Maple Leaves { Kazuha X Reader }

II

"Here for you." Remind your family that you are available to support them despite the current situation. "It's okay to feel scared." You are free to feel afraid or depressed about being here."I Love you and I'll miss you." ... "Life is better for having you to love."

Immediately following the war, those were my last words to the person I held in the highest regard.

Years have gone by, but I still feel bad about that evening spent beneath the Inazuma stars.

I hope to see her again in the future, perhaps even in a different life.

Kazuha Pov

"Father, what is the purpose of these? You're aware of my lack of charm," Kazuha uttered in a repulsed voice.

"Even though you aren't the very pleasant you still need to do this to the honour of the clan."

"However, Father-"

"Son, don't make any excuses. We have to hurry up so the maids" "fix him up.." He snaps his fingers.

All the maids answered, "Yes, master." As they were bowing

"Father constantly wants me to look good for him." Kazuha thought to himself,

"I wonder what my mother thought of him after she was killed."

After the maids had finished preparing Kazuha, he decided to go for a walk to decompress. He usually escapes his problems by taking walks around his home. To read some beautiful poems she had written before she died.

His mother was once a poet, and everyone in Teyvat read the moving poems she wrote. According to some, her work is magical and only occurs to those who communicate their emotions to one another. Kazuha even got some from her. The father of Kazuha didn't. He hates the poems and believes them to be terrible. Though sadly, things didn't work out after Kazuha's mother gave him the words, she did so with the hope that one day they would all be happy in their family again.

"She embodies everything lovely about darkness and light as she strolls through clear, starry skies and cloudless climes. Melted to that tender light that met in her aspect and her

eyes. Which, from gaudy day to heaven, denies," Kazuha remarks from the balcony.

"What's the meaning of this? Why did she present this to me on my fifth birthday?"

Flashback

Kazuha heard a loud bang when he woke up. Curiosity made Kazuha get down on his bed and move to cause the enigmatic sound in the palace. "That's strange, the guards should be keeping it safe at night," Kazuha thought.

Upon glancing around, Kazuha noticed that nobody was around, not even the guards who were meant to be on patrol.

"Some People are going to lose their jobs."

At the moment he chose to return to bed. Something came from his parents' room, a faint yell.

"Please, Kageharu, please, don't let Kazuha get involved."

"Miizumi, why is it that he started it?"

"The fact remains that he is a failure and adds nothing to the family; he is merely a weak little bitch who is only here to pursue the throne heir and he blew it all due to your antics."

"We might be happy again if we treated him like your son, in which case perhaps this conversation would go differently."

"Miizumi, stop being so damn annoying! Get over it!"