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KeyQuis: Short snippet that I've written at work… Hayate's POV at the end of it all--not meant to be happy. Not a poem nor songfic nor story, just a one-shot thought.

I Can't Promise You Happiness

I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!

I can't promise you happiness, Himeno.

It's not that I don't want to; it's just that I can't.

I can love you, but I can't always be by your side.

No, it's not you; it's not me either.

It's the duty as a Leafe Knight.

I promised I'd protect the world.

One day, disaster will befall and I must leave for the battlefield.

My life is bound to that fate.

My responsibility is more important than you.

Yes, there are some things grander than love.

They are the things done for the sake of love.

I protect because I love you.

Because I want you to live in a world full of life;

Only in life can you find happiness.

Death takes everything precious away.

I don't want to lose you.

I promise you that I won't die as long as you live.

Live and love another, for both our sakes.

I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!I!

Author's Notes: Sigh, sometimes fate surpasses love. Sometimes people can't be together. Sometimes there are no happy endings. But what happens when one battles fate, fights for another ending, strives for the happiness the heart and soul dreams of? Can ones destiny then change? Just have to live to find out the future.