Yush...The second oneshot appears! xp
Shihna shivered and looked up at the full moon in the sky. She had volunteered to be on nightwatch for the third night in a row. She didn't want to sleep for some weird reason. It was around this time...when that happened... She looked at the exsphere that was attached to her hand. Is this really the path that I should've chose? She heard something stirring nearby and instinctively looked in the direction that it came from. "Zelos?" The campfire barely managed to shine its light enough to show that it really was the red-haired Chosen.
"Couldn't sleep?" Shihna asked. "I should be asking you that. How could you stand not sleeping for two nights in a row?" was the reply. "T-that's..." Shihna turned away from him. "It's nothing."
"How could it be nothing if it's kept you awake for two nights and making you stare off into space and sighing all the time?" Zelos asked, kicking away his blanket and sitting down right next to Shihna. "And don't deny it either. I was watching the whole time."
"You were what?!" Shihna said, as loudly as she dared. It wouldn't be good to wake the others up. "Don't think that I'm so dense that I wouldn't notice that my hunny is depressed." Zelos snuggled up closer to Shihna. "You can tell me, hunny."
"I'm not your hunny!" Shihna backed away from Zelos. "And why would I tell a person like you?" Zelos had a slightly hurt expression on his face. "Don't say that, hunny." He hugged her tightly. "Tell me." Shihna tried unsuccessfully to pull away from him. "Zelos, let go."
"Just tell me, Shihna hunny," he said in a strangely comforting and cheerful way. "Tell me." Shihna sighed. She had no choice. Zelos was stubborn. There was no way he would stop bothering her until she told him. "I keep on remembering what happened with Volt. I still can't forgive myself, even now. I wish I could turn back time...or make up for it, somehow. Maybe if I didn't exist that would've never happened. I can't forget it. As hard as I try I can't. It's always there, telling me what a horrible person I am-"
"Shihna, there is no way you could be more horrible than me," Zelos, who was listening quietly, suddenly interrupted. "At least you had no intention of betraying anybody and you've always tried your hardest to atone for what you did." He sighed. "You shouldn't feel so guilty. It wasn't your fault."
"That's easy for you to say," Shihna said. She couldn't help but bury her face in Zelos' chest. "You weren't the cause of the deaths of people that trusted you." Zelos hummed a strange tune. "That's why you shouldn't let them down by hanging on to something of the past like that. They'd be happy if you would look forward and make Mizuho proud."
Shihna nodded, sleepily. "I will. Thank you..."And without saying anything more she fell asleep. "You can tell me anything you want any time, hunny. Eh?...Shihna?" Zelos looked down at her sleeping face. He sweatdropped. "She falls asleep when I tell her something like that eh?" He smiled and picked up his blanket and managed to drape it over Shihna. "And I guess I'll have to take over nightwatch too....oh well." He kissed her on the forehead. "Good night, Shihna." Shihna mumbled something in her sleep and smiled.
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