Ugh, not in the mood of comedy... really sorry about the Aries Gakuen chapters minna, will finish chap 6 sometime later when I'll be in the funny mood *sighs* anyway, here's a new story. Full of angst though, but I still hope for enjoyments and comments! ^_^ so please, comments, anybody?

Warnings: Shonen-ai, angst
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Weiß doesn't belong to me

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Chapter 0 - Prologue
Kisaragi Yuu

I've promised to make you my bride
So that is what I'll fulfil

"Ken-niisan!"

"Ah, Omi!"

Ken smiled to his younger brother. The blonde blue-eyed boy with a soccer ball hemmed on his slim arm approached the elder by running. Ken's eyes widened as Omi's face suddenly changed as like he was in great deal of pain.

"Omi!!" he cried as the small figure lost his balance and almost fell crashing on the solid field when a redhead young man held him. Omi looked up to see his savior, and it was someone that he was already very familiar with: Aya.

"Aya... thanks." Ken sighed in relief as he hurried to the duo.

The boy with chocolate orbs threw a glare at his brother, "What's that all about? You know the best that your heart is not strong enough to pump up with running! Are you trying to commit suicide?!"

"B-but..." As like threatening tears to fall, Omi's eyes became as big as saucers. "I wanted to be with you as fast as I can, is that a wrong thing to do?"

A mental 'aww' was scattering in the air. Aya smiled softly to the small boy.

"Omi," Aya's voice was deep and calm, "Your brother is very worried about you. If there were something wrong with you, he'd be blaming himself to death. Now you don't want your dearest brother to blame himself for your sickness, do you?"

"No..."

"Then listen to what he says, don't do things that your heart doesn't allow you to do. Understand?"

"Yes..."

"Good boy."

Aya smiled a little again as he helped Omi to adjust his body and stood straight. The brown haired boy glanced over the two of them with weak smile on his lips, as like forcing himself to be happy. A feeling in his heart was aching everytime he saw Aya smiled that kind of smile to his own brother... a feeling called 'love' maybe. Thus he always ripped over that kind of feeling off him forcefully – although sometimes it meant pain.

/Omi is my brother and he is very weak. While Aya is our childhood friend who Omi adores./

He knew that there was no special space between them that he could fit in. So what could he do was just to play his role of a great brother and childhood friend to the two who were precious for him.

And he liked it so far.

He had decided that no matter what, he'd choose over Omi's happiness than his own. They've lost their parents and they only had each other to hung on to. Both had to take care of the others, it was something that they had promised over their parents' graves. Because of that, he buried his own egoism deep into the corner of his heart.

"Ken-kun?"

He was snapped out of his reverie with that dainty voice. "Ken-kun, what are you doing? Let's go back to home, Momoe-san is waiting for us and I'm very hungry!" The blonde said naively.

"A-Aa." Ken replied with a little too-tiny voice.

Although his brother noticed the strange tone but he didn't bother to ask for it. Instead he went off to their house together with Aya slowly. Omi just smiled to his brother and asked him to go faster.

Bitterly, he forced yet again another smile. And in the same time, ripped over another feeling.

But why does this promise
Suddenly become a burden on my fingers?

***

"Thanks for the meal!"

The four boys who ate up their meals thanked the grandma who took care of them a lot, Momoe-san. The old lady just quirked a smile as she took up the dishes, but was stopped suddenly by Omi who took them from her hands. "Let me do it!"

"Omi-chan..." Momoe-san smiled warmly to her grandchild.

Ken was going to take over the dishes when Aya stood up from his chair and took half of the dishes on Omi's hands without a word. Thus eyes were like saying 'don't, just let me do this' to the youngest boy.

"Aya-kun, it's really okay... I can handle this."

But Aya didn't reply, he headed to the kitchen straight forwardly while Omi was still standing in the dining room.

Ken whistled to his brother, making him to gasp in surprise. "What are you daydreaming for? Go and follow him to the kitchen! Who knows you might have the chance to wash the dishes with him too?" Ken winked to the angelic faced boy. He blushed an unison of red and pink at that. Soon enough, he went as what his brother said after scowling some words of protests.

Yohji, the oldest boy between them and was Ken's best friend, shoved a 'look' to his friend. "What was that all about?"

"Huh?"

"Don't play dumb, *that*."

"What? I don't know what you mean."

"Hmph, the 'who knows you might have the chance to wash the dishes with him too' *that*! Why in the world are you doing it?!"

"Am I wrong? We know the best that Omi adores Aya more than just childhood friends, why are you getting so angry because I want to encourage him??" Ken's voice rose as he saw what was this going to.

The wavy haired blonde was irritated, "Ken! How can you be so stupid?! He's your *rival*, for God's sake!! And you're not suppose to-"

Ken cut him off by dragging the taller boy to the outside of the house into the garden.

"Yohji! Not in the house!" he hissed.

"Ken, I know how do you feel about Aya. It was so plain to see that with a glimpse of look, I've already noticed it. And I do understand that you can't express your feelings to Aya that easily since, well let's face it, he is a cold bastard with a stick shoved up into his ass. But what I couldn't figure out is why in the hell are you helping your own rival?!"

Ken flushed, "W-what do you mean, I don't have feelings for Aya. He's a childhood friend and I respect him for being such a caring person to my brother! That's all!"

"Your eyebrows are twitching, that means you are lying." He pointed a finger on the middle of Ken's eyebrows, the brunette gasped as another blush came upon him, "C'mon Ken, admit it. You too are also in love with Aya."

"...Yohji, don't."

"What DON'T?! Ken, I've had enough looking at your lonely eyes whenever you see Aya being a little too-nice to your dearest brother. Why can't you be honest to yourself?! And stop being such a masochist! You deserve happiness as much as your brother does."

Ken bit his lips, did he? Did he deserve happiness?

"...Omi is in love with Aya... and this time he's serious. I can't do anything else than to support him."

"Ken, it means you sacrifice your own happiness to have your brother's happiness. It's a stupid thing to do."

Ken smiled bitterly, "Yes, it's a stupid thing to do indeed. But Omi is more miserable than I am, he was born with a very weak body. He can't even run! Have you ever imagined what will happen to him if his first love becomes his brother's lover?"

Yohji clenched his fists as he looked away. He knew something like this would come up. Eventually.

Another bitter smile slipped up upon the brunette's lips, "That's what I meant... I don't have choices but to give up. I've forced Aya to promise me that he'll make Omi his 'bride' too afterall... and he said yes. It's the best thing to do anyway."

Silence overwhelmed them as leafs started to fall and wind blew upon his garden. Yes, there was no choice but to bury his own feelings deep inside him. Letting it to be forgotten, letting to be a sweet memory to remember in his old days. Although little by little, shred by shred, his love kept growing to the dearest silent redhead, but stabbing it with a knife was what he could do to kill it.

He had chose his blood relative's happiness over his own, and now he had to face with the consequences. Painful wounds and cries all hidden under his pillow, it was another cold day in October.

And in that day, a heart had made its tearful decision.

Eventhough I long for it
It's something that I'll never touch
Eventhough I want it so much
It's something that I'll run away from

Eventhough I love you so...
You are somewhere unreachable in this trance of eternity

The End – Prologue

To Be Continued to Chapter 01