Declaimer: All the characters used in this story, belong to Masami Kurumada, they are not mine!

The Lost letter

By Core BloodDrinker

Aioria's POV

Four years later…

I don't know what happens to me. I feel like a fool, sitting on top of this oak. In fact, I like the stillness that prevails on top of this tree. But also so happens that I can watch you training from here. I do not know for how long I have had this strange habit. But to see you give peace to my mind; it may be that strong bond that ties me to you.

Sometimes, day catches me thinking about you and I like a fool, I try to set aside those thoughts. Without realizing sometimes, I find myself watching to you … until you turn around and say 'Hello' to me with a sweet smile. Wake up of the trance which I was in and I ask to myself 'What's going on with me?'

I've know you since I was sixteen years old, we are always together and we go out together too. But the others can't understand how can be possible we are just friends… and sometimes, I can't understand it either.

I look like a fool, sitting here. But when you're not around I get the fear that something might happen to you. What happens to me? I don't get it.

I don't know when I started to feel this way, but when I'm with you, I can really be myself.

There was an afternoon in which I really felt like a big idiot. We were sitting under the shade of a tree. We had been training all afternoon. You lied on the floor and closed your eyes. The sun, which was already hidden behind the hills of the sanctuary, illuminated your face and I like a silly, the only thing I could do was look at you. I kept looking at you as the lights and the shades filtering across the branches of the tree, were dancing on your face. I continued looking at you as the spring breeze was rocking your hair. Just then I felt a thousand of emotions boiling inside me, but I did not understand any of them. You opened your eyes and looked at me with that tenderness that has always existed in them. I could not speak, my damn tongue refused to follow the orders of my brain.

I wanted to get up and run, but my legs were paralyzed. You smiled to me and told me that it was already late and you had to go back. You left me alone with those unknown feeling, under the shade of that tree.

However now I'm watching the sunset from higher in this oak…, I wonder again, why I feel like this?

And to complete my idiocy, I've wear the blue shirt you gave me for my 24 birthday the whole week.

Your training ends and you realize that I am up here. Then I descend from the tree, because you're coming here. I lean in the trunk of the tree and I see you coming toward me. I look at you as if was the first time I do that. 'Idiot, you have to react' I tell to myself.

You say hello and remove your mask, to look at me with a raised eyebrow "Please Aioria, use another shirt ... That is very dirty" you scold me.

"Is just because the other shirts aren't ironed" I lie and right away I feel bad for do it

"If you want I could wash the shirt for you. Because if you still like this the others would think that you do not have any clothes…, or even worse, they may think that you are dirty"

"You're right, thank you"

"I'm going to take a bath, see you later. Goodbye" then you put your mask on.

"Come to dinner" I invite you

"I'll do it" You answer to me

"We'll see you later, Marin" I say as you leave.

I look at your hair, like red flames spreading over your shoulders. I turn around to go back to my temple, I have spent the whole evening here and time flies.

I will change my dirty shirt and prepare the dinner. Why I feel so nervous? 'Idiot, idiot ', I scolded myself. 'She is your friend and she is very important for you'. It's common that being lonely as a dog I feel confused … But how long will I feel confused?

Is enough, I am tired of analyzing these strange feelings. I'll let destiny choose for me. Meanwhile I will sit down to wait, to wait until I decipher what I feel.

The End…

I must thank Celeron Red, she helped me to correct the fic