Disclaimer- hey, hey, hey, guess what? ...none of the characters are mine! the plot kinda is tho...
Sukasa- eh, it is not a good plot though.
Sirine- quiet you. :thwap:
Sukasa- ...ow.
By the by, this takes place BEFORE Sukasa-chan smile gets to log out, and he ends up sinking into a depression and has locked himself up in his little castle in the world for three years, and I have only seen the video series so don't be full of madness if I get some things wrong.
Italic-Sukasa thinking
PROLOGUE- THE MEETING
A quiet humming of a sad tune is all I have heard. A lonely place of darkness and dust is all that I have seen. A constant agony for everything I have lost is all that I have felt.
For so long...
...have they all forgotten me?
...so long...
Shuffle. Shuffle. Lines of age-old dust that had laid undisturbed for many years rose in silent protest as a pair of unfamiliar feet tread quietly on the outside stones. Subaru's eyes filled with a kind of restrained hope when she realized that none had yet encroached upon this sad place. She took a moment to steel herself for whatever could happen next and moved to place her pale hands upon the heavy doors to Sukasa's home...
...or tried to.
The ornate metal doors both creaked open on their hinges with squeals of protest even before she had touched them. Subaru gasped and took a step back and stumbled as her foot caught on one of the uneven stones.
"...Su...Sukasa...?" she whispered, the name that she had been afraid to speak aloud pulling a thread of fear from her as she spoke. She cleared her throat and shook her head. One foot in front of the other, she slowly breached the nonexistent wall of legend that Sukasa's presence had created around the Cathedral.
...so long....
Sukasa raised his head ever so slightly. Normally, no one who had even been staring at him would have noted the miniscule movement, but the layer of dust that shifted away from his shoulders made it obvious enough to make the young man grimace.
He did not really want to be noticed, but the girl standing at the far end of his hall did notice- her pace quickened considerably.
"Sukasa!"
He winced unconciously at the sound of his name but offered no reply, did not even blink to agknowledge that he had heard the sound of heart- wrenching happiness that was easy to detect in Subaru's voice.
Sukasa easily took in the reactions that he felt at seeing this girl after so long raised in him from a distance- yes, he felt a kind of relief, and yes, he felt a kind of joy, but these emotions were so long gone from him that he did not recognize them.
But the pain...
...too long...!
Anger.