-Lovefool-
by the Black gryphon
Samurai Champloo is property of Geneon/Manglobe.
Love fool is property of The Cardigans
As such I do not own either ; ;
They were silent, on that dusty, worn path. His scuffling pace was the only thing echoing through the forest, and with each step, she could feel her heart cracking just a bit more. Looking up from the ground, she stared straight at his back, the vibrant red cloth stained with sweat, blood, and dirt.
"Dear, I fear we're facing a problem" She said, breaking that silence.
He turned with an 'eh' and stared back at the woman he called his wife.
"You…" She begin, pausing only to steel herself to the following
arguments that would most likely ensue. "you love me no longer," She
bit back her tears. "I know and maybe there is nothing that I can do to
make you do." Mugen frowned at the woman swathed in yellow. Briefly his
mind replaced that sad smile with one brighter and innocent, the yellow
silk with a pink, almost garish, cotton. Yatsuha stared him straight in
the eyes, her normally defiant and blazing eyes oddly subdued as she
continued.
"Mama tells me I shouldn't bother… that I ought to stick to another
man. a man that surely deserves me. But I think you do!" She quickly
added, and Mugen merely grumbled. It wasn't her fault he was so distant
these days. True the sex was wild and passionate, but it was days like
this he felt that his life with the woman warrior to be dull and lack
luster. His arm lazily, without much thought, wrapped around her
shoulder and pulled her close. He inhaled the sandalwood scent, but in
the back of his mind, he wished that it was the scent of roses and
green tea instead.
Jin's
calm appearance betrayed the chaotic thoughts that swirled through
his mind. Sitting up, he stared at the pale back once parallel to his
own. Her deep breaths pierced the darkness, reminding him that this
was reality. Her cool skin took up a soft glow from the moonlight
streaming in through the window, but his heart lurched at the
thought. This was not the same, the lust was lukewarm, the love as
scattered as the petals of a dying sunflower. This, was a love of
convenience, one which was born from the need to forget the past, to
remember that it was real, and he must atone for his sins. Standing
up, he slipped on the sleeping yukata that had been tossed aside
earlier by the frantic need to divest themselves of all clothing.
Stepping outside the small hilltop house, he stared at the stars as
he struggled to sort out his thoughts. The moon shone brightly,
outshining the stars around it, and again, he found himself asking
the moon, though it was certainly not something he would do. He,
personally, blamed a certain girl in pink.
"Lately
I have desperately pondered, spent my nights awake and I wonder…"
He paused a moment, not realizing that the woman on the futon behind
him began to stir."What
I could do have done in another way to make you stay…" He
whispered to the moon, eyes straying to the star shining close to it,
as if it was trying to shine just as brightly to catch his attention.
Jin shook his head and set his face back into it's normal cold
mask.
'Reason will not lead to solution, I will end up lost in confusion' He scolded himself, willing away the foolish thoughts. Turning he headed into the small sanctuary for his pained thoughts and settled back onto the futon, staring at Shino's pale face. But when he closed his eyes, he saw a smiling face dancing ahead of him, and for a moment, a desperate moment, could feel small, soft, and yet deadly cold hands touching his face. His phantom lover. Allowing the phantom to slip between his walls, he smiled back at her. She remained uncharacteristically silent, but the dead do not speak to the living. But this did not stop him from telling her words he could not tell her a lifetime ago.
"I don't care if you really… care as long as you don't go…"Fuu merely smiled back and faded away once again.
AN: not my best work, honestly nowhere NEAR my best, but I had been listening to this song in my car and the two lyrics, other then the chorus (which I did not include), felt to me to be appropriate. It was also a challenge I suppose… /
Man this was the first fic in a while that would not refuse to go away.