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Reflection of the Moon

Epilogue

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Spring break had begun, and the whole Kinomoto household (including Yukito) had decided, once again to spend a weekend at the cottage by that lake. Yukito had been ecstatic at the prospect of revisiting the lake, claiming that it was a milestone or their relationship. Touya just rolled his eyes.

"To-ya! Come on! Let's go to the lake!" Yukito persisted with a cute pout as Touya stepped out of the shower.

"Can we go tomorrow? It's kinda cold outside," Touya grumbled as he pulled the smaller boy near and buried his face in the curve of Yukito's neck. It wasn't that he repulsed the idea of going there, just that why would he choose to go when he could cuddle up with Yukito and do, let's say, more "interesting" things.

"To-YA!" Yukito protested with that "look" in his eyes. Touya inwardly groaned. It was a "look" he inherited form Yue, and whenever that "look " appeared, Yukito would never give up until he got his way. And so, moments later, Touya found himself out of the cottage and trudging through the forest that led to their destination. At least Yukito was now happily chattering away.

"Ah! Here we are!" Yukito exclaimed, pulling Touya into the clearing. The sight stole their breath away.

The sun was setting to their right, and a moon so pale that was almost transparent hung in the sky to their left. It was a fine blend of hot and cold, bright, and cool, and almost anything in the world that were at opposite ends.

The sky was milky, caused by a heavy amount of clouds. The diminishing sunlight penetrated through them, turning the milky sky into faint hues of the rainbow. The water reflected what was above it, forming another piece of endless sky below their feet.

Sparrows were flying so close to the water that they were almost sliding across it. Touya couldn't help but want one of them to rally fall into the water. Well, it was because of them that he did not get to confess to Yukito the last time they were there. If not, all those messy things would not have happened.

But Touya found that he was silently glad that they did, or else he would not have known Yukito and Yue this completely. So what was he to complain?

Reeds danced when a warm breeze blew by, sending ripples across the smooth lake surface. The reflection of the moon was shattered once more. They watched as the last beams of the orange sun sank below the treetops, and as the full moon rose to dominate the sky.

They stared in awed silence that brilliant planet, so large and perfectly round, as it let up the earth with its silvery light. Everything seemed to be covered with a thin layer of powdered silver dust that made even the simplest thing exquisite.

"To-ya, have you reached your moon?" Yukito asked softly, the joy evident in his voice.

"Of course, silly," Touya replied affectionately, watching as Yukito's light silken hair dance with the wind, in the moonlight. "My moon has always been you, and I have never been closer to it than now. My mother has once said that there are two sides to everything, and if I have reached the moon, will I be able to love the other side without the brilliance? Now I would be able to answer her that yes, I love everything about you, Yue or Yukito, and would not have been able to love as much if there was no hidden side, no the whole of you."

Yukito giggled, tipped his toes and brushed a kiss on Touya's cheek. "Good answer. As a reward, I'll take you to the moon tonight."

But before Touya could voice his confusion, Yukito was already encased in blinding light and a cocoon of snow-white wings. The wings opened a few moments later, revealing the ethereal form of Yue that surpassed even the beauty of his namesake. His long silvery strands billowed in the breeze, and the full moon behind him created a perfect halo, shining through the translucent wings of the angle of the moon. His amethyst eyes caught the moonbeams, but they were no longer cold, evasive, sad and fragile.

"To-ya, stop staring at me. It's not as if you've never seen me like this before," Yukito, now with Yue's features, pouted a little, an expression that looked totally foreign on Yue's face, but it was cute nonetheless. Seeing Touya gapping at him, Yukito smiled. Normally, he would have burst out laughing, but Yue's body did make him more self-conscious and controlled. It was good to know that a part of Yue still lived in him. No, it was good to know that they now lived in each other.

Finally overcoming the initial shock of such a breathtaking sight (both Yue's beauty and Yukito's put on Yue's face), Touya walked over and enveloped Yukito in warm hug. "I never thought that the hidden side of the moon could be this beautiful."

"Well, I never planned on showing it to anyone until you cam along," Yukito replied teasingly, then taking advantage of their positions, pushed Touya to the ground and straddled his hips, giving him a passionate kiss.

Satisfactory moments later, Yukito pulled away and stood up, offering a hand to Touya. "Let me take you to the moon."

Touya watched, hypnotized, as Yukito seemed to glow with is own radiance, outshining everything else around them, before taking hold of that hand in a firm grip. "Take me anywhere you want."

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If anyone looked up at the moon that night, perhaps he wound see the silhouettes of two figures, far far away, at the center of the perfectly round moon. They were like fairies in those fairy tales, those that would live happily ever after.

Perhaps it was a fairytale, a tale of a boy who wanted the moon; a take of the cold moon that wanted to love an be loved in return; a tale of people searching for the ultimate thing that was missing in their lives, of finding it, of fighting for it, and finally having it.

If anyone looked into the water that night, he would also see the silhouettes of two figures at the center of the moon. But now, they were all I the reflection, together in the same dimension.

Together, in the reflection of the moon.

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