Authors Note:

I personally do not feel like this is one of my best ones but oh well.

Take things here with a grain of salt and I will say sorry in advance. Other than that, I hope you enjoy your read, let me know what you think, and the next chapter will be the last one before I jump to the ending.

Being unable to leave something behind. Her words plagued my mind for the remainder of the day.

Was such a thing even possible for humans like us? If so, was it important? How was it done? Was the action worthy of envy against others?

More and more questions seemed to float to the surface and as usual they all lacked answers. Being in the dark was our way of life; we did not know what the future held for us, or even what was happening currently, but we did the best that we could with the little that we had.

Within our comfy hearth the candle flickered its luminance throughout the space giving everything a pale tinge of orange, a color that made an individual feel as if they were being cocooned in a bed of warmth. The pink haired girl who was next to me on the white floormat was cheerfully continuing to redraw the picture book that we read together in the past. Crayons lay sprawled across the floor, making it easy for her to find the ones she wanted, the same went for the pieces of paper. Her brilliantly filed, crimson horns continued to proudly hold up the tiara-like headband of flowers that Miku had created especially for them; in tandem with her hair and large, green, alluring eyes, I felt that it made her even more beautiful than usual.

"Darling, what's wrong?.." The girl unexpectedly asked me in a calm, yet concerned manner while placing one of her pale, delicate hands onto my own. She gazed deeply into my eyes with a light, comforting smile formed on her lips, a smile that set me at ease along with the subtle heat from her touch. I had been reminiscing the events from today and had unknowingly started blankly staring off into the distance in a form of trance.

"N-nothing is wrong!" somewhat startled, I quickly snapped out reverie and returned to reality. "I was just thinking about earlier..." The uncertainty of our future concerned me; would we still be allowed to live in peace like we had been doing for the past month, or would we return to being within the hands of the adults, having everything controlled?

She gave me an unimpressed face where her eyes slightly squinted, and lips puckered, one that could easily peer through my thin facade.

"Do you want to talk about it?" she said, fully knowing that something was on my mind. She had sat up and stopped what she was doing just a moment ago.

"I don't want Darling to feel that he has to hide his feeling from me, we are one after all..." her voice was laced with traces of sadness, yet it was full of compassion. This was a side of her that she never showed to anyone else

This was a good opportunity to ask about that... For some reason just thinking about it made me feel embarrassed.

"W-well..." I spoke with hesitation, fearing that I would get a strange response. "You said earlier that you envied the others for their ability to leave something behind, why can't you do so? while speaking my voice shook slightly.

The pink haired girl's eyes widened and her soft, peach-colored lips made a wide smile.

"My Darling was thinking about me all along wasn't he?" she sounded somewhat relieved.

I nodded. It was true, most of the day there is only one person who I always thought about.

The girl then rested her head on my shoulder and locked our touching hands' fingers together. Like many times before I could vividly smell the pleasant scent of her strawberry and banana scented shampoo.

"Since I first learned about them from the doctor it has always been a dream of mine to at some point have a child of my own... If I could I would try to give them the happy life that I never had when I was younger...but I soon also found out that wouldn't be possible. When I asked for the reason why I couldn't I was only told that my body wasn't compatible but nothing more, so I assumed that it just couldn't..."

Her reason was an innocent and beautiful one, to give one's offspring a more sufficient and nourished life than their own, it reminded me of what I read in a book about birds, some would stay with their progeny until they were able to fly by themselves; the parents would feed and bathe them out of sheer natural instinct and sense of affection.

I had been taken aback by her wish, however...

"Is the way to do it by doing what comes after kissing?" I asked in a forward manner. Although I didn't fully know what it meant, i remembered it being mentioned back when we were at the Garden during the rough time in the snow, the time she had forcibly pushed me to the ground and had begun removing her clothes in a confused act of desperation. All because my memories had been sealed away.

The girl nodded hesitantly, seeming as if she was ashamed by her desire. I gently lifted her chin bringing our eyes to meet, her cheeks were painted with a rosy red hue, like the color of a sunset. Moments passed without a word being said.

"It sou-"

I cut her off, at that moment I was unsure of what I was going to do but with a deep breath of air I said what I felt was right.

"I may not be able to do it at this moment, but I promise that in the future I will make your dream of leaving something behind come true one way or another ZeroTwo."

Her face gave a heavy impression of surprise as it continued to look towards me. "Y-you!.." Then out of nowhere tears emerged from her eyes that fell to the floor like raindrops coming from the sky. A smile shone brightly on her face that clearly told me that those tears were tears of joy.

"T-thank you..my Darling"

After wiping her tears with her forearm, the distance between our mouths closed and our lips were brought together, a kiss with a warm feeling that seemed to last for an eternity.

After parting the girl grappled onto me and pushed me down onto the carpet before I could react.

She was undressing.

wait...what

"Z-zeroTwo!"

sorry again...