This one's for Mukuro, and contains Hiei/Mukuro hints. The title was stolen impromptu from her character song, Saisei ~Rebirth~. ...Does anyone know where I can find it?
Born to a life of pain
And imprisonment
A life of terror
And of hate
Never would I have even dared dreamed
Of the life that stands before me now
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The rusted chains that bound me then
Still haunt my darkest dreams
The pain of the burning acid
And the stench of my singed acid
Have yet to fade from my memory
Of my murkiest years
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My body burnt and broken
I fled
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Fled the terror
Fled the hate
Fled the dark
Fleeing from all there had been in my life
And into the day I had never known
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From the sands
I grew a kingdom
From my pain
I grew wings of metal with which to fly upon the winds
And from my loathing
I grew powers never thought to exist
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For centuries I ruled as I wished
Killing those who stood in my way
Plundering the land as I wanted
Creating a world of war
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Then,
Even the world I had created
With my two scarred hands
Shattered in an instant
Rebuilding itself in a new shape
In battle
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So,
As the phoenix rises from her ashes
And the dragon from the stormy waters
We were reborn in battle
And into the light of a new world
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A new hope
A new love
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We,
Those who were cast away
Those who should have died long ago
Finally found our reason to be
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Together,
As well as against each other
We abandoned our sorrow
And fought our way into a new era
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An era where
There is light in the darkness
And hope where there was none before
Although the sadness is now gone
And the shackles that bound me
Have fallen along side the dove's feather
Nothing has ever given me so much joy
As when you took my head in your hands
And called my scarred face beautiful
That was... extraordinaraly sappy. Please review, any way, even if it's only to whack me on the head with a 'What the heck was that?' comment.