In The Depths Of Human Hearts
By SMYGO4EVA
Love is very fickle: you feel it and then it disappears. It's a vanishing act, except that you can be either the magician or the volunteer from the audience that watches your every move. It disappeared from both girls in this little scenario. Naru Osaka and Unazuki Furuhata know what it's like for the one person they cared about to vanish in the blink of an eye.
Nephrite may have been one with evil, but inside the light in his very soul prospered the moment he saw Naru. He protected her with his life, and even in death, he still loved her. She was his love: the first, last, and only love he would ever have, and the only love she would have as well. Ever since, she never forgot what the wicked world had done to her, to Nephrite, and to the affection that perished in just one night. She tried to move on, she did really. She even went on dates with Umino for love's sake, but it never filled the void that left her heart in pieces.
Unazuki had never felt love before Asai arrived. He said he was a friend of Minako's before she came to Japan, and the next thing she knew, it was love at first sight. They went on countless dates, spent quality time together, and even shared secrets. She could've sworn she saw the sun and the moon rise in his eyes. But they never went to the big step, and they didn't have to. That was because as she woke up, she realized something. She wasn't in love with him anymore; she didn't even feel love for him anymore. So they ended it. The feelings were lost forever at that moment.
Love is fickle once you think about it, but you do have another chance to feel the heartbeat of another against the palm of your hand again. Affection can be found again, for as love is the gift you give yourself and the one you care about. Naru and Unazuki know that by now, that you can find it in the depths of human hearts.