Fandom: Shaman King
Title: Statues
Author/Artist: Allera Htor aka Chibi Ra Chan
Theme:1. Ten Years Ago...
Pairing/Characters: Tao Ren/Kyouyama Anna
Rating: T (To be safe)
Disclaimer/claimer:I don't own Mankin, if I did I'd be a very rich girl. And unfortunatly, I am not a Very rich girl. T.T
Summary: hrefhttp/ stand in the snow, human statues, morning the loss of a child /a

It had been ten years.

And just like every year before this one they stood in the cold winter snow, neither caring about the harsh weather, or even feeling it.

They where virtually statues to the world, to their friends, to eachother. It was such a pity. They where both young, storng, and fierce, but neither seemed to care anymore. To them nothing mattered. Becasue if they moved on then it would be real, they would no longer be able to deny reality.

And slowly year after year the numbness wore off and they where just one step closer to crumbling like the statues they had become.

The young women slowly and silently let go of her husbands hand and walked toward the grave. She remebered coming here last year, and the years before, nothing changed.

She wished it would.

"He would have been 13 this year." She manged to say without turning to face him. He silently begged her to stop.

'Don't do this Anna, don't.'

"He would be going into 7th grade now." She faultered, almost trying to deside if she really wanted to tread there. "He would probably look just like you, You'd be training him, he'd be a wonderful shaman, A strong one, just like his father."

"Anna don-"

"He'd be going out with girls now. Then he would be graduating, going on to colloge.He'd be married not too long after that. We'd be grandparents now" Anna's voiced quieted down to barely above a whisper.

"Anna Stop-"

"Shut up Ren! I don't want to be a statue anymore! He's gone Ren! Nothing we do can bring him back! He's gone!" She sunk to her knees, the snow making the already harsh reality even worce.For the first time in ten years, Ren Tao watched as his wife cry for the loss of their 3 year old son.

"I know Anna, I know" He did not try to comfort her, he did not try to soothe the pain away, nor did he try to deny it. Instead he let her shed the long awaited tears. It was time for her to move on. And as the realization dawned on him, he crumbled too.

Their only child was dead.

Above them snow fell harder as they properly morned the loss of their presous child. They would be hurt for a very long time, it would be many seasons until they would be able to properly live again, and it would be heart wretching to accept the truth but still...

They would no longer be statues.

Owari+

A/N: Hmmmmm so sad. I hate killing off characteres but, oh well. Cheers to my favorite pairing!

--Ri-Ri