Author Intro:

Hey, everyone! Zero here! So, I'm doing something a little different than I usually do. I swore I would never write one-shots, but oopsy daisy I kind of wrote a bunch of angst one-shots for the KanoAya ship. I'll be posting them all in here. Enjoy! (Please forgive me, some of them are extremely short.)

DISCLAIMER: Unfortunately, I do not own Kagerou Daze, Mekaku City Actors, or any of the characters.

The Graveyard

"Why did you do it?"

The sun had long ago given way to the night sky, the stars hiding behind a blanket of nasty-looking clouds that threatened to drench the earth. When Shuuya Kano reached the graveyard where his adopted-sister was buried, the sky opened up and let loose the water that had been held there. Yet as he knelt in front of Ayano's grave, the downpour became all too unimportant. The drops that covered his face mixed with the tears that began to spill from his cat-eyes.

"Why did you jump, Ayano? That wasn't very bright of you."

He sounded angry. Maybe because anger was the exact thing he was feeling. That, and sadness.

"You could've told me that something was wrong? Why didn't you trust me? Why didn't you trust us? We were family, dammit! Did you think we wouldn't understand?! How could you leave us behind?!"

Silence followed Kano's outburst. His breathing was quick and heavy. It took him several seconds to realize that his fists were clenched tightly, his knuckles having turned white from the pressure. He released his fists, his palms hurting from where his fingernails had dug into them. He took a deep breath and sighed, thankful that he was alone, that no one close to him was able to see him in this sorry state.

"I'm sorry... Kido keeps telling me that I need to learn to control my anger. I'm starting to think she's right."

He rubbed the back of his neck and bowed his head, wishing that things like this could be a lot easier to do rather than be so emotionally destructive.

"It's still hard for me, accepting the fact that you're gone. I never imagined that there would be a time when you were lost to us. I always thought that someday, we'd grow up and I could finally tell you all the things that I kept to myself, like how I really felt, how I still feel even now."

He paused, staring blankly at the grass in front of the grave stone. This was it. These were the words he'd never said out loud but had always felt deep down in his heart.

"I love you, Ayano."

As the words tore themselves free from his throat, new tears began to fall rapidly from his eyes. A sob escaped him, and he was gone. His emotions overloaded and he collapsed on the muddy ground as rain continued to pour down on him.

"Why did you have to go?! A-Ayano?

Ayano!"