Actually, EarthTerra55.. xD This isn't supposed to be a continuation. We apologize for the confusion, but it's difficult for Us to keep a steady flow of ideas. We're all over the place, you know? So it's a set of drabbles. That one might have been in Vol 21, but not all of them will be.
Pairing: HatoriKana
Disclaimer: Don't own it!
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CHERISHED
I remember she used to look at me and smile. That was before she knew my curse, but even then, after she embraced me for the first time and I flopped gasping into the tub, she still didn't care. I loved her truly, I think. She did as well, and I was happy for a while.
Then Akito hurt my eye in an attempt to keep me from her. Did Akito know how to lift the curse, I wonder, and did she sense that our love was growing enough that the curse would in fact lift? I'm scared to find out, really.
I remember the night when we sat in the dark, my hand on her forehead. She looked at me with those eyes, begging me not to do what I knew I had to, though it was wrong and unnatural. No one deserves that, I think. But finally it was time, and I had to erase her memories, as painful as it was to the two of us. But she'd forget me, and that was safer for her. I didn't want Akito to hurt her as she'd done me.
"Shh... I promise, I won't tamper as much as I could..."
She gave me a pleading look, begging me not to trigger the hypnosis power. Of course, I could not bear to see her looking like that, and I activated my power. She collapsed.
I remember that night clearly, and it is my last memory of being with her. I cherish it.