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"Lady Y/N, the sun is beginning to set, shall we leave now before it gets too dark?" Neito asks as he gazes at the horizon.
"You are right. I suppose we should leave now." The lady says and they begin to pack up their things.
When they had cleaned up, they began their walk back to the shrine. Every minute passed and the sun went lower until the sky had colored at their darkest.
The moon again looked breathtaking as ever, as if Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto was denoting the blonde once more, to tell the lady how the moon looked quaint.
"Lady Y/N, I have just realized that I never knew of your family's name." The blonde asks as they were drawing near to the torii gate.
The lady giggles in realization as well. "L/N. I am L/N Y/N."
The blonde froze in place as he heard of the name. "Come again?" He asks and the lady looks back at the blonde, seeing as he had stopped walking.
"Is there something wrong, Neito?" The lady asked, confused. But the blonde replies in vexation.
"I asked to repeat what you said, noble lady!"
The lady flinches in shock. She had never seen the blonde this irritated nor had she heard him raising his voice at her.
"L/N Y/N, Neito. Is there something wrong?" The lady warily asks once more.
"Noble lady... let us... let us go to sleep." The blonde says instead and reaches to get the basket from the lady.
"Hurry and sleep." The blonde says icily. Hastily, he bows at the torii gate and goes towards the shrine office first, leaving the lady standing outside with a confused expression.
When they had settled in their own rooms and the lady was deep in her slumber, the blonde stared wide awake at the moon.
L/N. The name pained him.
Kami, had she come to this shrine to spite me? Or had you led her here to hurt me more than you have hurt me before?
He could not believe it. Now that he had enjoyed the woman's presence, the lady's voice, warmth, smile, eyes, everything about her he had already come to love.
Why did that one name have to ruin everything?
As if cold water had splashed him all over, he felt his body getting numb.
All the pain from the past had slowly crawled back to the surface. The once overwhelming heart of joy turned to vines that wrapped around his heart with thorns.
He was still young that day but he could remember them as if it were yesterday.
He could remember it, crystal clear.
The L/N family, for the first time, stepped foot in the commoner's village, the blonde's village.
The wealthy family searched for laborers for their traditional Japanese house to grow, and needed women to have more servants in their household.
They took the blonde's parents. The blonde's father had become the wealthy family's laborer, and the mother became a servant directly from the lady's mother.
Everything happened right before the blonde's eyes, and all of that happened with the young noble lady innocently sitting inside the norimono, waiting for it to set off.
And before they had left, the young noble lady peered to see who was crying so loudly, and saw the devastated eyes of the blonde boy.
The lady had awoken but not a single strand of the blonde's hair could be seen anywhere in the shrine.
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