-Interlude-

"Idiot."

Umi chuckled at that as she engulfed her wife in a tighter hug, feeling her aching arms and wounded ribs taking the brunt of Kotori's pounding. She couldn't really hear Kotori's voice clearly over the muffled sobbing or the dull pain that was pounding through her skull, but the general message got through anyway. Kotori was upset.

"Umi-chan you're an idiot!"

She tried to give Kotori a weak smile as she brushed Kotori's tears away with her bloodied hands, only to realize that all it did was to stain Kotori's face with red.

"I'm sorry," She tried, retracting her hands nervously. Maybe Kotori would really divorce her this time round. The pounding stopped and she could see the hurt within those amber eyes, her wife sniffing and wiping the last of her tears away with her sleeves.

"K-Kotori? A-Are you angry? Is the divorce letter valid now?"

She almost recoiled in shock as Kotori cupped her cheeks gently, wiping the hideous blood stains away with the sleeves of her white kimono, tearing part of her kimono away to bandage the general's bleeding arm.

Her sash was removed, and she was forced to sit down on the cushion with a light push from her wife, it wasn't like her legs could hold out anyway. Outside, a draft of the autumn wind blew the yellowed leaves in, the maple cluttering itself in their backyard. The cherry blossom season was over.

"Kotori…?" She tried again, the silence was unnerving.

"Umi-chan?" Her bloodied hand was held tightly in her wife's, the pleading look in Kotori's eyes almost made her cry. "Never do that were you thinking?"

She leaned forward for another hug, this time void of armor and what not, and she could feel Kotori's heartbeat frantically beating through the thin clothing, almost matching her own.

"I'm sorry, I love you too much," She admitted, gently rubbing Kotori's back with her uninjured arm.

"I threw the divorce letter away," Came Kotori's reply, there was a little pout on Kotori's face as she huffed, giving the general a small slap on the arm. Umi's face lit up then, almost in relief and now she really felt like crying.

"Just promise me you won't do anything like this anymore. No more dangerous missions…"

"Y-YES!"

She gave a mock salute as Kotori chuckled.

The brief scent of cherry blossom enveloped her then; she felt Kotori's soft lips upon her chapped ones, a chaste one that lingered one moment too short. One that almost kissed that all pain away, one that she had been waiting for all these months on the field.

And this time her face was flushed with red again, not with the blood of her enemies, but the blood that was rushing to her head.

"You will only be my idiot and no one else's."

A/N: This was a war's end kiss prompt, so i just kinda made a continuation for this story...