Title: What Is And What Was
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Author's Notes: Just a drabble.
Botan is half of a person.
She is half dead and yet half alive. She can never truly be laid to rest, and she can never grow old from age. She died from the Human World at the age of seventeen, and now she will forever stay in that faded image as a reminder of what she once was. She's there in the Spirit World, neither a soul nor a demon, she just is. When the word cracks, steeping deep in to the ground shattering what is once was until it is gone, she will watch and do nothing.
(Because that is was she is.)
Yusuke is the pure essence of life.
He is what he is; he will die every era and come back reborn. He once was a combination of human tainted with a drop of demon, given a chance to stay and live forever as king or else age and die worthlessly as a nobody every time. But he has seen too much, a veteran of how cruel all worlds can be. He lets his body disintegrate and mind slip until he can't tell that time has slipped by. When he opens his eyes, he will see his body below once more. Behind him, she will stand youthful looking as she was many lifetimes ago, smiling, ready to give him peace.
She will stretch out her hand, ready to purge him into death once again.
(And he can't help but feel that he has died before.)