6/02/09 A/N I have thought about it and I rewrote and will be rewriting my previous chapters due to the ugly grammar and bad flow. The third chapter is only a few sentences long at the moment.

A/N Hi Everybody! I hope you people will like this fic, because this is my first fanfic that involves an actual plot. And if anybody gets confused, please review and tell me. I also accept flames, but my replies will not sound as civil. Anything in need of explaining, I'll try to explain at the end. This is a short one-shot unless I get 5 reviews on people wanting me to continue. And don't tell me, I know it will suck.

Standard disclaimers: I don't own any of them because then I would be talented at drawing. Any similarities between anything in this story and real life are purely coincidental.

Note: I have written this fanfic with no care for grammar, spelling or plot.

Now on with the fic.

Spread My Wings

Yuya Shiina was very tired, irritated, and angry. She had been traveling with the legendary Onime no Kyo from when the first rays of light shined on her face, to the cloudy night that blocked all light from the heavens. Well, legendary or not, Yuya was exhausted and had not eaten since the start of the long trek through the forest, so she wanted complain.

"Kyo, can we find a place to stop? I'm really tired," said Yuya who looked at the heavy clouds warily with sleepy eyes.

Kyo looked over his shoulder at the poor little blonde trying to walk without collapsing. "So you're tired. I thought a girl as stubborn as you won't feel fatigue," he remarked.

Yuya was about to make a nice comeback when her feet stumbled over a large rock lodged in the middle of her path. She did not even have enough strength to try to upright herself. So the result of which was a very dazed looking bounty huntress collapsed on the dirt forest floor.

Kyo, hearing a loud thud, again turned to look at Yuya. "Well I'm glad that I don't have to worry about what would've happened to your face, because your face is so ugly that a scratch or two will not make much of a difference," he told her.

"At least I have the dignity to not say anything about what is wrong with your face," retorted Yuya. She had just gotten up and straightened her clothes.

Kyo ignored her remark and said, "Since you and your clumsiness caused us to stop, I guess that we might as well make camp here."

Yuya silently fumed at how easily Kyo ignored her, but then cheered as she was finally allowed to rest her poor aching feet. She was fuming again when Kyo immediately sat down beside a tree and feigned sleep. At least, that was what she thought he was doing.

After Yuya set up camp and had a nice roaring fire going, she stood up and slowly leaned her tired form against a tree across from where Kyo was. She soon slipped into the world of fantasies.

In Yuya's Dream

Where am I? thought Yuya as she looked at her surroundings.

She was standing next to a small iron cage that was in a dark icy cave. (A/N Think of the cave where Kyo's body was hidden in.) Inside the cage was a fluttering white dove franticly trying to escape. On closer inspection, the dove was wounded on its breast and dark red blood was coming from the wound.

After seeing the condition the dove was in, Yuya became worried that the dove would die and tried to find a way to free the dove from the cave to tend to it.

That's funny, there's no door or any opening for the bird to even be able to squeeze through. I wonder how it got in? thought Yuya as she inspected the cage.

When Yuya finally found some sort of opening between the bars on the underside of the cage, she coaxed the bird out of the cage. The bird fluttered around in the air and Yuya saw that, amazingly enough, the wound on the dove was already slowly healing. After getting used to its surroundings, the dove landed on the top of the cage and turned its attention to her.

What met Yuya's gaze was a pair of bright green eyes that matched her own. Their eyes met for only a split second, long enough for them to acknowledge each other. Then the dove flapped its wings once more and flew away through the cave and Yuya immediately knew in her heart that the bird was free.

After that, everything that happened was all a blur as Yuya welcomed the darkness that fell before her eyes. She felt at peace because of the dream and knew what the dove was telling her and what was going to happen next.

Back In Reality

Yuya woke up surprised to find Kyo leaning, with his eyes closed, against the same tree she was leaning against. She felt less tired from the little nap. She quickly stood up and walked towards her bag of belongings with confidence and purpose. Suddenly, a voice stopped her.

"What do you think you're doing?" asked Kyo lazily from the base of the tree that Yuya was sleeping under.

Yuya looked over her shoulder and plastered on a smile. "I just wanted to go take a nice long bath," said Yuya, knowing fully well that she was lying through her teeth.

Kyo looked at her for an intensely long moment and looked almost concerned by her obvious lie, but instead said, "I don't blame you, because I am sure your stench can be smelled from Edo." Then he closed his eyes again.

Yuya clenched her jaw at this comment and slowly moved away from Kyo and the warm fire from the camp. She made her way towards the hot springs she saw a while ago before the tripping incident.

When she reached the natural hot springs, Yuya took off her clothes and lowered herself into the nice relaxing water. Then she let her mind drift off to wherever it wanted to.

Slowly her mind drifted off to a time before Kyo and before bounty hunting. With only her brother there to be with her and keep her company, she was truly free back then.

Now look at her. Barely a shell of what she used to be. She was at a man's beck and call. She paid for his food and shelter. Forget the fact that he was a cold hearted killer, most men would cringe at the thought of living off of a woman.

Yuya wondered what happened to her vivacity and zeal for reaching her goal. After separating Kyo from Kyoshiro, things changed. The whole group of comrades broke up. Benitora went to finally make peace with his family. Yukimura went off to his own calling. Fading into the mess and obviously hoping to avoid Yuya, Kyoshiro disappeared the minute the battle was over. Everybody had simply left.

They all left. Left me with Kyo. Left me alone with him, thoughts swirled in Yuya's mind. She did not blame her comrades. After all, she did not fit into their future. Instead, she blamed herself over the fact that she had become weak in the spirit and weaker in her self-control.

Even with all her thoughts of what happened, Yuya's dream from before kept replaying over and over with an increasing vividness. She suddenly realized what the dream really meant and what it pointed her to do.

Slowly, Yuya got out of the hot water and emptied the contents of her bag. She took everything that was really precious to her, like her gun and her money. (A/N I also love money.) Then she swiftly cut herself on her arm and scattered all her belongings on the ground or into the water. Quickly, blood rushed out of the shallow cut she inflicted on herself and flowed down her arm. She let the red substance drop onto the floor and wash away into the water to make Kyo think she got kidnapped or… killed.

Tears formed in Yuya's emerald eyes as she thought of what was going to happen next. After the blood flow receded, which only took a few minutes due to the harmless depth of the wound, Yuya took all of her valuable supplies and ran in the direction away from the camp.

A flash of lightning streaked across the sky and the sound of thunder masked the beating of Yuya's heart as she ran away from Kyo.

Kyo needed to be gone.

Kyo had too much power over her free will.

Kyo, the killer, who scared her like no other person.

Kyo, who always insulted her.

Kyo, the one who can be such an enigma.

Kyo, the man she thought she might truly love.

Yuya had ran for what seemed like an eternity when the sky started to cry with her heavy sobs. Heavy drops of ice cold liquid streamed down her face and mixed with her tears. Liquid that blurred her vision.

Yuya thought of all the things Kyo had said to her as she ran away from him.

Bitch...

She then started to sob.

Whore...

She should have never got herself caught up in this.

Girl...

She never should have followed Kyoshiro.

But he never really said my name...

All that he had done for her, all those times he saved her life, had touched her heart, but now, with the constant verbal abuse from Kyo, Yuya was beginning to doubt that Kyo had actually cared for her at all.

Yuya's already exhausted form started to run even faster as she also remembered Kyo's ruby red eyes that seemed to be stained with all the blood of the people that he killed. Yuya's heart felt as if it had shattered when she remembered all the times that Kyo had been there with her and how the situation had changed so quickly once she traveled only with him. She remembered his voice, so caring mere months before, and so demeaning and callous recently.

She slowed down to a walk, the rain was still pouring and the thunder and lightning felt so close, but everything in her mind came to one conclusion. She loved Kyo and the only way to show it was to do what he wanted of her, what he implied with his treatment of her, and that was to disappear from his life. Never to be in his way ever again. Now she was finally free.

The wind started to howl and Yuya felt herself being pushed to another place by it. The wind dragged her into an area thick with fog. She realized it too late that she was sent hurtling off the side of a cliff with a raging river at the bottom. The last thing that was heard from her by the howling wind and the mourning heavens was...

Be happy Kyo,

forever.

A/N AWWWW How sweet. Well let me put in a bit of an explanation. The dream is kind of like one of those dreams reflecting how you feel. The dove is Yuya and the cave or cage is Kyo's restraint on her. Notice that I did not mention anything about Muramasa or some other characters because... um... I didn't want to. Yeah that's it! I didn't want to. So now I seem to have had a lot of coffee and candy. YAY COFFEE AND CANDY. I love those two things. Oh and in case you people don't know. I'm a girl. Now I'm going to get more coffee and candy.

Bye Everybody! Hope to see at least some reviews.