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Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Title: Blanket of Leaves
Characters: Saiou, Mizuchi
Word Count: 269||Status: One-shot
Genre: Family||Rated: PG
Challenge: 31halloween: prompt #7, leaves
Summary: [one-shot, 31halloween, prompt #7, leaves, Saiou & Mizuchi] Settling into bed isn't easy when you're homeless and psychic. And haven't yet gained control of that last part.
No one would bother them here. They would be safe, at least until morning. After that, Takuma wasn't entirely certain, but for now, that was enough. He heaped a few more dry leaves on top of Mizuchi and smiled at her in his best reassuring manner.
"Enough?" Safe, but cold, he knew. Even with the blankets they had (few as they were), they would shiver tonight. Piling on the leaves helped.
"I think so." Mizuchi made herself comfortable underneath blankets and leaves and watched her elder brother. "What about you?" If she tried to wiggle out from under there to cover him up, she'd disturb her own leaf blanket.
He frowned, staring at the leaves. "I think I can manage it." He pulled his blankets around his shoulders and stared more at the leaves, eyes narrowed and mind focused. This didn't come as easily to him as the visions did, but he could still do it.
Carefully, slowly, as if pulled by a strange wind, leaves fluttered faster and faster around him. Takuma breathed harder, trying to get them settled down. One leaf splatted against his face and he tried to get it off, scraping at it with his fingers. No matter what he tried, though, the wet leaf clung to him as if it wished to become part of his skin.
"That's enough! Stop! Stop!" He shoved with his mind, far harder than before, and the leaves scattered, even the one on his face, falling all over Mizuchi.
"Brother?" She stared at him, worry filling her large eyes. He shook his head.
"I don't need them anyway."
The End
Note: I originally posted this back in October 2012, but now am reposting these ficlets separately instead of as a collection, in order to have each listed under their proper character and rating.