Notes: Eh, I'll leave the main notes in the first chapter.
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Blank Cadence
By 0ri
PROLOG
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Seishirou looked up into the warm, horrified green eyes of his enemy, his love, his life, his total and absolute opposite – they froze together, unaware, oblivious of the creaking sounds of metal bending and falling into the drift of water below.
The assassin trailed his hand up, slowly, watching the blood as it gleamed with his movements – he smiled at the knowledge that for once, it was his own. There was still one thing life to do…
"Subaru-kun… I… You…"
And rising that hand up all the way, reaching its destination – caressing the Sumeragi's pale cheek as he gasped lightly – doing all he could to form words, and memorize the young mans expression at the same time. He couldn't possibly forget…
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"I… l-love you…"
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Hard as I may have been, Seishirou finally spoke the last words. He felt the contraction of Subaru's emotions roll through him as the Sumeragi's body quaked – arms shaking, the arms that were clutching his own body, tugging at him, trembling. He distantly felt tears swell up against his already bloody shirt and coat, liquefying his body further. Everything was growing foggy, distant, silent… as if an eerie snowfall had settled among the wreckage of Rainbow Bridge. Further and further away, the Sakurazuka grew; eyes half-lidded now, mouth open to inhale agonizing breaths that were rapidly proving to be a task too difficult for his pierced body to handle. His entire chest felt as if it had been seized in a great fire – heart throbbing harshly, too harshly – so quickly – he couldn't keep up with its movements – it hurt, his whole body, and he was slipping, slipping into some thing so obscure he couldn't comprehend it --
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I'm finally dying…
Seishirou recalled his mothers last words in this moment – the final words that had settled about her lips, the notification of a foreboding ending that would befall him as well as it had her. He had only half-believed what she had said when it was spoken to him. But now he understood… The truth was so clear…
/"And who will be killing me?" He'd asked so carelessly and calmly - recalling the question so evidently, as if it had all happened yesterday…/
/"The one… The one you will love the most." And then, she had added in afterthought, smiling, "There can be no greater glory then to be killed by the one you love the most. Seishirou-kun… Remember that. Remember…"/
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And the pain in his chest, that empty, wide gape that gusts of wind were thrusting up against – it was growing less noticeable as the fog thickened, and until he could only see, feel and breathe that cloudy haze – that place where his soul and mind were detached from his physical being. Subaru was sobbing some where in the back of this all, a lone reminder of what he had done, that that one, simple statement would tear the Sumeragi in sheer half. A twitch of his lips, a last smile – At least now Subaru could know the truth.
At least now...
He too knew the truth as well…
Even if he'd realized far too late.
It seems like I've lost the real bet here, Subaru-kun… Ah, well… That's just… our case, isn't it…
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Seishirou felt himself falling; but it was only a weak pang – some thing that he knew subconsciously he should have been able to feel a lot more sharply and distinctively. Subaru was screaming incoherently – a few words, he couldn't understand – and then his own name; a shrill stretch of syllables that was like a sharp crack in the air; similar to the sound of a whip smacking wind; totally and undeniably ear-shattering.
The cold wash of the sea spray splattered Seishirou; but he did not shudder in its frigid frostiness as he should have. The water was opening to him, beckoning him to come under and rest with it - a weak, yet some how entrancing call. The bridge and its rubble in a tilt now – freezing water sucking him in, sucking him under, bitter salt on his lips as he attempted breath and seeping through his wound all in one fierce, tantalizing, numbing movement –
He closed his eyes.
Prolog End