Prologue
The whole climb up the many steps, Saya relentlessly asked Kai questions about how he would manage as a single parent to Diva and Riku's twin daughters, her wavering voice and slurred speech an indication of how close to sleep she was. But it would not stop her from asking anyways.
"Kai..." Saya can barely hear her own voice by the time they reach the top, the sleepy fog of her hibernation fully upon her now.
"Shh, rest now Saya," Kai says, gently setting his adopted sister down inside the Miagusku family tomb.
"Promise me Kai," she pleads, trying to fight off the inevitable sleep. "Promise me you'll be here when I wake up...I need you Kai." Even though she couldn't lift her eye lids to see him, she reached her hands out to feel for Kai's face. Grasping it firmly between her hands, she pulls his face just close enough to brush her lips against his. "Promise me..." she whispers.
Before Kai could even bring himself out of the haze that Saya had just threw him face first into, he knew she was asleep. Not to wake for another 30 years.
'30 years,' he thought to himself. 'Everything will be different. I will be different.' Kai sat in thought for a few moments, pondering his life. Thoughts of Riku and his dad who had both passed during the war. His neice's, Aka and Ruka, who were to be raised as his own daughters. His non-exsistent relationship with Mao. And now the lightest of all kisses, given to him from Saya just moments earlier. All these thoughts flooded Kai's mind before coming to his final decision. Pulling a pocket knife from his back pocket, he lifted Saya's hand gently in his.
"I promise Saya," Kai said as he made a cut in her palm. "You and the twins are all I have left in this world. I promise Saya, I will be here when you wake. Always and forever." And with that, Kai brought Saya's bleeding hand to his mouth and began to drink.
I started this as a one shot, but theres just so much potential that I have to keep it going. Wwith enough encouragement and maybe some possible plot ideas, I really think this story could go far. Let me know what you all think =)