short stories

ANOTHER LIFE AU

(This one is heavily inspired but songs I cried to before and is actually a ship from Haikyuu!!)

Your words were strong and your voice was deep. Butter and honey were jealoused by your smooth voice.

The flowers I'm chocking on have blood soaked petals. I was in love. I fell in love with a simple mortal, a simple hunter.

You always were walking to close to the edge of death, I was frightened.

One day my fears came true and you were killed. Killed in cold blood. That smooth, milky voice was no longer able to speak.

I wanted to save you. I wanted to hold you at least once. I wanted to hear you, one last time.

I flew down from the heavens on the fastest vehicle I owned.

As I was running towards you my foot caught on a thorn of a rose bush. I shook off the pain and held you in my arms.

"Hey you can't go! Not yet!" I talked in a monotone voice to try to calm myself.

"Who-" the white and black haired hunter coughs, "I don't know who you are, but if you're important I'm sure we'll meet in another life." He smiled weakly as his eyes slowly shut.

Your body lie dead in my arms as I bleed and cry out.

That day the rose petals turned red. All the once common white roses became filled with red.

The sign of me losing my love only became worse, as I started to cough up these red roses.

I felt the thorns poking at my lungs wanting to get out. I would cough and cough but they were always there.

My love for you was suffocating. I miss my loverman.

And I'm mister loverman.

The broken glass mirror reflected my imperfect image. I was once perfect, but my love made me weak.

My hair on my chin started to grow, my eyes with dark circles and red. I am a disaster.

I hold onto the small sink tightly as I begin to cough. More and more flowers.

The sink is shortly filled with wet red roses. I weep and say "good bye my dear." Until old Satan stands impressed.

And here it is, my finale night alive.

As my world turns to the ground how come it's you that I lie with?

Yes it's you that I cry for.

My eyesight is blurred by the mountain of tears as I lie flat on my back. My lungs feel full with flowers.

In another life, I would make you stay. We could run away just us against the world.

I'm sorry Bokuto-san.

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My eyes flutter open. The white abyss surrounds me with a welcoming feeling.

"Agaashi!" Foot steps fun to me from behind. As I turn around I'm met with muscular arms that throw themselves around me. The tight embrace lasts for a few seconds.

"You weren't supposed to come this early! I was told I had at least another thousand years to think about what to say to you... I didn't plan at all!" The man lets go of me. I stare at him. It's the hunter. The hunter I had fallen in love with from afar, but how did he know me?

The hunter, Bokuto-san, kept speaking, but I couldn't pay attention. My mind felt clouded and fuzzy.

But then everything became clear.

For millions of years I have been living this life.

It all happened when my lover bokuto-san died. I sold my soul to keep him alive. I thought this would mean he would come back alive, but really it meant we'd both be coming back alive again and again. We were destined to be together for as many lives as we lived.

I remember how his multicolour hair felt, his lips, his everything, even all of his deaths.

Bokuto would die before me in every life we lived. I would be in love with him every time he died.

"You can only stop this loop once you both die together, or we never fall in love."

"Bokuto-san." I leap into his arms and feel slight tears running down my cheeks.

"You will never remember your past lives once you start a new one."

"Remember when we were on a volleyball team together- or or- the time when you were in the hospital for not being able to sleep- or-" my grip got tighter and tighter into his back.

"In all our lives I've never seen you this frazzled Agaashi! I know you get sad whenever I die, I'm really sorry. So in the next life, let's end this loop 'Kay?" Bokuto held me back and smiled brightly.

"I can never stop loving you."

"Hey you never know! In another life, maybe it'll be different."

"That's what you always say."

I'm destined to always love you. I'm destined to cry every time, and we're destined to never know if we both love each other or not.

The white suddenly becomes filled with colour.

"Ah! It's time for me to go! See you Agaashi!" Bokuto left for of me and started running off into the source of colour.

And so the cycle repeats.

We'll keep being in another life.