Title: Regret
Pairing: Hiei x Botan, of course.
Genre: Angst
Words: Drabble.
Warnings: Nothing really...
Summary: It would have been beautiful.


It would have been beautiful.

On the rare days he allows himself a moment of respite from training, he thinks about her, wonders what she's doing, whether she's happy now.

When he's feeling particularly masochistic, he considers what they could have been.

It wouldn't work, he had said, we're too different.

She'd smiled at him, one of those plastic ones he'd seen Kurama give those vapid girls that sometimes followed him home, and nodded her head, his rejection a string of heavy words around her neck.

He'd stood there, unable to look away, as his last chance for salvation disappeared.


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