Anime Based. Vash x Wolfwood. (The original challenge keywords were: "No regrets")

Smaller Crosses

Another damn one-man funeral.

He remembered hands, and breath, and the way it feels on skin when someone never quite shaves.

He remembered nights finally not spent alone, and other nights spent wishing and missing.

He remembered a gunshot, and a trail of blood, and a body he had shared that was somehow impossibly now covered by sand.

Of all the sickening painful events that would certainly fill his life why did this one have to come true?

He kicked the little wooden cross and tried to hold back the tears that had come too often to have meaning now.

He murmured bitterly, "No goddamn regrets."