Duet
A Ginji x Natsumi fic by Rabid Lola
Author's Notes: It's pointless, and I wrote it mainly for the imagery, but I enjoyed writing it. It's short, too. Been reading too many drabbles, hehe. I hope you like reading it.
This was also my Christmas gift to Atropos. Just to let you know. :)
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Ginji's singing is happy and bouncy. He sings with the careless abandon of a child, flinging up and down a tune with no apparent attention to rhythm or note, to lyric or beat. But somehow, he always gets it right, and he's never told to shut up.
Natsumi's singing is sweet and high. Her song comes out of her in soft, strong clarity, gliding and spinning like a bird on the wind. The songs she sings always seem sad; she laughed when Ginji told her so.
On the lazy days in the Honky Tonk, when the Get Backers are unemployed and the coffee-drinkers nonexistent, Natsumi teaches Ginji the second parts of different songs—"Because if I sing alone, you won't hear the beauty of the song," she claimed.
Since Ginji thinks he has no musical talent to speak of, and therefore has no shame, he agrees. He cheerfully tells Natsumi whenever she teaches him that he'll most likely ruin the song.
When Ginji and Natsumi sing together, his voice softens and deepens and slows by the tiniest bit, because Natsumi instills in him a desire to shelter, to protect, to strengthen and support; a desire stronger than what he'd felt for the many members of the VOLTS in Mugenjou. He doesn't recognize it yet.
Natsumi's voice lifts and brightens; she rings out open and glad. Ginji brings happiness to her, and an intangible thing that has all sorts of other little feelings running in and out of it. She calls it a feeling when she thinks of it to herself, but the word doesn't seem to fit. Nevertheless, she sings on.
Ban listens to the harmony the two voices make, weaving in and out and carrying each other high. It's not perfect, not all the time. But it brings him a peace he didn't think existed.
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A/N 2 : The ginormous amount of choir practice probably spawned this. XDD Probably. I can't tell. See, it's so bad, it's pounded into my subconciousness. -shuts up-