A/n: Day two and already updating this minutes before midnight awwww yeah. Have a snippet of something that was going to be a longer fic, but is now just Gau introspection.
2. They Say There Are Three Doors You Can Go Through
Anyone who knew Gau Meguro before this could tell you that he'd never be content living in the mountains with no clear-cut future, no beginning or no end but the binding goal of watching over the two worlds from the mountain peak. Gau liked beginnings, middles, and ends, and he liked them to go in order. He liked to know what happened next, always.
And a year ago, Gau would have agreed with them.
But change happens whether you notice it or not. It can be as easy as a leaf falling to the ground or a sword cleaving through your chest, but it happens.
Or rather, a not-quite-man happened, aura tinged with pink and blood and, perhaps, sadness, and he was enchanting despite the gloom he tried to cover up that surrounded him in a light fog, and Gau followed him because he was younger still and didn't have anywhere else to go, and in that moment, that was enough to change his life for.
He didn't know what was going to happen next, save that maybe he would get out of the cold or maybe this man would kill him as soon as they got further away, but he still took the chance, and he spent every moment after that making it the right choice.
