Board Thread:World-wide RP/@comment-31966106-20170715173058/@comment-28929139-20170716000046

Knowing who it was, Kideme let her kekkei genkai-inspired curse mark deflate back into submission so to speak. She had been so enraptured with trying to get in the last bit of training that she totally forgot about everything and everyone else. To be fair, she did also assume that Shien was here with Ayame and thus didn't think much else of it. But she had been in here for awhile now and didn't want to burn herself out prematurely.

So with turning around and pulling open the door to her personal little training cubicle, Shien would be greeted by a very wet, water drenched Kideme. Her long black hair was slicked back and her red kimono jacket and white linen pants were transparent and clinging to her form, dripping head to toe with water. "Brown evening, Shien!" She gave him a quick, wet hug before pulling away to grab her pack and instrument box, eying the food he had in his hand. "Ooh! Do you think they have any gyouza?!" Her eyes lit up at the thought. Grabbing his hand, Kideme can was about to take off at a dash toward the smells of hotly grilled meat and fresh.....until Shien dropped possibly the biggest bomb on her.

Her excited smile slowly drooped into a look of.....was it sadness? Confusion? Melancholy frustration? Or the worst of them all....guilt?

"Well I.....oh."

Suddenly she began to have flashbacks as she thought back on events in the past when she referred to him simply as her husband.

Her mind first went back to the day they found the waterfall and the kittens. And when he caught her as he fell. And to the day when he brought her the stuffed moth. And of course there was the day she saw the cat palace and was deemed as the starchild.

All these memories had brought a smile to her face.....but then another memory had come to mind.......along with a quote.

Ayame and Shien had come to her house together for the first time and she had been so happy. She had gone off to bring them tea. A tea she had labored over all morning to make for him. She was just coming back into her room with the tray when she suddenly the heard most heartbreaking words she never thought she had expected to hear from him....

"She's not my wife." In front of his own sister, who was by far their biggest cheerleader.

From that point on, well.... Kideme felt silly, and stupid and naive for doing all those things, saying all those things. She had lost count of how many times she had been indirectly ridiculed over her admiration her admiration for him. Only to hear offhandedly that it was shamefully unrequited. So for him to say these words now....she looked as though she had been stabbed through the heart.

".....Why...."