NOTE: "Yanagi no Omae" timeline? Sanada & Yukimura x Yanagi. A continuation of the previous piece.
Fated
Their feet were rooted to the ground ever since they laid their eyes upon the piece before them.
The ice that endured sunlight and rainfall became clear, crystal quartz. Within the giant crystal boulder, the figures of three skeletons stood side by side. The two skeletons on both sides held the middle skeleton's hands. Their fingers were laced together.
It was easy to conclude from the structure and height, that the skeletons belonged to three males in the past.
He continued staring, staring until an unfamiliar sadness surfaced within him like a tide rising in the ocean. It rose so high that he felt it uncomfortably at his throat, in his nose, and within his eyes, where it condensed itself into a single salty droplet breaking away from an eye corner and descending down the plain of his cheek.
What was it about this piece that was moving him so?
He did not know.
His companions beside him grabbed his hands, disregarding the fact that they were now in a museum; they were in public.
He looked to his right and saw Seiichi's comforting smile.
He looked to his left and saw the line of worry carved deeply between Genichirou's brows.
He shook his head, squeezing their hands. It was nothing.
When they lifted their eyes to the frozen scene before them again, they felt as if they were staring into a mirror.
Yet, they did not know whether it reflected their past or their future.