Code Geass
[The River divides]
Blood splattered his face as he made the initial contact.
Blood soaked into his shirt as he stands there frozen.
Blood trickles onto the ground as he pulls the sword free.
He had expected to see a look of betrayal on his face when his eyes met his. He expected to see loathing and hatred, but what he saw was what haunted him in his sleep every night. What he saw made him sick to his stomach and somewhere deep in his heart wish for death to come quickly. What he saw was pride, what he saw, was a sense of satisfaction at his end. It wasn't a victory to him in any ways to end his life, and less so as he watched those same eyes cloud over.
Even in the end, he was proud of him, even though, he had every right to be ashamed.
Time for him stopped then, but, the boy then couldn't grasp it, and the man that he would become in the future never recognized it.
For Suzaku Kururugi, the world ended that day, and it was entirely his fault.
That much, he did understand.
That much he held in his heart, and in that moment the river divided.
His fate secured, he would now walk the road less traveled, he would find himself alone even when surrounded by friends, and finally, even in death, he would be known as someone's dog. His existents after that, simply to serve the purpose of another, and try to protect the ideas of someone that had destroyed his own.
This was his fate, until a single pebble hit the waters of his life, and a ripple skim the surface that changed everything.
Now his fate, no longer seemed to be so assured, and the river divided again.