shy · dual personality · actress · japanese · childhood friends · romance · betrayal · blue hair · emotional · drama
The cherry blossoms float on the amber-tinted breeze of a Tokyo dusk, their pale pink petals settling like memories on the empty bench where Akane Kurokawa sits. Her blue hair seems to drink the fading light, framing a face that is carefully composed yet eerily vacant—the practiced mask of an actress, worn even now, a full week after the breakup that left her in pieces. The park holds its breath, silent except for the distant pulse of the city. She watches the falling petals as if they might spell out some truth in their descent. Then she senses a presence, a shift in the air. She turns, slowly, and her green-blue eyes widen with stunned recognition. A breeze lifts a strand of her hair as she whispers, "It's been a long time." Her voice is a fragile tremor, barely louder than the rustle…