#firestormshipping is banned this year....so i'll be writing about miyu/aoi instead!!

[kuriboo]

Vrains Rarepair Event 2019 - Day 1

Time and Limits

The Vrains Rarepair Event is being run this year by @vrainsrarepairweeks! You can find the list of prompts over here! Also posting over at AO3

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Skye couldn't stop thinking about how long it'd been since she'd met Miyu. How much time they'd lost.

They hadn't known each other for long, and it'd been years since they'd seen each other. But Skye still considered Miyu to be one of the best friends she'd ever had. Maybe that was stupid. Maybe that was really cheesy. But Skye hadn't ever really had close friends before she met Miyu, unless you counted her brother. And after? Akira worked for SOL Technologies now. That was common knowledge. So most people only ever tried to befriend Skye to get something from her, because of her brother. New duel disks? Something in Vrains? It was relentless, it was obnoxious, and the attempts at friendships were incredibly empty.

At least the members of the dueling club shared the same kind of passion for dueling that Skye felt, but that still wasn't the same.

Miyu never wanted anything more from Skye than friendship. Someone to laugh with and play with and enjoy life and living with. And Miyu wanted that friendship from Skye, not just a link to her brother. When Skye hadn't been sure she'd be able to be happy and make real friends again, Miyu had proved her wrong.

They'd had so little time together before Miyu's mother put a hard end to the friendship, but it had still meant the world to Skye. Would Miyu's mother even let them be friends now?

Would Miyu even want to see Skye again? Skye couldn't help but worry that she didn't mean as much to Miyu as Miyu had to her. That too much time had gone by with too little shared between them. How much had Miyu ever really missed her?

Not to mention the Lost Incident. Ten years would change anyone even without going through something as horrible as that. Skye knew she wasn't the same person she was when she met Miyu, but Miyu probably was a very different person now, too. Skye was sure she'd still like Miyu no matter what, she wasn't worried about that. But even if Miyu had wanted to be friends before, who could say she would still want to be friends now?

"If you're that worried about it," Akira told her one day, "if you want to know that badly, then just go and meet her. Find out for yourself. Then you'll know, and you won't have to worry so much. But I'm sure she'll want to see you again, and I'm sure she'll want to be friends. Why wouldn't she?"

Skye could think of a lot of reasons why. But she hadn't gotten to where she was today by listening to her doubts and hiding behind fear. She was Blue Angel, beloved by her fans and successful even without her brother's permission. When there was something she wanted to do, she did it.

So, fine. She'd go do it. She'd go and meet Miyu again. Maybe they'd pick up their friendship where it left off, maybe they'd start over, maybe they'd never see each other again, but no matter what happened, she was going to try.

Skye talked and thought about the meeting so much from then until the actual meeting itself that Akira joked she was getting ready for a date, not a reunion be friends.

If Skye was being honest, she was open to that, too, if Miyu was. If and when they were both willing and ready, and not before. But she just wanted it to go well.

Akira went with her to meet Miyu.

And the reunion...wasn't like they picked up where they had both left off. How could it be? So much had happened since then, so much was happening now, and they'd both grown up and changed in the time they spent apart. Their friendship didn't quite pick up where it had left off, but that was okay. Because something new blossomed in its place.

A new friendship, that was still more real than any other Skye had ever had.

And eventually, a romantic love, too. It was Miyu who asked Skye out on their first date. Skye had never been happier to accept anything.

Years down the line, Miyu and Skye would be able to tell people how they'd defeated both time and the limits that had been placed on them as children to be together.