"Memory" was the challenge for this one. Betaed by Eliza.

They find him on his sister's grave, delirious. There is a city doctor visiting the village, and Nagare sends for him. One of his eyes is not human. Nagare looks into it and does not believe Muraki-sensei when he says he does not know what is wrong with Hisoka.

Other city doctors extract blood and bone and are mystified. Hisoka suffers. At the end of three years, Nagare buries him in the grave that has always borne his name.

Sometimes, his own pain eases enough that he can think, *At least my son was spared this.*

But then he remembers.

~END~