Prologue
The Sounds of her heavy breathing was the only thing she could hear as she lay on the floor, staring at the ceiling.
Her eyes drifted downward and landed on the blood pooling around her. Even her kimono was soaked in crimson.
It was her blood.
She turned her head to the right and saw him struggling to stand. Though he was covered in blood himself, he was still trying to reach her.
She thought " I knew this day would come".
Her eyes got teary " I always knew this day would come....yet I chose this path... maybe because I had a small hope that things will change this time, things will be better this time therefors I decided to walk on the same path as before or maybe.....I was selfish".
A teared flickered form her eye " I wanted to spent more time with you. Even if it would lead me to death...But in the end I failed to save you as well."
She looked at the men who was struggling to stand, parted her lips and whispered "gomenne..." ( sorry in Japanese) and stopped breathing with the eyes opened, filled with tears.
Upon seeing her lifeless body, the man slowly began to loose his mind and started screaming "Iie...Iie...Iie!"( No in Japanese).
He half stood up nd move one hand towards her then.... suddenly another figure appeared behind him carrying a large traditional japanese lantern like he was about to hit the man.....CRASH!.....the man lost his conscious as his head was hit and fall down on his stomach.
His eyes were same as the woman
Filled with tears....
As he was taking his last breaths, he thought "Even in her final moments...she was still apologising". a tear ran down his face...
"Kamisama! ( God in Japanese) If a next life truly exists...please let this man found happiness...not me...." She thought in her last breath.
"Kamisama! Let me meet her again in the next life....". His thought in his Last breath.
Flame consumed the house.
The night swallowed their final cries.
And somewhere beyond death, Fate began to turn up once more.
The entire house began to burn, everywhere was fire. The beauty of ancient japanese house slowly disappeared beneath the raging flames.
Suddenly, a heart wrenching scream echoed through the night.
It was a man's scream.
filled with grief, rage, and unbearable regret, his screams rose upon the crackling flames into the night sky.
