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Beautiful (Goku's POV)
Gold.
Golden eyes, thou art ominous signs, and your bearer is doomed to endure suffering.
Is this true? Does this apply to me, whose eyes are both golden? Why? I cannot understand why they hate me for possessing these orbs. Have I a fault? These eyes were just gifts, and am merely the receiver.
Why do they hate me for having them?
There are people who still want to have in spite of these eyes, but why does the Heavens forbid me? Why do they all chase me? Why do they all want me to remove my headband?
Heretic…
No, I am not a heretic! I AM NOT! STOP IT!
You're heretic, Goku, because you have golden eyes. You don't want to be heretic, huh? Then pop your eyeballs out and replace them! Come on, I dare you!
Am I really?
Like Homura…?
Like…like…Nataku?
Do they also hate them?
Why is it that wherever we go, we're followed by prying eyes and whispering voices?
I can't understand it all…
I can't.
Homura, do you experience this kind of pain too?
Nataku, is this why you chose to be frozen in your throne, forever oblivious to the world, because this same world is causing you pain?
Come here, Nataku, I need your smile. I am cold. I am afraid.
Homura, help me!
Sanzo, where's your light?
Hakkai, Gojyo——anyone! Help me, I can't bear it, please!
Stop it, please…
Stop it…
Stop…
Stop…
I see Homura's mirthless smile. I see him before me, shaking his head.
We are nuisance to Heaven, Goku. And, being nuisances, we are forbidden to partake of even the simple joys of life.
I see Nataku before me, horrible red blood staining his hands and his robes.
Goku, you are lucky you have been blesses with innocence. You haven't seen real suffering yet.
They disappear.
Homura, Nataku, matte! Matte!
Gone, all gone. I am alone. Sanzo is not here either.
Beautiful…
Something stirs in me. I look down into the pool of water and observe my reflection.
Golden eyes…
I think in silence, emotions wild in me and memories, even the blurred ones. Then it comes to light.
Homura's chains…
Nataku's smile…
I reach up and touch my own face.
Goku's innocence…
I laugh. Laugh really hard until tears leak out of my eyes.
Homura, Nataku, we're beautiful after all.
We're a lot more beautiful than them all, can't you see?
Because, our difference makes us a cut above the rest. We're beautiful. We're the only ones of our kind. We're powerful.
Isn't that wonderful?
Homura, come here and forget about them.
Nataku, rise from your throne and show them your smile.
We're beautiful! We have things that they don't!
—End—
