Title: Love
Day #19: Yoko sees Yusho in Yuuya and she doesn't know what to think.
When people asked Yoko about how she met Sakaki Yusho, she smiles with a finger over her lips. It is a moment that she'd rather to keep to herself.
That they saved each other when neither thought it was needed.
Yoko and Yusho took each other's hands and found a home. He sees through her heavy makeup and combat boots and finds her bravery and gentle kindness. And Yoko looks at Yusho's smile and sees hidden darkness, a story written out in the crinkles of his eyes.
She doesn't ask. Everyone has their secrets, Yoko thinks, and that she would love him no matter what.
Not until the day Yusho left that Yoko rips through albums and albums of pictures. Yuuya had cried himself to sleep that night as she looks and looks for a reason. A reason why he left.
She doesn't have any pictures of him before they met and Yoko wonders if she ever really knew the man she married at all.
Yuuya grows up with a smile on his face, but Yoko sees through his mask. There is darkness locked in his eyes, just like Yusho's, and Yoko does not know whether to smile or cry.