Teardrops
Pairings : MuxSaga, ShakaxAiolia, AphroditexShura, AphroditexMilo
Rated : M
Disclaimer : all characters belonged to the highly respected Masami Kurumada. No infringement intended.
A/N : this story was inspired when I recently just re-watched the Saint Seiya anime the Hades chapter and felt so sad for the dead of all the Goldies. So I dedicated this story for them only *weeping badly*.. Well anyhow please go on with the next chapter.
Chapter One
Aphrodite greeted his teeth, but kept his silence as he was quietly being dragged by his former lover up the stairs, away from Gemini temple. Shura's hand felt hot around his wrist and Aphrodite could faintly feel the man's annoyance through it.
As he felt they had walked far enough from Kanon to see, he forced himself to an abrupt halt in behind a tall tree, making Shura stopped with him. As the dark haired man turned around to see him, Aphrodite didn't waste his time to spit out his anger.
"What the hell you think you're doing?" He pulled his hand away from the man's grasp and continued on, "You embarrassed me in front of my friend. How dare you!"
"I wouldn't do that if you just agreed to come talk to me," Shura sighed with a forced patience, "Why is it so hard for you to talk to me? You've been avoiding me for almost three weeks now."
"I am not avoiding you Shura," the Swedish replied, rubbing his wrist, "It's just that I have a lot in my mind lately.."
"Is that including getting to bed with the twins?"
The words had been said with a very menacing tone and Aphrodite hated every bit of it. His eyes narrowed dangerously, they contained so much promises of death inside them, "Leave the twins alone. I do not get in bed with them or anyone, but even if I do it is not any of your concern."
"Yes it is because as far as I'm concern, you are still belonged to me, Pisces," Shura retorted.
"Oh God, really? Well in that case, Capricorn," the blue haired beauty hissed furiously, "Then please let me inform you again. It is over between us. I have said it to you the last time we met and I will say it again right now. It. Is. Over. I don't know what's your problem is, but this is the last time we are discussing it. You will no longer ask me to talk with you regarding us because there won't be anymore us because you and I, Shura, we're going to our own separate way. Do you get that?"
"No." The Capricorn man spat, "Not until you properly tell me why you left me."
Aphrodite learned fast that he wasn't the only one who was angry. Shura's anger was shown clearly on his handsome face. His dark eyes turned almost pitch black as he gazed intently into Aphrodite's blue ones, they screamed of betrayal and confusion, and Aphrodite wondered if the man would somehow lost his sanities and killed him on the spot. Athena had forbid a fight between Gold Saints, but in a situation like this, Aphrodite could never be sure if he or Shura would remember that certain rule.
He inhaled deeply as Shura lifted a hand to point at him. He just hoped that he didn't raise his Excalibur toward him as Aphrodite really didn't have any death wish today.
Here we go..
"You," the Spanish started, "Left me without any obvious reason why you wished for us to break up. We were doing great and suddenly you decided to leave. You did that, while I was still there for you, while I was deeply in love with you. And then, should that was not enough, you torture me with your silence, but you running around my face befriend with that Kanon, as if there was never nothing ever happened between us. You're the one who has problem Aphrodite and you are clearly pissing me off…"
"You don't know what you're saying.."
"I don't?" Shura yelled furiously, but then he stopped and slowly shook his head. His tone was down a level as he spoke again, "I really don't get it Aphrodite. Was I being mean to you? Did I do something wrong that didn't please you? Or was it.. the sex? Was I being too rough on you..?"
Aphrodite sucked on his breath. His cheeks turned red from hearing those last words from his ex lover. No, sex with Shura was amazing. The man had always been gentle, kind, never forced anything on him, and Aphrodite enjoyed every minute of it. But then again he didn't want to think about it anymore. He didn't want to think anything good about this man.
"Stop right there Shura, you're being ridiculous," he hissed.
"Then what is it?"
Aphrodite swallowed and shook his head. He preferred for not telling Shura about the real problem was, he really wished to just let it go. But he was so sick of this. He knew that if not now, Shura would come again tomorrow or any other say and would ask the same question. So he bit his lips, making up his mind and stated in low voices, "You really don't have any clue do you? You just don't get it."
Shura took a step forward, "What? What I should get?"
"The thing that is happening around here," the blue haired replied him, fuming as ever, "What you and your so called friends are doing to me.."
The black eyes widened, "What are you talking about Aphrodite?"
The Pisces saint inhaled an excessive amount of air before he then spat out his words, "You guys are treating me like shit, don't you realize that?" He cheered up at seeing Shura's startled face. O yes he was winning this argument, but he was far from being satisfied, and so he continued, "You know it Shura. You guys always treating me as if I am some kind of nothing, that it's only my beautiful face and body and nothing more. Just because of my looks, all of you thought of me differently, always like that ever since before the war, ever since we were mere children. Then after the war and we got revived, it only turned even worse. All of you thought that I was the traitor because I had agreed to work for Hades, while Saga, Deathmask, Camus and even yourself did the same but no one here think of you four as traitors. Only me, me and me!"
He smirked inwardly at seeing how shocked Shura was. The man seemed he could faint at anytime, and couldn't give anymore retort to the words coming from him. He clenched his fists and went on with his rage.
"Am I too pretty to be here Shura?" He questioned mockingly, "That you all see nothing of me? Am I too cunning that make you all despise me? The only one who could understand me was Deathmask, but he left, partly because he just couldn't stand it when the others were talking about him behind his back. O yes I had my moments when I thought to do the same. It was lucky that the twins don't mind having me around, and because I still have obligation to protect this place and Athena, only because of these things that I am still staying. While you and the others? I would rather assume that you guys are not even here then so I can live my life in peace."
Aphrodite panted. His lips quivered and he just felt the warning sign of his own cosmo threatened to burst out. He raised a trembled hand, wiping the tears from his eyes and choked out his next words, "So with all of those Shura, please don't ever say that you were in love with me. It was me who were in love with you, but regrettably you had crushed it. You had my heart broken, Shura of Capricorn and I don't want to have anything to do with you anymore."
"You…" Shura's voice shook with sadness and shock. The Spanish literally was in deep hellish shock, his face gradually turned paler with every word came out from Aphrodite's lips. He lifted both hands in utter confusion and was mumbling to himself, "No… you.. You got it all wrong… By the Goddess Athena.. Aphrodite where was all these came from? You don't think this way.."
"I don't think Shura, I know it," the Swedish claimed in greeted teeth, "I know it because that's what I feel every time you guys were looking at me. You guys were always talking behind my back, yes that's right. And as for you Shura, what was your intention to be with me anyway, while inside you actually hate me? Did you feel succeed just by dragging me to your bed so then you can be on your way to your friends, blabbering to them of how I'm such a good fuck?"
"THAT'S ENOUGH APHRODITE!"
Now Aphrodite could tell that Shura was really on the peak of his anger angry. He could feel the angry cosmos radiated from the man before him, it was so strong he could even taste it in the tip of his tongue. The Pisces gulped. He wondered if Kanon could hear them, what a shame if he did. Well maybe he over said things, but he was only expressing what he felt, wasn't it what Shura had wanted, to hear his side of the story? He took some steps back. Shura had a face like he wished to launch an attack at him. If he did, Aphrodite was certain, apart from the code of honor held by all the Gold saints, would retaliate. He after all, had also lost his patience completely.
But then the Capricorn shook his head, his anger somehow looked like it was melted away, replaced only with a huge sadness and desperation Aphrodite felt he could cry at seeing it.
"Aphrodite, my love," Shura stated, his voice broke, "It's wrong. Honey I swear to you that what you were accusing there was never ever happened. You are a Gold saint for God sake, you are one of us. Always has been. We respect you fully not just because you're the most beautiful but because of your strength and courage. And none of us ever thought of you as a traitor. How could we? You were there with us at the Wailing Wall, had we not died together there, all the twelve of us?"
Aphrodite stared at him, couldn't think of any word to say. His tears felt warm on his face, and his trembling intensified as Shura continued on.
"As for me.." He stopped short, reaching a hand to Aphrodite, in which the man batted away, but still the Spanish man went on with his words, "I told you back then I love you Aphrodite and I still do, right until this very moment. I love you with everything in me and love you with you as a being, not because of only your body and face. Why can't you believe me? What else should I do to prove that to you?"
Aphrodite snorted, "Said a man who just accusing me of sleeping with the twins?"
"No I'm sorry about that," the Capricorn spoke fast, "I didn't mean it. I was just jealous.."
"Which was one of your problems with me obviously," he wiped the tears again, turning his head away from the saddened face before him. Talking a large gulp of air, the Pisces then stated "I am done talking Shura. If you'd be so kind to please leave me alone. It's best if we head back to our respected temples."
Very, very slowly the Pisces saint turned around, showing his back to Shura, and was about to walk away. The conversation was over because he knew if it continued on, he would possibly crumble and would cry himself out. It wouldn't happen, specifically not in front of Shura. But his movement was halted as he heard the Capricorn saint spoke again, grieve clearly laced in the deep voice.
"Aphrodite I'm going for a mission tomorrow, to the desert. I don't know how long will it take, maybe weeks or months.."
He stopped dead in his tracks.
"I don't know what to hope from you, now that I know what you feel. I just wish that maybe when I get back, we could…"
Aphrodite bit his lips. But he wasn't famous for being cunning for nothing. He turned his head slightly, talking to the man behind him, "Then I wish all the luck for your mission Shura of Capricorn. May no harm would come to you and you will make it back here safely."
And then he walked away, refusing even to take a peek at the other who was still standing there. Alone. He didn't bother to return to the Gemini temple, it would be too embarrassing to face Kanon especially with all these tears on his face. So he ran up the steps, heading back to his own temple, wishing he would meet no one on the way there. But all the way, the only thing on his mind was Shura's face. The sadness and shock on it was almost unbearable, and Aphrodite wondered if he was being too cruel to the man. Guilty took over and his tears fell heavily on his face.
I'm sorry Shura..
Tbc..