No More Reason To Live "Fox Tear Gems"

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He looked at the gem, the gem that his sister gave him... to give to her "brother."

He smiled.

For some odd reason... he felt...

He felt as if he had no reason to fight or to go on living...

He finally found his inner peace....

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"Ssshhhhh. Come, I'm sure, I'm sure he had a very good explanation for all of this. Sssshhhh..."

"B-but, why, why did he leave without saying good-bye to me? I-I should have told him, maybe-maybe he wouldn't have left~!"

She held him close to her chest.

She did her best to comfort him, did her very best of a cousin can do.

He just kept on crying, and she let him. There was no shame of crying when the one you loved has left.

There was no shame of crying to let others know how you feel.

No shame at all.

She stroke the red soft silky hair, stroke his head, stroke his cheeks and warped her arms about him, rocking him side to side.

"Sssshhhhh..."

He clung on to her, warped her long soft black-blue hair around his body, burying his face into the soft fabric of her clothes.

"I loved him, I loved him. And... and he left me!"

She rubbed her head against his...

Arms around his shoulders...

His head against her chest...

The still night filled with crying...

...Finally....

Finally, he fell asleep, still in her arms...

He fell asleep, still clinging onto her, barely. She continued to stroke his hair, feeling his heart beat against her.

That's what had lulled him to sleep, from the sound of her heart beating against his ear...

She peeked over and bit her lip.

Even though he was asleep, he was still crying. She hugged him close to her and buried her face into the flamming silky hair, holding closer where he won't feel the coldness of loneliness.

Warm tears slide down her cheeks, and a bit of blood drawn from her lip, as she held him close to her.

Cry all you want, cry all you need. Like I said before...

There is no shame in crying...