Title: Of Time
Rating: PG
Auhtor: youkohieifan
Notes: another entry for the autumn challenge
Warnings: None that I can think of.
Time, so very much like love, is both undivided and paceless. No two people in all the worlds understood that better than the pair who sat, turned towards each other, in the large room. After recent events they had come to an understanding. They had heard the other's words, had listened to what was said and not said between them.
Both had fallen in love as the days turned into months and the months turned into years, until they could barely remember a time before. Unknowingly, until the very end, each had worn away the other. The ninja had shattered the mask of the fool, just as the mage had worn away the barriers of the warrior.
Time and love had been quick, eroding them until nothing but their true selves lay bare for only eachother to see.
Fai had been burdened by the deaths of so many, and Kurogane had lost himself in the blood of his enemies. As Yuuko would say, 'hitzusen has a way of catching up to you.'
It was there in in the flowering country of Nihon that the inevitable caught up with them. Everything had accumalated and by then they knew what the other felt, but with the chasm that had formed between them, both said nothing.
With whispered words and gentle touches they had learned that what they had needed most had found them.