Title : The Smile that Hides the Tears

Author: landofthekwt

Rating: PG-13

Prompt: Hurt (fb_fics #7)

Word Count:370

Warning: None

Summary: Can bunnies cry?

Every day he went to his father's office building. He went to remember. The memory that he was doomed to carry for the rest of life. The memory that he had a mother and a sister.

Every day his mother and sister would come to his father's office building. She had forgotten. His name she knew, but not who he was. He was just another child to her, not her own son.

It had been his decision to take away her memory. Hatori told him that she would not get better unless she forgot him. The burden had been placed on him to decide.

How could he not want to help his own mother? One look at the crazed look in her eyes. Her last words " The biggest regret of my life was giving birth to that creature."

That look. Those words. They would haunt him all of his life. He knew that he had done the right thing. Hatori had persuaded to do it. Only he knew the true cost of allowing your loved one to forget you. Only he knew the pain of remembering when your loved one had forgotten you.

Why did it hurt so much? Why did he feel the need to come to his father's building every day just for that one glimpse of his mother and his sister? Why did he force himself to remember the very thing that hurt him so much?

He could never touch her. He could not speak to her. He had been taken away from her. Her pain had been relieved. His remained. Her memories were erased. He had to remember for both of them.

She went on with her life without any knowledge that she had every given birth to Momiji. He was not so lucky. He was forced to live with the hurt every moment of every day.

He pretended to be happy. Always smiling. Always cheerful. It was only Torhu who forced to him to admit the hurt that he could not express. The words he could not speak.

Only in his zodiac form could he obtain release. Only in Torhu's arms could he express the hurt that he felt. Only there could he cry.