Author's Note:

This started out as a GundamWing fanfic, but looking at it now, finished, it didn't seem much like a fanfic at all...so, er, to the original fiction section of my repitoire it goes. =^_~=

And, for your informational purposes, "Shinigami" is the name of the Shinto god of death, and "owari" (though I think it will be quite obvious once you see it used) means "the end."
Also for your info, this story belongs to me, and, really, it's rather depressing anyway, I don't think anyone else really wants that dubious honor.

Shadow
LH-chan ’01

I’m tired.

I’m hungry.

I’m lonely.

I had a mama and a papa once. But they’ve been gone so long that I can’t remember their faces.

They loved me. That’s what my heart tells me when I think about them.

I trust my heart, it never lies.

But they still left me alone on this colony.

I’m a shadow here...or invisible.

Even when I fall on the sidewalk because I’m tired and hungry, everyone keeps walking past. Their eyes turned away.

That's how I know they can't see me.

The only one who sees me is Shinigami.

I see him often...when I see face reflected in the shop windows...in the puddles of artificial rainwater.

He tangles his icy fingers in my hair.

His face reflects in my eyes.

He comes and goes, but he never takes me with him.

He takes the others. The ones who leave their tired bodies and follow him.

I want to go with him too.

I’m not afraid like some of the others.

I’m lonely when he leaves me.

But he'll take me soon.

I know it, though he’s never told me so.

My heart tells me...my heart never lies...

Owari.