Disclaimer: Bleach doesn't belong to me. If it did, I'd make Gin my slave XD
Title: Twilight
Rating: G
Characters: To be found out at the end of the fic
Timeline: pre-Bleach timeline
Summary: Insomnia leads to silent watching.
For?: In response to idiosyn's 20themes challenge on kurosakiclinic, #14 - Stealing Kisses
He liked to watch her when she slept sometimes. He'd creep in quietly from his room into hers once he heard her even breathing after she'd succumbed to sleep, sliding the shoji door open, and staying by her side just watching her face. The moonlight would illuminate her face, throwing shadows across the rest of the room, but lighting up the girl of his heart.
If asked, he would admit to no one that he loved her, more than she would ever know, more than he could ever admit to himself. He had found early on that he rarely needed sleep and would stay up in the wee hours of the night, tracing drawings against the dark background of the ceiling in his bed until morning broke, and the rest of the house woke. The nights had been long, sometimes dismal, and always boring.
Until he'd come up with the ingenious idea of watching her sleep one night, and had turned it into a nightly activity ever since. His night-time hobby was cut short whenever she left for the Shinigami Academy, but she always came back during the weekends and the holidays. Some mornings he'd sit with her on the porch in silence, watching the sun come up as a new day began. He'd found that the silence was more than he could offer her in words; his sharp tongue sometimes rapped out biting remarks and he had no wish to see the hurt in her eyes or the fake smile that she had on her face sometimes.
It was the twilight times in the dark like this that he liked to watch the unguarded expressions on her face as she chased sweet dreams, loving the curve of her lips into the smile that he was accustomed to, and not some fake mask.
Now, she twisted in her futon, and her face turned towards his; his eyes widened slightly for a moment as the whisper of his name came soft from her lips, then he smiled, smoothing a finger over some of the ebony locks closest to his fingers and he let his knuckles graze her cheek. Then, hesitating momentarily as his lips drew close to hers; he kissed her tentatively, a light butterfly kiss across her slight mouth, lingering for a moment in her warmth before he sat up on his knees and pulled the blankets that had been kicked aside by her feet sometime during the night around her. He stood, silently, eyes hooded and gazing at her one last time before he left the room just as quietly as he had entered.
And all the while, she watched as he left, smiling gently to herself of the kiss that she had stolen.
owari
A/N: Well I bet you're wondering who the characters are. 'tis Hitsugaya x Hinamori XD I love this pairing )