Her eyes

sparkled brighter than the ocean

Her fingers

always looked so perfectly delicate

when he did polish them and paint them

She was a princess in disguise

and he well enough knew that

though some days he forgot,

remembering the times where they were the best of friends

before awkwardness set in

and his heart beat to her rhythm

She was everything he wasn't

yet they weren't all that different

She was comfortable with her quiet life,

had her own joys and passions

and yet she'd never dared to cross over into his world,

he'd done all of the crossing

Tsukimi wasn't like any woman that he'd known

she was herself,

and that was more beautiful

than anything that he'd expected to find

that fateful day when they met

Kuranosuke smiled faintly,

already hearing the warning sirens go off in his head

yet he leaned in,

preparing to fall.