In honor of the first snowfall in my home-town. Also, these guys shouldn't have died! T.T (tears)
Winter Solstice
Zabuza x Haku
Zabuza adored winter, maybe a bit too much. It was really the only thing he'd ever loved.
Winter was cold. Really cold. It was a bitter deathly sensation of freezing that turned your entire body numb… and the numb felt warm.
Winter was dark. In the morning the sun took its time rising in the sky, seemingly frozen to the earth; and at night, the evenings came much too soon… and the snow that fell was white—lighting the darkness.
Winter was cruel. It left trees barren, and food scarce, it left the dirt hard and the soil dead. The snow was sometimes blinding, and the sun never seemed to warm the earth…but, holidays were present, and the winter cold somehow hade every heart warm.
Zabuza loved winter, for in the cold, dark, cruel night—with wind whipping harshly against his face—Zabuza found something warm, and light, and heart-warming, and had made it his.
Wo-ai-ni (I love you) Haku.