Forbidden
Love
Prologue
On
a measureless field filled with thick with foliage, a silhouetted figure stands
solitude and still. Not a single word comes upon her mouth but it was sketched
with a perfect slight smile. Her azure hair flowed ceaselessly on the whispering
chilly breeze. She tightly embraced herself for no one else can. Loneliness
grasps her closely in his hand.
Her
heart is like the deepest abyss, so mysterious and full of secrets. She may not
express anything, but she comprehends more things than the cradle of humanity.
She has encountered eons accompanied by tears, suffering and slings and arrows
but she is contented she survived it well.
Nothing
can ever beat her great seat of passion, blessed spirit and infinite faith and
dreams. Nature and time constructed her somewhat flawlessly. Nevertheless in her
heart somewhat thirst for something she consider significant.
Affectionate
hand without warning reached over her shaped shoulders.
She turned back, beholding a princely and gracious childlike gentleman
looking and beaming straightly to her. Like her, he is also lonesome for
innumerable eras, desperately looking who will complete his yearning but
unrevealed desire. He maybe a prince full of power and wealth, but it brings not
anything to fulfill it.
He
leaned bashfully nearer to her mildly whispered to her ear. “It seems you are
alone, Botan. Can I disturb you and stay here for a while…”
“Sure
Koenma-sama,” her dawn-tinted eyes twinkled like the glistening slivery
celestial bodies. “No problem…”
Interlude
then follows, nobody utters a word. Everything was then hushed, not a creature
squeaked, not a bird coos. Only the melody of the wind was heard. Everything
nature created respected their blazing but kept emotions.
Few
moments after, Koenma harvest all his courage and decided to speak up. “Uh,
Botan-chan…” he starts clearing up his throat.
“Yes?”
“It’s
kind of cold this night, right?” he remarked.
Botan
grinned, squeezing her forearms firmer to her bosoms. “Yeah. You can say that
again…”
“…And
can’t you notice how the stars sparkle like diamonds…” he pointed out his
index finger to the infinite skies filled with countless crystals.
“Yes,”
Botan nodded her affirmative answer. “This summer night is really lovely and
imaginative, don’t you think so?”
Koenma
beamed and disregarded his anxiety in saying how he really feels. “Botan-chan,
you might not understand this now but I…”
“Understand
what?”
“That
I…I love you!” Koenma go straight to his point, with burning cheeks. “I
love you…Botan-chan!”
“Why?”
Botan gasped as well as blushed hearing Koenma’s confession of his love. Her
face turned down, narrowing her eyes looking downhearted. Tears stream down her
rosy cheeks. “Why?”
“What
do you mean?” Koenma questioned in a disappointed manner. “I promise to love
you until I give my last breath. I will be true to you…please accept my
precious and inner love. I won’t break your heart, I swear…I really fell in
love with you…”
“Don’t
you remember, Master Koenma,” Botan cried harshly. “That it is forbidden for
both of us…a Reikai Ferry Girl and a Prince of Reikai…to have an private
concern…” Botan clutched her hand and a long wooden oar without warning
appeared. “I am sorry…I cannot return your love…”
She
in haste sits down on its middle but droplets of tears is still noticeable. She
glided up in the dusky clouds, towering and leaving the whole grass field and
broken-hearted, Koenma, who is watching her dreamily and with passion and
attention.
“Whatever
happens,” Koenma ponders melancholy, looking directly to the gloomy clouds
that is hiding Botan beneath. “Whoever try to separate us, my feelings for you
will never change from this day…I swear…I will love you until the end of
time…Botan-chan…”
The wind blew her tears away, somewhat removing Botan’s distress and sadness. She whispers to herself. “I love you too, Koenma-sama, I can’t deny it…but we may live in the same world, we are never the same. Forgive me…this is our dreadful destiny…”