Author's note: This fic takes place during WWII. The lines in italics are lines from China's character song, Aiyaa Four Thousand Years. Don't ask why; I just had the urge to write this.
Since the beginning of the heavens and earth, countless soldiers
Spun history by overlapping their lives, aru.
Pain spanning from the centuries cannot compare.
On the banks of the Yangtze, there is a single caged dove.
In front of the Great Wall, the sun "rises" again, aru!
Why have you done this? What did I do to you?
Selfishly, I think of the past – how nostalgic, aru…
The older I grow, the more I forget. When did the Xia dynasty begin? I have forgotten.
How are you? My body hurts all over, aru.
I have lived through pressure and riots, revolutions and revolts. How can this pain me so much?
I will even make new sweets, aru.
Will that make you change your mind? Is that what you want?
When I wake up, I cannot be beaten, aru!
For when the struggles of wartime are over, I will rise again.
As brave as a lion
My state of selflessness is dyed red, aru.
You took my hope and bravery and twisted it, slashing it like you did to my back.
Depend on me at any time
Ai yaa yaa…
Please. Depend like you used to; like your siblings, whom you have taken from me.
The child I found that day within the bamboo
I raised him to be sturdy and strong, aru!
Perhaps too strong, for I am losing. What ever did I do wrong?
Do you remember the moon we gazed at together, aru?
I feel like the moon that you see is not the same moon that I see.
Good evening! The rabbit is pounding medicine, aru.
My superstitions- you took them and mangled them, similar to my bravery.
This sky extends to the ends of the earth, aru.
But are we even on the same planet?
The wind runs through this vast land
Proudly, like a dragon
That is who I am. A dragon, who guides the others along the way.
The star that is suspended on the red is flown high
But now the stars are suspended upon fields of blood.
And shines on us, aru
Ai yaa yaa…
But now the light that shines on us is different.
In the grief of this unending world
Why is it that people fight, aru!
Why do you fight? Why do you kill? Those allies you have now, they are turning you into a monster.
Regardless of the injury, the day it will heal will come, aru.
You have changed far too much. I will rise up, and I will change your ways.
Leave everything to me!
Ai yaa yaa…
The fate of the world lies in my hands now. Try to stop me; it will not work. You and your allies will be defeated.
It is what is right.
As I gaze upon that precious moon, I wonder what happened to you. I blame myself for everything that has happened; for what you have become.
My people lie in fields of red fluid.
Your people do also, but you no longer have the heart to care.
You have stolen your siblings,
No, no, you are no longer my brother.
You have stolen my siblings, for they are no longer related to you.
You left the family long ago and chose another path.
Stop the bloodshed, repent from your ways.
Until then, we are enemies.