A/N: Written for the Crusade in the Celestial Realm Challenge, Celestial Gate task: write about someone passing some sort of barrier.
A Traitor Called Love
How annoying it was that something as foolish as love was standing in her way. The love that had been her betrayal, her undoing. The love that had come from trust, trust that had been so easily broken down by doubt. And so she had chosen to take doubt in hand instead: doubt that had proved itself so powerful to her, crumbing a force she didn't think could ever crumble.
But it had. She'd witnessed it: the fans that had made her so happy and fulfilled before becoming her torturers, her parents becoming, almost, her murderers. Luckily she'd woken up before that. Saved herself…only to have this world in front of her, in all its ugly glory. All full of that doubt.
Though she mightn't have ever put it together if it hadn't been for that game: Rabbit Doubt. But it soon became her board: the board to this much larger game that would weed out the doubters, weed out the poor foolish rabbits who thought they could escape the wolves that always lived, lying, in the world. But of course the rabbits were liars too and the wolves her puppets and slaves. There was no such person who could be completely innocent, the white rabbit needlessly hung.
Those who didn't believe that were soon convinced. Like Mitsuki, who'd thought her precious Yuu-kun had never lied to her. He had; Rei showed her that. And yet Mitsuki loved him enough to offer a second chance, and that changed the game.
At first Rei was angry, but it was an interesting twist and Rei thought that if she could conquer this as well, and she would, she'd be capable of even more. A purging that would never end, that would outlive her mortal life span or a little rabbit who thought he'd caught the god. Her whispers ran far too deep like that, spreading now even without her aid.
But at the moment they weren't deep enough, because she'd run onto this block: that barrier called love she'd never thought would stand in her way like this. But there were people like she'd been once upon a time, people clinging to that concept that would crumble all too easily with doubt.
She would crumble it. Even when she was defied again and again. When that love overpowered the sense of the wolf, her hold over Mitsuki. When it snatched her wolf out of her grasp – but she could work around that. She did: she had her wolf rescued, along with those two little rabbits who thought they'd escaped her reach. She could still very much grab them, and she would, in a little bit.
But first, she'd break the thing that had stood in her way. And she knew how now: the perfect way. If destroying love had failed, she could use it instead. She'd always planned for that, even though she'd much have preferred otherwise.
It was troublesome to have to sacrifice another wolf after all, and there would be no disguising the tragic scene of a girl who had lost her mind killing the boy she'd loved…and then herself in a neat end to it all.