Even when time passed, even when there were laugh lines around her mouth and wrinkles around her eyes, even when she was too tired to dance the night away like they did when they were young, even when the people around them gossiped, convinced that she was old enough to be his mother or even his grandmother, Hanabusa still reckoned she was the prettiest lady in the room. COMPLETE

He held guilt from war and she held a dark past. The military gave both of them a fresh start and a chance to cross paths, yet one was hesitating and one was stepping back. Little did they know that their past would bound them together again. YxS