Scar
by Yuu Mizuyuki

Disclaimer: Fushigi Yuugi isn't mine! It is Yuu Watase's! So don't sue me!

A scar can mean a lot of things ... and that event had made a scar on me and in my life ...

"Houjun ... " She would always say. Usually in a gentle, loving tone. Now, I can never and will never hear it.

Why not? You ask? Because, she was painfully taken away from me, or so I believed ... by my best friend. And I was made to believed she willed it, and in the end ... he, he who I thought made her happy ... the one I killed, said that she never had and never would have betrayed me ...

"Houjun ... " He would always mention, sneakily or friendly. Any way, I acknowledged it. Now, he is gone ... because of my hands.

Why did this happen you asked? You ask? Becuase he, he who was there beside me always. Who was always there ... Even in his life, betrayed me in a sense. I have taken his life away, slowly ... in a water's soft but hamful, stingy fury. And yet, he never meant it, never wanted to see me angered like this. He wanted to feel love, and I ended his life before he felt it. Hikou ... he died once, twice ... both in front of me ... both in the soft flow of water.

Now I stand here near the water, seeing my reflection ... seeing my scar. A punishment given by the gods onto me. This is my own penance ... my life filled with these memories. A scar to live with forever.

A scar, painful ... etched in my face. 'Why?' I usually ask myself. 'Why do I continue on with this memory!?" I placed my mask on, a mask where I can be free of the life I once had into another life. Filled with friends around me.

They had always been there for me; and the two I love most before, in my past ... will always be with me.

I smiled ... a real smile.

~owari~

Author's note: ^^; A bit of in the weird side when I made this ... ^.^ But I wasn't a psycopathic freak then! _

Hope you enjoyed!