No Questions Asked

by eden among the stars

His red is too vivid for one person but there's two of him. It all got gray when victory came without giving the sense of winning. So what happens when Akashi with the rest of the GoM stop bringing out the color? Because shining in a gray world cannot beat the colors they stand for. Maybe she was content to let the red camouflage her until it turned gray. [Seijuro Akashi X OC]

1. PROLOGUE

Is this the Seijuro Akashi we have always known?

Their voices came from all around me. He heard them all but did not stop to explain or disagree.

We have always known? Have they really known him in the three years? Anyone would suggest asking Mido-chan about it as he has spent the most time with him. However, that isn't completely accurate even though it is the truth.

Because sometimes, spending time has nothing to do with knowing someone.

You could say the same thing about here – when it comes to me…. and my prince.

I don't call him my prince because he belongs to me – he does not. I do so because he is the prince I have. A short flashback may help to better understand the case in point.

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It was a cool night that did not allow me to see much. Not that it mattered because my hand remained nestled in my father's. I don't have to remember just how safe or nice it felt when it happened.

The car came out of nowhere.

Truly, it came out of nowhere as even I could tell that it did not have the intent to kill but sadly, the potential was very real. The safe feeling in my father's hold disappeared the moment the car came to exist for me and I felt the shock through my arm.

My father was pulling me out of the way. My five year old body swung easily like I weighed nothing. The moment of impact was absorbed completely by my father and the chilly air turned the warm liquid into something icy on my cheek.

The moonlight makes the red look black. But my mind was quick to imagine the red as I always could.

The car that had come out of nowhere had tried to avoid…. it and had swerved fast.

Or maybe, as I believe, it must have been to show me that red.

The pitch dark night had lit up, just as my life had- even though I couldn't recognize it in that moment. I was yet to fall from my swing which is the second it took for me to catch that red. His wide red eyes looked at me as his matching red hair did nothing to hide their intensity.

There he was - behind that window and looking at me while I looked back.

Oh how sadly the moonlight failed to turn his red into black. The failure would really change everything for me as I closed my eyes. The thud at the back of my head was a pavement I couldn't make out then. Still, as I closed my eyes, I knew that the moonlight had failed- so had the darkness and the night.

And he…. had emerged victorious.

He won because he erased the black of the blood around me and replaced it with his red. He won because that red is the only one. That red is absolute – no questions asked.