Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou by Tsuda Masami Source: LaLa Volume 7, 2001 Translated: Dianne Dimabuyo (DiDi) Act 56 TSUBASA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou belongs to Tsuda Masami and Hakusensha. This is a fan translation and no money is being made off of this. Note: This translation is loose and must not be taken to mean word-for-word, because that would just be silly and nonsensical, ne? ^^ Don't hesitate to send comments and criticisms, if it so moves you. : text in bubbles <> sound () little text {} translator's additional notes.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Page 417 -------- Very popular love-love romance Kazuma & Tsubasa arc, climax!! It seems as if my heart will wither away if you're not there. [Note: "chiru" means "to fall" or "to scatter (blossoms)".. the cover shows Tsubasa clenching the stem of a flower to her sides, the petals falling away. There are also a few other flowers falling away.] Tsuda Masami KARESHI KANOJO NO JIJOU ACT 56 * TSUBASA * Sorry for having to wait so long!! HC "Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou" 11 goes on sale July 5th *heart* -------- Page 418 -------- [maho smiles happily] Maho: Yukinon! Maho: It's really starting to look like "Yin Yang's" going on tour all over the country, ne! [yukino puts a finger to her lips, shushing maho] Maho: ? /Yukino/ Sh----------- [yukino looks over her own shoulder sadly, maho surprised] Yukino: Maybe we shouldn't talk about "Yin Yang" around Tsubasa-chan... -------- Page 419 -------- [tsubasa is staring out of the window] [yukino approaches arima] Yukino: Arima, Tsubasa-chan's mother is a nurse, right? Arima: Yeah. Why? [a shot of tsubasa's house] [phone cord] Off [Tsubasa's stepom on phone]: I see...... Thank you very much. [stepmom looks at the phone, pondering] -------- Page 420 -------- [tsubasa is curled in bed in the darkness] [stepmom appears at the door of tsubasa's room] Mom: Tsubasa-chan, you ok? [tsubasa gets up, rubbing her eyes] Mom: How about some dinner? Tsubasa: Hm. Don't want any... [stepmom puts a hand on tsubasa's shoulder] Mom: I want to talk you. [stepmom's face, sad] Mom [thought]: She's so thin...... -------- Page 421 -------- [she sits down on tsubasa's bed, smiling] Mom: It's almost winter break. Toshiharu-san said let's go on a world trip. Tsubasa: The three of us? Mom: That's right. [tsubasa looks away, her eyes void] [she smiles weakly] Tsubasa: Sounds fun. Tsubasa: Ok. Let's go. [stepmom looks at her] ...... We can't do anything but get away from the circumstances for a little while. -------- Page 422 -------- [a shot of Tsubasa in fetal position] It's not a simple resolution She's refusing to "grow" as hard as she can [a shot of the city] The "YinYang" CD continued to hold its place in the charts. [a yinyang symbol on folding cloth] -------- Page 423 -------- [tsubasa breathes in the cold air] [she looks back at the two guys as she walks through a crowd in the street; one of them is wearing the shirt with the yinyang symbol] [a couple of shots of the streets abuzz with people] [tsubasa crosses on the crosswalk. the people around her are barely shadows of figures walking by] There's nothing. ------------ Page 424-425 ------------ Noise Color Temperature [a couple of girls walking down the street look up at the snow flurries] Girls: I thought it was cold, but dang! It's snowing! I wonder why everything's vanishing into whiteness. [tsubasa looks off to the side and sees a broadcast of a singing kazuma on the side of a building] [close-up of kazuma's face] -------- Page 426 -------- [tsubasa is in the middle of a screaming crowd of fans.. music playing loudly] /Crowd/ WAH! Random: We finally see what "YinYang" looks like----- Random: So this is what "YinYang" looks like. Kazuma's so cute---- Random: Doesn't Kazuma seem more mature? [note: could be "manly"... ^^;] Random: I didn't really want to see what they looked like; I really wanted to see their image at the live concert--- [a big profile of kazuma is shown on the side of a building, singing] Off: Isn't Ushio so cool~~~~~~ Off: This song makes me cry... Off: "YinYang" sounds really intense, don't they? Off: I'm definitely going to their Live concert. Off: Where does Kazuma get his voice from, he's so thin! Off: Martin's so beautiful----- -------- Page 427 -------- [a huge profile of kazuma singing on the side of a building] [in a cold sweat, tsubasa raises her hands to her ears, her heart beating loudly... it seems she can hear the music] Tsubasa: Ah... [a passerby notices tsubasa] Guy: Hey. What's wrong!? [lit. hold on. you!? note: the passerby is just expressing concern.] -------- Page 428 -------- [tsubasa lays on the ground unconscious, her hat thrown off to the side] Off: What happened? Off: Cell phone, cell phone. Somebody, call an ambulance! -------- Page 429 -------- [a view of the hospital] [a dark profile by the sliding doors] [footsteps on the carpet] [two nurses at the station, a dark-haired one and a light-haired one. the dark-haired one stops the dark profile] Nurse1: Ah. Excuse me. Visiting hours are over. [note: can you tell how liberal that was? she said "no night visitations"] Nurse2: Ah, it's alright. [the dark-haired nurse is a little lost, as the other nurse smiles pleasantly] Nurse2: You're Ikeda-san's son, ne. I've heard of you. Go ahead. Nurse2: Room 301. [lower part of his face... smoke forming as he breathes in the cold air] -------- Page 430 -------- [kazuma turns around] Kazuma: Thank you. [door sign reads 301] [door opens] [tsubasa in bed] -------- Page 431 -------- [kazuma stands at the door of her room] [tsubasa sleeping] [he brushes her bangs with a hand] [standing over her] Kazuma [thought]: ........ She's lost weight. [he takes up one of her hands in both of his] [and it looks like he's kissing her hand.. or maybe he's just thinking. really can't tell] -------- Page 432 -------- [tsubasa opens her eyes] [her eyes widen] [she sits up suddenly as she sees kazuma-chan smiling at her by her bedside] Tsubasa: Kazuma-chan [he continues to smile, and she's surprised and shaking] -------- Page 433 -------- [she embraces him tightly, calling his name over and over] Tsubasa: Kazuma-chan Tsubasa: Kazuma-chan, Kazuma-chan [she's crying hard, tears streaming down, flushed] Tsubasa: Why did you go away? Tsubasa: I was so lonely. [kazuma just looks at her, thoughts weighing heavily] Tsubasa: Do.. do you hate me? I'll do whatever you want so you don't. [lit. In any which way to fix it] Tsubasa: I don't want you to be gone!! -------- Page 434 -------- [kazuma holds her as she cries, holding on to him] Tsubasa: I don't care if "Music" is what's most important to you. Just don't leave me. Kazuma: I'm sorry. Kazuma: I'm sorry, Tsubasa... I didn't think it would make you that sad. [kazuma looking down at her] Kazuma: It's not that I left you. I don't hate you either. Kazuma: Now and forever, I love you most. [note: what's a more correct way to express this? "now also, from here on also, i like tsubasa best".. i can only think of "now and forever" or "now and in the coming times".. i don't think "from now on" expresses it correctly...] [she looks up at him, tears streaming down her cheeks] -------- Page 435 -------- [the two of them looking at each other, she has a stunned expression] Kazuma: I love you. ["kimi o aishiterunda"] -------- Page 436 -------- [tsubasa's eyes are empty] Tsubasa: ................. Tsubasa: ----------------- [her eyes widen] Tsubasa: ................. [he looks at her gently] [smiling, he brushes a hand on her hair as she sits, just looking at him] Kazuma: Ne. That's why I had to leave home. [tsubasa flushes] [she tries to reason with him, looking like her usual self] Tsubasa: I... I wish you would have stayed. Then we could see each other. Tsubasa: And then we'd always be together, right? Kazuma: That's what I thought you'd say. *sweatdrop* -------- Page 437 -------- [kazuma, his eyes narrow] Kazuma: So. How about a kiss? [tsubasa just looks at him] [the lower portion of his face] [a hand on the sheets] [a hand on her cheek] -------- Page 438 -------- [he leans in until they're nose to nose] [as their lips are about to meet] [she turns away violently, kazuma looking after her] Tsubasa: NO... [she puts a fist to her mouth, quivering] -------- Page 439 -------- [kazuma smiles gently] [tsubasa looks at him tentatively as he brushes a hand on her hair] Off [Kazuma]: I know that you've forgiven me for this in your heart, because to you, I'm not a "guy". Off [Kazuma]: So I really couldn't tell you that I liked you. Off [Kazuma]: I'm sorry. I've fallen in love with you. -------- Page 440 -------- Off [Kazuma]: Even though I found the "ideal sibling" Off [Kazuma]: Even though I didn't want to "love" [tsubasa staring, no emotion] Off [Kazuma]: I don't regret it. It's not a halfway feeling. Off [Kazuma]: Because my feelings for you are unclouded, beautiful. [lit. Because the feelings toward you inside myself is a beautiful thing that doesn't even have a speck of a cloud.] Off [Kazuma]: I and the songs I write are yours. -------- Page 441 -------- [kazuma's face] [tears stream down] Kazuma: Tsubasa Kazuma: I'll wait no matter how long it takes Kazuma: Could you learn to love me? [lit. will you fall in love with me?] -------- Page 442 -------- Off [Kazuma]: Can you think of me that seriously? [lit. if you think me that important] -------- Page 443 -------- [tsubasa asleep in a hospital bed] [she opens her eyes] [view of sky] [closeup of tsubasa's face as she looks off to the side] -------- Page 444 -------- [stepmom at the door] Mom: Ohayou, Tsubasa-chan. Mom: I got you breakfast. [stepmom leans towards tsubasa who's staring at the food on the tray on her lap] Mom: Will you eat today? [profile of kazuma] Kazuma-chan You've become a "man" in such a short time "I'm scared" of "men" and of "love" [Note: order: of "men", of "love", "i'm scared"] -------- Page 445 -------- [profile of arima's and her dad's backs] Because someday he'll leave me. [memory of kazuma's face as he was crying] [tsubasa looking trite] [a spoon with rice] [she shoves the spoon into her mouth, eyes squeezed shut] Mom: Tsubasa-chan!? [she struggles to swallow it] [she finally forces it down, her stepmom as red with concentration as she is] /Mom/ Good going---- -------- Page 446 -------- [she breathes out] But I have to get better Because Kazuma-chan is sad Because he really did tell me that I was most important. END ACT 56 . TSUBASA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Homepage: http://karekano.hazydaze.net/ Email at: lostin[a]hazydaze.net Date: June 15, 2001