Will you Notice

Part Seven and a half

Slowly, as if she is turning into smoke, her from disappears. Confused Kurogane reaches out trying to catch her but his hands pass her by her, feeling only cold air. His hand does end up catching something. He looks down at his hand to long snow white hair. The strands feel weightless almost unreal, like mist.

Kurogane holds on to the strands, and looks up. They lead to a very beautiful man. He looks like an angle, wings drawn back, almost hidden from view. His skin is ivory pale and smooth. He is dapped with crisp white, cool gray and blue robes adorned solely by a single blue sapphire over his chest, where his heart would be.

His features are delicate, small pink lips, small button nose and long curving lashes. Still his eyes are large and an intense molten silver as they stare at Kurogane behind long silky bangs. Kurogane has a hard time looking away, as the cat like eyes stare back, demanding he speak.

"what- Who are you? . . . " Then Kurogane adds, as if an after though "Where is the princess?"

"I am the moon. I am it's light." He looks away, to were Tomoyo-hime had been "She, was never here"

Bemused Kurogane tries again "What's going on here? Why are you here?"

"I was called here, the real question is, why are you still . . .?"

He lets his voice trail off, letting the silence finish his question.

Kurogane opens his mouth to argue but Yue spreads his wings. Slowly he pulls away, into the sky, his feet effortlessly leaving the ground. His hair slips from Kurogane's hold. The once silent garden is filled with the soft sound of flapping wings as the Moon, Yue, stares down at the dumbfounded Ninja.

"You have already made your decision, I am not needed here any more"

"Decision?"

"Not I, or all the nights I watch over, could ever give you the strength to witness those tears again . . . " Says the moon.

Kurogane can feel his heart wretch at the thought of seeing Fai's crying face again and that it would be the last time he would see the man . . .

"Neither could any one or anything satisfy your regret."