Bleeding Heart

Disclaimer: If I owned it, would I be wasting my time writing this junk?

A/N: Chappie three and praying for requests!

To Jasmine Reinier: You seriously rock, you know that? You actually got me to write this chapter. Go you…or go me? Anyway, your request got me going again.

To sRoze: You also rock. I always look forward to your reviews, 'cause you actually take the time to say more than "Good fic, loved it!" or "Bad fic, never write again!". Ha ha. But really, thank you for your review. OK, that Ken/Kao was kind of self explanatory, and I'm glad you took it the happy way, as opposed to what THIS one had been thinking…Next, Chou and Tae are kind of minor characters, so you don't see them much anyway, plus that pairing is COMPLETELY alternate, I just happen to like it. Finally, I really liked writing the third one the best…I write my best stuff during algebra when I'm supposed to be taking notes. Nah, joking…or am I? And on your other review, (lol), I DEFINITELY see your point. BUT, being that this is a fanfic and I can screw around with the plot…yeah.

To (blank): You suck more. I bet you suck so much that you puff up like a balloon and explode. You suck more then Yumi sucks Shishio. You suck more then Saito sucks his cigarettes. You suck more than Sano sucks his fishbone. In fact, you suck SO much that it is beyond the suckiness of the ultimate suckeriest sucker on the whole sucking sucker infested sucky world. In short, YOU SUCK MORE.

On a lighter note, ON WITH THE POETRY!

VII: Beauty And The Beast

A wolf and his lady

Quietly lie

Together

Under the sakura tree.

A petal falls

On her porcelain features

Dark lashes

Shading her snowy cheek.

His hand in hers

Their eyes both closed,

An ebony bang flutters

In the gentle breeze.

It kisses her

Forehead, her

Cold forehead,

But gently as a

Landing butterfly.

Summer to autumn;

Autumn to winter;

And then the snow

Drifting

Down

Covering them.

The beauty

And her beast.

They move not to escape

The soft,

Sweet

Blanket.

And when the sky clears

On the snow,

There lies a red rose.

Red

As their blood.

Together in love—

Together in death.

A wolf and his lady.

A beast

And his beauty.

VIII: Respect of "-Dono"

"-Dono"

Respect that I

Show her.

Someday

I may drop it.

"Kaoru"

Sounds sweet

On my tongue.

But respect

Must be shown.

She

Deserves respect.

Her strength.

Her loyalty.

Her innocence.

"-Dono"

Is fitting.

I respect her.

I admire her.

But also

I love her.

Still

She remains

Kaoru-dono.

Always

Kaoru-dono.

IX: One Smile

One smile

From her brilliant

Youthful

Beautiful face

One smile

Sends my soul

Flying

Through the air.

One smile

Makes my heart

Pound

In my young chest

One smile

Tells me that

This

Isn't just a crush.

One smile

And I know

This

Is true love.

"But we're only ten!"

"Tsubame…

I love you."

One smile

Is all it takes

And

I love her.

A/N: Urgh, it took me WEEKS to think of a pairing to do, and between two and five minutes to write the darn thing. Sorry for the delay on this one. Hoping for a greater number of reviews/requests! I don't know what pairing you people want, and if I do MY favorites…(coughcoughALTERNATEScoughcough)…I'll get lynched. Ja, and PAH-WEASE review!