the sea of everything they had
🌊 ken + hikari //
note: this was actually a story i wrote in 2010 (time flies, indeed!) in my mother tongue. i kind of like shipping hikari with basically anyone, but other than takari and koukari, kenkari is actually one of my favourites. i decided to translate this after i got a grammarly premium and although i found it a bit corny when i re-read this, i cannot find a lot of kenkari content, so why not contribute one?
nevertheless, i have tweaked this to slightly adjust with things that happened in last evolution kizuna, so if you haven't watched it, there's a warning. i also referenced some episodes in zero two (particularly episode 07, 31 and 45). oh, and even though the title is sort of inspired by an old song from the academy is (everything we had, red.), i actually wrote this with sleeping at last's life. i know it's a song about father-child relationship, but i choose to interpret it in a different way.
as this story hits 4000+ words, i also published it in my ffn and ao3. i apologise if there's anything off as i couldn't do some revision because it may disrupt the essence of the storyline i had built more than ten years ago. happy reading!
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He was standing at the edge of the shore, solemnly staring at the faraway line where the sky met the navy-blue sea. The sands were whispering beneath his feet as the tide came closer only to drench them for a moment before drifting irresponsibly, yet he could then hear each grain was giggling without a complaint. There was a song about a gentle summer played by the wind, and the trees were dancing along to the tune.
He forgot that the beach could be this pleasant.
There was a time where a landscape like this was his enemy, but the resentment came without a choice. He was just a small boy with no intention to hate before the force of darkness transported him to a world unknown. All he saw was an ocean with water so pitch black that it choked him to the core, wrapped him with such a great nightmare that everything he did or thought would always pull him back there.
He was drowned in the dark. He needed a light to help him escape.
(And just before he fell deeper, a beam finally managed to pierce through.)