Hero of Heroes Ch. 25 (Part 2) - The Perfect Sunset
By Night

There was a long silence as Chun-Li just sat there and looked straight into his brown eyes. For her, time seemed to have completely stopped... and the silence lasted so long that Ryu was actually getting a bit worried... but finally... he could feel her move his hand towards her chest to feel her rapidly beating heart. Her mouth moved, but there was no sound...

"Huh...?" Ryu asked, leaning forward to try to hear better.

Her mouth moved again, and this time he could barely hear a whisper saying the word "...yes..." And her mouth moved again and yet again... saying the same word, over and over, louder each time... "...yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!"

The warrior sighed in relief... finally free of the torture of her silence, and smiled soon after. This time the smile he wore was a true one. One filled with so much happiness that he's never felt all in his life. They wrapped their arms around each other, hugging each other tightly, both of them laughing with joy. When they finally released each other, Ryu asked, "What took you so long to answer...? I thought maybe you were going to pass out from shock..."

"Oh... it's just that... I was thinking about us. Thinking how long we've known each other as tiny children all the way up to now. And thinking about our future together... about how I'm finally going to live my dream of becoming your wife." While smiling, Chun-Li sniffled a bit as she wiped a small tear that escaped her eye... "Look at me... I'm... I'm crying again...!"

"It's okay..." Ryu gently replied, helping her wipe away another tear, "I'm just sorry that I didn't propose to you with a ring... or on my knees... instead I chose to do it in a hot spring..." Ryu then looked down... and back up at her... "...and in all my manly glory too... kuso...!" Feeling completely embarrassed, Ryu brought a hand up to brush through his hair while his face turned beet red.

After another quick sniffle, Chun-Li began to chuckled and brought her finger at his pectoral and drew small circles with it. Looking outward towards the horizon, she saw that the sun was setting, causing the sky to turn crimson. With the beautiful sky combined with the scene of the lush, green forest down below, the view was absolutely breath taking. Chun-Li looked back at Ryu, and reached her hand up to Ryu's hand which was still in his hair. Taking hold of it once more, she took one last look at that irresistible blushing face of his, and before reaching over to kiss him, she whispered, "Ryu... it was perfect."