A/N: I found this songfic buried in my collection of fanfics. I once had this uploaded to but I removed it a long time ago. After rediscovering it, I decided that I should again share it.
And of course, all standard disclaimers apply.
The lyrics are from the song Anywhere Is, Memory of Trees by Enya.
Destiny Is…
Tatara and Suzuno held each other for as long as they could. For now they knew they would have to be separated and they didn't want to be. For their love was deep and unbreakable. They held each for what seemed to be an eternity. The didn't want to let go for fear that if they did that some unseen force would forever whisk Suzuno from him.
"Suzuno I don't want to lose you, ever!"
"Tatara, I wish for all eternity I could stay like this in the warmth of your arms."
I walk the maze of moments
but everywhere I turn to
begin a new beginning
but never finds a finish
The two lovers pulled into a tight embrace. Tatara then loosened as did Suzuno, they two gazed at each other. Suzuno closed her eyes as Tatara brought his lips to hers.
As the two kissed, it brought back memories of their first kiss….and before that their first meeting.
Flash Back
She had been lost in this unknown world when he came up to her. His face was filled with love from the start, and he was gentle, willing to show her the way. He had helped her through the market and busy bustle of Sairou-koku's capital. He ushered her to a nice place and then to the temple.
"Thank you, kind sir." She said, finally looking him in the eye for the first time.
He replied, "you needn't thank me madam."
"Do you always help damsels?"
"Only the ones that need it."
"May I ask you for your name please?"
"Ore wa Tatara. And would you be kind as to tell me yours."
"Suzuno, Oosugi Suzuno."
-- End Flash Back --
I walk to the horizon
and there I find another
it all seems to surprising
and then I find what I know.
Suzuno continued to gaze up at Tatara.
"Why, why couldn't we have been exempted from that rule?" tears formed along her bottom eye lids as she spoke.
"That's what I liked to know to…why."
You go there you're gone forever
I go there I'll lose my way
if we stay here we're not together
Anywhere is
From beneath the ground Suzuno stood upon a white light shot out.
She shot a desperate look at Tatara.
"Suzuno, I don't care if I've got to move mountains, or travel over the vast oceans, I'll find you! I won't let you go, not now!" He exclaimed, as he shot his hand out to her outstretch one.
The moon upon the ocean
is swept around in motion
but without ever knowing
the reason for its flowing
Their hands caught the others.
For a moment they were happy, until Suzuno's hand began to fade from Tatara's own.
They were in shock as she began to disappear gradually from his world.
In motion on the ocean
the moon still keeps on moving
the waves still keep on waving
and I will still keep on going
While he still had the chance, he said. "Suzuno make me a promise."
"Anything Tatara!"
"Promise me that you'll find happiness with a new man and that you live a fulfilling life in your world. Promise me that Suzuno."
"Tatara, I promise. But I won't be happy, not without you!"
"I know I won't be happy without you! But I will find a way to defeat the rule of the sky!"
You go there you're gone forever
I go there I'll lose my way
if we stay here we're not together
Anywhere is
Flash Back
On the back of his hand the character of lasso appears when he uses his shichisei powers. It is the character given to him by the stars of destiny. From the seed which he held a beautiful flower sprouted up. Tatara took the flower and gave it to Suzuno.
The young and innocent miko took the flower from her warrior.
"Suzuno, aishiteru."
"Aishiteru Tatara." She blushed, "arigatou."
-- End Flash Back --
As she vanished into the white light, from her pocket she took the pressed flower and put it in her hair. She then tossed him her pocket mirror, the one she had on her when she summoned Byakko. "Tatara, aishiteru!"
He caught the silver framed mirror as she vanished forever into the light.
"Sayonara Tatara…Sayonara…" her voice faded into the light as she did.
I wonder if the stars sign
the life that is to be mine
and would the let their light shine
enough for me to follow
I look up to the heavens
but the night is clouded over
no spark of constellation
no vela no Orion
Tatara clutched against his chest the mirror Suzuno had given him. It would be the only thing he had to remember her by except the memories they shared for a long time.
"Suzuno, I'm always here for you. I will find you again even in not in this life time"
Skip to present – Suzaku & Seiryuu No Miko's time
Tatara aged internally found it hard being outside the temple of Byakko for it aged him quickly. He had to take a moment and rest for this sudden change in his body caused him to wince in pain at the reality of being aged. However, he still externally looked as young as the day Suzuno left him.
Suzaku No Miko knelt on one side of him, while Seiryuu No Miko was on the others.
To the two mikos he told them the story of his love Suzuno and how he had been forced to be separated from her because that was the destiny of the miko and shichisei. He told after he gave up the one thing he prized the most after Suzuno, her silver framed mirror. He felt his choice was wise when he gave it to Suzaku No Miko.
The Miko's World
Suzuno knew her hours and minutes where numbered as she lay on her bed. She hoped that death would take her quickly so she would soon be reunited with her love Tatara. She listened to the gentleman in the sunglasses read from Shijin Tenchisho. She was happy to hear Tatara was still alive.
The shells upon the warm sands
have taken from their own lands
the echo of their story
but all I hear are low sounds
as a pillow words are weaving
and willow waves are leaving
but should I be believing
I was only dreaming.
'Tatara…' Suzuno thought. He was the last thing on her mind as she passed out, cold, finally giving into her age.
Shijin Tenchisho
Tatara felt exhausted as he collapsed to the ground after killing Miboshi. To his side Tokaki and Subaru rushed. Tokaki cradled Tatara's neck and shoulders.
"Tatara hang on! We promised Suzuno we'd all die together! You can't go now!!" Tokaki exclaimed, looking down at his dear long life friend.
"Gomen Tokaki…Subaru" Tatara said, his voice low and raspy. He then heaved on final breath before finally passing out into eternal darkness.
You go there you're gone forever
I go there I'll lose my way
if we stay here we're not together
Anywhere is
Through a dimension rip Tatara in a thought form slipped through into the world of his miko. In the cold of the snow, he stood. It fell all around him. He stood beneath the tree, between the trees in front of her simple house in Morioka. He knew the time had come.
'Even if she's not dead, I can see her one last time.'
To leave the thread of all time
and let it make a dark line
in hopes I can still find
my way back to the moment
"Tatara."
Suzuno though her actual body was dead, she too was now in a thought form. She was now in her form of her younger days. She looked just as she had when she had met Tatara. She stood over her body in spirit form. Her long braids trailing behind her as she gazed out the door where her loved awaited her. After so long the two would finally be together again.
I took a turn and turned to
begin a new beginning
and never find a finish
still looking for the answer
I cannot find a finish.
She floated over to him, right into his arms.
For the first after what seemed to be an eternity, the two lovers finally got to go into the other's arm and feel the love the other had.
"Tatara."
"Suzuno."
it's either this or that way
it's one way or the other
it should be one direction
it could be on reflection
the turn that I have taken
the turn that I was making
"Kai-jin!"
Suzuno began the command to make her second wish to Byakko.
"For my second wish Byakko, I wish for Tatara and me to for ever be inseparable and never be parted ever."
Tatara stood at her side while she made this fateful wish to Byakko
In a flash of white light, before the two in all his glory Byakko-seikun appeared. "Miko, your wish that you desire is the only wish I cannot grant, for once the miko has summoned her god, she is to return to her world and she can't be with her shichisei, no matter how much the love each other." Byakko-seikun explained. He then vanished in the same light in the same showy ceremonious manner.
"We can never be together…" Suzuno said in a whisper turning to Tatara.
He pulled her into an embrace.
I might be just beginning
Though only reunited after death, the two defeated the rule of the sky and ended up together like they had desired in the first place.
i I might be near the end./i