Some things just have to come to an end. Rin Tohsaka knew better. It had been weeks or probably months since her sister left the Tohsaka household, a week since the death of her father and days since her mother could no longer carry a proper conversation with anyone. She knew that families have to go their separate ways one day but she had never imagined her own family to end like this.
She had always wanted her family to end with elegance, pride and happiness; she had wanted her father to at least pass away seeing his daughters grow up to be successful magi and her mother as well and as for her sister, she had always wanted her younger sister to look up to her and aspire to become even greater than her. But none of these dreams will be ever fulfilled.
Rin Tohsaka had always been respectful. It was all that her life is and will be. It wasn't respectful to call her father a heartless bastard for giving Sakura away to the Matou household. It wasn't respectful to call her mother indecisive for not voicing out her opinion regarding Sakura's adoption. It wasn't respectful to blame her mentor, Kotomine Kirei, for her father's death.
But of course, Rin understood very well that they were adults and adults were always busy. Unyielding and unapproachable; those were the traits she identified with them.
Sometimes, it was just too tiring to deal with all of these things without having to complain.
In this world brimming with love, there must be an equal amount of hate brimming as well. Rin knew this beforehand but she had never expected it to be this painful. Her father once told her that no one would be able to destroy the Tohsaka family because they are the best. Their elegance, tenacity and power was completely unrivaled and that they will always be the best forever.
Rin knew the irony behind those words. There was no best forever; forever never existed in the first place. There was only the family unrivaled with elegance, power and tenacity.
But being the head of this unrivaled household did not bring her happiness as her father expected instead it brought sadness upon her. The emptiness crept upon her and made its way into her heart. It had always plagued her mind and sometimes would even enter her dreams at night. Clutching her blanket tightly that night; she falls into a slumber. In hopes that when she wakes up, everything would be back to the way things were.
But even so, she knew better.
