Shatter Me

"WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE ME DO?!"
Mabuki flinched sharply at the sudden shout, taking a step back as his ears fell back, his wide eyes locked on the furious face turned towards him. His eyes widened further at the tears streaming from her lone eye. He had never seen Kanashi lose her composure to this degree.
"He has been dead for over 11 YEARS! I have spent every single year mourning him! Stuck in a never-ending torment knowing it was MY FAULT! And now he is returned, and he does not turn on me, does not vilify me for my part in his demise, when he would not have died without my stupidity!" Her gaze burned with sorrow and shame, muted horror twisting her features as her voice softened, broken and haunted. "..I watched them t-tear him apart...Watched him suffer as they carved into my own skin. The pain I suffered was nothing compared to his. He died, Mabuki. And I could do absolutely nothing to save him."
Her body shook with remembered pain and horror, her hands clenching sporadically in an attempt to calm herself as she came close to breaking completely. She could not afford this. Could not afford for her emotions to take over reason again. She had to stay away, had to make sure she would not bring about the same fate twice upon her once-elder brother.
"...You cannot spare but a moment..just to talk to him?" Mabuki whispered hesitantly, having had to watch Kunoshi slowly grow more downtrodden the longer Kanashi avoided him. He could see she had grown more withdrawn as well, and had wanted to help.
"...I cannot watch him die again.." She murmured, her breath hitching on a half-sob. "If I allow my heart to take over, attempt to regain our bond, and he were to die once again because of me...It would shatter me."



Kanashi Yasei, Mabuki Shizukesa - Mine.
Program Used - Krita

Who knew I could do nature backgrounds? This took me months, but only because I kept getting distracted and stuff.
I was in a depressed mood when I started this, and I was irritated with the other digital version of sad Kanashi, so I basically redid the entire thing and gave it a bit more background and story.