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"The sky... Why is it untouchable? Unreachable and so vast? It's not fair. I envy the birds and demons that have the gift of flight... All the humans can do is watch them fly like the angels they embody. Why can't we fly with them? Why can't we go into the distance? Why are we so far away from what the sky? I want wings, I want to feel the air against my skin and be bathed of the sun or moon's light. I want to feel free but all I am is a baby chick in a cage with clipped wings. Can you explain why humans must suffer this way?"

"Because..." He said with a certain softness in his voice, "Humans are too blind and ugly. Very few do deserve what they don't have but you always had wings, Amaterasu. In fact, you have something that has nobody else has... The undying warmth that radiates from your heart. It is like the Sun."

All the female did was look at him with warmth and disbelief in her eyes. He was her rival in society, he was her friend and lover in her heart, he was forbidden by all the things she believed in. He was the sky. Never had she fathom that she would fall what could not rightfully be hers but like many, she did.

Her eyes that matched a body of crimson roses shined bright from the moonlight as his blond hair shined brighter than the moon and stars themselves. Her mind was although elsewhere. Her mind was stuck in the past and remembering words that escape the boys mouth earlier:

"…She softens the day.
He stays behind,
Dying for her touch.

Rising after many hours, he sees her.
Her warmth bringing life to the world,
She wakes up the world.

Too far, the currents rise.
Searching for guileless tender.
He wishes to reach for her.

It takes far too long,
For him to keep himself still.
The time of the eclipse,
he would get his fill.

Eclipse; the union of the Moon
and the Sun."

Her wandering mind came to a halt when she felt a hand intertwine with hers. Crimson eyes widen as the boy lying beside her in this field of emptiness had finally spoke once again. "You are the Guiding Star, unaware of the courses that man set by your shine; You are the North Wind, blowing towards its own purpose and unknowingly filling the sails that take men out to sea; and you are the Sun, the giver of light and warmth and life. I cannot imagine a world where you do not exist." His eyes wandered back to the sky as the sun began to rise and yet, he knew without a doubt that tears were flowing out the young woman's eyes. "I am just hawk, crying for the sun."

"If things had been different," She asked him, "if we'd been born as other people, do you think we still would have found each other?"

He looked at her finally and with a small smile. "Some rivers," He told her in a way oddly reminiscent of one of an old wise man's proverbs, "always lead to the same sea, no matter how the landscape changes their courses."

"But... I wonder if we would be where we are now." Her voice cracked as she knew what was approaching soon from the way he began to move closer to her body, his arms wrapped around her lithe form with his eyes shut closed as the sun rose higher in the cloudless sky.

"I do not know how we would be but I know we will cross paths." His voice was calm and soothing, her heart was the opposite until she finally heard his strong heart. Her arms wrapped around him as well as her eyes soon closed. She was ready.

"In the next life, we will cross paths." She said, hoping what she said was true.

"But we will always be..."

"Forbidden." They said in a unison as the arrows flew in the sky and came flying down to the empty field.