Disclaimer: X/1999 does not belong to me.
A/N: This short ff is dedicated to one of my favorite couples - Arashi and Sorata, who are unfortunately often over-looked in X/1999. Please R&R.
The Snow That Never Melts
I was born in the world only with the means to protect. There was nothing more and nothing less. To feel any emotions at all was unacceptable, and slowly I became the meaning of emptiness. I was something that nobody wanted, something everybody was willing to refuse. Loneliness became my best friend, and we quietly lived in an ever-lasting winter. I slowly built myself into a perfect snowman, frozen in the never-melting snow.
...then you came along, and told me that you would die for me. I told you that it was absurd, that you didn't even know me! Secretly, I decided that if you knew what kind of person I was, you would become just like the rest and refuse to accept me. But even after all the times that I had coldly ignored you and pushed you away, you still insisted on making a fire in the blizzard I had created. I childishly thought at the time that you would never succeed, that a fire could not burn away winter. But I was wrong. The heat of your love had burned through and deteriorated my illusionary snow wall that acted as my self-defense. Maybe it was right to say that love conquers all, just like how fire would always melt the snow away.