𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝑰 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 [𝕘𝕚𝕪𝕦𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕠] (KNY)

𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝟦𝟧: 𝐵𝑒𝑔𝒾𝓃𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐸𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈

Shinobu POV: 

I can feel it burning at the back of my throat, like I swallowed fire. I guess that's a nice way to die. Swallowing fire. Most people can't say they've ever experienced that before. 

I won't be alive to say it, either. 

Some say cyanide is quick. Others say it's slower and more painful. I really hope it's not too long, because I want it to be over as fast as possible. Just... gone. 

I can't let myself live a life that is so horribly ruined. Everywhere I go, I see people who hate me. People who despise me for my many past mistakes. And I don't blame them. I can barely look at myself in the mirror. When I do it, all I can see is a failed girl with a failed life who has failed everyone. 

And there is only one thing left for a failure to do. 

I can feel it. The hot liquid pumping through my veins, spreading all the way down to my toes, one last final breath of air I take before it's all

just

stopped

.

Author POV: 

Kanae pushed open Shinobu's door, balancing a tray of tea in her hands. 

A piercing, horrible scream echoed through the calm evening air. 

2 months later 

Author POV: 

Her funeral was attended by a whole mass of people. Everyone who had been healed, cured or nursed by Shinobu, every member of the Slayers, every friend of hers attended. Even Giyu. And it was worse for him.

He didn't shed a single tear, but he felt as if his heart had been thrown to the floor and stomped over, beaten and cracked in every way possible. 

He knew deep down it was his fault she died. 

2 years later

Author POV:

Things change. Years pass by, and as they do, cuts heal. Wounds are mended. Broken bones grow back. 

Giyu entered self harm about a week after Shinobu's funeral, but after careful supervision, rehab, drugs and therapy, he was able to recover and get his spark back. He never forgave himself for Shinobu's suicide, but he learned to live with it and do everything possible to make up for what he believed he had done. 

Kanae suffered too from PTSD. Finding your sister's body will do that to you. But she, with the help of Kanao and Aoi, was able to get past that stage in her life, and dedicated her time to preserving Shinobu's legacy through taking her place in the Slayers.

Shinobu never came back to life. Unfortunately, that just can't happen. Makomo didn't either. But they were still alive, in Giyu's heart, and they always would be until the end of time.