Drabble contest submission I actually did a while ago, but I forgot to post.
Theme: Reincarnation
Enjoy!
-Ash
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Myouga never stood a chance.
Always a little weak, always a little cowardly, when death had come, he'd met it running…away. But somehow, somehow the universe had smiled upon his good deeds and after a time he was reincarnated.
A second chance! A spine! The joy!
However, after the shiny wore off of the new human body and old age had set in, he found that not only did the memories of his past life—its pains, its fears, its all-encompassing cowardice, its thirst for blood—remain, but so, too, existed his nemesis…and his joy!
He waited, excited and fearful, for the day when they would meet again.
Would he remember? Would he be recognized? …Could he pull it off?
At last, the wondrous day arrived and his rheumatic legs danced a little jig that had his daughter scrambling for his pills. He didn't care. Retribution was at hand!
He sat, agitated, all through dinner, and finally caught a glimpse of silver-gilt hair and near laughed aloud. He was here! Pulling the slips of paper from a concealed pocket, he readied himself as the shoji door slid open, revealing his granddaughter and her newfound hanyou protector.
"AH-HAH!"
With all the vigor of his eighty-two years, he jumped up from his seat at the table and slapped the ofuda—hard—against the startled hanyou's forehead before skittering away, giggling madly.
Take THAT, dog-boy.
Come to think of it, Grandpa never really stood a chance, either.