I also don't own Ren or Yoh.

Rose 2: Unrequited

He walks down the empty streets, hollow inside. Even if the town were alive and buzzing, he wouldn't know, lost to his own miseries. He is alone in his home, his life, and his love. He has nothing and no one.

Everyone close has gone, everything dear, destroyed. He had hung on for so long, clinging to the possibility that the one person he needed had survived the disaster. But mere days ago he found him.

Ren's body has been left lying where he died, his neck broken and head turned completely backwards. His spine is snapped in four different places, and his legs nearly ripped away. One arm is gone, lying several feet from the rest of him, and the hand on his other is shattered.

He has seen hundreds of bodies lying about the city after the massacre, many worse off than Ren, but many in much better shape as well. But nothing has prepared him for finding him that way.

Ren has been beaten to death. The crown of the skull smashed, and the jaw dislocated. Not a single bullet has touched him. Those shot are among the easiest to look at. They are mostly babies and elderly people, which makes it harder to look, but they were all killed swiftly and nearly painlessly. Young men and women were beaten, but some were shot, Yoh can only presume, while trying to protect their loved ones. But others were shot just to shoot them.

Yoh sees several lines of men against buildings, shot to pieces, for mere sport. Most women he sees, and every child between four and twelve, were raped. Most were then beaten, the bruises show, and some shot.

Yoh can barely stand to see the city in this state, but now stares through blank eyes, seeing nothing of these ruins. Days pass and he grows thinner as he digs. He goes back to Ren's mangled body and carries it back to the hole. He gently drops him in, a dark rose, the shade of night, following, and says a few words, cursing himself for the love he never spoke of to him. For forcing it to remain unrequited. For refusing to try.

He lifts a gun discarded on the ground, and puts it against his own head. He pulls the trigger once. Twice. Three times, but hears nothing other than a quiet click. He squeezes twice more, rapidly, wondering where the damn bullet is- BANG!

The fifth try brings it through, shattering his skull and sending his brains onto the ground behind him.

Yoh's lifeless body falls into the grave with Ren, and the two remain there until their bodies become the earth.

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