Kanokido Week: day 4 - angst

Fire. Fire. Fire.

That was all she could see. The blazing heat and embers roaring up and scorching everything into blackened pieces of chard rubble.

Save. Save. Save.

That's what she wanted to do. She'd already lost one who was close to her heart in the flames, she couldn't let it happen again. She refused to let it happen again.

Run. Run. Run.

That's what she tried to do. Against the raging inferno, she would find him. Amongst the crashing debris, he had to still be here. He had to still be alive.

Scream. Scream. Scream.

That's all she could do. Seeing him there, crushed between a pile of collapsed timbers, slowly burning and flaking away. That was it. It was over. He was gone. He was dead.

Seeing it before her eyes. There was no point in anything now, running so far into the fiery maelstrom, only to be greeted with this. Without him, what would there be any point in living for?

Kido let out a ear-splitting scream, a wail for help, for someone, for him.

And then, suddenly, he responded. From the shearing, blinding red of the fire, his voice suddenly struck out.

"Tsubomi!? TSUBOMI?! WAKE UP!" Kano shouted, panicked. Kido had been tossing and turning in her sleep, body drenched in sweat, expression that of horror and terror.

The greenette eyes struck open as she was reexposed to the face of her loved one. "Shuuya!?" Her arms instinctively slung themselves around Kano and pulled him close with all her strength "`Shuuya! Oh my god, Kano!" She found herself unable to say anything other than his name.
Those two words.

Kano.
Shuuya.

For her they meant something worth more than the entire world to her.

Kano gently stroked her as she hugged him tightly, speaking in a hushed tone. "It's alright Tsubomi, it was just a nightmare. I'm here, I won't be leaving you, I never will."

Seto slowly popped his head round the entrance of Kido's room, seeing if Kano had control over the situation. Kano waved him away quietly, hushing him with a single finger placed on his lips.

"Shuuya I… I can't lose you…" Kido sniffled, tears running down her face, staining kano's pyjama shirt.

"I know, I know, I'm here now, it's okay now." He continued to run his hand through her hair, calming her as best he could. "Was it... the same one again?"

Kido nodded her head in reply, burying herself in his chest further, tearing gushing down her face.

Kano brought his hand to Kido's chin and lifted her face up to look at him. "I'm here Tsubomi, don't worry, the fire's no longer there. I'm here, with you, for as long as you want me."

Kido clenched her finger against Kano's back, holding on to him even tighter. "Shuuya, I want… I want you forever, don't leave me… please, just stay with me." Choking her words, she hide her face in Kano's chest once more.

"I will Tsubomi, I'll stay." Kano reassured her, quietly allowing her to let all her tears out, allowing her to drown her sorrow in assurance that the Kano she was holding onto right now was indeed real, so she wo no longer have to worry.

Kano smiled a little, while they here horrible nightmares, they told him that Kido truly cared for him, so much that she fretted over his well-being in her sleep. Of course Kano would rather she didn't have to feel such pain at all, but he would try to see the better side to the tragedies.

All the more so, as he too, had dreamt a all to similar dream. Kano winced at the memory, not now. Kido needs him. He can't fall for his own troubles now.

Stab. Stab. Stab.

Blood trickling from a knife, and spurting from an open chest, dying a girl's skin scarlet, with a Snake's shrill laughter filling the air...