(Requested by Ren [if I remember right])

The time was 8:32, kids were already home from school, and the sun was slowly creeping to sunset.

Riku carried books he got from his local library and was now walking home. His neighborhood was only a 20 minute walk away, and his town was pretty safe, allowing him to walk around without concern for his safety.

Riku looked around, seeing that it was close to dusk - when he would have dinner. He shift the books in his hands. He'd be late if he didn't hurry. Riku sped up his pace, not wanting to be late. He wasn't paying attention to his surroundings, and it wasn't long until he bumped into someone.

"Gomen!" Riku apologized quickly, looking up to the person.

There stood a beautiful woman, with pale skin, wearing a yellow kimono, straight black hair going down to her shoulders, she held a pair of rusty medical scissors in her left hand and a hand fan with pink blossom printed on covered her mouth in her right.

"I have a question for you," The woman started, grabbing Riku's attention. "Do you think I'm beautiful?"

Riku looked the woman up and down before nodding, "yes, you look pretty." He answered.

The woman nodded, before moving the hand fan out of the way of her face, revealing the corners of her mouth slit ear to ear, and thick, dark red blood trickling down her face from the scar.

Riku let out a startled gasp, fear going through his veins as he stared at the disfigurement.

"Even now?"

Riku was quiet for a while, he gulped nervously before answering her question.

"You still look beautiful..." He mumbled.

The woman reached out her hand to grab Riku's chin, tilting his head up as she brought the rusty scissors to the boy's face.

Riku screamed in pain as she cut the corners of his mouth up to his ears, blood flowing down his face onto his shirt and tears streaming down his cheeks.

When she was done, the woman pulled away, looking at Riku as his face now resembled her own disfigurement.