Note: I posted the wrong chapter for this. Instead of Prologue, chapter 4 was here. So sorry for the trouble. Here's the real prologue. Thanks to Kyo-Terayashi and Watermelon for telling me. ::kowtows:: 11:31 AM 10/26/2003
Disclaimer: Rurouni Kenshin is the creation of Nobuhiro Watsuki, with the manga and anime rights belonging to Jump Comics and Sony Entertainment, respectively.
Prologue
"Are you leaving already? So soon…"
Softness. Like the clouds. Perhaps, if humans could touch the clouds… But no. They were intangible, ethereal. Like her.
"When will you be coming back?"
Not he. He was as human as possible. Plain. Homely.
"You don't like me anymore, do you?" she said softly. She peered at him with those eyes. Those eyes…
"No. Of course not," he finally spoke. "People don't just unlike each other like that, you know."
"So you say," she murmured, rising from the rock she was perched on. "But it wasn't 'just like that'. There are many days between your visits. The time is long."
He turned away from her, staring instead at the ragged face of the towering tree before them. "I didn't know you had a concept of time."
"Time." She walked towards him, almost floating on the dry earth with her liquid limbs. "Time is an ojiisan. I know him well."
"Then you will understand me. Time has passed. Things have changed. Haven't you noticed?" He looked at her finally, for the first time that day.
"What?"
He didn't answer. She glided to his side and reached out tentatively to touch his shoulders. That. He hated that. He hated it when she touched him. Hated it….
"Are you sick?" she whispered in a troubled rumble.
Their skins touched; it was like water poured down his back, water from an icy river on a winter's day. He jerked away violently, shuddering with dread. White hands arrested in midair. Orbs watered. Shock registered.
"Please don't try to stop me," he pleaded a little angrily. "I have to go far away, so we won't see each other for a some time. Just for a while."
Still, she stared at him, aghast. "I thought…" she mouthed. "You said…"
"I'm sorry. But--"
But she didn't allow him to finish with his explanations. She fled at once. She was as swift as a deer and thus left him no chance to overtake her. And he was left with nothing else to say, anyhow.
"Sayonara," he murmured as he turned away.
White Friend
Another Rurouni Kenshin fanfiction by Melpomene Melancholica, co-authored
by the great and almighty Schizo-four: Chibi K the Chibster, Fairchild the Innocent,
Ornery-chan the Ornery One and Wronksi Feint the Whatever, now known as Shirodachi. He he. This is fun.Edited on: 122104
Reposted on:12/22/2004