Notes: For the gx_100. Set prior to Fubuki's disappearance before season one. Short and fluffy, sorry for that.

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"So what's the most precious thing to you in the world? Not like a girl or a concept or anything, just an object. What can't you live without?"

Fubuki wasn't paying too much attention to the conversation, so he didn't hear who asked, but before it really mattered another boy called out to the first one in response.

"You don't even have to question that, everyone knows that Fubuki loves his surfboard more than anything. Or was it the ukulele?"

The two boys started to argue with each other about which they thought Fubuki cared for more, and a few others joined in.

He'd left while they were still debating this subject of apparent importance. Not irudely/i left of course, he just made a casual comment about going surfing that fuelled those who were arguing that the surfboard was his most prized possession.

As he walked he smiled to himself. Regardless of what anyone thought he knew what his most precious object in the world.

He approached it as the sun set, because it just looks better that way. There was someone there already but he would have been surprised if there hadn't been.

The two of them stood and watched the rays of light abandon them for the ocean, just as they had done everyday. This object united them and it was important to them both.

Regardless of what happened through the day when it ended Fubuki and Ryo would come to the lighthouse.

"How much does it mean to you?" Fubuki asked, reflecting on the conversation from earlier.

"Coming here with you?" said Ryo, looking over at him.

"No, the lighthouse. As an object." He knew it was an odd question but Ryo should be more than use to those from him by now.

Considering it Ryo looked up at the lighthouse before saying, "It guides ships to the dock, and that is important to the ships. But that's probably not what you mean. What it means to me is… us. It connects us, and I'm glad that if anything could it would be something that acts as a guide."

This was a satisfactory answer for Fubuki.

So Ryo thought that it represented their relationship? That if one wandered then the other would guide them back. He thought he could stand by that for years to come, guiding Ryo if he strayed. And in turn know that if anything happened to him that Ryo would search for him – to guide him back to their lighthouse.