NINJA MOVES

Sakuno's thin lips curved into a weak smile as her sweat drenched floral sundress swayed to every of her step, trailing on the wide fields of that newly trimmed Bermuda grasses. Her heart began jerking as the sight of the cemented tombstone came into her horizons. It's been years… yes, it's been years of an almost lifelong chase…

Frustrations rushed unto her system the moment their eyes met. 'How come?' a muted sound peeked its way into her thoughts. Her vision traversed into the guy, almost a year older than she was, standing firmly in front of her suppressing a victorious smile on his lips. Her defenses immediately melted knowing she could no longer escape his presence. It has been a year since she met that guy of the same height, hair color and voice. But unlike their outdated meeting, he looked thousand better than the guy who was weakly lying on the bed forcing himself to smile in order to at peace her bewildered emotions. At first, the thought of running away again prompted her mind but she very well knew his antics and the thought of him strolling means hundreds of guards surrounding the radius of this young business tycoon. They were the same guards who haunted and scrutinized every corner of her town to find her. She remained seated on the stool of the cafeteria and waited for his coming which didn't take long. He stood astounding there with all the looks and charm earning them a very good scene together. She waited silently for his platforms and discussions like a prisoner waiting for her execution. A year had greatly changed him and what withstood the most was the fact that he was able to move forward with his life stuck there on the on the fragments of yesterday. As he spoke, her long time closed book began to open and flip to chapters untold for eternity, ending to the empty page she was into right now. Then he went silent, looked at her as if measuring how deep his words sank into her sanity. They stared at each other; and the more her orbs gaze unto those deep soothed ebonies, the more their differences stood out. It was their eyes that she fell in love with- their only difference.

She smiled at him and for a moment, just for a glint of a second, she thought she saw his eyes glimmered; though it was outrageously impossible since this beast forgot that word a year ago… Slowly, her feet met the tiled floor of the café; and like a thief on that long told night, she ran. Like a blood rush, she ran and ran and ran and ran till his guards could no longer trace her. She ran not to continue the chase, but to go to a graveyard and visit her beloved who died last year at that very same day- Ryoma, the brother of Ryoga, the guy who was at the cafeteria.