Serenity: SUMMER! SUMMER! Oh, by the way, it's summer. Oh, just to let you all know, I am unbetaed.

Yamasuzu

Yoh stood behind Hao, comforting Akihoshi as Kurohashi and he fought. She was crying and pleading for them to stop, to cease their arguments.

"Please! I beg of you!" She cried out against deaf ears.

Kurohashi and Hao did not hear her. They attacked with blind animosity.

Why, you would ask?

Well, it happened as such. When Kurohashi insisted that he didn't know Akihoshi, and would never even look at such an ugly bitch, Hao went into a sort of peculiar rage. To have insulted a former lover, who had given her life for him and to pretend to have forgotten her was sacrilege in Hao's eyes.

"Spirit of Fire! Burn him!" Hao raised his Spirit's fist and prepared to smite Kurohashi into a bloody oblivion.

Kurohashi stared in horror as a blaze of heat came searing towards him...when all of a sudden he shouted:

"Spirit of Earth! Shield me!"

A maelstrom of rock and dirt came and protected him from the blazing inferno that was Hao's attack.

'What was...that? What is this energy?' Kurohashi thought as energy streamed through his veins.

'Let...me...out...' A voice whispered in his head.

Kurohashi shuddered, and his hands gripped his head, drawing blood. Beautiful, searing, white pain spread throughout his being, and Kurohashi could not take it much longer. Was this a seizure? Was he dying? Bombs, in all their destructive beauty, were being released in his head. Spears were stabbing through his heart.

"Yamasuzu!" Akihoshi screamed, tears streaming from wide, ghostly eyes. It was enough to see him die once. Another time would be unbearable.

"Toku-san, you must calm yourself. He is simply...having a change of character, is all," Hao stated, watching all of this with mild fascination, his temper seemingly cooled.

Minutes later, with much lightning effect, a figured emerged from the earth. Akihoshi gasped, one hand reaching up to cover her mouth as the heavens willed rain to spring from her eyes.

"Aki...hoshi...? Is that...you?" The figure asked, wobbling on unsteady feet.

"Oh, Kami-sama, please...please let this not be a dream!" Akihoshi ran towards the corporal form of her lover, revived after centuries of time. Grasping at him, breaths shuddering as she cried, Akihoshi pressed herself against Yamasuzu.

"Have I kept you long?" He asked, gently stroking her head.

"Yes...how long do you think has passed since the Failure of Elements?"

"Much longer, I would expect."

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