Hello! This is a one-shot in Kurama's point-of-view. Yes, Kurama is my favorite character. Please read and review!
~Crystalline-Wings
It's only early November, but the 56 degree weather had done it's toll on the rosebush in mother's garden. I kneel by it now, sadly looking at the damage that had been done to my favorite bush. Only one wilted blossom remains.
I brush it off, and watch it fall to the ground. I could grow it back in a heartbeat, but sometimes things just need to die. That has always been my philosophy on plants.
Sometimes things just need to die...I look up into the window. I can see my mother in the kitchen, making lunch for us. She's been a little sick lately, so she's in her bathrobe, but it's not as bad as when she was hospitalized a few moths ago. I remove that thought from my mind, and peer back at the rosebush.
Sometimes things just need to die...Had I cheated my mother out of death by using the Forlorn Hope? Was she supposed to die that day, but saved by a fox posing as her son? Was I, Yoko Kurama, supposed to die too, but cheated fate by taking over her unborn child? Did I just need to die?
I feel leaves brushing my palm, so I lift my hand. A bush sprouting lilies appears in front of me. I frown. When my thoughts are jumbled, I tend to grow an odd plant, but lilies don't grow on bushes. As a second thought, I pick one off the bush, and set it by my foot. I then proceed to kill the odd plant before the neighbors saw. Had I just cheated those lilies out of life?
Oh great. Now there is a vine with roses. I pick one of those too, and kill the vine. Had I just-no. No more thoughts. I don't need a death tree in the yard.
But...
Things need to live sometimes too, don't they? So...did I just carry out my fate, my pre-determined path of life? No. There is no pre-determined path. You make your own choices. Sometimes things need to live...
"Suu-chan! Lunch!" I cringe a little at the nick-name mother has for me. Suu-chan...ugh. "Coming mother." I get the flowers, and head inside.
"Were the roses okay?" I look at my human mother, who, despite of her fluffy bathrobe, looks concerned. "Um....No actually, there was only one left. And I got this for you too." I hand the woman the flowers, and she smiles. "Thank you, Suichi dear. They're beautiful. I didn't know we grew lilies." Uh-Oh. Explanations....
"Shizuru had a bouquet for her grandmother, and the shop gave her an extra lily. She passed by and asked me to give it to you, since you like them so much." Phew. Saved by the lie.
"Oh. Well, come-" She sneezes. "-eat." I raise an eyebrow. "Are you sure it's not pneumonia again?" "I'm fine dear. I won't fade out on you soon, I promise. But one day I will. Things have their time to die Suu-Chan." The dreaded nick-name. Mother is right though. Things do die.
"Oh, oden. Thank you mother, it smells great." I don't care for oden very much, but I have reached a realization, and I don't care much about food at the moment.
Sometimes things just need to die....
...But only sometimes.
The roses will be back tomorrow.
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What do you think? R&R to let me know!
~Crystalline-Wings
It's only early November, but the 56 degree weather had done it's toll on the rosebush in mother's garden. I kneel by it now, sadly looking at the damage that had been done to my favorite bush. Only one wilted blossom remains.
I brush it off, and watch it fall to the ground. I could grow it back in a heartbeat, but sometimes things just need to die. That has always been my philosophy on plants.
Sometimes things just need to die...I look up into the window. I can see my mother in the kitchen, making lunch for us. She's been a little sick lately, so she's in her bathrobe, but it's not as bad as when she was hospitalized a few moths ago. I remove that thought from my mind, and peer back at the rosebush.
Sometimes things just need to die...Had I cheated my mother out of death by using the Forlorn Hope? Was she supposed to die that day, but saved by a fox posing as her son? Was I, Yoko Kurama, supposed to die too, but cheated fate by taking over her unborn child? Did I just need to die?
I feel leaves brushing my palm, so I lift my hand. A bush sprouting lilies appears in front of me. I frown. When my thoughts are jumbled, I tend to grow an odd plant, but lilies don't grow on bushes. As a second thought, I pick one off the bush, and set it by my foot. I then proceed to kill the odd plant before the neighbors saw. Had I just cheated those lilies out of life?
Oh great. Now there is a vine with roses. I pick one of those too, and kill the vine. Had I just-no. No more thoughts. I don't need a death tree in the yard.
But...
Things need to live sometimes too, don't they? So...did I just carry out my fate, my pre-determined path of life? No. There is no pre-determined path. You make your own choices. Sometimes things need to live...
"Suu-chan! Lunch!" I cringe a little at the nick-name mother has for me. Suu-chan...ugh. "Coming mother." I get the flowers, and head inside.
"Were the roses okay?" I look at my human mother, who, despite of her fluffy bathrobe, looks concerned. "Um....No actually, there was only one left. And I got this for you too." I hand the woman the flowers, and she smiles. "Thank you, Suichi dear. They're beautiful. I didn't know we grew lilies." Uh-Oh. Explanations....
"Shizuru had a bouquet for her grandmother, and the shop gave her an extra lily. She passed by and asked me to give it to you, since you like them so much." Phew. Saved by the lie.
"Oh. Well, come-" She sneezes. "-eat." I raise an eyebrow. "Are you sure it's not pneumonia again?" "I'm fine dear. I won't fade out on you soon, I promise. But one day I will. Things have their time to die Suu-Chan." The dreaded nick-name. Mother is right though. Things do die.
"Oh, oden. Thank you mother, it smells great." I don't care for oden very much, but I have reached a realization, and I don't care much about food at the moment.
Sometimes things just need to die....
...But only sometimes.
The roses will be back tomorrow.
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What do you think? R&R to let me know!