Notes: For the gx100. Set during season one, just prior to the attacks from the Seven Stars.
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Convenience is good when you're not all-powerful. When you iare/i all-powerful you can do whatever you want regardless, but when you're not sometimes it's best to go along with the flow until the balance starts to shift in your direction.
And for the so many thousand years Darkness had been awaiting a host he had learnt patience. Obeying Kagemaru's whims for now was nothing to him. If it put him closer to a position of power than he would have been otherwise then the man's words were fine by him.
But Kagemaru had his little rules, and these annoyed Darkness.
The first being that they weren't allowed to interact with the chosen guardians until they wanted to duel them. And the second, through some pointless chivalry, was that they were only allowed to challenge the duellists one at a time. Wouldn't it have been easier to attack all at once? The children wouldn't have stood a chance against the group together.
But whatever the reason Kagemaru regarded approaching the students before being told to as taboo.
This didn't bother Darkness either way. When the time came he would defeat his opponent and that was all there was to it. In the meantime he would be patient.
He past the time by looking into the mind of his current host. Not out of any sort of interest, just out of something to do. Hosts were easier to manipulate if you knew them.
Through this he learnt of Fubuki's life, and those around him. He knew Fubuki had a sister but the girl was of no particular interest to Darkness. But while he was scanning he did flicker across an image that did intrigued him.
A boy with blue hair. Who seemed to turn up quite a lot in Fubuki's mind, so he was probably a friend. By nature Darkness was not a lustful creature, he merely had curiosity into the behaviours of humans. And the sexual manner was one he had not explored for a long time now.
He was also not by nature a law-abiding creature. So although Kagemaru had made the subject of interacting with the holders of the keys taboo it didn't take a moment's thought for Darkness to break this law when he found out that the boy was one of them.
It didn't take a moment's thought to draw the boy in, to mess with his mind through the familiarity to someone he once knew, to get him down and look upon the boy who he found so attractive through Fubuki's own desires for him.
But he didn't once consider that Ryo Marufuji was a person, not just an object from the memories of someone else.
He couldn't have known that Ryo was not like him, and respected the law so much that he didn't consider taboo for a moment. It wasn't so much the law as it was moral standards. He couldn't be certain that this was one of the Seven Stars he'd heard about but he was sure that if it was then he would be letting his allies down by doing something so unthinkable.
And he knew Fubuki would not do this to him, therefore this person was not Fubuki.
He'd shoved Darkness off him just as the other saw a flicker of flesh from the chest under that shirt. It was unfortunate. Darkness could have fought back easily, though he doubted this boy would be physically weak, but he was not lustful as much as he was curious.
He was gone into the comfort of the night before Ryo had pulled his jacket on. He held no regret. There would be shifts in the world and when times changed other activities would be seen as taboo, while sleeping with young boys would be acceptable. He just had to be patient. Patient and will Fubuki's mind to not think of Ryo. But if he couldn't there would always be other hosts.
Darkness held no value for taboo. Taboo was subject to change for one willing to wait. And the dark held ultimate patience.