Fortune 23-Don't Miss Me Because I'm Never Going Back
The two girls looked over the remnants of the once beautiful Fanelia. "What are they going to do, now?" Hitomi asked, delaying the question that was trying to escape from her mind, though it felt like it was fluttering somewhere in her windpipe.
"Rebuild, what else can we do?" The 'we' stung harder than Hitomi thought it ever could. She had watched her cousin grow up from that lonely little child out on the streets; she had taken care of the younger girl for so many years. Hitomi was afraid to let her go, she was afraid of the changes that had taken place in her strange cousin over the lapse in time that she wasn't present. She wasn't there to see Star mature and grow, and she didn't know if she would ever be.
As if she could sense her cousin's thoughts, which certainly was the case, Star said, "Don't worry. I already told you, I found a way to link Gaea and Earth permanently, that way we won't really be all that far apart. And you can come visit Van, Blai and me here." She smiled in a way that Hitomi thought she would never see; it was beautiful, lighting up the young woman's entire face.
"You're too young to decide…"
"Which world I'm going to live in?" Star finished, "No, I'm not too young. I've realized that I wasn't becoming the person I should have; I'm changing my name and starting over. Here, in Gaea."
"But…"
Star held out a hand and looked up at the Mystic Moon, shining bright blue against the black night sky. The night seemed so much more beautiful here than it had on Earth for reasons unknown to the teenager. "I don't belong there. Look at the life I lead; I was cold, sarcastic, cruel. I had no friends…" the face of that boy from the tarot shop flashed inside her mind but she suppressed the image. "I didn't have anyone left, really. Here, I have something to live for again," the girl smiled absently.
Hitomi smiled for the first time since her cousin had awoken a few days ago claiming that she would never return home. "Blai?" she didn't need to ask. It was obvious, really.
The teenager looked shyly away before continuing on, "We've all been doing a lot of research these past few days. I have the power to link both our worlds; I can put the links in places that no one will ever find them, only we'll know where they are. That way, if anything ever happens, we can easily travel between the worlds."
"Earth is your home."
"There's nothing left for me there, it isn't a home anymore. Listen, Kanzaki, I belong here. I was here years ago. This is where it all happened," she spread her arms wide as if trying to embrace the world around her, "this is where I should be. You should be back there; you have a life waiting for you. No one will miss me back there."
Hitomi looked at her cousin who was determinedly keeping her blue gaze away, "I would miss you."
The next day, Star stood in front of the portal with Blai standing at her side and Van and the others standing beside him. After hours of long, difficult work, she had managed to make a link between both the Mystic Moon and Gaea. It was strange, she hadn't been here too long, and already she was starting to call her old world by this strange new name. Star smiled inwardly before her thoughts were snapped back by her cousin's sad embrace. "I'm going to miss you, Star."
"It isn't Star anymore, Kanzaki. I'm Sani, now." Sani…
Sayako, the devil; Star, the vessel; Sani, the angel…Sayako, the past; Sani, the future…
I am your future, I was inside of you always, I just had to make you see it.
Author's Notes: And The Power of Two is finally complete. I know it was a bad ending to the story, but that's okay. It's over… I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it and I hope you read some of my other works as well.
And a last note from Saya: Good-bye, see you all later. Saya, signing off (I've always wanted to say that).