A/n: I'm not quite sure what made me write this fic. Well, just read and review pls. It's slightly SanzoxGoku in a way…depends on how you see it though, and yes, that IS Goku speaking.
End of Forever by real-circus
I've searched for pieces of myself, counting the endless nights all the while.
These feelings are becoming so certain I almost lose myself.
Right now, without fail, I will walk forward, however far… [taken from Alone lyrics]
Forever. What…exactly…was it? Something like infinity? Surely some things come to an end…well, at least good things do. I remembered hearing someone saying it before, but I can't remember who. All things had to come to an end, definitely. Even if it was forever.
This little belief of mine I made up…for a want for some shimmer of hope in a pool void of light, and to keep me sane and waiting. Waiting...and waiting…for forever to end.
I wondered how I managed to pull through this excruciating pain, forged by loneliness and frustration. It must have been something someone, who had been really precious to me, said before…something about coming back for me. So I waited. As time went by, this only remembrance of my past faded away, worn out and tired, and my purpose for living…had…very much no meaning at all.
I was not going to turn my back on life now, not when I made it this far. I could even feel him as he climbed up the treacherous rock to my earthly prison.
The sun was about to cast out the last of its dying rays…I was about to be plunged into darkness once again. I was starting to hate the feeling more and more each evening. Help me. Wasn't anyone trying to find me? No one at all? No footsteps on the dry ground…no voice calling out to ask who the stranger in the cave was…
…But I could feel him. I swore he was there.
I closed my eyes and waited for the shadow of night to come. Freezing darkness was about to settle in my heart, when…
"Oi!" a rough voice knocked me out of my thinking. I stared up and there was this young man, glaring at me. His glare could have frosted any ordinary being's soul out, but it brought warmth to mine. I had been kept in this cave…forever.
"Were you the one who's been calling me over and over again?" he went on.
His hair glimmered in the orange rays. I thought the sun himself had just entered my lonely prison, and perhaps I was right. He did.
"N-no…I never…w-who are you?" I was afraid he would leave, seeing a wretch like myself in a dirty cave. I didn't care who he was. If he was the one, it really didn't matter. My heart was secretly screaming away with joy as I fought to keep a serious face.
"Don't lie to me!" his voice was music to my ears. "I heard you clearly, calling me so persistently…well, if it comes down to that…" he stretched out a gloved hand to me. "…I'll have no choice but to take you with me."
I fell madly in love with him. It didn't matter if he sounded harsh and if his heart was made of stone—I would still go with him, for he gave me the brightest star I could ever find to guide my way in life…forever—the sun.
I was melting in my own happiness so much that I hardly felt the chains disappear from my body. To feel another's skin against my own was a pure bliss. He was heaven to touch [1].
And as sure as the sun rises in the far east, I'll be faithful always to my sun and my savior…forever…And for the first time in five hundred years, it didn't matter to me that this forever will end some day.
Because this one had just ended with his coming.
~End
[1] I remember hearing it in the lyrics of a song once, just can't bring to memory which one…