I don't own Ayashi no Ceres.  Why is that always so hard to say?

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Aki.

I always loved you.

Why did it end this way?

Why did it have to be us with such a cruel destiny?

All I wanted was to be normal.

But that day when we were called to our grandfather's house…I guess I never told you that I had a present for you.

I never had the chance to give it to you.

It was the same pair of earrings you gave me.  Red.  The color, not of blood, but of the sun rising on a new day.  A new day to live your life.  A new day to appreciate the small things.  Like your family.

I couldn't bear to let Ceres kill you.  Even though you begged.  You knew that you would die.  Why did you give into Mikage?  I overcame our destiny, but you…

I miss you Aki…

Even though you are gone, I will live on.  I will live in the future, not in the past.  I will live for you.  For you, for Chidori, for Shuro, for Urakawa, and for Miori.

And when the baby is born, I will show our mother.  I will name my baby Aki.  I will share with him all the struggles that we have faced together.  I will never forget. 

I always loved you.

Aki.