Title: Gone
Rating: T
Warning: Zaku X Kin, Angst, Blood, AU-ish, Memories, Drama
Author's note: Just wanted to make a Zaku X Kin, seeing as they are severely neglected in my stories. I had writer's block for some time-sorry guys. ''
He is wearing black, from head to toe in mourning. Her face (impossibly, unbelievably beautiful) remains still.
Zaku wants to cry. But he doesn't.
"Ne, Zaku, you can't keep crying about lost things, you know that?" Kin scolds him as he sniffles slightly over his lost bandanna. "You just gotta keep moving." She then smiles at him, and goes back to the fireplace to heat up the soup from yesterday.
He kneels down, and begins to scrape at the dirt with his bare hands. After five minutes, blood is already beginning to trickle from underneath his nails.
"Zaku! Hurry up!" she calls, and he races to keep up with her fast pace, a leftover instinct from their thievery days.
He has made a small hole, long enough to place her body within. He continues to make it deeper, his black pants stained with mud.
It is her tenth birthday, and he hands her a necklace made from a long purple ribbon with a bell tied on the end. "It was all I could find," he mutters, a faint blush staining his cheek with pink. He looks at her, and is happy to see that she is grinning.
It is finished, and he straightens up. Mud has covered him all over, and blood has mixed with it. It gives off a sickening, faint smell of copper.
Kin is crying softly, as blood continues to pour out of Zaku. "You promised!" she screams at the man in front of her. "You promised!"
He grins, teeth glinting. "Since when did I promise anything?" Then he swings the blade down, and all Zaku can see is red as she falls.
He places her body within the hole, and begins to cover her body with dirt.
He leaves the necklace with her. He knew she would always want it.
Zaku looks at her broken body,and for the first time in many years, bursts into tears. "No…"
As he stands over the grave, he can't help but think that she looked beautiful, even when she was gone.