Affirmation: True to Life
Disclaimer: I do not own Savage Garden or YuYu Hakusho.
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Shizura (Abeko)
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Shizura sighed as she allowed Ms. Uremashi into her var. The bar was bare except for a few stragglers. The cherry wood all around created a sense of the dark room. The golden light from the bottles behind the bar created a sense of home.
Resting against the counter, Abeko looked to Shizura, blinking against the soft glow of bottles. Her hair splayed around her in disarray.
"What's with that look?" Taking in a breath of carbon dioxide and nicotine from a rolled up cigarette, Shizura looked down at the woman. Her eyes were hard, unhappy and dispassionate.
"You're so young and so old all at once, you know." Ordering a soda, Abeko kept staring at Shizura's eyes. The barkeeper, holding a glass, had a bewildered look on her face.
"What do you mean?" the barkeep's normally calm brown eyes were unsettled towards the older woman who could barely be her mother. Yusuke's counterpart of heritage only sighed, looking into the hard liquor bottles across the stretch of wood.
"All ready to go out in to the big world when you've already seen the horrors………You're almost…….wise, I suppose….." She trailed off, slinking the ice around in her soda glass. The obvious klink from the glass resonated within the pub. "Actually……..you're in love……got rejected too, didn't you?"
"N-No. I'm not." Seeing the defiant glare down at her, Abeko only rose an eyebrow. The barkeep's face was reddened and her brows furrowed into the eyes of someone unredeemed.
"You're in love. There's no doubt about it, Shizura……..The thing is…….you've accepted the fact that he doesn't want you. What you haven't accepted is that he'll won't begin to ever love you……….right?" Yusuke's mother pointed her finger towards the bartender as if to drive home her point. Shizura began puffin on the cigarette in her mouth in her hands like nothing else. Her eyes were closed in a grimace as her heart began hurting again.
She thought she was over the heartache.
"Y'see……..I believe that forgiveness is the key to your unhappiness. You forgive him because he can't love you now but you hope to hell he'll eventually learn to love you." The bartender held her hands to her heart, the pumping and throbbing fell into a noisy orchestra that nearly drover her to her knees, Tears fell, crystal by saltwater crystal.
"Is…..Is that wh-what……" She couldn't finish because of the stabbing pain in her heart. Daggers twisted and turned so that it was much like an unseen assailant in her blood wrangling her heart apart.
"Yeah………..That's what happened….."
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Yeah, Kurama's all man plus one Botan. I only had a small problem with that idea but I still like what I had written as it fits well.