A fatefull meeting? Akane is that you?!?

She stops smiling and glares at him deeply.

"You can't tell me... Wait I don't want to know."

Kazuki seeing that she was a bit angry with him pulled his collar down to reveal her mark that she had on him. He looked at her seriously afterwards.

"I could have easily removed this mark but I didn't. Why? because we are bonded together for eternity."

She gasps and touches the mark. "I would have thought you'd have removed that." she blinks and sighs "amazing"

"You should know more then anything that Kitsune are given one true mate their entire life and through death or life it dosn't change. Yes I admit that I remarried however no matter what I went through with whomever I was with I always thought of you. You and kenza." As he continues tears form in the corners of his eyes. He then reaches up towards his headband and pulls the metal plate forward pulling out a wedding ring. Their wedding ring...
"I carry this around everywhere. It never leaves my sight....this and a picture of our family. The only thing that gets me up in the morning. I missed you and Kenza so much! I I....I....I just..." His fists clench as he remembered the horrid memories that plauged his nightmares. Watching his second and third wife being murdered along with his children. Watching his successor and most favored student who was like a daughter to him get killed. Having to bury Akane and Nen. Then going into his past..... The funeral service for his Father and mother Issac and Autumn Shikimori. Being trapped in that hellhole where he was forced to fight for the bastards that killed his village and kidnapped him. All these things were burning hellish images into his very soul. Making him cold,distant and more so destroying the man that she had on e known.

She would raise her hand to touch his left cheek. "Oh sweetheart.." She would stroke his cheek and wipe the tear that fell from the corner of his eye, when he reached for the ring.

"I don't know what to tell you. I do know your past, and what happened with Nen, and I could not of been easy. Then Kenza, Jashin, knows how long that must have been hurting you before you blocked the pain."

She steps away from him. "Knowing you by know you've blocked most emotions from your mind and heart." She smiles, and nods her head in a sign of goodbye.

He looks down so she can't see his face as she sees him fidgeting a bit. It appears almost as if he were crying seeing what he was doing earlier. However she heared a snicker or two and then he lifts himself up and smiles one of his old bright smiles that brings back the wonderous feeling of nastalgia.

"Heh maybe but I have changed a bit darling."

She would stare at him with her old look, of the one eye brow raised. " Why are you laughing, it is not funny"

She questions his sanity " I know you've changed, just by physical appearance. You are not the Kazuki I once loved, and married. You are a newer, almost reborn form of him. Yet I can't get over the fact that you are."

She turns to leave. She knows the trip to the market place was a little more then eventful then she wanted it to be.

He dissapears and reappears in front of her as he looks into her eyes.

"Yeah I guess this old frail body is some what of a shock... Take care of yourself alright?" He states saddly as he hugs her.

She hugs back. "It was g-good to see you a-again" She tries and hides the saddness that over takes her.

" I hope you are well off alright Kazuki." She smiles at him before turning and as she does the tears she was holding in slips from her eyes.

She walks from the shop and disappears into the crowd before he can stop her.

She sees an alley that leads toward her home as she heads down it.

Kazuki sighing places the ring back into his headband as he walks over towards his shack at the enterance of the vilalge.