Fog.
T: Well here is the last drabble in this series and it claims the dubious honour of being the shortest one…I wish it was longer but I really and truly do not get Kakyo after a certain point…meh, I blame X TV and its very confusing conclusion. Silver Salamander, that particular sentence also stumped me, I was attempting to say that in that colour Kotori looked suddenly her true age and that Kamui found that disconcerting because he had a want for her to be a little girl always! Moving on, it's not mine and yep the warnings remain the same.
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Everything had passed as he had foreseen up until the very moment that the Kamui of the Dragons of Heaven ducks when he should have leapt and the Shinken slices across his eyes instead of through his heart.
From that moment Kakyo Kizuki is faced with images that he has never seen before…face with a new future.
Always before the future he has see has come to pass…
No matter how desperately he had fought to make it otherwise, to steer the future to a more preferable course.
Again that pail figure takes her last walk towards a figure beneath the sakura tree…
Again she casts one last, useless, spell.
Why when he could not save her even with the purest of intentions, had Kamui escaped his fate with but the barest of moments?
For what purpose had Kakyo been saved?
The Kamui of the Dragons of Earth had been the only one who could grant his desire…
Or, at least, that had been what the boy had said and though it had been odd, though there were many with power enough to kill him, her had believed him.
'Kamui' always told the truth when it came to the matter of wishes.
Thus Kakyo is fated now to simply exist….
To wonder through the fog of life without guide or purpose.
He lingers in the bright life of his sea dreamscape, thinking on the things that might have been if only fate had moved for him, if only he had had half the luck of Kamui.
His depression becomes as a fog at the very back of his mind…a fog that slowly encroaches onto the sea until it has faded and then it moves slowly onto his body.
He has lost his legs by the time a familiar figure enters the dreamscape, something that the Sakurazukamori observes and then dismisses without comment.
"The Kamui of the Dragons of Earth told me that we share a common heart ache." He remarks.
Unbidden the familiar play of the figures beneath the cherry tree blossoms into life before them, the image clear still despite the fog.
No matter what he has become or the dark shadows within his heart the Sakurazukamori still can not watch the conclusion of this event and as he turns away from the dream Kakyo can almost believe that he sees despair in his one remaining green eye.
"I loved that girl completely and her death is what had brought me to this moment. I had a wish to die, a wish 'Kamui' had promised to fulfil before the final day and yet…
"Destiny has not taken the course you had hoped and thus your Wish has been stolen from you."
"Yes."
The Sakurazukamori regards him for a moment and then he says,
"I too had my Wish taken from me because of the desire of another and so comprehending your pain I offer to grant you your Wish as I shall soon grant my own."
Kakyo regards that face, so like hers and yet so different and smiling remarks,
"Then do what you will."
The blow is swift and as he fades, at last, into the release of death he recalls the last words of a woman who had had no heart.
'It is a wonderful thing to die at the hands of the one you love.'
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T: A few things here before I go…I've assumed that the reason Fuuma and Fuuma alone could kill Kakyo is that he had want to die at Hokuto's hands and at the time Fuuma made the statement Subaru had not even appeared and thus Fuuma was the only one who could look as Hokuto. It is Kakyo's blood upon Subaru's hands when he goes to see Arashi in case anyone was curious. Subaru believes that in using the sprits of the tree to aid his suicide he is, somehow, getting Sei-chan to kill him…is Subaru logic and thus makes only a teeny amount of sense. Finally this quote from Setsuka is most likely wrong as I don't currently have X16 to refer to…sorry if this is the case. R+R to keep me happy!