A little introspective as a certain CEO muses about everybody's favourite blond. A birthday drabblefic dedicated to Jounouchi Katsuya-tanjoubi omedetou!-though not really as cheerful as one might assume.
Still, I hope you enjoy this here oneshot and remember to review.
Arigato gozaimasu!
Disclaimer: Don't own zip. Don't sue.
Summary: Kaiba does a little musing about Jounouchi. Non-yaoi, drabblefic.
Reviews: Pleeeeaaase...?
Black chocolate
Bittersweet.
And dark.
Like
chocolate.
Despite his
cheerful disposition, the inu is anything but the dumb, happy-go-lucky fool he
tries to make everybody believe.
It's there
in his eyes, if you care to look close enough.
The sadness,
defeat and despair-and the last embers of a dying hope.
Oh, he
hides it rather well, he even had me fooled into believing that he is,
what he seems to be.
Everybody
takes it for a given, this mask he wears, never realizing how much it bears him
down.
Beause
never mind how much he tries to make believe and how well he fits into the
role, Jou is neither dumb, carefree nor content.
Well, dumb
perhaps, but not happy.
And if he
really were that stupid, he would not be bothered by his sorrows.
I know how
it works, seeing as this is the one thing we got in common.
Each
morning he will coat the bitter essence of his being with another white, sugary
icing.
Each day he
will fill the hollowness inside with the sweet, numbing liquor of friendship.
And for a
while, it keeps him going, he can laugh, cheer, joke and be happy again.
Until the
evening.
Until he is
finally alone.
Only then,
in the solitude and safety of his room, he will remove layer after layer of the
inu along with his clothes, and can finally be free from his self-inducted
torture, the prison he volunteerly locks himself inside.
Because he
is nothing like the gold-and-honey Jounouchi.
But dark
and bittersweet.
Like black chocolate.
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Hugs random Jou-muse) Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..!