I have Loved…

I have Loved…

Love is a very tricky thing. It is true, and yet, it is deceit. One feels as if he can love so many, when so many he can love are only illusions.

Oh, but the pain was real.

The pain of rejection, the pain of loss, the pain of fear. The pain of deceit.

He knew his heart belonged to her, the girl of magic and not of mystery. The girl whom, with her bright smile and sparkling eyes, stole his heart and ran away.

And, even then, he still loved. And, even then, he still knew the overwhelming feeling that had surrounded the wound and made the blood a beautiful thing.

It was not only her. That image, that picture, with smiling faces frozen in time.

For years, he questioned the true meaning of love.

He had doubted his very ability TO love.

And yet, there he was, smiling back at himself, surrounded by friends…brothers…no, more then that.

They were Seishi.

Seishi and their miko. It was a bond stronger then anything, stronger then a mother with her child, stronger then a brother with a sister, or a friend with a friend. Stronger then the bond lover's shared, or a father to his family.

They were bonded by earth and by heaven.

Who would dare break this bond?

It was a bond of love.

He had loved, and he was happy.

And, because the bond was a bond of love, this bond would last forever. Through sorrow and through tears, through joy and through pain, through life and through death.

And then, he knew, that he would be able to love again.

Who am I talking about la-la, la-la? Who am I speaking of lalalala? Ta-da tadai! Ta-da…what the heck am I singing? Ah, to hell with it all. Noda, this is 'bout our favorite, most vain emporer of all, HOTOHORI SAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!! *glomps the emporer * mine. Ok, I'll share him…goooesh, I just realized how sick that sounded. Anyway, please R+R. I'm on a spree of short fics! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!