Picture of You

Fate Have Their Plan

I know, should realize

Time is precious, it is worthwhile

Despite how I feel inside,

Have to trust it will be alright.

Have to stand up to be stronger.

“Our past self’s?” 

Jin is awe stricken and he felt that nod against his chest.

“How long?”

“Since I conjured the memory deep within me, a strong vivid dream that didn’t want to let me go…”

“So, when you woke whispering those words, you knew?” Jin whispers.

Kazuya nods as he cups Jin’s cheek in his palms.

“I want proofs, I really wanna know – I know, but I want a picture…”

Jin pressed a kiss against that forehead.

“You need to sleep first…”

Past life, Jin wonders if something like that was even true, but everything lead to an answer if you just tore down the hidden parts, and he didn’t doubt Kazuya and that part scared him, maybe it was his old soul that made him to believe.

Squeezing that body closer as he leans his head against a skull with brown mop of hair, he sighs.

“You’re so complicated right now, but I don’t love you less…”  

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“Digging after hidden clues, you know this will take a while?” Jin says softly and looks into those eyes – eyes he can plunge into and something wraps around his heart gently and he can’t breathe – a mirror.

They say that the eyes are the gate way to a person’s soul – those brown eyes, so old but yet so young, Kazuya always seemed so old and early stage to adultness and yet carefree – and Jin wonders if Kazuya’s eyes was a mirror of past life hidden in lies, a secret that yet didn’t seem to be reveal, walking path of endless crossroads to reveal the open gates of fate.  

“Old records, yes I know…” Kazuya smiles, as his feet’s rest on the desk, leaned back against a chair and papers shatters around him, in an old cult vault as Jin lowers another box of old papers sorted in alphabetic order.

Thanks to some helpful people – police, lawyers, people that searched your roots had led them on this path and clues where to start, every life had a beginning and an end.    

But it all felt like a dead end answers they sought seemed to be impossible to find – Jin heaves a sigh as he sees Kame rub his eyes.

“Wanna order in something?”

“Something to drink, and ramen, I have a craving for ramen.”

“As you wish my dear, lady…” Jin pressed his lips against that forehead before he walked out to find a guard to talk to him, if it’s was okay to order down something, or if they had to escape out the rain to find shelter in a restaurant.

‘Lady, who do you call a lady, pift.’ He might’ve been a lady in his past life, but he was in fact hundred percent male, he was sure of it.

Kazuya rubs his eyes and sighs, as he stands up stretching his limbs back as he takes down another box, finding old ancient papers inside his fingers glides softly across the smooth material and he gently lowers the box down on the table his fingers smoother over the papers gently and his fingers brushed against something yellowish and brown and his fingers reach after it, like an instinct – an act, the photo was old, but not blurry and he gasps after a breath he didn’t know he needed to take as Kazuya looks into those eyes, his breath caught in his throat, he was suffocating and the hand of doom wraps around his heart – and his blood froze in his veins.

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You promised those fallen sakura petals – now blood stained – those shattered stars you were supposed to chase away, a fallen soldier which the light had gone out, you promised to show me the world – fate we called it – a path made long ago, a thin red thread was bound around the hearts of fate.

“I despise you!” Echoed into the night.

“I love you…”

Kazuyas’ whole body shock in shivering trembles as she lowers head down upon a chest, a chest that was no longer breathing, but the little warmth gave her a sign of security – she would never bow down to her father again, never play the perfect daughter.

‘Jin~ I love you’

The red line was connected the path of fate shattered.

“Kazuya, he’s dead…”

‘I’ll protect your soul, secured in my palm.’ 

Oh, this night is too long.

I have no strength to go on.

No more pain, I'm floating away.

Through the mist I see the face

Of an angel, who calls my name.

I remember you're the reason I have to stay.

“Whoa, easy there…”

Those gentle arms close around him in a secured shelter, it was like plunging up for a deep breath – fate had played its wicked game once again and Kazuya looks up meeting those eyes with his, seeing Jin’s eyes watching the photo held in his fingers. He pressed a soft gentle kiss against the chin.

Kazuya remembers when he first met Jin, it was in a changing room, it was a beautiful day the sun kissed his skin and faith had stepped in when their hands had shaken, a bond already made, that thin red thread wound itself around their hearts, and an unbreakable vow tasted reality once again.

“No wonder that you can be so feminine…”

“Oi~” Kazuya growled.

Jin leans down pressing his lips against those sweet manly lips – they got an answer.

1869th century

Arms wraps around his neck as fingers plays with the hem of his hair.

“If you want, we could maybe find a picture of you, but that’s unlikely, consider you were who you were…”

“And who, was I?”

Some part of Jin, knew, he just hadn’t unlocked it, his secret but starring at a picture resemble your now living very much male lover, a part of him knew which kind of person this Kazuya was, and what role he had been playing, he didn’t care a part of him knew, he felt it, it was there hidden deep inside him, this was proof enough.

“I love you.”

“I love you too.”

Lips met, the red thread would never be broken – fate made sure of that, rewritten and rebound – the old souls had found each other again – their roads crossed never to part again. 

“Jin?”

“Hmm?”

“You said something about food, ne?”

Jin chuckles, a mystery solved and it was a bit creepy, but fate was fate, it played its mysterious ways of paths you walk on always tearing down the walls that seemed to stand in the way.

They had managed to break down the wall, once again – and Jin looks at Kazuya, he held an old soul inside, just like him and he could see the past flicker in those eyes.

We promised after all.  

I've been living for so long,

Many seasons passed me by.

I've seen kingdoms through ages

rise and fall, I've seen it all.