your name ‖ haku

xi.

haku squeezed his eyes in annoyance, "i told you already, didn't i? and stop this already, let's go."

"alright, alright, no need to get your panties in a twist"

everyone had gone home, and haku is left with san. san walked besides her childhood friend and conversed with him.

"come on. my brothers misses you. you're the only male they like."

"ashitaka is your fiancé, why don't you ask him to come over."

san rolled her eyes. "my brothers treat you as a brother too. and you barely visit us anymore."

"figures." haku sighed.

the two passed by a billboard. they stared at it as they walked together.

8 years since the comet disaster.

"we went to itomori once, didn't we?" san asked, taking her eyes off the screen. "we were still in high school, so it was..."

"5 years ago." haku answered.

"that long?" she chuckled a bit, "seems like i've forgotten a lot."

"i, too, no longer remember much from back then. maybe we had a disagreement; the other two returned to tokyo without me."

"i spent the night alone on some mountain. that's all i remember."

"but at one point, i was inexplicably drawn to the events surrounding that comet."

"half of the comet destroyed a town in that disaster. but most of the town's residents were miraculously unhurt."

"the entire town happened to be holding an emergency drill and most of its residents were outside the blast zone."

"the sheer luck and coincidence sparked various rumors. i intently read those articles back then."

"what had caught my interest so much is now a mystery to me."

"i don't even know anybody in that town."

"thanks for today. this is far enough." san smiled at him. she waved at him while walking away, her engagement ring glistening under the artificial light from a nearby streetlamp. "you'd be happy someday too."

haku nodded and lifted his right hand to stare at his palm.

"i feel like i'm always searching for something, for someone."

the male took a refuge in a café once the sky darkened once again. he took a sip out of his coffee and scrolled through his phone aimlessly.

"i want to go to another bridal fair."
"they're all the same."

haku listened at the two voices discreetly, wondering why they sound quite familiar to himself.

"shinto-style is nice too."
"you wanted a wedding in a chapel."
"oh, and giyū."

haku stopped midway from the name.

"cut your hair before the wedding. i'll lose 3 kg."
"you're eating a cake..."
"i'll start tomorrow~"

he turned to look at the backs of the leaving couple, his stare lingered.

haku walked under the cold weather. snow fluttered around him, falling into the cold floor below. he puffed, a visible mist formed from his mouth.

he passed by a female using a dark colored umbrella that hid her face. he stopped swiftly and looked at back of the female. shaking his head, he waved the forming thought off and continued walking.

unbeknownst to him, the female stopped walking once he resumed his trip and glanced at him. a small smile formed at her lips, "haku..." she whispered longingly.

haku stopped by in a library, taking a book that held some history of a certain town and flipped through the pages.

itomori, the town that vanished.

he scanned the page that held a picture of a torii.

ogino shrine.

his shamrock eyes held conflicted emotions as he continued to scan the printed scenery.

"why does the scenery of a town that no longer exists wring my heart so?"