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dark
(it makes no difference who we are)
Night might have been their favorite time of the day.
With the day's work behind them, nothing else to look at but the sky, nothing more to do than fall asleep, the dark protected them in ways that the sun never could.
And the best part of the night?
"The peace and quiet, of course," answered Nagato, leaning back against the wall of the temporary shelter that they had conquered for the past few days.
"No…" Yahiko retorted, his head resting on his hands. "It's gotta be the moon."
But Konan shook her head. "The stars are the best part of the night."
Yahiko scrunched up his nose and crawled over to where Konan sat, hugging her knees. He gazed in the same direction she did, letting the moonlight fall on his face as well. He squinted his eyes.
"You can barely see the stars," he said, dismissive of her opinion.
She shrugged. "It doesn't matter. I know they're there."
"Pah, what's the point then, Konan? They're nothing to look at."
"I wish, you idiot," she replied.
"You believe in that childish stuff still?"
Konan wouldn't say that she thought the heavens would grant her wishes—but she did admit that she cast her heart upon the flecks of light. It gave her hope, one of the few things that she knew she had left in the world aside from her two good friends.
"Don't act like you don't look for shooting stars yourself," Nagato reminded Yahiko.
Yahiko was dismayed, turning to his red-headed friend. "I already got over them. I had a ton of things to wish for…and I'm still waiting. It doesn't happen—only the people that are lucky get what they want."
Before the air turned stale with his rather depressing remark, Konan replied, "But everyone can make a wish still, whether they're going to get it or not."
She turned her head back up to the empty sky. "That's why I love the stars—they don't ask for much, and you can tell them all your hopes and you won't be judged. You can be tall or short, be rich or poor, be girl or boy—it makes no difference who we are, we're allowed to dream."
Nagato agreed with a light 'mhm' of his lips.
Yahiko rolled his eyes. "You guys are such babies."
But the two of them weren't surprised at all when they heard that same mouth later whispering to the heavens when he had deemed them asleep.
These three are so cute-it's too bad that they've all passed :(