Setting Sun by Alina

Quite Warm

- I hereby disclaim any rights to these characters, they belong to their respective owners -

A/N I apologize for any grammar or structure mistake, English is not my first spoken language, neither the second.

Chapter 1 - Quite Warm

He was walking in the dim light of the incoming evening, the last rays of the setting sun reflected sparks of fire through his whitish hair and matches the golden hue of his eyes.

As for some days now, he passed in front of the little, worn, cafe, speeding his feet not to be seen, not to be noticed, far away from the center of the city, or the richest residential area, nested in the outskirts next to an old shrine her family managed quite a time ago.

He saw her, leaning against a table, smiling at some couple who was sitting there. She seems not to have changed during all the years they were apart. She always wore the same smile, flashing trough her eyes but not quite reaching them.

She was a woman now, while she was just a girl last time he saw her, in the courtyard of his father mansion during his brother wedding with some utterly serious relative of her.

The last time, and he didn't imagine it would be so, for he would have made different choices, including maybe a home and a family.

He closed his eyes again, lost in her involuntary shared smile, ad strode towards his car, parked a few meters away.

He, Sesshoumaru Taisho, didn’t need anyone in his life, didn’t need friends, love or a family, he didn’t need her, in his life.

His thoughts lost in the soft music of the radio, his knuckles white on the leather wheel of the expensive silver car.