The Love of a Hero. (Toshinori Yagi X Reader) DISCONTINUED

But We Lost It.

A/N:  Remember BOLD means someone is speaking in English and BOLD ITALICS means that someone is speaking in Gaelic.

You arrive at Skywalker Park thirty minutes early so that Ichigo can play.  You sit on a bench and watch your son as he runs off to swing on the swing set.  You smile as a little girl asks him to push her on one of the swings and he does so with a light blush on his face.

As you continue to watch your son play with, hopefully, his new friend, your mind begins to wonder back to your school days and all the time you spent with Toshinori.   Absentmindedly, you begin to hum to yourself and then your humming turns into soft singing:

" They say everything is temporary,
Who the hell are they anyways
I wanna know where does love go to die?
Is it some sad empty castle in the sky?
Did we just shoot too high and spoil like wine?

You walked by and it's like our bodies never touch
No love, you hold me close, but I don't feel much
I cry, maybe time isn't on our side
We had a thing but we lost it
One more go, I kinda thought if we took it slow
It might be easier for us, yeah for us to know
I know we never been quite here before
I wish I knew it when we lost it.

There's a stranger, he's lying in my bed
Kinda blank like the thoughts living in my head
This is the one that I felt I knew so well
I think we had it, but we lost it
Still the girl that you chased all around the world
I haven't changed, just replaced all the chains with pearls
I want the same things we did back then
I know we had it, but we lost it."

The sound of someone clearing their throat pulls you out of your deep thoughts and you look up to see a man standing beside the bench you're sitting on.  He's tall, over 7 feet at least, and extremely skinny, looking almost like a walking skeleton.   The clothes he's wearing are three times his size and hang loosely around his body.  His face is very angular and sunken in so much that his cheek bones stick out prominently.  There are heavy bags under his eyes which are also sunken in his skull.  The sclera of his eyes are black and his irises are a beautiful bright blue, just like Toshinori's eyes.   His hair is wild and a beautiful bright yellow in color with two long bangs hanging down on both sides of his face.  Just like Toshinori's when you were both in school.  Your heart begins to beat wildly in your chest and your breath catches in your throat as you recognize that this man IS your best friend and first love, Toshinori Yagi.   "Hello, (F/N).  It's...it's been a while." 

"Toshinori," you say barely above a whisper.  You clear your throat, "Yes...yes, it has.  Please have a seat."

Toshinori sits down beside you on the bench, "Y...you recognize me?"

You nod, "Yeah.  Your hair and eyes were a dead giveaway."

He leans forward, placing his elbows on his knees and nervously wrings his hands together in front of him.  "I suppose you're wondering why I look like this?"

You nod, "Very much so."

He sighs and lifts the left side of his white shirt exposing a huge, ugly red scar on the left side of his chest.  The scar slightly concaves his chest and stomach and you notice that his left nipple is gone.  "I got this in a fight with a villain called All For One five years ago.  He's the one that killed Nana."

You place one of your hands over his knee in an gesture of comfort.  "I'm so sorry, Toshi.  I know how much she meant to you."

He lowers his shirt and then, hesitatingly, he places his hand over yours.  "It's okay.  Anyway, my respiratory system is in shambles and my stomach was totally scooped out.  I've wasted away from all the constant surgeries and their complications and I've been limited to a maximum of three hours of heroics every day."