"In Another Life."

Chapter three: Tassel Earings.

Day count until war: 2.

The sun began to shine above the two men on a single tree branch. as the smaller male began to wake up he felt something on his right shoulder. "Hm?" his voice sounded raspy and quite rather then his normal hunny sweet voice due to him just waking up. As he looked at his shoulder he saw an older male with jet black hair resting soundly. "Vox?" He began rubbing his eyes and stretched as he made a high pitched squeal.

The older male didn't move nor did he say anything. The smaller male sighed not wanting to be rude and wake up the other male he stayed where he was.

He observed the sound of the ponds crystal clear water shining as it splashed against the surface of the grassy land around the two of them.

After what felt like an hour but in reality it was 5 minutes he heard as the taller male let out a quite yawn. "Huh?" Vox looked around as he felt his left side of his face laying on a surface. "Ike? I'm so sorry!" He instantly put his face away from the other males shoulder. The other male laughed at the sudden reaction. "It's alright." Seeing Aoi's face smiling made Vox want to smile along with the other male.

"How'd you sleep?" The taller male stretched his back while chatting with the other male. "It was alright, what about you?" the smaller male watched the taller male stretch. "Same as usual." The older scoffed.

As they both jumped off the tree branch one by one landing on the floors Aoi remembered something. "Vox!" The shorter male shout as he walked closer to the taller male. "Yes?" the taller male turned around to see the shorter male get closer and closer to him. "Here." Aoi had gave the taller red tassel earrings. "What's this for?" The taller male began putting on the earring one on each ear starting with his left. "It's for later on, you'll see soon." As the other male was talking he put on round glasses with a chain connected from one end to the other.

The two older men made their way back by following the trail they had took when they came to the pond to the Akuma kingdom recently named after the ruler of the kingdom to honor his name. As the older male was still confused about the earrings that have been dangling on his ears for the past 30 minutes of the two walking.

The taller male mind been running as the war day count was getting lower and lower. He was scared. Not for himself of course but for his one and only Aoi.

As the two men continued running Aoi had noticed little drops of clear water falling from the sky above the two. "Vox, it's going to rain soon." The shorter males voice still being as sweet as honey. "We're going to need shelter before it starts getting bad." The taller male grabbed onto the others wrist as he began running behind where they were originally going.

The two found a cave located just a few minutes away from where they were going. As the two men walked inside of the cave one had started a fire to keep warm. "There." The taller male put his hands in front of the fire to keep his hands warm in this dreadful weather.

The drops of water being heard echoing lightly outside of the cave. "What now??" The shorter male started wanting the aurora to be less awkward between the two. a short quite sentence could be heard from the shorter male who was sitting on the rocky floor. "——- miss this.—" the rest was a blur. "Hm? what did you say?" The taller male placing his gaze on the other. "Oh, nothing." the shorter turned away not facing the taller male.

drip.

drop.

...

It had stopped raining. The sun rose through the clouds and now shining on the surface around them. "It smells nice." The shorter male looked at his surroundings overlayed with little drops of water. "It does." The taller watched the other walk around as he admired everything about the other male, He would miss this.

Day count till war: 1.

The days were getting shorter as war was getting closer. Only a day left until it will begin. Time went faster and faster. It almost felt like a dream to Vox but sadly it wasn't.

His heart made of gold with a time like this will soon become stone. The shorter males heart was an opalite filed with color with a porcelain base.

As the air around the two men was filled the surroundings around them with rays of sunshine.

The two we're currently at the flower fields as they chatted the day away. "The days feel like they are getting shorter. There's only a day left." The shorter male scoffed. "Yea." The older male looked at the others jade green eyes shine with the sun above the two. "You have very pretty eyes." The older male blurted out. "Oh- thank you ." The shorter male looked at the flowers surrounding them with a pink tint on his face. "You like me saying that don't you?" The older male tilted his head. "These flowers look very nice and colorful in this weather, don't you think?" The shorter male avoided the others flirtatious compliment. "Yea." As the shorter male smiled picking up the flowers around them and folding them in a way that it would make a flower crown. The colors were a crimson red which matched the older males kimono. Amaryllis Bulbs, that was the name of the flowers. "Here." The shorter male put the flower crown in front of the other male. The other male grabbed the flower crown and gently placed it on his jet black hair. "I love it, Thank you." This was the first time Vox had received such a heart-touched gift. Even if it wasn't the actual intention the gift still meant a lot to Vox. "Take care of it for me, ok?" The taller male nodded his head in agreement. "And don't forget who gave it to you." The shorter male smiled once more.