Character: Mikoto U.

Mikoto's favorite day was always Saturday. Ice-cream day with just her and her boys, no struggle, no worries, no family pride and honor…just her and Itachi and Sasuke. It was those moments, laying on the grass, thick cream melting on her tongue and their smiles (most importantly Itachi's smile) melting her heart, that always meant the most to her. It's the last thing she thinks of when red and black eyes are staring down at her with a smile that keeps getting broader and broader and the feeling of something warm and sticky rising in her throat and (she can barely hear her mother… "life, mikoto, is like ice-cream, sweet and good yet still messy and melting quickly away from you)….she can't, can't, can't--figure out where she failed him.

-I tried to give you spring, but I fall so hard-

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