Kourui no Yuki

by: Kagayaki Ame

Prologue

            Pasts full of angst and doomed love must run in this damn family.

            It seemed that no matter how good I was it would eventually catch up with me. You would think that as much as I subconsciously expected it, I would have seen it coming. Maybe I just hoped it wouldn't happen to me...

            But hope doesn't exist for people with swordsman blood and such an infamous history (no matter how secret). I don't blame my father. I love him. It's not his fault.

            He can't help it if destiny is a bitch on a rampage.

            I must admit however...

            I was jealous of him for another reason after she died.

            He still had the love of his life. And I didn't.

            I refused to believe that we'd have the parallelism of luck in that I'd lose my first and fall again for all eternity. Only my Otou-san was that lucky. And I figure, since I'd been blessed more than he in certain ways, I'd pay more than he did in other ways.

            Funny though... when I think about it, I suppose it was my hand that she died at, ultimately.

            No.. no.. I didn't swing the blade. I didn't have to.

            The stupid days of my rebellious adolescence; that swung the blade.

            My selfish, blind genius. That swung the blade.

            My one-sided greed and passion for that which I didn't understand; THAT swung the blade.

            .....

            ::sigh::

            No matter how much I tried to make up for the past by making amends with my father, trying to soothe my mother, doing well with my life, not lusting for the sword, but learning to love and fear it....

            No matter how much I loved her...

            My father says he doesn't want me to seek revenge, but he knows I need to, must and will.

            I laugh when I think of what it took to get this sword.

            I thought back then that killing for it was no big deal.

            But she was the one killed...

            And my heart breaks just a bit more every day that I have to face that.

            But I guarantee you.

            I will take revenge.

            I will get those who got her to get to me.

            I know who you are.

            And, this time, I will personally swing this blade...

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Japanese terms:

Otou-san- father (hon.)

A/N: I'm back! And I'm trying something new. More drama. More angst. And a new main character! Can you guess who it is? Read, Review, and Refrain. That's new, ne? When I say that I mean Refrain from flaming me. This is my story and I can do as I please, preferably without the death threats. Besides, the wonderful people of FF.Net have allowed us authors to remove mean reviews. I've done it before. I'll do it again. Next part up soon! Sooner if I get a good amount of reviews... Ja.