Resigned to Fate - Epiloge - Jowy Blight
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Resigned to Fate
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-Epiloge-
"Whose the slowpoke now?" teased the young war victor, as the party of three made their way south, through the grasslands. "Keep up Nanami!" he egged her on.
"Sorry, I guess I've just got alot on my mind." She explained, trudging her heavy pack to the shaded area where her brother and Jowy waited.
"Don't think too hard... you might hurt yourself." Jowy joked with a wink and a smile. The younger girl let her pack collapse to the ground as she proceeded to give her brothers best friend a wallop in the arm as payback for teasing her the whole way here.
"Why are we going to Harmonia again, Nanami?" the brown-haired boy asked, looking puzzled. His sister smiled, seeing the buildings of Harmonia peeking over the horizon.
"I need to thank someone." Jowy approached her cautiously rubbing his throbbing arm with sympathy.
"Who?" He asked.
"A princess..." She responded. The two younger boys traded quizotical glances, before shrugging it off.
Nightfall came, and with it Nanami's travl mates slept embracing eachother and, no doubt, dreaming together. She pulled her knees to her chest starring into the lonley sky. Which, in turn stared back casting the light of a million tiny rays of hope down onto her.
Not since her return to Phoenix Castle has she been truely, physically aloen. However, a peice of her ached for a seperate peace, ever since 'they' parted ways in Muse with no more than a farewell and a polite bow. The freakishly heard-headed and ill-tempered girl had wanted to say so much more than her heart would allow.
Its been years since she'd seen her or even spoken her name, but since the war ended a floodgate of emotions poured back into her like salt on a wound. Now, more than ever, Nanami needed to tell her princess everything she meant to say in Muse. With these thoughts she sprinted through the grasslands and to the city streets of Harmonia with only one objective in mind.
She didn't know where she was headed or even what she was looking for, but she felt it... It was the feelign that Hero had told her of so long ago, the way he felt about Jowy.
"I don't know how to explain my feelings for him... its just a sense, you know? When he's around, I feel him, and when he's not... I-" he never finished that sentence, because shortly after, tears rushed to his eyes thinking about a world where he would have to live without his best friend.
She knew that this feeling was oen in the same, because she couldn't explain it. She let her heart guide her.
"Who's there?!" The night watch gaurd questioned seeing a figure move through the town.
"Nanami Genkaku, Sir!" I'm looking for Lady Jillia Blight."
"Who?"
"Lady Jillia?" Nanami clung to a thread of hope.
"Never heard of her." Her heart sunk.
"Is something the matter?" a third voice appeared from the darkness.
"Oh! Ambassador Rose, everything is fine. This young Lady is just a bit lost." He explained
"I'll take care of it." the gaurd bowed and excused himself to his duties. The mysterious ambassador steped into the street light revealing her peircing emerald eyes, long raven hair and silken skin as pale as the moon under which they stood.
"J-Jillia?" the tomboys jaw fell clean off her face as the woman revealed herself. She was so much more beautiful than Nanami had remembered. In the shock of it all Nanami temporaritly lost her basic motor skills, rendering her inable to form words.
"Nanami, its been a long time. Tell me you didn't travel all the way to Harmonia at the off chance of seeing me." She smiled takign Nanami into her arms.
"The war is over now." was all the young girl could manage before she tightly wrapped her arms around the other woman and began to sob uncontrollably. She forced words through her tears, "I've thought about you everyday since we said goodbye in Muse. Now, I just want to say thank you and never let go of you again."
"Nanami..." She took the sobbing girls chin into her hand, wiped hre tears away, and placed the most delicate kiss upon her lips, "I've missed you as well." They lingered in this moment for what felt like eons.
"Then you will come with me to Kyaro?" Nanami's eyes pleaded.
"I... can't" The words were like a double-edged sword striking pain into both women, "I have responisbilities here." her own words saddened her.
"Then I'll say." She naively grasped. 'Lady Rose' chuckled.
"As happy as that would make me, you still have so much to do in your life, it wouldn't be right of me to keep you here." Nanami knew that she was right, but it still hurt so much. Now, she understood why her brother wept himself to sleep, crying for Jowy in his dreams all throughout the war.
Nanami nodded, drying her tears, "I know." she continued, "Maybe...somday?" she smirked.
"Yes, someday." Jillia's tears now ran freely. Nanami turned off into the skyline.
"Goodbye!" She yelled, "No... I'll see you soon." she covered her face with her bangs so as not to show her love the salty tears that threatened to come again, she ran through the gates of Harmonia wondering when their paths would again cross, hoping it would be soon.
"I love you, Nanami Genkaku."