Trailing Roses
It's terribly dark. So dark you don't really think you should be able to see anything. Not even your fingers when you stretch them out in front of you.
And you can't. Not really.
You lift your hand up, so close to your face you can literally breathe in the sweaty moisture on it. But you still can't see it.
Yet you can see everything else. Everything but you. So you walk down the trail of severed white roses. The only everything there is.
Here.
Somewhere.
Nowhere.
You follow the trail. The number of roses grew. The perfume suffocates you. You learn to breathe through your opened mouth.
At the end of the trail, there's a little boy. A familiar looking brunette pruning a field of white roses. So familiar. You wonder where you had seen him before.
You ask him what he is doing. He turns away from his flowers, and stare at you.
Purple, purple eyes.
He tells you purple eyes are marks of a demon. That you have purple eyes, too, and they are wickedly beautiful. Then he offers you a freshly cut rose, and asks if you would like to help cutting. The sap from the open stem dribbles down his arm.
You tell him you don't know how.
He shakes his head, and laugh. He says you are silly, because you have certainly cut roses before. Why else would there be a trail of them behind you?
The flower he holds out to you is white. It reminds you of fresh snow, of purity, of innocence.
A drop of red appears. And another. And another.
You look back to see a trail of roses. White splattered with red.
The scent changes, worming its way up your nostrils, suffocating you.
You try to breathe through your mouth. The taste of copper begins to coat your tongue.
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AN: In case anyone is confused, in the manga (vol 9) when Tsuzuki submerged himself once again in his own mind, he found himself amidst a field of roses and a younger version of himself cutting their blooms. This piece supposedly takes place inside Tsuzuki's mind during his first coma.
Now that's aside . . . I'm in desperate need of a beta reader. If you are interested and have a basic knowledge of the YnM manga, please email me at breze@hotmail.com or leave a review in any of my fics. Thank you!
