Together Forever

-listen to Soundless Voice while reading this, it helps in breaking your kokoro. Masato's POV is also loosely based off the song-

Ren's POV:

I have already accepted my inevitable fate. The rule of the universe is that, demons and humans cannot be together, no matter what. One of us has to die.

I smile at the face I had come to know and love, which was now scrunched up with ceaseless tears tricking down those cheeks. 

Do it. I urge him on, knowing that if we held back any longer, we would eventually end up like all those others, where he had failed to kill me. Something about my voice must have touched a nerve, because as soon as the words are out of my mouth, I felt a sharp, stabbing pain in my gut. Looking down, I notice that the sword has pierced through my chest and out through my back.

Soon, I will die.

But I'd rather die in the arms of my most beloved, than to have him die instead.

Unflinching, I cradle his head in my hands, tangling my fingers in the soft blue locks and plant a tender yet firm kiss on his forehead.

Hush, I murmur, mindless of the pulsating agony from my wound and encroaching darkness creeping into my vision. I shift slightly to kiss his tears away. Don't you cry, Masato... because as long as you keep me in your heart, not even death can keep us apart. Remember that.

I will love you until death, and if there is life after that, I will love you then.

My words only serve to make him cry more, and despite myself, I smile yet again. He'd always been a crybaby, but few people knew that. He was so, so cute, and so, so vulnerable. I hope that he won't do anything stupid after I... after I'm gone.

Ah, it's almost time for me to step back, to leave this world. After all, the world is a stage and us, merely it's actors. I would be back for the encore I knew would come.

So until then...

This is goodbye, Masato... I whisper, tilting his head up for a final passionate kiss.

The last thing I see is his face, and the last thing I feel is his lips on mine. 

It's been a good life... Unknowingly, a single tear wells up in my eye, and then I am gone for good. Until my encore comes.

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Masato's POV:

Everything is engulfed by snow, as everything melts into silence and grief. I hold up my palms; the snow melts as soon as I touch it, a transient piece of life.

The snow falls, silent and soft and slow, covering up the crimson taints that you left behind. Suddenly, I recall all the winters we spent together, with unbloodied snow. You would always smile as you gathered it. I love you, You would tell me, that smile never leaving your lips.

Even if I were to reply now, you would no longer be able to hear me. But I do it all the same, whispering the words you always used to tell me as I held your cold, lifeless body in my arms.

Say you’re in pain, say you’re lonely, just please, say something. I’ll find you wherever you are… don’t leave me behind... weren't we always together as one?

As snow falls down, you gradually fade away. I can’t do anything but embrace you. I wish, just one more time, to hear your voice. One more time, just one more time…

Say my name…

From your unfocused, blank eyes, a single crystalline drop appeared. In this monochrome world, everything has stopped, except for the quietly falling snow. You are becoming cold, your voice has not come back. I beg of you; hear my voice, smile for me once more.

I have run out of tears to cry, I cannot bring you back to life....

If possible, my voice... Take it all away and give it to this person so dear to me. If I’ll be in a world without you, just… take me away with you.

"I love you" is too hard to say anymore. For there's no love for me in this world, without you.. Nothing will be warm again. No matter how much or how many times I scream, you won't ever come back to me.

Slowly, I withdraw the sword from you and position it at myself instead. With trembling hands and shaking breath, I drive it home. It's strange, I don't feel any pain, only a dull ache.

Once more, the pure white snow has been tainted with crimson. 

I beg you, snow showers, keep on falling on the both of us right now. Take me away with the one I love. Everything transient, my voice, my life, erase all of it.

Until all is white…

I'll disappear with you.

And maybe we'll be reincarnated in a life where we can love each other; I hold onto that hope as my vision grows dark.

Wait for me, Ren. I'll be with you soon. We will be together forever. I use the last of my voice to reassure him of that.

And I fade away...

(A/N: So how was it? ^-^ It's my first time writing a fic here so comments are much appreciated. I saw this beautiful fanart and I just had to write a story based off it... credits go to the artist for that!)