Straight as an Arrow
Plot: Love hurts. Yuki Sohma has spent his whole life trying to fit in and belong, but somehow still ends up pushing people away. And this even happens to the people he loves most in the world. They have stayed by him for so long, but when the one that he needs greatest cannot take it anymore, will Yuki change for the better, or lose them forever ?
Perhaps my greatest mistake was my belief that I could be happy in a relationship consisting of only taking. I was such a selfish individual; I only wanted to be given to, but never to reciprocate the kindness. I thought that this would preserve me, it would keep my heart safe and my mind sound, but not until it was too late, did I realize that no matter what I did, no matter how much I wanted to take and delude myself that this selfishness would never haunt me, that you would be able to work your magic on my heart. Finding out that by taking all that you have given me, and returning it with an empty smile which you still treasured, I was killing you inside, I did not realize that by my own actions did I condemn my heart as well. Your shine grew weaker and weaker, and your smile less cheerful and more wane, but still I only took and never gave, until you could take it no more and gave me a last kind smile and walked out the door.
I believed that I was saving myself, but when you walked out that door, I knew I was wrong. I should have saved you. You had been my salvation in my darkest moments, you had given me your hand when I stumbled, you had carried me when I could walk no more, but still I did not save you from the curse that was I.
The house is now empty without you. It stands alone and devoid of life, and no matter how many colors I paint each room, no matter how many plants I set in each corner, no matter how many windows I build, it cannot compare to the life which filled it with just one of your smiles. Too late do I realize my mistake, too late was I to stop you falling into the abyss of despair, so now I sit in our lifeless house, dreaming of those beautiful times we had together, and wondering – will you ever return ?
Because when you do, I will be ready and waiting, and I will reach my hand out to you.
AN: Tell me what you think of it – this can be a one-shot or I can add another few chapters to it. But I need reviews to get me off my lazy behind -