A/N: This is an odd little oneshot that I wrote a few years ago. It is only showing its face now.
Caught in the Dark
I am running.
Running past people who turn to look at me in shock as my white coat-tails fly away from them before they can utter a word of anger at my rudeness. I don't care about that now though.
I have to get away.
Before I am caught.
I can feel him following me. The Dragon of Earth is coming for me. While I run in fear, he walks slowly as if he knows that he will catch up with me. This 'Kamui' never seems to be anxious about anything.
His Angels are probably after me too, closing me in like a mouse in a trap. I run straight out of town onto the dark beach outside of it. I scramble down a large sandy hill and run slowly across the beach, my feet getting barely any hold on the shifting sand. The lights of the city become lost to my eyes behind the hill. The moon barely shines, leaving me with little to no light. I can barely see my own feet.
My emerald eyes widen in utter horror when a hand grasps my wrist, and with a flash of power, pushes me to the ground.
"Hello…Subaru-kun," says a voice that I hadn't heard in seven years.
"S-Seishiro-san…" I mutter in fear. I can see that blank eye reflect the moonlight coldly. Just as cold as the man it belonged to. I don't even try to get up. If this came to a fight, my wish would be granted and I would be just another dead body underneath the Sakura Tree. Who knew that the pretty trees with white petals only turned pink when the blood of a corpse, killed by the Sakurazukamori himself, was placed underneath it?
I'm sorry Kamui…you won't be seeing me again…
"Are you going to kill me?" I ask coldly with a little regret coloring my voice.
I hate myself for that.
That regret.
I should hate this man! He is an assassin, a killer! He killed my own sister dammit! I watched that cold smile on his face as his hand went though Hokoto's heart! Yet, in my own way…I love him.
If a murderer even can be loved.
That blank eye looks in my vague direction for a few seconds before the Sakurazukamori laughs quietly, "Oh no Subaru-kun. You are too much fun for that," his voice is so cold as he says that, sending a shiver down my spine. The marks on the back of my hands flare up, the stars glow red for a few seconds.
Then Seishiro's blind eye disappears. The moon shines a bit brighter, revealing that the murderer had dissolved into Sakura petals. One of the petals brushes my cheek teasingly as I stand up. I crush the petal in my fist angrily. Is that all I am to Seishiro?! A toy?!
That hated feeling of deep loss and regret hangs in my heart again as I run off, fleeing from the Dragon and the Angels who were catching up with me.
Too bad I can't run from the past.
Or even Seishiro, the Sakurazukamori himself.
Seishiro stood next to the very Sakura Tree where he had met Subaru for the first time, the Sakura petals lazily floated around him.
I'm a sore loser aren't I?
A/N: So, there it is! Please tell me what you think!
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~Princess Fawna