report?

"Not at all! What's the point of moping about something that already happened? At the moment I kept using the secret technique I recently learned, " FREEZE BEAM!" Yuugen then said, "More Importantly! What are you doing?! He irritatedly roared at me, pft so cute.

"I call it "Freeze Beam!" It's like a spell that I used in RPGs. I covered my head in a blanket while Hideto keeps blabbering loudly about stuff, is it a good idea to keep ghosts around?

While passing through walls, floating in the air he spiritedly said, "I can float in the air and pass through walls!!" If this keeps happening I'm going nuts, "Being a ghost is so fun!

Last week, my classmate suddenly passed away.

(Notice: Flashed back is happening) (with the bold words and Italicized)

... Hideto.

Yup that's right

But he made a very lively request from me to help him finish his unfinished business so he can pass away.

And now he got me wrapped up in this strange scenario

"You should get up now, Yuugen." Hideto insisted, I covered my whole body in a blanket and groggily replied, "...I'm tired...

I felt a warm kiss on my right side cheek, I almost forgot that he can pass through things, so it was useless to cover myself in the blanket. I instantly got up and reacted terrified

" W-what?!"

"Hahaha, Now you're up!" Yuugen is just so cute

And apparently,

He says that he loves me

With his eyes closed, ruddy cheeks, a wide bright smile, and his hands up in the air he then says, "sleeping beauty must be awoken by the prince's kiss."

He says all kinds of ridiculous stuff

Who are you calling the sleeping beauty and the prince?

There are times that even though I couldn't understand those feelings that bloom inside my heart, to see him, I felt free from that cage of loneliness.

"You know I never admitted that I like you." I consciously feel my face burning with embarrassment, He just chuckles, and then he appears close enough to my face, "Hehehe, there's no need for you to say it for me to know!" I replied dumbfounded,"...Huh?

"Come on, Let's eat and then Go!" "I don't eat much in the mornings." Then I asked him, "Where are we going?" He replied while happily grinning, "Over there, where are all the trees?... That is my house!"

I slowly get up from my bed, still, feeling sleepy, then walk towards my window and then look at where he is pointing, It was hard to see without my glasses, I wear my glasses then saw, many, but there was a house surrounded by many trees, two blocks away from my house, I heard the cicadas singing so soft like the wind, this is my favorite part of the morning, listening to the cicadas, but I don't like to go out much in the mornings, I hate sunlight.

At the same time, My mom wasn't around, If I'm not mistaken she was at work at a studio, my mama is a digital artist for making anime, I even envy her, but that's what makes me happy also.

I changed into regular clothing then after a while, we arrive at Hideto's house, It was a two-story house with a glass door and the glass door was locked, the outside interior was wide and got plain wood tiles, brown oak wood with morning glory flower in a pot in both sides, Hideto then pass through the window and opened it inside, It's so hot today, I don't like summer

Hideto started opening one of his drawers, I don't get what we are doing but if it's the only way I can have my peace, Then I will go along with Hideto, He starts Murmuring around in the corner opening his drawer near his bed and starts grinning, that annoying face again, "Let's get this and that!"

While I was opening his bag from the floor and getting his notes from prez and after that, I nervously ask Hideto while my hands won't stop fidgeting from opening all the drawers one by one, "Uhm, H-hideto, Isn't what we are doing trespassing?! He confidently replied bearing that annoying grin on his face, " Don't worry, There's nothing wrong with me retrieving stuff from my room!"

"H-How will I explain if someone comes back." He just laughs and assures me, "No worries." You don't have to worry about a thing Yuugen, I especially pick a time when my mom isn't around and my little sister is in school.

"So no one's home. I heard familiar footsteps in the distance and if I'm not mistaken

Shit! that's my mom's voice, Let's get out of here, I grabbed Yuugen's hands and ran away from my house, he was still annoyed, but can I blame him? Hahaha.

A woman in a black suit appears on the scene, approaching the Room of Hideto, with an exhausted voice moaning, "haah."

The two fled the scene, leaving the glass door open with breezy winds filling the room.

With a bouquet in her arms, she sees a ball of soccer on the floor, that once her son uses while he was still alive. It was for her son Hideto that died recently.

A droplet of tears escaped her eyes, she put the bouquet at the altar and held her face then mumbled, "Hideto..."

"You just told me that no one was home?!" I irritatedly exclaim at Hideto while still running away. Yet the only answer I got was, "She's usually not home." This guy still has the nerve to joke around, "Anyways let's go home, Yuugen." No matter what anything comes around, just seeing Yuugen, I felt even livelier than I was still alive.

"Yuugen, I forgot my phone." He just answered, "I don't... C-care... Crap, this is the first time, I ever run like this I think I-I'm g-gonna d-die." I will never run like this again! We stopped walking for a while and I badly needed to catch my breath, but all I can see is that annoying grin of that guy.

After running for a while again, we arrived at my house, it was so exhausting, that bright sun in the sky, Bugs, and sweat, Summer is the worst, except for the cicadas in the tree.

After I go inside my mom's house, I left my shoes on the side and sat on my Tatami mattress and Hideto handed me a list of the things he wanted me to help him pass away, he is behind me sitting comfortably in my bed with his arms crossed grinning so happily.

List of unfinished business

°Give prez his notes back

°Reply to confession

°Make up with my best friend (Bal)

°Give back Souta A's manga

°Give back Souta B's...

°Give back Souta C's...

"...So these are the things you wanted me to do?"

"They're mostly in our class, do you know, who's who and that."

I simply replied, "Not at all." I don't even interact with them.

I then joined Hideto lying on my bed and showed me a class picture with a bunch of unfamiliar people, he pointed to the guy in the middle, "Do you know who this is? Dunno

" How about this one?

That's Souta A.

What about this one?

I know his face but I can't recall his name.

There are two Souta, so I called them Souta A and B.

What about that guy with glasses on?

... That's the class prez

Oh, what's his name then

Oh, guess not...

Yuugen, you know so many minor details about our classmates

I don't need to do I? I dumbfoundedly replied

My mind drifted off while hideto continue talking about our classmates

Chattering in the distance can be heard, Two high schoolers talking to each other

"Whoa... it's a paranormal photo! His friend butted in, A HAUNTED PHOTO!"

"There's a pale shadow behind the Sakura tree!"

"Ew creepy!"

Before I don't care about any remarks my peers says about me, but when hideto died... I felt a little bit annoyed

I remember that one time I was passing by the corridor, and I heard them chattering and laughing their asses

"Looks at its dirty hands."

"Maybe he rose from the ground."

"Like 'Beneath the Sakura tree'."

It turns out they didn't realize that I was there the whole time

"Wait, this guy got glasses!"

"Oh yeah?" My 3 peers continued talking with each other's

"And the class prez is over here."

"Does anyone wear glasses?"

"Dunno."

I came to my senses when hideto said something I didn't hear

"They forgot about me too.", I put my palm on my chin and replied, "we're only together for a year."

I felt him leaning against my ears, "But they may become lifelong friends." Yuugen seems sleepy then I asked him, "you're going to sleep again?"

I just rolled off to the side of my bed and just replied uninterested", and " I don't care."

I covered my body with the blanket and groggily replied, "And I'm tired."

I don't care about myself Or others, you know what they say " Life is basically killing time until you die." Sleeping through it is the best way to spend my life." I didn't know that yuugen has this mindset on life, I mean we never really talked much when I was still alive but I don't plan on wasting this final chance that I was given!

From the corner of my eyes, I can see him looking so concerned about me when he said, "then there's no point in living." I just replied, "That's right, you are living more than me." honestly summer shouldn't exist at this point, It's so hot and they can STILL chirp like this? Honestly, if I just didn't like cicadas I would have killed them myself, well cicadas only live for a few weeks, so why are they trying so hard to chirp?

I didn't realize that I'd already fallen asleep, "I could never try that hard to live nor that I want to.", I murmured in my sleep

In my dream, I remembered that I was walking in the school playground and I was touching my forehead with the back of my palm, and Hideto was laughing with his friends under the scorching sun, and I sometimes wonder, "thinking how pointless everything is and how trivial life is."

...What's the point of living if I'm just going to die anyway

I feel the warm breath in my mouth and when I opened my eyes and found hideto so c-close to my face! And he pinned me down on my bed

Seeing his flushed face makes me want to tease him more, he's so cute! He roared, "HAH? He's stuttering every word that comes from that mouth, "Wh-Wh-Why Why are you?!

I lean closer to him on purpose to make him more flushed, "You're asking me? Because I love you." I lean closer to him until I was close to his lips and all he could say is, "-I...

"You remembered... my name..., Hideto is so c-close... I-I'm s-still n-not prepared! I could only feel his warm lips on mine and everywhere he touches send cold shivers down my spine, like a piece of glass sliding down my heart.

...It makes my heart clench

Someone lethargic like me is still alive..., while you are a ghost..., I could feel my heart breaking, it's making me hard to breathe... Maybe this is for the better... Maybe I'm the one who should have died... Why?... Why are you the one who died?!

Every night everything always seems so quiet and boring for me, sometimes it can't help but cross my mind, why do I always try so hard? I took a glance at the class photo in yuugen's drawer and I remembered that one time during the class photo.

"Everyone gathers around ", our class photographer said, Yuugen didn't realize that I was looking at him at that time, I saw him planting morning glory on the soil and that's how he ended up with dirty hands at that time when our class photo was taken, I sure did regret not spending time with him, and just pathetically doing it when I already know that everything would just be spent at the end...

"I wish I could ask you the same thing."

I felt warm lips and a soft voice saying, "good morning yuugen." for a moment I thought he was alive again but as if that'll ever happen, but still waking me up like this every morning is a little bit embarrassing, and always makes me blush every time...

Birds chirping and cicadas, sunlight, I hate summer...

Today is the day that I will be helping hideto fulfilling his 'unfinished business' I put on my usual uniform and was walking alongside hideto toward our school.

Hah, " It's so early, and the bus isn't even running yet." Yuugen said grumpily, I just can't get enough of his cuteness.

Hideto is just happily humming while saying, "But doesn't it feels nice going on a morning stroll?" Hideto said while bearing a wide grin on his face and putting his both arms on his neck

Remembering what he did earlier I consciously feel my flushed face and suggested to hideto, "And can you not wake me up...Like THAT?!" It's bad for my heart...

"But it DOES work, doesn't it? Honestly this guy..."So SHAMELESS, I could feel my face popping a blood vessel, and I quietly groan "...ngh."

I was still looking at the sunflowers until I didn't realize that he was far away until I heard him calling me from the corner, " Hey Over here!"

I curiously ask him, "Morning glory? His hands were inside his pocket and were bearing that blinding smile... Hideto... you're such an idiot... For dying too early... He replied, "They look the most beautiful at this time, so I wanted to show them to you."

I leaned downwards as I observed the morning glory and just mouthed "...Ohh."

Hideto said, "They bloom at school." I just replied dumbfoundedly, "I didn't know."

With those vibrant purple petals wet petals and greenish stems, Morning glory is unexpectedly a beautiful flower...

We both crouched down to observe the morning glory up close.

Hideto let out those words with a trace of disappointment in his voice, which is unusual of him, "Right? Because the attention is usually drawn toward the school garden." I replied trying to tease him, "Because they're full of sunflowers Like YOU HIDE.

"They're Lively and they stand out everywhere sunflowers and cicadas." hearing yuugen say that feels so melodic to my ears...

"In other words, you think I'm NOISY." Yuugen is unexpectedly chuckling quietly, I could feel my face flush.

With his eyes closed and his shameless grin he said, "Then that makes YOU the morning glory! Like how they run of out energy during the day."

"In other words, YOU think I'm weak." I could feel his anger." Hahaha, honestly yuugen is so adorable like a little puppy growling.

Hideto's voice suddenly became so sincere when he said those words, "But Beautiful, A bunch of deep ultramarines like pale purples, like the night sky or like outer space.

Like...

Maybe...

Was he referring to me?...

We arrived at our school and the first one we approached is the class press, I wonder if he still remembers me...

Hey, Hideto has something for you

The class prez said, "for me? From Hideto? For real?", then as he took it from me, he just laughs away

:Return notes to the class prez √

Then the next one is to reply to a confession to him

She clasped her hands to her chin with watery eyes as I said I have something to tell her from Hideto " From Shuuto sama? "

"I'm flattered, Although I cannot reciprocate your feelings." She continues "Oh..." but then I didn't expect what would happen next...

I was standing behind hideto when She cries out those words dramatically while tears are flowing from her eyes, "We were Tragic lovers from past lives, but even in this life we were not destined to be together! Even though the tarot cards told me to confess! I can hear hideto chuckles nervously.

But the next one is probably the scariest for me which is making up with his best friend(ball)

A scary-looking dude with a black helix piercing, he was sitting like a delinquent...He has his black hair swept right like an emo.

Honestly, it's hard for me to believe someone like Hideto would be best friends with a delinquent.

He angrily shouted at me, "What?! Why do I have to hear this from you?! And who even are you?! He puts his feet on top of the table, I couldn't help but shake uncontrollably, Hideto put his arms around my shoulder and said with assurance, "Don't worry, He's a good guy at heart." I built up the courage and cleared my throat and I handed out my arms with the ball in my hands and said trying not to sound scared, "H-here, He says "Sorry" and will you accept this." He looked stunned by the words that I said

He suddenly gets up from his chair angrily and clatters the things around him

"What?! You must be kidding?! Who wants that, Dumbass? I tried to reason out "B-but you guys were fighting over this... He continued, " I said I don't want it!"

He furrowed his brows and blood vessels popped on his face and angrily pointed his fingers at me, "That ball was supposed to go to ME after we won the competition!

(flashback hideto and his best friend.)

"It's mine."

"It's mine."

"And that Dumbass said he was gonna destroy me! Who needs that?!

I'm so scared and I could only close my eyes... I was stunned when he suddenly breaks down, "Not like this", every word that he says was heartfelt, and his throat was cracking up, the guy that I once thought was scary can feel this miserable, and even cry out...

"I don't want it without you.., I want to play another match with you, Shit..."

After all of that, it was afternoon, and we decided to take a break on the balcony of the school ground, and I'm resting on the stairs.

"Phew..., that was exhausting. " Yuugen exclaims while sighing heavily."

"Haha, good work today," Hideto said while grinning happily.

I took out the to-do list and while I was checking then I ask hideto, "Does that count?" he replied, "Yeah, He took the ball."

"I was wondering what I would do if one person couldn't recover from this," Yuugen asked me while he was still looking at the list but I reassured him by saying, "But everyone seems fine."

Hide then said cheerfully while grinning with a flush face, "They weren't allowed a proper goodbye, so what you are doing is giving them peace of mind, and I'll leave the rest to you!" I don't know what to feel about this...

Everyone loved him so much...

Yuugen is holding both of his arms, blushing then he asked me, "Why...did... you choose someone like me? I can tell from his voice that he's nervous.

I put my hands on my chin, deeply thinking before I answered him with heartfelt honest feelings, "Hmm... I think I was already in love with you before I could notice it...I guess I just felt it?"

You just felt it?? I can't help but scream internally

"You look like the morning glory that we just saw this morning, I will sometimes just see it, And think "they look nice", I feel drawn to them for some reason, And I think they're very special flowers, It's like that."

"Like the morning glory blooming at a time when people don't notice, me being the only one to know this side of you..., was both exhilarating and frustrating."

I looked at yuugen before I continued, I can tell from his face that he is somewhat happy, or maybe I'm just assuming hahaha, "So don't say "someone like you" doesn't matter."

I couldn't help smiling and blushing while explaining the meaning of his name, "Your name "yuugen" means "Tranquil and enchanting."

"And I love that, The Tranquil and Enchanting of morning glory, and the Tranquil and Enchanting of Human Yuugen."

Hearing Hideto says that makes me blush so much...Am I in love with him?

"You're such a romantic." Then Hideto dumbfoundedly asked me, "Huh?" honestly this guy...

I burrowed my face in my palms to hide my flushed face "You like flowers and princesses, so embarrassing." he then said, "I'm embarrassing?!"

Hideto then said while blushing, "I-It's fine! They say love can make a poet of out a fool." I just replied, "Okay Okay." but still seeing Hideto embarrassed, makes me happy somehow

I thought we lived in two different worlds, I thought ghosts were supposed to be scary, creatures of the night.

"I decided to not make any more assumptions." I then looked at Yuugen with confusion.

I was crouching and I can see his shadow holding his thighs and saying, "Everyone will start to like you more once they get to know you." getting along with everyone...now doesn't feel too much of a bother.

"How was it talking to everybody?" Hideto asked me, Honestly, I'm not sure what to feel yet...

"Exhausting." I'm so happy Yuugen seems livelier than ever.

"Haha, We do have some weirdoes in our class!" Hideto just laughs as he always does, such a happy ghost...

Holding up my hand toward the sky, thinking, I didn't know our straight-laced prez had such dreams, I was surprised when a girl I thought was so mature, believed in past lives and fate, and I found out that the scary-looking dude was actually really sensitive.

"It was unexpected." I blurted out, and he asked me with enthusiasm, "Unexpected?" I just replied softly, "Yeah." I thought it was just a class full of boring and horrible people, it seems like my eyes have been enlightened by Hideto.

"I didn't know... That there were so many different kinds of people.

Hideto then leans his face toward mine, and he just said, "And the more you talk to them, the more amusing that they get." Maybe talking to people...isn't so bad after all...

"So, Let's work on that list Tomorrow too!" The same goes for this cheerful ghost, and me too, for casually chatting with this ghost.

Haha

Oh, you laughed

He slowly goes in for a kiss, I kissed him back and we both laughed after

The morning glory will still wither, they've still got buds, so they'll bloom again.

Will still die

But for now

We both get up and head toward my home

Hideto said, "Let's go and watch them bloom again tomorrow."

I just replied, " I dunno, I'm tired and sleepy."

"That again?!."

"Haha."